Sounds like what we did in Iran back in '53, inciting the population.

Thanks Amy and all the team at DN, and of course thanks Noam.

Well said, as usual, Mr Chomsky! A life well lived by a soul who has decided that it will stand up for the truth. Unfortunately many simply do not wish to hear it. They would rather have support for the ideas in their head.

The US needs to get out of Venezuela and let them solve their own problems! We should stop trying to be the "world police" like the Iraq invasion!

@pladderisawesome

5 жыл бұрын

NO MORE COUPS

As always, professor Chomsky has very thorough assessment on this issue. Although there were internal problem in Venezuela, it is the role of the U.S. that topple the nation over. Thank you!

The US government shouldn't try to encourage violent regime change in Venezuela. Maduro has to go, though. The guy is a crook and a dictator. Not to object to Maduro's actions is to be complicit in them. Chomsky's point is good, though. You have to take informed action that will help Venezuelans, not exacerbate their problems.

I will comment on Venezuela's food crisis as soon as I finish this double cheese burger with extra bacon and onion rings and a strawberry milkshake before dinner...

YANKEE GO HOME

Not saying I support Maduro, but some of the legitimacy of Maduro comes from the fact that US sanctions are causing economic hardship and death for Venezuelans, the fact that Guaido wants to sell oil to the US, and the fact that the US led several failed coup attempts against the broadly popular Chavez (although he should have invested the oil money in sectors outside of oil).

@migueltezen9221

2 ай бұрын

Los problemas en Venezuela ya venían desde antes, las sanciones no impiden la llegada de productos extranjeros al país (los bodegones) o la comercialización con otros países como los EUA, siendo sinceros mucho criticar a las dictaduras pero bien que las apoyáis cuando os conviene, no sois mejores que la derecha o los ricos

Hugo might have been good - but the Bus driver is throwing the people - ' under his bus '.

Oh thanks Noam! I jeard you are friends with the RICHEST Venezuelan woman in the world, Maria Gabriela Chávez. Yes, they both live in the BIG APPLE and Maria Gabriela in penthouse.

Noam "Khmer Rouge" Chomsky misjudges again!

@aoeu256

5 жыл бұрын

Khmer Rouge was supported by the CIA, and only gotten rid of by the Vietnamese communists who were the enemy of the US.

@Bandonian93

4 жыл бұрын

@@aoeu256 the Khmer Rouge was supported by the Communist Party of China. The Vietnamese were supported by the USSR. It was an internal communist fight, more to do with alliances arising out of the Sino-Soviet split than America and Communists.

aint art it cause

Ok, i think it's not exactly the fault of others inasmuch of the ruling coalition of the country itself. You fucked up, find the problem and fix it. Instead of blaming others, which will never have any solutions at all, why not start getting these people to work and be productive ?

@MrDICKHEAD28

7 жыл бұрын

the opposition already tried to overthrow government why should I believe the opposition now? they started this crisis

Murican foreign policy.

Nothing to do with USA involvement, Noam...admit you are wrong, at least in this case..

@manatee2500

6 жыл бұрын

Noam did eventually have to fess up about Pol Pot...

@MrB1923

6 жыл бұрын

Yes thays right. Your the genius and Chomsky made a school boy error. Good job....

@manatee2500

6 жыл бұрын

Noam never goes anywhere, when he does, I'll listen to his opinion. MrB - 'your the genius' not me.

@anotherks7297

5 жыл бұрын

Daniela Gonzalez Suarez Trump was just talking about invasion, there has to be merit to his argument. I don't believe Trump would just randomly argue for intervention like that.

'By contrast, Chomsky portrayed Porter and Hildebrand's book as "a carefully documented study of the destructive American impact on Cambodia and the success of the Cambodian revolutionaries in overcoming it, giving a very favorable picture of their programs and policies, based on a wide range of sources."' Noam Chomsky denied the Cambodian genocide while it was unfolding. He seems very slow to recognize authoritarianism when it comes in an anti-US flavour. He did, much later, admit the truth of the Cambodian genocide, carried out by the "revolutionaries" that he had praised. He then presented the evolution of the Khmer Rouge as a product of US policy -- the US had carpet-bombed Cambodia, devastated its society and created the conditions that extreme movements needed to flourish. This is his current position on ISIS. While it would be absolutely false to equate the Venezuelan regime to ISIS or the Khmer Rouge, it would seem that a similar narrative would be much more convincing than what he offers. It is more credible to say that US intervention and US-backed policies created the conditions for an authoritarian leftist regime to take hold, than to gloss over what is happening in Venezuela as "internal problems."

@ragnaroksora8129

6 жыл бұрын

lol there is no genocide in Venezuela.

@Siddhartha02

6 жыл бұрын

Yet...

This is why it's so hard to take Chomsky seriously. In the face of blatant evidence of the failure of socialist policies Chomsky refuses to acknowledge that their problems are caused by the policies of their government.

@gomertube

8 жыл бұрын

Chomsky does concede several times that there are "serious internal problems" but I don't think he'll ever admit that the problem is philosophic and therefore cannot be solved by more futile and destructive socialist policies. I am encouraged, however, to see that most of the comments on this video are similarly critical of Chomsky's socialist delusion.

@neuterallrednecks

7 жыл бұрын

Oh look! Two Nobel prize winning economists posting comments. If you 2 muppets bother to look at Venezuela's economic performance, you'll see that it reflects the movement in oil prices. In other words, Chomsky was exactly right when he said there was no success in moving Venezuela away from a strictly oil based economy.

@tauresattauresa7137

7 жыл бұрын

+neuterallrednecks : of course there would be no success as Venezuela has no other como duty to rely on. Neither Chavez nor Maduro thought through a plan for economic restoration should the oil price drop. These men do not and did not have the education required to make and plan for such predictions.

@gomertube

7 жыл бұрын

Tauresa: the core of the problem of socialism is the (religious) belief in central planning, something only "educated" people believe in. Read anything by F A Hayek for a critique of planning.

@neuterallrednecks

7 жыл бұрын

tauresa ttauresa Don't know about Maduro but Chavez did improve the agricultural sector but the economy still relies on oil for 95% of its exports. According to research by local Venezuelan economist Pasqualina Curcio, the problem lies in the system of food distribution and importation.