Left-wing intellectual idol Noam Chomsky sits down with award-winning journalist David Barsamian for the sixth in their series of illuminating interview collections that touches on such topics as the occupation of Iraq, the doctrine of pre-emptive attack, and the threat to international peace posed by the U.S. drive for global domination.

Chomsky is as alert and mischievous as ever and digs deep into his encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. foreign policy to make shocking revelations (US-Turkish-Israeli incursions into Iran), stunning reevaluations (US victory in Vietnam) and even a few personal revelations (academic failure at university) along the way.

The authors have a working relationship that goes back over 20 years and has been described as symbiotic and Barsamian does seem to be able to get the best out of his subject with a carefully prepared array of questions and quotations that will send the World's Most Important Intellectual spinning off on some amazing journey of discovery.