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 1000-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 '' . The first volume of these , collecting columns from September 2002 to March 2007 , was published as '' Interventions '' ( 2007 )
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