Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the author of dozens of books on U.S. foreign policy. His most recent book is Who Rules the World? from Metropolitan Books.
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Noam Chomsky: We Must Stop War with Iran Before It’s Too Late
The Trump administration is pursuing catastrophe to protect U.S. dominance.
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Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is Becoming a Real Danger to Human Survival
Nuclear weapons, climate change, and the prospects for survival.
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Noam Chomsky: The Consequences of Wielding a Sledgehammer Against All U.S. Enemies Around the World
A continuation of longtime activist and academic Noam Chomsky's essay, "Masters of Mankind," from his new book, Who Rules the World?
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Noam Chomsky: Who Rules the World?
The longtime activist and academic gives a broad overview of the state of the rulers and resisters around the globe.
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Noam Chomsky: The Real ‘Grave Threat’ to World Peace Isn’t Iran—It’s the U.S.
The longtime leftist intellectual on the absurdity of American opposition to the Iran deal.
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Noam Chomsky: The Long, Shameful History of American Terrorism
President Obama should call our country's history of supporting insurgents abroad for what it is: U.S.-backed terrorism.
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Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course
Israel's brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like "mowing the lawn" will persist without a change in U.S. policy.
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Noam Chomsky: The End of History?
The short, strange era of human civilization would appear to be drawing to a close.
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For Gaza, ‘The Norm’ Is Devastating
With its latest offensive, Israel's objective is simple: to return to the status quo.
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Just Whose National Security?
The government's idea of protection seems awfully self-serving.
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The Politics of Red Lines
Putin's takeover of Crimea scares U.S. leaders because it challenges America's global dominance.
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Nuclear Weapons Won’t Keep Us Safe
The U.S. will spend an estimated $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal in the next 30 years. And for what cause?
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In Times of Government Surveillance, Whose ‘Security’ Is at Stake?
Officials claim the current state policy is necessary to preserve the public's well-being.
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The Greatest Threat to World Peace
The United States polls higher than Pakistan, Iran and China as a perceived menace to peace.
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A Brief History of Anarchism
The struggle for the common good has a long past.
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The ‘Axis of Evil’ Returns
The hypocritical U.S. policy towards Iran.
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America’s Going Rogue
The U.S. snubs treaties, obligations and universal principles.
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The Obama Doctrine
What American exceptionalism and isolationism share.
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Is Edward J. Snowden Aboard This Plane?
America's imperial power is on the decline, to the world's benefit.
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Who Owns the Earth?
Environmental degradation and the blurring of borders raise a serious question.
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Guilty in Guatemala
The U.S. owes more than empty apologies in Central America.
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Boston and Beyond
When we experience terror at home, we must remember the United States's use of terror abroad.
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In Gaza, Dignity Is the Battleground
Israeli troops employ both insult and injury.
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Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?
On global warming, indigenous peoples and scientists face off against capitalist policymakers.
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Who Owns The World?
In a new book, Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian deconstruct the notion of a declining United States.
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The Gravest Threat to World Peace
Not everyone agrees it's a nuclear Iran.
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Why Israel’s Attack on Gaza Was Illegal
A response to Bianca Ambrosio's 'Open Letter to Noam Chomsky'
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Gaza Under Assault
The images of bombardment have left Israel few remaining shreds of credibility.
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Noam Chomsky on Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
A look at life under occupation.
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Issues that Obama and Romney Avoid
The presidential candidates aren't so keen on addressing the survival of humanity.
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The Next Hiroshima
August 6 provides a critical moment to reflect not only on the terrible events of that day, but also on current nuclear threats.
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The Great Charter: It’s Fate, Our Fate
Revisiting the Magna Carta.
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Somebody Else’s Atrocities
Opposing the International Olympic Committee’s newly formed partnership with Dow Chemical, dissenters illuminate a history of human rights oversights.
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Cartagena Beyond the Secret Service Scandal
The United States is isolated from Latin American leaders calling for drug reform.
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The Assault on Public Education
One of America's greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace.
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What Are Iran’s Intentions?
As tensions flare between Iran and the West, 120 nonaligned nations agree: the country has the right to enrich uranium.
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Anniversaries From ‘Unhistory’
The events we fail to commemorate say as much about our national narrative as those we acknowledge.
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Recognizing the ‘Unpeople’
From Africa to the Middle East to the United States, the unmentioned continue to suffer.
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Marching Off the Cliff
The world wants UN climate talks in Durban to succeed, but U.S. intransigence blocks the way forward.
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Occupy The Future
The Occupy movement is an unprecedented opportunity to overcome America's current hopelessness.
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The Threat of Warships on an ‘Island of World Peace’
America's imperium reaches South Korea' idyllic Jeju island—but residents and peace activists are resisting.
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After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?
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America In Decline
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In Israel, a Tsunami Warning
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The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden
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The ‘Great Moderation’ and the International Assault on Labor
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Libya and the World of Oil
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‘The Arab World Is on Fire’
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