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Taming the rascal multitude, essays, interviews, and lectures 1997-2014, Noam Chomsky ; with an afterword by Michael Albert

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Taming the rascal multitude

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Noam Chomsky ; with an afterword by Michael Albert

essays, interviews, and lectures 1997-2014

"Taming the Rascal Multitude is a judicious selection of essays and interviews from Z Magazine from 1997 to 2014. In each, Chomsky takes up some question of the moment. As such, in sum, the essays provide an historical overview of the history that preceded Trump and the reaction to Trump. The essays situate what followed even without having known what would follow. They explicate what preceded the current era and provide a step-by-step revelation or how-to for successfully comprehending social events and relations. They are a pleasure to read, much like the pleasure of watching a great athlete or performer, but they also edify. They educate"--Front jacket flap

Hordes of vigilantes -- Expanding the floor of the cage -- Imperial presidency -- Market democracy in a neoliberal order -- Rogue states -- Crisis in the Balkans -- The Colombia plan -- Voting patterns and abstentions -- The war in Afghanistan -- What makes mainstream media maintream? -- Confronting the empire -- Iraq as trial run -- The US and Haiti -- Kicking away the ladder -- Wars, bailouts, and elections -- Domestic constituencies -- Coups, UNASUR, and the US -- The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings -- Torture has been routine practice -- Obama on Israel-Palestine -- Elections 2000 and 2008 -- Government involvement with science and art -- Human rights in the new millennium -- The unipolar moment and the Obama era -- The US in Mexico and elsewhere -- Israel, Palestine, and campus activism -- Imminent crises -- The most dangerous belief

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