How the World Works by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian, Arthur Naiman -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page ABOUT THE AUTHOR EDITOR’S NOTE WHAT UNCLE SAM REALLY WANTS

THE MAIN GOALS OF US FOREIGN POLICY

Protecting our turf The liberal extreme The “Grand Area” Restoring the traditional order Our commitment to democracy The threat of a good example The three-sided world

EVASTATION ABROAD

Our Good Neighbor policy The crucifixion of El Salvador Teaching Nicaragua a lesson Making Guatemala a killing field The invasion of Panama Inoculating Southeast Asia The Gulf War The Iran/Contra cover-up The prospects for Eastern Europe The world’s rent-a-thug

BAINWASHING AT HOME

How the Cold War worked The war on (certain) drugs War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Socialism, real and fake The media

THE FUTURE

Things have changed What you can do The struggle continues

THE PROSPEROUS FEW AND THE RESTLESS MANY

The new global economy NAFTA and GATT—who benefits? Food and Third World “economic miracles” Photo ops in Somalia Slav vs. Slav The chosen country Gandhi, nonviolence and India Divide and conquer The roots of racism The unmentionable five-letter word Human nature and self-image It can’t happen here...can it? Hume’s paradox “Outside the pale of intellectual responsibility”

SECRETS, LIES AND DEMOCRACY

THE US

Defective democracy Keeping the rich on welfare Healthcare Crime and punishment Gun control Becoming a Third World country Labor The CIA The media Sports Religious fundamentalism Don’t tread on me

THE WORLD

Toward greater inequality “Free trade” Mexico (and South Central LA) Haiti Nicaragua China Russia Dead children and debt service

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

How the Nazis won the war Chile Cambodia World War II POWs

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

Consumption vs. well-being Cooperative enterprises The coming eco-catastrophe Nuclear power The family What you can do

THE COMMON GOOD

That dangerous radical Aristotle Equality Libraries Freedom

ON THE HOME FRONT

The myth of hard times Corporate welfare Crime: in the suites vs. in the streets The media More money, fewer voters Is corporate power invincible?

AROUND THE WORLD

Is globalization inevitable? The myth of Third World debt Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala Brazil, Argentina and Chile The Mideast East Timor India International organizations

THE US LEFT (AND IMITATIONS THEREOF)

Are left and right meaningful terms? The narcissism of small differences Postmodernism Excommunicated by the illuminati

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Signs of progress (and not) Resistance The magic answer Manufacturing dissent

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