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Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
POWER SYSTEMS
Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S.
Empire
Publication: January 2013 Manuscript available
Editor: Sara Bershtel
In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012,
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 Occupy movement
across the country, the breakdown of American mainstream political
institutions and the rise of the far right. As always, Chomsky presents
his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and
clarifying insight.
The latest volume from a long-established, trusted partnership, this
collection shows once again that no interlocutor engages with
Chomsky more effectively than David Barsamian. These interviews
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, both at home and abroad.
They confirm that Chomsky is an unparalleled resource for anyone seeking to understand our world
today.
Noam Chomsky is the author of numerous bestselling political works, including Hegemony or Survival
and Failed States. A professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, he is widely credited with having
revolutionized modern linguistics. He lives outside Boston, Massachusetts.
David Barsamian, director of the award-winning and widely syndicated Alternative Radio, is the
winner of the Lannan Foundation’s 2006 Cultural Freedom Fellowship and the ACLU’s Upton
Sinclair Award for independent journalism. Barsamian lives in Boulder, Colorado.
British: Hamish Hamilton
Translation: Henry Holt
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