Because We Say So, Noam Chomsky
Because We Say So, Noam Chomsky
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Because We Say So

Author: Noam Chomsky

Narrator: James Patrick Cronin

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/03/2016


Synopsis

Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on the Obama doctrine, political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.

Because We Say So is the third in a series of books by Chomsky published by City Lights Publishers that includes Making the Future (2012) and Interventions (2007), a book banned by U.S. military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky writes regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, and are largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Because We Say So offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by America's foremost public intellectual and political dissident.

About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a laureate professor at the University of Arizona and professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics, and Chomsky is one of the foremost critics of US foreign policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking books, articles, and essays on global politics, history, and linguistics.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amin

"English below" کتاب شامل مقالاتی است که گاها حاوی اطلاعات جالب و مفیدی هستند مثلا درباره تلاش برای خرد کردن روان انسانی در غزه یا خطوط قرمز یا امنیت اجتماعی در برابر نیروی پلیس دولتی. اما بعد از چندی به نظر می رسد که مطالب تکراری میشوند یا برخی از بخشهای واقعیت مغفول میمانند. مثلا یکی از دلایل محبوب......more

2 US influence was inversely proportional to democratic progress in Latin America, because Washington would only tolerate "limited, top-down forms of democratic change that did not risk upsetting the traditional structures of power with which the United States has long been allied (in) quite undemocr......more

Goodreads review by Jason

I wish I'd come across Chomsky earlier, though he is relatively censored in the USA. He speaks the truth clearly and without bombast. His work has probably changed my political views more than anything I've read as an adult. This is a collection of essays/talks, all in short form. I'm looking forward......more

Goodreads review by Larry

Noam Chomsky is a brilliant thinker and has quite a following internationally. But in the US it is difficult to find his copious writing in our daily press. This book includes essays that were published in 2013 and 2014. They remind us how much the news has changed just in the short time since Mr. T......more

Goodreads review by Maxine

Whatever the world may think, U.S. actions are legitimate because we say so. The principle was enunciated by the eminent statesman Dean Acheson in 1962, when he instructed the American Society of International Law that no legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its “powe......more