Imperial Ambitions: Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post 9/11 World (TBP) (GRP)

**In this first collection of interviews since the** **bestselling 9-11, our foremost intellectual activist examines crucial new questions of U.S. foreign policy** Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing America's policies in an increasingly unstable world.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 times in which we live. "This volume of interviews conducted by radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers his frank, provocative, and informed views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preemptive strikes against so-called rogue states, and the growing threat of 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." "Imperial Ambitions explores new ground, including the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat of global warming. The result is an enlightening dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our time, a startling picture of the turbulent world in which we live, and an affirmation of the many possibilities for a more hopeful and humane future."--BOOK JACKET Imperial Ambitions -- Collateral Language -- Regime Change -- Wars Of Aggression -- History And Memory -- The Doctrine Of Good Intentions -- Intellectual Self-defense -- Democracy And Education -- Another World Is Possible. Noam Chomsky ; Interviews With David Barsamian. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 202-220) And Index. In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Chomsky discusses U.S. foreign policy in the post 9/11 world. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the world's leading thinkers - and a startling picture of the turbulent world in which we live. In this collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky explores the world's most pressing questions with his trademark clarity and insight and presents a startling picture of America's relentless pursuit of power and its catastrophic consequences