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About Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority.
  • 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: The Tricontinental on January 7, 2021 (more by The Tricontinental)  |

    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

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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