Who rules the world?

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Label

Who rules the world?

Statement of responsibility

Noam Chomsky

Creator

• Chomsky, Noam

Author

• Chomsky, Noam

Subject

• Power (Social sciences)
• United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century
• World politics -- 21st century

Language

eng

Summary

"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy--diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable--the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

327.73

Index

index present

LC call number

JZ1480

LC item number

.C477 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography