Author: Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most recent book is Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet.

Investigate Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Us From COVID-19

Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to the deaths … Keep reading »

Public Goods • January 23, 2021 • Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad
Three Major Threats to Life on Earth

Large parts of the world – outside of China and a few other countries – face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. … Keep reading »

Environment • January 14, 2021 • Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad
Internationalism or Extinction

Returning to the major crises we face at this historic moment, all are international, and two internationals are forming to confront them. One is opening today: the Progressive International. The … Keep reading »

Environment • October 5, 2020 • Noam Chomsky
On the Eviction of 450 families from Quilombo Campo Grande, Brazil

During the second week of August in Brazil, the ruthlessness of state violence by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro was on full display against the Quilombo Campo Grande community … Keep reading »

Latin America • August 26, 2020 • Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad