[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:39:36 -0500
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "Making the Future: Occupations,
Interventions, Empire and Resistance" by Noam Chomsky.
Read through and spell-checked, headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, Text and headings formatted. 318 pages.
Description:
Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued
commentaries on U. S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.
Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to
official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U. S. presidential race; the ascendancy of
China; Latin America's leftward turn; the threat of nuclear proliferation in
Iran and North Korea; Israel's invasion of Gaza and expansion of settlements
in Jerusalem and the West Bank; developments in climate change; the world
financial crisis; the Arab Spring; the assassination of Osama bin Laden; and
the Occupy protests. Laced throughout his critiques are expressions of
commitment to democracy and the power of popular struggles. "Progressive
legislation and social welfare," writes Chomsky, "have been won by popular
struggles, not gifts from above. Those struggles follow a cycle of success
and setback. They must be waged every day, not just once every four years,
always with the goal of creating a genuinely responsive democratic society,
from the voting booth to the workplace. " Making the Future is a follow-up
toInterventions, published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantánamo
Bay by U. S. military censors. Both books are drawn from articles Chomsky
has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go
largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Making the Futureoffers
fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America's
foremost intellectual and political dissidents.
Deborah
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