num_pages: 226
description: In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policyTimely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America’s policies in an increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of “preemptive” strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history.Barsamian, recipient of the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time—and a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live. 
language: English
title: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
titlecomplete: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
characters: Kate Zernike, Zellig Harris, Winston Churchill, Karl Rove, L. Paul Bremer, Jawaharlal Nehru, Walter Lippmann, Edward Bernays, Charles Glass, Robert McNamara, Antonio Gramsci, Tony Blair, Thomas Friedman, Bill Clinton, Fareed Zakaria, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, John Kerry, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, David Lloyd George, Ronald Reagan, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, Hugo Chávez, John Negroponte
genres: Audiobook, Political Science, American, Politics, Philosophy, Economics, International Relations, War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2152
places: Harlingen, Texas, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, Porto Alegre, Lexington, Massachusetts, Boulder, Colorado
series: American Empire Project
publisher: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. (NY)