Who Rules the World? Audiobook (Free)

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

In an incisive, thorough analysis of the existing international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to preserving a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Sketching on a wide about Who Guidelines the World? range of examples, through the expanding drone assassination system to the risk of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unpredicted and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our significantly chaotic planet.

In the process, Chomsky provides a excellent anatomy of precisely how U.S. elites have grown ever more protected from any democratic constraints on the power. As the broader population is lulled into apathy-diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable-the corporations and the wealthy have more and more been permitted to do as they please.

Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously noted, Who Guidelines the World? delivers the indispensable knowledge of the central issues and dangers of our time that we came to expect from Chomsky.