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The Chomsky Quartet
Noam Chomsky
Edition: Real Story SeriesISBN: 1-87782-516-X
Format: paper only
Publisher: Odonian Press
Release Date: 2002-01-01
Four titles—The Common Good, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, and What Uncle Sam Really Wants—for the price of three. These accessible books, culled from his talks and interviews, will shatter your illusions.
- US forces inaugurated a brutal repression in Korea in 1945, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About a hundred thousand people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War.
- In 1970, about 90% of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment—more or less productive things—and 10% for speculation. Twenty years later, those figures had reversed.
- Haiti, a starving island, exports food to the United States. Haitian women who produce baseballs in US-owned factories there make about five cents an hour.
- After World War II, many Nazis were spirited off to Latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. There they taught Gestapo torture techniques to US-supported police states modeled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich.
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James Madison believed that the primary goal of government is “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” As his colleague John Jay was fond of putting it, “The people who own the country ought to govern it.”
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Noam Chomsky
Click here to view Noam Chomsky's full Author PageNoam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist, scholar, and political analyst. Born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chomsky became politically conscious at a very young age, writing his first political article, on the fight against fascism in Spain, when he was only ten years old.
His 1957 work Syntactic Structures revolutionized the field of linguistics, fundamentally changing the current understanding of language and mind. Chomsky joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1955, and in 1976 was appointed Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
Chomsky has written and lectured extensively on linguistics, philosophy, international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and other contemporary political issues. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Z Magazine, CAQ, and numerous political and scholarly publications.
Chomsky's groundbreaking work on Palestine and the Middle East, East Timor, the Gulf War, and the mass media have gained international attention. As evidence of his broad appeal and importance, he was the subject of the award-winning 1993 film “Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media,” and excerpts from his speeches have appeared on the b-side of a single by the band Bad Religion.
Chomsky books with South End Press include Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and Palestine and Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies among others.