Author: Noam Chomsky File Type: epub From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This selection of Chomskys essays and lectures comes divided into geographical areas, but the issues are global in scope and import. In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism. His latest updates elaborate upon his signature themesthe double standards applied by the centers of U.S. power, including the mainstream media and intellectual culture, and the pervasive disconnect between American policies and public opinion in what Chomsky dubs a dysfunctional democracy. But this book flags another major interest of Chomskys, signaled in the title global avenues of resistance, in particular the democratic and independent course being forged across Latin America (where several of these lectures were originally delivered). There are significant redundancies and polemical flourishes, but the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us. (Mar.) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forwardin the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest real progress toward freedom and justice.*Hopes and Prospects * is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.This is a classic Chomsky work a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the worldto millions, I suspectfor the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him. John PilgerIn dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism...the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us. *Publishers Weekly *Chomskys commentary is razor sharp and offers a compendium of facts that make a well-supportedand undoubtedly controversialclaim of the incongruity between US actions and the democratic ideals it professes....A valuable resource for both academics and everyday concerned citizens. ForeWord Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books are The New York Times bestsellers Hegemony or Survival and Failed States.

Author: Matt Kennard File Type: epub Since the launch of the Afghanistan and Iraq warsnow the longest wars in American historythe US military has struggled to recruit troops. It has responded, as Matt Kennards explosive investigative report makes clear, by opening its doors to neo-Nazis, white supremacists, gang members, criminals of all stripes, the overweight, and the mentally ill. Based on several years of reporting, Irregular Army includes extensive interviews with extremist veterans and leaders of far-right hate groupswho spoke openly of their eagerness to have their followers acquire military training for a coming domestic race war. As a report commissioned by the Department of Defense itself put it, Effectively, the military has a dont ask, dont tell policy pertaining to extremism.Irregular Army connects some of the War on Terrors worst crimes to this opening-up of the US military. With millions of veterans now back in the US and domestic extremism on the rise, Kennards book is a stark warning about potential dangers facing Americansfrom their own soldiers.