Imperial Ambitions
Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy.
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.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, the doctrine of "preemptive" strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, 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.
Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time—and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.
Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.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, the doctrine of "preemptive" strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, 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.
Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time—and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.
Reviews
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“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
Other books by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
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A Livable Future is Possible
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
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Deterring Democracy
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What We Say Goes
by Noam Chomsky -
Imperial Ambitions
by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky
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Power Systems
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Failed States
by Noam Chomsky -
Global Discontents
by Noam Chomsky -
Hegemony or Survival
by Noam Chomsky -
Illegitimate Authority
by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou
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Notes on Resistance
by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky -
Chronicles of Dissent
by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky -
The Precipice
by Noam Chomsky and C. J. Polychroniou -
Consequences of Capitalism
by Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone -
Culture and Resistance
by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
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Optimism over Despair
by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou -
Confronting Empire
by Eqbal Ahmad and David Barsamian -
Turning the Tide
by Noam Chomsky -
Powers and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky -
Rogue States
by Noam Chomsky
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Culture of Terrorism
by Noam Chomsky -
On Power and Ideology
by Noam Chomsky -
Year 501
by Noam Chomsky -
Propaganda and the Public Mind
by David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky -
Rethinking Camelot
by Noam Chomsky
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On Palestine
by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé -
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
by Noam Chomsky -
Fateful Triangle
by Noam Chomsky -
After the Cataclysm
by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman -
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
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Masters of Mankind
by Noam Chomsky -
Gaza in Crisis
by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé -
Hopes and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky -
The Pen and the Sword
by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said -
Intervenciones
by Noam Chomsky