Why haven’t you heard of “the most important intellectual alive”?
The File on Chomsky: A Biographical Sketch
Growing up during the Depression
The Shoulders of Giants: Antecedents to the Thinking of Chomsky
Evidence that generative grammar is innate
The infinite variety of language
What is the nature of the original state?
Chomsky on Skinner and Behaviorism
Noam Chomsky and the MEDIA: Can You Believe What You See and Hear?
Necessary Illusions: The science of propaganda
What is the function of the Media in a Democratic Society?
How does “ownership determine content”?—The Propaganda Model
Filter #1: MONEY—“The Media of Influence”
Filter #2: ADVERTISING—How does that distort the news?
Filter #3: “EXPERTS”Who do they work for...and why do the same ones keep popping up?
Filter #4: “FLAK”— Who writes all those Letters-to-the-Editor?
Filter #5: ANTI-COMMUNISM—creating a Bogeyman
Concision: How “sound bites” are used to kill opposing viewpoints
Don’t take Chomsky’s word for it—check it out yourself!
Chomsky’s first hand experience with The Censor
The myth of the Classless Society
The myth of the Free Market system
Welfare for the Rich—How it works
“National Defense is a sick joke.”
Foreign Policy: Friendly Dictators and Client States
The real New World Order—how it started
The real objective of the New World Order
“Corporate interests”/“American interests”
History—one or two things they forgot to tell you
Chomsky on Fighting Back: What Can One Person Do?
Taking Responsibility—What can one person do?
Knowledge and information
Abbreviations of sources of quotes.
AC -- After the Cataclysm, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, 1979, South End Press.
APNM -- American Power and the New Mandarins, Noam Chomsky, 1967, 1969, Pantheon.
ATS -- Aspects of The Theory of Syntax, Noam Chomsky, 1965, MIT press.
CR -- The Chomsky Reader, ed. Richard Peck, 1987, Pantheon Books.
DD -- Deterring Democracy, Noam Chomsky, 1991, 1992, Hill and Wang.
ESP -- Equality and Social Policy, Noam Chomsky, 1978, University of Illinois Press.
FRS -- For Reasons of State, Noam Chomsky, 1970, 1971, 1972, Pantheon.
FT -- The Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky, 1983, South End Press.
INT -- Interview with Noam Chomsky, Sept. 14, 1993, David Cogswell
L&P -- Language and Politics, by Noam Chomsky, 1988, Black Rose Books.
MC -- Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, 1988, Pantheon Books.
MCF -- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. A film by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick in association with the Canadian Film...
Nl -- Necessary Illusions, Noam Chomsky, 1989, South End Press.
NCZM -- Noam Chomsky writing in Z Magazine.
PE -- Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky, 1986, Amana Books.
PD -- “The Panama Deception,” a film by the Empowerment Project, 1992.
RC -- Rethinking Camelot, Noam Chomsky, 1993, South End Press.
TNCW -- Towards a New Cold War, Essays on the current crisis and how we got there, Noam Chomsky, 1982, Pantheon.
TT -- Turning the Tide, Noam Chomsky, 1985, South End Press.
WC -- The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, 1979, South End Press.
WUS -- What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Noam Chomsky, 1986-92, Odonian Press.
Y5 -- Year 501, Noam Chomsky, 1993, South End Press.