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From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Davis. The eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law […]
Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
Howard Zinn
In this lively collection, Zinn discusses historical and political topics, ranging from Columbus; The Bill of Rights; the role of the Supreme Court; and higher education. Failure to Quit includes two of his most famous essays: “The Optimism of Uncertainty” and “The Problem is Civil Obedience” as well as the classic Barsamian-Zinn interview: “Who Controls the Past […]
Challenging Power: Democracy and Accountability in a Fractured World
Cynthia Kaufman
Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Cynthia Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operations of power that underlie four unruly social problems: climate change, sweatshop labor, police abuse, and economic deprivation. In Challenging Power, she pairs each of these issues with an operation of power–the […]
Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They’re simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the burden onto the poor and middle […]
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World
Noam Chomsky
Pirates and Emperors is a brilliant exploration of the role of the United States in the Middle East that exposes how the media manipulates public opinion about what constitutes “terrorism.” Chomsky masterfully argues that appreciating the differences between state terror and nongovernmental terror is crucial to stopping terrorism and understanding why atrocities like the bombing of […]
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
One of Noam Chomsky’s most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Unversidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of U.S. involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky’s foreign policy analysis. The book […]
Hopes and Prospects
Noam Chomsky
“This is a classic Chomsky work: a bonfire of myths and lies, sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky is an enduring inspiration all over the world to millions, I suspect, for the simple reason that he is a truth-teller on an epic scale. I salute him.” – John Pilger In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky […]
You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
Howard Zinn
Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How do we remain hopeful? Howard Zinn—activist, historian, and author of A People’s History of the United States—was a participant in and chronicler of some of the landmark struggles for racial and economic justice in US history. In his memoir, You Can’t Be […]
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the “People’s Historian”
Howard Zinn
When the historian Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history.” Designed to highlight Zinn’s most important writings, The Indispensable Zinn includes excerpts from […]
Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post 9-11 World
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan/Holt, 2005; 228 pages. (More than 60,000 copies in print.) Timely, illuminating, and urgently needed, this volume of interviews conducted by award-winning radio journalist David Barsamian features Noam Chomsky discussing U.S. policies in the increasingly unstable post-9/11 world. In these exchanges, appearing for the first time in print, Chomsky offers […]
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky
David Barsamian interviews Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 2007; 240 pages. In this new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: Iran’s challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left […]
The Future of History
Howard Zinn, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Common Courage Press, 1999; 192 pages. Who will control the past – and the future? In these panoramic interviews (1989-1998), Howard Zinn makes sense of events as only he can, proving not only that history isn’t dead, but that with luck, it may just be getting going. An enjoyable and […]

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