
Power Systems
Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
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Noam Chomsky
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David Barsamian
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A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers...
In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.
The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection shows once again that no interlocutor engages with Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews will inspire a new generation of listeners, 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.
©2013 Aviva Chomsky and David Barsamian (P)2013 Macmillan AudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Everyone must read this book.
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A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.
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Current times demand you get this into your head.
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The arguments are concise, and the information is overwhelming. The first two lectures examine the persistent and largely invariant features of foreign policy, the overall framework of order. The third discusses Central America and its foreign policy pattern. The fourth looks at national security and the arms race. And the fifth examines US domestic policy.
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In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks listeners to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by the escalation of climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, it's up to us to radically change it.
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Current times demand you get this into your head.
- De Comatoso en 08-12-15
De: Noam Chomsky, y otros
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Manufacturing Consent
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The arguments are concise, and the information is overwhelming. The first two lectures examine the persistent and largely invariant features of foreign policy, the overall framework of order. The third discusses Central America and its foreign policy pattern. The fourth looks at national security and the arms race. And the fifth examines US domestic policy.
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This exhilarating collection of essays, interviews, and correspondence—spanning the years 1988 through 2018, and reaching back a decade more—is about the simple concept that ideas matter. They mutate, inform, create fuel for thought, and inspire actions. As Kelman says, the State relies on our suffocation, that we cannot hope to learn the truth. But whether we can or not is beside the point. We must grasp the nettle, we assume control and go forward.
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As expected it is smart and bold
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Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all - the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. It offers the perfect introduction to Chomsky’s significant political thought and provides an accessible approach for anyone who wishes to better understand the West’s fraught role in the world.
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uncover the .we have a world theives .
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What We Say Goes
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In this all new collection of conversations, 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 U.S. midterm elections and its ramifications for the future.
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Chomsky for President!!
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Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide a historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation, or how-to, for successfully comprehending social events and relations.
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For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as in the Cuban missile crisis, to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. Now the Bush administration is intensifying this process, driving us toward the final frontiers of imperial control, toward a choice between the prerogatives of power and a livable Earth.
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Read and open your mind
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Propaganda and the Public Mind
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Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky's thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. In an interview conducted after the important November 1999 "Battle in Seattle", Chomsky discusses prospects for building a movement to challenge corporate domination of the media, the environment, and even our private lives.
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Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy - one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state", and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States.
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kind of a rip-off
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In this important program of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discusses America's policies in the increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of "preemptive" strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination.
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Very good
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Failed States
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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated sequel to his international best seller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state", and therefore a danger to its own people and the world.
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Incredible and Unforgettable
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Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and hundreds of cities economically devastated?
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Eye Opener
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On Palestine
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine.
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Excellent Introduction/101 Level Book
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Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.
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For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as in the Cuban missile crisis, to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. Now the Bush administration is intensifying this process, driving us toward the final frontiers of imperial control, toward a choice between the prerogatives of power and a livable Earth.
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Honest
If you could sum up Power Systems in three words, what would they be?
To the point
What did you like best about this story?
The honest truth, like it or not
Which character – as performed by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian – was your favorite?
Noam Chomsky
What’s the most interesting tidbit you’ve picked up from this book?
The plight of the population
Any additional comments?
Noam Chomsky tells you the facts. He has no favorites, just tells it like it is.
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- 12-25-19
Noam’s insights will change your worldview
Noam is one the world’s last hopes on positive change. If you read/listened to any of his other books you aren’t as shocked to hear the truth, but are educated on the new and relevant situations he speaks about. I love the interview format and that Noam is speaking for himself on the audiobook. Some of his other books have other narrators and they aren’t as passionate as he himself is.
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- John
- 02-25-13
Nice update from Chomsky
Where does Power Systems rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
"Power Systems" is one of the best audiobooks I have read.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
Noam Chomsky is one of the hardest-working and best researchers in the field of contemporary politics, power systems, American colonialism, foreign wars, the occupy movement, post-secondary education (he teaches at M.I.T.) the 1%, poverty in America, and the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. This book covers more territory than many of his other more specialized titles, and brings the reader up to the past year or so (2012). If you want a good overview of the problems facing America and the west, and what needs to be done to fix them, this is a very good place to start.
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- G&W
- 07-28-17
excellent
Thoughtful review of the powers that govern us in today's world. Deep, objective analysis of critical factors affecting our lives.
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- steve
- 01-21-17
Great book; poor quality.
This is a great eye opening book. I'd recommend this to someone who might not have the time to read Understanding Power. Unfortunately, the sound quality in this was very poor, which made it somewhat difficult to follow.
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- Michael
- 05-30-18
Classic Chomsky
Firstly this is a series of interviews not a coherent book, the audio quality is variable but generally understandable.
I have read a lot of Chomsky (on both linguistics and politics) quite a few years ago, and when a friend asked me what I thought of this book and Chomsky, I decided to give Chomsky a fresh look.
This book, as the title implies, is mostly on power politics but there is a bit of linguistics at the end.
I have never been a fan of Chomsky and this book did not alter that.
Chomsky is very well read, is intelligent and says mostly reasonable things, that make sense, and uses quotes that are correct but out of context, then makes final conclusions that do not follow.
Chomsky has slight anarchist bent which I found off putting.
Some of his theories seem to me, at least borderline, conspiracy theories.
One of his theories is there is not good evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 911 attacks and his death was a US "assassination".
On careful analysis Chomsky seems to blame everyone, corporations, government, the media, and even the people but he does not really provide a clear direction. He seems to feel the only solution is revolutionary transformation away from democratic capitalism but this is frustrated by the self-brain washing of the people.
I alway found Chomsky's very influential linguistic theories quite weak, based upon strongly held opinions, not science. His comments at the end of this book did not change that either. He seems to think some recent small language specific brain evolution must be responsible for the development of human language. Although this might be the case, there are other explanations.
Chomsky has written many books on politics and power and remains influential. I recommend reading some Chomsky, but reading with close attention to final step in each of his arguments.
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- Rich Shields
- 07-10-13
Total Waste
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
Never knowing of its existence.
Has Power Systems turned you off from other books in this genre?
I hope there are no other books in this genre.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian ?
A mute.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Power Systems?
All of them.
Any additional comments?
The download made my i-Pod throw up.
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- Christine
- 03-08-13
This is not a book, it's an interview
I was very disappointed to discover that this is a recorded interview with Chomsky, not a book. So it is very repetitive and much of the interview is conducted over the phone so the audio quality is very poor. You have to be a huge fan of Chomsky to want to sit through this.
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- Thaddeus Guldbrandsen
- 02-04-13
Insightful interviews, not a book.
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
This is a series of insightful interviews with Noam Chomsky, providing comment on the meaning and significance of contemporary social, political, and economic trends and events. I should have read the description more carefully before buying. I was expecting something that would more closely approximate a book, which this is not. I was also expect fresh perspectives and new analysis of contemporary concerns. This is a good reflection of Noam Chomsky's ideas. Chomsky speaks off the cuff to questions presented to him. Smart, articulate, well stated. Not particularly novel.
Has Power Systems turned you off from other books in this genre?
I'll pay more attention to the description in the future.
Would you be willing to try another one of Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian ’s performances?
Probably not.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Reflection on contemporary challenges.
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