TALKS
- Bernie Sanders Isn't Radical, He's Popular! The Public Agrees With Him on Healthcare & Taxes. Democracy Now!, April 26, 2016.
- On Power and Ideology. The New School for Social Research, September 19, 2015.
- Town Hall on Terror. The Baffler, January 22, 2015.
- United Nations Speech on Palestine. U.N. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, New York, NY, October 14, 2014.
- Corporate business models are hurting American universities. Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, PA, October 10, 2014.
- Keynote Address at the American University of Beirut. American University of Beirut, June 15, 2014.
- The Death of American Universities. Jacobin, March 3, 2014.
- Security and State Policy. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 13th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity's Future, Santa Barbara, CA, February 28, 2014.
- 1971 Burglary of FBI Office Proved Agency Had Become a "National Political Police". Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014.
- Noam Chomsky on Institutional Stupidity. London’s Conway Hall via live video from Massachusetts, January, 2014.
- Science, Mind, and Limits of Understanding. The Science and Faith Foundation (STOQ), The Vatican, January 2014.
- A Roadmap to a Just World — People Reanimating Democracy. DW Global Media Forum, Bonn, Germany, June 17, 2013.
- The Truth About America’s Secret, Dirty Wars. (with Jeremy Scahill and Amy Goodman), Harvard University, April 27, 2013.
- Violence and Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East. 2013 Edward Said Lecture, Friends House, London, March 18, 2013.
- The Common Good. Truthout, February, 2013.
- Who Owns the World? University of Massachusetts at Amherst, September 2012.
- The Great Charter: Its Fate, Our Fate. The University of Saint Andrews, June 19, 2012.
- Revolutionary Pacifism: Choices and Prospects. City of Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, Sydney Town Hall, November 1, 2011.
- Language and the Cognitive Science Revolution(s). Carleton University, April 8, 2011.
- The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival. University of Toronto, April 7, 2011.
- Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities. University of Toronto, Scarborough, April 6, 2011.
- Contours of Global Order: Domination, Instability, and Xenophobia in a Changing World. Westerkerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 13, 2011.
- Human intelligence and the environment. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, September 30, 2010.
- Power Hunger Tempered by Self-Deception. The Collège de France, May 28, 2010.
- US Foreign Policy in the Middle East. UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon, May 25, 2010.
- US Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Traducción al castellano: La política de Estados Unidos en el Medio Oriente. UNESCO Palace, Beirut, Lebanon, May 25, 2010.
- Final Remarks, Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech. Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech, Istanbul, Turkey, April 10, 2010.
- Quo Vadis. Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech, Istanbul, Turkey, April 10, 2010.
- The Radical Intellectual. The Haven Center, Madison, Wisconsin, April 8, 2010.
- “The evil scourge of terrorism”: Reality, construction, remedy (Erich Fromm Lecture 2010). International Erich Fromm Society, Stuttgart, Germany, March 23, 2010.
- The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism (Edward Said Memorial Lecture). Columbia University, December 3, 2009.
- Hopes And Prospects (Amnesty International Lecture). Belfast, Ireland, October 30, 2009.
- Human Rights in the New Millennium. London School of Economics and Political Science, October 29, 2009.
- The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era. Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico, September 21, 2009.
- The Unipolar Moment and the Obama Era, Versión en castellano: Guerra, drogas y política, elementos del mundo bipolar. Nezahualcóyotl Hall, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), University City, Federal District, Mexico, 21 de Septiembre de 2009.
- The Responsibility to Protect. UN General Assembly, New York City, July 23, 2009.
- Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours. (American Power and the New Mandarins 40th Anniversary Talk). Brecht Forum, Riverside Church, New York City, June 12, 2009.
- Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond. Boston University, April 24, 2008.
- Historical Perspectives on Latin American and East Asian Regional Development. Mass Global Action, December 15, 2006.
- Just War Theory. U.S. Military Academy, West Point, April 20, 2006.
- Europe and America as Underwriters of the International Order. Institute of European Affairs, January 19, 2006.
- The War on Terror. Amnesty International Annual Lecture, January 18, 2006.
- The Future of Iraq and U.S. Occupation. International Relations Center, January 26, 2005.
- Elections Run by Same Guys Who Sell Toothpaste. International Relations Center, January 25, 2005.
- Nuclear Terror at Home. International Relations Center, January 25, 2005.
- The “War on Terrorism” and the New Rules of World Order. Antigonish, Nova Scotia, October 13, 2004.
- Biolinguistics and the Human Capacity. MTA, Budapest, May 17, 2004.
- Doctrines and Visions: Who Is to Run The World, and How? University of Oxford, May 4, 2004.
- On Negroponte’s Appointment to Iraq Embassy. Cambridge Forum, April 29, 2004.
- After the War. Columbia University, November 20, 2003.
- Where’s the Security in Bush’s National Security Strategy? University of Florida, October 21, 2003.
- On Hegemony or Survival. Illinois State University, October 7, 2003.
- Confronting the Empire. III World Social Forum, February 2, 2003.
- On West Asia. University of California at Berkeley, March 21, 2002.
- Distorted Morality: America’s War on Terror? Harvard University, February 2002.
- A World Without War. II World Social Forum, January 31, 2002.
- Peering into the Abyss of the Future. Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, November 3, 2001.
- The New War Against Terror. MIT, October 18, 2001.
- Prospects for Peace in the Middle East. University of Toledo, March 4, 2001.
- “The other Davos”. Attac, January 26, 2001.
- “The Current Crises in the Middle East: What Can We Do?”. MIT, December 14, 2000.
- On the Kent/Jackson State Killings. Kent State, May 4, 2000.
- Taking Control of Our Lives: Freedom, Sovereignty, and Other Endangered Species. International Relations Center (Twentieth Anniversary Lecture), February 26, 2000.
- U.S. Middle East Policy. Columbia University, April 4, 1999.
- Power in The Global Arena. Amiel Lecture, London, May 1998.
- Free Market Fantasies: Capitalism in the Real World. Harvard University, April 13, 1996.
- If the Nuremberg Laws were Applied…. Radio Free Maine, Circa 1990.
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 15, 1989.
- American Foreign Policy. Harvard University, March 19, 1985.
- Government in the Future. libcom.org, February 16, 1970.