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A searing collection of new insights from the world's most celebrated public intellectual and activist In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns- the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by U.S. business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far right. The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront across the world.

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One of the finest minds of the twentieth century * New Yorker * Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today * New York Times Book Review * Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet? * New Statesman * The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar * Guardian *

One of the finest minds of the twentieth century New Yorker Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon ... he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today New York Times Book Review Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet? New Statesman The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism ... the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar Guardian

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Noam Chomsky is institute professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lau-reate professor in the Agnes Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and he is equally renowned for his incisive writings on global affairs and U.S. foreign policy. The single most cited and published living author, winner of numer-ous international awards, Chomsky has written over one hundred books, including the bestselling political works Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, and Who Rules the World?.

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