Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
book
From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination & the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. The USA is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in the neighborhood--the heavens--as a militarized sphere of influence. Earth & its skies are, for the Bush administration, the final frontiers of imperial control. Hegemony or Survivalinvestigates how we came to this, what kind of peril we're in & why rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of our species. With his trademark logic, Chomsky dissects the quest for global supremacy, tracking the government's aggressive pursuit of policies intended to achieve "full spectrum dominance" at any cost. He lays out how the various strands of policy--militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, dismantling of international agreements & the response to the Iraqi crisis--cohere in a hegemonic drive threatening survival. In our era, he argues, empire is a recipe for an earthly wasteland. Lucid, rigorous, fully documented, Hegemony or Survivalpromises to be his most urgent & sweeping work in years, certain to spark widespread debate.