Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

Content: Weekend Teach-in : opening session. The achievements of domestic dissidence 
 The U.S. network of terrorist mercenary states 
 Overthrowing Third World governments 
 Government secrecy 
 The media : an institutional analysis 
 Testing the \"propaganda model\" 
 The media and elite opinion 
 Filters on reporting 
 Honest subordination 
 \"Fight it better\" : the media and the Vietnam War --
Teach-in : over coffee. \"Containing\" the Soviet Union in the cold war 
 Orwell\'s world and ours 
 Contemporary poverty 
 Religious fanaticism 
 \"The real anti-semitism\" 
 Ronald Reagan and the future of democracy 
 Two new factors in world affairs 
 Democracy under capitalism 
 The empire 
 Change and the future --
Teach-in : evening. The military-industrial complex 
 The permanent war economy 
 Libyan and American terrorism 
 The U.S. and the U.N. 
 Business, apartheid, and racism 
 Winning the Vietnam War 
 \"Genocide\" : the United States and Pol Pot 
 Heroes and anti-heroes 
 \"Anti-intellectualism\" 
 Spectator sports 
 Western European activism and Canada 
 Dispelling illusions --
Colloquy. The totalitarian strain 
 A Lithuania hypothetical 
 Perpetuating brainwashing under freedom 
 Journalism LeMoyne-style : a sample of the cynical aspect 
 Rethinking Watergate 
 Escaping indoctrination 
 Understanding the Middle East conflict 
 The threat of peace 
 Water and the occupied territories 
 Imperial ambitions and the Arab threat 
 Prospects for the Palestinians 
 Legitimacy in history 
 Qualifications to speak on world affairs : a presidential campaign --
Ruling the world. Soviet versus western economic development 
 Supporting terror 
 \"People\'s Democratic Socialist Republics\" 
 The organ trade 
 The real crime of Cuba 
 Panama and popular invasions 
 Muslims and U.S. foreign policy 
 Haiti : disturbance at an export platform 
 Texaco and the Spanish revolution 
 Averting democracy in Italy 
 P.R. in Somalia 
 The Gulf War 
 Bosnia : intervention questions 
 Toying with India 
 The Oslo agreement and imperialist revival. Community activists. Discussion circle 
 The early peace movement and a change in the 1970s 
 The nuclear freeze movement 
 Awareness and actions 
 Leaders and movements 
 Levels of change 
 Non-violence 
 Transcending capitalism 
 The kibbutz experiment 
 \"Anarchism\" and \"libertarianism\" 
 Articulating visions 
 \"Want\" creation 
 Dissidents : ignored or vilified 
 Teaching about resistance 
 Isolation 
 Science and human nature 
 Charlatans in the sciences 
 Adam Smith : real and fake 
 The computer and the crowbar --
Intellectuals and social change. The Leninist/capitalist intelligentsia 
 Marxist \"theory\" and intellectual fakery 
 Ideological control in the sciences and humanities 
 The function of the schools 
 Subtler methods of control 
 Cruder methods of control 
 The fate of an honest intellectual 
 Forging working-class culture 
 The fraud of modern economics 
 The real market 
 Automation 
 A revolutionary change in moral values --
Popular struggle. Discovering new forms of oppression 
 Freedom of speech 
 Negative and positive freedoms 
 Cyberspace and activism 
 \"Free trade\" agreements 
 Defense department funding and \"clean money\" 
 The favored state and enemy states 
 Canada\'s media 
 Should Quebec separate from Canada? 
 Deciphering \"China\" 
 Indonesia\'s killing fields : U.S.-backed genocide in East Timor 
 Mass murderers at Harvard 
 Changes in Indonesia 
 Nuclear proliferation and North Korea 
 The Samson options 
 The lot of the Palestinians 
 P.L.O. ambitions 
 The nation-state system --
Movement organizing. The movie Manufacturing Consent 
 Media activism 
 Self-destruction of the U.S. left 
 Popular education 
 Third-party politics 
 Boycotts 
 \"A praxis\" 
 The war on unions 
 Inner-city schools 
 Defending the welfare state 
 Pension funds and the law 
 Conspiracy theories 
 The decision to get involved 
 \"Human nature is corrupt\" 
 Discovering morality 
 Abortion 
 Moral values --
Turning point. Bringing the third world home 
 Welfare : the pea and the mountain 
 Crime control and \"superfluous\" people 
 Violence and repression 
 International capital : the new imperial age 
 The fairy tale economy 
 Building international unions 
 Initial moves and the coming crisis 
 Elite planning : slipping out of hand 
 Disturbed populations stirring 
 The verge of Fascism 
 The future of history.