Recorded at Georgetown University. Additional speakers- Morton Halperin: A Nixon National Security Council staff member and Kissinger aide who resigned over the invasion of Cambodia. Tran Van Dihn: A South Vietnamese diplomat. He served at the Embassy of Vietnam in Washington, DC 1961-63. He taught at Temple University. He died in 2011. Fred Branfman: Co-director […]

A rare opportunity to hear Chomsky talking to the cadets at West Point on “just war theory.” Chomsky takes down Michael Walzer who proclaims that Afghanistan and Serbia are examples of the “triumph of just war theory.” Also coming under critical scrutiny is Jean Bethke Elshtain, author of Just War Against Terror. Chomsky reviews the […]

8 CDs Ranking among the most important interviews Barsamian has ever done, this six-hour-plus discussion with the noted Pakistani intellectual focuses on India, Gandhi, Tagore, Pakistan, Islam, Middle East, globalization, imperialism and encounters with Fanon, Said and Chomsky, a virtuoso performance by an original thinker. Interview by David Barsamian. Recorded at Hampshire College.

Former CIA officer Philip Agee contends that U.S. foreign policy is driven by the need for crises in order to justify military spending thus creating a warfare state. The spector and threat of overseas enemies and turmoil is a method, Agee argues, of preventing genuine democracy and reform of the domestic system.