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. Aku, yang sama sekali tidak pernah tahu bagaimana tulisan Chomsky merasa bahwa cara penyampaiannya tidak bisa sembarangan dinikmati orang.

A good first read for those interest in concepts such as, class warfare, global economy, third world countries wars and the roots of racism. It is very easy to see why he's mostly ignored in the US media, but he keeps not giving up, which is a good thing for everyone (except the few benefiting hugely from the system). Any government which intends to serve the needs of people is labelled as communist and any form of democracy that entails popular engagement with real decision making is anathema. Chomsky meletakkan karya satir Orwell, Animal Farm, ke dalam konteks yang lebih nyata, yakni kehidupan saat ini.

In Lebanon they went to destroy the threat of moderation and ended up with Hezbollah (Iranian based fundamentalists) on their hands. Throughout history, the structures of government have tended to coalesce around other forms of power - in modern times primarily around economic power.

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. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Menjadikan bahwa apa yang telah ditulis Orwell bukanlah hanya sekedar sindirian, melainkan seakan menjadi suatu manual kerja untuk para penguasa ekonomi dunia dalam menaklukan warganya. Its a series of interviews and talks from the 90s which tells you much about a lot of things, but never enough about any one thing. Ya karena aku sudah sering mendengar rumor-rumor tentang apa yang sebenarnya terjadi di balik semua kekacauan dan peperangan di dunia ini. I would recommend this book so someone who wants an introductory overview of democratic and anti-capitalist critiques of American foreign policy. Ketika pembaca sudah tahu hal-hal tersebut, aku rasa mereka sudah bisa mencerna tulisan Chomsky dengan lebih baik.

HWW is actually a collection of four abridged books, some of which are interviews with Chomsky, others of which are books that had been written by Chomsky. He worried that the internet, because it is more impersonal, would release people to be more unpleasant to each other.It suggests a wilful drive towards ignorance and political passivity, while diverting energies and enthusiasm to futile distractions incapable of challenging the power of the economic elite. The Pentagon and its proxies even created the American tech revolution, which we have naively attributed to the genius of a few young visionaries who could see the future the rest of us couldn’t, when, in fact, if was the Department of Defense and the US taxpayer who made it all possible.