IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
Noam Chomsky. Interviews by David Barsamian
Haymarket Books (January 9, 2024)
Trade paper• ISBN-13: 9798888901465 • US $19.95 • 5.5 in x 8.5 in • 226 pgs
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S policies in an increasingly unstable world.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 and the doctrine of “preemptive” strikes against so-called rogue states, 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.
PRAISE:
“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 AUTHORS:
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages. Recent books include What Kind of Creatures Are We?, as well as Optimism Over Despair, Notes on Resistance, and Chronicles of Dissent. He lives in Tucson, AZ.
David Barsamian has altered the independent media landscape, both with his weekly radio program, Alternative Radio, and his books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, and Edward Said.
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