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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Colony to Dictatorship -- Colonialism -- Independence -- The Sukarno era -- Elites in Indonesian history -- The coup of 1965 -- Genocide -- The New Order -- 3. Extreme Capitalism, Indonesian Style -- The illusion of economic success -- The collapse of intellectual Indonesia -- The aftermath of the Asian financial crisis -- A fog of statistics -- Poverty in Indonesia -- Bali -- Jakarta -- Living in Jakarta -- 4. Democracy and Human Rights -- The democracy of generals -- How much does their vote really matter? -- After Suharto stepped down -- Giving in to the Almighty -- How information is manipulated via the media -- The legal system -- Prisons, torture and extra-judicial killings -- Women's rights -- 5. Jakarta Bleeding the Islands -- Racism on the rise while there is no chance for independence -- A neocolonial empire -- Chinese exile -- Genocide in Papua -- Timor-Leste -- Aceh -- Kalimantan -- 6. Corruption Kills -- Suharto - the father of Indonesian corruption -- Mud lake - tip of the corruption iceberg? -- Some examples of corruption cases -- If you are corrupt, go all the way -- 7. The Environment, Plundering of Natural Resources and Consequent Natural Disasters -- Filth and pollution -- The River Musi and Palembang, Sumatra -- North Sumatra -- Aceh after the tsunami -- Kalimantan -- The Norwegian initiative -- 8. Collapse of Infrastructure -- Ferries sink -- Airplanes crash -- Terrible roads -- Rotting trains -- City transport problems -- Inadequate services -- 9. Islam -- Getting away with violence -- Getting away with murder: the horror of Cikeusik -- Temanggung -- Pasuruan -- The West, clerics and Indonesian Islam -- 10. Culture, Education and Intellectual Life -- Education -- The arts -- Artists and intellectuals -- Remembering a lost culture.

Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men's personal experiences which led them to a life of activism. The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education, and broadens out to look at the shifting forms of imperial control and the Western propaganda apparatus. Along the way the discussion touches on many countries of which the authors have personal experience, from Nicaragua and Cuba, to China, Chile, Turkey and many more. A blast of fresh air which blows away the cobwebs of propaganda and deception, On Western Terrorism is a powerful critique of the West's role in the world which will inspire all those who read it to think independently and critically