ITEM OVERVIEW
Towards A New Cold War extends Chomsky's critique of US foreign policy through the early 1970s to Reagan's first term. Expanding on themes such as the cozy relationship of intellectuals to the State and American adventurism after World War II, Chomsky goes on to examine the way that US policymakers set about the task of rewriting the horrible history of involvement in Indochina and turned their attention more squarely on the Middle East and Central America. He assesses US oil strategy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dissects the first volume of Kissinger's memoirs, issues an urgent call to stem the bloodshed in then unknown East Timor, and, in the title essay, marks the increased posture of confrontation and rearmament under Carter and Reagan that signaled the end of détente with the Soviet Union. Now with a new introduction by John Pilger.
"Noam Chomsky lays before the reader a panorama of futile violence, intellectual dishonesty, and political immorality." —Edward Said
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