• Monthly Review
  • Monthly Review Press
  • Climate & Capitalism
  • Money on the Left
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Mastadon
MR Online
  • Home
  • About
  • Contact/Submission
  • Browse
    • Recent Articles Archive
    • by Subject
      • Ecology
      • Education
      • Imperialism
      • Inequality
      • Labor
      • Literature
      • Marxism
      • Movements
      • Philosophy
      • Political Economy
    • by Region
      • Africa
      • Americas
      • Asia
      • Australasia
      • Europe
      • Global
      • Middle East
    • by Category
      • Art
      • Commentary
      • Interview
      • Letter
      • News
      • Newswire
  • Monthly Review Essays

About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. His most recent books are Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power.
  • Noam Chomsky (October 18, 2019)

    ChatGPT and human intelligence: Noam Chomsky responds to critics

    Noam Chomsky and Ramin Mirfakhraie

    ‘The threat to privacy and data security posed by language models like ChatGPT is real enough. I frankly doubt that there’s any practical way to contain them. The most effective means that I can think of…to counter the spread of malicious doctrines and ideology are education in critical thinking, organization to encourage deliberation, and modes of intellectual self-defense.’ —Noam Chomsky

  • José Rodríguez Fuster (Cuba), Granma, 2013

    Chomsky and Prashad: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terrorism

    Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad

    In the last days of the Trump administration, the U.S. government returned Cuba to its state sponsors of terrorism list. This was a vindictive act. Trump said it was because Cuba played host to guerrilla groups from Colombia, which was actually part of Cuba’s role as host of the peace talks.

  • Cuba flag

    Cuba’s successful disregard for U.S. policies

    Originally published: Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World on February 27, 2022 (more by Resumen: Latinoamericano and the Third World)

    We have just commemorated the 20th anniversary of one of the mechanisms used to strangle Cuba, the control of the naval facilities at Guantanamo Bay, vital to Cuba’s development.

  • Protesters against the US war in Afghanistan Minneapolis, Minnesota April 6, 2013 (Flickr: Fibonacci Blue)

    United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really

    Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad

    The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds.

  • Xiang Wang (China), Extinction, 2020

    We are living in an emergency that requires urgent action (a note written with Noam Chomsky)

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research on January 7, 2021 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |

    The first newsletter of the new year is written in collaboration with our friend, the great linguist and prophetic voice, Noam Chomsky. What follows is a statement by Noam and me.

  • 25+ Retro-Futuristic Engineering Visions and Machines From the Past (Photo: Interesting Engineering)

    Chomsky and Prashad: Three major threats to life on Earth that we must address in 2021

    Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad

    Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments.

  • Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction

    Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction

    Originally published: Progressive International on September 18, 2020 (more by Progressive International)  |

    PI Council Member Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.

  • Noam Chomsky in 2011. Photo: Andrew Rusk/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

    The pandemic has only exposed the suicidal tendencies of capitalism: Noam Chomsky

    Originally published: The Wire on May 18, 2020 (more by The Wire)  |

    ‘Another, probably more severe pandemic has been predicted. Scientists know how to prepare, but someone must act. If we choose not to learn the lessons that are right before our eyes, the consequences will be dire.”

  • Exclusive: Chomsky, Pilger Slam Trump Threats Against Venezuela

    Chomsky, Pilger slam Trump threats against Venezuela

    Originally published: The Dawn News on August 13, 2017 (more by The Dawn News)  |

    Noam Chomsky and John Pilger spoke with teleSUR, denouncing U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to Venezuela as irresponsible, but typical according to the president’s behavior and U.S. history.

  • Noam Chomsky

    The Labour party’s future lies with Momentum

    Originally published: The Guardian on May 10, 2017 by Anushka Asthana, Political Editor (more by The Guardian)

    On a recent visit to Britain, Noam Chomsky explained that an “extremely hostile media” is damaging Jeremy Corbyn’s appeal, and as a result is responsible for Corbyn’s unpopularity.

  • Statement of Solidarity with Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal, Who Have Been Unjustly Detained in Iran since July 31, 2009

    Noam Chomsky and Cindy Sheehan and Angela Davis and Michael Hardt and Cornel West

      We are writing in support of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd, and Josh Fattal who have been unjustly detained for more than nine months.  These three young people are active members of a global community opposed to US aggression in the Middle East.  They do not deserve to be punished for the policies of their […]

  • Why Are the US and Israel Threatening Iran? And Who Really Rules the World?

    Noam Chomsky and David Goebmann and Fabian Scheidler

      Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 while at the same time sending more troops to the Afghanistan War.  What has become of the promise of “change”? I am one of the few who are not disillusioned, because I had no expectations.  I had written about Obama’s positions and prospects even before […]

  • Militarizing Latin America

    Noam Chomsky

    The United States was founded as an “infant empire,” in George Washington’s words.  The conquest of the national territory was a grand imperial venture, much like the vast expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.  From the earliest days, control over the Western Hemisphere was a critical goal.  Ambitions expanded during World War II, as […]

  • History of US Rule in Latin America: Resistance to the Coup in Honduras

    Noam Chomsky

    The United States has had four presidents who received the Nobel Peace Prize.  I haven’t checked, but I presume that’s a record for heads of state.  All four have left their imprint on Latin America, “our little region over here that has never bothered anybody.”  That’s how Secretary of War Henry Stimson described the hemisphere […]

  • “Come Over and Help Us”: A History of R2P

    Noam Chomsky

    Address to the United Nations General Assembly Thematic Dialogue on the Responsibility to Protect, the United Nations, New York,  23 July 2009 The discussions about Responsibility to Protect (R2P), or its cousin “humanitarian intervention,” are regularly disturbed by the rattling of a skeleton in the closet: history, to the present moment. Throughout history, there have […]

Also By Noam Chomsky in Monthly Review Magazine

  • Genocide Denial with a Vengeance: Old and New Imperial Norms September 01, 2010
  • Humanitarian Imperialism: The New Doctrine of Imperial Right September 01, 2008
  • United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky May 01, 2008
  • Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities June 01, 2007
  • Imperial Ambition: An Interview with Noam Chomsky May 01, 2003
  • The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: An Interview with Noam Chomsky November 01, 2001

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Journalism, democracy, … and class struggle
    Robert W. McChesney Bob McChesney on Saving Journalism

    Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.

Trending

  • Wood gavel and open handcuffs symbolizing freeing judge decisions
    High Court opens door to police accountability
  • President Maduro was unscathed from the attack (Hugoshi)
    ‘Neoliberal and authoritarian’? A simplistic analysis of the Maduro government that leaves much unsaid
  • Boat house on Cameron Island on Lake Joseph in Muskoka
    The supply and demand myth of housing
  • Tianjin Qiaoyuan Park in Tianjin, one of the earliest sponge city projects in China. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
    Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions
  • South African President Cyril Ramaphosa / French President Emmanuel Macron
    The Colonial past haunts French Military operations in Africa
  • An Israeli officer wears Microsoft’s HoloLens headset during military testing in Ramat Gan, Israel. Stefanie J’rkel | AP
    Microsoft’s role in Gaza goes way beyond the ICC email lockout
  • This series of photos was shared on the official Instagram account of the U.S. government-operated Voice of America - Africa radio network on Feb. 15, 2025, with the caption: "White South Africans gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Pretoria...to show their support for U.S. President Donald Trump after he criticized what he terms 'unjust' treatment of White South Africans." | Photos via @voaafrica on Instagram
    Afrikaner ‘refugee’ arrival is latest tactic in Trump’s South Africa destabilization campaign
  • Floyd
    People get ready: Protest on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder
  • Aerial view of Santa Rita strip copper mine near Silver City, NM
    Donald Trump’s feverish lust for green energy resources
  • Secretary Marco Rubio departs Instanbul, Türkiye May 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)
    Under Trump, NED to continue weaponizing “democracy” in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba

Popular (last 30 days)

  • Langley/Burkina Faso
    The U.S./EU/NATO’s Regime change playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
  • Cpt. Ibrahim Traoré
    The rising star of Cpt. Ibrahim Traore – Burkina Faso’s spirit of Sankara
  • Tump and Putin
    Russia rejects Trump’s freeze of the war in Ukraine
  • Trump's Tariffs: Economic Warfare or Winning Strategy?
    The Trump Tariffs and the U.S. Labor Movement
  • Why does the US support Israel?
    Why does the U.S. support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Michael Hudson
  • Wood gavel and open handcuffs symbolizing freeing judge decisions
    High Court opens door to police accountability
  • BAP demonstration in Washington DC gathered outside the Embassy of Burkina Faso, in defense of the Alliance for Sahel States, October 2024.
    Now is the time for all anti-imperialists and all justice loving people to stand unequivocally in defense of Burkina Faso
  • Karl Marx
    Marx’s ontology: A clarification
  • Karl Marx
    150 years since the Critique of the Gotha Programme
  • President Maduro was unscathed from the attack (Hugoshi)
    ‘Neoliberal and authoritarian’? A simplistic analysis of the Maduro government that leaves much unsaid

RSS MR Press News

  • EXCERPT: Colonial dreams, racist nightmares, liberated futures (from the introduction to A Land With A People) May 19, 2025
  • LISTEN: Erald Kolasi on the podcast ‘Real Progressives’ (The Physics of Capitalism) May 19, 2025
  • On the brilliant Bob McChesney April 21, 2025
  • Andy Merrifield, author of Roses for Gramsci, at The Marxist Education Project April 20, 2025
  • NEW! ROSES FOR GRAMSCI by Andy Merrifield (EXCERPT) April 7, 2025

RSS Climate & Capitalism

  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2025 May 19, 2025
  • Humans have observed less than 0.001% of the deep seafloor May 8, 2025
  • Ecosocialist Bookshelf, April 2025 April 10, 2025
  • Against the Crisis: Economy and Ecology in a Burning World April 2, 2025
  • Will Mpox be the next global threat to human health? April 2, 2025

 

RSS Monthly Review

  • May 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1) May 1, 2025 The Editors
  • The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime May 1, 2025 John Bellamy Foster
  • Neoliberalism and Neofascism May 1, 2025 Robert W. McChesney
  • Decolonization and Its Discontents May 1, 2025 Pranay Somayajula
  • China’s “Triple Revolution Theory” and Marxist Analysis May 1, 2025 Cheng Enfu

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

Monthly Review Foundation
134 W 29TH ST STE 706
New York NY 10001-5304

Tel: 212-691-2555