Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky Book

	Editors' Preface
	A Note on the Events of September 11, 2001
Ch. 1	Weekend Teach-In: Opening Session	1
	The Achievements of Domestic Dissidence	1
	The U.S. Network of Terrorist Mercenary States	4
	Overthrowing Third World Governments	6
	Government Secrecy	10
	The Media: An Institutional Analysis	12
	Testing the "Propaganda Model"	15
	The Media and Elite Opinion	18
	Filters on Reporting	24
	Honest Subordination	30
	"Fight it Better": the Media and the Vietnam War	31
Ch. 2	Teach-In: Over Coffee	37
	"Containing" the Soviet Union in the Cold War	37
	Orwell's World and Ours	41
	Contemporary Poverty	45
	Religious Fanaticism	50
	"The Real Anti-Semitism"	51
	Ronald Reagan and the Future of Democracy	53
	Two New Factors in World Affairs	58
	Democracy Under Capitalism	60
	The Empire	64
	Change and the Future	67
Ch. 3	Teach-In: Evening	70
	The Military-Industrial Complex	70
	The Permanent War Economy	73
	Libyan and American Terrorism	77
	The U.S. and the U.N.	84
	Business, Apartheid, and Racism	88
	Winning the Vietnam War	90
	"Genocide": the United States and Pol Pot	92
	Heroes and Anti-Heroes	93
	"Anti-Intellectualism"	95
	Spectator Sports	98
	Western European Activism and Canada	101
	Dispelling Illusions	104
Ch. 4	Colloquy	106
	The Totalitarian Strain	106
	A Lithuania Hypothetical	109
	Perpetuating Brainwashing Under Freedom	111
	Journalism LeMoyne-Style: A Sample of the Cynical Aspect	115
	Rethinking Watergate	117
	Escaping Indoctrination	120
	Understanding the Middle East Conflict	123
	The Threat of Peace	126
	Water and the Occupied Territories	129
	Imperial Ambitions and the Arab Threat	131
	Prospects for the Palestinians	134
	Legitimacy in History	135
	Qualifications to Speak on World Affairs: A Presidential Campaign	137
Ch. 5	Ruling the World	140
	Soviet Versus Western Economic Development	140
	Supporting Terror	144
	"People's Democratic Socialist Republics"	145
	The Organ Trade	146
	The Real Crime of Cuba	148
	Panama and Popular Invasions	151
	Muslims and U.S. Foreign Policy	154
	Haiti: Disturbance at an Export Platform	155
	Texaco and the Spanish Revolution	159
	Averting Democracy in Italy	160
	P.R. in Somalia	163
	The Gulf War	165
	Bosnia: Intervention Questions	171
	Toying With India	172
	The Oslo Agreement and Imperialist Revival	174
Ch. 6	Community Activists	177
	Discussion Circle	177
	The Early Peace Movement and a Change in the 1970s	180
	The Nuclear Freeze Movement	184
	Awareness and Actions	186
	Leaders and Movements	188
	Levels of Change	189
	Non-Violence	193
	Transcending Capitalism	195
	The Kibbutz Experiment	196
	"Anarchism" and "Libertarianism"	199
	Articulating Visions	201
	"Want" Creation	203
	Dissidents: Ignored or Vilified	204
	Teaching About Resistance	211
	Isolation	212
	Science and Human Nature	214
	Charlatans in the Sciences	217
	Adam Smith: Real and Fake	221
	The Computer and the Crowbar	223
Ch. 7	Intellectuals and Social Change	224
	The Leninist/Capitalist Intelligentsia	224
	Marxist "Theory" and Intellectual Fakery	227
	Ideological Control in the Sciences and Humanities	231
	The Function of the Schools	233
	Subtler Methods of Control	238
	Cruder Methods of Control	242
	The Fate of an Honest Intellectual	244
	Forging Working-Class Culture	248
	The Fraud of Modern Economics	251
	The Real Market	255
	Automation	258
	A Revolutionary Change in Moral Values	260
Ch. 8	Popular Struggle	267
	Discovering New Forms of Oppression	267
	Freedom of Speech	268
	Negative and Positive Freedoms	272
	Cyberspace and Activism	276
	"Free Trade" Agreements	280
	Defense Department Funding and "Clean Money"	284
	The Favored State and Enemy States	286
	Canada's Media	288
	Should Quebec Separate from Canada?	291
	Deciphering "China"	292
	Indonesia's Killing Fields: U.S. Backed Genocide in East Timor	294
	Mass Murderers at Harvard	298
	Changes in Indonesia	299
	Nuclear Proliferation and North Korea	301
	The Samson Option	303
	The Lot of the Palestinians	305
	P.L.O. Ambitions	310
	The Nation-State System	313
Ch. 9	Movement Organizing	318
	The Movie Manufacturing Consent	318
	Media Activism	323
	Self-Destruction of the U.S. Left	326
	Popular Education	331
	Third-Party Politics	333
	Boycotts	337
	"A Praxis"	339
	The War on Unions	339
	Inner-City Schools	342
	Defending the Welfare State	344
	Pension Funds and the Law	346
	Conspiracy Theories	348
	The Decision to Get Involved	351
	"Human Nature Is Corrupt"	355
	Discovering Morality	356
	Abortion	358
	Moral Values	359
Ch. 10	Turning Point	363
	Bringing the Third World Home	363
	Welfare: the Pea and the Mountain	367
	Crime Control and "Superfluous" People	370
	Violence and Repression	373
	International Capital: the New Imperial Age	377
	The Fairy Tale Economy	382
	Building International Unions	383
	Initial Moves and the Coming Crisis	387
	Elite Planning - Slipping Out of Hand	390
	Disturbed Populations Stirring	395
	The Verge of Fascism	398
	The Future of History	400
	Index	403