Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World (American Empire Project) - Softcover

Chomsky, Noam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080507967X ISBN 13: 9780805079678

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, 2005

Synopsis

In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling "9-11," a foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy.

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Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival and Failed States. A laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

David Barsamian, director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio, is a winner of the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. His interviews with Noam Chomsky have been published as books, including Imperial Ambitions and Global Discontents.

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AEP: Imperial Ambitions

Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

By Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Henry Holt and Co.

Copyright © 2005 Noam Chomsky
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“America has formal democratic institutions, but they barely function. So it doesn’t matter if, say, 80 percent of the population thinks we should have some kind of national health-care system. It doesn’t even matter if the large majority regards this as a moral value. When commentators rave on about “moral values,” they’re talking about gay marriage, not the fact that decent health care for everyone is part of people’s moral values. And the reason those commentators don’t care is that it’s not their interest. They’re like me. They get fine health care. So it’s not an issue for them. But for the large majority of the population, it’s a serous issue, and it’s becoming even more so. When Medicaid is destroyed, as it probably will be, that’s going to really harm people. But people are unorganized: they’re not in unions, they’re not in political associations, there are no political parties in which they participate. They’re isolated. The genius of American politics has been to marginalize and isolate the population so it can’t act in its collective interest.”

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Edition details

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080507967X
• ISBN 13: 9780805079678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240