| Editor's Preliminary Note to the Third Edition | 1 |
| Editor's Preliminary Note to the Second Edition | 3 |
| Editor's Preliminary Note to the First Edition | 4 |
| List of Abbreviations | 6 |
| Introduction to Chomsky's Social Theory | 9 |
| An Independent Mind with Awesome Powers | |
| A Pariah of the "Free Press" | |
| Contagious Ideas | |
| Vision and Analysis | |
| Two Major Themes | |
| The Nature of Human Nature | |
| Libertarianism vs. "Liberalism" | |
| Socialism vs. Capitalism | |
| Acracy vs. Autocracy | |
| Anarcho-syndicalism vs. Atavism | |
| Organic Growth vs. Bureaucratic Fiat | |
| Creativeness vs. Receptiveness | |
| Generative Grammar and Libertarian Values | |
| Theory and Action | |
| Part I | In Defense of the Third World | |
| 1. | On the "National Interest" | 51 |
| 2. | Vietnam Protest and the Media | 55 |
| The Present Situation in Vietnam | |
| The Vietnamese Analogue to "Denazification" | |
| The Protest and the American Press | |
| Propaganda Fabrications | |
| The Protest as a Political Act | |
| 3. | Cambodia: No Holds Barred | 63 |
| 4. | The Cynical Farce About Cambodia | 67 |
| Postscript: Letter to the New York Times | |
| 5. | The Hidden War in East Timor | 73 |
| U.S. Government and Press Conceal Massacres FRETILIN Wins Victory | |
| U.S. News Management | |
| U.S. Military Involvement Expands | |
| Chronicle of Indonesian Atrocities | |
| First Hand Reports | |
| Press Adheres to State Department Line | |
| Human Rights Report: No Mention of Timor | |
| Comparison with Press coverage of Cambodia | |
| 6. | The Iranian-American Conflict | 83 |
| 7. | Israel and the American Intelligentsia | 87 |
| 8. | Outside of Israeli "Official History" | 91 |
| 9. | On the Middle East | 95 |
| 10. | The "North-South" Conflict | 103 |
| A Gloomy Prospect for the Human Race | |
| Institutional Causes | |
| The Competition for Scarce Resources | |
| The Reasons for Arms Sales | |
| Agribusiness and Undernutrition | |
| Comparison with the Nazis | |
| Self-interest and Policy Decisions | |
| 11. | The New Cold War | 111 |
| The Protection of "Our Interests" | |
| A Deadly Dance of Death | |
| The Likely Dynamics of Interventionist Policies | |
| Waste Production and International Dominance | |
| Commitment or Disaster | |
| Part II | U.S.A.: Myth, Reality, Acracy | |
| 12. | The Carter Administration: Myth and Reality | 119 |
| The Ideological Institutions | |
| Totalitarianism and "Democracy" | |
| The Rhetoric of Human Rights | |
| The Carter Administration and the Trilateral | |
| Prospects for the Coming Years | |
| 13. | The Secret Terror Organizations of the U.S. Government | 145 |
| 14. | Watergate: Small Potatoes | 149 |
| 15. | The Vietnam War: A Monstrosity | 153 |
| 16. | The Student Revolt | 157 |
| The Pentagon and Nuclear War | |
| A Race War | |
| Why do Students Rebel? | |
| The Students and the Future | |
| 17. | The Politicization of the University | 163 |
| The American "Democracy" | |
| Reflections on Violence | |
| The Real Problems of Society | |
| The "Moderate" Position | |
| The Position of the Hawks | |
| Two types of "Conspiracy" | |
| Two types of Protest | |
| Ideology and Apathy | |
| Domestic Repression | |
| Participation in a "Democratic Society" | |
| Freedom in the University | |
| Fantasies of the Left | |
| Scholarship and Action | |
| Scientists of the World, Unite! | |
| Tasks for Students | |
| "Radical Tactics" | |
| Tasks for Intellectuals | |
| The Primary Principle in the Struggle | |
| 18. | Political Prospects | 179 |
| The Philippines Model | |
| Cultural Subjugation | |
| Latin America | |
| Paranoid Fantasies | |
| Ideological Stranglehold | |
| American Apartheid | |
| National Security Managers | |
| 19. | Some Tasks for the Left | 187 |
| Possibilities of "Internal Aggression" | |
| Economy and "National Defense" | |
| A Genuine Revolutionary Movement | |
| Libertarian Socialism | |
| Technology and Self-management | |
| From Autocracy to Acracy | |
| The Advantage of the Left | |
| A Task for Radicals | |
| The University and the Left | |
| Radical Culture and Social Change | |
| 20. | The New Radicalism | 199 |
| The Re-radicalization of the 1960s | |
| The Organization of the Left | |
| Industrial Society and Anarchism | |
| Cultural Effects of the New Radicalism | |
| The Radicalization of the Scientists | |
| 21. | The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism | 211 |
| Acracy and Democracy | |
| Anarcho-syndicalism and Marxism | |
| Organization in Anarchy | |
| Work and Standard of Living | |
| Capitalism as an Anachronism | |
| 22. | Industrial Self-management | 227 |
| Part III | A Pressing Agenda | |
| 23. | The Danger of Nuclear War and What We Can Do About It | 235 |
| Postscript: What Can Young People Do? | |
| 24. | Priorities for Averting the Holocaust | 243 |
| 25. | U.S. Foreign Policy | 251 |
| Postscript: The Foreign Policy of the Reagan Administration | |
| 26. | 1984: Orwell's and Ours | 261 |
| 27. | An Inquiry into Global Capitalism | 269 |
| The War Crimes Issue: Two Different Proposals | |
| Dangerous Concomitants of Unchallenged Power | |
| Human Development: A Shocking Record | |
| Economic Growth: Two Obvious Questions | |
| Huge Taxpayer Subsidies to the Corporations | |
| A Very Sharp Attack on Democracy | |
| 28. | The Multilateral Agreement on Investment | 285 |
| "The Ultimate Weapon" | |
| A Euphemism: "Defense Industrial Base" | |
| People with Sentiments and Feelings | |
| Mobility of Capital and the Social Contract | |
| A Question Solely About Democracy | |
| Systems of Protection of Private Power | |
| 29. | Terror and Just Response | 301 |
| The Official U.S. Definition of "Terrorism" | |
| An Uncontroversial Case as Illustration | |
| A New Phase of the "War on Terror" | |
| The First Phase: Serious War Crimes | |
| The Proper Response to Acts of Terror | |
| Facts that Cannot be Ignored Without Peril | |
| 30. | A World Without War | 319 |
| The Ongoing Conflict: Primary issues | |
| A Stark Choice: Hegemony or Survival | |
| A Serious Threat to the Human Species | |
| The Mirage of the Promised Land | |
| The Effects of Neoliberal Programs | |
| Increasing Disillusionment with What Remains of Democracy | |
| Index | 333 |
