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But overall, it is still as thought provoking and disturbing as Chomsky gets.

With the title taken from George Bush Senior's 1991 "New World Order" speech, this is more of the stuff that the mainstream news media fail to or choose not to report.

Among the many subjects covered are the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and Hizbollah's intentions, how the International Monetary Fund wrecks foreign economies, Chavez's Venezuela, China's grip on the United States' treasury, and nuclear proliferation, which Chomsky regards as a far worse peril than global warming.

The focus remains fixed, however, on the US' self-appointed right to interfere any time it chooses anywhere on the planet. Chomsky continues to rail against Washington's hypocrisy as it manipulates and exploits friends and enemies.

 "You could argue that maybe [Iran will] leak weapons to terrorists. That's conceivable. But then there is a much more serious threat of that right in front of us, Pakistan, which has leaked nuclear weapons. You want to worry about that? Fine, let's bomb Pakistan."

The White House and Pentagon are enabled in their aggression, Chomsky says, because they maintain a dysfunctional democracy, thanks mostly to Wall Street backing and a compliant press, but, "we don't have to be voluntary North Koreans".

Extract: "Nixon and Kissinger's [recently uncovered] orders in December 1970 for 'a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia ... [using] anything that flies on anything that moves'. If we found a statement like that in the Serbian archives about Milosevic, it would be reported with banner headlines. Here is a call for genocide, basically, in The New York Times with no comment. The whole history of the Indo-China wars has been so reshaped that it's unrecognisable. By now, people have no idea what happened."