The Indispensable Chomsky is a collection of Noam Chomsky's transcribed lectures as well as question/answer format discussions about global politics and the USA's increasingly imperial role within it. Noam is famous for his eloquent articulation of how the power structures of the Western world work. He points out the shams within our democratic systems and their inherent contradictions and especially their crimes against humanity. The new "war against terrorism" is put into a perspective with an analysis of the very term "terrorism". The US governement's own long track record of sponsoring terrorist groups for political ends defines them as terrosists.

Chomsky does a very good job of explaining how both private and public power elites perpetuate their control and why they continue get away with it. Chomsky's understanding of elite group thinking and the nature of government and private power in the 21st century is impressive, and reveals a lot of history that many wish would remain buried. Many events that went unreported etc.

Although Chomsky is a controversial character and long time activist of various causes, he has little time for, or should I say wants to completely avoid entertaining 9/11 theories of goverment foul play. Faced with a what-if scenario, Chomsky places any conspiracy theory in the "who cares?" basket. If the US Federal Government was involved in setting up bombs in the twin towers or some such thing, we'll never find out like with the JFK assassination and trying to find out anything is a complete waste of time. Even if it were proven, says Chomsky, there is nothing you can do about it. Chomsky's position on this really puzzles me, and I can't accept that if such a thing as 9/11 being an inside job were proven, nothing would change. I can't work out why Chomsky won't touch this one. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who shy's away from taking an unpopular stand, but maybe he has a political line he won't cross because he knows about those new pilotless drone planes ready to send a hellfire missile through his bathroom window if he started probing in those darker places.

I have also seen lecture footage of Chomsky saying the same stuff, like he wouldn't even consider the evidence. I just find it a shame that such a conspiracy theorist as he is easily defined by his analysis of modern society and its machiavellian machenations, could turn his back so firmly on JFK or 9/11 or other specific events that he doesn't want to talk about because they are "a waste of time". My only other personal beef with Chomsky is that he is pro-UN. This is especially a problem when he says that private power should basically be destroyed. I'm really not in any mood to let the UN be empowered as the ultimate nanny state considering they always talk about "reducing" world population.

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