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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,…
George Orwell coined the useful term “unperson” for creatures denied personhood because they don’t abide by state doctrine. We may add the…
Forty years ago this December, members of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) did the unthinkable. They elected three of their…
Ever since the beginning of the current global economic crisis, the focus of both critical analysis and public odium has been speculative…
Noam Chomsky is in Tucson this week to lecture at the University of Arizona. Chomsky, a professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of…
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Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking a well-deserved victory lap. The Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada’s pipeline proposal —…
With the instability in Iran and scoping the long-term horizon, do you see the potential for World War III, given the natural…
With International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Christine Lagarde in Tunisia today, the stage is set for ideological war over the progress…
As three unions at the Kaiser Permanente health care chain in California pulled a one-day statewide walkout yesterday, their solidarity went unmatched…
I love the Occupy Movement’s “1% vs. 99%” frame. It speaks clearly and directly to the major problem holding back social progress…
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Three years ago this Friday (Jan. 27), Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern declared war on one-quarter of his California…
In 2002, seemingly out of nowhere, then US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that the USA henceforth considered the Communist Party…
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Regardless of who may rule Israel, little change ever occurs in the country’s foreign policy. Winning parties remain obsessed with demographics and…
What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor? Judging from the highly-publicized controversy over the Keystone XL…
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One sign of just how much Obama’s State Department has become indistinguishable from that of the Bush era is that on Venezuela-related…
In watching the USA/Israeli vs. Iranian tensions play out, I found myself thinking about the similarities with the British/Argentine war in the…
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On June 15, three months after the NATO bombing of Libya began, the African Union presented to the U.N. Security Council the…
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Kabul – Bibi Sadia and her husband Baba share a humble home with their son, his wife and their two little children. An Afghan…
I had the privilege of starting out the year witnessing, firsthand, the unfolding of the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square. I saw…
Eight years ago I decided that I needed to change my life. The reason? The late summer heat wave which hit Western Europe in…
A darling of the left, Noam Chomsky is well-known for his articulate criticisms of US foreign policy. The American intellectual takes special…
On a recent day in Petaluma, two very different events spotlighted grim results of upside-down priorities from the federal government. Upwards…
Germany towers over Europe like a colossus. Its economy is the biggest in the European Union, accounting for 20 percent of the…
Someone ought to let mainstream news producers know that the nearly 4,500 US soldiers killed in the Iraq war were not the…
In the 2011 summer issue of the journal of the American Academy of Political Science, we read that it is "a common…
