Noam is legendary and Jeremy Scahill is a first-rate journalist. Great combination for an enlightening interview.

@mck1972

5 жыл бұрын

IF, ' enlightening ', means two ppl so deep in their own paranoid-conspiracy-theories, that they have lost touch with reality, then yes, this was VERY, ' enlightening '! smh

@MrFuzzKat

5 жыл бұрын

If by "enlightening" you mean naming Asaad a horrible war criminal responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and "I wouldn't want to have dinner with Putin" FFS then - you're right. .... I notice tho', that your enlightened don't think to compare Asaad's assumed and unevidenced responsible for 100,000s death is compared to America's known, admitted and proved MILLIONS over the last 70 years. They must be celestial huh?

@staatsfeindlich9939

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrFuzzKat With Chomsky and Scahill it's about sorting out the facts. The truth is although Assad and Putin are oligarchical thugs that cannot excuse US crimes and imperial hegemonic designs. Both of these men have often said as much.

@mck1972

5 жыл бұрын

@@staatsfeindlich9939 There is a big difference between simply reciting facts, vs proving what those facts prove. Chomsky has been reciting facts for the past half century-But those facts by themselves do NOT prove what HE THINKS they prove... -Jury's still out on Scahill...

@RoackerRomanMandru

3 жыл бұрын

@@mck1972 while I see your point, facts build an image, a perspective and a continuity to actions. Not to mention most facts are in fact not presented outside an isolated event with no continuity, that alone shows how the veil is dropped over the eyes of the public. That being said, him stating facts does not make him less than a superb thinker with a clear vision of what he sees.

I wish Noam would be a regular guest on mainstream media channels.He would certainly educate the masses on the reality that most people are ignorant of.

@dougyoung221

5 жыл бұрын

It would be nice if he could open up to and be supportive of 9/11 truthers. It should be obvious to an intelligent, open minded, observant person.

@billkattkatt1693

5 жыл бұрын

LoveLace Harmony - THAT, is exactly what they hope to prevent by not having him on lame stream media.

@beesplaining1882

5 жыл бұрын

I wish he was on MSM too. The problem is that the MSM business model (i.e. generating advertising revenues) has no place for Chomsky because his often brutally introspective views would have viewers turn off because like in most countries the people of the US find it extremely difficult to accept bad news about the actions of their own country.

@billkattkatt1693

5 жыл бұрын

@@beesplaining1882 Precisely what the "elected" parasites and their unelected cronies are fighting so hard to prevent. That's way, waaay too much TRUTH for them - messes up the long range plans.... Goes against the country's hegemonic agenda....

@beesplaining1882

5 жыл бұрын

@@billkattkatt1693 so true.

This was one of the best interviewers of noam chomsky ive ever heard. Great job jeremy.

Great interview and nice audio clips from historical broadcasts/television stories.

Great conversation. Thanks!!!

Great interview. Thanks.

@critink

5 жыл бұрын

How can Chomsky and the interviewer deem Assad "a war criminal," without supporting evidence? Of which war crimes is Assad being accused? The description, "the Syrian war," like “Russia's annexation of Crimea," is obfuscation. Syria was invaded and occupied by NATO, which recruited, trained, and armed its "rebels." Even John McCain was in there, and German Special Forces. . Some Syrians, who were opposed to Assad, justifiably or not, collaborated with the invaders and occupiers. Chomsky refers to "the murderous Assad regime." All governments kill people. But they decide which homicides are legitimate and legal. The US government is the most homicidal of them all. According to Chomsky himself, the overriding goal of the US, Britain, France, and Israel is the construction of subservient, Muslim regimes. They ravage these Muslim-populated countries, creating “terrorists” and, sometimes by default, “war criminals”--Hussein, Gaddafi, and Assad. But some terrorists are useful to the larger mission. Go to the source! As matters stand, Chomsky and the Intercept are intellectually collaborating with the original war criminals.

Noam Chomsky's mind is incredibly alert and focused for a man of any age. That he's nearly 90 years old is an inspiration. I'm also glad he has been reading and considering how Facebook, Google and social media function and their characteristics. He seems to have a pretty good grip on how they work and the ideological bubble effect they produce.

@JFKMLKRFKGHWB

5 жыл бұрын

but chooses to be blind as "Squints bull gleenosee" lawyerly in clayiest cloy Noams loam's less being bent more males fee pale in compare

@GothLunaMoth

2 жыл бұрын

You’re drunk… go home

@Bulletz4Breakfast13

3 ай бұрын

Definitely creates ideological bubbles. For example KZread does this with it's algorithmic feed. But it is important to remember that many who have been indoctrinated and end up stumbling on a dissident intellectual/philosopher like Noam end up diving into the Noam Chomsky spiral soaking up all of his work which is damn near endless having been a activist for over 60 years. I don't fault people for only trusting a few sources. It's a problem not being able to see a wide array of viewpoints on any given political topic but that's pretty hard to find. So instead I always encourage we teach the newer generations how to do objective research on the topics. When Noam Chomsky makes international policy claims you should look into it by doing independent research from objective sources while also knowing the writers personal political bias's. World Court ICC/ICJ (International Court of Justice) has documents and public determinations you can look into. Same goes for countries, they have bias, especially the US and UK. But World Court has a hundred plus countries making the determination and all 100+ countries can't have the same Bias unless it's pretty damn accurate or essential.

@the81kid

3 ай бұрын

@@Bulletz4Breakfast13 My view on him has changed in the last 5 years since making my OP comment, I have to say. The last few years have been an eye-opener, in many ways.

Wonderful interview. You both are treasures

65k views only! No wonder we are where we are. God bless America

The absolutely superb questions Jeremy Scahill asked Noam Chomsky about international law should become a standard for interviews with Democratic Party candidates starting with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard. Noam has pointed out (interview with Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson) that adhering to ratified treaties like the UN Charter forbidding via 4.2 “the threat or use of force” is mandated by Article 6.2 of the Constitution as “the supreme law of the land.”

I admire your work for its honesty, integrity and thoughtful insights Jeremy. Wade Goodwin, The FAIR Digest, South Africa

Absolutely love Jeremy!!!! Thanks for being one of the good ones! Great Chomsky interview!

What an interesting discussion, two great thinkers, thank you.

spot on as usual

Thank you for sharing this very valuable audio file.

GREAT DISCUSSION

What a moment in history.

Thanks for posting! Maybe mention the specific source? (Intercepted podcast) I wish Jeremy Scahill would post his podcast episodes on youtube or some other easily shareable format. Scahill’s introduction to this show was pretty great as well.

I remember the first time I met Jeremy. He was walking right behind me in LA before he was about to give a speech. I would love to see him speak live again.

Noam a great thinker, sadly the world has so very few like him. cheers from Mexico

Professor Chomsky is a treasure of knowledge ! good vid . . . thanks !

Wow, a year ago, however...timeless.

Fantastic interview... Jeremy is prob the foremost investigative journalist in America today and an example for journos everywhere. Chomsky is the foremost intellectual of our times par excellence. This isn't just about his liberal views but his knowledge of philosophy & linguistics. Pls give us more in-depth interviews with Chomsky and Jeremy!!

Chomsky is a prophet of our age and like all prophets they are ignored, persecuted, and often killed for telling the truth. I will mourn the day Noam dies. It will be a great loss for the world. Luckily he has written more books that anyone else so the legacy will remain.

WHAT CAN I AFFIRM WITH ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY???? HE IS A TRUE PROPHET OF OUR TIME! THAT SAYS IT ALL!! I DO NOT NEED TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE! THAT SAYS IT ALL !!!!!!

Good sound quality

Solid interview. Just goes to show there's only 1 real Rogue State around.

He was on Pozner and Donahue on msnbc, for a couple of interviews, of course Pozner and Donahue were kicked out about 6 months later.

The Clutch guy is really smart!

REALLY WANT TO HEAR THIS one, but I have to share this iPad …

THANK you Jeremy for fading out William CIA Buckley - Skull and Bones?

That Gallup poll about the acknowledged global threat to life, limb and economy as posed by the United States vis Iran speaks volumes. It is the central theme in this and many of Noam's intelectual blitzes. His persistence says much too.

Great interview. Chomsky is a true free thinker.

@fauntleeeeroy

5 жыл бұрын

He doesn't believe 9/11 was an inside job, not that fucking clever then

@tooth.harvester

5 жыл бұрын

Cool story bud.

Where exactly have US military bases been eliminated in Latin America? Wasn't Colombia going to increase them? Honduras still has them. This is a real question.

Noam drives me crazy a lot of the time, but he's always worth listening to.

I’ve seen him on Democracy now!

You know I believe Chomsky when he says Henry Kissinger stated: "we shouldn't confuse foreign policy with missionary activities" Google has changed the record to "you should not confuse covert action with missionary activities" I've seen this happen many many times where I've had a vid recording of a live quote and go to pick it up a couple months later and there's "misquoted correction sites" claiming people are misquoting them with a completely different altered quote.

He was on Donahue, once...

Thank you . . . so excellent and educational. Chomsky has a perspective that is huge, broad, wide and deep. That's why he speaks to the Universal. The prime Global Citizen living to heal and bring truth.

Go UW-Madison! I'm an alum.

What seems to me very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe such events. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or or LeMay or other that crops up. These people wouldn't be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity. And therefore, I think, that it's, in some sense, the sane, reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and violent. - Noam Chomsky (The firebombing campaign against Japan, directed by Curtis E. LeMay, commander of the B-29s, between March 1945 and the Japanese surrender in August 1945, may have killed more than 500,000 Japanese civilians and left five million homeless. Official estimates from the United States Strategic Bombing Survey put the figures at 220,000 people killed. Some 40% of the built-up areas of 66 cities were destroyed. LeMay was aware of the implication of his orders. He remarked that had the U.S. lost the war, he fully expected to be tried for war crimes. This opinion was also reported by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman supported LeMay's strategy, referring to an estimate of one million Allied casualties if Japan had to be invaded.)

@jamiemalokas3693

5 жыл бұрын

Not only that. But the way they dropped the 2 bombs at the end, when the facts show it could have been avoided, is just appalling.

how does he not research the best application on cyclon-b?

Scahill asked Chomsky how might this country be different if he and like minds were regularly on major media. In reality, if Chomsky et al got real play on major US broadcast media, there would be no need for him and others to be there. Bc the society that featured a mind like Chomsky and his poltical economic views would be a much more advanced place, a place where reason, fairness, compassion, liberty, frugal abundance, and decency prevail. Such a place would not need Chomsky, Parenti. Finkelstein, Roy, Scahill, Hedges, Shiva, etc. That's the place I want to be. Follow me here?

over a year ago........jesus

noam for president! seriously, noam is an American treasure

@mck1972

5 жыл бұрын

Cbomsky has had the past 50+ years to seek ANY kind of actual Public Service position. Yet instead he has chosen to merely stay on the sidelines, and criticize everyone ELSE! That does not sound like much of a, ‘ treasure ‘, to me...

I wonder what Chomsky thinks of the actions of China in the South China Sea, the Spratly Islands and so forth. Just what does he think the US should do if anything?

Chomsky and Scahill, amazing insight and full of the those 'dreary" facts that slow so many down.

Massive apathy, stupidity, complacency among average Americans are the main reason for America’s steep decline.

@ianperfitt

2 жыл бұрын

We've been extremely atomized and socialized to hyper-individualistic ways of existing through consumerism. Our history of labor struggle was never taught to us in early education... Alot of people have to break out of this thinking themselves and learn about it from marginalized sources. It's difficult...

I LOVE 💟 Noam Chomsky, but on Trump occasionally being right .. A broken clock is right twice a day .. more often than Trump I would have to say..

I DON'T WANT TO SAY WHAT I WANT TO SAY BUT I SUFFER from P.T.S.D. IF I WAS ANY LESS A PERSON I WOULD HAVE TOPPED MYSELF BY NOW, OR NO PERHAPS THAT WOULD MAKE ME BRAVER, WITH THE SYMPTOMS OF P.T.S.D. IM NO HERO IVE DONE NOTHING SPECIAL LIKE SAVE SOMEONE's LIFE MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT BUT I PRIDE MYSELF THAT MY MORALS ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE....THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE SIZEX BLOKE RIPPED APPART AND WHEN HE DID THAT HE, TORE MY WHOLE LIFE APART UNLESS I WAS HEARING WRONG WHEN HE CALLED ME SCUM OF THE EARTH, PERHAPS I SHOULD PUT OUT A VIDEO AND SHOW OFF BECAUSE HE OBVIOUSLY LIKES TO SHOW OFF I DONT KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE TO SAY THIS IM NOT BREAKING THE LAW AND I SUFFER from P.T.S.D. ITS SO EMBARRASSING BUT IF I HAD BLASTED CHILDRENS LIVES APPART AS A SOLDIER I WOULD BE CONSIDERED A HERO WITH MY P.T.S.D. GOING THROUGH MY BODY BUT BECAUSE I'M AUTISTIC PEOPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE ALL THE TIME, DAY IN DAY OUT. I KNOW I HAVE A LOT OF BAGGAGE BUT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT BOTH PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY

@Holistic_Islam

5 жыл бұрын

Suzie Greer You’re correct Suzie. I hope you will be better 😊

A strangely disproportionate number of Assad fans and defenders in the comments section.

Why are Jeremy Scahill and Matt " Holy Ghost" Hayes never seen at the same event? Methinks it's some kind of alias

No comments for a year? Incredible, must be down to US protection of free speach?

To be critical of Noam Chomsky, I would make the argument that it is a reasonable, logical, and maybe imperative for any large nation power to focus its existence around the military/defense. But as they say a good offense is a good defense. The system that the United States is, is based more on militarism and defense than it is the Constitution and democracy. But, if we want to change that most of what I hear is aimless criticism or tearing down, not concrete suggestions for moving from X to Y in a productive thoughtful, positive manner. That does not discount or dismiss anything Chomsky says, it just contextualizes it as not exactly activism ... he is more a history teacher and moralist. That is fine, he is the best at it - but why do people insist on making more of it?

@jbsmathers

5 жыл бұрын

i agree with most of what you write. i'm not a chomsky fanatic but i'll defend him with a few points 1) he's like 80 now so cut him some slack for enjoying being a "worshiped sage" -he is only human and a life speaking truth to power has earned him some points -no? , 2) the excessive militarism of the US (and our CIA's harm to the world) is best explained by understanding how the exploiters from our nation attempt to exploit the rest of the world and create blow-back -if that's your understanding of our foreign policy then Chomsky is educating Americans about important things which they generally don't know -many would argue "a history teacher and moralist" is an essential form of activism in a democracy. I agree chomsky would be better if he always mentioned some concrete positive actions people might take to improve things. But I'd point out Tom Frank (who I also like) generally fails to do this.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

I am not attacking Chomsky, I am just trying to make the point that he is not a political activist. At least not any more. I am not blaming him for what he is not, more blaming a lot of his fans for worshipping him. I began making this point before the year 2000 by the way. The way he speaks truth to power is a way that has kept him off all the major news networks, so his manner has shot himself in the foot a bit. The point that he American foreign policy is just like every other powerful country's, but he never deals with that. Thomas Frank does give prescriptive advice ... and he raised the alarm more than Chomsky. Particularly his book "The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule" ... is brilliant. When you listen to Chomsky's speeches and I have heard scores of them, they follow a certain pattern. He mentions the anti-American phrase and says there is no country that has a similar thing ... which is even wrong. You can find that construct in a lot of places, and I don't know why he says that. Then he talks about the Doomsday Clock. He talks about how America used to have a lot of newspapers and unions ... all of it good, but it's a bit like a famous old rock band that people go to see the greatest hits tour. I don't blame Chomsky for what he is not, I appreciate him tremendously for what he is, but people don't hear that part, and it bugs me. Hero worship bugs me in general.

Weird editing when news reports cut in jarringly.

Does the internet really need another Chomsky interview?!?

@jamiemalokas3693

5 жыл бұрын

Now more than ever.

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe you'd prefer another buzzfeed top ten list of creative things you can do with toothpicks.

WE SHOULD BE PUTTING FABRICS THROUGH EXISTING NON BROKEN INDUSTRIES, WE SHOULD NEVER PUT A PRICE ON THIS JUST ACTION, REWARDS WILL COME LATER IN THE FORM FIRST OF REWARDING LIVES. BELIEVE ME

I don't think Assad is a war criminal.. Syria did not choose this war. Militarism was not for Bashar. If his father was in power the 2011 insurrection would have only lasted a few days and have been crushed like Hama in 1982 and forgotten about shortly after.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

To be a leader of an Islamic nation in that area of the world makes one a war criminal or guilty of crimes against humanity. Very few are not. I am one of the few if none who consider myself a progressive, but believe in taking Chomsky seriously about how our country works, in terms of the military industrial complex and how the technology is first developed for the military, tested and rolled out, and then when it is stale given to industry and used to drive the tech boom. it's briliant and it works, gloomy and depressive as that seems or is. For all the talk from the Left, it's useless unless you address our system that works and has dominance among super powers of today. If you want to knock down the US, then what are your plans for dealing with China? Or do you and Chomsky blame the US for the human nature of other countries as well? There is an incoherent message that comes from the Left that makes them ineffective that I believe Noam Chomsky participates in. ( if you are interested you can ready my other comment here on this board.

@grayzytube

5 жыл бұрын

Why does China need 'dealing' with? So far they haven't been the initiator with friction withe the West. It might not play by the West's rules, nothing they have done in economic rise hasn't already been done in the West, it's the nature of free market capitalism. Socialism for the Financial and Manufacturing industries are what 'bail-outs' are, instead of helicoptering money to people instead, the institutions which cause the problems are rewarded. Look at the US reach around the globe and compare that to either Russia or China in the level of control exercised and both are way behind in meddling in other countries affairs and military expenditure. It's not China who patrols provocatively around the US, but the US can't keep it's nose out. As Duane Clarridge said to John Pilger, The US will do what it likes and the world had better get used to it. Can't remember Russia or China being like that, can you? China has and always will play the long game, a hundred years is nothing in the grand scheme, but unless consumer capitalism falls off a cliff, it won't take that long.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

The things you most criticize the US for are all the things and in one way or another China does too, and on many occasions worse. The fake islands in the South China sea? The US patrols the waters of the world allowing free navigation. How do you see this in a way that is a positive for China. Also, there is China's isolationism and racism. China is extremely racist within China. They have conquered Tibet and are colonizing it and taking it over racially. Tibetans are not Chinese. Same with Hong Kong, and the pressure/threats on Taiwan. Your argument is that because the US is the strongman of the world and has a huge military that Russia and China if switched with the US would the same or better? Is that it? Is that what you think. Russia doing what it likes in the world ... you mean like taking over Eastern Europe after WWII with tanks? Or China taking Tibet, or threatening Taiwan? See, a lot of you guys who listen to Chomsky do not do so critically because you accept everything he says and the framing of the world's issues by him. I may agree with much of Chomsky's ideas, but I do not do that.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

Also grazytube ... if you are trying to convince me that China has been playing this brilliant long game ... it has not been successful until they adapted Western ways. technology, education. Their "long game" goes back 12,000 years or so ... it has not been that successful, and then continue to exist in a large sense, by luck. China was totally taken over by the Mongols ... was that their plan?

@stevenbenson5241

5 жыл бұрын

The west wants Syria to be a sunni theocracy or monarchy, like Saudi Arabia, Syria has been secular for a long time.

learn about Edward Bernays

Is Chomsky really on the TV around the world? I think elsewhere he is censored too.

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

He's definitely appeared sporadically on Australian TV. Not sure about other places.

@MilkyWay-tk5rm

5 жыл бұрын

I watched him couple of times in Aljazeera English

Chomsky opened with The Doors at The Hollywood Bowl in 1968. The whole show was broadcast by PBS, Scahill needs to do his homework.

@prentices2737

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah because THAT is the real issue of this vid....smh.

@Johnconno

5 жыл бұрын

'prentice simmons', is that really your name?

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

Has PBS ever been considered a part of the US mainstream media?

@Johnconno

4 жыл бұрын

@@BartAlder Hell Yes!

Imagine Noam Chomsky defending Henry Kissinger's policies of bombing campaigns over Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia around 1970... And accusing those three countries of being led by "butchers"... I'm fascinated when I hear now how Chomsky, who is so illuminating on so many other issues, can spew the official US regime change propanda on Syria, without ever taking into consideration the horrors of that US regime change war bring on the Syrian population at large. Chomsky keeps speaking of a "civil war", of Assad "the butcher", when the US and its allies where clearly involved, since before 2010, in fomenting ethnic cleansing troubles by arming barbaric integrist groups and foreign mercenaries who chopped heads off shouting arms in hand "Death to the Alawites, Christians go away to Beyrout" . What goes for Chomsky goes for The Intercept journalists such as Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald. To such an extent that one might be brought to wonder about a new Stalinist (and not "Cold War" or even McCathyite) climate that prevails now in the USA and its political and media environment. Why should journalists, otherwise trusted on so many other issues, suddenly toe the line to the US regime change propaganda?! Are they physically threatened? Or again, consider James Risen attitude towards the indefensible "Russian collusion"... You might take some career-orienting decisions if a 10-year prison sentence, based on intel fabrications, somehow loomed all the time at every corner, like a Damocles sword over your head...Deeply confounding. And wrong !

@bubblefroggy1

5 жыл бұрын

... Wrong! Chomsky calls the war in Syria "a civil war" between "factions", which is a clear ideological marker of where he stands, that is with the official narrative. Chomsky still calls Bashar Assad "the butcher of Syria"! While we know now that the "troubles" were fomented by US regime change interventions as soon as 2010. Plus the UK, UAE, Saudis, Israel, Qatar etc etc. Chomsky is simply wrong on this issue, and this reveals that he's not always as "neutral" as people think. It is now more than clear that the US did not hesitate to support Al Qaeda and Daesh with the only goal of overthrowing Assad and turning Syria in yet another Mideast chaos. The same is true for such outlets as Democracy Now, or even with Glenn Greenwald, who still talk of a "civil war".

I d like to know why Noam doesn't like pres Putin. I actually like him more then most of our presidents for the past 4 decades. I'm not as intelligent as Noam nor do I have any college degrees . But it seems too me after listening to rps Putin on a few occasions that he seems more humane then our leaders an is NOT a war monger looking to invade or another nation. I think he s more concerned with not starting or having a nuclear war but will defend his nation if provoked. Lastly, it was a Russian military officer that prevented much was during the Cuban missile crisis. To launch a nuc then the Russians needed the cooperation of 3 people to be able to launch a a nuc, he chose not to at the time to allow this and I think saving the world from nuc disaster, so I thank that man for his courage in doing what was right. Sad to say I do not think we could expect the same from our military, I hope I m wrong though.

I wonder if Trump and Chomsky have ever met?

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

5 жыл бұрын

Drumpf is supposed to be in prison meeting Bubba - for his child rape ejaculation addiction.

@BartAlder

5 жыл бұрын

It would be hard to imagine them ever moving in the same circles. Chomsky writes turgid books on high-brow topics, Trump writes semi-literate tweets crammed with petty insults. Chomsky is an extremely accomplished linguist, Trump can barely string a complete sentence together.

ANY BROKEN INDUSTRY SHOULD BE DEFRAGULATED MOLDED IN MOLDS MADE FROM SPECIAL MOLDS WITH SPECIAL LININGS BUT THIS MUST BE EXERCISED

Apparently, this is still the official story. I take my U.S. citizenship test tomorrow. This time, I will know better than to say that "The Cold War was a nuclear face-off between two countries." The correct answer is, "We were fighting communism." Similarly, "Europeans came to this country in search of economic advancement" is wrong. The correct answer if "Freedom." I contend that my answers are also correct. Hahaha.

United States has an over abundance of Geopolitical, economic and military power. Situations that would destroy other countries Are just minor mishaps for the United States. But to say the United States rules everything is simplistic. Empire often over reach their bounds.

That intro with the debate against William Buckley I've heard before, but I have a different take on it as I get older and China is getting more powerful. Make no mistake about it, with the willful acceptance of the 'sesame credit system', the unwavering belief in the infallibility of their history, culture, and place in the world, the expansion into Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and other places--the detachment and equanimity of Chinese people will far, far surpass that of the Americans'. I'm sick of the unrealistic black and white. We need to grow up and recognize there are shades of grey. I guess that was the point of the Vietnam war? Rule or be ruled.

Chomsky has definitely changed

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

5 жыл бұрын

Chomsky needs to practice Deep breathing exercises. Age causes the breath to rise up more. So you can hear that his breathing has changed. Yoga or qigong meditation springforestqigong.com Chi-Om-Sky

@ridindirty4995

5 жыл бұрын

in what way

@invanorm

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah how so? He sounds surprisingly reasonable to me.

@pippoespera8902

5 жыл бұрын

He has not changed, what are you talking about? I mean, he is older, nothing more.

How bad Noam's comment aged regarding the kurds. While he is right he could not envision the Trump animal leaving the Kurd allies to be slaughtered by Russia and Turkey. That was a war crime.

The idea that the US will be out of Afghanistan anytime before 2050 or later, even 2100, is absurd. The US can never leave Afghanistan, until the country is a stable satellite. Politically it is impossible, because of our received conclusion that 9/11 was orchestrated there.

Something is really weird in the way You-Tube is returning queries on "Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill". When I did a sort by upload date, to which this would have been almost first on the list, I was getting stuff from years ago. The tech companies I believe are interfering and throwing noise and chaff in the Progressive Movement's method of disseminating information and discussion. That said. while I really have a lot of love and respect for Noam Chomsky, I think people erroneously call him an activist. I have learned tons from NC from how consent is manufactured to how the American economy is based on military technology and militarism. Both of those seem enough to warrant a coherent frame of understanding and a policy of reaction by progressives, and yet Chomsky just stays on the lecture tour loving that people love him and just want to treat him like God. Much as I revere Chomsky ... what he has evolved into I find kind of repulsive and useless. Then again, he is very old and what can I possible ask of him at this late stage of his life ... so, in any case NC is a great man and helped me form my political outlook on life and the world. I wish I could expect more. What the Left does is talk, and talk and talk and wring their hands and argue, and say the same thing though a thousand people a million times ... but that does nothing to present an actual opposition movement. It allows the government to track us all as we watch his video lectures though.

@raykirkham5357

5 жыл бұрын

justgivemethetruth: Whining about Chomsky's whining that isn't whining but instead is clear headed criticism gets you a booby prize from me. Chomsky is very dangerous to the established order and that is why you do not see him on mainstream media. He rightfully points out that "employment" in the context of our form of government and social development is really being a "rent a slave." It is an ugly state of affairs, but not one of Chomsky's making. I feel he has sent to our society many clues as to how things could be better. It is up to you and me, not a single isolated professor in the University of Arizona to make things better. Our system is engineered by those with immense wealth and power to keep the common man down and working for the overlords. You can't blame Chomsky for being ineffective. He is facing down a world of narcissistic crooks single handedly...well almost so...He has me in his corner.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

I bet I have known about Chomsky's 1971 Pentagon Papers "activism" since before you were born - almost 50 years ago. The New York Times began publishing excerpts on June 13, 1971; the first article in the series was titled "Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces Three Decades of Growing US Involvement". The study was dubbed The Pentagon Papers during the resulting media publicity.[9][20] Street protests, political controversy, and lawsuits followed. To ensure the possibility of public debate about the papers' content, on June 29, US Senator Mike Gravel, an Alaska Democrat, entered 4,100 pages of the papers into the record of his Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds. These portions of the papers, which were edited for Gravel by Howard Zinn and *Noam* *Chomsky* , were subsequently published by Beacon Press, the publishing arm of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.[21] A federal grand jury was subsequently empaneled to investigate possible violations of federal law in the release of the report.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

This is a hundred of billions of dollar company and they cannot make a search that works? If you search for scahill you get all kind of unrelated things. Not to mention that almost all of the recommended videos in my subscribed view or on the right-side of the page here are many years old. Who cares about old stale videos of bygone news stories that are dead and gone? You-Tube is almost useless for doing anything but wasting my time, unless I already know exactly what I am looking for.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

read what i wrote

@xxWayoftheSunxx

5 жыл бұрын

Its a well-observed fact that the tech companies are purposely throttling/blocking progressive voices as much as possible. Chris hedges, Jimmy Dore, David Packman. Kyle Kulinski, The Amazing Atheist and many others have made multiple videos about youtube specifically and the "adpocolypse" where youtube stripped progressive channels of their ad revenue then claimed it was an accident. With regard to what you said about NC, you are saying that talking/lecturing does nothing? So Martin Luther King Jrs speeches including his "I have a dream" speech, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Buddha's speeches to his listeners, all of that did NOTHING to create/fuel movements? That is idiocy....a movement is taking place, thought the establishment is doing absolutely everything in its power to hide that from you by making sure you see as little about it as possible. Its headed by such people as Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Jimmy Dore, there are tons of players in it added fuel to the fire. These ideas don't reach people in facebook memes; lectures and speeches are the only way for ideas to truly disseminate. If something happens and people are pushed to the brink, this movement will likely go full force. I'd say that massive economic crash that's going to take place in the next 1-2 years and/or infrastructure desolation via climate change fueled natural disasters might do the trick.

Aren't we lucky to have Noam Chomsky to judge, ' The State of Empire '? After all, who could be better qualified to on such an important topic, than a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience in Government, Military, Foreign Policy, International Affairs, National Security, or Economics, and whose criticisms of others all have the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight? This makes perfect sense-Right??? UGH-It is a tragedy that anyone actually takes this ridiculous old man seriously! smh Scahill's position on, ' Democracy Now ', would probably be enough by itself to demonstrate the he is just another paranoid liberal conspiracy theorist himself. However, I will leave my full judgement about him for another day...

@tcorangemen

5 жыл бұрын

M CK hindsight? He’s predicted how the world will play out for the past 50 years.

@mck1972

5 жыл бұрын

tcorangemen, -Oh Really??? So then it should be easy for you to show documented examples of where Chomsky accurately predicted specific future events in detail himself-Right???

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I am surprised by your claim and that of others including Dr. Chomsky's repeated claims that Bashar Al-Assad (MD) is a war criminal. He reluctantly accepted the job after his brother had died in an accident. He is a medical doctor and a fine family man. Just exactly what criminal activities are you gentlemen accusing him of or referring to ?

If you think synths & clones don't have feelings i think you would be wrong but one thing here can't they be compared to the \/^d3d.

Is America just like Rome ? acting like Rome ,or Similar to Rome ,that lost the empire ,

Propaganda against Assad- the guy is a doctor.

@betrousaltaweel

5 жыл бұрын

so what? Ayman Al Zawahiri, Josef Mengele and Josef Goebbels all qualified as doctors too.

When it comes to Syria, I don't see it as a civil war but rather that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE etc. have sent terrorists into Syria to overthrow the government at the behest or with the support of the United States, Britain, France etc. I don't see Assad as some wonderful person but if I consider him a war criminal for fighting terrorists within his own country and look realistically at the US, Britain and the western world invading countries that did absolutely nothing to them killing millions - then what are we? What is it now, the US is bombing in 8 countries in a War OF Terror, in my opinion, and causing a massive displacement of people in Europe? How can we point fingers when we have far bigger war criminals in our western governments?

@jamiemalokas3693

5 жыл бұрын

JoeCanuck74 I think Assad is wonderful. He reminds me of Abraham Lincoln, who had to kill so many Americans, to also save his country.

I wonder if you can find and get 50 of Chomksy's students from MIT to discuss and comment on their experience of his class and how he seemed personally to them? i can picture him as a real know it all that is always tiling at debating windmills, but never really accomplishing anything. I loved his book "Requiem For The American Dream" ... BUT, that was done not by Chomsky but by his admirers who took and order and edited Chomsky's ideas and put it into something coherent that had a point.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, I have learned a lot from listening to and reading Chomsky's books and watching his documentaries ... and I totally respect his knowledge and understanding of the world. I think you missed my point though. Another way to put it is that Chomsky views the US through his own absolute scale of morality ... but he does not look at the US in the context of the world. It is as if I compared myself to Jesus Christ and was always feeling bad about myself, but never realized what everyone else in the world is doing. He completely misses this.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

I did not say he didn't look at it or doesn't understand it, I said for some reason he does not include a global world view in any of his lectures of books. No country behaves as Chomsky would have the US behave. Chomsky's basic point is that whatever other countries do it justified ... like Palestinians or Iran, or Iraq, or whatever. His basic attitude is that these countries can do no damage.

@kvaka009

5 жыл бұрын

nice try, but what you say is simply bullshit. There's too much and too little to say why. Just take an average guy's word for it.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

You just agreed with me ... that he only focuses on the US ... that makes about half or more Americans unwilling to even consider what he has to say.

@justgivemethetruth

5 жыл бұрын

You are just like the opposite of a Trump supporter, but with Chomsky. Anything I say you are going to argue with, so why bother. Yeah, it is true that Chomsky has criticized Indonesia over East Timor and some other cases but not any coherent way that suggests solutions. He is valuable for his understanding and knowledge of these situations, I said that, but in my opinion that does not make him an activist. And activist suggests a course of action. Maybe he is smart for not doing that, maybe not, but he just doesn't.

Rothschild empire, not British.

Noam '9/11 denier' Chumpsky. Jeremy = respect. Noam = hasbeen.

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

5 жыл бұрын

Chi-Om-Sky is eternal. Too bad people don't take the time to really read him. I got a great reply from Chomsky about this. elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-journalist-responds-with-request-for.html

People had better follow independent journalists such as Eva Bartlett or Vanessa Beeley, who do their reports from Syria, to have a clear idea of what is happening there. Definitely NOT Noam Chomsky on Syria !

@betrousaltaweel

5 жыл бұрын

They aren't independent or journalists. Beeley described meeting Bashar as the proudest day of her life. Bartlett wears a "I heart Bashar" bracelet both were called "Lady warriors" by Fares Shehabi a Syrian politician in Assad's unity government. They only tour Syrian regime held areas accompanied by Syrian soldiers. They are statist shills and are just as biased and unreliable as BBC, Al Jazeera, TRT, RT and CNN. They have no qualifications, they write for no publications and their public appearances only attract a couple of dozen conspiracy theorists and can only scrape together a few hundred bucks a month through patreon.

@bubblefroggy1

5 жыл бұрын

@@betrousaltaweel ... You are entitled to your opinions. But so many such attacks as yours have already been debunked before the facts. About some of the chemical attacks, by no less than General Mattis (a notorious conspiracy theorist in your books I suppose). I do not pretend to lose my time here defending such as Bartlett's or Beeley's excellent work. People who follow such journalists as Bartlett or Beeley know why they trust them rather than "journalists" from corporate outlets embarked without a second thought in the dubious and catastrophic US regime change entreprise (Greenwald himself told in his book he defended the WMDs and Iraq invasion in 2003!!). And the public knows how to make the difference between outlets that tell, from Syria, the truth about the life of real people trying to survive in their own country, Syria, and shoddy, compliant so-called "journalism" fabricated from abroad. And what you call "qualifications" is decidedly not the main quality for reporting the truth as we keep on noticing from so-called journalists from so-called established news outlets (a Rachel Maddow seems indeed very qualified... for harping on sheer stupidities about "Russia" day in/day out, while she's paid $30K a day...). Moreover you reproach biases to people who do their human and moral duty when you show yourself the worst of biases. Were we talking about Chavez's or Maduro's Venezuela, you'd be spitting yourself the same accusations at Noam Chomsky who, in that case, defended the Venezuelans against US regime change agressions. I also suppose it is a commendation for a journalist to make buckets of money from such people as Omidyar, or companies like PayPal, Ebay or CIA contractor/Amazon Jeff Bezos' WAPO, reknown for sure for their "quality journalism"; etc.etc... You show your true colors in praising those who bow to big money.

Joan Chomsky being a good little stooge for the Pentagon....

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

5 жыл бұрын

Since Noam could be whisked away at any moment for courageously speaking out against US genocide in Vietnam?

@hughchefner

5 жыл бұрын

@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 what?

@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885

5 жыл бұрын

You'll have to read the long email exchange I had with Noam Chomsky. elixirfield.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-journalist-responds-with-request-for.html