Noam Chomsky

The effect of 9/11 was much the same as the cause: a morally-void, global soliloquy of power

The crime is a gift to the hard jingoistic right; America can, alternatively, seek to grasp its causes.

Obama's global drone assassination campaign is generating terrorists more rapidly than it is murdering those suspected of someday intending to harm us

We cannot gain a realistic understanding of who rules the world while ignoring the “masters of mankind,” as Adam Smith called them: in his day, the merchants and manufacturers of England; in ours, multinational conglomerates, huge financial institutions, retail empires, and the like.

What’s next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?

The bin Laden raid could have led to nuclear annihilation. America's nuclear history is riddled with examples of narrowly avoided catastrophe. How long can we tempt fate?

Almost every day brings news of awful crimes, but some are so heinous, so horrendous and malicious, that they dwarf all else

It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behaviour is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. ..

The “security” in national security means not the security of the American people but of those who run the national security state. A look at how Washington protects itself and the corporate sector.

Is the US president veering toward isolationism? Or will he proudly carry the banner of exceptionalism?

'In Western discourse, it provides authorisation for the US and NATO to use violence wherever they choose without Security Council authorisation. If it weren’t so tragic it would be farcical.'

The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought.