The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state, " and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states, " Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...

Analyzes the troubled dynamic between the U.S. government and the human rights movement, arguing that America became a standard for human rights as part of a controversial effort to further the nation's global influence.

Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.