We Middle Eastern people should certainly read this book, regardless of weather you believe/ accept what’s claimed by Chomsky or not which depends on your critical evaluation of his claims and justifications! So, I would recommend this book for an insight into how the world works, with all its naked abuses of power and constructed control mechanisms. Big business has an important play in this and over a period of time, media which is supposed to be a conscience-keeper, becomes a cheerleader. he sees our constant reference to democracy as the distracting hand of the magician who is, with his other hand, picking the pockets of the world. Obviously the book lacks stylistic form as it is a series of recorded interviews and as such can get a bit choppy.

Comments such as "Politics is a dirty business and no one will really figure out the truth" are just an excuse for not dealing with current affairs in more detail (which I have done a lot myself in the past). Ketika pembaca sudah tahu hal-hal tersebut, aku rasa mereka sudah bisa mencerna tulisan Chomsky dengan lebih baik. Starts off with a bang, denouncing the US foreign policy after WW2 that goes on the present day but it does get a little repetitive - this actually being four books compiled into one probably helps as well. Aku malah sempat berpendapat bahwa pembaca awam memiliki pilihan untuk berhenti di tengah jalan karena tidak tahan dengan apa yang dibacanya, atau berhasil menyelesaikan membaca namun dalam waktu yang cukup lama. What this book and others like it remind me of is how hypocritical I am and how hypocritical societies can be with regard these issues.Among the books are Optimism Over Despair, The Precipice, Chronicles of Dissent, On Anarchism and Hegemony or Survival. Its a series of interviews and talks from the 90s which tells you much about a lot of things, but never enough about any one thing. To take another example, there have been serious efforts to convince people that welfare for people, in whatever form, is wrong and discourages self-reliance. Within the country, the idea is to ensure that the social, economic and political agenda of an elite class is implemented and also that the general public doesn't get to have a say in the matter even though it's supposed to be a democracy.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.This is a collection of short booklets published in the early 1990s and it is interesting to see what was being said at the time about so many issues from that period which continue to haunt politics today, several decades later. Menurutku, seseorang haruslah punya pemahaman mendasar terlebih dahulu tentang perpolitikan dan perekonomian dunia, bukan dari tataran bawah, melainkan mengerti apa yang terjadi di kalangan atas.