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La política exterior de Estados Unidos tiene demasiados frentes abiertos. Las últimas administraciones, ligadas a grupos de presión y al complejo tecnológico-militar, han llevado al mundo al caos. Irán, Corea del Norte, el conflicto de Oriente Medio, el Líbano, las guerras en Afganistán e Irak, el ascenso imparable de China Son sólo algunos de los temas que el profesor Chomsky aborda en este libro, muy crítico con el imperio norteamericano, cuya lectura sólo puede provocar indignación.Indispensable. The Boston GlobeChomsky critica a esos periodistas e intelectuales que cuando informan sobre la actualidad no cuestionan los supuestos bajo los que Estados Unidos actúa, unos supuestos que han dado forma al debate de tal manera que sólo los detalles son materia de discusión. El planteamiento de Chomsky es estimulante. Library Journal

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La prensa del gran capital en USA aconseja a los "mimados trabajadores occidentales" que abandonen su "lujoso estilo de vida" y "las estructuras rígidas del mercado" como los contratos, las pensiones, la salud y la seguridad laboral y otros disparates obsoletos, como el mismo concepto de trabajo.Noam Chomsky es profesor de lenguas modernas en el MIT. Su teoría gramatical revolucionó todo el estudio del lenguaje. Escritor prolífico cuenta con una producción de artículos y libros que muestra su espíritu crítico y radical frente al sistema capitalista.

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Pirates and Emperors, Old and New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how "selected incidents of terrorism" are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe. Topics covered include the Lockerbie Bombing, the Second Palestinian Intifada and the attacks on the World Trade Centre. For those who want to understand the roots of American military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, recent interventions in Libya, and the on-going destruction of Palestine this collection remains invaluable. This edition first published 2002

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Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers, how they work, and why we should be questioning them.From the dark history of the US and Cuba to China's global rise, from torture memos to sanctions on Iran, this book investigates the defining issues of our times and exposes the hypocrisy at the heart of America's policies and actions. The world's political and financial elite are now operating almost totally unconstrained by the so-called democratic structure. With climate change and nuclear proliferation threatening our very survival, dissenting voices have never been more necessary.Fiercely outspoken and rigorously argued, Who Rules the World? is an indispensable guide to how things really are.

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'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times on Noam ChomskyIn this collection of essays from 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many.Including essays on subjects such as:* Human Intelligence and the Environment* Terror, Justice and Self-Defence* The Welfare-Warfare stateThis is an indispensable compilation of searing insights into the state of our world.Praise for Chomsky:'Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on the planet today' NYT Book Review'Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet?' New Statesman'The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar' Guardian

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The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics.Including classic essays such as:* What Uncle Sam Really Wants* The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many* Secrets, Lies and Democracy* The Common Good

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'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York Times An indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of power Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world’s leading intellectuals of the modern era. Now, for the first time, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power. With an eye to political activism and the media’s role in popular struggle, as well as US foreign and domestic policy, Chomsky reinterprets the events of the past three decades, from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. Highlighting America’s myriad of social inequalities and political issues while offering timely advice for much needed change, Understanding Power is definitive Chomsky. ‘Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities’ Guardian‘Powerful and timely...his analysis is fair, meticulously researched and fascinating’ Observer

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Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.S. presidential race; the ascendancy of China; Latin America's leftward turn; the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea; Israel's invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank; developments in climate change; the world financial crisis; the Arab Spring; the assassination of Osama bin Laden; and the Occupy protests. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. "Progressive legislation and social welfare," writes Chomsky, "have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting booth to the workplace." Making the Future is a follow-up to Interventions, published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantanamo Bay by U.S. military censors. Both books are drawn from articles Chomsky has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Making the Future offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America's foremost intellectual and political dissidents. Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011. "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!"--Vanity Fair " ...he has emerged as one of the left's most implacable voices, challenging the often hidden structures that lie behind the abuse of power." --Paul V. Griffith, Chapter 16 "Making the Future is an impressive collection of articles shedding light on and challen- ging the current political, economic, and military world order. To make sense of the complex mechanisms at play, Chomsky adopts a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach: he juggles with history, sociology of the media, critical theory, and political philosophy." --Juliana Bidadanure, Global Discourse, 2013 Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned author, linguist, and advocate for democracy. He is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control. He lives in Massachusetts where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

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Noam Chomsky's prolific writings have made him one of the most-quoted educators in history—the only living writer on a most-cited list that includes Plato, Shakespeare, and Freud. Yet until now, no book has systematically offered Chomsky's influential writings on education. In Chomsky on MisEducation, Noam Chomsky encourages a larger understanding of our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, and broadening our view of new models of public education. Chomsky weaves global technological change and the primacy of responsible media with the democratic role of schools and higher education. A truly democratic society, he argues, cannot thrive in a rapidly changing world unless our approach to education—formal and otherwise—is dramatically reformed. Chomsky's critique of how our current educational system "miseducates" students—and his prescriptions for change—are essential reading for teachers, parents, school administrators, activists, and anyone concerned about the future.

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Chomsky takes on the international scene since 1945, devoting particular attention to events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. He develops a forceful critique of Western government, from imperialist foreign policies to the Clinton administration's empty promises to the poor.

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From World War II until the 1980s, the United States reigned supreme as both the economic and the military leader of the world. The major shifts in global politics that came about with the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc have left the United States unchallenged as the pre-eminent military power, but American economic might has declined drastically in the face of competition, first from Germany and Japan and more recently from the newly prosperous countries elsewhere.In this book, Noam Chomsky points to the potentially catastrophic consequences of this imbalance. He reveals a world in which the United States exploits its advantage ruthlessly to enforce its national interests - and in the process destroys weaker nations.Deterring Democracy offers a devastating analysis of American Imperialism, drawing alarming connections between its repression of information inside the US and its aggressive empire-building abroad.

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El gran lingüista norteamericano, Noam Chomsky, critica duramente el actual sistema de enseñanza. Frente a la idea de que en las escuelas se enseñan los valores democráticos, lo que realmente existe es un modelo colonial de enseñanza diseñado primordialmente para formar profesores cuya dimensión intelectual quede devaluada y sea sustituida por un complejo de procedimientos y técnicas; un modelo que impide el pensamiento crítico e independiente, que no permite razonar sobre lo que se oculta tras las explicaciones y que, por ello mismo, fija estas explicaciones como las únicas posibles. Pocas veces los profesores piden a los alumnos que analicen las estructuras políticas y sociales que informan sus vidas. Raramente se insta a los estudiantes a que descubran la verdad por sí mismos. En La (des)educación, Chomsky nos proporciona excelentes herramientas para desmontar este tipo de enseñanza. Si los educadores rechazan el adiestramiento tecnocrático que les desintelectualiza para convertirse

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Avram Noam Chomsky (1928) estudió en la Universidad de Pensilvania bajo la dirección de Zellig S. Harris. Fue profesor desde 1955 del Institute of Thechnology de Massachussets. Su primera publicación importante fue Syntactic Structures (1957), resumen de The logical structure of Linguistic Theory (1955). Entre sus obras fundamentales en el ámbito de la lingüística cabe destacar: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964), Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965), que suele considerarse como la primera modificación importante en el campo de la gramática transformacional, Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought (1967), Language and Mind (1968), etc.

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En este libro Noam Chomsky y Robert Pollin analizan la economía política del cambio climático y su imbricación con el modelo neoliberal de producción y la globalización financiera. Proponen como salida un Green New Deal, un Nuevo Acuerdo Ecológico mundial que lleve a la eliminación total de las emisiones de carbono hacia 2050. Esta salida, sostienen, solo será realista, justa y posible si asegura la superación de la terrible desigualdad social, la inequidad y el empobrecimiento de las mayorías que el imperio del neoliberalismo ha profundizado en las últimas décadas, y la creación de fuentes de trabajo y salarios dignos para todos.

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Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemonyIn 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: that no legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its 'power, position, and prestige'. In short, whatever the world may think, U.S. actions are legitimate because they say so. Spanning the impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing and Palestinian-Israeli relations to deeper reflections on political philosophy and the importance of a commons to democracy, Because We Say So takes American imperialism head on.'Noam Chomsky is one of a small band of individuals fighting a whole industry. And that makes him not only brilliant, but heroic' Arundhati Roy'The world's greatest public intellectual' Observer

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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World‘The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know’ Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time, and as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings, from his groundbreaking critique of B.F. Skinner to his bestselling works Hegemony or Survival and Failed States, concerning subjects ranging from critiques of corporate media and U.S. interventionism to intellectual freedom and the political economy of human rights. Featuring a collection of twenty-five pieces of writing spanning six decades, this is an unparalleled and comprehensive overview of Chomsky's thought.‘Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive’ New York Times

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Occupy gives Noam Chomsky's thoughts on a movement which swept the world 'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.'Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global conscience as its messages spread from street protests to op-ed pages to the highest seats of power. From the movement's onset, Noam Chomsky has supported its critique of corporate corruption and encouraged its efforts to increase civic participation, economic equality, democracy and freedom. Through talks and conversations with movement supporters, Occupy presents Chomsky's latest thinking on the central issues, questions and demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1% influencing the lives of the other 99%? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like? How can we redefine basic concepts like 'growth' to increase equality and quality of life for all? Occupy is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance and protest, and a red-hot rallying call to forge a better, more egalitarian future.

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The United States asserts the right to use military force against ‘failed states’ around the globe. But as Noam Chomsky argues in this devastating analysis, America shares features with many of the regimes it insists are failing and constitute a danger to their neighbours. Offering a comprehensive and radical examination of America past and present, Chomsky shows how this lone superpower – which topples foreign governments, invades states that threaten its interests and imposes sanctions on regimes it opposes – has stretched its own democratic institutions to breaking point. And how an America in crisis places the world ever closer to the brink of nuclear and environmental disaster.

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El Triángulo Fatal puede que sea el libro más ambicioso sobre el conflicto entre el sionismo y el pueblo palestino desde un punto de vista que involucra de manera crucial a Estados Unidos. Se trata de una contundente exposición de corrupción humana, cod

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Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author. While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings are widely published around the world, they have rarely been printed in major U.S. media; none have been published in the New York Times. Concise and fiercely argued, Interventions covers the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security, the escalating threat of nuclear warfare, and more. A powerful and accessible new book from one of America's foremost political intellectuals and dissidents. "Interventions offers over forty of Chomsky's columns; insightful, crisp and well-researched pieces on news events of the day. From 9-11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis." -- Mumia Abu-Jamal "Chomsky is a global phenomenon ...perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet." -- New York Times Book Review "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!" -- Vanity Fair "With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us--and to discern what they are leaving out...Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening." -- Business Weekly Noam Chomsky has taught linguistics and philosophy at MIT for more than fifty years. He is a critically-acclaimed author of numerous books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control and Failed States.

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