Who Rules the World? Paperback – January 1, 2016

Social critic MIT Professor Noam Chomsky continues his insightful analysis and criticism of American exceptionalism powered by the growing influence of the capitalist one-percent.

Scary book, makes sense, written with a lot of bitter sarcasm. Arrived in good condition and on time.

Fabulous read I highly recommend it !!

a must read

Stimulating and provocative.

Must read book. Going to really be a painful loss when we loose Noam Chomsky.

Why is not Noam Chomsky running for prez instead of the "dirty Donald"

This book is difficult to review. It attracts attention because everybody is disatisfied with life at the present moment in history, Here we have infinite stories of abuse of power, actions based on power and money. Maybe too true, but very depressing. The narrative is well put together, but all the proof is in the bibliography at the end. Even heavier reading!!!

Reading Noam Chomsky feels like listening to an older, wiser brother, effortlessly and comprehensively explaining, and sorting through the truth and lies of the World we live in today. Always clearly written, informative, and never feeling like an aggressive retaliation against those that seek to deceive the general population, his books instead stand like an iron sentinel, unflinching in their one purpose; to speak the truth. An alien concept in todays world it would seem. Thoroughly recommended.

I gave this book five stars because of its huge importance as a critical look at the impact of global America-dominated politics on the most crucial issues of our time. Chomsky steps away from the West-centric stance to examine the reality of political dominance from a global perspective. The result is a huge wake up call.My one criticism would be that he seems to meander across his subject somewhat, without clearly signposting his approach. But stay with him. This is a book full of hugely important observations.

I know chomsky primarily through his studies on linguistics. However I've become increasingly aware of his political work as I've become more political myself.As I'm somewhere in the progressive Liberal end of the spectrum, a social Democrat, I came to this expecting to find a lot to like. I expected I would disagree somewhat with placing the ills of the world solely at the feet of western foreign policy which I'd gathered from chomsky's public speaking. However, what I didn't expect was this book to be so unfocused and close to unreadable.The first three chapters of this book and the introduction are an absolute chore to read. They're a confusing maelstrom of repetition, contextless references and what seems to me cherry picking of facts. Chomsky may be right in what he says but he doesn't say it well. I have little familiarity with many of the things he talks about but I didn't feel any more familiar with them by the time he'd finished. He seems to paint enemies of the state as saints without really exploring the evidence.By the end of the third chapter I'd given up and it's back on my shelf. I read a bit of the fourth and it seemed like an improvement with a more lucid prose style but I've lost the will to continue. I might give it another go at some point.

I’m only one third through reading. It’s good to send me to sleep- definitely not a page turner. But if you are interested in global politics you will be enlightened. It’s bound to be USA oriented because of the writer. Although I do find Chomsky dense reading, he does fantastic research and I trust him. So far I have already been enlightened about important political world events, so I am pleased to read the book. I’m a big Chomsky fan from his linguistic theories studied at university and feel I cannot be disappointed by his logical conclusions.

A necessary read for anyone who doesn't already know a lot of the background behind US foreign policy and how that has led to the current issues in Palestine, North Korea, Iran etc.