Noam Chomsky
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle classes, attack the solidarity of the people, let...
4) On anarchism
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Radical linguist, philosopher, and activist Noam Chomsky is one of the world's foremost intellectuals. Known for his brilliant evisceration of American foreign policy, state capitalism, and the mainstream media, he remains a formidable and unapologetic critic of established authority. 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...
5) Power systems: conversations on global democratic uprisings and the new challenges to U.S. empire
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state," and therefore a danger to its own people and the world. "Failed states," Chomsky writes, are those "that do not protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction, that regard themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
"The world's leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents a series of interviews conducted during the first month following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that discuss reactions to the attacks in the U.S. and abroad, U.S. foreign policy, and the new war on terrorism, along with an essay on the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider a world imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. These twelve interviews, conducted from 2013 to 2016, examine the latest developments around the globe: the devastation of Syria, the reach of state surveillance, growing anger over economic inequality, the place of religion in American political culture, and the...
12) What we say goes: conversations on U.S. power in a changing world : interviews with David Barsamian
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Not since the last American troops left Vietnam have we faced such a sudden vacuum in our foreign policy—not only of authority, but also of explanations of what happened, and what the future holds. Few analysts are better poised to address this moment than Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, intellectuals and critics whose work spans generations and continents. Called “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” by the New York Times...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society. 'Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.' How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of 'common...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Publisher: In this path breaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
''Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire it. "A loosely connected collection of four essays that will fascinate anyone interested in the extraordinary phenomenon of language." —New York Review of Books We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master...
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Almuzara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Description
''Pocos hombres han sido tan fieles al compromiso con la vida, la libertad y sus semejantes desfavorecidos como Howard Zinn. Parece improbable que un profesor de historia se vea involucrado, o incluso sea protagonista, de tantas peripecias y aventuras como él lo fue. Bombardero en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, profesor en una institución para mujeres afroamericanas durante la lucha por los derechos civiles en el sur de los EE.UU., activista antibélico...
18) Middle East illusions: including peace in the Middle East? : reflections on justice and nationhood
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, the involvement of the United States in the peace process, and the changing face of terrorism in the twenty-first century.
19) On Palestine
Author
Publisher
Haymaker Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"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 been greater. Ilan Papp©♭ and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against...