Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David BarsamianBarsamian, the founder of Alternative Radio, and Chomsky, allegedly the most quoted author in the modern era, have forged a symbiotic relationship that manages to distill Chomsky's political philosophies and make them accessible. Barsamian's historically grounded, well-informed and probing questions prompt Chomsky to deconstruct concepts of class, media and economics. Chomsky deftly addresses domestic and foreign conundrums including health care, the recent crime bill and NAFTA. While these interviews span a two-year period and end early in 1994, they remain provocative and timely, with Chomsky's insights on Haiti, Northern Ireland and the Middle East proving especially resonant. Ultimately, Rabble serves as a Chomsky primer that is without condescension, and the question-and-answer format shows him at his most concise and adroit. His criticism exposes democracies as business-run societies that render the general population isolated from politics, persuasively suggesting that we are on the verge of a social breakdown. What sets this work apart from other reluctant messiahs who simply intellectualize suffering, is that Barsamian and Chomsky discuss avenues for activism-strengthening unions, following grassroots organizations or simply reading between the lines. Together they act as a lens, enabling the reader to see what has been there, hidden in plain sight. FROM Publisher's Weekly -- Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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... Nazis and were mainly trying to overcome the partisans . They won . The partisan vic- tory imposed a communist ... Nazi original , but similar in some ways . They are now doing pretty much what they would have done if it hadn't ...
... Nazis and were mainly trying to overcome the partisans . They won . The partisan vic- tory imposed a communist ... Nazi original , but similar in some ways . They are now doing pretty much what they would have done if it hadn't ...
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... - British intelligence , which took some of the worst Nazi criminals , like Klaus Barbie , and used them . Klaus Barbie was taken over by U.S. intelli- gence and returned to exactly the operations that the Nazis 226 KEEPING THE RABBLE IN ...
... - British intelligence , which took some of the worst Nazi criminals , like Klaus Barbie , and used them . Klaus Barbie was taken over by U.S. intelli- gence and returned to exactly the operations that the Nazis 226 KEEPING THE RABBLE IN ...
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... Nazi war criminals and saving them is bad enough , but continuing the activities that they carried out is worse . The first chapter of postwar his- tory , in my view , would be the description of the British and U.S. operations , mostly ...
... Nazi war criminals and saving them is bad enough , but continuing the activities that they carried out is worse . The first chapter of postwar his- tory , in my view , would be the description of the British and U.S. operations , mostly ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
They Dont Even Know That They Know | 33 |
Race | 61 |
Copyright | |
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