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049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aJZ1480
_b.C477 2016
100 1 _aChomsky, Noam,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWho rules the world? /
_cNoam Chomsky.
250 _aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bMetropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
_c©2016
300 _a307 pages
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aWorld politics
_y21st century.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences)
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / Modern / 21st Century.
_2bisacsh
651 0 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_y21st century.
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