Making the Future

English language

ISBN:: 978-0-87286-537-2

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Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance is a 2012 collection of political op-ed columns written by Noam Chomsky and edited by John Stickney for monthly publication by the New York Times Syndicate between April 2, 2007 and October 31, 2011. The columns, according to Stickney, “present a narrative of the events that have made the future since 2007,” including War in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2008 U.S. presidential race; the Chinese Century, the pink tide, nuclear proliferation, the Gaza War, Israeli settlement, climate change, the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, the death of Osama bin Laden and the Occupy movement.

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3 stars

"In different ways, the fate of democracy as at stake in Madison, Wisconsin, no less than it is in Tahrir Square", Chomsky writes in this work, and the collection of brief analyses of global interventions - as well as power plays by the governments engaging in them - unveils that assumption in the work. The plight of Palestinians, desperation of Rust Belt working class left at the hands of neoliberal policies, and many more stories shed light on the kind of big picture look that Chomsky is always recognised for.