Notes

On Where to Start with Chomsky

The core works were selected based on the following:

Purposely written books are favoured over collections of essays, for sustained argument
The total collection must represent well the whole period that Chomsky has been writing
The total list must cover all the most important topics to Noam
The list must try to avoid books that contain duplicate essays, duplicate content or very similar content
Books where Chomsky is the sole author should take precedence
Books, essays and lectures take precedence over interviews
The list must be kept as short as possible

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Duplicate essays: such as in American Power and the New Mandarins and On Anarchism.
Duplicate content: such as Rethinking Camelot which is actually lifted from The Political Economy of Human Rights.
Very similar content: such as Profit over People which is made up of lecture transcripts. The lectures themselves were based on Year 501 and it's therefore much better to actually read Year 501.

Notes on Finkelstein Comments

From a source that is now unavailable. "Norman Finkelstein broke from his busy schedule to send us this;"

"I'm not sure I have 10 "favorite" books. I have a few which made a deep impression on me at some point in my life:"

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Das Capital by Karl Marx
Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky

During the workshop (in 2008), Norman Finkelstein recommends 4 books as good introductory texts to the conflict. They are:

Noam Chomsky - Fateful Triangle
Robert Fisk - Pity the Nation
Benny Morris - Righteous Victims. ("good up until 1956")
Zeev Maoz - Defending the Holyland

Source: Indymedia lecture

Full Political Biography

Core works are highlighted in bold and honorable mentions are in italics.

(1969) American Power and the New Mandarins
(1971) At War with Asia.
(1970) Two Essays on Cambodia.
(1971) Chomsky: Selected Readings.
(1972) Problems of Knowledge and Freedom: The Russell Lectures.
(1972) The Pentagon Papers. Senator Gravel ed. vol. V. Critical Essays.
(1973) For Reasons of State.
(1973) Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda
(1974) Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood.
(1976) Intellectuals and the State.
(1978) Human Rights and American Foreign Policy
(1979) Language and Responsibility.
(1979) The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third
(1979) The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar

(1982) Radical Priorities.
(1982) Superpowers in Collision: The Cold War Now
(1982) Towards a New Cold War: Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There.
(1983, 1999) The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians.
(1985) Turning the Tide : U.S. intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace.
(1986) Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism and the Real World.
(1986) The Race to Destruction: Its Rational Basis.
(1987) On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures.
(1987) Turning the Tide: the U.S. and Latin America.
(1988) The Culture of Terrorism.
(1988) Language and Politics.
(1988) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
(1989) Necessary Illusions.

(1991) Terrorizing the Neighborhood: American Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era.
(1991) Deterring Democracy.
(1992) What Uncle Sam Really Wants.
(1992) Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian.
(1993) Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda.
(1993, 2003) The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many.
(1993) Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture (taking from Pol econ human rights)
(1993) World Order and Its Rules:
(1993) Year 501: The Conquest Continues.
(1994) Keeping the Rabble in Line
(1994) Secrets, Lies, and Democracy.
(1994) World Orders, Old and New.
(1996) Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian.
(1996) Powers and Prospects: Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order,
(1997) Democracy in a Neoliberal Order: Doctrines and Reality.
(1997). Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda.
(1998) The Common Good.
(1999) The Umbrella of US Power: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Contradictions of US Policy.
(1999) Latin America: From Colonization to Globalization.
(1999) Acts of Aggression: Policing "Rogue" States (with Edward Said)
(1999) The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo. Common Courage Press
(1999) Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

(2000) A New Generation Draws the Line: Kosovo, East Timor and the Standards of the West.
(2000) Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
(2001) Propaganda and the Public Mind.
(2001) 9-11.
(2002) Chomsky on Democracy and Education
(2002) Peering into the Abyss of the Future.
(2002) Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky.
(2003) Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews.
(2003) Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East?
(2003) Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance.
(2003) "Deep Concerns" (Znet article)
(2004) Chomsky on Miseducation
(2004) Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup
(2005) Chomsky on Anarchism
(2005) Government in the Future.
(2005) Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World.
(2005) A Hated Political Enemy: Allen Bell interviews Noam Chomsky
(2006) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy.
(2006) Perilous Power. The Middle East and US Foreign Policy.
(2007) Interventions.
(2007) What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World.
(2007) Inside Lebanon: Journey to A Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky
(2008) The Essential Chomsky.

(2010) Hopes and Prospects.
(2010) New World of Indigenous Resistance.
(2010) Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment.
(2010) Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians (with Ilan Pappe).
(2011) Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force.
(2011) 9-11: Was There An Alternative?
(2012) Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance.
(2012) Occupy (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series).
(2012) Ilusionistas. Madrid: Irreverentes
(2013) Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire.
(2013) Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
(2013) with Andre Vltchek. On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfar
(2014) Democracy and Power: the Delhi Lectures
(2015) Because We Say So
(2015) On Palestine
(2016) Who Rules the World?
(2017) Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power