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Interventions

(City Lights Open Media)

By Noam Chomsky

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| Paperback | 9780872864832

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Book Description

"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,Continue

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Interventions by Noam Chomsky

This latest collection of essays from America's philosopher-king touches on his trademark themes: the fallout from 9/11, the mistakes of the Bush presidency, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and key domestic US issues. Clarity and intellectual rigour ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

Interventions

Interventions reflects a vacuum in the political discourse of American editorials. Of the 44 op-ed essays included in this collection, only one was picked up by a mainstream American newspaper (The New York Times). The New York Times Syndicate respon ... (read full critics)

flakmag published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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Good compilation of recent op-eds

This is a compilation of op-eds by Noam Chomsky written for The New York Times Syndicate. And here's the irony -- supposedly the views in these op-eds are such that US papers (including NYTimes itself) have declined to publish them. However, they've been published widely in Guardian and other non-US ... (continue)

This is a compilation of op-eds by Noam Chomsky written for The New York Times Syndicate. And here's the irony -- supposedly the views in these op-eds are such that US papers (including NYTimes itself) have declined to publish them. However, they've been published widely in Guardian and other non-US newspapers. The 44 op-eds in the book run from 2002 through 2006. Reading them I couldn't even figure out why they weren't printed in the US. They didn't seem offending or much different from his usual writing.
The main topics of the op-eds are:
* Iraq - US supported Saddam against Iran. He and the country becomes enemy when oil becomes important.
* Israel/Palestine - US+Israel have been pushing down all possible resolutions to the never ending conflict. In the UN, US+Israel alone have been voting against policies which could help while the entire rest of the world have voted for it.
* South America - US screwed the nations here destroying validly elected democracies and putting up puppet presidents and dictatorships. The nations here have been moving left-center in recent years with independent leaders who are increasingly defiant to US.
* Democracy - US bringing democracy to the world is such a farce. They'll support dictatorships, pull down governments, run elections, and of course force democracy -- basically do anything required to maintain control.
* Power - The only way to keep US off your country is to develop/acquire nukes. See how they can destroy Iraq while they can't touch N Korea.
* Policy - Chomsky and Sainath say the same with regards to this issue. Public opinion no longer matters. Public opinion doesn't influence public policy even a bit. Special interests, lobbies and big business run all the nation's policies.
* Iran - It's all about the control over oil honey.
Since these are op-eds written about current affairs, there is a lot of repetition of ideas while you read them. Since the op-eds are all byte-sized, the book is perfect to read over short breaks/commutes.

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