“Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis.”—Noam Chomsky”You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday talk shows. That’s because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they

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“Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military’s global Interventions (City Lights). Shock and awe!”—Vanity FairMaking the Future presents more than thirty concise and persuasively argued commentaries on US politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2010. Noam Chomsky takes on a wide range of hot-button issues, including the ongoing financial crisis, Obama’s presidency, the legacy of George Bush, the limits of the two-party system, the long-term consequences

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Two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world’s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as “innate” human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?The resulting dialogue is one of the most original,

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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.

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“Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . he may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet.”—The New York Times Book Review”Ilan Pappé is Israel’s bravest, most principled, most incisive historian.”—John PilgerDescribed by a UN fact-finding mission as “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate, and terrorize a civilian population,” Israel’s Operation Cast Lead thrust the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip into the center of the debate

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Two of Chomsky’s most famous and accessible works available in an affordable and attractive edition.Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky’s most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic’s most informal and accessible work to date, making it an

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From the world’s foremost intellectual activist, here is an irrefutable analysis of America’s pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe, but the last unarmed spot in our neighbourhood – the skies – as a militarized sphere of influence. Our earth and its skies are, for the Bush administration, the final frontiers of imperial control. In “Hegemony or Survival”, Noam Chomsky explains

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 155. Chapters: Emma Goldman, Naomi Wolf, Kathy Acker, Gertrude Stein, Naomi Klein, Susan Faludi, Adrienne Rich, Alice B. Toklas, Judy Blume, Kaja Silverman, Judith Butler, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Hélène Cixous, Rosa Luxemburg, Emma Lazarus, Andrea Dworkin, Peaches, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Martha Nussbaum, Susan Sontag, Beatrice Arthur, Christina Hoff

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Recounts the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examines the issues behind the resulting campaign.In this lively and hard-hitting book Jose Bove and Francois Dufour recount the dramatic events of their famous demonstration against McDonald’s and examine the issues behind the resulting campaign, which has now stretched from France and Seattle around the

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In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Barack Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future and a way to move forward—in the democratic wave in Latin America and in the global solidarity movements that

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