|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Peace Research Foundation
| Displaying Links: 31-32 of 32 | << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky | Report Error | | Author: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel (Editor), Peter R. Mitchell (Editor) | | Publication Date: February 2002 | | Publisher: New Press | | Description: 'A major new collection from 'arguably the most important intellectual alive' (The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterized by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/17/2003 |
|
| War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against War with Iraq | Report Error | | Author: Milan Rai, Noam Chomsky | | Publication Date: November 2002 | | Publisher: Verso Books | | Description: 'War Plan Iraq brings together the arguments that can shake President Bush and Prime Minister Blair's determination to start an illegal war with Iraq. Despite Washington's claims that the only options are inaction or invasion and that 'inaction is not an option', War Plan Iraq demonstrates that inspection is an option, and that inspection and monitoring are the only way to ensure real disarmament in Iraq. For the Bush Administration, UN weapons inspectors are an obstacle to war; they are part of the problem, not part of the solution. War Plan Iraq uncovers Washington's hidden role in the collapse of the first UN weapons inspection agency, UNSCOM, and the paralysis of UNSCOM's successor, UNMOVIC. Based on the popular 'ARROW Anti-War briefings', War Plan Iraq rigorously dissects official propaganda and exposes government lies. This book demonstrates that the Bush's claims to change the regime in Iraq, despite intentions to impose another Sunni general to replace Saddam Hussein, are not in fact a 'regime change', but a 'leadership change'. It also shows that the war would be in violation of international law; that there is no hard evidence that Iraq possesses any weapons of mass destruction; that there is no substantiated connection between the Government of Iraq, September 11th, and the al Qaeda network; that the proposed war carries a high risk of triggering a humanitarian disaster in Iraq, especially for the Kurds of northern Iraq; and that the war could precipitate a world recession with dire consequences for the world's poor. Iraq's neighbors, the ones most at risk from Iraq's weapons, are against the proposed war, as are top military professionals in Britain and the US, many international organizations and countries around the world, and a great majority of people in the US and the UK.' | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obid | Date Added: 11/22/2003 |
|
| Displaying Links: 31-32 of 32 | << Prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
There are no upcoming events listed at this time.
|
|
|
| |
Half of World's Refugees are Children
There are approximately 50 million uprooted people around the world -
refugees who have sought safety in another country, and people displaced withi... (more info)
|
|
