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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
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Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

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In a compelling new set of
interviews, Noam Chomsky's Global Discontents identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.

In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks listeners to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”: one imperiled by the escalation of climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it’s up to us to radically change it.

These twelve 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 economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal 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 dissident intellectual.

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Release dateDec 5, 2017
ISBN9781427289612
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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. A world-renowned linguist and political activist, he is the author of numerous books, including On Language, Understanding Power (edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel), American Power and the New Mandarins, For Reasons of State, Problems of Knowledge and Freedom, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, Towards a New Cold War, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), On Anarchism, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate (with Michel Foucault), and The Withdrawal and On Cuba (both with Vijay Prashad), all published by The New Press. He lives in São Paulo, Brazil.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Hearing this book in Chomsky's own voice is always great,so thank you ,Noam for taking the time to help narrate.This book is very educational on policies and politics from the US to the Middle East ,
    and A bit of Europe.learned alot.I highly recommend this book if this subject interest you.Thank you for your knowledge Noam.

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    A super read wonderful well-written fascinating well done! The man is a genius!