Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his recent books are Hopes and Prospects, Power Systems, Occupy, and Masters of Mankind. His newest book (with David Barsamian) is Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy (Metropolitan Books, December 2017) from which this piece was excerpted. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere

The infrastructure of racist policing must be dismantled brick by brick, dollar by dollar, police department by police department.

By Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, Aruna Roy, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, Ece Temelkuran and Renata Avila

/ 4 Jun 2020

Solidarity means dismantling the system everywhere

Internationalism or extinction

Capital is coordinated and globalized. Our struggles against injustice and oppression must be the same.

By Noam Chomsky, Paul Shannon, Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar

/ 25 Feb 2020

Noam Chomsky on co-signing Turkey’s ‘Academics for Peace’ appeal

Academics are lining up to support this appeal for peace and express solidarity with the targets of Erdogan’s attacks on freedom and basic rights.

By Noam Chomsky and Halis Yıldırım

/ 15 Jul 2019

Noam Chomsky on co-signing Turkey’s ‘Academics for Peace’ appeal

Open Letter by Over 70 Scholars and Experts Condemns US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela

"For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle of national sovereignty, these international actors should instead support negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents." Español.

By Noam Chomsky

/ 28 Jan 2019

Open Letter by Over 70 Scholars and Experts Condemns US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela

By Noam Chomsky

/ 28 Jan 2019

Carta abierta de más de 70 académicos y expertos condena el intento de golpe de Estado respaldado por Estados Unidos en Venezuela

"Por el bien del pueblo venezolano, la región y por el principio de la soberanía nacional, estos actores internacionales deben apoyar las negociaciones entre el gobierno venezolano y sus oponentes." English.

By Noam Chomsky

/ 28 Jan 2019

A world in peril: an interview with Noam Chomsky

"There's a diversionary process underway... out of the spotlight, the most savage fringe of the Republican Party is carefully advancing policies to enrich their true constituency: the Constituency of private power and wealth."

By Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

/ 9 Oct 2017

Rogue states and nuclear dangers

Who would be concerned by an Iranian deterrent? The answer is plain: the rogue states that rampage in the region, with the US and Israel in the lead.

By Nick Turse and Noam Chomsky

/ 21 Aug 2015

Ceasefires in which violations never cease: what’s next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?

For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to ultimately come to accept. It has been a highly successful policy.

By Noam Chomsky

/ 10 Sep 2014

How many minutes to midnight?

Despite Hiroshima's scars, history cruelly reveals one instance after another in which the US elected to maintain the power of nuclear weapons for statecraft, squandering opportunities to de-escalate in favor of building the case for the national security state.

By Noam Chomsky

/ 6 Aug 2014

On Israel-Palestine and BDS

Those dedicated to the Palestinian cause should think carefully about the tactics they choose.

By Noam Chomsky

/ 4 Aug 2014