Interventions
| Interventions | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Noam Chomsky |
| Publisher | City Lights Books |
| Publication date | May, 2007 |
| Media type | Paperback |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 0-8728-6483-9 |
| OCLC Number | 71350487 |
| Dewey Decimal | 327.73009/0511 22 |
| LC Classification | E902 .C476 2007 |
Interventions is a book by Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, MIT professor, and political activist. Published in May 2007, Interventions is a collection of 44 op-ed articles, post-9/11, from September 2002, through March 2007.
After 9/11, Noam Chomsky began writing roughly 1000-word concise articles, distributed by The New York Times Syndicate as op-eds. They were widely picked up overseas, but rarely in the United States and only in smaller regional or local papers. The New York Times, which circulated them worldwide, never published them to its own readers.[1] The regional newspapers in the US that did pick up the op-eds were such as The Register Guard, The Dayton Daily News, and The Knoxville Voice. Internationally, the op-eds have appeared in the mainstream European press including The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, and The Independent. This book is a complete collection of these articles.[2]
The book's 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. "[3]
The Pentagon banned the book from its Guantanamo Bay prison because it might negatively “impact... good order and discipline.”[4] Chomsky replied that, “This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes.”[5]
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[edit] Sources
- ^ ZNet |Mainstream Media | Reviewing Noam Chomsky's New Book: "Interventions"
- ^ uprisingradio.org » Interventions By Noam Chomsky
- ^ Powell's Books - Interventions (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky
- ^ Pentagon Bans Book By Noted Linguist, Anti-War Activist Noam Chomsky
- ^ Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps
