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Here is a simple, reachable step towards peace in Afghanistan: build international relationships by befriending the Afghan Peace Volunteers Ali and Abdulhai…
D.J. Buschini: The current economic model dominating the world poses a direct threat to the biosphere, scientists routinely warn us. It needs to…
Recently Z received some questions about the relevance or importance – or the reverse – of what goes under the label postmodernism.…
The 2012 Elections Have Little To Do With Obama's Record… …Which Is Why We Are Voting For Him Bill Fletcher, Jr. Carl…
The Collins Distinguished Speaker Series. (Chomsky starts at 4:40).
I believe that we must build a movement that is explicitly and primarily focused on rapidly getting off fossil fuels and onto…
Noam Chomsky has been labeled the ‘father of modern linguistics’, a polymath and important political activist. In 2005, Chomsky was voted the…
Lately the New York Times has been chronicling the further contraction of the newspaper trade and related job insecurity among print journalists. In a…
When are we, as a nation, going to have a frank discussion about drones and remote-controlled killing? One might think that such…
Two days ago, we spent three anxious hours in an outer waiting area of the “Non-Immigrant Visa” section of the U.S. consulate…
August 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day…
Progressives are going to face a tough choice this coming November: should they vote for Barack Obama or not? Obama, who was…
Abdulhai remembers his father being killed by the Taliban. “Anyone who takes up a weapon in revenge, whether the Talib or any…
“The flames are quickly approaching Yarmouk (as) someone is trying to drag the Palestinians into the fire,” reported Palestinian commentator Rashad Abu…
“No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the…
Something did change after 9/11 (when “everything” was supposed to have changed) and in a speech at the University of St. Andrews…
Durham, England–Although their histories are quite different, the British Labour Party and our U.S. Democrats have one thing in common: both like…
The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma or Myanmar – have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media.…
In the following interview conducted for Journal of Palestine Studies by Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, Noam Chomsky reflects on a lifetime of engagement…
Despite early assurances by Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi regarding his “commitment to international treaties and agreements,” one can already foretell a…
Before Wisconsinites voted down the attempt to recall Governor Scott Walker, and certainly since, principled progressives inside and outside of unions have…
Editor’s note: This column is adapted from an address by Noam Chomsky on June 19 at the University of St. Andrews in…
A quarter-century ago, when “Save the Whales!” was a popular slogan, a New Yorker cartoon showed one whale asking another, “But can they save…
Noam Chomsky speaks at UTSC on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities. ? Noam Chomsky speaks at UTSC on Academic Freedom…
In April of 2003, I returned from Iraq after having lived there during the U.S. Shock and Awe bombing and the initial…
Yesterday, Americans sent two very important and very different communications to our friend Dr. Wee Teck Young, a Singaporean physician and activist…
Reading the article below by Julia Olson made me cry. One of the big memories of my childhood is a one-month vacation…
When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme,…
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West's structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That's the modern world in…
All indications are that Dr. Jill Stein will be the U.S. Green Party’s candidate for President when it has a national convention…
Bubble TV sits down with Noam Chomsky after receiving his honorary degree to hear his views on Scottish independence, the global financial…
MONTPELIER, VT.–While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act…
On June 14, fifty international organizations marked the fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza by calling on Israel to end…
“To address the huge threat posed by global warming, I believe it is essential to move as quickly as possible away from…
Tuesday, June 5, was a bad day for public workers from the west coast to the mid-west. Voters in San Diego and…
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The Occupy movement in the United States is part of a global upsurge that began in Tunisia in December, 2010 and then…
On June 3, Palestinian national soccer team member Mahmoud Sarsak completed 80 days of a grueling hunger-strike. He had sustained the strike…
Occupy this and that – by which I mean the Occupy Movement writ large – is still, even after some depletion in…
In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, “In the history…
Venezuela: The Revolution Continues by Peter Bohmer, June 1, 2012 I spent 10 weeks in Venezuela in early 2012, two months…
Noam, over the years you have seen all kinds of projects come and go. Recently you became a member of the new…
On May 29, The New York Times published an extraordinarily in-depth look at the intimate role President Obama has played in authorizing US drone attacks overseas,…
On 30 May, Britain's Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden. In an unprecedented…
The Hart House Debates Committee, Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation (NECEF), and Science for Peace present The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat…
One of South Africa’s largest tertiary institutions, the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in Durban, is a site of multiple controversy but a…
The age of revolutionary romance is over. Various Arab countries are now facing hard truths. Millions of Arabs merely want to live…
Several days ago a document, the "GlobalMay Statement," showed up in my email inbox. In the website where this statement can be…
Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of…
The freer flow of commodities and capital has been one of the features of the contemporary process of globalization. Unlike in the…
