Another illusion-shattering piece from the man The New York Times called arguably the most important intellectual alive . In 1970, about 90per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment and 10per cent for speculation. By 1990, these figures had reversed.

This is a distillation of the real motivations behind US foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.

Assembles the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power. In a series of wide-ranging discussions, this work radically reinterprets the events, covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration.

Following his bestselling 'Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace', Gore Vidal returns with a collection of provocative and alarming essays in which he confronts head-on the unelected and unconstitutionally-appointed 'Junta' of the Cheney-Bush administration. In a centrepiece new essay to the events of 11 September, he poses questions which will not go away. How much ingelligence information did the ..

Centred on research into the US media, but drawing off evidence from the English-language media worldwide, this text is based on the Massey Lectures in Canada. Noam Chomsky argues that the media operate in the service of powerful institutions rather than in opposition to them.

Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals how issues are framed and topics are chosen.