Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze towards continuing involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to trace the enduring combined effects of military domination and economic imperialism on these regions.[...]
A brilliant, shattering, and convincing account of United States-backed suppression of political and human rights in the Third World....It relentlessly dissects the official views of Establishment scholars and their journals. The "best and brightest" pundits of the status quo emerge from this book t[...]
"The great work of subjugation and conquest" has changed little over the years. Analyzing Haiti, Latin America, Cuba, Indonesia, and even packets of the Third World developing in the United States. Noam Chomsky draws parallels between the genocide of colonial times and the murder and exploitation as[...]
From the nature of democracy to our place in the natural world, from intellectual politics to the politics of language, Powers and Prospects provides a scathing critique of orthodox views and government policy, and outlines other paths that can lead to better understanding an more constructive actio[...]
Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberat[...]
"Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe" is a focused discussion on the existential threats of our time, and their points of intersection since World War II. Both nuclear war and environmental catastrophe have the potential for similar outcomes: a world made uninhabitable by the scarcity of water[...]
In the tradition of Joe Sacco's graphic journalism comes the first interview-based graphic novel treatment of Noam Chomsky's political ideas and activism. An astonishing graphic novel that brings Chomsky's political analysis to bear on real people's stories on the frontlines of America's struggle fo[...]
How do we understand the role and ethics of humanitarian intervention in today s world? This expanded and updated edition is timely as the West weighs intervention in Libyan civil war. Discussions of Libyan intervention involved the international principle of the right to protect (R2P). Chomsky diss[...]
A controversial and provocative new intervention from the world's greatest dissident intellectual.
Noam Chomsky has become the acknowledged supreme anti-authoritarian figure of our age. A prolific writer, researcher and critical thinker, he has shaped contemporary linguistics, philosophy and liberal thought like no other. Volumes on Chomsky abound, yet an approachable and up-to-date introduction [...]
PRAISE FOR NOAM CHOMSKY'S "OCCUPY" AND ZUCCOTTI PARK PRESS:
"Having spent so much time thinking about and engaging with social movements, Chomsky is both optimistic about the energy of Occupy and realistic about the challenges it faces. He appreciates the "just do it" ethos and embraces its radi[...]
PRAISE FOR NOAM CHOMSKY'S "OCCUPY" AND ZUCCOTTI PARK PRESS:
""Occupy" is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance and protest, and a red-hot rallying call to forge a better, more egalitarian future."
--Alternet "For decades, Chomsky has been marginalized for his i[...]
Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments[...]
Columbia is now the 3rd largest recipient of US foreign & military aid, the justification for which is the War on Drugs. In a clear, concise and sometimes bitterly funny lecture, Noam Chomsky shows us who is getting the money, who is producing and exporting the drugs, and what the war on the ground [...]
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli ass[...]
Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a chemical, biological theory is unde[...]
?Die Intellektuellen haben die Verantwortung, die Wahrheit zu sagen und Lügen aufzudecken.? Diesem Leitsatz ist Noam Chomsky bis heute treu geblieben. Von den frühen Essays zum Vietnam?krieg bis zu seinen jüngsten Veröffentlichungen hat der ?wohl bedeutendste lebende Intellektuelle? (New[...]
»En som får vedertagna sanningar att explodera« - så beskrivs Noam Chomsky av New York Times. Begreppet »skurkstater« används med förkärlek av USA på stater som Irak, Iran, Libyen och f.d. Jugoslavien, medan Chomsky i sin bok mäter världens supermakter med deras egna måttstockar och vis[...]