‘Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.’

Noam Chomsky's voice may be controversial, but his incisive arguments, based on decades of research and analysis, deserve to be heard and considered. POWER AND TERROR presents the latest in Chomsky's thinking, through interviews and public talks given in the spring of 2002.
Chomsky places the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades - in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East, and elsewhere.
Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, Chomsky -in stark and uncompromising terms-challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral standards it demands of others.
What emerges from the footage is a portrait of the noted linguist Noam Chomsky, activist intellectual, who has been called a “rebel without a pause” by Bono, the lead singer of the band U2. He is the most important voice of dissent in the United States today.

In summer 2003, Noam Chomsky gave a new interview to John Junkerman: "Noam Chomsky on the Post Irak World". This 24 minutes program will soon be released on DVD together with "Power and Terror"

POWER AND TERROR:
NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES
(Chomsky 9.11)
2002 / 2003
© SIGLO Ltd.
Documentary
by John Junkerman
Synopsis
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Credits
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Production
OTSU Koshiro
John Junkerman - HARA Takeshi
YAMAGAMI Tetsujiro
SIGLO Ltd. - www.cine.co.jp
Available Versions
35mm: original English version with French / Japanese subtitles
DVD (with Post Iraq 24 min interview): original English version with Danish / Dutch / French / German / Italian / Spanish / Swedish subtitles
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74 min - 35mm - 1:1.37 - Mono
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Review
To those who have not read his books, attended his lectures, (...) or seen pirated tapes on public access stations, "Power offers a lively introduction to the highly articulate political dissident and to his controversial views on 9/11. For those who know Chomsky's work, docu affords a glimpse of the tireless patience, passion and openness of the man behind the words.
- Variety