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Interventions by Noam Chomsky is getting new press after the Pentagon banned the book from Guantanamo Bay's prison library. The Miami Herald broke the story on October 11, 2009 and stories followed in The Washington Independent, the Boston Herald, and other outlets. Democracy Now! picked up the story on October 13: “Published in 2007, Interventions compiles a series of Chomsky's columns. The Pentagon has refused to explain why the book has been barred.”

“Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.”—The New York Times Book Review

Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best.

Not since his all-time best-selling title, 9/11, published in the Open Media series in 2001, have readers had a timely, short, easy-to-read, affordable Chomsky. Unlike 9/11, Interventions is a writerly work—a series of more than thirty tightly argued essays aimed at various aspects of US power and politics in the post-9/11 world. While critical of US military interventions around the globe, each piece in the book is in itself an intellectual intervention aimed at raising public ire about the consequences of US use of power at home and abroad.

Interventions’ subjects span from 9/11 and the Iraq war to Social Security and Intelligent Design, South America and Asia, the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the election of Hamas, Hurricane Katrina, and the US concept of “just war.”

According to BusinessWeek, “With relentless logic, Chomsky bids us to listen closely to what our leaders tell us—and to discern what they are leaving out. . . . Agree with him or not, we lose out by not listening.” Chomsky’s Interventions delivers what readers want: an accessible set of skeleton keys for opening up a wide range of global issues dominating today’s political landscape.

Noam Chomsky is the critically acclaimed author of many books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control.

Editorial Reviews

Boston Phoenix

Noam Chomsky sounds off on US military interventions since 9/11.

Chicago Sun Times

Interventions' covers the Iraq invasion and occupation, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security and more.

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Newark Star Ledger

These columns are littered with unpopular but accurate caveats to the Bush administration's dream of unchallenged global dominance.

The Morning News.com

It continues to amaze me that, for all the demonizing of Chomsky by certain regressive elements, his analyses are sensible and fact-based. If you are unfamiliar with his work, this would be a good introduction."

Vanity Fair

Unwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the U.S. military's global 'Interventions'. Shock and awe!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780872864832
Publisher: City Lights Books
Publication date: 7/1/2007
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 263,869
Series: City Lights Open Media Series
Product dimensions: 5.20 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Noam Chomsky is the critically acclaimed author of several bestselling books. Some of his recent titles include Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, 9-11, Media Control, and Interventions. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of theoretical linguistics made in the 20th century.

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Anonymous

Posted May 21, 2008

Very informative, as ever

This is the complete collection of Chomsky¿s opinion pieces written between 2002 and 2007 and distributed by the New York Times Syndicate. Chomsky is one of the world¿s best-informed and most astute commentators on current affairs. His consistent theme is the need for real democracy. He examines Israel¿s invasion of Lebanon, the US-British invasion and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US-Israeli rejection of a Palestinian state, the growing democracy and independence of the countries of Latin and Central America, the increasing nuclear threat and the relationship between democracy and national sovereignty. He notes that the US National Intelligence Estimate of 2006 said that the Iraq war has worsened terrorism. Since 2003, there has been a sevenfold rise in the yearly rate of jihadist attacks, and not just in Iraq and Afghanistan in the rest of the world it has risen by a third. The Iraq war removed an enemy, not an ally, of al-Qaeda. Contradicting Bush, the Pentagon¿s Defense Science Board reported, ¿Muslims do not `hate our freedom¿, but rather they hate our policy.¿ When the Royal Institute of International Affairs reported that ¿the UK is at particular risk because it is the closest ally of the United States ... a pillion passenger¿, the government furiously denied this obvious truth. On the root cause of the crisis in the Middle East, Chomsky cites a former head of Israeli military intelligence, ¿To offer an honorable solution to the Palestinians respecting their right to self-determination: That is the solution of the problem of terrorism. When the swamp disappears, there will be no more mosquitos.¿ In November 2004, the UN Committee on Disarmament voted 147 to 1 for a verifiable Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, which would block the production of yet more nuclear bomb material. The USA voted against, Britain and Israel abstained. Chomsky writes, ¿decline of sovereignty entails decline of democracy, and decline in ability to conduct social and economic policy. That in turn harms development.¿ He argues that public opinion doesn¿t matter to the US and British states. Polls show that 80% of Iraqis want the US occupiers to leave. So what? The USA is bringing Iraqis democracy, so it doesn¿t matter what they think. 70% of us in Britain want a referendum on any treaty which transfers further powers to the EU. So what? We can¿t have one, the Lisbon Treaty/EU Constitution is good for us, so it doesn¿t matter what we think.

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Posted July 4, 2010

Chomsky delivers

well researched, articulate and provocative!
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