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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The Age of Imperialism
    The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1968
  4. The Age of Imperialistic Wars 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    There is no question that wars and military threats have replaced diplomacy, negotiations and democratic elections as the principal means of resolving political conflicts. Throughout the present year (2015) wars have spread across borders and escalated in intensity.
  5. 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.
  6. American Decline in Perspective
    Empire and Its Discontents
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  7. The American Empire and the Fourth World
    The Bowl With One Spoon, Part One
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Hall presents a sweeping analysis of encounters between indigenous people and the European empires, national governments, and global corporations on the moving frontiers of globalization since Columbus "discovered America."
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. America's War in Indochina
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    There is no special reason for America's intervention in Indochina, apart from her general policy of intervening anywhere in the world in order to prevent political and social changes that would be detrimental to the so-called 'free world,' and particularly to the power which dominates it.
  14. 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.
  15. Another World is Possible 
    Globalization and Anti-capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002   Published: 2006
    A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
  16. 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.
  17. At War With Asia
    Essays on Indochina
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Noam Chomsky examines the many effects of America's war in Indochina and tries to answer the questions that underlie this conflict.
  18. 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.
  19. The Bay of Pigs and Chronic Hubris
    The Same Mistake for 52 Years
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    April 17-19 marks the 52nd anniversary of the US-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion by Cuban exiles, our proxies to try to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
  20. 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.
  21. Beyond Iraq: The Spreading Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The disaster and carnage of the Iraq occupation is the center of a crisis now spreading through the region—to Iran, to Afghanistan and the India-Pakistan subcontinent, and especially to Israel-Palestine—with implications far beyond.
  22. 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.)
  23. Bordering On Aggression
    Evidence of U.S. Military Preparations Against Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  24. Boycott America: Are You Ready to Take On a Lone-Gun Superpower?
    Resource Type: Article
    Hit the superpower with a boycott the whole world can see, and that American power can really feel.
  25. Bush Fights For Another Clean Shot In The War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    The perversity of Bush's agenda.
  26. Canada Since 1960: A People's History
    A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2016
    An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
  27. Capitalism and Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
  28. 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.
  29. The Caracas Commitment
    Declaration from World Meeting of Left Parties, November 19-21, 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    We have gathered with the aim of unifying criteria and giving concrete answers that allow us to defend our sovereignty, our social victories, and the freedom of our peoples in the face of the generalized crisis of the world capitalist system and the new threats spreading over our region and the whole world.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. A Century Later
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    The year 1898 was a turning point for the American Republic in terms of boundary and economic establishment. Chomsky moves through the next 100 years during which America increasingly became involved in affairs outside of its borders.
  33. 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.
  34. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
  35. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  36. Connexions Library: Imperialism and Colonialism Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
  37. Connexions Library: International Affairs & Development Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on international issues.
  38. Connexions Library: Peace Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on peace and conflict resolution.
  39. Connexions Library: USA Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the United States of America.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. The Coup
    1953, the CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    In 1953, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency organized the overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next 26, the U.S. backed the unpopular, authoritarian shah and his secret police; in exchange, it reaped a share of Iran’s oil wealth. The blowback was almost inevitable, as this new and revealing history of the coup and its consequences shows.
  44. The Coup of Coups
    Putting the Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
  45. The Cover-Ups That Exploded
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
  46. Crisis in the US
    Social and Economic Effects, Restructuring and Methods of Adapting
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The cause of the crisis in the US must be found in the context of the world capitalist economy and not credited to internal causes. These internal causes of course exist but in fact only shape the way this crisis is expressed.
  47. 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.
  48. Cuba 1959 to 1980s
    The Unforgivable Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's continuing covert war against Cuba.
  49. 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."
  50. Cuba's Invasion Fears
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    There is nothing irrational about Cuba's fears of being invaded by the United States.
  51. 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.
  52. The Cynicism and the Slaughter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    IMPEACHMENT. BOMBING. ELECTION. Impeachment. Bombing. Perhaps by now, the scandal-witchhunt-Cruise missile cycle has become so predictable that it's hard to respond with appropriate outrage to the latest round. We all knew, after all, that it was going to happen. Yet outrage is absolutely necessary, even at a moment when atrocity follows atrocity and world-class crimes against humanity virtually crowd each other out of attention.
  53. 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.
  54. The Destabilization of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    A short summary of the illegal and suppressed details of American intervention in Haiti during the 1990's and early 2000's.
  55. Deterring Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  56. Devastating Crisis Unfolds
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
  57. 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.
  58. The Dirty Hand of the National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela
    Agents of Destabilization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Anti-government protests in Venezuela that seek regime change have been led by several individuals and organizations with close ties to the US government. The National Endowment for Democracy “NED” and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have channeled multi-million dollar funding to Lopez’s political parties Primero Justicia and Voluntad Popular, and Machado’s NGO Sumate and her electoral campaigns.
  59. Does The US Military Want To Kill Journalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Are the killings of journalists by the U.S. merely accidents, or are they deliberate?
  60. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Website
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  61. Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
  62. Ecuadorean Villagers May Still Triumph Over Chevron
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Michael Krauss, a lawyer who teaches "ethics" at a law school named after the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, recently posted a blog on the Forbes website entitled "The Ecuador Saga Continues: Steven Donziger now owes Chevron more than $800,000" (Forbes 3/14/2018). Kraus says that Chevron has basically triumphed over evil...
  63. Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
  64. Empire and Its Discontents
    "Losing" the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
  65. Empire of Capital 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
  66. The Empire and Ourselves
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Chomsky begins by asking why America's interest in a nation occurs when it does: why discuss Central America now and not 10 years ago? And why the concern with Central America over Haiti? He continues by exploring several instances in which the reasons of US involvement seem to be rooted in self-interest as opposed to strictly regional needs.
  67. The End of (Military) History?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. Counting on today's enemy to yield in the face of superior force makes about as much sense as buying lottery tickets to pay the mortgage: you better be really lucky.
  68. The Enemy
    Notes on Imperialism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  69. 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.”
  70. 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.
  71. Facing West: the Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    From John Endicott's war on the Niantics and Pequots, to the horrors of the My Lai massacre, Drinnon illustrates how Indian-hating in the Americas became a national pastime, and how that same hate was turned against the native populations of the Phillipines and Southeast Asia.
  72. Fake News about Venezuela: A Simple Recipe
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    "Journalists" who want to write fake news about Venezuela, or about any other country or group that dares to stand up to US imperialism, only need to follow this simple recipe:
    - Choose one or more countries/groups opposed to US imperialism
    - If available, have a former official, now being paid by the US government, make the accusations
    - Season well with doses of "war on terror" and/or "war on drugs"
    - Sprinkle with opinions of "experts" who work in DC think tanks or US-funded NGOs
  73. Fake News: the Unravelling of US Empire From Within
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A war of opposing certitudes and denunciations is waged day to day between the long-ruling US corporate media and the White House. Both continuously proclaim ringing recriminations of the other's 'fake news'. Over months they both portray each other as malevolent liars.
  74. 50 Years of Bretton Woods Institutions
    Enough
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This is an analysis of the IMF and World Bank's policies since its inception 50 years ago, and resistance campaigns towards them.
  75. The Fight for Canada 
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. Forging the Capital Security State
    Book Review of Panitch and Gindin's "The Making of Global Capitalism"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    "The Making of Global Capitalism" recounts how the United States came to rule and continues as the primary architect, coordinator and essential guarantor of the present empire of capital.
  79. Free Trade and the New Right Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A useful snapshot of the 'free trade' debate at the time of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.
  80. 'Freedom of the Seas' Means American Global Hegemony
    The US should stay out of the South China Sea dispute
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    There ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough to keep us from our sacred duty to protect the world from itself. From the South China Sea to the shores of the Black Sea, America stands guard over Freedom. This tweet from Foreign Policy magazine, the organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, states our mission bluntly: "The Obama administration will finally send a destroyer to uphold freedom of navigation in the South China Sea."
  81. 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.
  82. 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.
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. The Future of Israel and the Decline of the American Empire
    The Wages of Hubris and Vengeance
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel is in the grip of a kind of collective schizophrenia. Not only its governors but the majority of its Jewish population have delusions of both grandeur and persecution, making for a distortion of reality and inconsistent behaviour. Israeli Jews see and represent themselves as a chosen people and part of a superior Western civilization.
  86. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
  87. 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.
  88. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
  89. 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.
  90. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
  91. 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.
  92. Imperialism 101
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders.
  93. In a Time of Torment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s.
  94. An Indigenous People's History of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
  95. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
  96. Interview with Gilbert Achcar
    Against The Current vol. 122
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Susan Weissman interviewed Gilbert Achcar for her program, "Beneath the Surface," on KPFK, Pacifica radio in Los Angeles. In the following excerpt, Achcar discusses the questions of immediate withdrawal and civil war in Iraq.
  97. The Iraq Crisis in Context
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    A rogue state, heavily armed with weapons of mass destruction, openly contempuous of international law and the United Nations, plunges the world into crisis.
  98. 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.
  99. The Iraq War and Contempt for Democracy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky highlights that while the war in Iraq was being shaped, the voices of the people - neither in Iraq nor Europe - were being heard or considered. This is a clear violation of the principle that people play the main role in democratic societies.
  100. It Doesn't Matter to Them If It's Untrue. It's a Higher Truth.
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The lies used to justify the US/NATO attack on Libya.
  101. 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.
  102. The Kidnapping Of Haiti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Not for tourists is the US building its fifth-biggest embassy. Oil was found in Haiti's waters decades ago and the US has kept it in reserve until the Middle East begins to run dry. More urgently, an occupied Haiti has a strategic importance in Washington's "rollback" plans for Latin America. The goal is the overthrow of the popular democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, control of Venezuela's abundant petroleum reserves, and sabotage of the growing regional co-operation.
  103. 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."
  104. Laos After the Bombs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped two million tons of bombs on Laos. The horrendous effects are still being felt.
  105. 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.
  106. 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.
  107. The Leading Terrorist State
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    "It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels."
  108. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  109. The liberal way to run the world - "improve" or we'll kill you
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Since 1945, more than a third of the membership of the United Nations - 69 countries - have suffered some or all of the following. They have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted and their people bombed. The death toll is estimated to be in the millions. This has been principally the project of the liberal flame carrier, the United States.
  110. The Logic behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Revelations about the long-term global, intrusive spying by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other allied intelligence apparatuses have provoked widespread protests and indignation and threatened ties between erstwhile imperial allies.
  111. Looking Back -- and Ahead
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    The year 1968 stands out as one of those pivotal years on multiple political and cultural levels. Against the Current will devote considerable space to discussing what the upheavals of that year meant then, and now. Conventional media retrospectives will concentrate on the spectacular and appalling visual images — street rioting over the Vietnam War and the Martin Luther King assassination; the murder of Robert Kennedy; the debacle of the Democratic convention in Chicago, with police beating heads while Hubert Humphrey proclaimed “the politics of joy” in his nomination acceptance speech.
  112. The Madder Trump Gets, the More Seriously the World Takes Him
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The more dangerous America's crackpot President becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies and self-regard of this misogynist leader of the Western world appalled all of us. But the moment he went to war in Yemen, fired missiles at Syria and bombed Afghanistan, even the US media Trump had so ferociously condemned began to treat him with respect. And so did the rest of the world.
  113. 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.
  114. Manifesto of the Third Camp against US Militarism and Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The human and genuine solution to the problem of nuclear weapons, to Islamic terrorism and its horrific crimes against the people of the world, and to the militaristic bullying of the US and Western governments lies in the hands of us people.
  115. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
  116. 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.
  117. A Marxist History of the World part 98: The Vietnam War
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    How an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war.
  118. Mass Communications and American Empire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    An in-depth look at international and domestic media, and the effect of capitalism on mass communications.
  119. Media Lies And The War Drive Against Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Iran's crime is its independence. Having thrown out the US's favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a 'right to exist' in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington's behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.
  120. 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.
  121. Middle East Imperial Meltdown
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    How U.S. drive for "stability" in the Middle East produces the opposite, and how these crises feed back into the peculiarities of U.S. domestic political culture.
  122. 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.
  123. Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A large demonstration against the United States involvement in the Vietnam War that took place across the United States on October 15, 1969.
  124. 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.
  125. A Movement's Loss
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Puerto Rico is neither a state of the union, nor an independent nation-state. Its residents are U.S. citizens, go to war, have one representative in Congress who cannot vote or even present a motion, pay no taxes and do not vote for president, have no influence or say in federal law, yet are held to all federal standards. Thanks to this legal limbo, for years the island and its people have been used as testing ground for chemicals (e.g. the pill), war agents (e.g. Agent Orange), and even Monsanto is reaping profits now from transgenic crops (Puerto Rico has the highest proportion of Genetic Modification experiments per land area in the world).
  126. Naked Imperialism
    The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Examines the important transformation in U.S. global policy and ideology, showing the political and economic roots of the new militarism and its consequences both in the global and local context.
  127. The Narco News Bulletin
    Resource Type: Website
    Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
  128. 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.
  129. 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?
  130. 1965 U.S. Invasion of Dominican Republic
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1965   Published: 2015
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    In 1965 Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson launched a bloody invasion of the Dominican Republic. Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched to that Caribbean country to suppress a prerevolutionary situation and secure the interests of American sugar companies.
  131. Noam Chomsky And The BBC: A Brief Comparison
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A recent interview with 88-year-old Noam Chomsky once again demonstrates just how insightful he is in providing rational analysis of Western power and the suffering it generates. By contrast, anyone relying on BBC News receives a power-friendly view of the world, systematically distorted in a way that allows the state and private interests to pursue business as usual.
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. 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.
  135. On Guard for Thee
    An Independent Review of the Free Trade Agreement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  136. 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.
  137. On Power and Ideology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Five lectures on U.S. international and security policy.
  138. On the Perils of Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Barak Obama's September 10, 2013 address, originally meant to mobilize Congress in support of an authorization for using military force against Syria, turned into a "life-saving" speech for Obama avoiding embarrassment and political defeat.
  139. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
  140. 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.
  141. Opposition to U.S. war against Vietnam
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
  142. 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.
  143. 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.
  144. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 3, 2015
    Greece and thd debt crisis
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2015
    Our spotlight this issue is on the debt crisis facing Greece. To understand the crisis, one has to look beyond the mainstream media to alternative sources of information. We've done that, with articles that set out to analyze the nature of the debt burden that has been imposed on the citizens of so many countries, not just Greece. Also: celebrating Grace Lee Bogg’s 100th birthday.
  145. 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.
  146. 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.
  147. 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?
  148. 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.
  149. 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.
  150. Panama invasion protest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  151. The Pentagon Papers and U.S. Imperialism in South East Asia
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    Chomsky considers the imperial interests of the USA in South East Asia, claiming that these are revealed in the Pentagon Papers. Then, after a detailed account of the content, he suggests that mere anti-communist goals were not the sole motivation for moving into the region but it was rather the "perceived significance of Southeast Asia for the integrated global system that was to be organised by American power."
  152. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  153. 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.
  154. The Poisoned Pill of Obama's War
    Against The Current vol. 144
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The Obama administration looked into the abyss of endless war in Afghanistan, considered all its options, pondered the consequences — and jumped. This is a war without honor, or purpose, or hope.
  155. Politics of Terror and Scandal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    SCENARIO: AGAINST THE background of a depression in Japan, the economic collapse of Russia and stock market crashes on three continents, a United States president facing imminent expulsion from office for concealing illicit sex in the Oval Office orders retaliatory Cruise missile strikes on two already-ravaged Middle Eastern countries and declares "war on international terrorism."
    Take that idea and try to sell it to Hollywood. Forget about it: Even in "Wag the Dog," after all, not only...
  156. Postmodern Imperialism
    Geopolitics and the Great Games
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    An analysis of the development of imperialism over the past century.
  157. 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.
  158. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
  159. Presidential Assassinations Of US Citizens
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Just think about this for a minute. Barack Obama, like George Bush before him, has claimed the authority to order American citizens murdered based solely on the unverified, uncharged, unchecked claim that they are associated with Terrorism and pose "a continuing and imminent threat to U.S. persons and interests." They're entitled to no charges, no trial, no ability to contest the accusations.
  160. Press for Conversion #43
    December 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
  161. Press for Conversion #46
    December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    Published not long after 9/11 and the illegal U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, this issue takes a radical look at the underlying purpose of this war and the military occupation that followed.
  162. Press for Conversion #47
    March 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    This issue begins with a series of articles examining the historical context of the conflict between India and Pakistan.
  163. Press for Conversion #49
    October 2002
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    Obviously the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with either finding "weapons of mass destruction" or fighting terrorism. These were just the phoney pretexts that U.S. and British warplanners used to generate public support for the war.
  164. 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.
  165. Press for Conversion #55
    December 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    "Missile defense" is a deceptive term -- it is a linguistic shield to protect the military-industrial complex (and political allies) from public attack. The term disguises their plan to put weapons into space. While politicians pretend that “missile defense” has nothing to do with space weapons, the corporate media perpetuates the myth that this military program is purely defensive.
  166. 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.
  167. 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.
  168. 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.
  169. 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.
  170. 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.
  171. 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.
  172. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
  173. 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.
  174. 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.
  175. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
  176. The reliable tyrant
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The solution to the Iraq debacle is within the Americans' grasp.
  177. Remembering America's First (and Longest) Forgotten War on Tribal Islamists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Here are the relevant points when it comes to the Moro War (which will sound grimly familiar in a twenty-first-century forever-war context): the United States military shouldn’t have been there in the first place; the war was ultimately an operational and strategic failure, made more so by American hubris; and it should be seen, in retrospect, as (using a term General David Petraeus applied to our present Afghan War) the nation's first "generational struggle."
  178. 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.
  179. 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.
  180. 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.
  181. 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.
  182. The Return of the Coup in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d'etat that would set the continent's political calendar back to its worst times. Meanwhile, in Argentina, the brutal model for the demolition of democracy is set forward by the continental oligarchic right and the hegemonic forces of US imperialism who wish to impose their model in the region.
  183. 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.
  184. 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.
  185. 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.
  186. 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.
  187. 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.
  188. 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.
  189. Shock and Awe: Then and Now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
    In the two U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the world has seen two decades of wholesale death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. military, at a cost of trillions and countless deaths estimated between one and two million.
  190. A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The U.S. has repeatedly attacked civilian facilities in the past. This is a sampling of such incidents since the 1991 Gulf War.
  191. 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."
  192. The Sledgehammer Worldview
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The U.S.-U.K. invasion of Iraq was a textbook example of aggression. Apologists invoke noble intentions, which would be irrelevant even if the pleas were sustainable. The destructive consequences of such aggression are clear, as evidenced in numerous historical examples of violent imperialism.
  193. The Socialist Register 1974
    Volume 11: A survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
  194. Socialist Register 2003
    Volume 39: Fighting Identities
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
  195. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Vol. 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Argues that the Cuban nation was a central protagonist in the conflict - rather than a passive victim of a conflict between great powers.
  196. The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, Vol. 2
    Resource Type: Book
    Covers the imposition of the U.S. domination over Cuba through the Platt Amendment, which marks the beginning of U.S. neocolonialism.
  197. 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.
  198. Study Reveals Corporate Media's Refusal to Acknowledge Civilian Victims of US Wars
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in "legitimating the environmental injustices of war," a harrowing new scholarly report concludes.
  199. Super Imperialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
  200. 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.
  201. 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.
  202. Targeting Iran
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
  203. 31 Years After the U.S. Invasion of Grenada
    A Lovely Piece of Real Estate
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but was also deemed film-worthy by the former mayor of Carmel, California.
  204. Those who violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo are free, while the man who helped expose their crimes languishes in prison
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2022
  205. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952   Published: 1962
  206. A Transformed Force
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    The following essay is a translated and edited version of a recent op-ed piece by Félix Córdova Iturregui, a veteran socialist activist, member of the Taller de Formación Política and the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, and ex-President of the Association of University Professors of the University of Puerto Rico. In this essay, he argues that the massive popular demonstrations after the assassination of Machetero (Popular Puerto Rican Army) leader, Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, occurred in a context where U.S. institutions, particularly the FBI and the U.S. military, are in a rapid period of deterioration, which is being particularly felt in its colony, Puerto Rico.
  207. 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.
  208. The Umbrella of U.S. Power
    The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of U.S. Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to examine how the United States not only violates the UD, but at times uses it as a weapon to weild against designated enemies.
  209. Underhanded History of the USA
    Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  210. 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.
  211. Understanding the Bush Doctrine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    After exploring elements of Bush's strategy, Chomsky summarizes that anyone is seemingly subject too attack, because every country has the ability and intent is in the eye of the beholder. The key, it appears, is the ability to lie about intentions.
  212. US Media Ignore -- and Applaud -- Economic War on Venezuela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    US reporting on Venezuela fails to mention the effect economic sanctions have in Venezuela defying the work of experts in the area.
  213. 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.
  214. The Unmaking of Canada
    The Hidden Theme in Canadian History since 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    This book searches for the roots of the many-sided crisis faced by Canada in the 1990s, and finds them in the post-war history of the country. In the authors' view, the hidden theme in Canadian history in the post-World War II decades has been the "unmaking" of Canada.
  215. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
  216. 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.
  217. US Bombs Syria And Ridiculously Claims Self Defense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    So we are being told that the United States launched an airstrike on Syria, a nation it invaded and is illegally occupying, because of attacks on "US locations" in Iraq, another nation the US invaded and is illegally occupying. This attack is justified on the basis that the Iraqi fighters were "Iranian-linked", a claim that is both entirely without evidence and irrelevant to the justification of deadly military force. And this is somehow being framed in mainstream news publications as a defensive operation. This is Defense Department stenography. The US military is an invading force in both Syria and Iraq; it is impossible for its actions in either of those countries to be defensive. It is always necessarily the aggressor.
  218. U.S. claims jurisdictions abroad
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
  219. 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.
  220. 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.
  221. US pressured Norway to arrest & extradite Snowden, seize all devices - documents
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The US repeatedly asked Norway to detain and deport whistleblower Edward Snowden if he tried to enter its territory in the aftermath of his leaks on mass US global surveillance, Norwegian media revealed citing formal requests.
  222. Venezuela: US Imperialism Is Based On Lies And Threats
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    First-hand report of a delegation to Venezuela from the US. They say the coup is weak and the Venezuelan people are strong and Maduro has their support.
  223. Victory in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Forty years ago on April 30, 1975, the Vietnamese peopl were finally victorious in the long just struggle for national independence and unification against the United States and its puppet regime in Saigon.
  224. 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.
  225. Viet Peace will come with victory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    The burning determination of the Vietnamese to control their own future deserves our full support.
  226. War Crimes in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967
  227. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
  228. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  229. 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.
  230. 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.
  231. The War on Venezuela is Built on Lies 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Maduro, like Chavez before him, is a fairly elected leader with support from the people. Talk of his 'illegitmacy' is propaganda in service of the coup.
  232. 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.
  233. Washington Seeks Regime Change in Venezuela
    Agents of Destabilization
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Both the ongoing protests in Venezuela and the economic problems that the demonstrators are protesting against appear to have been orchestrated by the opposition in order to destabilize the country and bring down the government. Unable to gain power through the ballot box, the Venezuelan opposition has turned to unconstitutional means to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
  234. Washington's Not-So-Invisible Hand: It's Not Economics, It's Empire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Scottish philosopher Adam Smith famously noted the "invisible hand" of the market that supposedly shaped the character of economies near and far. The rightwing neoliberal capitalist movement, dominant in the West since the early Seventies, has turned this phrase into the sacrosanct dictum of its secular religion. All human behaviour must be submitted to the "free market." (This is the notional credo, but in practice corporate elites are subsidized, bailout out, and given every possible taxpayer benefit to ensure higher private profits.) So now, when nations fail, it is typically said in the media to be the product of a) a crazed dictator threatening counterintuitive genocide on his own people; or b) foolish state interventions by deranged socialist ideologues.
  235. 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.
  236. Weapons of Mass Persuasion
    Marketing the War Against Iraq
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Rutherford, an academic and media critic at the University of Toronto, tries to show how the marketing campaign for the war against Iraq was constructed and carried out with the aid of a compliant media.
  237. Welcome to Orwell's World 2010
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Barack Obama is the leader of a contemporary Oceania. In two speeches at the close of the decade, the Nobel Peace Prize winner affirmed that peace was no longer peace, but rather a permanent war that "extends well beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan" to "disorderly regions and diffuse enemies". He called this "global security" and invited our gratitude.
  238. 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.
  239. What Do the Imperial Mafia Really Want?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Which is the more remarkable -- that the United States can openly announce to the world its determination to invade a sovereign nation and overthrow its government in the absence of any attack or threat of attack from the intended target? Or that for an entire year the world has been striving to figure out what the superpower's real intentions are?
  240. 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.
  241. 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.
  242. 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.
  243. When Is Direct Military Intervention Not Direct Military Intervention?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Since 2014, according to official Pentagon figures, the US has carried out 5,337 airstrikes in Syria. Yet the New York Times continues to pretend that the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Syria.
  244. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The double edged sword of declaring war and fighting "terrorism".
  245. 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.
  246. 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.
  247. Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to monetary imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
  248. 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.
  249. Why Wikileaks Matters
    The Lies of Diplomats
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    On the secret diplomatic cables disclosed by WikiLeaks.
  250. 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.
  251. 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.
  252. 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.
  253. Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
    The Anti-Empire Report
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
  254. 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.
  255. World Orders Old and New
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
  256. The World Trade Organization
    A Citizen's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
  257. 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.
  258. Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    History of the attempted coup in Venezuela as of January 2019.
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