Book description
The United States asserts the right to use military force against
failed states around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this
devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes
it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours.
Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and
present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower which topples
foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and
imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes has stretched its own
democratic institutions to breaking point. And how an America in
crisis places the world ever closer to the brink of nuclear and
environmental disaster.
Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works,
including
Hegemeny or Survival
,
Imperial Ambitions
and, with Gilbert Achcar,
Perilous Power
, all published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. A professor of Linguistics
and Philosophy at MIT, Chomsky is widely credited with having
revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives outside Boston,
Massachusetts.
