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Title: World Orders Old and New by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0-231-10157-0 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: World Orders Old and New
Comment: This book is a radical critique of the US world role and of what the author considers Europe's half-millennium of global domination. Chomsky is famous for both his work that revolutionized the study of language and his radical views on superpower domination. With a historical sweep going back 500 years and focusing on the past fifty, the author rejects all standard interpretations and justifications concerning the Cold War, which he considers merely a passing phase in European global domination. As the political left's leading critic of government policy, power, and language, he devotes particular attention to domestic and international events following the collapse of the Soviet Union. With characteristic consistency and intensity, Chomsky surveys the Middle East, Central America, Eastern Europe, and other regions of the world where American efforts aim at "maintaining stability" or "restoring hope." According to the author the new world order is based on the old Churchillian guidelines of world rule by the rich nations, which are in turn to be ruled by the rich men within them. With considerable skill, impressive scholarship, and compassion for the oppressed, the author offers a stimulating, controversial, fresh perspective. The new world order is very much like the old, in disguise. The basic rules of world order have not changed: the rule of law for the weak, the rule of force for the strong; the principles of "economic rationality" for the weak, state power and intervention for the strong. For those who are unwilling to accept such a state of affairs the traditional tasks remain: to challenge and unmask illegitimate authority, and to work with others to undermine it and to extend the scope of freedom and justice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Authoritative work on United State's imperialism
Comment: Aside from virtually predicting the Colombian and Middle East conflicts the United State's currently finds herself embroiled in, Chomsky's World Orders Old and New offers a vast array of scholarly documentation to prove his over riding, and stunningly accurate thesis: American foreign policy is embarked upon for the benefit of the transnational corporations and wealthy Wall Street investors; the State Department, Pentagon, CIA and corporate owned media are their tools and propaganda apparatus to dominate the world's land, labor and resources.
The naivete of Chomsky's critics simply astounds me. It's as if they don't want to believe or acknowledge the pink elephant that's in the room. For some it seems they simply refuse to disbelieve the ridiculous fairy tales they were taught in grade school and by rightwing radio talkshow hosts about the well intentioned United State's government and its interventions abroad.
World Orders Old and New is a fantastic work that's filled with obscure references to sensational sources along with references from mainstream sources that are often buried beneath the stories about Clinton's sex life and the Juice's homicidal rampage. Moreover, Chomsky fills the book with quotes from our leaders that are hard to believe but impossible to ignore. Chomsky digs deep and unearths the quotes from old State Department flacks, which will leave you awed in there audacity.
In World Orders Old and New, Chomsky also touches upon the economic trends that have befallen 70% of the American domestic workforce. Primarily the fact that the Fortune 500 and unfair labor laws (dramatically favoring management) have assaulted American workers and the power for them to effectively organize strong unions. He vividly points out that wages for the typical U.S. worker have been on a steady decline since the early 1970's and that the number one cause for this is the business world's virtual destruction of unions -- the one avenue in which working people can have a say in their livelihoods.
The last chapter gives a detailed analysis of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, actually, as Chomsky demonstrates, that's somewhat of an inaccurate way to label the Mideast conflict. As World Orders Old and New so accurately points out, it should be considered the Israeli lawlessness and brutality campaign backed by billions of dollars in U.S. military and economic aid. Chomsky simply gives one the proof that Israel can get away with committing just about any human rights violation while at most the U.S. media will critize them in the most tepid way possible.
If one has never read Noam Chomsky, they should do themselves a favor and pick up World Orders Old and New, it will help them to understand why much of the international community holds the U.S. in contempt. The common citizens of the U.S. deserve better than what their current leaders are giving them. Chomsky's book will go a long way in helping others recognize the pink elephant sitting in the room. As an internationally respected linguistic philosopher, it appears Dr. Chomsky would have it no other way.
Rating: 2
Summary: from an ex-chomsky fan
Comment: I bought this book about two years ago and for quite a while studied it quite intensely. It made me into a Chomsky fanatic and I became quickly familiar with the author's other works. However, about a year ago I made a major u-turn in my thoughts on U.S. foreign policy. As a result of exploring other intellectual views on US foreign policy, I was convinced that while Chomsky is brilliant Linguist, he doesn't know the first thing about international affairs. He, along with Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and a few other radicals (all of whom I once greatly admired) come from both the blame-america-first school as well as the economics-is-everything school. Once you know that, their views become rather predictable. For example, while Chomsky condemns (unlike Parenti) the domestic and foreign policies of the USSR, his interpretation of the Cold War is simply bewildering. It goes way beyond what one could reasonably lable as revisionist. We learn that the Soviet threat was never any threat at all; just a pretext to dupe the american public so corporate america could conquer and exploit the third world. I could write much more, but I will leave you with this: while there is plenty of good literature out there to refute this "scholarship" (and im not talking about right-wing commentary) what really did it for me was Vietnam, the Necessary War by left-of-center writer Michael Lind. His analysis of vietnam, cold war, the military, national security, etc. is so enlightening yet so contrary to Chomskyism that I was forced to completely abandon the renowned MIT professor. I now feel uncomfortable owning this book.
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Title: Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0374523495 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 06 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583225366 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel, Peter R. Mitchell, Peter Mitchell ISBN: 1565847032 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said ISBN: 0896086011 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Year 501: The Conquest Continues by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0896084442 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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