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If you see it take a look at Rogue States: The Use of Force in World Affairs.

"In Rogue States, Noam Chomsky holds the world’s superpowers to their own standards of the rule of law—and finds them appallingly lacking. Described in a 1998 profile in the New York Times as "an exploder of received truths," Noam Chomsky is the world’s most informed, controversial, and articulate opponent of political hypocrisy and abuse of power.

Rogue States is the latest result of his tireless efforts to measure the world’s superpowers by their own professed standards and to hold them responsible for the indefensible actions they commit in the name of democracy and human rights. The United States and its allies come in for particular scrutiny for their numerous recent violations of the very international laws they claim to uphold, making them the real "rogue states" in the world today.

In analyzing the recent war in the Balkans, Chomsky challenges the legal and humanitarian arguments in favor of NATO’s aggression, instead calling attention to the West’s failure to support democratic movements in the region. Chomsky also turns his penetrating gaze toward U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Central America, relying on both historical context and recently released government documents to trace the paths of self-interest and domination that fueled these violent regional conflicts.

Throughout, Chomsky reveals the United States’ increasingly open dismissal of the United Nations and international legal precedent in justifying its motives and actions. As his analysis of U.S. statecraft reveals, the rule of law has been reduced to a mere nuisance. Characteristically incisive, provocative, and rousing, Chomsky leaves no bombshell unexploded in his evaluation of the West’s shameless reliance on the rule of force today."

--http://www.southendpress.org/books/rogue.shtml

Here's a longer piece regarding the content:
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/articles/z9804-rogue.html

and an exerpt:
http://www.southendpress.org/books/rogueexc.shtml

Edit: Forgot to add that this was my first exposure to Chomsky back in undergrad and I thought his writing was eletrifying. This is actually a collection of lectures--so feel free to thumb around the book as it won't mess up the tempo.