Interventions is a book by Noam Chomsky, an American academic linguist and political activist.

[1] The Pentagon banned the book from its Guantanamo Bay prison because it might negatively "impact ... good order and discipline.

"[3] 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 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; The New York Times itself did not publish them.