by Noam Chomsky and Stan Cox This month will mark a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. At the COP26 global climate summit kicking off next week in Glasgow, Scotland, negotiators will be faced with the urgent need to get the world economy off the business-as-usual track that will take the Earth up to and beyond 3 degrees[Read More…]
C.J. Polychroniou Interviews Noam Chomsky Trump has reacted during his years in office in the manner to which we have become accustomed: by defunding and dismantling every relevant part of government and assiduously implementing the instructions of his corporate masters to eliminate the regulations that impede profits while saving lives — and leading the race to the abyss of environmental[Read More…]
Interview – Noam Chomsky / C.J. Polychroniou It is no easy task to make sense of U.S. foreign policy in the current era. Trump is wildly unpredictable and lacks any semblance of a coherent view of world affairs, appearing to believe that all it takes is “the art of the deal” to turn “enemies” into friends. Meanwhile, since Trump’s rise[Read More…]
[Editor’s note: This interview has been excerpted from Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy, the new book by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian to be published this December.] David Barsamian: You have spoken about the difference between Trump’s buffoonery, which gets endlessly covered by the media, and the actual policies he is striving to enact, which receive less attention.[Read More…]
[This essay is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? (Metropolitan Books).] In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday Clock to three minutes before midnight, a threat level that had not been reached for 30 years. The Bulletin’s statement explaining this advance toward catastrophe invoked the two major threats to survival:[Read More…]
Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger 
Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail 
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage 
Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics 
The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’ 
The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings 
Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world 
Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 
Long Marginalized, the ‘Right of Return’ is Once More a Palestinian Priority 
Ghetto America 
Fast-Track to NATO Expansion Hits a Speed Bump 
Remembering the burning of Jaffna public library – 41 years on 
Three Great Poems by Narayan Surve – Poetic Portraits of Repressed and Helpless Women 
Is This the End of the French Project in Africa’s Sahel? 
A Phallic Country 
Open letter to Sharda university Vice-Chancellor 
Caste doesn’t just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora 
The long road to Palestine, A prisoner in my home! 
For Biden’s Summit of the Americas, Obama’s Handshake With Raúl Castro Shows the Way 
India – Birds Drop Out of the Sky, People Die 
The U.S. Unilateral Sanctions Against Russia Will Produce a Global Food Disaster 
The Human Mania for Roadbuilding Is a Threat to the Great Apex Predator Species 
India`s non-engagement in Afghanistan and its implications 
Rule by law is a threat to freedom 
Justice Ajit Singh Bains’ birth centenary celebrated in Greater Vancouver 
Naxalbari must be resurrected in relevant form on 55th anniversary 
Tribute to Bertrand Russell on 150th birth anniversary 
Ukraine-Crisis, At What Cost? 
Ban on Indian Wheat Exports Deprives income to Farmers But Profits Traders and Exporters 
Covid-hit Adivasis of MP under attack from communal forces 
We can live with the Tiger, not the forest department! 
How Small Farms Are Reclaiming Culture in Palestine 
The Biomass Peril 
Striving for Peace in Strife Torn Kashmir 
Global Wheat Prices Reach Record High 
Mosques and Shrines: Helmsman Beware 
The British Art of Black Propaganda 
India Has a Key Role to Play in a Possible New World Order 
‘Sedition’ Must Go! 
Discussing America’s role in the Syrian civil war: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky 
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