![]() ![]() That is how he has helped millions of people overturn the propaganda that we would otherwise unconsciously accept. ![]() For example, when Chomsky writes that the people in charge of US ‘national security policy’ have rarely been worried about ‘the security of their nation’, that might seem like nonsense that sensible people should not bother to engage with.īut the reason people seek out Chomsky is that he backs up his uncompromisingly honest (and therefore radical) view of the world with huge amounts of hard evidence. Chomsky is not a sloganeer – in his very first sentence he admits that ‘The question raised by the title of this book cannot have a simple and definite answer.’įor most educated people in Britain and the US, Chomsky’s views are hard to digest. Reviewing Noam Chomsky’s first book in 1969, Robert Sklar wrote in The Nation that the importance of American Power and the New Mandarins lay in its power ‘to free our minds from old perspectives, to stimulate new efforts at historical, political and social thought’.Ĭhomsky’s latest book, Who Rules the World? is at least as powerful in ‘freeing our minds’. ![]()
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