How the World Works

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Published as four short books in the famous Real Story series— What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good—they’ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies. And now, it seems, having created jobs that few people seem to want, (worker engagement runs at an all time low) we have once again effortlessly shifted the distracting hand of the magician to the defense of democracy.

It is not greed, because once you are the richest nation on the planet or individually worth more than 100 billion dollars, but will still do almost anything for more, greed is no longer rational or relevant. US has always been a staunch supporter of Israel and have facilitated its various illegal activities through CIA and other agencies. Originally published as four short books in the famous Real Story series— What Uncle Sam Really Wants; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many; Secrets, Lies and Democracy; and The Common Good—they’ve collectively sold almost 600,000 copies.

I would love to learn it, since I do think that Chomsky has a lot of useful things to say, but as put in the form of this book "How the world works", it is pretty useless for me. nobody has the definitive answer, no political ideology is going to be the cure-all, move away from the bad and that's good enough for the society together to find the better system one day.

Noam Chomsky's How the World Works (HWW) has an awfully high-falutin' title, but it seems to be quite accurate in describing the content. But I really would urge anyone and everyone to read all of it - it is compelling and hugely important stuff. Tetapi sekali lagi aku ingatkan, siapkan mental untuk bertahan dengan buku ini, kalau perlu ketahuilah hal-hal mendasar mengenai kejahatan-kejahatan yang terjadi di dunia ini selama masa pemerintahan Presiden AS Reagan, Nixon. The US regularly carries out or supports aggression even in cases far more criminal than Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants , about US foreign policy; The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many , about the new global economy, food, Third World 'economic miracles' and the roots of racism; Secrets, Lies and Democracy , about the US, the CIA, religious fundamentalism, global inequality and the coming eco-catastrophe; and The Common Good, about equality, freedom, the media, the myth of Third World debt and manufacturing dissent. Chomsky with countless examples demonstrates that the US political system does not serve the people and that the political elite is in control of US politics. Chomsky meletakkan karya satir Orwell, Animal Farm, ke dalam konteks yang lebih nyata, yakni kehidupan saat ini.