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Who Rules the World?
Audible Audiobook – UnabridgedNoam Chomsky (Author), Brian Jones (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,325)
Part of: American Empire Project (33 books)
The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American century, the nature of US policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.
In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet.
In the process Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how US elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy - diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable - the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please.
Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.
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Listening Length 10 hours and 12 minutes
Author Noam Chomsky
Narrator Brian Jones
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Audible.com.au Release Date 10 May 2016
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B01HNLRGO6
Best Sellers Rank 102,731 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
109 in 21st Century History (Audible Books & Originals)
717 in Political Commentary & Opinion
774 in 21st Century History (Books)
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rumtytum
5.0 out of 5 stars What rule?Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2019
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So detailed, so sensible, so widely ignored. It's insanity to keep doing something stupidly, vilely destructive again and again while hoping each time that this time it will end differently. The people have been forced to become spectators of, not participants in decisions that affect us all. Surely something must change?
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thebearhug
5.0 out of 5 stars InsightfulReviewed in Australia on 10 February 2018
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In his simple yet effective way Noam presence a learning picture of the issues and effects of the "masters of mankind". A must read for anyone with an interest in world affairs.
Old ex-hippy.
5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody should read this book.Reviewed in Australia on 11 May 2017
This book should be part of the school curriculum for all 14-year-olds. It is an invaluable, educational source to get youngsters (and people of any age) up to speed with the realities of modern history.
Eric Harrison
3.0 out of 5 stars InsightfulReviewed in Australia on 19 May 2017
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I found it an insightful read with some extremely good reference material in regard to US hypocrisy concerning how they feel slighted by supposed foreign interference with their political system when they have been so implicated in interference in other nations. I felt some background information was lacking and there were a few jumps to certain perspectives without any substantiating material. E.g. America's attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq without addressing Osama Bin Laden's reasons for the WTC. Maybe it's just me wanting to join the dots.
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T.F. Kaczynski
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2024
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Book is great prime first-class condition
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zadig
3.0 out of 5 stars Typical ChomskyReviewed in Spain on 2 March 2018
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A was expecting more about who rules the world, how decisions are taken and by who. What's the role of IMF and lobbyist groups. But the book talks almost entirely about how imperialist and violent are the USA and israel. Which is true btw, but the book title is misleading imo.
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Paula Walden
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books on the evolution of Politics in AmericaReviewed in Canada on 27 January 2017
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One of the best books on the evolution of Politics in America. When did it all go so wrong.
I am very happy to be a Canadian but rather scary to be next to such a militant country.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wlcome to the machine o bienvenidos a la maquina by Roller WatersReviewed in Mexico on 14 January 2017
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Vivimos en un sistema que al correr libre, va donde le permitimos y como se han apoderado de el los políticos y los empresarios de Grandes consorcios, pues nos tienen atrapados a su antojo.
Y además percibo que a la mayoría de la gente le gusta emular a los ricos y por tanto vivimos queriendo ser quien no somos y no podemos ser.
Ojalá que nos demos cuenta que ser auténticos y más espirituales y solidarios, resultaría en un Mundo muchísimo mejor.
Basta con ver como es posible que una persona como Trump, pueda marear a tanta gente y salirse con la suya, cuando tiene una mente terriblemente limitada y un Alma terriblemente pequeña...
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Matt
4.0 out of 5 stars Thorough and pervasive questioning down to first principles - worth the readReviewed in Canada on 1 March 2021
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This is the first book I have read by Noam Chomsky and it is an impressive and persuasive collection of essays on U.S. priorities. I suspect that many readers will disagree with Chomsky's conclusions but I think what he does so well is illuminate the question of first principles. Some of my thoughts are below but overall, this is a collection of essays well worth reading and very rewarding.
The most impactful essays for me:
- Why does the U.S. support Israel when the international community condemns the colonial actions and other war crimes?
- Is Iran the most significant global threat to peace? The greatest nuclear threat? The extent of the North American media placating to this line of thinking in stark contrast to the fears on those in these areas and global opinion more generally.
The soft edges that are a bit less satisfying:
- levers on this forceful breadth of knowledge to dismiss alternatives: no reason to invade Iraq and wholesale and easily dismisses that arguments were ever provided
- leftist-revolutionary sympathizer: pro-Castro as a democratic and labour-led movement, briefly acknowledging that U.S. had some reason to be concerned. (Not that Castro was so crazy that Gorbachev made the move to pull the nukes)
- bait and switch title - who rules the world is admitted to be too complex to answer and the wrong question altogether.
Low points:
- generally, any author who starts a book with their role as an intellectual is pretty off putting. Jordan Peterson loves to do this and it comes across as really alienating. My view is that Descartes really strikes a better tone in Meditations, introduced as a letter to the reining intellectuals rather than announcing himself as the autocrat of thought. One could interpret this more generously but it came across to me an unnecessary flex.
- the book is a collection of essays with different themes but Chomsky copy-pastes his arguments in a few places with the exact same sequencing of arguments. Other reviewers commented it could have done with an editor. I think it is an excellent collection of essays. It makes me feel a bit like an underappreciated reader to re-read the same argument multiple times.
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