Who Rules the World?

Book Title Who Rules the World?
Author Name Noam Chomsky
Publishing house Picador
Country – city UK
Date of issue 2017
Number of pages 336

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Who Rules the World?

Who Rules the World?: In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse.

 

Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the sordid history of U.S. involvement with Cuba to the sanctions on Iran, he details how America’s rhetoric of freedom and human rights so often diverges from its actions. He delves deep into the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel-Palestine, providing unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.

And, in a new afterword, he addresses the election of Donald Trump and what it shows about American society.

Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central issues of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.

“A plea to end American hypocrisy . . . and, instead of assuming American benevolence, to scrutinize critically how the U.S. government actually exercises its still-unmatched power.”―The New York Review of Books

“Chomsky is a global phenomenon. . . . He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.”―The New York Times Book Review

“With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us―and to discern what they are leaving out. . . . Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.”―BusinessWeek

“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.”―New Statesman

“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

“It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky’s interpretation will be the standard among historians a hundred years from now.”―The New Yorker

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