Noam Chomsky
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
Abstract
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
1948-1991: US intervention and war in South East Asia
Noam Chomsky's very brief account of US military, economic and "diplomatic" action in Indochina in the last half of the 20th century
1940-1989: The Cold War
Noam Chomsky explains the nature of the Cold War between the West and the Soviet Union before its collapse in 1989.
How the Cold War worked
1986: The Iran-Contra Affair
Chomsky's brief account of the US selling arms to Iran via Israel in order to fund far-right paramilitary contras in Nicaragua.
The major elements of the Iran/contra story were well known long before the 1986 exposures, apart from one fact: that the sale of arms to Iran via Israel and the illegal contra war run out of Colonel Oliver North's White House office were connected.
1970-1987: The contra war in Nicaragua
Noam Chomsky's account of the US-backed “contra” counter-insurgency in Nicaragua against the left-wing government brought to power on the back of a popular mass movement from below.
It wasn't just the events in El Salvador that were ignored by the mainstream US media during the 1970s. In the ten years prior to the overthrow of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979, US television - all networks - devoted exactly one hour to Nicaragua, and that was entirely on the Managua earthquake of 1972.
1944-1989: The coup and US intervention in Guatemala
Noam Chomsky on the US intervention and coup following the 1944 revolution which overthrew Guatemala's brutal dictator.
Making Guatemala a killing field
1970-1990: The war of counter-insurgency in El Salvador
Noam Chomsky on the ultra-violent war of the right-wing regime in El Salvador against grassroots resistance of workers, peasants and liberation theologists – socialist clergymen and women.
The crucifixion of El Salvador
For many years, repression, torture and murder were carried on in El Salvador by dictators installed and supported by the US government, a matter of no interest in the US. The story was virtually never covered. By the late 1970s, however, the government began to be concerned about a couple of things.
The triumph of anarchism - Noam Chomsky in The Hindu
Article from The Hindu, India's National Newspaper from Sunday, December 11, 2005 about Noam Chomsky and anarchism following his being awarded the title of world's most important intellectual
1988: Scenes from the Uprising - Noam Chomsky
Chomsky on the uprising in Palestine in 1988, with historical information and comment on Israel, Palestine, terrorism and hypocrisy first published in Z Magazine, July, 1988
Guardian withdraws Chomsky interview
The Guardian has withdrawn its recent interview with Noam Chomsky from its website, after their media editor admitted it was "misrepresenting... wrong... unjustified..." and has retracted the misrepresentations made in the interview with an "unreserved apology".
The Guardian published this statement on its website:
Smearing Chomsky - The Guardian in the gutter
On October 31, the Guardian published an interview with Noam Chomsky by Emma Brockes, 'The greatest intellectual?' (The Guardian, October 31, 2005).
Introduction
The article was ostensibly in response to the fact that Chomsky had been voted the world's top public intellectual by Prospect magazine the previous week. Chomsky describes his treatment by the paper as "one of the most dishonest and cowardly performances I recall ever having seen in the media". (Email copied to Media Lens, November 2, 2005)
