Real Story Series

'The world's greatest public intellectual' Observer

The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairs

An extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics.

Including classic essays such as:

* What Uncle Sam Really Wants: A dissection of US foreign policy

* The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many: Examining the new global economy, food and the roots of racism

* Secrets, Lies and Democracy: The CIA's actions in relation to religious fundamentalism, global inequality and the coming eco-catastrophe

* The Common Good: unmissable writing on equality, freedom and the media
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'One of the finest minds of the twentieth century' The New Yorker

'A rebel without a pause' Bono

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time. When the sun sets on the American empire, as it will, as it must, Noam Chomsky's work will survive' Arundhati Roy

The Chomsky Trilogy

by Noam Chomsky

Published October 1996

The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many

by Noam Chomsky

Published 20 October 2003

What Uncle Sam Really Wants

by Noam Chomsky

Published 20 October 2003

'Chomsky's work is neither theoretical, nor ideological: it is passionate and righteous. It has some of the qualities of Revelations, the Old Testament prophets and Blake' Ken Jowitt, TLS

A brilliant distillation of the real motivations behind U.S. foreign policy, compiled from talks and interviews completed between 1986 and 1991, with particular attention to Central America.

Quotes from Noam Chomsky:

* Contrary to what virtually everyone - left or right - says, the United States achieved its major objectives in Indochina. Vietnam was demolished. There's no danger that successful development there will provide a model for other nations in the region.

* At exactly the moment it invaded Panama... the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China [and] plans... to lift ban on loans to Iraq... Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa.

* Prospects are pretty dim for Eastern Europe. The West has a plan for it - they want to turn large parts of it into a new, easily exploitable part of the Third World.

East Timor

by Noam Chomsky and Matthew Jardine

Published 1 July 1995

This comprehensive account of the invasion of East Timor and US support of the genocide that followed, tells the story of East Timor's historic struggle against impossible odds and explains why you so seldom hear about it in Western media.

The Common Good

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

Published 17 October 2003

This illusion-shattering piece discusses Aristotle, the US left, postmodernism and everything in between, based on interviews conducted in 1996 and 1997. Includes a list of 160 progressive organizations worth supporting.

Secrets, Lies and Democracy

by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian

Published 1 July 2002

The Chomsky Quartet

by Noam Chomsky

Published 8 April 2005

Four Chomsky classics - The Common Good, The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, and What Uncle Sam Really Wants - for the price of three. Available now as a handsome quartet shrink-wrapped in a 4-colour case suitable for display. This collection of interviews and talks by Noam Chomsky is an ideal introduction to the man the New York Times called "arguably the most important intellectual alive." In a lively, conversational style, Chomsky discusses a range of political issues from Central America to the Middle East, Aristotle to postmodernism. Chomsky argues the cause of democracy and freedom with clarity and passion. Here are a few excerpts: US forces inaugurated a brutal repression in Korea in 1945, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About a hundred thousand people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War. In 1970, about 90 per cent of international capital was used for trade and long-term investment - more or less productive things - and 10 per cent for speculation. Twenty years later, those figures had reversed.
After World War II, many Nazis were spirited off to Latin America, often with help from the Vatican and fascist priests. There they taught Gestapo torture techniques to US-supported police states modelled, often quite openly, on the Third Reich.