Understanding Power
Understanding Power
Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
© 2002 by Noam Chomsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and John Schoeffel
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Published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2002 Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York
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Contents Editors' Preface XI A Note on the Events of September II, 200 I XIlI Chapter One Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session 1 The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence I The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States 4 Overthrowing Third World Governments 6 Government Secrecy 10 The Media: An Institutional Analysis 12 __ Testing the "Propaganda Model" 15 - The Media and Elite Opinion 18 Filters on Reporting 24 Honest Subordination 30 "Fight it Better"; the Media and the Vietnam War 31 Chapter Two Teach-In: Over Coffee 37 "Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War 37 Orwell's World and Ours 41 Contemporary Poverty 45 Religious Fanaticism 50 'The Real Anti-Semitism" 51 Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy 53 Two New Factors in World Affairs 58 Democracy Under Capitalism 60 The Empire 64 Change and the Future 67
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Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
© 2002 by Noam Chomsky, Peter Rounds Mitchell, and John Schoeffel
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, in any form, without written permission from the publisher.
Published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2002 Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., New York
Explanatory footnotes available at www.understandingpower.com
ISBN 1-56584-703-2
CIP data available
The New Press was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit alternative to the large, commercial publishing houses currently dominating the book publishing industry. The New Press operates in the public interest rather than for private gain, and is committed to publishing, in innovative ways, works of educational, cultural, and community value that are often deemed insufficiently profitable.
The New Press, 450 West 41st Street, 6th floor, New York, NY 10036 www.thenewpress.com
Printed in Canada
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Contents Editors' Preface XI A Note on the Events of September II, 200 I XIlI Chapter One Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session 1 The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence I The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States 4 Overthrowing Third World Governments 6 Government Secrecy 10 The Media: An Institutional Analysis 12 __ Testing the "Propaganda Model" 15 - The Media and Elite Opinion 18 Filters on Reporting 24 Honest Subordination 30 "Fight it Better"; the Media and the Vietnam War 31 Chapter Two Teach-In: Over Coffee 37 "Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War 37 Orwell's World and Ours 41 Contemporary Poverty 45 Religious Fanaticism 50 'The Real Anti-Semitism" 51 Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy 53 Two New Factors in World Affairs 58 Democracy Under Capitalism 60 The Empire 64 Change and the Future 67
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