9-11

This pocketsize book is a series of interviews done during the first month following the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon. Chomsky said of his essays: "These facts have been completely removed from history. One has to practically scream them from the rooftops."

In these essays Chomsky takes on the analogy to Pearl Harbor calling it "misleading." He says,"The 'new war on terror' is neither 'new' nor a 'war on terror.'" The book covers topics from Sudan, globalization to the conflict in Kashmir.

The only real weakness this book has is in the section "The Ideological Campaign." In response to the question that nothing after 9/11 will ever be the same he answers on page 35, "I do not think it will lead to a long-term restriction of rights internally in any serious sense. The Cultural and institutional barriers to that are too firmly rooted, I believe." The rapidly escalating repression since this interview may have persuaded him differently.

Good fast read.