Because We Say So (City Lights Open Media) Paperback – September 1, 2015 by Noam Chomsky (Author),‎ Henry A. Giroux (Foreword) (City Lights Publishers)

In the forward to the book, it is mentioned that Chomsky writes a newspaper column, but that there are no papers in the United States that will publish them. After reading this book, I am not surprised as he gores some of the more sacred cows of both the left and the right. In fact, I am not surprised that he went to City Lights to get this book published.

This book is a collection of those newspaper columns that have been written and published in overseas during the past 3-4 years. Interestingly enough, Chomsky is able to sell his columns outside of the US without difficulty. There are also a few edited versions of speeches he has given at various places over the past few years.

Chomsky is not afraid to tackle issues that create controversy. He has a particular interest in the Israel-Palestine situation and the atomic research being done by Iran, as well as America's positions on issues in the Middle East. His conclusions of some of the material are startling, but really shouldn't be when you begin to think about what he says.

I highly recommend this book for people who think for themselves and a sick of swallowing the standard Washington spin machine edicts, as well as the standard lines put out by the Republicrats.

Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on the Obama doctrine, political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.

Because We Say So is the third in a series of books by Chomsky published by City Lights Publishers that includes Making the Future (2012) and Interventions (2007), a book banned by US military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky writes regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, and are largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Because We Say So offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by America's foremost public intellectual and political dissident.

Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most well-known critics of US policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking and best-selling books on global politics, history, and linguistics