The Chomsky Quartet (The Real Story Series)

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Summary: Great introduction to Chomsky's Political Thought
Review: Recently, he has published several books concerning the threat of international terrorism and America's various involvements in fighting it. Now more than ever, in this period of increased repression, opions like Chomsky's need to be expressed. Noam Chomsky is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the last 100 years (he was voted 9th all time in a recent poll of college professors and academicians, just behind Aristotle).So why have most Americans never heard of him? Read this set of books and the answer will be quite clear. In Europe practically every educated person knows this American philosopher by name, but here in America the rich and powerful would rather that you did not.

In this selection of four accessible volumes, Chomsky exposes the dark side of American history and the forces most often behind it. Backed with incontrovertible facts and extensive research these books systematically detail the crimes of the corporate/military industrial complex in a way accessible to those not yet familiar with his more complex and expanded works. In these volumes Chomsky provides an overview and analysis of the hidden agendas and backroom dealmaking behind everything from NAFTA, Desert Strom, The War on Drugs, Corporate Media Manipulation, our present situation in the Middle East and much, much more.

These books will fill you with sadness, outrage and even hope. But, after reading them your outlook on America will never be the same. This book is not an attack against America and Americans, it is instead a warning against the hidden powers that are attempting to destroy the most basic ideas of freedom itself. In writing these books, he has both provided some much needed historical balance, and provided some suggestions and ideas concerning how we, the average citizens, can achieve real social change. Chomsky also provides a list of resources and info about getting involved with an exhaustive list of organizations that are "working to make the world a better place". In the end, all these books can do is inform and educate, it is up to each individual to do what they can for real social change; a book is only the beginning.