How the world is run

Author's name: Noam Chomsky

As always, Noam Chomsky offers us an exceptional book in its insight and assessment of the world around us. It explores how this great thinker views the intellectual and behavioral contradictions of those who plan and direct events, how they address each other, and how they prioritize American interests and superiority over everything else, leading us to the contemporary reality we now live in. Chomsky criticizes our American world, which boasts of idealistic slogans and showmanship designed to convince people of what they call "political correctness." He also examines how the commercial and financial interests of the dominant powers translate into policies that increase military spending while funding wars and foreign conflicts at the expense of health and education—all with American taxpayer money that ultimately must be directed to support the wealthy and powerful. This situation has necessitated the development of a unique model of control to sustain these gains by promoting protectionism, interventionism, free markets, and liberal measures. Chomsky also provides detailed information through declassified documents, and sheds exciting and unique light on shocking facts and dualities through long, intense radio interviews that reveal the secrets of the American hegemony methodology that began and took root after World War II. This is especially true given that the United States possesses more than half of the world's wealth—despite representing less than 7% of its population—and controls two oceans. History has never witnessed such a concentration of wealth and power in a single hand, such as the American hand in everything. This is how we understand how the world is run...