Noam Chomsky
American linguist, philosopher and political commentator who has been particularly prolific in demystifying US foreign policy.
The Israel lobby? - Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky responds to the work of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt and argues against the idea that a lobby of pro-Israel interests effectively controls US foreign policy.
Their book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy claims that the lobby leads the US into acting against its national interest, and that the Iraq war was a result of the lobby's influence.
Manufacturing consent: a propaganda model - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Chomsky and Herman explain their brilliant "propaganda model", which illustrates how the media functions in Western democracies and what constraints exist on what it can and can't say, and why.
Written in 1988
Noam Chomsky on Postmodernism
Noam Chomsky reveals some of his frustrations with postmodernism and the role of 'intellectuals' in engaging with the public.
I've returned from travel-speaking, where I spend most of my life, and found a collection of messages extending the discussion about "theory" and "philosophy," a debate that I find rather curious. A few reactions -- though I concede, from the start, that I may simply not understand what is going on.
The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective - Edward S. Herman
Chomsky's co-author revisits their seminal theory of how the mass media functions several years on, and responds to criticisms of it.
In Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and I put forward a "propaganda model" as a framework for analysing and understanding how the mainstream U.S. media work and why they perform as they do (Herman and Chomsky 1988).
Chomsky, Noam
American linguist, philosopher and political commentator who has been particularly prolific in demystifying US foreign policy.
Chomsky and the Politics of Rationality. Essay – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ 1995 essay on the importance and limitations of Chomsky’s political writings and philosophy.
Common Sense: Golden Goose or Propaganda? by Tom Jennings
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The new world order - Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky discusses the New World Order - tri-polar economically, three major economic powers, the United States still the biggest, but declining, relatively, but uni-polar militarily, one military force.
The following is a transcript of a speech given at a benefit for The Middle East Children's Alliance (president, Barbara Lubin) and KPFA radio (manager, Pat Scott).
The topic, as you saw, is The New World Order with primary concern for the Middle East.
Knowledge, morality and hope: The social thought of Noam Chomsky - Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Cohen and Rogers analyse the various facets of Noam Chomsky's political philosophy.
Knowledge, Morality and Hope: The Social Thought of Noam Chomsky
1990-1991: The Gulf War
Noam Chomsky on the 1991 US and UK war with Iraq following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations Security Council immediately condemned Iraq and imposed severe sanctions on it. Why was the UN response so prompt and so unprecedently firm? The US government-media alliance had a standard answer.
1989-today: The War on Drugs
Noam Chomsky on the 'war' on drugs that Western governments have been allegedly pursuing since 1989. In reality, their response to the drug trade has depended very much on who is doing it...
The war on (certain) drugs
