Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky (PDF)

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In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policyTimely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America’s policies in an increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of “preemptive” strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time―and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.

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Editorial Reviews: From Publishers Weekly The infuriating, indispensable dean of American dissidents returns with this new collection of interviews with long-time amanuensis Barsamian. In these wide-ranging conversations, linguist and philosopher Chomsky, author of Hegemony or Survival, applies his usual left-wing critique of U.S. foreign policy to recent developments in Iraq, but also revisits American infamies stretching back to the Kosovo conflict, the Vietnam War and even the Mexican War while weighing in on domestic issues like Social Security privatization, health insurance and the rise of the Religious Right. His caustic denunciations of American “war crimes” -comparisons to Nazi Germany are never far from hand-serve up plenty of red meat for his legions of fans on the disaffected left, but the discursive, unsystematic format is not the best introduction for readers unfamiliar with his nonconformist views. One wishes Chomsky would find a more challenging interlocutor than the always-reverent Barsamian to sharpen up his thinking. His estimate of the coherence and vigor of the American imperial project seems overwrought. His analysis of the role of oil politics in the Iraq war is murky. And his portrait of the media as a quasi-Orwellian “propaganda” system brainwashing the population on behalf of the ruling elite smacks of naïve populism. Still, it’s hard to dismiss Chomsky’s indictment of the damage done by U.S. policies abroad, his scornful dissection of the lies and hypocrisies of those who defend them, his insistence that wealth and class interests dominate American politics, or his uncompromising attack on the thoughtless presumption of America’s right to impose its will by force on other countries. A sardonic, meticulous and always bracing critic of the powers that be, Chomsky remains a must-read for any thoughtful citizen.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist Chomsky occasionally takes flak from both fans and critics for preferring interviews, editorials, and speeches to academic prose in articulating his political analyses of current events. Probably the consequence of articulating arguments disquieting enough to precipitate ad hominem attacks, such shots will not end with this book, which consists of nine loosely thematic conversations on familiar Chomskian themes: hegemony, propaganda, activism, peace. Barsamian (Chomsky’s most dedicated interviewer) lobs more than he probes, but his questions sometimes surprise with their directness: asking the “rebel without a pause” if he feels like Sisyphus, for example. Although sold as exploring topics never before discussed, Chomsky’s comments on the 2004 presidential campaign, the dismantling of Social Security, and global warming perhaps predictably return to familiar insights. But several passages prove illuminating in other, perhaps less-intentional ways, exploring Chomsky’s complicated relationship with elitism and eliciting some candid connections between his intellectual politics and his upbringing. With Chomsky as accessible and compelling as always, this book is also slated to be released as an audio CD. Brendan DriscollCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review “If, for reasons of chance, or circumstance, (or sloth), you have to pick just one book on the subject of the American Empire, I’d say pick this one. It’s the Full Monty. It’s Chomsky at his best . . . necessary reading.” ―Arundhati Roy“How did we ever get to be an empire? The writings of Noam Chomsky–America’s most useful citizen–are the best answer to that question.” ―The Boston Globe“Unique insight into Chomsky’s decades of penetrating analyses, drawn together . . . by a brilliant radio interviewer, David Barsamian.” ―Ben Bagdikian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize on Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky About the Author Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Tuscon, Arizona.David Barsamian, director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio, is a winner of the Lannan Foundation’s Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews with Noam Chomsky have been published as books, including Imperial Ambitions and Global Discontents. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. “America has formal democratic institutions, but they barely function. So it doesn’t matter if, say, 80 percent of the population thinks we should have some kind of national health-care system. It doesn’t even matter if the large majority regards this as a moral value. When commentators rave on about “moral values,” they’re talking about gay marriage, not the fact that decent health care for everyone is part of people’s moral values. And the reason those commentators don’t care is that it’s not their interest. They’re like me. They get fine health care. So it’s not an issue for them. But for the large majority of the population, it’s a serous issue, and it’s becoming even more so. When Medicaid is destroyed, as it probably will be, that’s going to really harm people. But people are unorganized: they’re not in unions, they’re not in political associations, there are no political parties in which they participate. They’re isolated. The genius of American politics has been to marginalize and isolate the population so it can’t act in its collective interest.” Read more

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⭐Great introduction to the views of world renowned political dissident and critic of US foreign policy par excellence Noam Chomsky. Once again teamed up with long time friend and interviewer David Barsamian the pair cover:-imperial ambitions of the US power-elite-how language is used and abused in the service of power-what “regime change” is all about along with wars of aggression-history and memory and the complete absence of the latter despite the former being long and present for all willing to see-the myth that US power is benevolent but sometimes just makes honest mistakes in her quest to bring democracy and prosperity to allChomsky states his goal here, as always, is to help YOU defend yourself intellectually.You don’t get that from the education system.Noam Chomsky does believe that as horrible as things are “another world is possible”, but a more just and sane world is only possible if all of us work together to make it a reality. In other words, get active.

⭐Reading Chomsky in the USA for the first time must be some kind of a shock for the average american…but for us in third world countries is nothing more than a reminder of our daily reality. What Chomsky says about propaganda and mind control in USA …well..kind of make us think. Is it possible that with all the info that you get in the internet today …you can not be aware of the facts…??? Is it possible that everybody in the world knew that the invasion of Iraq was not justified and that the majority of USA citizens did not??? Why the USA people are so afraid..??? Can somebody explain this ??? Nobody hates americans for being americans ( very nice people for all I know) or for living in a great and beautiful country …so why be afraid?? Now..your foreign policy toward us has been unfair for the majority of our people and in some countries ( Central America) supported genocidal actions. And the people of the USA has never being informed of the truth by the mainstream media or by the people upstairs….Ok…but you can do your homework and your own research…and learn what is really happening…and then you’ll know why your own Govt’ keeps you in a state of fear.. Does the american public cares or not when they read the news regarding USA military torturing innocent people ??? How come they are surprised about this…and we are not?? How come that we know this is standard procedure in countries invaded by the USA or controlled by them using local military.. By the way, some of the local military leaders, trained in the infamous Escuela de las Americas.. And the average american does not know this!!!?? We think it should be in your interest to learn the truth.We in Latin America, in almost every country, suffered long and cruel dictatorships ( a lot of them sponsored by USA Govts’) …so we HAVE REAL reasons to be afraid of…the USA.. We do not live in the constant fear that Mr. Chomsky describes in his book… well, we do not live in constant fear , but we are afraid of what the future will bring for our children with the kind of fundamentalism that rules today the only superpower in the world….rulers that look down on us as if we were sub-humans or just “naughty children”…Chomsky…always a good read. Maybe he is not 100% true..but he is close.

⭐I have no criticism of the book,its content or Noam Chomsky himself. In fact, I have been a Noam Chomsky admirer for decades. However, it now bwing the year 2010, most of the material and insight in this little book is no longer terribly new or shocking to many. The book is excelent in its observations and conclusions and I think it would be a great book for any reader who is for whatever reason unfamiliar with either Chomsky or the historical & moral aspects of 911, and wide reaching US Foreign Policy. When purchasing (and you can NOW get it now VERY affordably) just keep in mind when this book was published and enjoy the wisdom and thoughtfulness of one of Americas greatest social critics & activists.

⭐I hate reading this guy but I feel that it is my obligation. Mr. Chomsky has to be about as far left as left can go. But he is so well informed and so persuasive. He has got all the political arguments that most of us don’t even want to consider. But you can’t read Mr. Chomsky without opening up your mind. If you have a closed mind you won’t be able to read him at all. In a debate Alan Dersherwitz accused Mr. Chomsky of being from outer space where he resided on the planet “Chomsky.” And Dersherwitz who lives himself outside the Milky Way on the planet “Dersherwitz” should know an alien when he sees one.Richard Edward Noble – The Hobo Philosopher – Author of:Mien Kampf – An Analysis of Book One

⭐This book should be a compulsory reading for anyone who has even a passing interest in world affairs, specially in today’s uncertain times. Chomsky again penetrates to the heart of the matter, with adequate evidence and laid bare the hypocrisy that is power.

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⭐The book arrived within 2 days. As advertised the condition was great. Really pleased and will use again.

⭐Received a duplicate product.

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