Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 312933Title: Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to DemocracyAuthor: David Barsamian, Noam ChomskyNarrator: David Barsamian, Noam ChomskyFormat: UnabridgedLength: 07:27:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 12-05-17Publisher: Macmillan AudioGenres: History, WorldSummary:This program is read by the authorsIn a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky's Global Discontents identifies the dry kindling of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire.In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks listeners to consider the world we are leaving to our grandchildren: one imperiled by the escalation of climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current system is incapable of dealing with these threats, he argues, its up to us to radically change it.These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the bitterly contested 2016 U.S. presidential election. In accompanying personal reflections on his Philadelphia childhood and his eighty-seventh birthday, Chomsky also describes his own intellectual journey and the development of his uncompromising stance as Americas premier dissident intellectual.Contact: [email protected]

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