Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most vocal and erudite critics of governmental malfeasance past and present. His devastating analyses of the true motives behind global events reveal a picture very much at odds with that presented by the conventional media, and often politicians. This essay forms both an expanded introduction and an afterword to Chomsky's Hegemony or survival, published by Penguin in 2003.

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