The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the type of U.S. insurance policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human being rights

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the existing international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that america, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to keeping a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a broad about Who Guidelines the World? range of examples, through the growing drone assassination plan to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he presents unforeseen and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our progressively chaotic planet.

Along the way, Chomsky provides a excellent anatomy of precisely how U.S. elites have become ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on the power. As the broader population is definitely lulled into apathy-diverted to consumerism or hatred from the vulnerable-the companies and the wealthy have increasingly been allowed to do because they please.

Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously recorded, Who Rules the Globe? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and problems of our period that we came to anticipate from Chomsky.