Hopes and prospects
By: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Haymarket Books; [Distributed by] Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781931859967
Subjects: Politics and government; World politics; Foreign relations; Latin American federation; Arab-Israeli conflict
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 (p. 281-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Latin America. 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: North America. "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.