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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…
Noam Chomsky, noted author and philosopher, and Anthony Arnove, filmmaker and editor, spoke on Sunday, Dec. 4, at SUNY-New Paltz in tribute…
[Editor's. note: This is a transcript of a conversation between members of the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers and Noam Chomsky, which took…
Essam Al-Batsh and his nephew, Sobhi Al-Batsh, are the latest in a long line of reported Palestinian ‘militants’ killed by Israel. They…
The Palestinian Uprising or Intifada of 1987 remains the single most significant triumph of popular mobilization in Palestinian history. The First Intifada,…
A task of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, now under way in Durban, South Africa, is to extend earlier…
“But eventually, the greater danger to the movement is that it may dovetail into the presidential election campaign that's coming up. I've…
This commentary by Brian Tokar will appear in the winter issue of Broadcast, the newsletter of SEEDS, the Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School, based in…
Speech at a rally of many thousand at the steps of the Washington State Legislature November 28, 2011 in Olympia. They were beginning…
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Chomsky begins at 14:22. The ESML is AFOPA’s showpiece event. This year’s guest speaker, Noam Chomsky, is a world renowned linguist, philosopher, and…
Richmond, California—In California, the Kaiser name has long been linked to innovations in work organization, personnel practices and healthcare delivery. During World…
