num_pages: 43
description: In this first collection of interviews since the bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy.In this important program of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discusses America’s policies in the 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 world in which we live.
language: English
title: Imperial Ambitions
titlecomplete: Imperial Ambitions (American Empire Project)
characters: John Negroponte, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Fareed Zakaria, George W. Bush, Hugo Chávez, Ronald Reagan, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Thomas Friedman, Antonio Gramsci, Saddam Hussein, Kate Zernike, Walter Lippmann, Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, David Lloyd George, Edward Bernays, Robert McNamara, Bill Clinton, Winston Churchill, Charles Glass, Tony Blair, Jawaharlal Nehru, Zellig Harris, L. Paul Bremer, Karl Rove
genres: History, Philosophy, Economics, International Relations, War, Audiobook, American, Nonfiction, Political Science, Politics
ratings_count: 2152
places: Porto Alegre, Harlingen, Texas, Lexington, Massachusetts, Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, Boulder, Colorado, Cambridge, Massachusetts
series: American Empire Project
publisher: Macmillan Audio