Interventions

Noam Chomsky

• Publisher: City Lights Publishers
• Year: 2007
• ISBN:
  9780872865822
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author.

While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings are widely published around the world, they have rarely been printed in major U.S. media; none have been published in the New York Times.

Concise and fiercely argued, Interventions covers the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency, Israel and Palestine, national security, the escalating threat of nuclear warfare and more. A powerful and accessible new book from one of America's foremost political intellectuals and dissidents.

"Interventions offers over forty of Chomsky's columns; insightful, crisp and well-researched pieces on news events of the day. From 9/11 to the Iraq War, from the 'non-crisis' of social security to the leveling of Lebanon, Chomsky provides informed opinion and critical analysis."—Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

"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."— Business Weekly

Noam Chomsky has taught linguistics and philosophy at MIT for more than fifty years. He is a critically-acclaimedauthor of numerous books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Manufacturing Consent, and Media Control and Failed States.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Editor’s Note
• Foreword: Peter Hart
• 9/11: Lessons Unlearned
• The United States versus Iraq: A Modest Proposal
• The Case Against the War in Iraq
• Now that the War Has Begun
• Iraq Is a Trial Run
• Road Map to Nowhere
• 9/11 and the “Age of Terror”
• The United States and the United Nations
• Dilemmas of Dominance
• Saddam Hussein Before the Tribunal
• Saddam Hussein and Crimes of State
• A Wall as a Weapon
• The United States: Terrorist Sanctuary
• Dangerous Times: The U.S.-Iraq War and Its Aftermath
• Iraq: The Roots of Resistance
• The Rules of Disengagement in Israel-Palestine
• Who Is to Run the World and How?
• John Negroponte: From Central America to Iraq
• Democracy Building Must Begin at Home
• The Disconnect in American Democracy
• “We” Are Good
• Imperial Presidency and Its Consequences
• The Iraq Debacle and International Order
• “Democracy Promotion” in the Middle East
• The Universality of Human Rights
• Dr. Strangelove Meets the Age of Terror
• The Social Security Non-Crisis
• The Hidden Agenda in the Iraq War
• The Legacy of Hiroshima and the Present Terror
• 9/11 and the Doctrine of Good Intentions
• The Bush Administration during Hurricane Season
• “Intelligent Design” and Its Consequences
• South America at the Tipping Point
• The Hidden Meaning of the Iraqi Elections
• The Hamas Victory and “Democracy Promotion”
• Asia, the Americas, and the Reigning Superpower
• “Just War” Theory and the Real World
• Disarming the Iran Nuclear Showdown
• Viewing Lebanon as if through a Bombsight
• Latin American Declares Its Independence
• Alternatives for the Americas
• What is at Stake in Iraq
• The Cold War Between Washington and Tehran
• The Great Soul of Power
• Index