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Manufacturing Consent
- The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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Understanding Power
- The Indispensable Chomsky
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
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A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.
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Truly essential Chomsky
- By Dustin Lawtey on 2018-09-14
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Consequences of Capitalism
- Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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How do politics shape our world, our lives, and our perceptions? How much of “common sense” is actually driven by the ruling class’ needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet? Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen, connections between neoliberal “common sense” and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.
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Disconnected Fear Mongering
- By AdamGoodwin on 2022-05-30
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Who Rules the World?
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 2021-04-22
Written by: Noam Chomsky
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On Palestine
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine.
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On Anarchism
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Nathan Schneider - introduction
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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How the World Works
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian - interviewer, Arthur Naiman - editor
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, listener-friendly prose.
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Worth every minute of input
- By Jaymazon on 2020-04-30
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Understanding Power
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- Written by: Noam Chomsky, John Schoeffel - editor, Peter R. Mitchell - editor
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A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power.
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Truly essential Chomsky
- By Dustin Lawtey on 2018-09-14
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Consequences of Capitalism
- Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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How do politics shape our world, our lives, and our perceptions? How much of “common sense” is actually driven by the ruling class’ needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet? Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen, connections between neoliberal “common sense” and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.
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Disconnected Fear Mongering
- By AdamGoodwin on 2022-05-30
Written by: Noam Chomsky, and others
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Who Rules the World?
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting devotion to maintaining a world-spanning empire, is both risking catastrophe and wrecking the global commons.
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A must read
- By Anonymous User on 2021-04-22
Written by: Noam Chomsky
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On Palestine
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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According to The New York Times, Noam Chomsky is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." But he isn't easy to read...or at least he wasn't until these books came along. Made up of intensively edited speeches and interviews, they offer something not found anywhere else: pure Chomsky, with every dazzling idea and penetrating insight intact, delivered in clear, accessible, listener-friendly prose.
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Worth every minute of input
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- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Renowned interviewer David Barsamian showcases his unique access to Chomsky's thinking on a number of topics of contemporary and historical import. Chomsky offers insights into the institutions that shape the public mind in the service of power and profit. 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.
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- Written by: Noam Chomsky
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In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies.
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Think your own thoughts
- By Randwulfen on 2021-07-07
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The Management of Savagery
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For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version taught in schools - with its emphasis on great men in high places - to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
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Karl Marx's History of the United States
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Capital: Volume 1
- A Critique of Political Economy
- Written by: Karl Marx, Samuel Moore - translation, Edward Aveling - translation
- Narrated by: Derek Le Page
- Length: 43 hrs and 4 mins
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It can be said of very few books that the world was changed as a result of its publication - but this is certainly the case of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1818-1883). Volume 1 appeared (in German) in 1867, and the two subsequent volumes appeared at later dates after the author's death - completed from extensive notes left by Marx himself.
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- Written by: Noam Chomsky
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From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores the character and historical development of this special relationship.
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- Written by: Michael Parenti
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Blackshirts and Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege.
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The Essential Chomsky
- Written by: Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove - editor
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In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his 80th birthday. For the past 40 years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.
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- Written by: Matt Taibbi
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. In the internet age, the press have mastered the art of monetizing anger, paranoia, and distrust. Taibbi, who has spent much of his career covering elections in which this kind of manipulative activity is most egregious, provides a rich taxonomic survey of American political journalism's dirty tricks.
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Smart and terrifying
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Slavoj Žižek's first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. In a thrilling tour de force that made his name, he explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
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- Written by: Max Blumenthal
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In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Terrific book... though sad
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-02-15
Written by: Chris Hedges
Publisher's Summary
In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
Based on a series of case studies - including the media's dichotomous treatment of "worthy" versus "unworthy" victims, "legitimizing" and "meaningless" Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the US wars against Indochina - Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media's behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications.
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- Martha Parada
- 2018-04-16
Chomsky is a genius.
He is connects the dots and let's you decide what the truth is. Loved it.
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- Randwulfen
- 2019-09-02
American media a sham
Enlightening demonstration on how the American public perception evolved to support it's own corrupt and failing capitalist regime.
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- Louis Bernardi
- 2022-03-03
a slog, but important
3% theory, 90% evidence analysis, 7% conclusion. An important work to understand the pervasiveness of information control. Spread this one out over a long period of time.
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- janssen
- 2020-09-05
Very informative and eye opening.
a must read for those interested in politics and/or media. Will provide a necessary insight that many people today lack.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-09-14
A very important book about the mass media.
in this book Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky forever destroyed the myth of the "free press".
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-08-12
a staggering indictment of the US media
Givin discussions of " fakenews" this book provides a thorough background of the extraordinary negligence of the US media. the authors follow several case studies of American Foreign Wars and the lack of critical press coverage in print and on television. It reveals an appalling double standard whose primary aim is to build support for American imperialism.
the authors posit a propaganda model for the American Media, and they validate the predictions of this model with several case studies. one drawback of the author's analysis is that it is exclusively focused on Foreign Wars. I would like to have seen more analysis of domestic issues.
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- Simon G.
- 2019-04-11
for pros
complicated book. I think it's kinda made more for people who know a lot already about the subject; like journalists.
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- EFM
- 2018-03-24
Eye opening
This was a tough book to Read, but the audio version made it much more digestible.
I've listened to nearly every Chomsky lecture available so not much of this shocked me; but it was very interesting to see it all unpacked like this.
Should be required reading, perhaps in some sort of abbreviated form.
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- jacob robinson
- 2019-02-02
I will watch the news differently
This is a great book and I will be far more critical of the US mass media
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- smac
- 2019-06-16
Didn’t work well in audio format. Book's better
Yes - struggle is a good worrd. The detail is too complex to keep straight while casually listening.
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- Tom Robbins
- 2017-10-04
Truth in media for once.
Crucial info in ttying to understand dominator culture and it's use of mass media to shape & conttol public opinion.
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- Jan D. Leslie
- 2017-07-01
Disturbing view
A well reasoned argument for the argument for a very obedient media and how they help mold public opinion to government ends.
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- Kendall
- 2019-05-09
should be read, not heard
The narrator sounds like a robot doing an excellent impression of a human. This book is probably more absorbable by reading it than by listening to it. Unless you need an auditory sleep aid.
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- Venusian Incognito
- 2018-04-18
Eye opening.
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Wow. Literally everything I thought was true about the media, about past wars, about our policies, all lies. I would say this book should be a mandated read in every public high school (at least) but I know that’s not going to happen. But this book is truly a must read for those who truly want to understand the nature and foundations of our manufactured consensus reality.
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- Tianguis Trader
- 2017-12-06
A must read
Provides great insights and a corporate media. Once you learn about the propaganda model you won’t be able to help but see it’s impact on most news channels. And important for anybody watching the news
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- Raymond A. Cooper
- 2017-06-09
Actions of our Government Agencies in foreign land
Insightful reading, gained a better understanding of how MSM can promote or deny the actions of our Government Agencies and senior leaders in foreign and domestic actions against the people.
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- Sharyl Wooton
- 2017-05-15
Deep
the narrator sounds like Sergeant Joe Friday on the old TV show Drag Net. Very cool... Noam Chomsky has the credibility to not back up everything he says with endless examples. No amount of research that supports his profound assertions would convince anyone who does not except that. On the other hand, far be it from Chomsky to make unsupported assertions.
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