(P/B) UNDERSTANDING POWER

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Characterised by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, Understanding Power is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power.
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions - published here for the first time - Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as US foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power is definitive Chomsky. (From the publisher)

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Preface
A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001
Chapter 1: Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session
The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence
The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States
Overthrowing Third World Governments Government Secrecy
The Media: An Institutional Analysis
Testing the "Propaganda Model"
The Media and Elite Opinion
Filters on Reporting
Honest Subordination
"Fight it Better": the Media and the Vietnam War
Chapter 2: Teach-in: Over Coffee
"Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War
Orwell's World and Ours
Contemporary Poverty
Religious Fanaticism
"The Real Anti-Semitism"
Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy
Two New Factors in World Affairs
Democracy Under Capitalism
The Empire
Change and the Future
Chapter 3: Teach-in: Evening
The Military-Industrial Complex
The Permanent War Economy
Libyan and American Terrorism
The U.S. and the U.N.
Business, Apartheid, and Racism
Winning the Vietnam War
"Genocide": the United States and Pol Pot
Heroes and Anti-Heroes
"Anti-Intellectualism"
Spectator Sports
Western European Activism and Canada
Dispelling Illusions
Chapter 4: Colloquy
The Totalitarian Strain
A Lithuania Hypothetical
Perpetuating Brainwashing Under
Freedom
Journalism LeMoyne-Style: A Sample of the Cynical Aspect
Rethinking Watergate
Escaping Indoctrination
Understanding the Middle East Conflict
The Threat of Peace
Water and the Occupied Territories
Imperial Ambitions and the Arab Threat
Prospects for the Palestinians
Legitimacy in History
Qualifications to Speak on World Affairs; A Presidential Campaign
Chapter 5: Ruling the World
Soviet Versus Western Economic Development
Supporting Terror
"People's Democratic Socialist Republics"
The Organ Trade
The Real Crime of Cuba
Panama and Popular Invasions
Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy
Haiti: Disturbance at an Export Platform
Texaco and the Spanish Revolution
Averting Democracy in Italy
P.R. in Somalia
The Gulf War
Bosnia: Intervention Questions
Toying With India
The Oslo Agreement and Imperialist Revival
Chapter 6: Community Activists
Discussion Circle
The Early Peace Movement and a Change in the 1970s
The Nuclear Freeze Movement
Awareness and Actions
Leaders and Movements
Levels of Change
Non-Violence
Transcending Capitalism
The Kibbutz Experiment
"Anarchism" and "Libertarianism"
Articulating Visions
"Want" Creation
Dissidents: Ignored or Vilified
Teaching About Resistance
Isolation
Science and Human Nature
Charlatans in the Sciences
Adam Smith: Real and Fake
The Computer and the Crowbar
Chapter 7: Intellectuals and Social Change
The Leninist/Capitalist Intelligentsia
Marxist "Theory" and Intellectual Fakery
Ideological Control in the Sciences and Humanities
The Function of the Schools
Subtler Methods of Control
Cruder Methods of Control
The Fate of an Honest Intellectual
Forging Working-Class Culture
The Fraud of Modern Economics
The Real Market
Automation
A Revolutionary Change in Moral Values
Chapter 8: Popular Struggle
Discovering New Forms of Oppression
Freedom of Speech
Negative and Positive Freedoms
Cyberspace and Activism
"Free Trade" Agreements
Defense Department Funding and "Clean Money"
The Favored State and Enemy States
Canada's Media
Should Quebec Separate from Canada?
Deciphering "China"
Indonesia's Killing Fields: U.S.-Backed Genocide in East Timor
Mass Murderers at Harvard
Changes in Indonesia
Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea
The Samson Option
The Lot of the Palestinians
P.L.O. Ambitions
The Nation-State System
Chapter 9: Movement Organizing
The Movie Manufacturing Consent
Media Activism
Self-Destruction of the U.S. Left
Popular Education
Third-Party Politics
Boycotts
"A Praxis"
The War on Unions
Inner-City Schools
Defending the Welfare State
Pension Funds and the Law
Conspiracy Theories
The Decision to Get Involved
"Human Nature Is Corrupt"
Discovering Morality
Abortion [...]
Chapter 10: Turning Point