BECAUSE WE SAY SO

Whatever the world may think, U.S. actions are legitimate because we say so. The principle was enunciated by the eminent statesman Dean Acheson in 1962, when he instructed the American Society of International Law that no legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its “power, position, and prestige.”

BECAUSE WE SAY SO presents more than thirty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and global issues, written between 2011 and 2014.

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political issues of the past several years: the urgency of climate change, Obama doctrine, the impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, the assault on public education, escalating tensions with Iran, cyberwar, nuclear politics, Boston and the problem of terrorism, Latin American politics, Palestinian-Israeli relations and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.

BECAUSE WE SAY SO is the third in a series of books by Chomsky following Making the Future (2012) and Interventions (2007) which was banned from Guantánamo Bay by U.S. military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky has been writing regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, but which go largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. All three books offer fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by one of America's foremost intellectual and political dissidents.

"WEIL WIR ES SO SAGEN"
Texte gegen die amerikanische Weltherrschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
Deutsch von Georg Kneussel
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