Global Discontents : : Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
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State spying and democracy -- A tour of the Middle East -- Power systems do not give gifts -- ISIS, the Kurds, and Turkey -- Living memory -- Fearmongering -- Alliances and control -- The roots of conflicts -- Toward a better society -- Elections and voting -- Crises and organizing -- The Trump presidency.
In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey.
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The American empire project
PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250146182
1250146186
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Barsamian, David,
SUBJECTS
Chomsky, Noam -- Political and social views.
Chomsky, Noam -- Interviews.
Democracy -- United States.
World politics -- 21st century.
Climatic changes.
Income distribution -- United States.
International economic relations -- Political aspects.
Linguists -- United States -- Interviews.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
Interviews.