Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

518 Pages·1982·80.443 MB·English

by  Noam Chomsky

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TOWARDS
A
NEW
COLD
WAR
ESSAYS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS
AND HOW WE GOT THERE
ALSO BY NOAM CHOMSKY
AMERICAN POWER AND THE NEW MANDARINS
AT WAR WITH ASIA:
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PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM:
The Russell Lectures
FOR REASONS OF STATE
PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?
Reflections onJustice andNationhood
REFLECTIONS ON LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE AND RESPONSIBILITY
TOWARDS
A
NEW
COLD
WAR
ESSAYS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS
AND HOW WE GOT THERE
NOAM CHOMSKY
PANTHEON BOOKS NEWYORK
Public Library San Mateo,
Copyright © 1973, '975^ 197^' 1979^ ^9^^^ ^9^^> ^9^2 by J. Leonard Schatz, Trustee of
Chomsky Children's Trust #2
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto.
^ Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data
Chomsky, Noam.
Towards a new cold war.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
— — —
I. Unite—d States Foreign r—elations 1—945 Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. United
States Foreign rela—tions 1969-1—974 Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. World
politics 1945- Addresses, essays, lectures.
E840.C49 32773 81-47190
ISBN 0-394-51873-X AACR2
ISBN 0-394-74944-8 (pbk.)
The essay Intellectuals and the State (De intellectuelen en de staat), by Noam Chomsky, was
first published in Dutch and English in 1978 by Het Wereldvenster, Netherlands.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to thefollowingforpermission to reprintpreviouslypublished
material:
University Press of New England: Noam Chomsky's essay "Foreign Policy and the
Intelligentsia" is reprinted from Images and Ideas in American Culture: The Functions of
Criticism, edited by Arthur Edelstein, by permission of University Press of New
England. Copyright © 1979 by Trustees of Brandeis University.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Text design by Dana Kasarsky Design
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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INTELLECTUALS AND THE STATE
60
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FOREIGN POLICY AND THE INTELLIGENTSIA
2 86
INDOCHINA AND THE FOURTH ESTATE
3 115
THE REMAKING OF HISTORY
4 134
ON THE AGGRESSION OF SOUTH VIETNAMESE
5
PEASANTS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES (REVIEW OF
GUENTER LEWY, AMERICA IN VIETNAM)
154
6 KISSINGER, THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS 166
TOWARDS A NEW COLD WAR
7 188
RESURGENT AMERICA
8 216
ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS
9 230
AFTERWORD
265
BELLOW, TOJERUSALEMAND BACK
10 299
AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE
II
MIDDLE EAST
308
ARMAGEDDON WELL LOCATED
12 IS 320
THE UNITED STATES AND EAST TIMOR
13 AFTERWORD 337
349
NOTES
371
INDEX
477

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NEW
COLD
WAR
ESSAYS ON THE CURRENT CRISIS
AND HOW WE GOT THERE