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Though this is quite a brief book, Chomsky accomplishes more with about a hundred pages here, than he does in such longer works as Hegemony or Survival.

In this pocket sized edition, the great man picks apart the media propaganda and outlines a rational view of: Reaganite atrocities in Latin America, the hypocritical and deadly war on drugs, the illusion of the Cold War, and the hegemony of the mainstream media. As usual, Chomsky's prose is no frills, although it's rife with bitter sarcasm, but of course Chomsky doesn't care if his book is literary as long as it's relevant and well-researched (it is, of course). One thing I found interesting here was that after outlining the incredibly dire situation of American neo-liberal politics, the section "what you can do" is about a page and a half long; it doesn't leave with much hope, but perhaps Chomsky meant to illustrate just how desperate our situation really is.
But if this book shows anything, it's that his bitterness and repeated use of words like Fascist are indeed more than justified in the face of a Fascist American government. This slim volume is probably the best introduction to Noam Chomsky, and to modern leftism in general.