Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism, the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the... Read more »
In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... Read more »
This book documents and assesses Obama’s record on domestic and foreign politics against his perceived agenda for change. Although mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama’s perceived original vision and reality, Paul... Read more »
One of the most pressing challenges facing educators in the U.S. is the specter of an “ethnic and cultural war”—a code phrase that engenders our society’s licentiousness toward racism. In Dancing with... Read more »
Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth, is a compilation of four essays which recounts the history, politics, and modern day uses of catastrophic scenarios, be they real or fiction, for... Read more »
The long-awaited second volume of the first-ever English-language study of the Red Army Faction (RAF)—West Germany’s most notorious urban guerrillas—covers the period immediately following the organization’s near total decimation in 1977. During... Read more »
Well-known journalist and filmmaker Pilger reminds readers that “if power was truly invincible, it would not fear the people so much as to expend vast resources trying to distract and deceive them,”... Read more »
Neoliberalism–the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action–has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world... Read more »
Pacifism, the ideology of nonviolent political resistance, has been the norm among mainstream North American progressive groups for decades. But to what end? Ward Churchill challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in... Read more »
In a unique format of intellectual challenge and counter-challenge prominent Indigenous people of the Americas and Marxists debate the viability of Marxism and the prevalence of ethnocentric bias in politics, culture, and... Read more »