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Originally, this talk was entitled "The United States in the Middle East: Confronting Syria." It was the second of three lectures sponsored by the Lebanese Club at MIT. Chomsky did not want to limit the talk to this one subject.

Sponsored by MASS Global Action, a citzens organization dedicated to fighting the negative effects of corporate globalization on cities and towns in Massachusetts.Recorded on January 18, 2005 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge, MA.

Recorded on January 29, 2005 at the First Parish Unitarian Church in Cambridge, MA.

U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders (Independent Socialist - Vermont) and Sam Webb, Chairman of the Communist Party USA, discuss the 2004 Election as a part of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Luncheon Series at the University of Maine at Orono.

Noted academics and political commentators Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky each spoke for about 20 minutes and answered questions for over an hour. At the beginning, Zinn jokingly said that he would speak about hope and let Chomsky deal with desperation. Both Zinn and Chomsky spoke about how political and social matters had improved for the better during the past century and that today's times were not as desperate as in the past.

Water for People, Not for Profit was a Panel Discussion at the Boston Social Forum. The panel featured spirited presentations from Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Forum on Religion and Ecology; Maureen Taylor of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; and Barbara Garson, author of Money Makes the World Go Round: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, From Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back. Arnie Alpert of AFSC's New Hampshire Office chaired the panel.

Unique among the world's political commentators, Noam Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the 10 most quoted sources in the humanities, and is the only living writer among them.