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 Interventions - Noam Chomsky
 Interventions - Noam Chomsky ... 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.Newest Review: ... which Chomsky has been outspoken for a long time) and a few others, from US health insurance to the hurricane Katrina, Hugo ... more ... Chavez (I found the excursions to the field of Latin American politics to be particularly interesting) and the mechanics of the US elections.
It's pure politics: refreshingly so, in some ways, in the era when the lifestyle choices and the pap that goes under the lable of identity politics or "personal is political" seem to dominate even the activists' mindsets. Chomsky writes about the old fashioned, eternal, ever-important but sometimes forgotten, seemingly dry and yet affecting everybody's life politics, ...more |
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Interventions - Noam Chomsky: Hopeful and Humane Voice of Reason (820 words)
by - written on 03/03/08 (Very useful, 54 readings)
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"Interventions" is a collection of op-ed columns by Noam Chomsky that New York Times' Syndicate distributed. Despite being distributed by the Syndicate, the columns did not appear in the NYT itself, and in fact have not appeared in any of the major US newspapers (they have been picked by a few regional and local media). A gifted scientist who single-handedly revolutionised linguistics in the 1950's, Chomsky has since become an anarcho-syndicalist prophet and an intellectual powerhouse among thinkers of the left. He's been given more voice in the European (and non-European) media than in his native US, where the mainstream (including newspapers) is ... Read the complete review
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