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Chomsky discusses freedom of speech, its history, and how to deal with the rise of racist right-wing movements. The interview was conducted…
Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have recently been held in Britain, Canada, Chile, Taiwan…
Promise-breaking at the World Bank, Part 1: Before That 66th birthday month of his, March 2012, was auspicious for adding a little…
On Friday, March 30, First Lady Michelle Obama received an unusual request at her San Francisco fundraiser. Instead of “Can I have…
Do Pretoria and Johannesburg deserve the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah, cities along the ancient Jordan River which were, according to The Book…
Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before…
Editor's Commentary: We published the full length, revolutionary film documentary by John Pilger, The War You Don't See in 2010 and 2011 when it appeared on…
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two…
Two headlines in USA Today and Reuters earlier this week were very sobering: “Study: Global temperatures could rise 5 degrees by 2050,”…
Chomsky reviews the Resistance/Collaboration in Western and Southern Europe, pointing out the huge differences and the consequences for the decades that followed.…
The sound of what seems like thunder wakes me up at 3 am, Monday, a few hours after I arrived in Damascus.…
The world is as it is. If we arrive at a shared vision for a better future, that too will be what…
‘I don’t have the stomach or the taste to serve any more at this level,’ said the normally ebullient Minister of Intelligence…
Imagine a better future. In your country of the future the economy is classless and promotes solidarity, diversity, equity, and self management.…
Based on a talk by Jeremy Brecher to Occupy University, Zuccotti Park. Last December, Occupy Los Angeles proposed a General Strike…
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BOSTON–From Jersey Shore to the short-lived All American Muslim to the much glitzier Shahs of Sunset, there seems to be no ethnic community left untouched by the…
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The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have…
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It is difficult to watch the spectacle of the Republican primaries and not agree with whoever it was that originated the description…
Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book,…
Is the National Treasury, as a CityPress editorial claimed on 26 February, truly a “powerhouse of big brains and safe hands”, “a…
The first Israel missile sped down to its target, scorching the Gaza earth and everything in between. Palestinians collected the body parts…
These are tough times to be a construction worker in America. While other sectors of the economy are showing signs of life,…
“Stripping Protestors In Pink Bras Crashed Bank Of America CEO Brian Moynihan's Speech,” declared Business Insider on March 8, showing Moynihan’s stern photo with a pink…
Dada Maheshvarananda: The viral growth of the Occupy Movement, and the public support of it, is testament to the tremendous dissatisfaction with the…
This essay is an afterward in the book The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics, a collection of anarchist essays edited by…
In 1963, a senior Australian government official, A.R. Taysom, deliberated on the wisdom of deploying women as trade representatives. “Such an appointee…
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The January/February issue of Foreign Affairs featured the article “Time to Attack Iran: Why a Strike Is the Least Bad Option,” by Matthew Kroenig,…
Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province. She married about six years ago, and gave…
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. On March 4-6, AIPAC…
Lecture on the state of higher education (Chomsky begins at 9:35)
It would seem that the New York Times has run out of substantive issues with which to present Venezuela in a negative…
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14-year-old Ali Jawad died when a tear gas canister fired at close range smashed his face. John Timoney is the controversial…
On February 26th, a ceremony is to take place in California apologizing to the approximately 400,000 people of Mexican ancestry who were…
John Gray (Delusions of grandeur, Review, 11 February) writes that "it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that, for Chomsky, America is…
Recent developments in US-Philippine relations should evoke concern among citizens of the Philippines and their representatives in Congress. Washington’s two-point agenda…
The issue is not about hummus, chocolate bars or Dead Sea vacations. It is about civil society taking full responsibility for its…
Durban – The latest acts in this country’s intensifying political drama include a sizzling summer-long battle between young and old within the…
In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time…
On April 10, 2002, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons, “Saddam Hussein's regime is…developing weapons of mass…
It's Valentine's Day, and opening the little cartoon on the Google page brings up a sentimental animation with Tony Bennett singing "why…
Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and…
What can happen in 2012 to further the objective of uniting the 99%? Or, as I wrote in my first “Uniting the 99%”…
David Barsamian, the director of Colorado-based Alternative Radio, conducted the following interview with Noam Chomsky on Jan. 20 at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.…
Noam Chomsky is a political activist, self-described anarchist, cognitive scientist, historian and linguistics expert. He’s also one of the biggest intellectual powerhouses…
"But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all,…
