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One of our most valued political thinkers. His commitment to presenting his findings lucidly makes him one of the most useful (Independent on Sunday )
Chomsky has an authority granted by brilliance (David Goodhart Sunday Times )
Chomsky has an authority granted by brilliance (David Goodhart Sunday Times )
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Interventions is Noam Chomsky at his best.
At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America’s leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible and urgent essays, Chomsky cogently examines the burning issues of our post-9/11 world, covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. This is an essential collection, from a vital and authoritative perspective.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I'm ashamed to see how few reviews I've done of Chomsky's books. His deadpan presentation of the evidence has profoundly influenced the way I see the world since I was in my early 20s.
His method is simple. He doesn't construct a big conspiracy theory based on shreds of evidence. He starts from the standpoint that the political processes that we really need to scrutinise are the ones we have a chance of influencing - i.e., our own. From here, he looks at what our politicians say they are doing, and compares this with what they are verifiably reported as doing, and also with what the mainstream media says they are doing. None of this is any more than the scientific method as applied to media studies.
From this method, he draws down devastatingly critical results, in which politicans are condemned by the facts that their own organisations have elicited. Chomsky can ruin your faith in your elected leaders like nobody else. However, he is animated by a vision of freedom and justice that is truly democratic and egalitarian - and he is not blind to the fact that there are people out there who don't believe in freedom or justice but in theocracy. He just wants to point out that some of those people form the backbone of the US government.
This is a selection of op-ed columns, hardly the kind of book-length closely reasoned argument that any Chomsky-experienced radical will be looking for, but a bracing shot in the arm for anyone who just feels bewildered and confused by the whole situation and wants someone to suggest a direction towards clarity. Chomsky is by nature not a guru, positively allergic to 'followers' - merely someone with more access to information than most of us, and so disinclined to tell people what to do. But this little book is a small light that may help to illuminate the road towards an exit from the confusion and impotence that paralyse us every day.
His method is simple. He doesn't construct a big conspiracy theory based on shreds of evidence. He starts from the standpoint that the political processes that we really need to scrutinise are the ones we have a chance of influencing - i.e., our own. From here, he looks at what our politicians say they are doing, and compares this with what they are verifiably reported as doing, and also with what the mainstream media says they are doing. None of this is any more than the scientific method as applied to media studies.
From this method, he draws down devastatingly critical results, in which politicans are condemned by the facts that their own organisations have elicited. Chomsky can ruin your faith in your elected leaders like nobody else. However, he is animated by a vision of freedom and justice that is truly democratic and egalitarian - and he is not blind to the fact that there are people out there who don't believe in freedom or justice but in theocracy. He just wants to point out that some of those people form the backbone of the US government.
This is a selection of op-ed columns, hardly the kind of book-length closely reasoned argument that any Chomsky-experienced radical will be looking for, but a bracing shot in the arm for anyone who just feels bewildered and confused by the whole situation and wants someone to suggest a direction towards clarity. Chomsky is by nature not a guru, positively allergic to 'followers' - merely someone with more access to information than most of us, and so disinclined to tell people what to do. But this little book is a small light that may help to illuminate the road towards an exit from the confusion and impotence that paralyse us every day.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Interventions" is an accessible and readable collection of op-ed articles Chomsky wrote between November 2002 and February 2008. Focussed, as ever, on the foreign policy of the United States they cover a wide range of countries and issues, from Nuclear Proliferation, Iran, Somalia, Palestine. Unsurprisingly the main focus of the articles is Iraq.
The articles are 1000 words roughly and were available for publication though apparently the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe demurred - surprisingly enough! Chomsky copes well with the short op-ed format, though there are added footnotes for further understanding and/or to bring the reader up to date. Books such as this are a valuable counterweight to the blandly partisan and nearly always a-historical reporting in the main stream press.
Well worth reading and well recommended additon to Chomskys prolific output.
The articles are 1000 words roughly and were available for publication though apparently the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe demurred - surprisingly enough! Chomsky copes well with the short op-ed format, though there are added footnotes for further understanding and/or to bring the reader up to date. Books such as this are a valuable counterweight to the blandly partisan and nearly always a-historical reporting in the main stream press.
Well worth reading and well recommended additon to Chomskys prolific output.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This collection of Professor Chomsky's hard-hitting essays, previously published in newspapers world-wide during the period 2002-2008, includes persuasive pieces on Iraq, Iran, the 'war on terror', the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, US domestic issues and the failures of the George W Bush administration.
It's disgraceful that Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading intellectuals, is treated as a pariah in his own country but these clearly argued essays brilliantly illuminate the post-9/11 world and deserve to have the widest possible readership.
It's disgraceful that Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading intellectuals, is treated as a pariah in his own country but these clearly argued essays brilliantly illuminate the post-9/11 world and deserve to have the widest possible readership.
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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. Read more
Published on 21 May 2008 by William Podmore
A useful collection (albeit repetitive)
Chomsky has for a long time been rightly seen as one of the most incisive left wing critics of the US government and its foreign policy, applying the intellectual firepower which... Read more
Published on 6 April 2008 by Siriam
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