Date: 1979. Boston, South End Press, 1979. 8°. XVII,441 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition, with few minor signs of external wear only. Signed by Noam Chomsky on the titlepage. [The Political Economy of Human Rights - Volume I]. Includes the following essays: I - Introduction: Summary of Major Findings and Conclusions / II - The Pentagon-CIA Archipelago: Neo-Colonialism and the Washington Connection / The Systematic Positive Relationship between U.S.Aid and Human Rights Violations / U.S.Military and Police Aid and Training and the Spread of Fascism / The Scope and Variety of CIA Subversive Activities / The Pre-Eminence of Favorable Investment Climate / The Economic Role of Terror: Preserving and Enlarging Military, Comprador and Foreign Income Shares / Counterrevolution and the "Shakedown"-States / III - Benign Terror - The Semantics of Terror and Violence: Retail Violence as "Terror" - Wholesale Violence as Maintaining "Order" and "Security" / Benign and Constructive Terror / Post-Colonial Rot and Permanent Counterrevolution / Benign Terror: East Pakistan: Tilting towards Massacre / Burundi: "The Limitations of U.S.Power" / The Indians of Latin America: The Non-Civilized in the Way of "Progress" / East Timor: Genocide on the Sly / IV - Constructive Terror - Indonesia - Mass Examination, Investor's Paradise / Thailand: A corrupt "Firm Base" / Repacification in the Philippines / The Dominican Republic: U.S.Model for Third World Development / Latin America: ...