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    Hopes and Prospects

    By Noam Chomsky

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    In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forwardin the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that suggest "real progress toward freedom and justice."

    Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race.

    "This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the worldto millions, I suspectfor the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him." John Pilger

    "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...the writing remains unswervingly rational and principled throughout, and lends bracing impetus to the real alternatives before us." Publisher's Weekly

    "Chomsky’s commentary is razor sharp and offers a compendium of facts that make a well-supportedand undoubtedly controversialclaim of the incongruity between US actions and the democratic ideals it professes....A valuable resource for both academics and everyday concerned citizens." ForeWord

    Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Noam Chomsky is widely regarded to be one of the foremost critics of U.S. foreign policy in the world. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics. Among his recent books are The New York Times bestsellers Hegemony or Survival and Failed States.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHaymarket Books
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781608460083
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    Noam Chomsky

    Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia in 1928 and studied at the university of Pennsylvania. Known as one of the principal founders of transformational-generative grammar, he later emerged as a critic of American politics. He wrote and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, contemporary issues. He is now a Professor of Linguistics at MIT, and the author of over 150 books.

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      Many who find Chomsky's books on current events too depressing may be pleasantly surprised by his latest offering. Chomsky leaves no stone unturned in his 2010 book Hopes and Prospects. The "hopes" part of the title, as he not only indicates with the chronology of sections in the book, but also in recent lectures, refers to recent accomplishments made in the struggle for indigenous rights in South America. One example of this, as Chomsky points out, is the truly democratic elections that were held in Bolivia which named Evo Morales as the country's first indigenous president. With lazer-like precision Chomsky illuminates recent histories in Latin America that has sadly been already forgotten by some, or worse yet, never known. An example of this comes from his chapter "1989 and Beyond" in which Chomsky states:"The fall of the Berlin wall was rightly celebrated in November of 2009, but there was virtually no mention of what had happened one week later in El Salvador, on November 16, 1989: the brutal assassination of six prominent Latin American intellectuals, Jesuit priests, along with their housekeeper Julia Elba and her daughter Celina, by the elite Atlacatl battalion, armed and trained by Washington. The battalion had just returned from a several-month refresher course at the JFK Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg, and a few days before the murders underwent a further training exercise run by U.S. Special Forces flown to El Salvador."Meticulously footnoted, this book offers scholars and casual readers a challenging and authoritative account of current affairs in the context of history.