Product Description: Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits, and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer...read more

Product Description: "Said is forthright, even blunt, and he demonstrates a thrilling capacity for integrating culture and politics."—Publishers WeeklyGathered here are five wide-ranging interviews with the internationally renowned Palestinian scholar and critic Edward Said (1935-2003)...read more

In a compilation of interviews and conversations, the author of Hegemony or Survival and Failed States speaks out on a variety of foreign and domestic concerns, including Iran's challenge to the U.S., the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of the China, Latin America's powerful left, and the upcoming presidential race. Read by Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian. Simultaneous.

Product Description: Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David Barsamian presents the perspectives of four experts on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime, Iran’s internal dynamics and competing forces, relations with Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consequences of US policy...read more

Product Description: Through in-depth research and detailed historical context, Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls report on the injustice of U.S. policies in Afghanistan historically and in the post-9/11 era. Drawing from declassified government documents and on-the-ground interviews with Afghan activists, journalists, lawyers, refugees, and students, Bleeding Afghanistan examines the connections between the U...read more

In a collection of interviews, the renowned historian and author of A People's History of the United States shares his thoughts on such topics as civil disobedience, the Kennedy brothers, the role of artists in relation to social change, the importance of memory and remembering history, the American war machine, and more. Original. 40,000 first printing.

A collection of previously unpublished interviews presents the critical thoughts of the noted scholar, activist, and author of Hegemony and Survival on American foreign policy in the increasingly unstable global community following September 11th, sharing his views on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, preemptive strikes against rogue states, prospects of the second Bush administration, and the threat to international peace. Simultaneous with paperback.

A leading activist and political writer who was exiled from Pakistan in the 1960s for his speaking out against imperialism and religious fundamentalism discusses such topics as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the fate of modern-day Pakistan, and the reasons he believes that the war on terror and the war in Iraq are misguided campaigns. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Media activist David Barsamian, dubbed the "Studs Terkel of our generation" by Howard Zinn, has been broadcasting voices of dissent from around the world for over a quarter of a century. Barsamian’s radical weekly radio program, "Alternative Radio" (or simply "AR" to his fans), has been a north star in the mass media wilder-ness for people across the country since 1986...read more

Product Description: A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer’s voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce...read more

Product Description: In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the "war on drugs" is really a war on poor people; how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought; how historical revisionism has recast the United States as the victim in the Vietnam War...read more

Product Description: Some of the questions that Chomsky answers in this second volume of interviews with David Barsamian include: why do nightly newscasts increasingly feature violent crimes?; how does the American political economy supercede gender and race?; when do "family values" equal increasing numbers of children in poverty?Chomsky tackles the shibboleths of our age with characteristic insight, providing an indispensable introduction to his political ideas...read more

Product Description: In his latest book of interviews, Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his latest thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a compelling vision for a secular, democratic future in the Middle East—and globally...read more

Discusses the term 'terrorist' in comparison to 'freedom fighter,' as the two concepts are perceived in American politics, and offers the author's comments on his return from a trip to Afghanistan to interview Osama bin Laden.

Product Description: An accessible argument for why we need alternative media--and how we can build them.

Product Description: All new, unpublished interviews with world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomky’s thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. In an interview conducted after the important November 1999 “Battle in Seattle,” Chomsky discusses prospects for building a movement to challenge corporate domination of the media, the environment, and even our private lives. Chomsky also engages in a discussion of his ideas on language and mind, making his important linguistic insights accessible to the lay reader.Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a world-renowned linguist, philosopher, and political analyst. He writes extensively and lectures around the world on international affairs, U.S. foreign policy, and human rights. Chomsky has published 15 books with South End Press, including Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. David Barsamian lives in Boulder, Colorado, and is the producer of the award-winning syndicated radio program, Alternative Radio. His interview books with luminaries such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Edward W. Said have sold in the hundreds of thousands of copies.Contents1. Activist Victories 2. US to World: Get Out of the Way 3. For Reasons of State 4. East Timor on the Brink 5. The Meaning of Seattle 6. Liberating the Mind 7. Solidarity and Mutual SupportPraise for Noam Chomsky"An exploder of received truths."-New York Times"Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and huniatrianism."-Edward Said"Reading Chomsky is like standing in a wind tunnel. With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us--and to discern what they are leaving out...The questions Chomsky raises will eventually have to be answered. Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening."-Business WeekPraise for David Barsamian"David Barsamian is the Studs Terkel of our generation."-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States"In con

Product Description: Contents"Dawn of Freedom" by Faiz Ahmed FaizMap of South AsiaBiographical Sketch of Eqbal AhmadIntroduction by David BarsamianForeword by Edward W. SaidChapter 1 Think Critically and Take RisksChapter 2 Distorted HistoriesNotesChapter 3 Do Not Accept the Safe HavenSelected Bibliography of Eqbal Ahmad's WritingIndexReviews"Eqbal Ahmad, perhaps the shrewdest and most original anti-imperialist analyst of Asia and Africa…[was] a man of enormous charisma and incorruptible ideals…...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at current social and economic conditions, corporate welfare, white collar crime, the media, Third World debt, and globalization (view table of contents)

This collection of interviews offers Chomsky's views on himself and on such political issues as deficit spending, how free markets destroy competition, and why 'family values' crusades destroy family life

Presents the ideas of one of America's most influential intellectuals, in a readable interview format that offers Chomsky's views on violence in the United States, what 'democracy' really means, the coming ecocatastrophe, and Clinton's health plan. Original. IP. (view table of contents)

Interviews from the early 1990s discuss issues such as health care and crime, foreign affairs, and the role of business in society, provide recommendations for change, and explain Chomsky's theories