Understanding power : the indispensable Chomsky / edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel.

Includes index.

Editors' Preface -- A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001 -- Ch. 1. Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session -- The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence -- The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States -- Overthrowing Third World Governments -- Government Secrecy -- The Media: An Institutional Analysis -- Testing the "Propaganda Model" -- The Media and Elite Opinion -- Filters on Reporting -- Honest Subordination -- "Fight it Better": the Media and the Vietnam War -- Ch. 2. Teach-In: Over Coffee -- "Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War -- Orwell's World and Ours -- Contemporary Poverty -- Religious Fanaticism -- "The Real Anti-Semitism" -- Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy -- Two New Factors in World Affairs -- Democracy Under Capitalism -- The Empire -- Change and the Future -- Ch. 3. Teach-In: Evening -- The Military-Industrial Complex -- The Permanent War Economy -- Libyan and American Terrorism -- The U.S. and the U.N. -- Business, Apartheid, and Racism -- Winning the Vietnam War -- "Genocide": the United States and Pol Pot -- Heroes and Anti-Heroes -- "Anti-Intellectualism" -- Spectator Sports -- Western European Activism and Canada -- Dispelling Illusions -- Ch. 4. Colloquy -- The Totalitarian Strain -- A Lithuania Hypothetical -- Perpetuating Brainwashing Under Freedom -- Journalism LeMoyne-Style: A Sample of the Cynical Aspect -- Rethinking Watergate -- Escaping Indoctrination -- Understanding the Middle East Conflict -- The Threat of Peace -- Water and the Occupied Territories -- Imperial Ambitions and the Arab Threat -- Prospects for the Palestinians -- Legitimacy in History -- Qualifications to Speak on World Affairs: A Presidential Campaign -- Ch. 5. Ruling the World -- Soviet Versus Western Economic Development -- Supporting Terror -- "People's Democratic Socialist Republics" -- The Organ Trade -- The Real Crime of Cuba -- Panama and Popular Invasions -- Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Haiti: Disturbance at an Export Platform -- Texaco and the Spanish Revolution -- Averting Democracy in Italy -- P.R. in Somalia -- The Gulf War -- Bosnia: Intervention Questions -- Toying With India -- The Oslo Agreement and Imperialist Revival -- Ch. 6. Community Activists -- Discussion Circle -- The Early Peace Movement and a Change in the 1970s -- The Nuclear Freeze Movement -- Awareness and Actions -- Leaders and Movements -- Levels of Change -- Non-Violence -- Transcending Capitalism -- The Kibbutz Experiment -- "Anarchism" and "Libertarianism" -- Articulating Visions -- "Want" Creation -- Dissidents: Ignored or Vilified -- Teaching About Resistance -- Isolation -- Science and Human Nature -- Charlatans in the Sciences -- Adam Smith: Real and Fake -- The Computer and the Crowbar -- Ch. 7. Intellectuals and Social Change -- The Leninist/Capitalist Intelligentsia -- Marxist "Theory" and Intellectual Fakery -- Ideological Control in the Sciences and Humanities -- The Function of the Schools -- Subtler Methods of Control -- Cruder Methods of Control -- The Fate of an Honest Intellectual -- Forging Working-Class Culture -- The Fraud of Modern Economics -- The Real Market -- Automation -- A Revolutionary Change in Moral Values -- Ch. 8. Popular Struggle -- Discovering New Forms of Oppression -- Freedom of Speech -- Negative and Positive Freedoms -- Cyberspace and Activism -- "Free Trade" Agreements -- Defense Department Funding and "Clean Money" -- The Favored State and Enemy States -- Canada's Media -- Should Quebec Separate from Canada? -- Deciphering "China" -- Indonesia's Killing Fields: U.S. Backed Genocide in East Timor -- Mass Murderers at Harvard -- Changes in Indonesia -- Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea -- The Samson Option -- The Lot of the Palestinians -- P.L.O. Ambitions -- The Nation-State System -- Ch. 9. Movement Organizing -- The Movie Manufacturing Consent -- Media Activism -- Self-Destruction of the U.S. Left -- Popular Education -- Third-Party Politics -- Boycotts -- "A Praxis" -- The War on Unions -- Inner-City Schools -- Defending the Welfare State -- Pension Funds and the Law -- Conspiracy Theories -- The Decision to Get Involved -- "Human Nature Is Corrupt" -- Discovering Morality -- Abortion -- Moral Values -- Ch. 10. Turning Point -- Bringing the Third World Home -- Welfare: the Pea and the Mountain -- Crime Control and "Superfluous" People -- Violence and Repression -- International Capital: the New Imperial Age -- The Fairy Tale Economy -- Building International Unions -- Initial Moves and the Coming Crisis -- Elite Planning - Slipping Out of Hand -- Disturbed Populations Stirring -- The Verge of Fascism -- The Future of History -- Index.

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