What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World

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.

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.

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

• UNABRIDGED (36 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Jon Lee Anderson
• Narrated By Armando Durán

Che Guevara was a dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution. Jon Lee Anderson traces Che's extraordinary life from his comfortable Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of the Cuban revolution, from the halls of power in Castro's government to his failed campaign in the Congo and his assassination in the Bolivian jungle.

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.