- American Dreams: Lost and Found
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences.
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Bring on the Crackup: Hoping for a Trump - Sanders Election
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
There is every reason to think that electoral "politics" in the United States (and most places) is bullshit. For people who yearn for a very different world to get involved in this "process" -- which is almost entirely scripted by people who absolutely do not yearn for a very different world -- is a big waste of energy and commitment. The arguments here are addressed to the yearners, who I will call "radicals" -- people who recognize that the only real solution to the many problems facing humanity today is a qualitative, even epoch-making, change. When I say "we," I mean those of us who yearn for and work for such a change.
- The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
- Culture Inc.
The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly limited and controlled.
- Does the United States Still Exist?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution? Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Religions
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of American Spy Films
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Resource Type: Book
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Francis Daniel Pastorius
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651-1720) was a German born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official, who is particularly known for his anti-slavery advocacy.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history.
- Joel Osteen: the new face of Christianity
Through the eye of the needle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
A profile of the most succesful pastor in America, Joel Osteen, one of those who preach 'the prosperity gospel'.
- The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
- The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan Lomax
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
- New Grove Dictionary of American Music
Resource Type: Book
- New Reformation
Notes of a Neolithic Conservative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Goodman says: "For green grass and clean rivers, children with bright eyes and good color whatever the color, people safe from being pushed around so they can be themselves -- for a few things like these, I find I am pretty ready to think away all other political economic, and technological advantages."
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Of National Lies and Racial America
Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama and the Unacceptability of Truth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
To some, the horror of 9/11 was not new. To some it was not on that day that "everything changed." To some, everything changed four hundred years ago, when that first ship landed at what would become Jamestown. To some, everything changed when their ancestors were forced into the hulls of slave ships at Goree Island and brought to a strange land as chattel. To some, everything changed when they were run out of Northern Mexico, only to watch it become the Southwest United States, thanks to a war of annihilation initiated by the U.S. government. To some, being on the receiving end of terrorism has been a way of life.
- Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An anthology of I.F. Stone's articles from 1967 - 1970.
- Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
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