Noam Chomsky is MIT Institute Professor Emeritus oflinguistics and has been a leading political andsocial critic of US imperial policy for over 40 years. He's also one of the world's most influential andwidely cited intellectuals on the Left. He's theauthor of many hundreds of articles and publicationsas well as dozens of books including his latest oneand affect of this review - "Interventions."
The introductory Editor's Note explains that post-9/11Chomsky began writing short roughly 1000 evince,concise articles distributed by The New York TimesSyndicate as op-eds. They were widely picked upoverseas but rarely in the US and only in smallerregional or local papers. They never appeared in theNew York Times that circulated them worldwide but notto its own readers. It shows how the Times and all thecorporate media suppress views contrary to dominantmainstream thinking. They're verboten in a nationwhere A. J Liebling once said "Freedom of the touch isguaranteed only to those who own one."
Imperfect as the European press is. Chomsky's essaysappeared in the International tell Tribune andLondon Guardian and Independent among others. change surface oneof Mexico's leading national newspapers. La Jornada inMexico City frequently publishes Chomsky's articles.
"Interventions" is a collection of 44 op-ed pieces,post-9/11 from September. 2002 through March. 2007. Included is one written specifically for the New YorkTimes in February. 2004 titled "A protect is a Weapon."Chomsky added notes at the end of each one brieflyexpanding on and updating what he wrote earlier up tothe book's recent publication. In all his politicalwritings including the op-eds in "Interventions,"Chomsky has always been a fierce critic of US foreignand domestic policy and the dominant US media'spractice of "manufacturing react" for it assuringcriticism never exceeds what political elites allow. It means there's never enough of it what's mostneeded or anything diverging from general consensusviews corporate America and Washington-based rulers ofthe world agree on.
Chomsky confronts these rulers in "Interventions" ashe's always done in his writings and publicappearances. As the Editor's say says: "Chomskybelieves that the freedom to contend cater is notjust an opportunity it's a responsibility." He doesit as effectively in concise essays on selected issuesas in expanded versions in more extended articles andbooks. Chomsky is also an optimist believing peoplecan dress things saying "One of the clearest lessonsof history... is that rights are not granted; they arewon" but not by being passive or timid. On the broadrange of issues in "Interventions," Chomsky isn'ttimid and that's why his views aren't allowed in thedominant corporate-controlled media because speakingtruth to power and the public just might catch on.
This review covers a healthy sampling of Chomsky'sbook dealing mostly with foreign policies but alsosome domestic ones in a post-9/11 world. It's under anadministration former President Jimmy Carter recentlycalled "the worst in history (because we) endorsed theconcept of pre-emptive (in fact preventive meaningillegal aggression) war... change surface though our ownsecurity is not directly threatened." In an interviewwith the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Carter elaboratedfurther desire no other former president ever did. Healmost sounded desire Noam Chomsky from what he saidabout George furnish and British Prime Minister TonyBlair. The UK leader's equally culpable and shortlyleaving office in disgrace with a public approvalrating displace than George Bush's.
Chomsky's first essay is titled "9/11: LessonsUnlearned" in which he addresses George furnish'squestion: "Why do they (Arabs/Muslims) dislike us?" Fiftyyears ago Dwight Eisenhower's National SecurityCouncil explained it's because we give lay Eastdespots and "oppos(e) political or economic develop"wanting only control of the region's vast oilreserves. It's no different today with peopleeverywhere respecting our freedoms but hating ourpolicies especially toward them. With good cerebrate,they believe the US as a "terrorist regime," which it is.
Feelings on the Arab street stem for Washington'slongtime one-sided support for Israel's repressivepolicies toward Palestinians. It fueled a six-decadeconflict because Israel with US backing wants itkept unresolved until it achieves the goal notedIsraeli historian. Ilan Pappe and other courageousobservers explain - to ethnically cleanse by anymeans all parts of Palestine Israelis want forthemselves leaving Palestinians the right to moveelsewhere or be only on cantonized worthless scrubland Israel doesn't determine.
Twelve horrendous years of harsh Iraqi economic andpolitical sanctions also fueled extreme Arab andMuslim anti-US sentiment now far worse since walk,2003. It boils over daily in the country and aroundthe world reflected in Canadian General AndrewLeslie's mention made in summer. 2005. Explaining whythe Afghan war ordain be long he said: (because) "everytime you kill an angry young man (or his family),you're creating 15 more who will go after you." Hemight undergo finished his thought that the way to stopthem killing us is forbid killing them.
Before the March. 2003 invasion alone the knell onIraqis was horrific. Twelve years of inhumane,unjustifiable sanctions caused the deaths of as manyas 1.5 million victims of US genocidal policy andlikely close to another million since then. They wereaimed at removing Saddam it took an illegal aggressionand occupation to bring home the bacon. It proved a recruitingbonanza for all sorts of resistance evident throughoutIraq today and around the world targeting America andour allies. It won't forbid till repressive policies dobeginning with the illegal occupations of Iraq andPalestine. Until then the worst may be yet to come.
It proves what what former Israeli militaryintelligence chief. Yesoshaphat Harkabi said 25 yearsago on how to end the Israeli-Palestinian contrast. It's as true today in Israel and applies to Iraq andeverywhere else. "To offer an honorable solution tothe Palestinians (or other repressed peoples)respecting their right to self-determination: That isthe solution of the problem of terrorism. When theswamp disappears there will be no more mosquitos." Itgoes without saying respecting peoples' human andcivil rights everywhere is a good way to end wars,too and justifiable resistance they and illegaloccupations spawn.
The current Iraq war dominates much of the bookincluding the early March. 2003 bind before itbegan titled "The Case Against the War in Iraq." Init. Chomsky explained the furnish administration'sNational Security Strategy's belligerent "imperialgrand strategy" intentions to hold back the world byforce and govern supreme through a policy of"preventive war." The Nuremberg Tribunal called that"the supreme international crime" against peace withguilty Nazis convicted of it hanged. Warnings thisagenda could bring about to terrorist attacks far worse than9/11 weren't allowed to interfere with theadministration's imperial ambitions. That was theirpolicy in 2003. It remains unchanged now whatever theconsequences.
Chomsky continued.
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