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Four Chomsky classics - The Common Good, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, and What Uncle Sam Really Wants - for the price of three. Available now as a handsome quartet shrink-wrapped in a 4-colour case suitable for display. This collection of interviews and talks by Noam Chomsky is an ideal introduction to the man the New York Times called "arguably the most important intellectual alive." In a lively, conversational style, Chomsky discusses a range of political issues from Central America to the Middle East, Aristotle to postmodernism. Chomsky argues the cause of democracy and freedom with clarity and passion. Here are a few excerpts: US forces inaugurated a brutal repression in Korea in 1945, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About a hundred thousand people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War. In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. Twenty years later, those figures had reversed.After World War II, many Nazis were spirited off to Latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. There they taught Gestapo torture techniques to US-supported police states modelled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich.
Contents
The Common Good; Editor's Note; The Common Good; On the home front; Around the world; The US left (and imitations thereof); What can you do; Secrets, Lies And Democracy; Editor's note; The US; The world; Historical background; Miscellaneous topics; What you can do; The Prosperous Few And The Restless Many; Introduction; About the Author; The New Global Economy; NAFTA and GATT - Who Benefits? Food and Third World "Economic Miracles'; Photo Ops in Somalia; Slav vs. Slav; The Chosen Country; Gandhi, Nonviolence and India; Divide and Conquer; The Roots of Racism; The Unmentionable Five-letter Word; Human Nature and Self-image; It can't happen here - Can It? Hume's Paradox; "Outside the Pale of Intellectual Responsibility"; What Uncle Sam Really Wants; Editor's Foreword; The Main Goals of US Foreign Policy; Devastation Abroad; Brainwashing at Home; The Future
