9-11 is a collection of essays by and interviews with Noam Chomsky first published in November 2001 in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.In these essays, Chomsky places the September 11 attacks in context and traces the history of American intervention in the Middle East and throughout Latin America as well as in Indonesia, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan – at the same time warning against America's increasing reliance on military rhetoric and violence in its r

For a book that is admittedly kind of a rush job (it consists of a series of interviews done within a few weeks of the attacks, at a time when we were still uncertain whether Bin Laden was responsible), it has held up pretty well. If you are familiar with Chomsky’s critiques of American foreign policy, there will not be very much new here. This book is, rather, an attempt to popularize his basic views; and this means contextualizing the terrorist attack of 9/11 within the history of America’s ow...

A Noam Chomsky interview12 December 2010 This small book is a transcript of a radio interview with Chomsky shortly after the September 11 attacks. I remember being in Sydney late 2001 when a friend of mine saw this book and said 'I'm not surprised Chomsky has already written a book about September 11th'. At the time I had never heard of Chomsky, however that ignorance has since changed. I'm not surprised that Chomsky released a book quickly as well, because the event was such a psychological sho...

I'm impressed that Chomsky, in the immediate wake of 9/11, recognized the many counter-currents in society that advocated a more nuanced approach to dealing with the Taliban in order to fight Al-Qaeda. More importantly, he immediately distinguished between the peaceful nature of the vast majority of Islam and the nature of the terrorists who attacked us in its name.I once had the privilege of listening to Alan Story speak about non-violence. Alan, a South African minister, was conscripted into t...

If you've read anything else by Chomsky, you know exactly what you're getting -- the argument of a brilliant man who knows history better than god but has incendiary views. Chomsky does a good job explaining the context surrounding the hatred. Those who disagree with him will say he is an apologist for terror.This book goes through US foreign policy in the last several decades highlighting many examples to support the argument that "when they do it to us we call it terrorism; when we do it to th...

This book does an excellent and concise job of exploding the myth that the US was an innocent victim in 9/11, and that its response (the "War on Terror") was righteous and necessary, and it does so without resorting to so-called "conspiracy theories." Now, personally, I think that those "conspiracy theories" are a crucial part of the damning case against the US, but many people aren't willing to go there just now, and this book is the book for them. Chomsky reveals that, far from being "anti-ter...

This really is a gem of a book. A series of interviews post 9-11. Chomsky is eeriely prophetic with his analysis regarding the events pertaining to 9-11 and its implications. Easily the best book discussing the matter and it's even more mind blowing that these interviews were said more than a decade ago.

Written shortly after the attacks themselves, it is interesting to review Chomsky's thoughts with the advantage of more than a decade's hindsight. He has been proven to be both far sighted and perceptive. Pretty much every aspect of his predictions have come to fruition. The work addresses what the optimal response to these horrendous attacks should be, and what it was likely to be. It is sad indeed that he was proven to be correct.It could be argued that to fail to provide a robust response to

Harrowing and eye opening. You cannot looks at the military actions of the United States in the Middle East in the same way after reading this short book. I highly commend it to everyone -- if for no other reasons than that the mainstream media and cable networks give you no inkling of what the government is really up to around the world. Which is why Chomsky and others like him are so invaluable.

A reality check for all those who are dangerously myopic and the epitome of the adage ”it takes one to know one.”

Ugh. Mad rantings with footnotes (which usually refer back to nothing more than prior Chomsky rantings). The only service Chomsky's political writing has ever provided is to make it easier to recognize uninformed or easily misled twits by allowing them to self-identify whenever they cite him in an argument. He puts the worst possible gloss on any action by the U.S. ever and the best possible spin on assorted tyrants and terrorists in a tedious and predictable way and willfully ignores any inform...

Read No Room For Further Burials. Be depressed and bored and confused at the same time. Then read this Chomsky. You will understand what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq look like from the perspective of the powerless, impoverished people who make up the vast majority of those nations.

Noam Chomsky often sounds like a voice in the wilderness, especially in the weeks precisely following 9-11, so we should be grateful for an early voice of comparative reason.Nonetheless, Dr. Chomsky comes across as alternatively over and under-prepared, not that anyone really could have been prepared for 9-11 and its aftermath.My problem is, whether he is answering interviewer questions immediately following the event, or writing a summary article 8 months later, his answers are delivered like a...

Compilation of heavily edited transcripts from interviews with Chomsky in the weeks following 9/11. By it's very nature, much of it is redundant, making for an occasionally tedious read. Chomsky takes a primarily historical perspective in his discussion of global affairs and U.S. foreign policy, which isn't always useful, but is frequently interesting. The book serves as a good counterpoint to the nationalistic propaganda the U.S. media was churning out at the time these interviews took place. T...

The 9/11 attacks should have been treated and responded to as a crime, not an act of war, according to Noam Chomsky; and as far as he is concerned, if the American government wants to identify a perpetrator of terrorism, it should look in the mirror. Chomsky’s book 9-11 proceeds consistently and unapologetically in that vein; many American readers will find it contrarian, and some will no doubt hate it.Chomsky’s 9-11 consists of thirteen interviews that Chomsky granted to journalists from a vari...

My first ever Chomsky read. It felt very brave of him addressing USA as a terrorist-state for it's subsequent deeds, specially at a time right after 9-11. The way he sees the cause and effects of the US policies are surely thoughtful and in some case, tremendously just!

A collection of interviews with Chomsky after the attacks on 9/11. The over-ridding message is that Chomsky would like to see the U.S. take the approach of compiling evidence of criminality and presenting such findings to the World Court. Unfortunately, the US is the only nation (with the exception of Israel) to vote against such machinations and has decided to take the vigilante approach, thus producing martyrs and a new generation of “terrorists.” Another illuminating point: Chomsky observes t...

The term Conspiracy theory is an effort to blur the factual insights of every institutional Audit. Thats why we tend to take lightly to these kind of Institutional Audit because we labeled them as conspiracy theory just like what the media wants us to do.Muhammad SAW, Yeshua/ISA/Jesus was also considered as a conspiracy theorist at their struggle to convey God's message. But it doesn't mean the message that they are preaching is a conspiracy. That's just how people at that time trying defend the...

These interviews collectively smack of an apologia for terrorism committed by non-US bodies, for Chomsky seems to invariably find a preceding cause for assaults directed toward America. He seems to pay scant regard to intentions, focusing instead on a consequentialist view of American-Middle east conflicts. Granted the Americans must have erred in foreign endeavours, yet the author's eerie ability, or inclination rather, to find an explanation, or excuse even, for anti-Western sentiment seems di...

In the aftermath of the of Paris terror attack last November 13, 2015, the international (i.e. Western) media covered it extensively and the majority in social media sympathized with the French. Facebook had even added the option to overlay profile pictures with the French flag and activated its "safety check" feature.However, an opinionated minority expressed a grievance toward peoples' (both in the media and social media) limited attention. Many cited the suicide bombing that rocked Beirut jus...