Interventions (Chomsky book)

2007 book by Noam Chomsky

Interventions

First US edition

Author| Noam Chomsky
Publisher| City Lights Books (US)
Hamish Hamilton (UK)

Publication date

| May 2007
Media type| Print (Paperback)
Pages| 232
ISBN| 0-87286-483-9
OCLC| 71350487

Dewey Decimal

| 327.73009/0511 22
LC Class| E902 .C476 2007
Followed by| Making the Future

Interventions is a book by Noam Chomsky, an American academic linguist 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. 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".[1] The Pentagon banned the book from its Guantanamo Bay prison because it might negatively "impact ... good order and discipline."[2] Chomsky replied that, "This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes."[3]

## Background

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Chomsky was first approached to write an op-ed column for the New York Times Syndicate on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the basis of his work 9/11 (2001). The international attention garnered by the subsequent column, entitled "9-11: Lessons Unlearned", convinced the publishers to commission Chomsky to write roughly 1,000 words a month which they would then distribute as op-ed pieces. These columns were syndicated overseas, but rarely licensed in the United States; The New York Times itself did not publish them.[4] A second volume of these, collecting columns from April 2, 2007, to October 31, 2011, was published as Making the Future (2012).

## See also

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* September 11 attacks
* Interventionism (politics)
* Foreign policy of the United States

## Sources

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1. ^ Powell's Books – Interventions (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky
2. ^ Pentagon Bans Book By Noted Linguist, Anti-War Activist Noam Chomsky
3. ^ Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps
4. ^ "ZNet |Mainstream Media | Reviewing Noam Chomsky's New Book: "Interventions"". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-06-20.

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Select
bibliography|

| Linguistics|

* Syntactic Structures (1957)
* Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964)
* Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965)
* Cartesian Linguistics (1966)
* Language and Mind (1968)
* The Sound Pattern of English (1968)
* "Remarks on Nominalization" (1970)
* "Conditions on Transformations" (1973)
* Reflections on Language (1975)
* The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory (1975)
* Lectures on Government and Binding (1981)
* Knowledge of Language (1986)
* The Minimalist Program (1995)
* New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind (2000)

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Politics|

* "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" (1967)
* American Power and the New Mandarins (1969)
* For Reasons of State (1973)
* Counter-Revolutionary Violence (1973), with Edward S. Herman
* The Fateful Triangle (1983)
* Manufacturing Consent (1988), with Edward S. Herman
* Necessary Illusions (1989)
* Deterring Democracy (1991)
* Letters from Lexington (1993)
* The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1993)
* World Orders Old and New (1994)
* Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship (1997)
* Hegemony or Survival (2003)
* Failed States (2006)
* Requiem for the American Dream (2017)

Collections|

* Class Warfare (1996)
* Middle East Illusions (2003)
* Imperial Ambitions (2005)
* Interventions (2007)
* Gaza in Crisis (2010)
* 9-11: Was There An Alternative? (2011)
* Making the Future (2012)
* Occupy (2012)
* On Palestine (2015), with Ilan Pappé

Academic
works about|

* Chomsky
* Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction
* Decoding Chomsky
* Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
* The Anti-Chomsky Reader
* The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky
* The Kingdom of Speech

Filmography|

* Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
* Last Party 2000 (2001)
* Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2002)
* Distorted Morality – America's War on Terror? (2003)
* Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause (2003) (TV)
* Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2004)
* Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

Family|

* William Chomsky (father)
* Carol Chomsky (deceased wife)
* Valeria Wasserman (wife)
* Aviva Chomsky (daughter)

Related|

* Chomsky–Foucault debate

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