With his inimitable penetrating analysis and dry wit, Chomsky leads us through the murky blood-soaked reality of America's New World Order--whether it's NAFTA, GATT, MAI and the WTO, or our relations with Palestine, Israel, Haiti and China. The second lecture of this two-part set focuses on the motives and consequences of US Iraq policy--a continuing example of murderous hypocrisy at its most lethal.
Michael Tobias' latest work of fiction is a shocking, breath-stopping political thriller which tracks the fury of an outraged ex-Special Forces veteran who turns to violent retribution in defense of the earth and its fauna. Rage and Reason is an unstoppable rollercoaster of action which explodes across four continents-a chief executive's severed head is served up at a stockholder's luncheon...a furrier is skinned alive...Thai poachers are deft...
This expanded edition of "Radical Priorities" puts the spotlight on Chomsky's libertarian philosophy in an engaging manner. Keenly edited, this comprehensive collection of essays and interviews remains the ultimate guide to the politics of the author of "9-11, " America's bible for post-September 11th stress disorder.
A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo leaps a 12-foot high wall and mauls three visitors who had been tormenting her, killing one. A circus elephant tramples and gores a sadistic trainer, who had repeatedly fed her lit cigarettes. A pair of orangutans at the San Diego Zoo steal a crowbar and screwdriver and break-out of their enclosure. An orca at Sea World snatches his trainer into the pool and holds her underwater until she drowns. What'...