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Making The Future Occupations Interventions Empire and Resistance
by Noam Chomsky
Published by City Lights
320p, b&w, 5"X8"
$16.95
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Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and
persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written
between 2007 and 2011.
Taken together, Chomsky's essays
present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major
political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq; the U.S. presidential race; the ascendancy of China; Latin
America's leftward turn; the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran
and North Korea; Israel's invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements
in Jerusalem and the West Bank; developments in climate change; the
world financial crisis; the Arab Spring; the assassination of Osama bin
Laden; and the Occupy protests. Laced throughout his critiques are
expressions of commitment to democracy and the power of popular
struggles. "Progressive legislation and social welfare," writes
Chomsky, "have been won by popular struggles, not gifts from above.
Those struggles follow a cycle of success and setback. They must be
waged every day, not just once every four years, always with the goal
of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society, from the voting
booth to the workplace."
Making the Future is a follow-up to Interventions,
published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantánamo Bay by U.S.
military censors. Both books are drawn from articles Chomsky has been
writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go
largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Making the Future
offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one
of America's foremost intellectual and political dissidents."