Noam Chomsky - Hopes And Prospects (2010)

Noam Chomsky - Hopes And Prospects (2010)

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This selection of Chomsky's essays and lectures comes divided into geographical areas, but the issues are global in scope and import. In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of American empire and class domination, at home and abroad, Chomsky continues a longstanding and crucial work of elucidation and activism. His latest updates elaborate upon his signature themes—the double standards applied by the centers of U.S. power, including the mainstream media and intellectual culture, and the pervasive disconnect between American policies and public opinion in what Chomsky dubs a dysfunctional democracy. But this book flags another major interest of Chomsky's, signaled in the title: global avenues of resistance, in particular the democratic and independent course being forged across Latin America (where several of these lectures were originally delivered). There are significant redundancies and polemical flourishes, but the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us.

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Long-standing critic of (now failing) system of maintenance of USA global hegemony. Be not mistaken that the first line of fire is definitely status of dollar as a global (commodity and reserve) currency. Saddam wanted to sell oil in Euros, that's why had to be ousted. Iran might try to do so - the reason for sanctions. Through Afghanistan might have led oil pipeline from Russia to China (through Pakistan), bypassing sea routes over which US fleet maintains control. In current order, we all are paying for these policies via dollars printed being recycled through global financial pipeline.

The main reason for bursting of this financial bubble might have been that this global pipeline was overfilled and dollars started to pile on the US soil. This is written because it might be one aspect Chomsky will not mention explicitly in his book.