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Chomsky is too adament in his own arguments, and has a tendency to put motives where there may only be machination, he also denied the Khmer Rouge Genocide was occuring, and more recently that there was no Genocide in going on in Serbia before the NATO bombing.
But his books have a lot of information in them, and he does point out some pretty blaring hypocrisys, a lot of what he says is inarguable despite the contexts of his arguments. He's probably best used as a stepping stone into issues than as an authority of them. Fateful Triangle his account of the Israel/Palestine conflict is one of his better ones (although its long and dense)
How is he a self denying hypocrite?
For Political books I'd recommend - depending on your interests
Crimes Against Humanity - Geoffrey Robertson (one of the best books about the international human rights structures, it's critical but only of their unfulfilled potential).
What Is Al Quada - Jason Burke (calm lucid analysis)
One No Many Yesses - Paul Kingsnorth (pretty inspiring account of the myriad Social Movements internationally umbrella'd together as anti globalisation movement)
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