'' Interventions '' is a book by Noam Chomsky , an American linguist , MIT professor , 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 " . The Pentagon banned the book from its Guantanamo Bay prison because it might negatively " impact ... good order and discipline . " Chomsky replied that , " This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes . " Chomsky was first approached to write an op-ed column for the New York Times Syndicate on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the basis of his highly influential volume '' 9/11 '' ( 2001 ) . The international attention garnered by the subsequent column , entitled " 9-11 : Lessons Unlearned , " convinced the publishers to commission Chomsky to write roughly 1,000 words a month which they would then distribute as op-ed pieces . These are widely picked up overseas , but rarely in the United States and '' The New York Times '' itself never published them to its own readers . Internationally , the op-eds have appeared in the mainstream European press including '' The International Herald Tribune '' , '' The Guardian '' , and '' The Independent '' . Regional newspapers in the US that did pick up the op-eds were '' The Register Guard '' , '' The Dayton Daily News '' , and '' The Knoxville Voice '' . A second volume of these , collecting columns from April 2 , 2007 to October 31 , 2011 , was published as '' Making the Future '' ( 2012 )
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Interventions