Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky recently sat down together at Harvard University to discuss Scahill’s groundbreaking new book, “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.” Amy Goodman hosted the discussion, which was sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Keane Bhatt: So let’s start with your post-November 6 analysis. What, in your mind, have been the lessons to take away from the elections? Noam Chomsky: The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It’s studied carefully and we know a lot about it. One of the most striking features of the [...]

Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons In the week when President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney debated issues of foreign policy and the economy, we turn to world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT professor, Noam Chomsky. In a recent speech, Chomsky examined topics largely ignored or glossed over [...]

A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT. If you’ve missed the previous episodes, you can always watch them online at [...]

More information about this talk here: Occupy Boston   Because of technical difficulties, you might not understand Noam Chomsky at all times, mostly in the beginning.

1. ¿Cuáles son las razones que mueven a EE.UU. en las relaciones internacionales, en el sentido más amplio? Es decir, ¿cuáles son las razones dominantes y los temas que se pueden detectar casi siempre en las opciones de las políticas de EE.UU., en cualquier lugar del mundo? ¿Cuáles son las razones [...]

Interviewed by Stephen Shalom and Michael Albert 1. What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly? That is, what are the over arching motives and themes one can pretty much always find informing U.S. policy choices, no matter where in the world we are discussing? What are the somewhat more specific but [...]

En esta ocasión, “Charlas en Amauta” les trae una conversación con el intelectual norteamericano Noam Chomsky. El profesor Chomsky habla con Eric French, sobre la importancia de los medios de comunicación, los nuevos modelos de información que existen y que Amauta quiere implementar; y como es inevitable se analizan las revueltas populares que agitan al medio [...]

In this sixth video in the series “Peak Oil and a Changing Climate” from The Nation and On The Earth Productions, linguist, philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky talks about the Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute and other business lobbies enthusiastically carrying out campaigns “to try and convince the population [...]

In recent weeks, popular uprisings in the Arab world have led to the ouster of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the imminent end of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s regime, a new Jordanian government, and a pledge by Yemen’s longtime dictator to leave office at the end of his term. We speak to MIT [...]