In one of his first ventures into political writing, he attacked the Vietnam War in American Power and the New Mandarins.  
He argued that the media serve the needs of the powerful in his 1988 Massey Lectures, which were published as a book about "thought control in democratic societies."  He compared colonialist genocides with contemporary treatment of Third World nations in a 1993 book subtitled "the conquest continues."  In addition to Necessary Illusions and Year 501, a series of his interviews with David Barsamian have been published, including Keeping the Rabble in Line and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many.  In one of his first ventures into political writing, he attacked the Vietnam War in American Power and the New Mandarins.  FTP, name this longtime professor at MIT and leftist agitator, who also did some work in linguistics.
He argued that the media serve the needs of the powerful in his 1988 Massey Lectures, which were published as a book about "thought control in democratic societies."  
Noam Chomsky