An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's most useful citizen." (The Boston Globe)
In this new collection of conversations, conducted in 2006 and 2007, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the 2006...
An indispensable set of interviews on foreign and domestic issues with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival, "America's ...
Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky s most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic s most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought.
In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic...
Described by the New York Times as arguably the most important intellectual alive, Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly...
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky s recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during...
Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audi...
"American Power and the New Mandarins" is Noam Chomsky s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statements against the American war in Vietnam. Long out of print, this collection of early, seminal essays helped to establish Chomsky as a leading critic of United States foreign policy. These pages mount a scathing critique of the contradictions of the war, and an indictment of the mainstream, liberal intellectuals the new mandarins who furnished what Chomsky argued was the necessary ideological cover for the horrors visited on the Vietnamese...
"American Power and the New Mandarins" is Noam Chomsky s first political book, widely considered to be among the most cogent and powerful statement...
Noam Chomsky s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson s Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war...
Noam Chomsky s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy one in which the public active...
This prescient and timely book documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on U.S. imperialism and the imminent crises facing the Middle East two months before Israel orchestrated major military campaigns against Lebanon and Palestine. During his visit, he met with political leaders including those of Hizbullah toured refugee camps, and inspected a former Israeli prison and torture compound.
Inside Lebanon describes Chomsky s journey and situates it within the tragically altered context of Lebanon and Palestine before and after the war of 2006. Chomsky s essays...
This prescient and timely book documents Noam Chomsky's visit to Lebanon, in May 2006, to lecture on U.S. imperialism and the imminent crises facin...
"Absolutely indispensable An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American Left gets no coverage in the world's press and yet remains the hope for America and the world." Tony Benn, President, Stop the War Coalition " This book] challenges the simplistic perception of Americans as SUV-driving, war-loving couch potatoes. There's a movement for peace and justice and this book gives it a voice." Mickey Z., writer With contributions by five Nobel Peace Prize winners, former government officials, scholars, religious...
"Absolutely indispensable An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American ...
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of international tensions and a key site of direct US intervention. Two of the most astute analysts of this part of the world are Noam Chomsky, the preeminent critic of U.S, foreign policy, and Gilbert Achcar, a leading specialist of the Middle East who lived in that region for many years. In their new book, Chomsky and Achcar bring a keen understanding of the internal dynamics of the Middle East and of the role of the United States, taking up all...
The volatile Middle East is the site of vast resources, profound passions, frequent crises, and long-standing conflicts, as well as a major source of ...
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experiences and external influences?
Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experie...
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States. Chomsky s many bestselling works including Manufacturing Consent, Hegemony or Survival, Understanding Power, and Failed States have served as essential touchstones...
For the past forty years Noam Chomsky s writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the m...