Because We Say So - (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global crisis, from cyberwar and surveillance to the increasing urgency of climate change.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US military's global <i>Interventions</i>. Shock and awe!--<i>Vanity Fair</i></p><p><i>Because We Say So</i> presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on the Obama doctrine, political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.</p><p><i>Because We Say So</i> is the third in a series of books by Chomsky published by City Lights Publishers that includes <i>Making the Future</i> (2012) and <i>Interventions</i> (2007), a book banned by US military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky writes regularly for the <i>New York Times Syndicate</i>, and are largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. <i>Because We Say So</i> offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by America's foremost public intellectual and political dissident.</p><p><i>Noam Chomsky</i> is one of the world's most well-known critics of US policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking and best-selling books on global politics, history, and linguistics.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The essays are scathing and Chomsky brilliant, as a public intellectual engaged in a concerted and committed campaign to break the 'big lie' of an increasingly consolidated authoritarian state that has embarked on global military destruction in the name of humanitarian undertakings.--Shelley Walia, <i>The Hindu</i><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his groundbreaking work in linguistics and for his relentless advocacy for democracy, freedom and self-determination. He is author of dozens of books, many of which have become international best sellers. He is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A member of the American Academy of Science, he has published widely in both linguistics and current affairs, and writes a monthly column for The New York Times Syndicate which is the basis for a series of books published in the Open Media Series by City Lights books: <em>Interventions</em>, <em>Making the Future</em>, and <em>Because We Say So</em>.
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