Featuring Noam Chomskys trademark directness and analytical precision, this is a sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam War to the Reagan era "What Chomsky has made vivid is the truth that western political leaders, respectable people whose moderation contains not a hint of totalitarianism, can, at great remove in physical and cultural distance, kill and maim people on a scale comparable with the accredited monsters of our time." from John Pilgers foreword to Towards a New Cold War With the same uncompromising style that characterized his breakthrough, Vietnamera writings, Towards a New Cold War extends Chomskys critique of U.S. foreign policy through the early 1970s to Ronald Reagans first term. Expanding on themes such as the cozy relationship of intellectuals to the state and American adventurism after World War II, Chomsky goes on to examine the way that U.S. policy makers set about the task of rewriting their horrible history of involvement in Southeast Asia and turned their attention more squarely on the Middle East and Central America. He also assesses U.S. oil strategy and the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, dissects the first volume of Henry Kissingers memoirs, issues an urgent call to stem the bloodshed in thenunknown East Timor and, in the title essay, marks the increased posture of confrontation and rearmament under presidents Carter and Reagan that signaled the end of detente with the Soviet Union. As the United States adopts...

Binding: Paperback;560 pages; Publisher: The New Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 803.56 g; Dimensions: N/A

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