Who Rules the World?

By Noam Chomsky

Book Overview

A New York Times Bestseller

The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.

In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy--diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable--the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please.

Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250131081
• ISBN13: 9781250131089
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A preface for the 21st century

Those who are already familiar with Chomsky's work will find similar themes of (American) hypocrisy in this book. Those who are not will find the real, and true colors of the United States--a global terrorist--fixed on the pursuit of global hegemony. As one of the most prominent intellectuals notable for his critic on the Western world, Chomsky explains to us the decline of the United States, and at the same time, the rise of other players to global power. But most importantly, he reveals to us where the future looms as money dictate the hope for the decent survival of our species.