Necessary Illusions

When I started reading this, I was expecting it to not be all that interesting. “After all,” I told myself, “it seems to mostly be based on historical US intervention in places like Vietnam and Nicaragua. How relevant could that be to today?” Sadly, I was very solely mistaken. Chomsky explores, at great detail, how media in “free” Western countries often toe the line for government when it serves their interests, going to the extent of deceiving people when ‘necessary'. Sadly, most of this still seemed relevant, what with the current “war on terror” that the US is waging against many parts of the world.