Hopes and Prospects

 Author: Chomsky Noam
Published: 25 Jun 2010 
ISBN 13: 9780241145012 
ISBN 10: 0241145015 
RRP: $39.00 
Type: PAPERBACK (PB) 
Format: ROYAL TRADE PAPERBACK 230 X 152 MM (C) 
Pages: 328 Edition: 1
Imprint: HAMISH HAMILTON 


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Extract

Preface

The essays collected here had their origin in a series of lectures in Chile in October 2006, published in Spanish in 2009 by EDUFRO Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco) with the title Neoliberalismo y Globalizaci6n. I had intended to prepare them for publication in English, but was unable to do so for some time. They appear here as the first three chapters, up­dated to early 2010 and considerably expanded. Chapter 4, completing Part I, is based on a videoconference at the VII Social Summit for Latin American and Caribbean Unity in Caracas, on September 24, 2008, also updated and expanded. The primary focus of Part I is Latin America and U.S. relations with the subcontinent.

Part II consists of expanded and revised talks and articles from 2008 to 2009, also updated to early 2010, concerned with a variety of interrelated themes of domestic U.S. and international affairs. Earlier versions of chap­ters 5, 9, and 11 appeared in Z Magazine, and chapter 7 in International Socialist Review. Chapter 12 draws on talks in October to November 2009, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and at Boston College (November 30), a commemoration of the assassinations of November 16, 1989.

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century.  Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assalt on Gaza and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward - in the so-called democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements which suggest 'real progress towards freedom and justice'.

Hopes and Prospects is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the primary challenges still facing the human race and is wondering where to find a ray of hope.