With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one
else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections
and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collecti
vely sold over half a million copies, "How the World Works" is a collection of s
peeches and interviews with Chomsky by David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman.
It includes What Uncle Sam Really Wants, about US foreign policy; The Prosperou
s Few and the Restless Many, about the new global economy, food, Third World 'ec
onomic miracles' and the roots of racism; Secrets, Lies and Democracy, about the
US, the CIA, religious fundamentalism, global inequality and the coming eco-cat
astrophe; and, The Common Good, about equality, freedom, the media, the myth of
Third World debt and manufacturing dissent.
