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Hegemony or Survival - America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Category: Non-Fiction
For over half a century, the United States has been pursuing a "grand imperial strategy" with the aim of staking out the globe. Its leaders have shown themselves willing to follow the dream of dominance right up to the edge of extinction. Chomsky investigates how we came to this moment.
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
Category: Current Affairs
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky & C. J. Polychroniou
Category: Politics
In these wide-ranging and incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the rapidly deteriorating quality of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally. Noam Chomsky examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the ...Show more
Internationalism or Extinction by Noam Chomsky; Charles Derber (Editor); Suren Moodliar (Editor); Paul Shannon (Editor)
Category: Politics | Series: Universalizing Resistance Ser.
In his new book, Noam Chomsky writes cogently about the threats to planetary survival that are of growing alarm today. The prospect of human extinction emerged after World War II, the dawn of a new era scientists now term the Anthropocene. Chomsky uniquely traces the duality of existential threats from ...Show more
Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
Category: Non-Fiction
"Making the Future" is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent. Taking up the thread from 2007's "Interventions", these penetrating and compelling articles examine numerous topics, including the financial crisis, Obama's presid ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman
Category: Non-Fiction
Contrary to the usual image of the press in its search for truth, this book depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. It is an account of how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radical way. It reveals ...Show more
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman; Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
First published in 1988 and never out of print, this seminal analysis of how the media serve corporations that control and finance them is being reissued with a new Introduction by the authors.
Masters of Mankind - Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 by Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he ...Show more
Media Control - The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky
Category: Reference | Series: Open Media Ser.
Noam Chomsky's backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy--one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a tota ...Show more
Occupy by Noam Chomsky
Category: Non-Fiction
'Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war.' 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. No longer occupying small tent camps, the movement now occupies the global consci ...Show more
On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
Category: Politics
On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed light on the foundations of Chomsky's thought, specifically his constant questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. The book gathers his essays and interviews to provide a short, ac ...Show more
On Palestine by Noam Chomsky Ilan Pappé
Category: Politics
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never be ...Show more