Who Rules the World?

The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of US policies post-9/11, & the perils of valuing power above democracy & human rights. In an incisive, thoro analysis of the current international situation, Chomsky argues that the USA, thru its military-first policies & its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe & wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan & Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected & nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy—diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable—the corporations & the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing & meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts & dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky.