Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews by Noam Chomsky (PDF)

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In this, his first new book since the international bestseller 9-11, Noam Chomsky presents his latest thinking on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy, focusing on alternatives to the current course of armed provocation.Noam Chomsky is the author of, among many other books, Profit over People, and the international anti-war bestseller 9-11, which has sold over 300,000 copies worldwide.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author NOAM CHOMSKY is known throughout the world for his political and philosophical writings as well as for his groundbreaking linguistics work. He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955 and remains one of America’s most uncompromising voices of dissent.

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⭐The book’s condition was very clean and great.I read this book in Korean version first, but wanted to re-read in English version.It’s very on point. Love all the books from Chomsky.

⭐Kids don’t read as much as they used to. A sad fact every teacher must cope with. In the interest of time, and attention paid, this video can make, in many cases, a better impact.

⭐This is only my second Chomsky book and as with 9/11 he articulates the hidden moves being played out on the international stage. Reading his analysis of what is really happening rather than what the media wants us to believe is happening makes his books like Clift’s Notes for those who want to understand how and why the world is as it is. As to those who refuse to see the world’s operations as they are and dismiss Chomsky as an unpatriotic liberal I can only say, as he does, that the US is just the most recent of a long line of empires that manipulate the world as their plaything. The US is not the worst nor will it be the last but it is incumbent on us all to realize what is going on and why these actions are taking place,To read the numbing ignorance of letter writers to my local newspaper is enough to establish that the world must have a Chomsky-not to dismantle the American Empire but simply to recognize what it is and what it is doing and why it’s doing it.To blindly and mindlessly accept the evil in the world is to invite that evil into your house-to feed it and offer a soft bed and a soft blanket. If evil is kept at arms length then you are not participating in the catalogue of evil incidents that were created in other people’s backyards. A blind acceptance is to become a participant in the monstrous events being carried out in your name but to know the nature of the beast at least insulates you to a feeble extent. Simply put: knowledge is the protector while ignorance is the corrupter.

⭐I would have given this book 5 stars but I was hoping for a little more direct discussion on Afghanistan and Iraq. Still a great book. Anyone who thinks this book was a “rushed” effort to capitalize on current events does not know Chomsky and also dosen’t realize that he didn’t really write the book. The book is a collection of lectures and discussions that he has given in the past two years. Chomsky does not waste his time making fun of all of his detractors like so many other liberal and conservative writers. He is not out to write the next NY Times best seller. Let the Ann Coulters and Al Frankens of the world have their spats. Meanwhile, Chomsky is constantly reading and writing and talking and putting out little books whose conclusions are grounded in extensive research and common sense. Do you really care about the people who died on September 11th?? Or was it just so spectacularly horrible that you can’t see or think straight anymore? Do you honestly want terrorism to stop?? If so then start reading this book. All the baggage screenings, roaming warrants and “precision” bombing of poor, thirld world countries is not going to stop terrorism. The first step that Americans need to take to stop terrorism is to stop sponsoring it all over the world. Read Chomsky and then start looking things up on your own. It’s all there for you to find…Colombia, Nicaragua, Palestine, Turkey, Korea, Bosnia, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam (I’ll leave US atrocities in Japan off the list since we were “at war”). Remember that evil begets evil.What it really boils down to though is this question: Do you value human life? Based on the current state of things in the world today I would venture to say that most Americans don’t. We value our own lives, but are not too concerned about the lives’ of others. Or maybe we only care about HOW people die. Are we angered more when we see a human instantly vaporized in a fiery explosion than slowly starve to death of hunger? Does it sadden us more to see a mother wail in English over the death of her son than a mother grieving in Arabic or Spanish?If you don’t care that much about other people dying in the world that’s OK with me. We all have our own priorities and struggles. Just as long as you realize that hundreds of people all over the world die every day so that we can live the way we do in this country. If that dosen’t bother you then that’s also fine. It actually doesn’t bother me too much. I love living the way we do. It’s tons of fun. Just don’t go around waving the American flag and thinking that people sit around waiting to blow themselves up because they are so angry that we have strip clubs, fast food, SUV’s and are the “brightest beacon of freedom in the world.” If you believe that then you are just as fanatical as the a@#holes that committed the crimes of September 11th.

⭐Noam Chomsky, a well-known political thinker and activist, puts forth his ideas on the problem of terrorism. He doesn’t defend the terrorists of 9-11, but he does say that there is cause and effect at work here. According to his belief, he states that the United States has been one of the biggest terror states in it’s support of dictators and repressive regimes throughout the world. One such example is Turkey. Turkey is executing a program to destroy the culture of the Kurds. Chomsky insists that this is done with the knowledge and support of the U.S. government. Also he puts forth the repression of the Palestinians in Israel and the farmland destruction in Columbia as other prime cases in which the U.S. in involved in terror.I thought one of the most interesting points made in this book is that Saddam was made by the Bush family. All throughout the 1980’s, Saddam was the U.S. pet to defend against a supposedly dangerous Iran. During this time, he used poison gas on the Kurds. The Republican administration then in power said nothing about it at all. It’s so ironic that the current Bush keeps bringing up the point of gas attacks against the Kurds, when it was an American supported and supplied Saddam who did it, and at the time it wasn’t considered worth mentioning. It only got brought up after Saddam refused to play the game. It’s ironic that our worst enemies are our own creations.I found this book to be very insightful. As some of the negative reviews have said, this is not really Chomsky’s book, but edited together from various speeches and interviews that he has done. Even though this is the case, I think it is very readable, and it contains a lot of information that is useful and thought-provoking. Check it out.

⭐An incisive strike to the dark side of America (which is too often swept under the rug) – The book is essentially a series of transcripts, it is very brief, very readable, and dare I say it, very entertaining (despite some very depressing content). Worth reading cover to cover in one or two sittings!

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