This
original work contains exclusive interviews with a
range of noted scholars, including Noam Chomsky,
Linda McQuaig, John McMurtry and Brian Martin. They
speak candidly about understanding power, the global
market and the various forces within it, and the
costs of dissent. The book also features an exclusive
interview with David Miller, who speaks openly about
Iraq, U.S. and corporate world domination, the
origins of the propaganda model in the United
Kingdom, and the death of Dr. David Kelly, British
weapons expert who leaked information to the media
about what the British government knew about weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq.
Each
of essays in this collection considers the way in
which power and ideology work within contemporary
society. Apart from the feature interviews, essays
include an examination of patriotic correctness (the
new 'PC'), and the repression of dissent in America;
post 9/11 media coverage and the 'War on Terror';
Jimmy Carter Goes to Cuba; the myth of the objective
professional; the cost of dissent in universities;
and an assessment of workplace injury and the
ideology of the Worker's Compensation Board.
Table of Contents
Contributors
include: Noam Chomsky, David Miller, Linda McQuaig,
John McMurtry, David Cromwell, Brian Martin, James
Winter, Jean Chen, Teresa Chen, Valerie
Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Robert Jensen, Peter Eglin,
Robert Bertuzzi, and Jeffery Klaehn.
Apart
from being published in a range of scholarly
journals, Jeffery Klaehn is the editor of Filtering the News:
Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model and of the
forthcoming Comic Books
and Comic Book Culture: Studies in Pop Culture.
224
pages, 6x9, references, bibliography, index
Paperback ISBN: 1-55164-282-4 $26.99
Hardcover ISBN: 1-55164-283-2 $55.99
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