*** Guess which book is now Numero Uno at Amazon.com!***

[katinmn]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/main/ref=sv_gw_3/102-0167156-3259324?%5Fencoding=UTF8



:rofl: :patriot:

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Wouldn't it be something if people started reading and finally figured

it out?

Finally!!!! :bounce:

[katinmn]

2. Yes, finally! This is a major change in course.

:)

[InternalDialogue]

22. That was my reaction yesterday.

Oh, dear -- people might learn something. Critical thinking is like an ant infestation in your house: once you realize it's there, you see it everywhere.

[TahitiNut]

54. Attention: The paperback is #1 and the hardcover is #8 !!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/ref=pd_ts_h/103-5212659-1427801

So, to merely point out that this book is #1 is a gross understatement.

[mmonk]

3. Glad Hugo has inspired so many people to read.

Should we name him our educational czar?

[Cha]

19. Chavez is the man!

[Greeby]

4. The no.2 ain't too bad either

[IChing]

12. I noticed that too

#24

#20


#7???? it is #1 and #7

[BrotherBuzz]

24. 1 and 7 represent paperback or hardcover editions

(1)Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Paperback)

(7)Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) (Hardcover)

[IChing]

43. Thanks that is even better than I hoped

I never buy a hardcover can't afford it.

[BrotherBuzz]

49. I prefer hardcovers

and my pocketbook screams at me to patronize my local library. ;)

[Cha]

20. THank you, Frank Rich..

bush in a NUTshell on the front cover!

[lonestarnot]

5. Fiasco is either newly released or set to be released.

[katinmn]

6. Available on 9/25

http://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-Iraq/dp/159420103X/ref=pd_ts_b_24/104-3343327-4143953?ie=UTF8&s=books

[lonestarnot]

10. Hey Kat! Thanks!

I have news will pm! :hi:

[Renew Deal]

28. Fiasco has been out for a while.

It's a great book and I recommend it to all DUers.

[lonestarnot]

30. Hmmm. Have to check for it over the weekend. Both books!

Want them!

[Spazito]

7. This is SO delicious.....

for all the ranting about Chavez's speech at the UN re inappropriate, crazy, etc and blah, blah, blah, the rocketing up the ladder to NUMBER 1 of Chomsky's book shows the REAL world had NO problem with anything Chavez said and acted upon his recommendation.


I am :rofl: at how the freepers heads will explode at this news!

Recommended.

[rodeodance]

8. Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Noam Chomsky is considered the father of modern linguistics. In this richly detailed criticism of American foreign policy, he seeks to redefine many of the terms commonly used in the ongoing American war on terrorism. Surveying U.S. actions in Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, the Far East and elsewhere over the past half a century along with the modern American war in Iraq, Chomsky indicates that America is just as much a terrorist state as any other government or rogue organization. George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq drew worldwide criticism, in part because it seemed to present a new philosophy of pre-emptive war and an appearance of global empire building. But according to Chomsky, such has been the operating philosophy of American foreign policy for decades. Opponents of the Bush administration's tactics consistently point out how the American government supported Saddam Hussein for many years prior to the 1990 invasion of Kuwait (pictures of Donald Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand are easy to come by) as a means of pointing out how the United States is happy to fund despots when it's in American interests. But Chomsky, armed with extensive historical notation, takes this notion further, arguing how the repression of other nations' citizenry is, in fact, the very reason Americans support certain foreign leaders. The charges made throughout the book are severe, as are the dire consequences he posits if current trends are not reversed, and Chomsky is no more likely to make friends or gain supporters from the mainstream now than he's ever been. But Hegemony or Survival is relatively dispassionate. Instead of relying on camp or shock value or personal attacks as some of his contemporaries have done, Chomsky drives his well-supported points steadily forward in an earnest and highly readable style. --John Moe --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Publishers Weekly
In this highly readable, heavily footnoted critique of American foreign policy from the late 1950s to the present, Chomsky (whose 9-11 was a bestseller last year) argues that current U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Iraq are not a specific response to September 11, but simply the continuation of a consistent half-century of foreign policy-an "imperial grand strategy"-in which the United States has attempted to "maintain its hegemony through the threat or use of military force." Such an analysis is bound to be met with skepticism or antagonism in post-September 11 America, but Chomsky builds his arguments carefully, substantiates claims with appropriate documentation and answers expected counterclaims. Chomsky is also deeply critical of inconsistency in making the charge of "terrorism." Using the official U.S. legal code definition of terrorism, he argues that it is an exact description of U.S. foreign policy (especially regarding Cuba, Central America, Vietnam and much of the Middle East), although the term is rarely used in this way in the U.S. media, he notes, even when the World Court in 1986 condemned Washington for "unlawful use of force" ("international terrorism, in lay terms" Chomsky argues) in Nicaragua. Claiming that the U.S. is a rogue nation in its foreign policies and its "contempt for international law," Chomsky brings together many themes he has mined in the past, making this cogent and provocative book an important addition to an ongoing public discussion about U.S. policy.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

See all Editorial Reviews

[AzDar]

9. ...LOVE it! n/t

[NOLADEM]

11. Does Chomsky have any comment on his new publicist

Something tells me this is of limited benefit to him. I wonder how much he will be hounded in the future as a tool of Chavez/Central American Leftists/Socialists etc.

[IndyOp]

40. After being hounded for being a "self-hating Jew" for decades...

I would think that Noam would welcome merely being called a tool of Chavez/Central American Leftists/Socialists etc.

:hi:

[Joe Chi Minh]

42. Wasn't Noam Chomsky the FBI's "Public Enemy No 1"

not so long ago?

[Theres-a]

13. .

:spray:

[Joanne98]

14. The Hugo Chavez Book Club! I love it!

[Cha]

21. What other fascinating books

will he recommend? :)

[Lisa]

47. maybe he should start one on his TV show! (n/t)

[rodeodance]

15. YAPPA DAPPA dOOOOOOOOOOO

[Freedom_from_Chains]

16. ROTFLMAO - You know that has to piss Jr. off

Looks like Hugo's speech did some real good after all in spite of what some here have been saying.

[mmonk]

17. Hugo should get a cut.

It's only fair.

[zeemike]

18. Good...I hope he sells a million of them n/t

[K8-EEE]

23. Check Out This Freeper Post

A bunch of them were lamenting having to read Chomsky in school, then one of them says he goes to a "conservative" school so they don't have to read anything like that, this is the response, YIKES!

Man are you lucky. The book really messes with your mind and because he writes in a subjective view you start to think that he is making sense. It goes something like this: Because I installed fear and terrorized innocent people that makes me a terrorist. Did I terrorize my sisters growing up? Of course I did, so that makes me a terrorist and he makes a logical case if you live in a fantasy world where words have no meaning.

Am I a terrorist because I installed fear in my sister’s mind? Of course not. What a bunch of psycho babble.

[Kerrytravelers]

27. So close, yet not quite able to bridge the gap, are they?

Terrorizing your little sister? No. Invading a country, killing the innocent people, financially benefiting from said invasion and manipulating feelings of patriotism and nationalism into such a fever pitch it reaches Orwellian heights? Yes. And guess what our government is doing?

(Let me give you a hint- it has nothing to do with your sister.)

[electropop]

37. Not officially a terrorist, but clearly a vicious little bully.

Typical freeper piece of garbage. A waste of air.

[malaise]

53. What a fugging dunce

A book full of footnotes is 'written in a subjective view'. How fugging dumb are these people really? :puke: :puke:

[K8-EEE]

55. "You start to think it is making sense"

I think they are so brainwashed that some kind of mechanism goes off at that point. I'm serious, I think they're all Moonie-ized. You CAN'T talk sense to them.

[Renew Deal]

25. Best commercial ever! And at $7.80 it's a bargain.

This is what political leaders do. They spread the message. Chavez was extremely effective in this instance.

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Hoping for an RFKJ book, or Fiasco ... but this is great too! nt

[progressisvirtue]

29. chomsky is pretty good, a great view from the far left

like howard zinn, but a little further over... both are great reads

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. So when do we get to see a side-by-side photoshop

On one side: Chavez holding up "Hegemony or Survival"

On the other: Chucklenuts holding up "The Pet Goat"

C'mon, youse guys!

[ms liberty]

32. Great news! Maybe some people will wake up! n/t

[RethugAssKicker]

33. Love IT !!!!

[qanda]

34. I reserved a copy at my library the other day

And there were six available, today there are none.

[katinmn]

36. That's a good sign. Chavez got people thinking.

:thumbsup:

[Lisa]

48. all out at mine, with a half-dozen holds already!

I'd better give my librarian friend who works there, a heads-up about a possible surge of reader interest. She is very good about ordering extra copies. (I also donated Al Gore's book, and a copy of "The Corporation" on DVD, and she rushed those into cataloguing to meet the spike in demand earlier this year ...)

[Jim__]

35. Great news!

Americans need to get a broader point of view than they can get from the MSM.

[KaptBunnyPants]

38. It's a good book, glad to see it getting some press.

nt

[Disturbed]

41. Didn't Busholini say that the ability to read helps

in the fight against Global Terrorism? Yeah, one can read how the US Govts have terrorized many countries into adopting US Style Capitalism. Any elected Socialist Govt. in any country is visciously attacked and subverted by the CIA and other agencies that are funded by the US Govt. and US Multi-Natl. Corps. Reading is indeed enlightening.

[lonestarnot]

52. Yeah bushitler said that, that's why he's a terrorist, he can't read.

[progressoid]

39. Just checked it out from the library!

[Synnical]

44. Screen Grab

From Wonkette - because, as they wrote,

"A screengrab for posterity, because you will never see it again and your children will surely want to know about the day Noam Chomsky outsold John Grisham."

[bobbolink]

45. If it sells enough, maybe it will be put on tape, so many more

can have access to some new and good ideas!

Not everyone is able to read print, and so few non-fiction books make it to tape.

This would be one great audio book!

Here's hoping.....

[Raksha]

46. Finally, a poll I can REALLY trust!

When people vote with their money, it means something. Maybe the go-along-and-place-nice "pragmatists" will finally get a clue?

[personman]

50. Recent Chomsky interview concerning his book and Hugo Chavez

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060922101227133

[JohnyCanuck]

51. I wonder how many media whores are getting a copy. n/t