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What We Say Goes:

Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
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Macmillan, Oct 2, 2007 - History - 223 pages
An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's most useful citizen." (The Boston Globe) In this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the 2006 U.S. midterm elections and the upcoming presidential race. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.
The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, What We Say Goes shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront, both at home and abroad. They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world today.
  

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Review: What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World

User Review  - David - Goodreads

Classic Chomsky. I liked this just as much as "Understanding Power" but as that was my "official" introduction to Chomsky, it retains five stars while this only gets four. The difference lies wholly ... Read full review

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User Review  - Evan - Goodreads

My first "on hiatus" review of 2012, which means it ain't a real review by my usual standards; more of a placeholder. Noam Chomsky's geopolitical books (as opposed to the purely linguistic-related ... Read full review

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Contents

1 WHAT WE SAY GOES
1
2 LEBANON AND THE CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
9
3 LATIN AMERICA STIRRINGS IN THE SERVANTS QUARTERS
41
4 THE UNITED STATES VERSUS THE GOSPELS
73
5 THE FRAMEWORK FOR THINKABLE THOUGHTS
93
6 INVASIONS AND EVASIONS
119
7 THREATS
141
8 WHAT WE CAN DO
161
NOTES
191
ACKNOWLEGMENTS
213
INDEX
215
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Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Imperial Ambitions and What We Say Goes. A professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts. Visit Noam Chomsky's website at www.chomsky.info.

David Barsamian, director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio, is the winner of the Lannan Foundation's 2006 Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism. Barsamian lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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