“…we need to give people hope that there is a purpose to the mobilisation”

Using an imagined Arab threat as a fearmongering tactic is an Israeli political staple

In an administrative world view, then, closing down an english department or a math department and allocating those resources to a parking lot is a perfectly rational thing to do

How Crude-By-Rail Puts U.S. Communities At Risk

Noam Chomsky with David Barsamian

We cannot forget that the hideous slave labor camps of the new “empire of liberty” were a primary source for the wealth and privilege of American society

There is no question that while the battle is raging on in the Middle East region, the discourse itself is growingly being manipulated and is becoming a western one

March 19 marks two gloomy anniversaries: the 12th anniversary of US invasion of Iraq and the 5th anniversary of the NATO intervention in Libya

What we let our state impose on those walled beyond our borders we will tend to inflict on more and more people walled up within them

American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country

What do writers write? And in particular, what do left, progressive, and revolutionary writers write?

Dare to make it happen, even in the face of uncertainty

Intersectionality missing-in-action at Cape Town’s Alternative Mining Indaba

10 Reasons Why

My dream is that Gaza would have an independent health care system that would be run by Gaza that wouldn’t be dependent on foreign aid, not dependent allowing supplies in through the occupier

The state of free speech in America today, Obama’s U.S. foreign policy, Israel and the rise of anti-semitism and more

Discussions about social policies and choices are often considerably confused by a mismatch of context

Whether an individual officer is white or black, he or she views young whites and blacks differently because the latter “look like so many others the officer has locked up”

Cubans and Americans alike are delighted with the opening

The issue of FERC is more than an issue for communities impacted by their decisions. It is a basic social justice issue, an issue of corruption of democracy

If people assume they have the right to privacy and join the free software movement, it is better for everyone

Interview on a variety of topics

Raul Castro is trying to find a middle way, stimulating the economy while preserving revolutionary gains like free healthcare and education

A raid to “neutralize” an international terrorist that went awry has severely discredited the administration of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III

AIPAC’s support of the Israeli prime minister over the US president is turning AIPAC into a Republican-biased lobby that could hopefully prove fatal to its future influence in Washington

Like the fascism of the 1930s and 1940s, big lies are delivered with the precision of a metronome: thanks to an omnipresent, repetitive media and its virulent censorship by omission

In its zeal to prosecute Sterling for allegedly leaking classified information about Operation Merlin, the U.S. government has damaged its own standing with the IAEA

Greek finance minister insists deal with troika has not compromised his leftist principles

The home is where we live our lives. Unfortunately, it is also a key place where we have to fight for our lives. It’s one of the fronts in the class war, and you can join the fight

Winning should mean establishing new institutions able to accomplish necessary tasks of society

Wouldn’t this campaign be better served if we worked together in a planned way to draw in and skillfully deploy even more forces?

As drone warfare proliferates, as the stings of the drone become more lethal and terrifying, the peace activists hold a newsworthy message

Washington wants to get rid of the Venezuelan government because it is independent of US designs for the region and because Venezuela has the greatest proven oil reserves in the world and uses its oil revenue to improve the quality of ordinary lives

The hour and a half session addresses a wide range of matters, economics, theory, social arrangements, personal relations of struggle, and of course, Syriza’s future and prospects

Interview on the roots of ISIS and why the United States and its allies are responsible for the group’s emergence

The PKK is the only revolutionary force that you can encounter in Kurdistan and maybe in the whole region

Some will chastise Hamas’s new strategy, others will praise its return to common sense. But for Hamas and Palestinian resistance in Gaza, it is a mere matter of survival

You have two choices: you can decide to be pessimistic and say there’s no hope and abandon all efforts – in which case you contribute to ensuring that the worst will happen; or you can grasp whatever hopes there are – and they’re always there – and try to do what you can

This long-term slide toward asymmetrical depression and monetary disintegration puts radicals in a terrible dilemma

Why do our cumulative efforts collectively harp so overwhelmingly on repeating why and how things are bad and give so little attention to what we should desire and how we should achieve it?

The Germans need not trust the Greeks, but should listen to them, says Yanis Varoufakis

The question remains: how long will it be before Cairo understands that violence cannot resolve what are fundamentality political and socio-economic problems?

The trial of Jeffrey Sterling shook loose more serious questions about Operation Merlin than it laid to rest. The last big shoe in this real-life saga has yet to drop

Noam Chomsky speaks on a variety of topics.

To offer up the pro-Israel myth as if it were undisputed fact is simply propaganda

An anti-war movement worthy of its name must be fighting for a more comprehensive shift, a shift in the direction of a democratic foreign policy rather than the foreign policy of the bully

We aren’t a “sick” society. It is too tame an adjective

When artists say file-sharing is reducing their “value” as artists, they are helping make the persecution of file-sharing politically acceptable

Don’t let the refugee become who you are, as you are so much more

The new US-Cuba talks are a refreshing burst of sunshine in the 54-year dismal relationship between neighbors separated by a mere 90 miles