An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really work from the man The New York Times called “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” Here are a few samples:

• James Madison Believed that the primary goal of government is “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” As his colleague John Jay was fond of putting it, “The people who own the country ought to govern it.”
• After WWII, Many Nazis were spirited off to latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. They became advisors to US-supported police states that were modeled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich, and taught local peasants torture techniques devised by the Gestapo.
• In 1964, the US government spent more money per capita to get the presidential candidate it favored elected in Chile Than was spent that year by both candidates (Johnson and Goldwater) in the presidential election here in the United States.
• When US forces entered Korea in 1945, the inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About 100,000 people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War.
• Investment is supposed to be blacks and whites is actually a class difference, and the gap between poor and rich whites is also enormous. But you’re not allowed to talk about class in the US. As soon as you say the word, everyone falls down dead.
• What the Public wants is called “politically unrealistic.” Translated into English that means power and privilege are opposed to it.
• This is a business-run, huckster society and its primary value is deceit.