Hegemony or Survival

Chomsky, Noam. 2004 Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance H.B. Fenn & Company ; ISBN: 0805076883
(Available at Amazon Canada and US)

Started Reading: March 5^th, 2005
Finished Reading: March 25^th, 2005

Chomsky is at it again, telling us in no uncertain terms that the emperor has no clothes. This work details how American policies are aimed towards the perpetuation of a global hegemony. Politics, diplomacy, economics are all harnessed to the goal of American supremacy. Chomsky details the development of this Pax Americana from post World War II to the present time. He goes into great depth examining how America's own actions have directly resulted in the terrorist attacks that have come back on America in recent times, and in how America only judges it's enemies against a strict assessment of terrorism, where as similar American instigated actions in Cuba, Nicarauga and elsewhere would, judged by the same criteria, be considered State Terrorism.

Not to everyone's tastes I know, but I found it a good read.

Contrast with Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson who advoates an American empire.