War, Geopolitics, and History: Conflict in the Middle East

Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Peter Johnson

Making the Future presents more than 50 concise and persuasively argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011. Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.S. presidential race; the ascendancy of China; Latin America's leftward turn; the threat of nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea; Israel's invasion of Gaza and more.

Noam Chomsky on Democracy, Independence, and Peace: What Are the Prospects?

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 34 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky

Originally, this talk was entitled "The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria." It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers...

In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.

The Militarization of Science and Space

• ORIGINAL (1 hr and 48 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Noam Chomsky

Unique among the world's political commentators, Noam Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the 10 most quoted sources in the humanities, and is the only living writer among them.

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky

For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as in the Cuban missile crisis, to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. Now the Bush administration is intensifying this process, driving us toward the final frontiers of imperial control, toward a choice between the prerogatives of power and a livable Earth.