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Michael Albert is co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, and a founder member of IOPS – the international organization for a…
A neighbor of mine, of many years ago from a Gaza refugee camp, was a sacrilegious person par excellence. Unemployed like most…
Noam Chomsky’s latest books are Occupy (Zuccotti Park Press) and Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (City Lights Publishers). RICARDO LEZAMA: Have you heard…
“This is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The thunder is the thunder of the…
Almost 18 months after the onset of popular democratic protests, the Syrian revolution increasingly resembles a bloody marathon with no clear finish…
Recent demonstrations in protest of the rising cost of living have swept across the West Bank. While they are not indicative of…
The following is an excerpt from Volume One of Fanfare for the Future, titled Occupy Theory and authored by Michael Albert of the U.S. and Mandisi…
Talk on Grand Jury Repression! September 7th, 2012 at Traditions Café, Olympia, WA by Peter Bohmer We are living in…
What is the world’s most powerful and violent “ism”? The question will summon the usual demons, such as Islamism, now that communism…
Factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, often plays a useful role in exposing lies by…
It is not easy to escape from one’s skin, to see the world differently from the way it is presented to us…
“Stop fighting,” suggests Farzana, a brave 22 year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp contrast to what seems…
A traditional code for community organizers has been to connect with others through values, rather than policies. The latter is often polarizing,…
Upwards of 2,000 people attended the Don’t Frack New York demonstration yesterday, Monday, August 27 in Albany, N.Y. That’s a lot of…
There was once a young man from a very small Italian town called Bulciago who wished to change the world. As soon…
(a version of this article first appeared on Waging Nonviolence) Anne Montgomery died yesterday. I remember her words to me and…
In an interview with Noam Chomsky–noted activist, linguist, and philosopher–Democracy Now! asked the professor about his views on the positions of the…
In the wake of last year's long overdue U.S. troop withdrawal, mainstream media coverage of Iraq has dwindled to near zero —…
One sign, among many, of labor's current travails is the stalled union growth strategy known as "Bargain to Organize." More than a…
The U.S. intellectual Noam Chomsky does not discard the possibility that the U.K. could venture in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to…
It’s puzzling that there is almost no discussion among progressives about the U.S.’s completely unique way of choosing its top political leader and…
This past month was the hottest July in the United States ever recorded. In India, the monsoon rains are long delayed, resulting…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, author of No FEAR: A Whistleblower's Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) interviews Professor…
In the 1970s, when thousands of recently radicalized Sixties’ activists “colonized” industrial workplaces under the direction of various left-wing groups, there was…
Zimbabwe’s political-economic crisis continues because dislodging decades of malgovernance has not been achieved by either a Government of National Unity that began…
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…
