Bibliograph

Making the future, occupations, interventions, empire and resistance, Noam Chomsky

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Making the future, occupations, interventions, empire and resistance, Noam Chomsky

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making the future

Oclc number

758973638

Responsibility statement

Noam Chomsky

Series statement

Open Media series

Sub title

occupations, interventions, empire and resistance

Summary

Collects more than fifty essays on major political events from the early twenty-first century

Table Of Contents

Foreword: Remaking the future / John Stickney -- Threats, talks and a hoped-for accord with North Korea -- Tortilla wars -- We own the world -- Gaza and the future of a Palestinian-Israeli peace -- Containing Iran -- Hypocrisies and hopes in Annapolis -- The Somalia syndrome -- "Good News" from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan -- In the campaign, the unspeakable war -- Would a Democrat change U.S. Middle East policy? -- Delaying doomsday : this century's challenges -- Middle East road trip -- Iraq oil : a deal with the devil -- Nuclear threats : all options are on the table -- Georgia and the Neo-con cold warriors -- The campaign and the financial crisis -- Challenges for Barack Obama : Part 1, the election and the economy -- Challenges for Barack Obama : Part 2, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan -- Nightmare in Gaza -- Barack Obama and Israel-Palestine -- Latin America, defiant -- Down with the Durand LIne! -- A tradition of torture -- Obama on Israel-Palestine -- A season of travesties -- Making war to bring peace -- Militarizing Latin America -- War, Peace and Obama's Nobel -- The legacy of 1989 in two hemispheres -- Presidential "peacekeeping" in Latin America -- The corporate takeover of U.S. democracy -- The unelected "architects of policy" -- A "regrettable event in East Jerusalem -- Rust belt rage -- The real threat aboard the Freedom Flotilla -- Storm clouds over Iran -- The war in Afghanistan : echoes of Vietnam -- China and the new world order, Part 1 -- China and the new world order, Part 2 -- The U.S. elections : outrage, misguided -- The charade of Israeli-Palestinian talks -- Breaking the Israel-Palestine deadlock -- The Arab word is on fire -- The Cairo-Madison connection -- Libya and the world of oil -- The international assault on labor -- The revenge killing of Osama Bin Laden -- In Israel, a tsunami warning -- America in decline -- After 9/11, was war the only option? -- The threat of warships on an "island of world peace" -- Occupy the future

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