Reviews
As noted earlier, this book helped me catch up somewhat with what I missed after I decided to stop following the news closely... Set aside the quality of the news, and the importance of curating one's own sources... It's a troublesome business (If you have any suggestions, hit me up ! =) ) Anyway, the first time I opened a Chomsky's book, was Hegemony or Survival and it was during the last US presidential elections... After the results were announced I found little interest in carrying on reading that book. In this book Chomsky gives a wide landscape of the American foreign policy in a historical documentation. Irony and jokes aside, this was a visceral selection of essays, full of references and facts. I pretty much liked his critical analysis of newspapers headlines, I'm a fan of it now! The books turns around 4 main topics : Nuclear threat, Climate change, US history of foreign policy, and the Palestinian - Isreali conflict... All of which were carefully dissected and analyzed... And instead of a definitive answer to the book's title, Chomsky asks yet another one, which I hope he will take the time to develop in some upcoming writing : ["What principles and values rule the world?" That question should be foremost in the minds of the citizens of the rich and powerful states, who enjoy an unusual legacy of freedom, privilege, and opportunity thanks to the struggles of those who came before them, and who now face fateful choices as to how to respond to challenges of great human import.] The afterword of the 2017 edition about Trump's election: "Trump is simply too unpredictable. There are too many open questions."