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  <default_description>Timely, urgent, and powerfully elucidating, this important volume of previously unpublished interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing Americas policies in an increasingly unstable world. With his famous insight, lucidity, and redoubtable grasp of history, Chomsky offers his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of preemptive strikes against so-called rogue states, and the prospects of the second Bush administration, warning of the growing threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for domination. In his inimitable style, Chomsky also dissects the propaganda system that fabricates a mythic past and airbrushes inconvenient facts out of history. Barsamian, recipient of the ACLUs Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, has conducted more interviews and radio broadcasts with Chomsky than has any other journalist. Enriched by their unique rapport, Imperial Ambitions explores topics Chomsky has never before discussed, among them the 2004 presidential campaign and election, the future of Social Security, and the increasing threat, including devastating weather patterns, of global warming. The result is an illuminating dialogue with one of the leading thinkers of our timeand a startling picture of the turbulent times in which we live.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[These dialogues between David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky are an eternal pleasure to read as Barsamian is a skilled and informed questioner who understands the best ways to lead both the reader and Chomsky through a mixture of current events and Noam's interpretations of those events.  <br/>     The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20083606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read nonfiction for ages. Chomsky is among my favorite political thinkers, mostly because I feel like he comes right out and says the things that other commentators huff and puff and beat around the bush at. <br/><br/>That being said, I felt his comments (the book is in interview format,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24385596">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy to understand description of the implied reasons vs. the given reasons for various U.S. foreign policy choices.  Really interesting stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nothing new here if you're moderately familiar with his work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd been hoping that - reputation notwithstanding - Chomsky was an intelligent, well-informed radical.  Instead, I discovered he's just short of Lyndon LaRouche.  Lots of border-line demagoguery and tinfoil-hat paranoia: sloppy reasoning, more instances of Godwin's Law than I thought possible in a m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8150072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://subrationedei.com/2007/06/05/9-11/" title="http://subrationedei.com/2007/06/05/9-11/">http://subrationedei.com/2007/06/05/9-11...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chomsky is an encyclopedia of the rotten things the U.S. government has done and is doing, and of how the ruling class uses propaganda to enforce cooperation.  He preaches mostly to the choir, but with such a relentless litany of detailed stories of ruthless evil that he tends to raise the level of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1793330">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[yeah, ok, I should probably get off my ass and <em>do something</em>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it! Freaking mind blowing how smart this dude is. This book is a collection of interviews with Chomsky that span the last eight years or so. The interviewer (forgot his name) has been picking Chomsky's brain for 20 years now. / What I learned: more of the same: don't trust people in power (esp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15965641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[typical Chomskian reader than focuses on post 9-11 American imperalism. as always, his focus is very detailed and looks at the 2004 election as a focal point. its eerie how similar the Repuplican party tactics in 2008 are an exact replica of that in '04. also extended sections on our arcane foreign ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35750983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chomsky is always thought-provoking, even when you don't agree with him.  But he's usually right, so I should stop being a punk, and he consistently offers a viewpoint counter to mainstream politics, media, etc.  Plus, on this recording, his voice sounds like a therapist I once had, so that doesn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38017416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chomsky is the man.  Everyone should read his work.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me first say that I do admire Chomsky. His linguistic work is of undoubtedly great merit. However, this was not really up to snuff. It was basically one long interview where Noam states the obvious. A lot. I guess I just expected more. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another of those &quot;conversations with Chomsky&quot; books.  There really isn't much to say, if you've never read anything by Chomsky you should.  This would be a decent enough start.  Its an easy read; I finished in three days. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Noam. As feisty as ever, and ever anti-Bush. Definitely a good read to make you think about what is happening in America. Chomsky is so well read that he can always provide context for what he is saying.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's a worthwile book that tells you about the US's imperial ambitions from the past to the present including the invasion of Nicaragua in the Reagan years to the militarization of space currently.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky is probably one of the most intelligent people on our planet.  Any books written by him are enlightening, but may scare the hell out of you to learn what our government is doing and has done.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't gotten nightmares from reading a book in a long time... Chomsky presents a chilling view of American politics, in a fast paced and easy to read format (Q &amp; A sessions). Read this book! ]]></body>
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