Home |Register |Sign In Home Top Picks: All Books Global Discontents Global Discontents Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian Price: $18.00 (Paperback) Published: December 05, 2017 Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) From the Publisher: In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could sooncatch fire.</p><p> In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider âthe world we are leaving to our grandchildren: one imperiled by the escalation of climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war.</p><p> If the current system isincapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it's up to us toradically change it.</p><p> These ten 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 economicinequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and thebitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election.</p><p> In accompanyingpersonal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey and the development of his uncompromising stance as America's premier dissidentintellectual.</p><p> Rate This Book Add To Wishlist |Rate/Review Add To Bookshelf Get This Book Personalize / Add More ChoicesGo to your preferred retailer, click to choose a format and you' ll be taken directly to their site where you can get this book.</p><p> What We Say This book collects twelve wide-ranging interviews between journalist David Barsamian and linguist/philosopher/activist Noam Chomsky.</p><p> They took place as far back as 2013 and as recently as an email exchange in June of 2017 about the TrumpPresidency.</p><p> As always, Chomsky is an absorbing counterpoint to the talking heads in politics and the media, which typically range from moderate centrists to the far, far right.</p><p> The left? The genuine left, the left that exists in Europe and Central and South America and most of the free world? That is dismissed and ignored in the US.</p><p> This is where Chomsky comes in.He is a voice of conscience though he's too funny and sharp and pointed to strike one in such a dull, moralistic manner.</p><p> IShare This Book About The Author Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States .</p><p> A professor emeritus of linguistics andphilosophy at MIT, he is widely creditedwith having revolutionized modern linguistics.</p><p> He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.David Barsamian , director of the award- winning and widely syndicated AlternativeRadio, is a winner of the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award forindependent journalism.</p><p> He lives in Boulder,Colorado.</p><p> Release Info List Price: $18.00 (Paperback) Published: December 05, 2017 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pages: 240 ISBN 10: 1250146186 ISBN 13: 9781250146182am not at the "end of capitalism" or "communitarian" stage (yet).</p><p> But Chomsky will challenge your idea of what is possible, what is inevitable and what must be done.</p><p> Whether calling the US drone program the single greatest exporter of terror in the world (and almost unquestionably a source of growing anti-American terror) or politely suggesting Senator Bernie Sanders not term his political movement a "revolution" since it is at best a modest reform of the current system, Chomskynever fails to alter your perspective and question your base assumptions.</p><p> Foreign policy, his childhood, the Republican Partyas debased and barely a party since it is so divorced from average voters -- Chomsky offers up thoughts on it all.</p><p> You'llwant to read more and wish you could talk with him yourself.</p><p> Someone who can be blocked one week by Israel and the next by Palestinians is obviously someone worth listening to indeed. -- Michael Giltz What You Say Filter by No Reviews Found ..... about us |faq|advertise |privacy policy |newsletter |contact us ©2018, BookBuddha LLc.</p><p> All Rights Reserved.
