Can capitalism survive climate change? Can humanity?

Hoe komt het dat de grote media in de VS zich vrijwel altijd als spreekbuis van de macht gedragen terwijl niemand hun journalisten influistert wat ze moeten schrijven? Over die kwestie publiceerden Noam Chomsky en Edward S. Herman 'Manufacturing Consent'. Het boek, dat voor het eerst verscheen in 1988, zette destijds alle mediakritiek op zijn kop, ook ver buiten de VS. Tot dan waren onkunde, amateurisme of tijdsgebrek van journalisten de gangbare verklaringen voor blunders in het nieuws. Chom...

An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectual

We have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can be optimistic, grasp the opportunities that surely exist, and maybe help make the world a better place. Not much of a choice. From peerless political thinker Noam Chomsky comes an exploration of rising neoliberalism, the refugee crisis in ...

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity’s futureThe land of the free. The home of the brave. But what has America achieved in the aim of “spreading democracy” — except wreak havoc in country after country and establish a reckless foreign policy that served the interest of few and endangered all too many? Without, ironically, making Americans any safer.

In this timely book, Noam Chomsky, one of the most wid...

Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectual

What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow?

From escalating climate change to the devastation in Syria, pandemic state surveillance to looming nuclear war, Noam Chomsky takes stock of the world today. Over the course of ten conversations with long-time collaborator D...