In this compact and urgent new book, Professor Chomsky,
one of the world’s most acute political commentators,
surveys the threats and prospects of our early
twenty-first century (the growing gap between North and South;
American exceptionalism—even under Obama; the ongoing fiascos of Iraq,
Afghanistan and their aftermaths; the financial bailouts of late 2008
and early 2009; the raids by unmanned US drones on Pakistani citizens;
the Israeli assault on Gaza; the terrorist atrocities in Mumbai) — but
finds also a hope for the future of liberty in the so-called ‘democratic wave’
in Latin America and in the ‘unprecedented international global justice movements’
which suggest ‘real progress towards freedom and justice,
in hemisphere-wide cooperation, even extending beyond’.
Hopes and Prospects is a book for anyone who is concerned about the primary
challenge which still faces the human race—that of survival itself in the
face of the dramatic nuclear, environmental and resource-based catastrophes
which threaten us all—and wonders where to find a ray of hope.
Praise for Hopes and Prospects
‘This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions.
Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the world– to millions,
I suspect – for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale.
I salute him’
John Pilger
‘One of our most valued political thinkers’
Independent on Sunday
‘Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the
most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet’
The New York Times Book Review
