
Umbrella Of U.S. Power, The - 2nd Edition
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict
Noam Chomsky(Author)
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
2nd Edition
Published on 9. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-58322-547-9 (ISBN)
Description
Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to examine how the United States not only violates the UD, but at times uses it as a weapon to wield against designated enemies.
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Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Adult education
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 172 mm
Width: 109 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
86 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-547-9 (9781583225479)
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Noam Chomsky
The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
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04/1999
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Person
Born in Philadelphia in 1928, NOAM CHOMSKY is known throughout the world for his political writings, activism, and for for his groundbreaking work in linguistics. A professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955, Chomsky gained recognition in academic circles for his theory of transformational grammar, which drew attention to the syntactic universality of all human languages. But it is as a critic of unending war, corporate control and neoliberalism that Chomsky has become one of the country’s most well known public intellectuals. The 1969 publication of American Power and the New Mandarins marked the beginning of Chomsky’s rigorous public criticism of American hegemony and its lieges. Since then, with his tireless scholarship and an unflagging sense of moral responsibility, he has become one of the most influential writers in the world. Chomsky is the author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Edward S. Herman), Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order, and over one hundred other books. To this day Noam Chomsky remains an active and uncompromising voice of dissent.