Throughout the world there is great relief and optimism about the nuclear deal reached in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 nations, the five veto-holding members of the UN Security Council and Germany.
Most of the world apparently shares the (...)
The world reacted with horror to the murderous attack on the French satirical journal Charlie Hebdo. In the New York Times, veteran Europe correspondent Steven Erlanger graphically described the immediate aftermath of what many are calling France's (...)
The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merits careful thought.
One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will (...)
Even at random, samples of what the Weekly has had to offer over 1000 weeks show the depth and breadth of our Egyptian perspective
Reshaping history
The death of Yasser Arafat provides some objective lessons on the importance of owning history and (...)
The death of Yasser Arafat, writes Noam Chomsky, provides some object lessons on the importance of owning history and the principles that guide its proper shaping
The fundamental principle is that "we are good" -- "we" being the state we serve -- (...)
Bent on realising its "imperial ambition", the US seeks control over a "stupendous source of strategic power", oil. Noam Chomsky explains how, in a talk he delivered at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on 27 January.
We are meeting at (...)
To say that terrorism is the weapon of the weak is a farce. It is the weapon of the strong, says Noam Chomsky, and for the world's superpower, it works
Starting with the common assumption that what happened on 11 September is a historic event -- one (...)
By Noam Chomsky
After World War II, integration of the international economy ("globalisation") has been increasing. By the late 20th century, it had reversed the decline of the inter-war period, reaching the level prior to World War I by gross (...)
By Noam Chomsky
Bill Clinton's claim that "Human rights" has become "the soul of our foreign policy" is a transparent fraud, obviously designed to restore discipline and obedience after the Vietnam war, and accepted as legitimate, indeed holy, by (...)