Originally released via AK Press/ Allied; re-issued December 1999 by AT. A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.

There is endless talk about the free market and its virtues. Entrepreneurs compete on level playing fields and the public benefits. The chasm between such fantasies and reality is acute and growing wider. Mega-mergers and monopolies are limiting competition. Fewer than 10 corporations control most of the global media. The existing free market depends heavily on taxpayer subsidies and bailouts. Corporate welfare far exceeds that which goes to the poor.

Economic policy is based on the dictum: take from the needy, and give to the greedy. The captains of industry of today make the robber barons of the 19th century look like underachievers. The gap between CEO and worker salaries has never been sharper. One union leader put it this way: "Workers are getting the absolute crap kicked out of them."

This lecture focuses on these and other issues and Chomsky's compelling argument to change the power structure of America. His analysis is clear, concise, and thought provoking, and his advice is simultaneously pragmatic and radical.

This CD was originally released by Allied records. It has been out of print for some time and since Allied have decided to close their operation, we have decided to keep it available to the growing amount of Noam Chomsky fans.

This is a co-release with AK Press.

ARTIST INFO:

Noam Chomsky, long-time political activist, writer and professor of linguistics at MIT, is the author of numerous books, compact discs and articles on US foreign policy, international affairs and human rights. He is the premier advocate of independent media and the dismantling of the corporate mindset. He has been called "arguably the most important intellectual alive".

QUOTES ABOUT THE PREVIOUS CHOMSKY CDS:

"Chomsky has been unrelenting in his attacks on the American hierarchy....[He] is up there with Thoreau and Emerson in the literature of rebellion." Rolling Stone

"If the job of a rebel is to tear down the old and prepare for the new, then this is Noam Chomsky, a 'rebel without a pause,' the 'Elvis of academia....' As rock n roll in the 90s continues to be gagged, it is ironic that a man of 65 years turns out to be the real rebel sprit." Bono of U2 His books include Chronicles of Dissent, Culture of Terrorism, Goals and Visions, Language and Politics, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, and Chomsky for Beginners.