How the World Works

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You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. While Chomsky’s grasp of history and world affairs is unparalleled, perhaps his greatest intellectual gift is his ability to distill the diversity and complexity of world events down to a simple picture, simply explained. 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. And now, it seems, having created jobs that few people seem to want, (worker engagement runs at an all time low) we have once again effortlessly shifted the distracting hand of the magician to the defense of democracy. A very educating piece of work, an interesting look at the not-so-behind-the-scenes global politics/profits we see today.

Though it was convenient to show the USSR as the bogeyman, the US was also good at creating other villains. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky details how the US interferes with foreign countries, how it uses propaganda, obfuscating language and outright lies to get away with it, how the media is complicit in much of this, and the ultimate goals towards which it is working.The basic idea of free trade is that people be able to exchange goods and services without the outside influence of governments or thieves. Aku rasa, buku ini cocok untuk mereka yang tidak mudah percaya dengan isi berita dan judul utama media massa (atau minimal berpikirakn skeptis). The US regularly carries out or supports aggression even in cases far more criminal than Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

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. Despite those shortcomings, and in part owing to my naivete in the subject matter, I found the material sufficiently explosive and the arguments so intelligently constructed that I'd rate this one of the most important books I've read.Since the 1970, the US has vetoed far more Security Council resolutions than any other country (Britain is second, France a distinct third and Soviet Union fourth).

When the rights of the investors are threatened, democracy has to go: if there rights are safeguarded, killers and torturers will do just fine. According to MIT and the Chicago Tribune, he’s the most cited author in the last two decades and is the eighth most cited source of all time (only surpasssed by Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Freud).While most of the industrial rivals were either severely weakened or totally destroyed by the World War II, the US benefited enormously from it. So, I would recommend this book for an insight into how the world works, with all its naked abuses of power and constructed control mechanisms. The first of the four books gets at times into the grotesque details of what's happening around, but the remaining three are softer in that aspect. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Buku ini cukup menarik hanya untuk kalangan tertentu yang mau merelakan waktunya membaca apa yang bertolak belakang dari yang selama ini dipublikasikan oleh media.

For the executive branch, a democrat is someone who follows the Western business agenda, and the best defense against democracy is to distract people which is what it does in the Third World countries. I'm not saying Chomsky is wrong, just that there's not enough here for you to base a solid judgement on.The stuff on corporations being totalitarian tyrannies should hit home for everyone who works in one.