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Noam Chomsky
With urgency and clarity, Noam Chomsky speaks with the movement as it transitions from occupying tent camps to occupying the national conscience
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… Lightfoot, University of Maryland I feel that it is his most persuasive defense of the idea that the study of linguistic structure provides insight into the human mind. Newmeyer…
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Since its sudden appearance in September 2011, the Occupy Movement has spread to thousands of cities across the world. For some its the economy. For others, its something deeper that…
Noam Chomsky’s book is a serious attempt to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a…
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Hegemony or Survival demonstrates how the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. World-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky investigates how we…
Analyzing the NATO bombing, Chomsky challenges the New Humanism: Is it guided by power interests, or by humanitarian concern? Is the resort to force undertaken in the name of principles…
In this work, Noam Chomsky builds a larger understanding or our educational needs, starting with the changing role of schools today, and then broadening our view toward new models of…
In 1970, Professor Noam Chomsky urged Americans to avoid the dangers inherent in a war with Asia. Drawing on his visit to Vietnam and extensive reading, he discusses the historical…
This succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky’s foreign policy analysis.
Chomsky definitively shows how the United States developed into the world’s most implacable and powerful empire.
Chomsky lifts the veil of distortions that conceals the workings of history and social policy.
Forget Iraq and Sudan-America is the foremost failed state, argues the latest polemic from America’s most controversial Left intellectual. Ranging haphazardly from the Seminole War forward, Chomsky views American interventionism…
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as…
Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his…
From the world’s foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America’s pursuit of total world domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow - now with a new…
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Noam Chomsky, arguably the world’s most famous intellectual, author of the bestselling Hegemony or Survival and critic of US foreign policy, exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions…
In this highly praised and widely debated book, America’s leading dissident intellectual offers a revelatory portrait of the American empire and the danger it poses for democracy, both at home…
Explores JFK’s role in US invasion of Vietnam and a reflects on the political culture that encouraged the Cold War.
US Central American policies project broader US economic, military, and social aims, impacting millions in Central America.
Analysis of America’s political actions. Using secret National Security Council planning documents and taking post-war Europe and Central America as paradigms, this book examines America’s aggressive colonialist policy. It draws…
Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky’s most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics.
A collection of conversations that explores international concerns including Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of…
This scathing critique of US political culture is a brilliant analysis of the Iran-Contra scandal.
Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.
Chomsky argues that the real ‘rogue’ states are the United States and its allies.
In this thought-provoking new collection of essays, Noam Chomsky examines democracy in theory vs. democracy in action. The brilliant thinker reveals how the political and economic principles that have prevailed…
Spanning the impact of Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing and Palestinian-Israeli relations to deeper reflections on political philosophy and the importance of a commons to democracy, this book takes American imperialism head…
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This is a landmark study in linguistics and generative phonology, which provides not only an analysis of morphophonemics but of the entire grammar of modern Hebrew from syntax to phonology.
One of America’s most esteemed political analyst offers his analysis of the global build-up to the Semptember 11th attacks, the long-term results of American military action. He suggest what can…
Exposes the real nature of state power. This volume features arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of…
Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.
Necessary Illusions explodes the myth of an independent media, intent on uncovering the truth at any cost. Noam Chomsky demonstrates that, in practice, the media in the developed world serve…
Since its appearance in Zuccotti Park, New York, in September 2011, the Occupy movement has spread to hundreds of towns and cities across the world. This title presents the author’s…
Chomsky’s classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy…
Michael Albert’s latest work, Practical Utopia is a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles for creating a desirable society and includes a preface by Noam Chomsky
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An interview with Noam Chomsky is a bit like throwing batting practice to Babe Ruth. What you lob in, he will hammer out.
This conversational interview by Michael Albert, who…
This classic collection of Chomsky essays demonstrates his power as a political thinker. In his biting critiques of American foreign policy, the collection showcases Chomsky’s ability to join broader philosophical…
In this series of talks originally given in memory of Bertrand Russell in 1971, Chomsky applies empirical principles of human understanding to then-current issues, including the war in Indochina, the…
Why did most of the American mainstream liberal intelligensia remain silent while atrocities were being committed in Vietnam? Chomsky’s answer is that they not only participated, but provided the ideas…
This is Chomsky’s description of the evolution of American foreign policy and ideology between the early 1970s and Ronald Reagan’s first term. He dissects assumptions about US commitment to human…