The Chomsky Quartet

Four Chomsky classics - The Common Good, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, and What Uncle Sam Really Wants - for the price of three. Available now as a handsome quartet shrink-wrapped in a 4-colour case suitable for display. This collection of interviews and talks by Noam Chomsky is an ideal introduction to the man the New York Times called arguably the most important intellectual alive. In a lively, conversational style, Chomsky discusses a range of political issues from Central America to the Middle East, Aristotle to postmodernism. Here are a few excerpts: US forces inaugurated a brutal repression in Korea in 1945, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About a hundred thousand people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War. In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. Twenty years later, those figures had reversed. After World War II, many Nazis were spirited off to Latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. There they taught Gestapo torture techniques to US-supported police states modelled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich.