Umbrella Of U.s. Power, The - 2nd Edition: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradict

(Paperback, 2nd New edition)

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ions of U.S. Policy Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while chronicling how the foreign policy of the US too often differs from its rhetoric. Analysing the contradictions of US power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political language to examine how the US not only violates the Universal Declaration, but at times uses it as a weapon to wield against an ever-changing set of enemies.

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"This slim but passionate volume...expose[s] the contradictions between what government leaders tell their people and what they actually do." - Amazon.com; "How adroitly he cuts through the crap and really says something." - Village Voice

Author Bio

Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist. He is author of, among numerous other books, Profit over People and the international best-seller (currently available in 26 foreign markets), the anti-war 9-11, which has more than 400,000 copies in print.