On Western Terrorism

From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare

Noam Chomsky, Andre Vltchek (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2013
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3387-8 (ISBN)

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A controversial and provocative new intervention from the world's greatest dissident intellectual.

In On Western Terrorism Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men's personal experiences which led them to a life of activism.

The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education, and broadens out to look at the shifting forms of imperial control and the Western propaganda apparatus. Along the way the discussion touches on many countries of which the authors have personal experience, from Nicaragua and Cuba, to China, Chile, Turkey and many more.

A blast of fresh air which blows away the cobwebs of propaganda and deception, On Western Terrorism is a powerful critique of the West's role in the world which will inspire all those who read it to think independently and critically.

Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and has profoundly shaped contemporary understanding of American politics. An ally of anarcho-syndicalists the world over, he has authored numerous books on linguistics, history and politics. He is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. Andre Vltchek is a novelist, filmmaker, investigative journalist and playwright. He is the author of a number of books including On Western Terrorism (Pluto, 2017), Indonesia (Pluto, 2012) and Exile (Haymarket, 2006).

Preface

1. The Murderous Legacy of Colonialism

2. Concealing the Crimes of the West

3. Propaganda and the Media

4. The Soviet Bloc

5. India and China

6. Latin America

7. The Middle East and the Arab Spring

8. Hope in the Most Devastated Places on Earth

9. The Decline of US Power

Timeline

Index

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-7453-3387-7 / 0745333877
ISBN-13	978-0-7453-3387-8 / 9780745333878
Zustand	Neuware