FAILED STATES-Abuse of Power-Assault on Democracy-NOAM CHOMSKY-Unabridged 10 CDs - $6 - (Williamsport, PA)

Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB condition 10 Compact Disc Audiobook Set which is OUT OF PRINT and a remarkable critique of United States Foreign Policy by author NOAM CHOMSKY which is read by ALAN SKLAR--this 10 Compact Disc Audiobook set is in SUPERB condition and all ten discs play PERFECTLY with NO significant imperfections; the two inner foldout cases are without flaw, and the outer case has a few dings on the bottom edge and corners and just very light shelfwear otherwise and it's NOT a cutout! The book is titled Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy and it was written NOAM CHOMSKY and read by ALAN SKLAR; it was published by Audio Renassance Audiobooks in 2006.The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated sequel to his international bestseller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world."Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law, and that suffer from a 'democratic deficit,' having democratic forms but with limited substance--a perfect description, I might add of this craphole of a country, The United States of America." Exploring recent U.S. foreign and domestic policies, Chomsky assesses Washington's escalation of nuclear risks; the dangerous consequences of the occupation of Iraq; and Americas's self-exemption from international law. He also examines an American electoral system that frustrates genuine political alternatives, thus impeding any meaningful democracy.Forceful, lucid, and meticulously documented, Failed State: America offers a comprehensive analysis of a global superpower--or "craphole of a country" as Chomsky describes it--that has long claimed the righ…

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