Quien domina el mundo?/ Who Rules the World? (Spanish Edition)

?Quien domina el mundo?, encarnizado, implacable y meticulosamente documentado, proporciona la explicacion indispensable de los conflictos y peligros clave de nuestro tiempo que siempre se espera de Noam Chomsky. En un analisis incisivo y concienzudo de la presente situacion internacional, Chomsky argumenta que Estados Unidos, por medio de sus politicas predominantemente militaristas y su ilimitada devocion por mantener un imperio de escala mundial, esta arriesgandose a una catastrofe que destrozaria los bienes comunes del planeta. Recurriendo a una amplia variedad de ejemplos, desde el programa en expansion de asesinatos mediante drones hasta la amenaza de una guerra nuclear, pasando por los puntos criticos que representan los conflictos de Irak, Iran, Afganistan e Israel-Palestina, Chomsky ofrece reflexiones inesperadas y cargadas de matices sobre el funcionamiento del poder imperial en un planeta cada vez mas caotico. De paso, el autor proporciona un brillante estudio acerca de como las elites de Estados Unidos han ido aislandose cadavez mas ante cualquier restriccion que la democracia pretenda imponer a su poder. Mientras el grueso de la poblacion es empujada a la apatia – desviada hacia el consumismo o al odio al vulnerable – a las corporaciones y los ricos se les permite, cada vez mas, hacer lo que les plazca. La critica a dicho <> New Statesman <>–The New York Review of Books <> BusinessWeek <>–The Boston Globe <>–The New Yorker ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A New York Times Bestseller The world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights. In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from the expanding drone assassination program to the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the flashpoints of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine, he offers unexpected and nuanced insights into the workings of imperial power on our increasingly chaotic planet. In the process, Chomsky provides a brilliant anatomy of just how U.S. elites have grown ever more insulated from any democratic constraints on their power. While the broader population is lulled into apathy–diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable–the corporations and the rich have increasingly been allowed to do as they please. Fierce, unsparing, and meticulously documented, Who Rules the World? delivers the indispensable understanding of the central conflicts and dangers of our time that we have come to expect from Chomsky. “Chomsky is a global phenomenon. . . . He may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.”–The New York Times Book Review “It is possible that, if the United States goes the way of nineteenth-century Britain, Chomsky’s interpretation will be the standard among historians a hundred years from now.”–The New Yorker