Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky (PDF)

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Taken together, Chomsky’s essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. presidential race, the ascendancy of China, Latin America’s leftward turn, the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea, Israel’s invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank, developments in climate change, the world financial crisis, the Arab Spring, the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the Occupy protests. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. “Progressive legislation and social welfare,” writes Chomsky, “have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace.”Making the Future is a follow-up to Interventions, published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantánamo Bay by U.S. military censors. Both books are drawn from articles Chomsky has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Making the Future offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America’s foremost intellectual and political dissidents.Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned author, linguist and advocate for democracy. He is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent and Media Control. He lives in Massachusetts where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military’s global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!”—Vanity Fair” . . . he has emerged as one of the left’s most implacable voices, challenging the often hidden structures that lie behind the abuse of power.”—Paul V. Griffith, Chapter 16″Making the Future is an impressive collection of articles shedding light on and challen- ging the current political, economic, and military world order. To make sense of the complex mechanisms at play, Chomsky adopts a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach: he juggles with history, sociology of the media, critical theory, and political philosophy.”—Juliana Bidadanure, Global Discourse, 2013 About the Author Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1928. He studied linguistics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.During the years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. While a Junior Fellow he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled, “Transformational Analysis.” The major theoretical viewpoints of the dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, which was published in 1957 and is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. This formed part of a more extensive work, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, circulated in mimeograph in 1955. Most of a 1956 version was published in 1975.In 1961, Chomsky was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy) at MIT. From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor, a position he held until 2002.Chomsky is the author of numerous influential political works, including Failed States (Metropolitan Books), Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (Metropolitan Books), 9/11 (Open Media Series/ Seven Stories Press), Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media with Ed Herman (Pantheon), Necessary Illusions (South End Press), Understanding Power (New Press), Interventions (Open Media Series/ City Lights), Hopes and Prospects (Haymarket) and many other titles.In 1988, Chomsky received the Kyoto Prize in Basic Science, given “to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual development of mankind.” The prize noted that “Dr. Chomsky’s theoretical system remains an outstanding monument of 20th century science and thought. He can certainly be said to be one of the great academicians and scientists of this century.”

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⭐Interesting

⭐Provides an intriguing chronological view of the manipulative and often deceptive methods of the U.S. Government. That such a critique can be published is a true example of a great democracy capable of positive change.

⭐A very good book about all the problems of the world in regard to injustice and the U.S Govt. I highly recommend for anyone who want an alternative view of history.

⭐As usual, Chomsky very lucidly gets his point across, which is to paint a picture of the ugly political realities of the modern Empire.

⭐wow

⭐Noam Chomsky at his worst is better than 99,999% of the world writers. Making The Future is not his best, but one cannot bat 1,000. It is a double.

⭐I think that the author is well informed and I enjoy his insights.There is no one better to bring reality to the masses.

⭐everything fine

⭐I have long been a great admirer of the thought, expression and courage of Noam Chomsky both as speaker and writer. If the world would only listen to him, we would have much for which to offer him our gratitude. I was a little disappointed by this offering which provides little in the way of argument and too much assertion that can only work when preaching to the converted. There is the usual commitment, wisdom, insight and clarity but all too often there is an assumption that the reader will agree with him rather than an attempt to persuade those who need to be persuaded. This adds up to an atypical strain of complacency in place of the relentless and fiery reasoning of the younger mountain-moving Chomsky. Still well worth a read and with plenty of provocation – but I would have welcomed a stronger sense of argumentation.

⭐The man is a genius! A MUST READ for anyone wanting to get to the bottom of why our society is so very broken. If you have young minds in the house they MUST be given a copy of this to read. Noam Chomsky is a modern day hero.

⭐Great book for in depth understanding of some important current issues.

⭐David says its really interesting and thankyou.

⭐Very stimulating

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