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  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241965245
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $50.00

Power Systems

Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire




A searing collection of new insights from the world's most celebrated public intellectual and activist

In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by U.S. business interests against working people and the poor, the breakdown of mainstream political institutions and the rise of the far right.

The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this collection will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as longtime Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises we now confront across the world.

  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241965245
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $50.00

About the author

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. A member of the American Academy of Science, he has published widely in both linguistics and current affairs. His books include At War with Asia, Towards a New Cold War, Fateful Triangle: The U. S., Israel and the Palestinians, Necessary Illusions, Hegemony or Survival, Deterring Democracy, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

Noam Chomsky was recently named the world's number-one public intellectual in a poll by Prospect magazine. He is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions and Failed States, all of which are published by Hamish Hamilton and Penguin. Noam Chomsky is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, and is widely credited with having revolutionized modern linguistics.

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Praise for Power Systems

One of the finest minds of the twentieth century

New Yorker

Noam Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today

New York Times Book Review

Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet?

New Statesman

The west's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar

Guardian