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Title: read it with understanding power
Review: This is a remarkably revealing book. It is like Understanding Power in that it hits on a broad range of topics, although Understanding Power is a bit more accessible and easier to read, and has some more illuminating moments. If you've never read Chomsky before, the two books together provide a good introduction before moving on to more specific Chomsky topics like the media (Manufacturing Consent) or the Middle East (the Fateful Triangle).Both books contain a hard-hitting critique of American foreign policy which is really unanswerable. The important thing about Chomsky's analysis is that it is not just a limited analysis of Iraq or Afghanistan -- his argument is that things don't change much and that if you look at the broader history of the last 100 years, the present involvements are not some "new age" requiring a "new prism" but are more like old wine in new bottles.I really recommend picking up these books. We need them now more than ever.
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