The Doomsday Clock
Illustration by Carl Wiens The following is excerpted from Noam Chomsky’s new book, Who Rules the World? In January 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its famous Doomsday…
Noam Chomsky
The World of Our Grandchildren
Photo by Andrew Rusk Jacobin is proud to feature an interview with journalist David Barsamian and Professor Noam Chomsky. In it, Chomsky explains the roots of ISIS and why the…
Elites Have Forced America into a National Psychosis to Keep Us Embroiled in Imperial Wars
Photo by Andrew Rusk “War is the health of the State,” wrote social critic Randolph Bourne in a classic essay as America entered World War I: It automatically sets in…
The Leading Terrorist State
Photo by Arlo K. Abrahamson “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in…
Chomsky: We’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re really a plutocracy
Noam Chomsky: We’re no longer a functioning democracy, we’re really a plutocracy (via Raw Story ) The world faces two potentially existential threats, according to the linguist and political philosopher…