Noam Chomsky - Imperial Ambitions (2005) interview collection with David Barsamian

This scan is OCRed but not proofread. A Collection of Interviews of several months INTRODUCTION vii 1. IMPERIAL AMBITIONS 1 2. COLLATERAL LANGUAGE 18 3. REGIME CHANGE 42 4. WARS OF AGGRESSION 65 5. HISTORY AND MEMORY 92 6. T H E DOCTRINE OF GOOD INTENTIONS 115 7. INTELLECTUAL SELF-DEFENSE 139 8. DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION 170 9. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE 184 NOTES 202 INDEX 221 From Introduction by Barsamian: I'm frequently asked, What's it like to interview Noam Chomsky? In more than twenty years of working with him, I've learned several things. One is, be prepared and put your questions in some order of priority. Another is, listen carefully, because you never know which way the conversation will go. Chomsky's soft voice masks a torrent of information and analysis. He has an extraordinary power to distill and synthesize reams of information. And he misses nothing. In one interview he referred to the 1988 shooting down of a civilian Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes. I was flabbergasted to learn that his source was Proceedings, the journal of the U.S. Naval Institute