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  1. The Absurdity of "Independent" Kosovo
    A Saga of Injustice and Hypocrisy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The West's entire approach to Kosovo has been marked by sordid dishonesty and bad faith, supporting national self-determination and the right to secession in one place and territorial integrity in another, cheering on ethnic cleansing by one ethnic group and demanding war crimes trials for another, trumpeting the virtues of majority rule when it's convenient to do so and threatening to impose sanctions and penalties on majorities when that's convenient. For the Americans, Kosovo is nothing more than the hinterland of a giant military base.
  2. Afghanistan 1979-1992
    America's Jihad

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of CIA and American involvement in Afghanistan since 1979
  3. After the Cataclysm
    Postwar Indochina & the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (The Political Economy of Human Rights)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    A carefully dcoumented asessment of Western reporting on post-1975 Indochina.
  4. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  5. AIPAC: Israel's U.S. Spy Den
    Against The Current vol. 113

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The socialist Left must remain clear in its avoidance of a conspiratorial view of history. The entire U.S. political spectrum in the aftermath of the 2000 election, and especially since 9/11, has been awash with conspiracy theories. With deep roots in our political culture, ahistorical conspiratorial views of the workings of the world, devoid of any class understanding or a structural and institutional analysis of what we live in, come bubbling to the surface, especially during times of "national crisis."
  6. The Algiers Accords: Decades of Violations and Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    This week marks the 37th anniversary of a pledge made by the United States in 1981:
    The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs.
    This week also marks 37 continuous years of the United States failing to uphold its pledge: the 1981 Algiers Accords.
  7. America Defeats Germany for the Third Time in a Century
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The recent prodding of Russia by expanding Ukrainian anti-Russian ethnic violence by Ukraine's neo-Nazi post-2014 Maiden regime was aimed at (and has succeeded in) forcing a showdown in response to America's fear that it is losing its economic and political hold on its NATO allies and other Dollar Area satellites. These countries have seen major opportunities for gain to lie in increasing trade and investment with China and Russia.
  8. America Escalates Its "Democratic" Oil War in the Near East
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The mainstream media are carefully sidestepping the method behind America’s seeming madness in assassinating Islamic Revolutionary Guard general Qassim Suleimani to start the New Year. The logic behind the assassination was a long-standing application of U.S. global policy, not just a personality quirk of Donald Trump's impulsive action.
  9. America in Decline
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  10. The American Connection
    Volume 1: State Terror and Popular Resistance in El Salvador

    Resource Type: Book
    McClintock reveals the U.S. role in introducing new strategies of state terror and counter-insurgency in Central America since the 1960s. Against a backdrop of longstanding class and land ownership patterns the author shows how U.S. refusal to tolerate social reform and its support for brutal security apparatuses have led not only to the current wars in Central America, but inextricably involved the U.S.
  11. The American Connection
    Volume 2: State Terror and Popular Resistance in Guatemala

    Resource Type: Book
    The author who is now a senior researcher with Amnesty International spent several years unravelling the development of counter-insurgency forces and the role of the U.S. in creating them. This book details how the U.S. notion of counter-insurgency, when applied under highly authoritarian regimes, ultimately converts almost the entire civilian population into the enemy.
  12. American Decline in Perspective
    Empire and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  13. The American Imperium
    Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    With the present-day US military overextended throughout the globe, this essay takes a look at past American military policy and actions in overseas conflicts, and how these events of the past century affect public perceptions and ultimately how the military continues to be used.
  14. American Power and the New Mandarins 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
  15. America's Baleful Worldwide Pressure
    The Way the Wind Blows

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The overweening arrogance of the United States in conduct of its foreign relations is evident throughout the world.
  16. America's Complicity in Evil
    Barbarism on the High Seas

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
  17. America's Deadliest Export: Democracy 
    The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Since World War II, the world has believed that US foreign policy means well, and that America’s motives in spreading democracy are honorable, even noble. William Blum, a leading non-mainstream chronicler of American foreign policy, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, unless this fallacy is unlearned, and until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
  18. America's Deceptive Model for Aggression 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Since NATO's 1999 war on Serbia, U.S. officials have followed a script demonizing targeted foreign leaders, calling ultimatums "diplomacy," lying about "war as a last resort" and selling aggression as humanitarianism.
  19. America's Kingdom
    Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    An account of Aramco as a microcosm of the colonial order. America's Kingdom debunks the many myths that now surround the United States's special relationship with Saudi Arabia, also known as "the deal": oil for security.
  20. America's Last Chance
    One Against the Empire

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The United States is rapidly being turned into a police state.
  21. America's Long History of Meddling in Russia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Setting aside the question of whether it's smart to take the U.S. government at its word — it isn't — if Russia were to meddle in our domestic politics, we would have it coming. To say the least.
  22. Another Immoral Adventure
    US Troops to Uganda

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    When we support brutal governments in foreign countries – be it through aid, training, or troops on the ground – there are real and lasting consequences for the people who live there. There are many reasons to oppose the US incursion into Uganda (the risk of blowback, the chance of escalation, the furtherance of the imperial presidency, the financial cost, the practical fact that we can’t intervene everywhere, and so on), but the most important argument is moral.
  23. Another Successful American Propaganda Effort
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    American political figures like to talk about "American Democracy". The truth is, there is no "American Democracy", it is something that our rulers like to foist upon the World stage much like parents like to tell their children about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny. It's fiction made in order to keep their "children" in line.
  24. Another Vote on Washington's Anti-Cuba Policy at the United Nations
    The Politics of Isolation

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Resolution A/68/L.6, sponsored by Cuba, passed this year, for the 22nd year in a row, with Washington once again in humiliating political loneliness. The vote this year was 188-2 in favor, with 3 abstentions. Washington’s formal political isolation over its anti-Cuba policy can hardly be more complete. Is it possible to imagine any significant political issue in world politics uniting so many disparate entities often in significant conflict with each other.
  25. The Anti-Empire Report #132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Each of you I’m sure has met many people who support American foreign policy, with whom you’ve argued and argued. You point out one horror after another, from Vietnam to Iraq. From god-awful bombings and invasions to violations of international law and torture. And nothing helps. Nothing moves this person. Now why is that? Are these people just stupid? I think a better answer is that they have certain preconceptions. Consciously or unconsciously, they have certain basic beliefs about the United States and its foreign policy, and if you don’t deal with these basic beliefs you may as well be talking to a stone wall. The most basic of these basic beliefs, I think, is a deeply-held conviction that no matter what the United States does abroad, no matter how bad it may look, no matter what horror may result, the government of the United States means well.
  26. Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is an easy to understand economic report on the joint relation between U.S. policies in Africa and jobs, income and investment in the U. S. Southeast. Seidman examines how the daily realities of life are shaped by the American support of apartheid.
  27. An Awkward Silence - Burying The Hersh Revelations of Obama's Syrian Deceit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    All governments lie, the US journalist I.F. Stone once noted, with Iraq the most blatant example in modern times. But Syria is another recent criminal example of Stone's dictum.
  28. Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (American Empire Project)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Examination of the perils of American military bases overseas.
  29. Basta! No Mandate for War
    A Pledge of Resistance Handbook

    Resource Type: Book
    More than 65,000 Americans have now pledged to protest any escalation in U.S. foreign and/or military intervention in Central America. This handbook offers a brief guide to the situation in Nicaragua and El Salvador, information about the Pledge of Resistance campaign, selections on nonviolent resistance, and preparation and training materials for nonviolent action. Includes agenda, resources, and checklists for planning and working locally.
  30. The Battle of the Titans
    Who is Pulling the Strings?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This is not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. Intellectual theories can seldom be put to a laboratory test. But this one can. It is happening now. Between Israel and the US a crisis has developed, and it has come into the open.
  31. Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game
    The Skirmish in the Spratlys

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Washington has thrown down the gauntlet in the South China Sea. If Beijing wants to preserve its independence and surpass the US as the world's biggest economy, it's going to have to meet the challenge, prepare for a long struggle, and beat Uncle Sam at his own game. It won’t be easy, but it can be done.
  32. Beginning a New Era
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Obama may succeed where previous U.S. administrations -- such as Nixon's and especially Carter's -- failed in their attempts at reestablishing diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba.
  33. Beyond Hypocrisy 
    Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    Edward Herman's book should be required reading for all news rooms and journalism students. In this book he examines through essays, cartoons and a dictionary of "doublespeak" the terms used in the language of U.S. government policy. He highlights the deception and moral hypocrisy and the media's all too willing role to propagate it: whether it be the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq (aggression) or the American invasion of Grenada (justifiable) . One of the most important aspects of doublespeak is the ability to "use lies to choose and shape facts selectively". Another lesson of this book is the governments' mastery of propaganda and manufacture of new foes and the media's failure to question the basis in reality of these supposed threats.
  34. Bill Clinton's Most Abominable Freedom Fighters Uncloaked
    Return to Kosovo

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Unfortunately, Bill Clinton will never be held liable for killing innocent Serbs or for helping body-snatchers take over a nation the size of Connecticut. Clinton is reportedly being paid up to $500,000 for each speech he gives nowadays. Perhaps some of the well-heeled attendees could flourish artificial arms and legs in the air to showcase Clinton’s actual legacy.
  35. Binge and Hangover
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
  36. Blackwater
    The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army

    Resource Type: Book
  37. Bolivia: WikiLeaks Expose US Conspiracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Recently released United States embassy cables from Bolivia have provided additional insight to the events leading up to the September 2008 coup attempt against the Andean country’s first indigenous president.
  38. Brainless in Washington
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Washington's IQ follows the Fed's interest rate -- it is negative. Washington is a black hole into which all sanity is sucked out of government deliberations. Washington's failures are everywhere visible. We can see the failures in Washington's wars and in Washington's approach to China and Russia.
  39. Bulgaria 1990/Albania 1991
    Teaching Communists What Democracy is All About

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American intervention in the Bulgarian and Albanian elections of 1990-1991
  40. Capitalism and Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
  41. Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
    Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1969
    The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
  42. Captive Nation - Egypt And The West
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    What mainstream media consumers will find almost nowhere (perhaps literally nowhere) is a detailed analysis of how US-UK support for Mubarak fits with a pattern of US-UK support for dictators across the world over many decades, indeed centuries.
  43. The Case for Socialism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005   Published: 2010
    An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
  44. The Case for Staying in Iraq
    Against The Current vol. 122

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    I don't support an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, because I think it would probably make an already bad situation much worse. Of course, there's no guarantee that continuing the occupation will succeed in allowing some form of stability to take hold—particularly if our military forces simply "stay the course" of brutality evidenced in Fallujah, Abu Ghraib, and the training of Iraqi death squads. However, I believe it offers the best chance for the chaotic forces now at work in Iraq to settle, over time, into some type of a coherent nation.
  45. The Catonsville Nine
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Nine Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest the Vietnam War.
  46. Chronicle of a War Foretold
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  47. The CIA and Questions of Torture
    Against The Current vol. 131

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Alfred W. McCoy's A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror is a chilling, eerily fascinating account of how the CIA used physical and psychological torture as a method of interrogation.
  48. The CIA's Greatest Hits
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
  49. Class Warfare
    Interviews with David Barsamian

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  50. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
  51. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  52. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  53. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
  54. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  55. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  56. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  57. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
  58. Containing the United States
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    With Hillary Clinton about to be elected and some advanced cadres of the war party preparing to take charge, who is going to contain the United States? The U.S. political system has failed its populace and the world and has imposed no brakes on the war machine. The UN and EU are still too much under the U.S. thumb. Russia and China are too weak and with too flimsy an alliance system to threaten U.S. hegemony and do more than make direct U.S. aggression against themselves very costly.
  59. The Corporations and the State
    Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
  60. Council of Canadians
    Resource Type: Website
    Promoting economic justicem safeguarding social programs, renewing democratization, asserting Canadian sovereignty, advancing alternatives to corporate-style free trade, and preserving the environment.
  61. The Coup of Coups
    Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
  62. The Crimes of Seal Team 6
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Officially known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, SEAL Team 6 is today the most celebrated of the U.S. military's special mission units. But hidden behind the heroic narratives is a darker, more troubling story of "revenge ops," unjustified killings, mutilations, and other atrocities -- a pattern of criminal violence that emerged soon after the Afghan war began and was tolerated and covered up by the command's leadership.
  63. The Crisis in Ukraine is a Planetary Crisis Provoked by the U.S. that Threatens Nuclear War
    Boyd-Barrett, Oliver

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    In the United States and its allies, Russia confronts an adversary which is the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons on another. This is also an adversary which has many times since considered using nuclear weapons again.
  64. The Crisis in Ukraine Is Not About Ukraine. It's About Germany
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  65. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  66. Cuba, the United States and the Left
    Against The Current vol. 89

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The nationalist anti-imperialist revolution of the long beards has lasted forty-one years. It was never a socialist revolution. The Moncada combatants were not socialists, neither were those in the Sierra Maestra (with few exceptions), nor the Cuban people who one morning woke up to hear the news through the radio and from the mouth of Fidel Castro, that in response to the imperialist attacks, the island had become "socialist."
  67. The Cultivation of Hate
    The Lies Grow More Audacious

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    If there were any doubts that Western “leaders” live in a fantasy make-believe world constructed out of their own lies, the G-7 meeting and 70th anniversary celebration of the Normandy landing dispelled the doubts.
  68. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
  69. The Danger in Lebanon
    Against The Current vol. 120

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The assasination [of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri] resulted in the intensification of the campaign by the USA and France against the Syrian presence and influence in Lebanon. This pressure was able to base itself on the mass mobilization inside Lebanon, which forced the withdrawal of Syrian troops.
  70. The Day America Died
    Assassinating Awlaki

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    As long as the President sanctions an illegal act, executive branch employees are no longer accountable to the law that prohibits the illegal act. On the president’s authority, the executive branch can violate US laws against spying on Americans without warrants, indefinite detention, and torture and suffer no consequences.
  71. December 17: Sources, Results & Prospects
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    After 50 years, Washington has had to recognize that if it wants any influence in Latin America, the road to Latin America leads through Havana, not around it.
  72. The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
  73. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  74. Dilemmas of Domination
    The Unmaking of the American Empire

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
  75. Dominance and its Dilemmas
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky responds to the Bush Administration's announcement of the new National Security Strategy that asserts power through force. He discusses the accompanying implications of the strategy and warns against using violence as a means of control.
  76. The Economic War Against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U.S. Blockade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    Salim Lamrani explains the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans.
  77. Empire and Its Discontents
    "Losing" the World

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  78. The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Engelhardt explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the administration of younger George Bush brought "victory culture" roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq. Further, he analyzes how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
  79. Endless Atrocities: The US Role In Creating The North Korean Fortress-State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    An overview of the history that informs North Korea's relations with the United States and "drives its determination never to submit to any American diktat".
  80. Endless War: The Suicide Of The United States
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Soldiers are returning from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan destroyed mentally, spiritually, and psychologically, to a general population that is, mostly, willfully ignorant of the occupations and the soldiers participating in them. Troops face a Department of Veterans Affairs that is either unwilling or unable to help them with their physical and psychological wounds, and they are left to fend for themselves.
  81. The Essential Chomsky 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time.The Essential Chomsky assembles the core of his most important writings, including excerpts from his most influential texts over the past forty years.
  82. Everyone Washington Supports, by Definition, Is a Moderate Centrist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Many right-wing movements and leaders are described as moderate or even left-leaning by politicians and corporate media. In these cases the terms no longer have a political definition but is a way to convey approval.
  83. Evil Takes the High Road
    Wrapping a Policy of Global Domination in the American Flag

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    No heavens for those who live in one of the Muslim countries in which the United States is waging its preemptive global “war on terrorism.”
  84. Experts Warned For Years That NATO Expansion Would Lead To This
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    Analysts and diplomats have been saying since the 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually spark a conflict in Eastern Europe.
  85. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
  86. The Face of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Parenti redefines empire and imperialism to connect the current crisis in America to its own bad behavior worldwide.
  87. Fair Play for Cuba Committee
    Connexipedia article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
  88. The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine
    The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Washington needs a war in Ukraine to achieve its strategic objectives.
  89. 'Flooding the Zone' with Bullshit on Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In recent weeks, the Obama Administration has been embarked on a massive propaganda campaign they call “flooding the zone.” We hope to provide the most direct and systematic refutation of the Administration’s case for war in Syria.
  90. The Fog of Intelligence 
    Or How to Be Eternally "Caught Off Guard" in the Greater Middle East

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The phrase "the fog of war" stands in for the inability of commanders to truly grasp what's happening in the chaos that is any battlefield. Perhaps it's time to introduce a companion phrase: the fog of intelligence.
  91. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
  92. For Reasons of State
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
  93. Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 120

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
  94. From Wikileaks to TSA
    Anti-Empire Report

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    We have to remind the American people of what they once knew but seem to have forgotten: that they don't want BIG government, or SMALL government; they don't want MORE government, or LESS government; they want government ON THEIR SIDE.
  95. FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
  96. Fueling the Fire
    U.S. Policy and the Western Sahara Conflict

    Resource Type: Book
    This essay describes and analyzes the role of the United States in the Western Sahara conflict. It is not a happy record, but one of malice and conspiracy, in which the various administrations of the United States abandoned the broader principles of justice and support for the right to self-determination. Instead, they decided to back a brutal war against the Sahrawi people in support of Morocco's illegal occupation of the territory.
  97. The Fun of Empire: Fighting on All Sides of a War in Syria
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Now the Obama administration and American political class is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the failed “Bomb Assad!” campaign by starting a new campaign to bomb those fighting against Assad – the very same side the U.S. has been arming over the last two years.
  98. Globalization vs. Empire: Can Trump Contain the Growing Split?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A brief history of US policy supporting globalization and the growing divide it has created between US hegemony and global capitalism, and criticism of the Trump administrations capability to deal with the impacts of this divide.
  99. The Great Libya War Fraud
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Coming so soon after the incomplete but still damning exposure of the Iraq deception - with the bloodbath still warm - the media's deep conformity and wilful gullibility on the 2011 Libyan war left even jaundiced observers aghast. It was clear that we were faced with a pathological system of propaganda on Perpetual War autopilot.
  100. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
  101. Help or Hindrance?
    United States Economic Aid in Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Help or Hindrance? uncovers why the economic crisis in Central America has worsened as U.S. aid has skyrocketed in the 1980s. This report shows how security and military related aid, hidden under the rubric "economic aid," has far surpassed assistance for economic development, and argues that the positions of the fiscal conservatives, seeking to save U.S. taxpayers' money, and humanitarians, seeking to help the poor, are not necessarily in opposition.
  102. "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
  103. History and Hypocrisy: Why the Korean War Matters in the Age of Trump
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The DPRK's recent missile test is a "provocation" according to US state sources. A provocation indeed. Firing things into the air that go bang is clearly not a nice thing to do. People really should ease up on things that explode. I mean somebody could get hurt.
  104. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
  105. How America Determines Friends and Foes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Bush II's approach to "ridding the world of evil" includes treating every nation harboring terrorists as terrorist states. Chomsky ponders what this standard would mean if applied to America.
  106. How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
  107. How Russia Became "Our Adversary" Again
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    How did Russia, which has been a capitalist state for a querter of a century, become "our adversary" to the United States?
  108. How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.
  109. Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1978
  110. Humanity Imperiled: The Path To Disaster 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    For the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.
  111. Imperial Crusades
    Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
  112. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  113. In Ukraine, 'No One Hears That There Is a Diplomatic Solution'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  114. An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
    Nothing Can Justify Torture

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
  115. Iraq 1990-1991
    Desert Holocaust

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the American invasion of Iraq (Desert Shield) in 1990-91.
  116. Iraq: Guerrilla War in Sadr City
    Against The Current vol. 114

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    In attacking first Najaf, then Tal Afar and Samarra, and finally tackling the center of Sunni resistance in Fallujah, the United States was seeking to reverse this process. But these attacks were not designed to restore order; they were, instead, intended to prevent the consolidation of a very orderly anti-American status quo in a constantly expanding set of "liberated" areas. Ironically, the American attacks in the Fall of 2004 underscore the larger contradictions in American policy in Iraq: that the chaos American leaders keep saying there are preventing will, in fact, occur only if U.S. military forces succeed in destroying these nascent city-states.
  117. Iraq's Torture by Sanctions
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    An interview with Kathy Kelly. Kathy Kelly, organizer for Voices in the Wilderness, has been involved in the struggle around ending sanctions against Iraq for the past decade. David Finkel interviewed her for Against the Current in January 2001.
  118. Israel, Lebanon and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
  119. The Israel Lobby and the "National Interest"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Israel's ethnic cleansing does, in fact, serve the elite's interest. It is a classic example of divide-and-rule applied to the population of the Middle East: foment an ethnic war of Arab versus Jew. Israel plays the same role in the Middle East that the Klu Klux Klan played in the American South for the benefit of the South's upper class: keep the working class population fighting each other along racial lines.
  120. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
  121. The Israel Lobby's Power Comes from The American Ruling Class
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    By ensuring that the American mass media refrain from telling Americans the true reason (Israel's ethnic cleansing) why Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims take up arms against Israel, the American ruling class ensures that Americans will believe the lie that Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims are hateful, irrational, anti-semitic terrorists who kill decent Israelis "just like us" and would likewise kill Americans if we fail to obey our upper class rulers who protect us from terrorism.
  122. The Issue is Not Trump, It is Us
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Until real politics return to people's lives, the enemy is not Trump, it is ourselves.
  123. Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The American airwaves quiver with the screams of parlor assassins howling for Julian Assange's head.
  124. Keeping the Rabble in Line
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
  125. Killing Hope 
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
  126. Latin America to Iraq: Greg Grandin's Empire's Workshop
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The decade of the '70s was not good for U.S. imperialism. The American defeat in Southeast Asia led to the development of the “Vietnam syndrome” and with it the reluctance to use U.S. troops in wars abroad.
  127. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
  128. Lessons of an Ambiguous Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The conflict around Congress' granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) signals the opening of important new terrain of political struggle. With the background of the two major mass demonstrations against neoliberalism in Seattle and Washington D.C., perhaps the most significant and interesting political development is the leadership role of the AFL-CIO in mobilizing against the most important policy initiative of the waning Clinton administration.
  129. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  130. The Lie of American Innocence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since Russia, like the United States, does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But justice is not the point. Politicians like Biden, who do not accept responsibility for our well-documented war crimes, bolster their moral credentials by demonizing their adversaries. They know the chance of Putin facing justice is zero. And they know their chance of facing justice is the same.
  131. "Listen, Yankee!": Tom Hayden Captures Absurdity of Cuban Embargo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US embargo of Cuba, like a bad hangover from the Cold War, has lingered on for far too long. After decades of bingeing on the country's particularly potent brand of anticommunism, the nation's ruling elite has found it near impossible to kick its predilection for holding Cuba to a higher standard than it does for putative US allies and, for that matter, the United States itself.
  132. The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A detailed account of US-backed groups that positioned Juan Guaidó to declare himself president of Venezuela.
  133. A Marxist History of the World part 104: 2001: 9/11, the War on Terror, and the New Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital.
  134. Massacres Under the Looking Glass
    The ICC and Colombia

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) just published its Interim Report on Colombia. In the Report, the ICC explains that Colombia has been under preliminary examination by the ICC since June 2004. The military carried out its most notorious violations while under the ICC’s Clouseau-like scrutiny.
  135. Michael Berg for U.S. Congress in Delaware: A Voice Against War
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On June 8 Americans awoke to the news that the U.S. military in Iraq had killed Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, alleged leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. In the midst of press coverage that cravenly accepted government claims that this was, once again, a turning point in the war, one voice in the mass media dramatically countered government claims - that of Michael Berg, Green Party candidate for Delaware's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  136. The Middle East in Flames
    Against The Current vol. 124

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
  137. Models of Coming U.S. Interventions: Iraq or Haiti?
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis.
  138. Moral Truisms, Empirical Evidence, and Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Noam Chomsky systematically discusses terrorism and "just war" in relationship to moral standards such as "what goes for others goes for us". He demonstrates that, according to US behavior in the past and this principle, other actors may be entitled to use terrorist strategy against the USA.
  139. The Most Dangerous Man in America
    Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience.
  140. My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.
  141. The Nagorno-Karabakh Story the US Does Not Want You to Know
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In the early morning hours of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijan launched a major military offensive into the disputed region Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) that's been controlled and defended by NK Armenian forces since the Russian brokered truce ended a bloody three year war in 1994. While Azeri President Ilham Aliyev was flying back to Baku after meeting 24 hours earlier with John Kerry in Washington who claimed "an ultimate resolution" had been reached, Azerbaijan was already once again at war with the NK Armenians.
  142. Naomi Klein's "Courage"
    Ain't But One Way Out

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    In saying that we need to make Iraq safe for democracy, Klein is buying into the US agenda for Iraq.
  143. National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
    Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) -- a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance "democracy promotion" initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable "Awarded Grants Search" database.
  144. The National Security State Cops a Feel
    Taking Off the Gloves (Then Everything Else)

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    It's finally coming into focus, and it’s not even a difficult equation to grasp. It goes like this: take a country in the grips of an expanding national security state and sooner or later your "safety" will mean your humiliation, your degradation. And by the way, it will mean the degradation of your country, too.
  145. The New Cold War Policy Has Backfired
    How the US Created Its Own Worst Nightmare

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The world’s geopolitics, major trade patterns and military alliances have changed radically in the past month. Russia has re-oriented its gas and oil trade, and also its trade in military technology, away from Europe toward Eurasia. The result is the opposite of America’s hope for the past half-century of dividing and conquering Eurasia: setting Russia against China, isolating Iran, and preventing India, the Near East and other Asian countries from joining together to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar area.
  146. New World Order
    A postwar analysis

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
  147. The Next War on Washington's Agenda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It could not be more obvious that Washington’s war preparations against Iran have nothing to do with deterring Iran from a nuclear weapon. So, what are the war preparations about?
  148. No Actually The US Empire Is Still The Power To Criticize
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  149. No Ban! No Wall! No War?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The corporate media avoids connecting our wars to Trump's ban because war and empire is a matter of agreement among the political elites, an elite that the corporate media is very much a part of.
  150. No Easy Victories
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
  151. No matter how it appears, Trump isn't getting out of Syria and Afghanistan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Trump's plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and Syria don't reflect a large change in US foreign policy. US troops are only a small part of the forces currently deployed there and they will probably be replaced with mercenaries paid for by oil monarchies.
  152. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  153. No One Else Will Stop The Killing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Because we personally understand what war truly means, we have written, called and demonstrated repeatedly for an end to the killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  154. Nothing Succeeds Like Failure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. has been warring with the Islamic State (IS) for more than a year now. The centerpiece of that war has been an ongoing campaign of bombings and air strikes in Syria and Iraq, thousands upon thousands of them.
  155. Nuclear Weapons Ban? What Needs to be Banned Is U.S. Arrogance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Nuclear disarmament will be possible only when leaders in Washington recognize that other peoples also have a right and a will to live.
  156. The NYT's Love Letter to Death Squads
    Hymns to the Silence

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    It is, I confess, beyond all my imagining that a national leader so deeply immersed in murdering people would trumpet his atrocity so openly, so gleefully - and so deliberately, sending his top aides out to collude in a major story in the nation's leading newspaper, to ensure maximum exposure of his killing spree.
  157. Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. continues to massacre Yemeni civilians, both directly and through its tyrannical Saudi partners.
  158. Obama Launches an Illegal War in Syria
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    First Published: 2014
    President Obama’s decision to bomb Syria stands in stark violation of international law, the UN Charter, and the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
  159. Obama's Afghanistan War: Morally Wrong, or Incompetently Waged?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    For our rulers, the point of a war is to make us Americans feel the way only a war can--determined to prevail over a dangerous foreign enemy by supporting our leaders when we would otherwise oppose them over domestic issues. Wars are waged for domestic social control and to justify enormous arms expenditures and contracts. Our leaders need wars to drag on so the enemy can be deemed sufficiently dangerous and implacable and thus the war made to seem important or necessary.
  160. Obama's Double-Standard On Russia: He Attacks Russia, Then Condemn's Putin For Defending Russia From His Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Obama overthrew the legal Government, and replaced it by this illegal one. But now he criticizes Putin as if he were the aggressor instead of the defender here. And Obama demands that the Soviet dictator's forced transfer of Crimea to Ukraine be legal and that Putin's defense of Crimeans' democratic self-determination in response to that coup be considered illegal.
  161. Obama's House of Cards
    Will Russia and China Hold Their Fire Until War Is the Only Alternative?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Barak Obama's September 24 speech at the UN is the most absurd thing I have heard in my entire life. It is absolutely amazing that the president of the United States would stand before the entire world and tell what everyone knows are blatant lies while simultaneously demonstrating Washington's double standards and belief that Washington alone, because the US is exceptional and indispensable, has the right to violate all law.
  162. Obama's Hypocritical Crusade Against Extremism
    Will the Feds Soon be Targeting People With a "Bad Attitude"?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    In his speech last month to the United Nations, President Obama summoned foreign leaders to join his "campaign against extremism." Obama has repeatedly invoked the "extremist" threat to justify attacking abroad and seizing more power at home since taking office in 2009. But the president's own record makes it tricky for him to pirouette as the World Savior of Moderation.
  163. Obama's Imperial Continuity
    Against The Current vol. 146

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Despite the rhetoric of hope and promises of “change we can believe in” that ushered him into the White House, Barack Obama has offered anything but a marked shift in the fundamental course of U.S. foreign policy. The change Obama has brought — to the relief of U.S. and global elites — is away from the George W. Bush-era fantasy that U.S. military firepower and ideological muscle could unilaterally dominate the globe. But his underlying policy goals are very much in continuity not only with Bush but with a century of his predecessors.
  164. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
  165. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
  166. On Syria Crisis and Prospects
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    This article speculates and considers the probable outcomes and consequences that could result if a U.S. bombing campaign against Syria takes place.
  167. The Opposites Game
    All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The surpassing strangeness of the American way of war in distant lands.
  168. Opposition to U.S. war against Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  169. The Other 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Whether or not activists will ever mount a serious threat to U.S. hegemony and propaganda remains to be seen. One thing is certain, however: Without such organizing, action, and sacrifice, there will be many more wars and interventions and many more lies told to obscure the truth about them.
  170. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 27, 2014
    Climate Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2014
    The theme for this issue, and the topic of the week, is Climate Change. Groups and websites engaged in the fight for action on global warming and climate justice are featured. Book of the week is Magdoff and Foster's "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism." In addition to articles on climate change, there are articles on Ebola, corporate tax evasion, and state terrorism, as well as a 1971 interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
  171. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
    Ukraine

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
  172. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
  173. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Destabilization and Regime Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
  174. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 20, 2016
    Fake News

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    "Fake news" is the latest mania to convulse the mainstream media. All at once, we're being subjected to an outbreak of hand-wringing articles and commentary about obscure websites which are supposedly poisoning public opinion and undermining democracy by spreading "fake news." Since we don't like to be left out when a new fad comes on the scene, Other Voices is jumping on the bandwagon too, with this, our last issue of 2016, devoted to "fake news." Our focus, however, is not so much on the crackpots and trolls making mischief on the fringes, but on the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
  175. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
    Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
  176. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
  177. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
  178. Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
  179. Overwrought Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Americans lived in a “victory culture” for much of the twentieth century. You could say that they experienced an almost 75-year stretch of triumphalism -- think of it as the real “American Century” -- from World War I to the end of the Cold War, with time off for a destructive stalemate in Korea and a defeat in Vietnam too shocking to absorb or shake off.
  180. Palestinian Democracy
    Against The Current vol. 121

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
  181. Panama invasion protest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  182. Passionate Declarations
    Essays on War and Justice

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2003
    Essays looking at American political ideology.
  183. Peace Beyond Annapolis
    Against The Current vol. 132

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    What are the prospects for progress toward Israeli-Palestinian and regional peace coming out of the one-day conference called by president George W. Bush? One leading Arab-American organization offering a positive vision “hopes to see a just, comprehensive and lasting peace result out of the initial Middle East peace discussions taking place in Annapolis, Maryland.”
  184. Peace Mom
    A Mother's Journey Through Heartache to Activism

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    An American mother loses her 24-year-old soldier son, killed in action in Iraq, and leads her to become a prominent US anti-war activist.
  185. Perspectives On Power
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
  186. PFC Bradley Manning, Patriot
    Why Manning was Within His Rights to Give Secrets to Wikileaks

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  187. Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
  188. Power, illusion and America's last taboo
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Since 1945, the United States has overthrown fifty governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements, and supported tyrannies and set up torture chambers from Egypt to Guatemala. Countless men, women and children have been bombed to death. Bombing is apple pie. And yet, here is the 44th President of the United States, having stacked his government with warmongers and corporate fraudsters and polluters from the Bush and Clinton eras, teasing us while promising more of the same.
  189. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  190. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  191. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
  192. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
  193. Pretensions to Empire
    Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Delves into the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush, and makes the case for impeachment.
  194. Pretensions to Empire
    Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Adminstration

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Latham's hypothesis's is that the Bush administration perverted the democratic legacy of America. He argues that Bush attempted to transform America into a Global empire -- the one superpower that would strike anywhere on the planet and catalogues the mistruths, evasions and deceptions of the administration.
  195. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
  196. The Profits of War: Planning to Bomb Iran
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It is no longer a secret that the Bush administration has been methodically paving the way toward a bombing strike against Iran. The administration’s plans of an aerial military attack against that country have recently been exposed by a number of reliable sources.
  197. Propaganda Techniques of Empire 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Washington’s quest for perpetual world power is underwritten by systematic and perpetual propaganda wars. Every major and minor war has been preceded, accompanied and followed by unremitting government propaganda designed to secure public approval, exploit victims, slander critics, dehumanize targeted adversaries and justify its allies’ collaboration. In this paper Petras discusses the most common recent techniques used to support ongoing imperial wars.
  198. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
  199. The Protectionist Trap
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    In July, the United Nations and some fifty large corporations came to an agreement that the companies would all respect workers' rights and protect the environment in their investments around the world. Anyone who believes that this will actually happen is maybe in the market for a certain bridge as well.
  200. Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror"
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-term implications.
  201. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  202. The Real Costs of Empire
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Vietnam all over again? Yes, it is. The massacres by United States military forces of unarmed civilians in Haditha and, as is finally being revealed despite official lies and coverup, numerous other Iraqi towns, are showing tens of millions of Americans what this war is, and part of what it really costs. The highest costs obviously are borne by the ordinary people of Iraq; but American society will pay for decades as well for this dirty conflict -- and worse is yet to come.
  203. The real first casualty of war
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Censorship by journalism is virulent in Britain and the US - and it means the difference between life and death for people in faraway countries.
  204. The Real Terror Network 
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
  205. The Realpolitik of President Jimmy Carter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
  206. Reasons to Fear U.S.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky reveals that since 9/11 the US has failed to address the roots of terrorism and has instead waged war rather than striving to achieve peace.
  207. Recalling the Hundreds of Thousands of Civilian Victims of America's Endless 'War on Terror'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    According to very conservative estimates, as reported by the "Costs of War" project of Brown University’s Watson Institute on International and Public Affairs, nearly 250,000 civilians have been killed during the 8 years since September 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in wars or attacks that were instigated by the United States.
  208. Relentless Persistence
    Nonviolent Action in Latin America

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
  209. Remembering the War and the Movement
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    February 28, 1991. Thinking that weeks of war and antiwar organizing were still ahead (not my only mistake during those months!), I took a Canadian vacation at the end of February 1991 with my lover Christopher. On the morning of February 28 I got up in Vancouver in the friend's house where we were staying and went to collect the Globe and Mail from the front stoop.
  210. Responding to Washington's Haiti Coup
    Against The Current vol. 110

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Caribbean People, representatives of Caribbean organizations and people of Caribbean descent meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados on Saturday March 20th, 2004, unanimously agreed to call on CARICOM Governments to take the following steps as a matter of urgency. In addition we committed ourselves to immediately begin to mobilize public opinion and action in the Caribbean region ourselves, to oppose and reverse the deadly threat to democracy in the Caribbean resulting from the violent overthrow of the Aristide Government by criminal forces supported by the United States of America and France.
  211. A Response to Critics
    Against The Current vol. 123

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    David Finkel's comments (ATC 122) about my book Is Iraq Another Vietnam?, and about my position against immediately withdrawing the US military from Iraq, were well-informed and fair. So were the judgments of Gilbert Achcar in his interview with Susan Weissman, though his focus was on the withdrawal issue in general and not on my essay specifically. Likewise, Michael Schwartz's current ATC response reflects an impressive familiarity with Iraq and the Middle East, and his critique of my analysis is well-taken.
  212. Rethinking Camelot
    JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
  213. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
  214. Robots Kill, But The Blood Is On Our Hands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Killing individuals (and whoever is near them) has become the primary substitute in U.S. public policy for capture/imprisonment/torture. Torturing someone to death is not what former CIA General Counsel John Rizzo calls "clean." Blowing them and anyone near them into little bits is "clean." As Medea Benjamin documents, the United States has avoided detaining people, only to murder them with a drone days later.
  215. Rogue State 
    A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
  216. The Roots of American Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Kolko outlines the nature of American power and interest in the modern world and provides an assessment of who gains and who loses as a result of the policies Washington pursues.
  217. The Samson Option
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
  218. Secret Armies, Shadow Wars, Silent Unaccountability
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    We live today in an era of postmodern war. It's a two-front war -- the first being the virtual front of threats, posturing, and arms buildups we persist in waging, Cold War-style, against state-based mirror-images of ourselves (Russia and China); the second being the dirty front we wage in the shadows against irregular, non-state thugs and pygmy tyrants who use their weaknesses as strengths, asymmetrically, to turn our strengths into weaknesses.
  219. The Servility of the Satellites
    The Snowden Affair and the Destruction of Effective Democracy in Europe

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Recent revelations confirm the completion of the transformation of the "Western democracies" into something else, an entity that as yet has no recognized name. The outrage against the Bolivian President confirmed that this trans-Atlantic entity has absolutely no respect for international law, even though its leaders will make use of it when it suits them. But respect it, allow it to impede their actions in any way? Certainly not. And this disrespect for the law is linked to a more basic institutional change: the destruction of effective democracy at the national level.
  220. Six Facts from Sudden Justice, A New History of the Drone War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars, a new book by London-based investigative journalist Chris Woods, traces the intertwined technological, legal and political history of drones as they evolved on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the covert U.S. targeted killing campaign.
  221. The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    On October 2, 2015, President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia's decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted "from the perspective they're all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it's one that I reject."
  222. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  223. Socialist Register 1994
    Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
  224. Soft-Powering Cuba
    Regime-Change in a Box

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    How the U.S. uses "soft power" to undermine governments abroad and democracy at home.
  225. "Sovereign" Deportations: The Dominican Republic deportations cannot occur without US blessing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    People born to undocumented Haitian parents in the Dominican Republic have left under threat of violence. "Voluntary" deportations have had a strong US influence given the political and economic power that the North American country exerts on the island.
  226. The struggle of Venezuela against 'a common enemy' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    John Pilger discusses the reasons that the United States continues to work continuously to overthrow Venezuela's left-learning government. The U.S. government makes absurd claims that Venezuela poses a grave 'threat' to the United States, but the truth is the opposite: the U.S. government poses a grave threat to Venezuela and its people.
  227. Stuxnet on the Loose
    Security for the One Percent

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable criminal transgressions, normally causing our elected officials and military leaders to erupt in fits of righteous indignation. That is, unless the United States is doing the spying and the sabotaging.
  228. Super Imperialism: The economic strategy of American empire with economist Michael Hudson
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    Economist Michael Hudson discusses the update of his book "Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire" and the financial motivations behind the US new cold war on China and Russia.
  229. Target Africa
    The U.S. military's expanding footprint in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. military has engaged in a largely covert effort to extend across Africa with a network of low-profile camps. These facilities allow U.S. forces to surveil and operate on large areas of the continent and to strike targets with drones and manned aircraft.
  230. Thank God for the Revolution
    A Journey through Central America

    Resource Type: Book
    Coxsedge compares daily life in Nicaragua after the revolution with El Salvador at that time, warning of the dangers to the region of US policies.
  231. Tomorrow's Battlefield
    U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    U.S. military is fighting shadow wars in Africa and claims that Africa is the "battlefield of tomorrow".
  232. Top 50 US War Criminals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Brief profiles of men and women who planned wars of agression and other war crimes.
  233. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
  234. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
  235. Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
  236. Trump's Amoral Saudi Statement Is a Pure Expression of Decades-Old 'U.S. Values' and Foreign Policy Orthodoxies
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Donald Trump's statement that the US would continue business and diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi may be blunter than people are used to but it is standard operating procedure of American policy.
  237. Trump's Muslim Ban Will Only Spark More Terrorist Attacks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees and visitors from seven Muslim countries entering the US makes a terrorist attack on Americans at home or abroad more rather than less likely. It does so because one of the main purposes of al-Qaeda and Isis in carrying out atrocities is to provoke an over-reaction directed against Muslim communities and states.
  238. Trying to Arrest Madeleine Albright
    Against The Current vol. 81

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    I used to cringe every time I'd be in a demo and hear the chant, "You can't run. You can't hide. We charge you with genocide!" But in the case of the sanctions against Iraq it really has become genocide: hundreds of thousands of civilians have been deliberately killed through the intentional crippling of Iraqi water treatment system and the sanctions that prevent Iraq from selling enough oil to cover essential civilian needs. Clinton, Albright, and Cohen are-in a very literal sense-war criminals.
  239. Understanding Power
    The Indispensable Chomsky

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2002
    In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
  240. U.S. Military Operations Are Biggest Motivation for Homegrown Terrorists, FBI Study Finds
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A secret FBI study found that anger over U.S. military operations abroad was the most commonly cited motivation for individuals involved in cases of "homegrown" terrorism. The report also identified no coherent pattern to "radicalization," concluding that it remained near impossible to predict future violent acts.
  241. The U.S. Pushed North Korea to Build Nukes: Yes or No?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Washington's policy toward North Korea for the last 64 years entirely based on the assumption that you can persuade people to do what you want them to do through humiliation, intimidation and brute force.
  242. U.S. Sponsored Low Intensity Conflict in the Philippines
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  243. Unspeakable: the Black Book of Imperial Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    American "mainstream" journalists who want to keep their paychecks flowing and their status afloat know they must report current events in a way that respects the taboo status of the nation's underlying inequality and oppression structures and its savage and relentless imperial criminality.
  244. Untold History of the United States
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    A 2012 documentary series directed, produced, and narrated by Oliver Stone. The ten-part series is supplemented by a 750-page companion book, The Untold History of the United States, also written by Stone and Kuznick, released on Oct 30, 2012.
  245. US Approach to Ukraine and Russia Has Left the Domain of Rational Discourse
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  246. The US arming of Ukraine and the danger of World War III
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Obama administration wants to arm the right-wing regime in Ukraine with billions of dollars in advanced weaponry, which may spark a direct conflict between the US and Russia, two nuclear-armed powers, and ignite a Third World War.
  247. U.S. Bombing: Murder as Usual
    Against The Current vol. 91

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Voices in the Wilderness decries today's bombardment of Iraq which hit sites just south of Baghdad. However, we find it instructive to recall the digest of bombings that occurred in the past week and to note that on December 22, 2000 the Gulf News from Dubai quoted figures of civilians killed and injured as a result of US/UK air raids since December 1998 as 311 killed and 927 wounded.
  248. The US coup in Venezuela: New attempt to eradicate the Chavista Revolution 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    The coup in Venezuela is the latest in a long history of US attempts to undermine and overthrow progressive governments in Latin America. American progressives must do more to stop this aggression.
  249. US Democrats Cultivated the Barbarism of Isis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    There is something profoundly deceitful in the Democratic Party and corporate media's framing of Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to like Trump or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the sudden departure of US forces from northern Syria to understand that the coverage is being crafted in such a way as to entirely overlook the bigger picture.
  250. The U.S. Embargo against Venezuela
    The State Department's Mock Indignation Gives a Bad Name to U.S. Diplomacy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    A discussion of the 2006 U.S. arms embargo against Venezuela.
  251. US, EU sacrificing Ukraine to 'weaken Russia': former NATO adviser
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    As the Russia-Ukraine war enters a new phase, former Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbour.
  252. US Foreign Policy Is a Cruel Sport
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  253. U.S. Government Assassination Plots
    An appendiex to Killing Hope, by William Blum

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War.
  254. The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom
    Hillary the Identity Thief

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The leaked Wikileaks documents show that the last thing the US government wants anywhere is a government that is accountable to its own citizens instead of to the US government.
  255. US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
  256. US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A summary of several US attempts at diplomacy that have failed due to their unwillingness to make any concessions to the other party.
  257. Venezuela: US, elite launch new attacks on democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Venezuela is facing new attempts to subvert its democracy and roll-back the pro-poor process of social change known as the Bolivarian revolution.
  258. A Victory and Some Risks
    Statement from the Fourth International

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    It is necessary to create the conditions of democratic debate in all the popular organizations in Cuba.
  259. War and the Culture of Violence
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Last year I had the opportunity to see “Winter Soldier,” a rarely shown 1971 documentary based on the testimony of over 100 soldiers recently back from Vietnam. It was filmed during a three-day hearing on war crimes that Vietnam Vets against the War organized in Detroit. Young soldiers spoke about atrocities they had committed in the name of freedom and democracy: throwing suspects out of planes, torching villages, raping women, killing civilians. Of course the Nixon administration attempted to discredit the soldiers and their stories.
  260. War in Europe and the Rise of Raw Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  261. The War on Democracy 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    This film by John Pilger explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
  262. The War on Democracy in Latin America: Interview with John Pilger
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Journalist, writer and filmmaker John Pilger granted this exclusive interview where he talks about the US war on democracy in Latin America. "Modern era imperialism is a war on democracy. Genuine democracy is a threat to unfettered power and cannot be tolerated", he says.
  263. War(s) With No Exit
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The raging debate on “war policy” between the corporate presidential campaigns has come down to this:
  264. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
    Chomsky and Herman demonstrate, with devasting logic and overwhelming documentation, that the purpose of U.S. global policy is to make the world safe for exploitation by U.S. corporate interests and that this has required and continues to require the installation and support of brutal military/police dictatorships throught the Third World. It also requires an apologetic ideology which portrays all this as being in the highest interests of democracy and human rights.
  265. Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
  266. Washington Plays Russian Roulette
    Seeing Red

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
  267. Washington Threatens The World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The consequence of Washington’s reckless and irresponsible political and military interventions in Iraq, Libya, and Syria has been to unleash evil. The various sects that lived in peace under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad are butchering one another, and a new group, ISIS, is in the process of creating a new state out of parts of Iraq and Syria.
  268. Washington’s Frozen War Against Russia
    Frack the EU!

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    For over a year, the United States has played out a scenario designed to (1) reassert U.S. control over Europe by blocking E.U. trade with Russia, (2) bankrupt Russia, and (3) get rid of Vladimir Putin and replace him with an American puppet, like the late drunk, Boris Yeltsin.
  269. Washington's Sanctions War
    A Futile Attempt To Control the World Economy

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    In essence, economic sanctions assume that the state is entitled to expropriate and destroy economic value owned by any business which had been doing good faith trading or financial transactions with sanctioned Russian entities.
  270. Washington’s Secret Agendas
    Imperial Rot

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    One might think that by now even Americans would have caught on to the constant stream of false alarms that Washington sounds in order to deceive the people into supporting its hidden agendas.
  271. We Own the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    The whole debate about the Iranian 'interference' in Iraq makes sense only on one assumption, namely, that we own the world. If we own the world, then the only question that can arise is that someone else is interfering in a country we have invaded and occupied.
  272. We're facing a new Cold War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The linguist and philosopher on the warped coverage of Putin's Russia and the ways we whitewash our war crimes.
  273. What Americans Have Learnt --and not Learnt-- Since 9/11
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    While the American people seemed to have been shocked into awareness as a result of 9/11, Chomsky still identififes a lack of focus on the relevant issues.
  274. 'What can I Do?'
    Citizen Strategies for Nuclear Disarmament

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  275. What Corporate Media Never Tells You about North Korea
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    There is a great deal of propaganda and deliberate misinformation about North Korea, which the public should know. While neocons, a cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush to war with North Korea, information is the ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that North Korea, China, and India, are the only three nations who have committed to a "no nuclear first" policy.
  276. What If Iran Had Invaded Mexico?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Noam Chomsky reverses roles and questions how America would respond if a threatening invader took over Canada or Mexico in a "liberation" attempt. Would America stand by quietly?
  277. What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Leaks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The media is interested in one and only one subject: advancing the anti-Iran narrative that is advocated by the neoconservatives, the War Party, and the Israel lobby.
  278. What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.
  279. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
  280. When Drones Come Home to Roost
    Monsters, Human and Mechanical

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The use of remote-controlled killing machines by the United States guarantees that in the future these same technologies will be used to strike targets in the U.S.
  281. Where the conspiracies are real
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    US expansionism in Latin America, sometimes violent, sometimes discreet, played such a large role in shaping the history of the continent that many still see the "black hand" of Washington behind every obstacle faced by progressive governments.
  282. Who Supported the Khmer Rouge?
    How the US Backed a Regime of Unrivaled Barbarism

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    With the conviction of former Khmer Rouge officials Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea for crimes against humanity, the subject of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 received a small amount of attention in the Western mass media. What the media failed to mention was how the Khmer Rouge was maintained as a military and political force long after its fall from power.
  283. Why "Coercive Diplomacy" is a Dangerous Farce
    Offering to talk while threatening military force hasn't worked in 30 years.

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    In the context of rising tensions between the USA and North Korea 2017-2018, historian and journalist Gareth Porter, details the history of failure of "Coercive Diplomacy" as a tool in US foreign policy.
  284. Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
    Gross Violations of Human Rights

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa's apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is 'anti-semitic' to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
  285. Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
  286. Why Pro-War Pundits Are Always Wrong
    Always Erasing the Victims

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    There is no shortage of men and women – but mostly men, typically white – willing to write 800- to 1,000-word editorials on the need for Decisive Action or Continued Resolve in Whereverthehellistan. Some of these people are historians, some are journalists, but all have attained material success in the field of arguing about war without ever once having to go through the trouble of being right.
  287. Why the rise of fascism is again the issue 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fascism is preserved as history, as flickering footage of goose-stepping blackshirts, their criminality terrible and clear. Yet in the same liberal societies, whose war-making elites urge us never to forget, the accelerating danger of a modern kind of fascism is suppressed; for it is their fascism.
  288. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault
    The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine -- beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004 -- were critical elements, too.
  289. Why Wikileaks Matters
    The Lies of Diplomats

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks.
  290. A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
    Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
  291. Wikileaks and the New Global Order
    America's Wake-Up Call

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The impression of a world running out of American control has become a theme touching all our lives over the past decade. The US invented and exported financial deregulation, promising it to be the epitome of the new capitalism that was going to offer the world economic salvation. The result is a banking crisis that now threatens to topple the very governments in Europe who are Washington’s closest allies.
  292. WikiLeaks continues exposure of predatory US foreign policy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the face of an unprecedented campaign of US harassment and intimidation, the Internet-based WikiLeaks group is continuing its efforts to expose the predatory role of American foreign policy around the world, releasing secret diplomatic documents every day.
  293. The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A compilation of contributions from WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, WikiLeaks section editor Sarah Harrison, and a team of journalists, professors, and writers. The book is full of eye-opening scholarly analysis of the diplomatic cables made public by the WikiLeaks group, focusing on the 2010 - 2011 'Cablegate' disclosures. It takes on a huge amount of data and delivers a thorough introduction to the narratives of U.S. policy that the cables reveal.
  294. Winter Soldier 2008
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    More than 250 veterans and military families gathered from March 13-15 outside Washington, DC for the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) Winter Soldier Investigation: Iraq and Afghanistan. Videos of their testimony on their experiences are posted at www.IVAW.org.
  295. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  296. A World War is Beckoning
    Break the Silence

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis”, as if the truth “never happened even while it was happening”.
  297. World's Most Tyrannical Regime Can't Stop Babbling About "Human Rights"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    Like all US secretaries of state, Blinken's public statements overwhelmingly focus on the claim that other nations abuse human rights, and that it is America’s duty to defend those rights. Which is very silly, considering the fact that the US government is the single worst human rights abuser on planet Earth.
  298. Would You Believe That the United States Tried to do Something That was Not Nice Against Hugo Chávez?
    The Plan to Destabilize Venesuela

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wikileaks releases documents on U.S. efforts to overthrow Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
  299. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
  300. The Zero-Sum Game of Perpetual War
    Why the Deep State Always Wins

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.

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