''Interventions'' is a book by

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. Published in May 2007, ''Interventions'' is a collection of 44 op-ed articles,

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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."

Background

Chomsky was first approached to write an op-ed column for the ''New York Times'' Syndicate on the first anniversary of the

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on the basis of his work ''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 columns were syndicated overseas, but rarely licensed in the United States; ''

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'' itself did not publish them. A second volume of these, collecting columns from April 2, 2007 to October 31, 2011, was published as '' Making the Future'' (2012).

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