Three distinguished activist scholars examine the background and ramifications of the U.S. conflict in Iraq. "What exactly constitutes a "rogue" state?" If you are a regular consumer of mainstream media, you are probably familiar with the usual suspects the U.S. regularly trots out: Libya, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Cuba. It looks like they can cross North Korea off the list, now that their nuclear missile "program" turns out to be an empty tunnel. As the authors of this wonderfully concise pamphlet point out, if the concept of "rogue state" is to be of any use, we have to examine how such concepts further American racist policies around the world, and how hypocritical the U.S. is in pointing fingers everywhere but at itself. Edward Said looks at American attitudes toward the Arab world and the tendency of the U.S. to puritanically punish any state or group that dares to interfere with U.S. interests. Noam Chomsky weighs in with an analysis on how the U.S. constructs the notion of "rogue states" and at the same time deflects attention from its own wrong doing. Ramsey Clark examines how the U.S. continues to violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A great pocket guide to foreign policy." -Alternative Press Review

Colombia has been the leading recipient of US arms and training in the western hemisphere through the '90s. It has also had the worst human rights record by far during these years. That's an important correlation that we should understand because we are paying for it. Clinton authored $1.7 billion in military aid to Colombia as his last act as President. Bush added another $1 billion. Chomsky explains who gets the money, what they do with it, and the real agenda of the ground war. "If you make it impossible for peasants to survive, and when they produce the only thing they can to feed their children, and then you go after them with biological, nuclear weapons, and gunships, they're going to go deeper into the Amazon and across borders to grow more drugs." The narcotrafficers and the military are the same people in Colombia and they admit to it publicly.

A wide ranging interview, conducted by the Irish anarchist journal Red & Black Revolution in 1995, exploring Noam's introduction to, and views on, the above.

The US prides itself as the defender of democracy and beacon of human rights, and US foreign policy finds justification in promoting the universal values of freedom and equality. Chomsky shows us how to peek behind the curtain to see what is really at work behind the human rights rhetoric. He separates cleanly the real motives of the ongoing assault on Iraq from various high minded explanations offered by politicians and the corporate media. "The threat of democracy is quite real to the serious guys who are used to doing deals behind closed doors and then having them rubber stamped".

A personal and historical introduction to Noam Chomsky written so it can be understood by people who are not familiar with his background or politics. You see, the biggest problem with Chomsky is that he writes/speaks at 100 miles an hour so you have to be able to follow that quickly or constantly backtrack. This book follows Chomsky growing up and becoming a radical and explains his link between being a linguist to his criticisms of foreign and domestic policy. This book parallels the Chomsky Reader pretty closely with slightly less detail and much easier reading.

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our society reaches more and more people every day. His brilliant critiques of—among other things—capitalism, imperialism, domestic repression, and government propaganda, have become mini-publishing industries unto themselves. But, in this flood of publishing and republishing, very little ever gets said about what exactly Chomsky stands for, his own personal politics, his vision of the future. Not, that is, until Chomsky on Anarchism, a groundbreaking new book that shows a different side of this best-selling author: the anarchist principles that have guided him since he was a teenager.

This collection of Chomsky's essays and interviews includes numerous pieces that have never been published before, as well as rare material that first saw the light of day in hard-to-find pamphlets and anarchist periodicals. Taken together, they paint a fresh picture of Chomsky, showing his life-long involvement with the anarchist community, his constant commitment to nonhierarchical models of political organization, and his hopes for a future world without rulers.

For anyone who's been touched by Chomsky's trenchant analysis of our current situation, as well as anyone looking for an intelligent and coherent discussion of anarchism itself, Chomsky on Anarchism will be one of this season's most exciting, and surprising, reads.

Noam Chomsky is one of the world's leading intellectuals, the father of modern linguistics, an outspoken media and foreign policy critic, and tireless activist. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

One of the world's leading radical intellectuals moves beyond criticism. Chomsky's vision of an anarchist future.

Chomsky's "Greatest Hits" of sorts. Contains his books "The Prosperous Few and The Restless Many", "Secrets, Lies, and Democracy", "The Common Good", and "What Uncle Sam Really Wants". A great starter introduction to critical thought of American politics and to Chomsky's ideas in a handy slipcase. A $7.50 saving if you buy em as the set!

In 1971, during the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, debated the age-old question: is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent from experiences and influence? The resulting dialog is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories. What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics and the theory of knowledge, soon evolves into a discussion encompassing a wide range of topics; science, history, behaviorism, creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics.

Corporations, with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people. This phenomenon is occuring not only in the US but in Canada, Europe, and Australia as well. Social welfare programs are being curtailed and eliminated in the name of fiscal responsibility. Privitization, the market and level playing fields are the mantras of the day. CEOs tell workers to tighten their belts while their own wallets are bulging. Income inequality is more acute in the US than in any other industrialized country, even surpassing Britain. Glamorous Manhattan has disparities in wealth that exceed Guatemala. People are working longer hours, producing more and earning less. Wages have been stagnant or declining for more than twenty years. The rants of the poor have mushroomed. Meanwhile profits are at unprecedented levels. A Wall Street Journal headline says it all "Thanks. Goodbye. Amid record profits companies continue to lay off employees."

In 1992, after 12 years of a Republican White House, Bill Clinton was elected President by voters hungry for change. Clinton promised a new vision, a new activism, and a new direction for the US. Chomsky discusses the President's actions on NAFTA, health care, crime, labor relations, foreign policy, and the economy. "Chomsky has been unrelenting in his attacks on the American hierarchy. He is up there with Thoreau and Emerson in the literature of rebellion."

A brilliant and penetrating look at the US and the world from the man the NY Time called "arguably the most important intellectual alive". As is happening almost everywhere in the Third World, Brazil's generals, their cronies and the super rich borrowed huge amounts of money and sent much of it abroad. The need to pay off that debt is a stranglehold that prevents Brazil from doing anything to solve its problems. But if I borrow money and send it to a Swiss bank and can't pay off my creditors, is that your problem or mine? The people in the slums didn't borrow the money, nor did the landless workers. In my view, it's no more the debt of 90% of the people of Brazil than it is the man in the moon's. Let the people who borrowed the money pay it back. Investment is supposed to be as risk free as possible. No corporations wants free markets - what they want is power. James Madison believed that the primary goal of gov't is "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority." As his colleague John Jay was fond of putting it, "The people who own the country ought to govern it." This a a business-run, huckster society and its primary value is deceit.

A remarkable DVD, in which Chomsky offers a riveting but devastating critique of America's current War On Terror. Consists of a 55-minute talk given at Harvard University in early 2002 and a lively hour of questions and answers afterward—all in an easily searchable user-friendly format. The second program, "Washington's Imperial Grand Strategy" is a scathing attack on the Bush Administrations post 9/11 foreign policy, recorded on April 15, 2003 at MIT in Cambridge, MA. This three hour DVD comes together with a Noam Chomsky bibliography, biography, and CV. It's also subtitled in Cantonese and Mandarin!

"If somebody was watching all of this from outer space, before we manage to blow it up, and that person had some concern for the fate of the species, they might wonder how long a very free people are going to tolerate this, and the answer better be 'not too long,' or else there is not going to be anything to discuss." —Noam Chomsky, from the DVD

In a sweeping state of the world address, America's leading foreign policy critic surveys the role of the US in a post 9/11 world - and finds nothing has changed. Ranging over American intervention in the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America since World War II, Chomsky deftly sketches the logic behind our foreign policy, and its tragic results across the globe, and at home. Whether its globalization, oil, or a monopoly on real terror, it's business as usual, and we - not to mention the rest of the world - have to pay. Now more than ever, the venerable Professor stands as the voice of reason in an apparently insane world. "It can also be reasonably argued, I think, that the evolving system of state-corporate power, based in Washington, is a threat to its own population, us. The tendencies that lead in that direction are very real - they're not inexorable and there are others that strongly counter them. If you look over the centuries there has been significant expansion in the realm of freedom and justice - there are periods of regression - but the cycle is generally upward....The emerging framework of world power should not be an object of detatched contemplation, but has to be forged by dedicated work and struggle, always based on an effort to dismantle doctrinal constraints to see what's before our eyes, which is not really very deeply hidden." [Noam Chomsky, from the CD]

Chomsky’s writings on politics and language have established him as a pre-eminent intellectual and as one of the most wide-ranging social critics of our time. Chomsky’s works have served as essential touchstones for dissidents, activists, scholars, and concerned citizens on subjects ranging from the media to human rights to intellectual freedom. This book assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past forty years. Here is an unprecedented, comprehensive overview of Chomsky’s thought.

Spoken word album from the most quoted author on Earth. Chomsky is obscured by the mainstream media because he doesn't affiliate himself with any major political idealogy thus he is referred to as "anarchist" or "socialist". These lectures are 100 miles an hour and full of information. Highly recommended for those interested in grass roots politics.

A talk in Sydney, Australia.

Mark Achbar (The Corporation) & Peter Wintonick take on the difficult task of documenting and breaking into accessible sound bytes America's most quoted figure - Noam Chomsky! Successful in it's intentions - this film is funny, provocative, and surprisingly accessible. Chomsky hesitantly tells the story of being a small Jewish boy on the school yard who always sticks up for the underdog - whether it's America's underprivileged or the small boy on the school yard. Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of him as a world-renowned linguist, intellectual, and political activist. Highlights include Chomsky's probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.

Beginning with a brief overview of the origins of propaganda in America, Chomsky examines the varieties of mind control and behaviour modification that result when government and businesses use image manipulation and disinformation to influence events. Now in a newly expaned edition, with his January 2002 comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and US foreign policy in the post-September 11 world. "The issue is whether we want to live in a free society or whether we want to live under what amounts to a form of self imposed totaliarianism, with the bewildered herd marginalized, directed elsewhere, terrified, screaming patriotic slogans, fearing for their lives and admiring with awe the leader who saved them from destruction, while the educated masses goose step on command and repeat the slogans they're supposed to repeat and the society deteriorates at home. We end up serving as a mercenary enforcer state, hoping that others are going to pay us to smash up the world..."

"We certainly want to reduce the level of terror...There is one easy way to do that...stop participating in it."--Noam Chomsky, from the CD. What is terrorism? And how can we reduce the likelihood of such crimes, whether they are against us, or against someone else? With his vintage flair, penetrating analysis, and ironic wit, Chomsky, in perhaps his most anticipated lecture ever - delivered a month after 9/11, and his first public statement - makes sense of a world apparently gone mad.

In this long (55 page) pamphlet reprinted from Z net, Noam Chomsky and Michael Albert engage in a conversation covering many topics of interest to the modern Left movement. From activism (the neccessity of it, even when no one wants to hear you) to vegetarianism, schooling to human nature, the 60s and the Left. A frank discussion that will answer anybody's curiosity of where these fellows came from, what they have done, and why/how they want to see the world become a better place for all of us. Great.

This booklet will sell itself based on the buzzwords "anarchism" and "chomsky" in the title. Hell, people search the internet for those words together semi frequently. This is actually a pretty good introduction to anarchist philosophies and principles for the beginner or moderately educated person. Chomsky discusses (in his normal style of tangents) Syndicalism, Engels, property, historic examples, true forms and models of democracy and socialism, and so much more!

Oh, that Chomsky! He's so well-spoken and intelligent. And nobody writes about U.S. imperialism, or free trade quite like he does. He calmly lays out for you series of facts and opinions and then proceeds to weave them together into the best darn argument you've ever heard for anything. Chomsky doesn't think for you. He lets you think for yourself, which in an age of big media, is something rare and appreciated. "Propaganda and the Public Mind" is a collection of interviews with Chomsky conducted by David Barsamian, and they cover a variety of topics from the WTO, to East Timor. Oh Chomsky, is there anything you can't do?

"The war against working people should be understood to be a real war. It's not a new war. It's an old war. Furthermore it's a perfectly conscious war everywhere, but specifically in the US...which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class.....And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don't want anybody else to know about it." [Noam Chomsky, from the CD] The latest in the audio series bringing Chomsky's finest lectures to compact disc, and perhaps his most important to date. An introduction to, and synthesis of, his key thinking on the media, propaganda and its pivotal role in the relentless class struggle being waged daily. 'There's no doubt that one of the major issues of twentieth century history, surely in the US, is corporate propaganda........Its goal from the beginning, perfectly openly and consciously, was to "control the public mind," as they put it. The reason was that the public mind was seen as the greatest threat to the corporations." [Noam Chomsky, from the CD]

Chomsky breaks new ground by presenting his evaluation of the "Prospects for Democracy" in the world today. Beginning with a broad review of democratic theory and political history, he argues that classical democrats such as Thomas Jefferson would be shocked at the current disrepair of American democracy. The enormous growth of corporate capitalism has already devastated democratic culture and government by concentrating power in the hands of the wealthy. And the future looks no brighter. In spite of this dark assessment, Chomsky maintains that any hope for democracy rests ultimately with you and me - on whether we can shake off our political malaise and build a democratic future. The fate of democracy is not yet fixed, he says, but "unless people here and in other rich societies can recapture and revitalize" our lost traditions of liberty and democracy, "the prospects for democracy are indeed dim."

Chomsky does it again! This book covers how we now have a an international economy and we're moving towards an international state - "creating a new imperial age with a de facto world gov't" to quote the business press. NAFTA is a secret document whose decisions will override those of Congress, states, localities. It's a real success in the long term project of depriving democratic structures of any substance. Biotechnology, genetic engineering, designing animal species, etc is potentially vastly more important than electronics. In fact, compared to the potential of biotechnology, electronics is sort of a frill. I don't think Somalia should be classified as an intervention. It's more of a public relations operation for the Pentagon...They desperately need some way to prevent the Pentagon budget from declining. 115,000 copies in print