All 30 articles by Noam Chomsky

• 06 Feb 12

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  Anniversaries From ‘Unhistory’

  The events we fail to commemorate say as much about our national narrative as those we acknowledge. MORE »

• 09 Jan 12

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  Recognizing the ‘Unpeople’

  From Africa to the Middle East to the United States, the unmentioned continue to suffer. MORE »

• 06 Dec 11

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  Marching Off the Cliff

  The world wants UN climate talks in Durban to succeed, but U.S. intransigence blocks the way forward. MORE »

• 01 Nov 11

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  Occupy The Future

  The Occupy movement is an unprecedented opportunity to overcome America's current hopelessness. MORE »

• 05 Oct 11

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  The Threat of Warships on an ‘Island of World Peace’

  America's imperium reaches South Korea' idyllic Jeju island—but residents and peace activists are resisting. MORE »

• 05 Sep 11

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  After 9/11, Was War the Only Option?

  This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed... MORE »

• 05 Aug 11

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  America In Decline

  “It is a common theme" that the United States, which "only a few years ago was hailed to... MORE »

• 07 Jul 11

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  In Israel, a Tsunami Warning

  In May, in a closed meeting of many of Israel's business leaders, Idan Ofer, a holding-company magnate, warned, ... MORE »

• 31 May 11

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  The Revenge Killing of Osama bin Laden

  The May 1 U.S. attack on Osama bin Laden's compound violated multiple elementary norms of international law, beginning... MORE »

• 02 May 11

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  The ‘Great Moderation’ and the International Assault on Labor

  In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century... MORE »

• 03 Apr 11

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  Libya and the World of Oil

  Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of... MORE »

• 02 Feb 11

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  ‘The Arab World Is on Fire’

  "The Arab world is on fire," al-Jazeera reported on January 27, while throughout the region, Western allies "are quickly... MORE »

• 04 Jan 11

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  Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock

  While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two... MORE »

• 02 Dec 10

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  The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks

  Washington's pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion--excluding Arab East Jerusalem--should... MORE »

• 04 Nov 10

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  Outrage, Misguided

  The U.S. midterm elections register a level of anger, fear and disillusionment in the country like nothing... MORE »

• 05 Oct 10

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  China’s Growing Independence and the New World Order

  Of all the "threats" to world order, the most consistent is democracy, unless it is under imperial control,... MORE »

• 02 Sep 10

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  China and the New World Order

  Amid all the alleged threats to the world's reigning superpower, one rival is quietly, forcefully emerging: China. And... MORE »

• 03 Aug 10

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  Why WikiLeaks Won’t Stop the War

  The War Logs--a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet... MORE »

• 08 Jun 10

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  The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom Flotilla

  Israel's violent attack on the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza shocked the world. Hijacking boats in... MORE »

• 04 May 10

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  Rustbelt Rage

  On Feb. 18, Joe Stack, a 53-year-old computer engineer, crashed his small plane into a building in Austin, Texas,... MORE »

• 01 Apr 10

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  A ‘Regrettable’ Event in East Jerusalem

  Yet again the flashpoint is East Jerusalem, seized by Israel in the 1967 war--this time, a proposed 1,600-apartment complex... MORE »

• 26 Mar 10

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  Globalization Marches On

  Growing popular outrage has not challenged corporate power. MORE »

• 03 Feb 10

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  The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy

  Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline. ... MORE »

• 05 Jan 10

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  Presidential ‘Peacemaking’ in Latin America

  Barack Obama, the fourth U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, joins the others in the... MORE »

• 03 Dec 09

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  The Legacy of 1989, in Two Hemispheres

  November marked the anniversary of major events in 1989: "the biggest year in world history since 1945," as British historian... MORE »

• 05 Nov 09

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  War, Peace and Obama’s Nobel

  The hopes and prospects for peace aren't well aligned--not even close. The task is to bring them nearer.... MORE »

• 06 Oct 09

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  Barack Obama and the ‘Unipolar Moment’

  Every powerful state relies on specialists whose task is to show that what the strong do is noble... MORE »

• 09 Sep 09

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  Militarizing Latin America

  The United States was founded as an "infant empire," in the words of George Washington. The conquest of... MORE »

• 03 Aug 09

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  Making War to Bring ‘Peace’

  A debate is under way at the United Nations over a policy that may seem uncontroversial: an international... MORE »

• 09 Jun 09

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  The Trouble With Obama’s Cairo Speech

  A CNN headline, reporting Obama's plans for his June 4 Cairo address, read 'Obama looks to reach the soul... MORE »