Interventions (Chomsky book)

{{short description|2007 book by Noam Chomsky}}

{{Infobox book

| name = [https://archive.org/details/Interventions_201805 Interventions]

| image = File:Interventions.jpg

| caption = First US edition

| author = Noam Chomsky

| publisher = City Lights Books (US)
Hamish Hamilton (UK)

| release_date = May 2007

| media_type = Print (Paperback)

| pages = 232

| isbn = 0-87286-483-9

| dewey= 327.73009/0511 22

| congress= E902 .C476 2007

| oclc= 71350487

| preceded_by =

| 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".[http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=9780872864832#synopses_and_reviews Powell's Books – Interventions (City Lights Open Media) by Noam Chomsky] The Pentagon banned the book from its Guantanamo Bay prison because it might negatively "impact{{nbsp}}... good order and discipline."[http://pubrecord.org/commentary/5849/pentagon-noted-linguist-anti-war/ Pentagon Bans Book By Noted Linguist, Anti-War Activist Noam Chomsky] Chomsky replied that, "This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes."[http://www.miamiherald.com/1218/v-print/story/1275646.html Anti-war activist's works banned at prison camps]