CHOMSKY NOAM

(P/B) ON WESTERN TERRORISM
Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. This book is the perfect introduction to Chomsky's political thinking, and makes a refreshing read for anyone who is uneasy about the West's wider role in the world. Beginning with the New York newsstand where Chomsky started his political education as a teenager, the discussion broadens out to encompass colonialism and imperial control, propaganda and the media, the Arab Spring and drone warfare. The authors offer a powerful cri...
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(P/B) THE WASHINGTON CONNECTION AND THIRD WORLD FASCISM
The Political Economy of Human Rights is an important two volume work, co-authored with Edward Herman - also co-author of the classic Manufacturing Consent - which provides a complete dissection of American foreign policy during the 1960s and '70s, looking at the entire sweep of the Cold War during that period, including events in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and Latin America. For those looking to develop a broad understanding of American foreign policy during the 20th Century this work has been a vital resource and is now available to a ...
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(P/B) AFTER THE CATACLYSM
The second volume of The Political Economy of Human Rights remains one of the most controversial works produced by Chomsky to date. In a much discussed chapter on Cambodia, Chomsky and Herman questioned official Western narratives on the Khmer Rouge and suggested that the evidence available did not match up to the assertions being made at that time. These claims would resurface in a recent controversy with the Continental philosopher Slavoj Zizek and readers will now be able to judge for themselves the veracity of Zizek's claims. The work ...
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(P/B) POWERS AND PROSPECTS
From East Timor to the Middle East, from the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects is a vital compilation of Chomsky's writings on a broad array of subject material. Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy, and reveals how the 'new' world order is little more than a remarketing of the old. No admirer of Chomsky can afford to be without this timeless selection of his thought. (From the publisher...
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(P/B) TURNING THE TIDE
For decades, Noam Chomsky has been considered one of the most important critics of American's foreign policy in Central and Latin America and yet Turning the Tide is one of his only written works which makes that region its sole focus. At last back in print after almost thirty years, Turning the Tide explores such neglected but vital issues as Jimmy Carter's interventions in El Salvador, the violation of human rights in Nicaragua and Guatemala, and American involvement with death squads in many countries including Bolivia and El Salvador. ...
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(P/B) IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Barsamian has a unique rapport with Chomsky - having conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with him than any other journalist - and here explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed: the 2004 presidential campaign and election; the future of Social Security; the increasing threat of global warming; and new dangers presented by the United States' ever-deepening ...
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(P/B) PIRATES AND EMPERORS, OLD AND NEW
Pirates & Emperors, Old & New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how "selected incidents of terrorism" are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe. Topics covered include the Lockerbie Bombing, the Second Palestinian Intifada and the attacks on the World Trade Centre. For those who want to understand the roots of American military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, recent interventions in Libya, and the on-going destruction of Palestine this collection remains invaluable. (Fr...
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ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΗ ΙΣΧΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΝΕΟΙ ΜΑΝΔΑΡΙΝΟΙ
Το "Αμερικανική ισχύς και νέοι μανδαρίνοι" είναι το πρώτο πολιτικό βιβλίο του Τσόμσκυ και μια από τις πλέον πειστικές και δυναμικές διακηρύξεις κατά του αμερικανικού πολέμου στο Βιετνάμ. Πρόκειται για γνήσια προσέγγιση που συνδυάζει μια οξυδερκή, βασισμένη σε γεγονότα, κριτική της αμερικανικής εξωτερικής πολιτικής με μια έντονη αίσθηση ηθικής οργής κατά της παραπλάνησης και της υποκρισίας που χρησιμοποιείται για την υπεράσπιση αυτής της πολιτικής στο εσωτερικό μέτωπο. Καθώς βαθαίνουν οι εμπλοκές της Αμερικής στο εξωτερικό, η διεισδυτική μα...
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Ο ΝΕΟΣ ΣΤΡΑΤΙΩΤΙΚΟΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΣΜΟΣ
Γράφοντας για τους νατοϊκούς βομβαρδισμούς ο Νόαμ Τσόμσκι θέτει ορισμένα καίρια ερωτήματα για τον Νέο Ανθρωπισμό: τι ακριβώς τον καθοδηγεί; Το ανθρωπιστικό ενδιαφέρον ή τα συμφέροντα των μεγάλων; Η προσφυγή στη βία έγινε όντως εν ονόματι των αρχών και των αξιών; Ή μήπως γίναμε, για μια φορά ακόμη, μάρτυρες επιλογών ιδιοτελών αλλά και τόσο οικείων; Με τη βαθιά γνώση της ιστορίας -και με διεισδυτική επιχειρηματολογία ως προς τη συνάφεια της με τη «νέα εποχή»- ο Τσόμσκι καταρρίπτει έναν προς έναν τους ρητορικούς ισχυρισμούς πως οι ΗΠΑ και οι ...
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(P/B) RETHINKING CAMELOT
In a potent act of myth busting, Noam Chomsky turns his critical gaze upon the Kennedy Administration and draws controversial parallels between the Presidency of JFK and that of Ronald Reagan, with particular focus on the Vietnam War. For anyone persuaded that changing the world is simply a question of changing its leading figures this work will act both as a bitter pill and a powerful stimulant to action. He is Institute Professor at MIT. (From the publisher)...
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Η ΚΟΥΛΤΟΥΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΤΡΟΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑΣ
«Το κεντρικό -και όχι πολύ εντυπωσιακό- συμπέρασμα που αναδεικνύεται από τα ντοκουμέντα και τα ιστορικά αρχεία είναι ότι η διεθνής πολιτική και η πολιτική ασφαλείας των ΗΠΑ, οι οποίες έχουν τις ρίζες τους στη δομή της εξουσίας στην εγχώρια κοινωνία, έχουν ως πρωταρχικό στόχο τη διαφύλαξη αυτού που θα μπορούσαμε να αποκαλέσουμε "πέμπτη ελευθερία", της οποίας το ωμό, αλλά πραγματικά ακριβές νόημα δεν είναι άλλο από την ελευθερία της καταλήστευσης, εκμετάλλευσης και κυριαρχίας, την ελευθερία ανάληψης οποιασδήποτε δράσης ώστε το υπάρχον προνόμ...
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(P/B) FAILED STATES
The United States asserts the right to use military force against ‘failed states’ around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours. Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower - which topples foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes - has stretched its own democr...
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(P/B) POWER AND TERROR
In Power and Terror, his first new book following his runaway bestseller 9-11, Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today, based on a series of talks and conversations in March and May of 2002 in California, Cambridge, Mass., and New York. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is an underground network of Muslim extremists or the most pow...
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ΜΙΑ ΝΕΑ ΓΕΝΙΑ ΧΑΡΑΖΕΙ ΤΑ ΟΡΙΑ
"Μια από τις βασικές αρχές της νέας εποχής είναι ότι η εθνική κυριαρχία μπορεί πλέον να αγνοηθεί προς όφελος της υπεράσπισης των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων... Η διακηρυσσόμενη αρχή έχει ή θα είχε τουλάχιστον αξία, αν ο τρόπος με τον οποίον υποστηρίζεται επέτρεπε στους νουνεχείς αυτού του κόσμου να την πάρουν στα σοβαρά... Η ανυπόστατη αξίωση της Ινδονησίας για εθνική κυριαρχία στο Ανατολικό Τιμόρ έγινε δεκτή από τα πεφωτισμένα κράτη με τη δέουσα προσοχή και τον απαιτούμενο σεβασμό, σύμφωνα με τις επιχειρησιακές τους αρχές. Επέμειναν ότι η ευθύ...
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(P/B) YEAR 501
Exploring "the great work of subjugation and conquest" which began with Columbus, in Year 501 Chomsky surveys the history of American imperial power in the ensuing 500 years that followed. Touching on everything from the British in India to the Americans in Beirut, Year 501 is a searing condemnation of the excesses of Western colonial and neo-colonial politics. For those seeking to understand the nature and structure of the imperial project as it reaches down to us today this work is a vital resource. For too long now, many important books...
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(P/B) MEDIA CONTROL
An invaluable primer on media and disinformation in democratic societies. Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control has been updated and expanded into a two-section book, and redesigned following the acclaimed format of his Open Media anti-war bestseller, 9-11. The new edition of Media Control also includes "The Journalist from Mars," Chomsky's 2002 talk on the media coverage of America's "new war on terrorism." Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy-one in which the public actively participates,...
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(P/B) ON WESTERN TERRORISM
In ON WESTERN TERRORISM Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men's personal experiences which led them to a life of activism. The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education, and broadens out to look at the shifting forms of imperial control and the Western propaganda apparatus. Along the wa...
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ΜΟΙΡΑΙΟ ΤΡΙΓΩΝΟ
Το «Μοιραίο Τρίγωνο» είναι ίσως το πιο φιλόδοξο βιβλίο που έχει αποπειραθεί ποτέ να γράψει κανείς για τη σύγκρουση μεταξύ σιωνισμού και Παλαιστινίων ιδωμένη από τη σκοπιά της ουσιαστικής εμπλοκής των ΗΠΑ. Πρόκειται για ένα βιβλίο που προβαίνει με πείσμα κι επιμονή σε μια αποκαλυπτική περιγραφή της ανθρώπινης διαφθοράς, της απληστίας και της πνευματικής ανεντιμότητας. Όπως, επίσης, πρόκειται για ένα πολύ σημαντικό βιβλίο, που θα πρέπει να διαβάσει όποιος ενδιαφέρεται για τη δημόσια ζωή. (ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΗΣ)...
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(P/B) 9-11
In 9-11, published in November 2001 and arguably the single most influential post-9/11 book, internationally renowned thinker Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting through the tangle of political opportunism, expedient patriotism, and general conformity that choked off American discourse in the months immediately following. Chomsky placed the attacks in context, marshaling his deep and nuanced knowledge of American foreign policy to trace the history of American political aggression - in th...
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(P/B) NUCLEAR WAR AND ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE
"There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe," says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II. While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimina...
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