Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance(City Lights Open Media)

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 to Interventions, published by City Lights in 2007 and banned from Guantanamo 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 Future offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America's foremost intellectual and political dissidents. Making the Future presents more than fifty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011. "Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!"--Vanity Fair " ...he has emerged as one of the left's most implacable voices, challenging the often hidden structures that lie behind the abuse of power." --Paul V. Griffith, Chapter 16 "Making the Future is an impressive collection of articles shedding light on and challen- ging the current political, economic, and military world order. To make sense of the complex mechanisms at play, Chomsky adopts a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach: he juggles with history, sociology of the media, critical theory, and political philosophy." --Juliana Bidadanure, Global Discourse, 2013 Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned author, linguist, and advocate for democracy. He is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control. He lives in Massachusetts where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

Table of Contents:
Making The Future The Unipolar Imperial Moment By Noam Chomsky Contents Introduction 1. Threats, Talks and a Hoped-for Accord with North Korea April 2, 2007 2. Tortilla Wars May 9, 2007 3. We Own The World June 6, 2007 4. Gaza and the Future of a Palestinian-Israeli Peace July 16, 2007 5. Containing Iran August 20, 2007 6. Hypocrisies and Hopes in Annapolis November 8, 2007 7. The Somalia Syndrome December 17, 2007 8. “News” from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan January 22, 2008 9. In the Campaign, The Unspeakable War February 28, 2008 10. Would a Democrat Change U.S. Middle East Policy March 28, 2008 11. Delaying Doomsday: This Century’s Challenges April 24, 2008 12. Middle East Road Trip May 29, 2008 13. Iraq Oil: A Deal With The Devil July 6, 2008 14. Nuclear Threats: All Options Are on the Table July 31, 2008 15. Georgia and the Neo-con Cold Warriors September 9, 2008 16. The Campaign and the Financial Crisis October 5, 2008 17. Challenges for Barack Obama: The Election and the Economy – Part I November 25, 2008 18. The Legacy of 1989 in Two Hemispheres December 1, 2009 19. Challenges for Barack Obama: Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan – Part II December 18, 2008 20. Nightmare in Gaza January 14, 2009 21. Barack Obama and Israel-Palestine January 3, 2009 22. Latin America, Defiant March 8, 2009 23. Down with the Durand Line! April 1, 2009 24. A Tradition of Torture May 5, 2009 25. Obama on Israel-Palestine June 4, 2009 26. A Season of Travesties July 7, 2009 27. Making War to Bring Peace July 29, 2009 28. Militarizing Latin America September 20, 2009 29. War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel October 26, 2009 30. The Legacy of 1989 in Two Hemispheres December 1, 2009 31. Presidential “Peacekeeping” in Latin America December 30, 2009 32. The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy February 1, 2010 Index About the Author

About the Author :
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1928. He studied linguistics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and began teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. During the years 1951 to 1955, Chomsky was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. While a Junior Fellow he completed his doctoral dissertation entitled, "Transformational Analysis." The major theoretical viewpoints of the dissertation appeared in the monograph Syntactic Structure, which was published in 1957 and is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. This formed part of a more extensive work, The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, circulated in mimeograph in 1955. Most of a 1956 version was published in 1975. In 1961, Chomsky was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics (now the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy) at MIT. From 1966 to 1976 he held the Ferrari P. Ward Professorship of Modern Languages and Linguistics. In 1976 he was appointed Institute Professor, a position he held until 2002. Chomsky is the author of numerous influential political works, including Failed States (Metropolitan Books), Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (Metropolitan Books), 9/11 (Open Media Series/ Seven Stories Press), Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media with Ed Herman (Pantheon), Necessary Illusions (South End Press), Understanding Power (New Press), Interventions (Open Media Series/ City Lights), Hopes and Prospects (Haymarket) and many other titles. In 1988, Chomsky received the Kyoto Prize in Basic Science, given "to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual development of mankind." The prize noted that "Dr. Chomsky's theoretical system remains an outstanding monument of 20th century science and thought. He can certainly be said to be one of the great academicians and scientists of this century."

Review :
"Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!"--Vanity Fair " . . . he has emerged as one of the left's most implacable voices, challenging the often hidden structures that lie behind the abuse of power."--Paul V. Griffith, Chapter 16 "Making the Future is an impressive collection of articles shedding light on and challen- ging the current political, economic, and military world order. To make sense of the complex mechanisms at play, Chomsky adopts a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach: he juggles with history, sociology of the media, critical theory, and political philosophy."--Juliana Bidadanure, Global Discourse, 2013