Noam Chomsky Books

Before diagnosing failure, we must understand what constitutes a state’s success. A functioning state, by any reasonable standard, protects its citizens, adheres to law—both domestic and international—and acts as a responsible member of the global community. A failed state, conversely, fulfills none...

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

Since World War II, the United States has positioned itself as the global hegemon—the self-appointed guardian of freedom. Yet the record of interventions tells another story. From Guatemala and Vietnam to Chile and Iraq, American policy has repeatedly subverted democracies in the name of stability, ...

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

The propaganda model, developed by Edward S. Herman and myself, is the conceptual core of this book. It offers a structural understanding of how mass media function within capitalist democracies—not as neutral disseminators of information but as institutions integrated into power systems of ownershi...

From Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Ownership concentration determines the worldview the media propagate. In the United States, most major outlets are owned by a handful of corporations whose interests extend far beyond news itself—into manufacturing, telecommunications, weapons production, and finance. When editorial policy potential...

From Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

To understand Palestine today, one must begin with 1948—not as a symbolic year but as a rupture that redefined an entire region. For Ilan Pappé, this is the year of the Nakba, the catastrophe. It was not, he insists, an accident of war, nor a tragic byproduct of mutual hostility; it was a systematic...

From On Palestine

Since 1967, the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories has evolved into one of the most sophisticated systems of control in modern history. In our dialogues, we examine this apparatus not only as a military regime but as an administrative and psychological network. It is built on checkpoints,...

From On Palestine