AuthorChomsky, Noam
TitleInterventions / Noam Chomsky
Imprint New York : Penguin Books, 2008
Edition 1st ed
Descript xxi, 260p. ; 18 cm

CONTENT

9/11: lessons unlearned. -- The United States versus Iraq: a modest proposal. -- The case against the war in Iraq. -- Now that the war has begun. -- Iraq is a trial run. -- Road map to nowhere. -- 9/11 and the "Age of terror" -- The United States and the United Nations. -- Dilemmas of dominance. -- Saddam Hussein before the tribunal. -- Saddam Hussein and crimes of state. -- A wall as a weapon. -- The United States: terrorist sanctuary. -- Dangerous times: the U.S.-Iraq war and its aftermath. -- Iraq: the roots of resistance. -- The rules of disengagement in Israel-Palestine. -- Who is to run the world and how? -- John Negroponte: from Central America to Iraq. -- Democracy building must begin at home. -- The disconnect in American democracy. -- "We" are good. -- Imperial presidency and its consequences. -- The Iraq debacle and international order. -- "Democracy promotion" in the Middle East. -- The universality of human rights. -- Dr. Strangelove meets the age of terror. -- The social security non-crisis. -- The hidden agenda in the Iraq War. -- The legacy of Hiroshima and the present terror. -- 9/11 and the doctrine of good intentions. -- The Bush administration during Hurricane season. -- "Intelligent design" and its consequences. -- South America at the tipping point. -- The hidden meaning of the Iraqi elections. -- The Hamas victory and "Democracy promotions" -- Asia, the Americas, and the reigning superpower. -- "Just war" theory and the real world. -- Disarming the Iran nuclear showdown. -- Viewing Lebanon as if through a bombsight. -- Latin American declares its independence. -- Alternatives for the Americas. -- What is at stake in Iraq. -- The Cold War between Washington and Tehran. -- The great soul of power. -- The Somalia syndrome. -- Gaza and the future of a Palestinian-Israeli peace. -- Containing Iran, "All options are on the table" -- Hypocrisies and hope in Annapolis. -- "Good news" from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. -- The unspeakable war.


SUBJECT

  1. United States -- Foreign relation -- 2001-

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