Hopes and prospects
By: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781931859967
Description: Chomsky shows how direct participation in action in the United States, Latin America, Bolivia, and Haiti in particular has put into practice a different model of democracy that could portend more far-reaching, badly needed changes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : Latin America; title: Year 514 : globalization for whom?; title: Latin America and U.S. foreign policy; title: Democracy and development : their enemies, their hopes; title: Latin American and Caribbean unity; title: Part II : North America; title: "Good news" Iraq and beyond; title: Free elections, good news and bad; title: Century's challenges; title: Turning point?; title: Elections 2008 : hope confronts the real world; title: Obama on Israel-Palestine; title: The torture memos; title: 1989 and beyond.