Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He is the author of numerous best-selling political works. His latest books are Making the Future: Occupations, Intervention, Empire, and Resistance, The Essential Chomsky (edited by Anthony Arnove), a collection of his writings on politics and on language from the 1950s to the present, Gaza in Crisis, with Ilan Pappé, and Hopes and Prospects, also available as an audiobook.
The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful: Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet
Crossposted from Tomdispatch [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire, Noam Chomsky’s new interview book with David Barsamian (with thanks to the publisher, Metropolitan Books). The questions are Barsamian’s, the answers Chomsky’s.] Does the ...
Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, will arrive. Whether it will be celebrated, mourned, or ignored is not at all clear. That should be a matter of serious immediate concern. What ...
Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won’t come quickly -- it ...
The Imperial Way: American Decline in Perspective, Part 2
Crossposted from TomDispatch In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time in 500 years, South America has taken successful steps to free itself from western domination, another serious loss. The region has moved towards integration, and ...
“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
Crossposted from TomDispatchSignificant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. Right now, in fact. At the moment, we are failing to ...
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February 3rd, 2013
The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful: Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet
Crossposted from Tomdispatch [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. ...
July 22nd, 2012
Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, ...
May 8th, 2012
Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. ...
February 18th, 2012
The Imperial Way: American Decline in Perspective, Part 2
Crossposted from TomDispatch In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time ...
February 15th, 2012
“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
Crossposted from TomDispatchSignificant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we ...
February 3rd, 2013
The Paranoia of the Superrich and Superpowerful: Washington’s Dilemma on a “Lost” Planet
Crossposted from Tomdispatch [This piece is adapted from “Uprisings,” a chapter in Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. ...
February 15th, 2012
“Losing” the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1
Crossposted from TomDispatchSignificant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated -- Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example. Others are ignored, and we ...
July 22nd, 2012
Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of the great events in the establishment of civil and human rights, ...
May 8th, 2012
Plutonomy and the Precariat: On the History of the U.S. Economy in Decline
Crossposted from TomDispatchThe Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. ...
February 18th, 2012
The Imperial Way: American Decline in Perspective, Part 2
Crossposted from TomDispatch In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere. In the past decade, for the first time ...
'The East'
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