- Paperback: 424 pages
- Publisher: Hill & Wang; Reissue edition (April 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374523495
- ISBN-13: 978-0374523497
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.3 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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" 'Offers a revelatory portrait of the US empire of the 1980s and '90s, an ugly side of America largely kept hidden from the public by a complacent media' - Publishers Weekly. 'Shows how large the gap is between the realities of today's world and the picture of it that is presented to the American public' - Observer"
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'This book...ought to be required reading in schools and newsrooms for it cuts through the often subtle propaganda about our times and tells us much about the new world order which, as Chomsky points out, is the old Cold War by another name' John Pilger
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Chomsky manages to continually surprise us with the horrors rich nations inflict on poorer nations. He graphically describes US interference in countries struggling for social and economic change. I read this while living in Nicaragua and came to understand why the US insists on maintaining its control on rich-in-resources countries. Chomsky uncoveres the paranoia of US governments and their cruel role in the destruction of weaker victims. It is a hard book to deal with, but is one of the easier ones to read. I definitely recommend it to anyone interested in US foreign policy, its motives and reasoning. It covers many areas of the world where the US actively set out to undermine social democratic movements, governments or people.
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Noam Chomsky as always been an indefatigable fighter for the truth. In his many books, his aim has been to expose the reality of America's foreign policy. Far from defending democracy from communisim, America, since the 19th Century (The Monroe Doctrine), has been intent on creating compliant states in order to give America both cheap resourses and easy access to a ready market. This book is Chomsky's magnus opus : he details how America has overturned one government in South and Central America after another, and how the Cold War was an attempt by America, largly successful, to extend it's hegemony over the world - Bush's New World Order! Most of Chomsky's books are written in a brow beating style; but this is clearly argued and well written, and remains his most cogent to date. An essential book for those who were never taken in by America's claim to be the champions of democracy.
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Chomsky's analysis suggests that the aim of US government policy over the last century has been two-fold. Firstly, it has been to create a global/domestic framework most favourable to the materialisation of local elite and business interests irrespective of the stark ethical costs involved. This translates into active oppression of independent nationalism all over the world and shocking campaigns of state-sponsored international terror. Secondly, in order to do this successfully, the government must manufacture sufficient domestic consent by legitimising these awful actions in the name of humanism, protection from evil dictators and other such 'just causes'. Whilst the hypocrisy clearly stinks, in portraying the US as a clandestine fascist state Chomsky threatens to undermine his credibility. However, by backing up his findings with detailed documentation and analysis it is hard not to take him seriously and conclude that the corridors of power are indeed nowhere near as benign as the ideals that we carry. My only criticism of this book is the sometimes repetitive nature of some of the key arguments. Chomsky has a tendency of going over old ground, perhaps with the aim of focusing attention on his core themes, but with the end result of diluting their impact. Nonetheless, this is a trivial point and shouldn't detract from peering into what is a truly insightful and at times disturbing window into the reality of US foreign policy.
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