In Depth with Noam Chomsky

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.

Hopes and Prospects

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Brian Jones

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky examines the dangers and prospects of our early 21st century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (including under President Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli assault on Gaza, and the recent recent financial bailouts, he also sees hope for the future. Chomsky surveys the democratic wave in Latin America and the growing global solidarity movements.

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.

Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Alan Sklar
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The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. In this much-anticipated sequel to his international best seller Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky turns the tables, charging the United States with being a "failed state", and therefore a danger to its own people and the world.