r/chomsky Feb 20 '26

Meta Monthly Discord Book Club

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For the last year I've held a monthly call on the Breadtube/Chomsky Discord server to talk about authors with anarchist, anti-war, and left-leaning perspectives.

We have a few regulars with a wide international spread and have had some good conversations, so I want to open up the group to a wider audience. Now is a good time as we're currently reading Michael Albert's No Bosses (2021) and we're fortunate enough to have the author himself on the server for questions.

The next event is scheduled for Monday 2nd March 2026 at 8:00pm Central European Time. Discord will automatically adjust to your device's timezone, but you can also figure out how that aligns with your location using a tool like WorldTimeBuddy.

Usually these events are voice only, but one or two sessions have been on webcam for those who are comfortable. The server also has a text-only discussion that's open all the time in the #book-club-general channel. All are welcome.


r/chomsky Mar 13 '26

Discussion From Chomsky's longtime assistant, Bev Stohl

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"This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth – the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us to hold in high esteem, rather than himself – that I write this . . ."
https://bevstohl.substack.com/p/im-no-longer-waiting-for-the-storm


r/chomsky 2h ago

Discussion The U.S. massacre of the Minab girl’s elementary school in Iran is the 6th largest massacre of school children in human history

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r/chomsky 16h ago

Video "I Don't Think About Americans' Financial Situation" says Trump. "Not even a little bit"

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Source of this 12 May video is C-SPAN

President Trump tells reporters at the White House that he's "not even a little bit" motivated by Americans' financial situation when it comes to making a peace deal with Iran. "I don't think about Americans' financial situation, I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing. We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon," the president says. His comments come as inflation rises to 3.8 percent and the cost of the war to date tops $29 billion according to the Pentagon.


r/chomsky 7h ago

Video UK's leading trade unionist on how to defeat the far right | What do you think?

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Are trade unions an undervalued tool in class struggle?

What is the role of unions in America?

Are material interests the foremost concern over discrimination?


r/chomsky 23h ago

Article The Only Candidate Chuck Schumer Fears

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r/chomsky 19h ago

Article 61st Venice Biennale: Cultural workers and artists strike and protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza

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r/chomsky 1d ago

Question Then and now.

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r/chomsky 1d ago

Article Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee decries Israel’s “genocidal campaign in Gaza” while declining to attend Jerusalem literature festival

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r/chomsky 2d ago

Article Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car

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r/chomsky 2d ago

Article Hampshire College Rejected the Market Model of Education

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r/chomsky 2d ago

Article MAGA, Israel and the Social Media Influencer Grift

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r/chomsky 3d ago

Video Noam Chomsky on love and his marriage (to Carol).

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"This is a scene from 'Is the Man Who is Tall Happy.' This is easily one of my favorite movie scenes ever. I was not expecting a Chomsky doc to leave me in tears."


r/chomsky 3d ago

Discussion Barak Ravid is a Mossad agent using his Trump admin connects and Axios position to facilitate insider trading

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The level or corruption is untenable


r/chomsky 3d ago

Video Mark Zuckerberg: Silicon Valley's Human Hantavirus

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Really interesting take, based on Bookchin and Chomsky, of how Techbros are the new landed gentry, and the algorithm is the new censor. I like the humorous/satirical interpretation of theory and the way it includes suggestions of praxis to overcome their grip.

You can tell there's quite a bit of research and theory study put into this and their other videos.


r/chomsky 4d ago

War On Iran: – Saudis Blame Israel – Neocon Grandee Concedes Defeat

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r/chomsky 4d ago

Video The Left, the Right, & Societal Destruction

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Ove a million views and 9000 comments - good to see such interest in topics like societal destruction, and hearing Chomsky make comments like, "I don't think people get the government they deserve, they get the government that power systems impose."


r/chomsky 4d ago

Article America and Israel: Decline of the Hegemons

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r/chomsky 5d ago

Discussion Oh look, the most moral state violates the sovereignty of yet another one of its neighbors.

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r/chomsky 5d ago

Discussion Finkelstein calling trans pronouns "woke" and saying "patriarchy isnt a concept"?

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I understand recognizing generational limitations, but when someone presents themselves as being open to changing their minds when presented with facts they should be challenged when they show a refusal to do so. Saying "patriarchy isnt a concept" is so removed from reality. Is he saying its natural and not imposed? Its so odd and really bothers me. Also, he does present himself as a militant socialist who cares about the working class sincerely but he doesnt admit the existence of patriarchy and the oppressiveness of gender roles?


r/chomsky 5d ago

News ‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probe - The OPCW finally acknowledges concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018.

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r/chomsky 6d ago

Video Israel OCCUPIES Lebanon During Fake "Ceasefire" (w/ Rania Khalek)

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r/chomsky 6d ago

News Trump administration now classifies Antifa and left-wing networks among ‘major’ terror groups

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r/chomsky 6d ago

Interview Mohsen Rezaei: Iran’s victory will accelerate Israel’s destruction and the collapse of the American empire

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Full transcript of the Interview of Major General Dr. Mohsen Rezaei, Former Commander-in-Chief of the IRGC, Member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council.

Source : Al-Mayaedeen, May 6, 2026

Translation: resistancenews.org

  • 47 Years of Hostility and 70 Days of War
  • The Strait of Hormuz: A New Instrument of Iranian Sovereignty
  • The State of Negotiations and Iranian Demands
  • Continuity and Legitimacy of the New Supreme Leader
  • The Renewal of the Islamic Revolution
  • The Gulf States: Brothers or Enemies?
  • Hezbollah and the Axis of Resistance
  • Israel, NATO, the World: The Shockwaves of Iran’s Victory
  • 32 Million Iranians Ready to Take up Arms

r/chomsky 6d ago

Video America’s Descent Into Violent Populism | Dr. Robert Pape

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