He is the author of numerous bestselling political works, which have been translated into scores of languages worldwide.

Ketika pembaca sudah tahu hal-hal tersebut, aku rasa mereka sudah bisa mencerna tulisan Chomsky dengan lebih baik. In the West Bank, they also wanted to destroy the threat moderation - people who wanted to make a political statement. He has spent more than half a century at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, and is the author of over 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. I would recommend this book so someone who wants an introductory overview of democratic and anti-capitalist critiques of American foreign policy. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980–1992 time period, and was the eighth-most cited scholar in any time period.In a free market, government's only role is to protect against fraud or any violation that would cease to make trade free. Any nation or leader that attempts an alternate path, especially that is good for the people in the long term, is at the receiving end of many deterrents - local and international - acting in the interest of the US. Obviously the book lacks stylistic form as it is a series of recorded interviews and as such can get a bit choppy. Also if at least 50% of the facts about US foreign politics which he lists in the first third of the book are correct, the world is a very sad place.

Many aren't ready to hear what this man has to say, but I think there is a lot of truth in Chomsky's worldview. For example, twenty years ago he pointed out that “in 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment—more or less productive things—and 10% for speculation. In other words, our true ideology is how to further enrich and empower the corporations, hedge funds, and other capitalist cabals that own the country and the political process.Big business has an important play in this and over a period of time, media which is supposed to be a conscience-keeper, becomes a cheerleader. Tetapi sekali lagi aku ingatkan, siapkan mental untuk bertahan dengan buku ini, kalau perlu ketahuilah hal-hal mendasar mengenai kejahatan-kejahatan yang terjadi di dunia ini selama masa pemerintahan Presiden AS Reagan, Nixon.

Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series— What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good—they’ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies. A very educating piece of work, an interesting look at the not-so-behind-the-scenes global politics/profits we see today.

reading this is like visiting some wise old monk and getting lots of surprisingly simple answers to a lot of big questions. This book exposed the hypocrisies absorbed alongside conventional forms of thought within modern Western societies, for example the idea that welfare encourages reliance with respect to individuals but is acceptable in terms of enabling large companies to find their feet.