by Noam Chomsky · Le Serpent à plumes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782842613518
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«Le Bouclier américain» is the political essay by Noam Chomsky, published by Le Serpent à plumes in paperback (121 pages, in French).
Chomsky confronts Washington's rhetoric on human rights with the real decisions of its foreign policy and reviews cases of support for repressive regimes, including Israel and Indonesia. He criticises Democrats and Republicans alike and denounces restrictions on the rights of American citizens: the facts contradict the discourse.
French translation of Noam Chomsky's essay «The Umbrella of US Power», originally published in 1999; the French version is by Guy Ducornet.
Recommended for readers interested in political criticism, human rights and US foreign policy.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.
