r/chomsky Feb 20 '26

Meta Monthly Discord Book Club

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For the last year I've held a monthly call on the Breadtube/Chomsky Discord server to talk about authors with anarchist, anti-war, and left-leaning perspectives.

We have a few regulars with a wide international spread and have had some good conversations, so I want to open up the group to a wider audience. Now is a good time as we're currently reading Michael Albert's No Bosses (2021) and we're fortunate enough to have the author himself on the server for questions.

The next event is scheduled for Monday 2nd March 2026 at 8:00pm Central European Time. Discord will automatically adjust to your device's timezone, but you can also figure out how that aligns with your location using a tool like WorldTimeBuddy.

Usually these events are voice only, but one or two sessions have been on webcam for those who are comfortable. The server also has a text-only discussion that's open all the time in the #book-club-general channel. All are welcome.


r/chomsky Mar 13 '26

Discussion From Chomsky's longtime assistant, Bev Stohl

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"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth – the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself – that I write this . . ."
https://bevstohl.substack.com/p/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm


r/chomsky 3h ago

Article The Wall Street Journal’s Propaganda On Rent Control

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r/chomsky 1h ago

Article Prize-winning writer Richard Flanagan denounces escalating pro-Zionist attacks on democratic rights in Australia

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r/chomsky 5h ago

Video The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela's Oil Reserves

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r/chomsky 16h ago

News UEFA president: 'Almost zero' political pressure to bar Israel from competitions

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In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, Čeferin said that while UEFA faced 'huge political pressure to kick out Russia' but almost none to exclude Israel. He noted that he opposed boycotts in principle and objected to punishing athletes for the actions of their governments


r/chomsky 1d ago

Article The Pentagon takes control of Venezuela’s oil: Imperialist thievery and the bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism

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r/chomsky 1h ago

News A Mother of 3 Children Without a Home ,We Need Your Help 🙏💔

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I am a mother of three young children in Gaza.

After a long and painful journey of displacement, we were left with almost nothing. We lost our home, our source of income, and the safety and stability that every family deserves.

We are living in a tent that is barely a shelter. The heat inside the tents is unbearable, and the conditions are becoming more dangerous every day. Insects, scorpions, snakes, and rats threaten the lives and safety of my young children. They should be growing up in a safe home, not being afraid of what may enter their tent while they sleep.

There is no real help reaching us. We are not receiving enough assistance from anyone, and the cost of everything in Gaza has become unbelievably high. Food, water, medicine, clothing, and other basic necessities are becoming impossible for me to afford.

I am a mother, and the hardest thing is watching my children need basic things that I simply cannot provide. I cannot give them the food, clean water, warm clothes, medicine, and safety they need.

Every day, my children ask me when we will have a real home again. I don't know what to tell them.

We are trying to raise funds to escape this unbearable reality, rebuild our lives, and give my children a chance to live with dignity, safety, and hope.

Please, if you can donate, even a small amount, it can make a real difference. And if you cannot donate, please share our story. Your share may reach someone who can help us.

🙏 Please help Hala and her children.

🔗 GiveSendGo:

https://www.givesendgo.com/help-hala-and-here-family


r/chomsky 1d ago

Finnish journalist arrested after asking Finnish President Alexander Stubb about Israeli arms deals

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r/chomsky 1d ago

Article War Between Democrats Over Gaza Pits Establishment vs. the Left

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r/chomsky 1d ago

Article Eugene Debs Knew the Power Labor Holds

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r/chomsky 1d ago

News BREAKING: Shin Bet Disappears Russian-Israeli Academic

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r/chomsky 1d ago

Article Australia’s forgotten Chomsky

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"If you are, like many young leftists, an owner of a well-thumbed copy of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s Manufacturing Consent you may have noted with disinterest the person to whom the book is dedicated: Alex Carey, a senior lecturer of industrial psychology at UNSW who had died the year prior to the book’s publication.
Chomsky credits Carey with having “tremendous influence” on the book. The dedication, he later stated, was a “bare and inadequate way to express our indebtedness to him for his uniquely important work on the ‘ideal of a propaganda-managed democracy’”. “Alex Carey draws the veil of deceit and imposed ignorance in the struggle for freedom and justice,” Chomsky writes in his introduction to Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, a collection of Carey’s essays published posthumously."
https://honisoit.com/2020/11/australias-forgotten-chomsky/


r/chomsky 1d ago

NATO's New Plans To Destroy Russia | Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

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The West is losing the Ukraine War big time. But that does not mean the NATO lunatics are willing to give up their plans for total global domination. On the contrary, some of them are only getting started.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Pascal Lottaz to argue that the Ukraine war is a long-running US proxy conflict with Russia. He discusses NATO expansion, post-Cold War policy, US power and elite interests, Europe’s economic costs, and the risks of escalation. Sachs also outlines what he sees as a path to peace: Ukrainian neutrality, no further NATO expansion, and ending US wars.


r/chomsky 1d ago

"A colonizer with no privilege doesn't exist" Albert Memmi wrote in 1957. The colonial system doesn't allow it... and somehow remnants of that system still exist today

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r/chomsky 2d ago

Moral Witnessing in an Age of Unprecedented Corporate Power

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r/chomsky 3d ago

Extremist Billionaire Media Owners Want to Steal Your Social Security So They Don’t Have to Pay Slightly Higher Taxes | naked capitalism

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r/chomsky 4d ago

Article US government officially designates Palestine Action as a terrorist organization

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r/chomsky 3d ago

Question Do you think Noam knows what happened to reputation on the left ?

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Do you think Noam knows what happened to reputation on the left since the files came out. Rapid fall from grace/greatness.


r/chomsky 5d ago

Article Paramount launches witch-hunt against actor Mark Ruffalo for opposing Gaza genocide

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r/chomsky 5d ago

Video AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)

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r/chomsky 6d ago

Article From Chomsky's 2012 op-ed: "An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: 'You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.'"

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This essay was also included in Chomsky's 2015 book Because We Say So.


r/chomsky 6d ago

Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Richard D. Wolff

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r/chomsky 7d ago

Interview How the Israel Lobby is Losing Its Grip

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r/chomsky 6d ago

Article The attack on immigrants and Trump’s Operation Dictatorship

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