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020			_a9781627793810
050	0	0	_aJZ1480 _b.C477 2016
082	1		_a327.73 CHO _2
100	1		_aChomsky, Noam _d(, 1928-)
245	1	0	_aWho rules the world? _c/ Noam Chomsky.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
260			_aNew York _b: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company _c, 2016
300			_a307 p. _c; 25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides an anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy - diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable - the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aWorld politics _y-21st Century
650		4	_aPower (Social sciences)
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Foreign relations _y-21st century.
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