I think Noam is so cognisant of his limited time, he's doing what he can to engage in discussions for his intellectual analysis to live on via UA-cam, free for most to listen to and do further research.
Noam is a rare blessing to us all. Being able to relay reports in layman's terms, stripped of all the political & corporate baggage, such as spin, false contexts and outright subterfuges is (for us) like finding a rare gemstone in a sea of heaving bull****. I've tried to do the same just for personal consumption and I know how incredibly difficult it is to unearth the reality of situations.. We desperately need more Noam's. A rare and special breed.
I marched today in the global strike in Toronto. It felt like finally things were happening here. I want to do that every week...we can't lose momentum!
I hope Noam knows how much he means to my generation, he is a paragon of truth and impartial information to thousands of young people. Your contributions to public discourse and the clearing the misinformation and propaganda in our historical narrative is invaluable. Thank you so much! Here's hoping you have many decades to educate young people in their political awaking. Thank you noam!! 😊
A great privilege to be able to listen to Noam Chomsky - how he maintains his breadth of understanding and attention to detail simultaneously I don’t know. Thank you for hosting this.
Chomsky isn't a demi-god, he's just a bright man who isn't nearly so bright these days as he once was. In fact, recently he has said some incredibly stupid things. He is after all a very old man now. Don't hero worship Chomsky or anyone else. We're all only people when it comes down to it.
Great discussion. Chomsky is an international treasure. Couple of points, though: the UK usually reflexively goes along with US foreign policy but it's not a given. The US wanted British military involvement in Vietnam, which we refused. Reagan didn't want Thatcher to commit to a war with Argentina over the Falklands but Thatcher rejected the request. The US State Department generally favours Britain inside the EU and opposed to Brexit.
Of course he’s oversimplifying but Britain is a US vassal without a doubt. Britain was covertly in Vietnam due to difficulties of managing public perception in an overt engagement in a country were Britain had no sphere of influence. Mark Curtis has covered the declassified files on SAS engagement through deep seated subterfuge and deceit. On Brexit, the US empire was divided between a pro EU faction (Democrats/Wall Street/East Coast elites/Big Tech) and an insurgent faction in the Republican wing of the US empire which actually provided financial and logistics support for Brexiteers. So, the leeway on Brexit was a result of an ongoing civil war in the US empire not a result of any meaningful agency on the part of the U.K.. This sort of schism happens in empires of old and is nothing new at all. As for the Falkland war, useful to go beyond the surface. See the article below on US covert support including Reagan’s assurances. www.standard.co.uk/news/world/cia-files-reveal-how-us-helped-britain-retake-the-falklands-7618420.html
Noam is a living legend. He's looking so much older now. I don't know of anyone who comes close to his analysis, knowledge and explanations. I hope he goes on for a while yet, but when he goes it will be a huge loss for us all. He holds power to account like no-one else does.
When he dies, it'll be up to us. I know that's a truism, but we'll have no choice. Besides, Chomsky has been nothing but an incredible, moral pillar, someone to at least try to imitate.
I'm so tearful for our world and the state it is in. Prof Chomsky has so eloquently served the masses with his wisdom and intellectual grace and humility, and we will be forever grateful, but I fear without his direction and clarity on such complex issues, we will fall victim again to the systematic machinery of America that continues to plung our world closer to extinction.
Love listening to Noam, his vast experience allows key insights to be distilled succinctly. However, he gave me impression that the climate prognosis would be linear, but as G. Monbiot say's: If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual. A common sign that complex systems are approaching tipping points is rising volatility: they start to flicker. The extreme weather in 2021 - the heat domes, droughts, fires, floods and cyclones - is, frankly, terrifying.
can we have chaotic systems in place to deal with chaotic effects in nature? would seem very difficult to envisage that, closest we can come would beto be very very flexible, and certainly not assume our models are anything near 100% accurate
Just in terms of immigration. I urge everyone to look at people per square mile. Major European countries have many times what we have. Germany roughly seven times as many people per square mile. That means we would have to add 1 billion people here to even get close to their population density. Just to put 9,000 Haitians into perspective.
@Hans Janmaat How so? Does a black person use up more resources on a particular land than a white person? I don't understand this logic. Or are you talking about the culture changing? It's diverse here already anyway.
@Hans Janmaat Reagan gave 3 million Latinos amnesty and they could then file for all their millions of family members. And it would be nice if all of them voted for Democrats. But many also vote against others coming the way they did.
@Hans Janmaat Lol. Yes, California was Republican before that. The country is massively more Democratic as a result. So he was really really smart. Like all you right wingers.
Nationally based multinationals? At 16:30 he talks about that. I always wondered what makes companies such as Apple US companies if they have their corporate offices in Ireland to pay taxes there. It's the same thing for all these other companies. So how are they nationally based?
When they’re backed by the US government perhaps? Or when the majority of executive management is ordinarily resident/domiciled in the US? Let’s put it this way, we know a US company when we see one.
I think he means those companies that influence U.S. foreign policy , are seen as national institutions and whose brands act as ambassadors of Americanism. Basically the corporations that the American govt is willing to go to war to secure their interests. Where you shelter from taxes also doesnt define the corporate philosophy and policies you enact.
Well this is where you hit a crossed roads with "International" Socialists. They want everything to be globalised yet when companies take advantage of Globalisation they take that as a negative thing. Yet they also decry Conseravtives and right leaning people for wanting more protectionist policies in regards supposedly native companies to keep them in the mainland.
@@Kirovxx true socialists are “internationalist” in the sense that they view class collaboration across national boundaries; knowing full well that they need worker solidarity across borders in order to overthrow capitalists and imperialism, the highest form of capitalism. Until this international solidarity is realised, socialists know that capitalist will continually play one group of the working class against the other to the benefit of the capitalist class. Lenin expressed this idea when he pulled the newly formed Soviet Republics out of WWI (what he correctly referred to as an imperialist war). However, the imperialists (so called globalists in current parlance) can always depend on right wingers to fracture the working class as they indulge their base instincts to segregate and discriminate, albeit using different guises such as defending jobs at home (never mind if that leads to a beggar thy neighbour attitude), or maintaining racial purity (a precursor to fascism). Ultimately, conservatives who thinly cloak themselves in the guise socialistic tendencies, turn out becoming confused and ineffectual as a result of the inherent contradictions; or they resort to the most vile form of fascism, National Socialism (Nazi ideology).
Noam has spent a life time as a political activist he's done his bit LA. All it takes is reading his books and he has written a 100 of them. " No education but self education " and Noam himself would say activism, your responsibilities LA.
As always, Noam says 'what it is'... However, when asked the question by Benjamin Zephaniah on the notion that humans are doomed in the near term, Noam rightly mentions the horrific prospect of nuclear holocaust as one 'vector of doom'... But then posits that human society will probably drag-on for centuries... Most of us that understand, in great depth, the biospheric dynamics at play, would seriously take issue on that assertion. Our species, whether we choose to believe it or not, are entirely reliant upon other species to survive. We understand this as 'The food web' or 'trophic web/pyramid'... The biosphere's trophic pyramid is seriously under threat, due in the main to the ongoing mass extinction event [MEE]; an event that has been driven entirely by human (anthropogenic) actions over their entire modern development. The current MEE is also the most rapidly occuring of all MEE's ranging back over 'Deep Time'. Loss of habitats for other species is also occuring at a faster rate, which obviously affects species that are unable to adapt in time; highly mobile species - the animal kingdom - can feasibly migrate to new habitats and over time adapt; whereas sessile or niche species cannot and become extinct. Depending upon what level of the trophic pyramid a species resides, any loss of species will inevitably affect the higher or lower species on the pyramid; eg: loss of the pollinator species - insects and birds - would directly affect crop yields (agriculture) and lead to an imbalance in the trophic web, favouring perhaps more mobile, invasive species that take over that vacant niche. There are so many 'anthropogenic vectors of doom' to consider when regarding the longevity of life on Earth, that to prophesise how long any given species can survive - including humans - is futile. The fact is, as a species, we simply cannot comprehend the forces at play, which are always challenging our best estimates or hypotheses. Eg: Around a decade ago, climate scientists and particularly glaciologists mostly agreed that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet [EAIS] was the most stable of the three global ice-sheets and whilst it still holds true that the EAIS has far more ice mass than the Greenland [GIS] or West Antarctic Ice Sheet [WAIS], it receives less precipitation than the GIS and is still subject to ablation at its peripheries and vulnerable to the loss of ice shelves that buttress the vast glaciers due to subsurface warming from the warming southern ocean. This dynamic is well understood when regarding the WAIS, where the ice mass is grounded below sea level, unlike the EAIS that is entirely grounded on the Antarctic continental crust and as such the WAIS is subject to more ablation than the EAIS. So the consensus is now that even the EAIS is not as 'stable' as first thought, though being the largest chunk of ice on the planet (99% of Earth's fresh water reserves), still has some way to go, before its thawing raises sea levels by sixty meters or so (around 200ft). By then - all species will be long extinct, save for perhaps the chemotrophs inhabiting the deep ocean geothermal vents. As I said, the dynamics are vast and complex.... Who would consider that the loss of maintenance infrastructure to the 440+ nuclear power plants peppering the Earth, could potentially end up being responsible for *sterilising* the Earth's surface? It is all causal. As it stands - thanks to the evolving grey-matter - the human neocortex - the current ongoing mass extinction will likely be Earth's FINAL MASS EXTINCTION. And that could occur far sooner than anyone would care to contemplate, given the human propensity for thinking *anthropocentrically...*
Fucking anarchist my arse!! He is a middle class thought mirage full of philosophy with no substance. When placed into personal harm he showed his true mind.
I have read articles by Noam, I have quoted Noam, I admire Noam. if as Noam says, we’ve had to do here what the USA say, should we now be kinder to Tony Blair? I’m guilty of saying Blair should be charged with war crimes. I have said this diminished what Tony achieved as PM. Am I wrong to be so harsh on Blair?
No you’re not wrong on Blair. He is an unapologetic war criminal and needs to be in the inside of a jail cell not being feted by the press. Think 1 million Iraqis dead and deformed babies from Fallujah and this should reset your compass whenever it starts assuaging.
Even by standards of Nuremberg Trials Blair would be given the death sentence. We frame information and thus even questions posed, thus even thought, to suit power interests.
What!??... Blair is a war criminal, a evil money and power worshiper. If listening to Chomsky in any way makes you question that. I'd start questioning listening to Chomsky. He has biases and huge faults too, he's not some divinity.
After Northern Ireland and Kosovo, after two overwhelming election victories, Blair deluded himself he was a force for good in the world and would be just as successful in moderating US intentions, seek UN approval and gain international support. He couldn’t. In the end it was go with it or withdraw support, which by that time, after all the ballyhoo and shoulder to shoulder rhetoric, was unthinkable. His hopes of being the next great world leader proved unrealistic and turned to ashes in his mouth. Just being Tony proved not to be enough. His only concession has been to acknowledge that the religious and intertribal violence that arose post Saddam should have been anticipated and planned for. Almost like blaming Iraq for its own destruction. Hubris.
99.9% of people have never heard of this guy. When he dies CNN will mention in the same breath as the passing of a minor sitcom celebrity. I will have to explain to everyone else in the room who he is. The cultish comments are embarrissing below.
God I listened to this man’s tedious voice for hours. Then stopped when he showed his true psyche , an intellectual jeckel and Hyde living in fame and glory bla bla bla monotonous drone of acceptable anti USA policies from within. Mouthpiece to quell any real dissent. Very clever but outed
He's 92 years old and humans tend to look 'fragile and old' when they get fragile and old. For someone who is 92 he actually seems quite healthy and mentally he is sharper than almost anyone on the planet.
@@Xen0Phanes Right? He's in impeccable shape mentally for a 92 year old. Obviously he speaks a lot slower these days but his mind is still clearly razor sharp. He doesn't look that fragile to me, or at least no more fragile than your average 92 year old.
If he sounds tired its because his activity level is so high. He is giving youtube interviews to everyone, authoring articles and a new book , working as a Professor. Too he is trying to keep up with his wonderful wife who is 60 years his junior. lol
@@Gooner184 Ahhhh see since you lot beat Spurs all of a sudden Gooner knows everything !lol Yes you are right and I stand corrected. Continued good luck with the season.
I think Noam is so cognisant of his limited time, he's doing what he can to engage in discussions for his intellectual analysis to live on via UA-cam, free for most to listen to and do further research.
Free Julian Assange! Thank you Mr Chomsky
Noam is a rare blessing to us all. Being able to relay reports in layman's terms, stripped of all the political & corporate baggage, such as spin, false contexts and outright subterfuges is (for us) like finding a rare gemstone in a sea of heaving bull****. I've tried to do the same just for personal consumption and I know how incredibly difficult it is to unearth the reality of situations.. We desperately need more Noam's. A rare and special breed.
Yes. He combs thru all the gobbledygook and relays the simple truth.
@@edstoffregen3623 He's like a one man team of detectives and forensic investigators.
Let's all be Noam! seriously! hit the streets!!!
Oh
@Hans Janmaat I missed that. At what time stamp does he specifically say that in this video?
I marched today in the global strike in Toronto. It felt like finally things were happening here. I want to do that every week...we can't lose momentum!
I hope Noam knows how much he means to my generation, he is a paragon of truth and impartial information to thousands of young people. Your contributions to public discourse and the clearing the misinformation and propaganda in our historical narrative is invaluable. Thank you so much! Here's hoping you have many decades to educate young people in their political awaking. Thank you noam!! 😊
He’s in his nineties. We need to make the most of him NOW
I have no respect for it
Which generation's that? I think the old fart can't drop dead soon enough.
Thanks for having Noam on
A great privilege to be able to listen to Noam Chomsky - how he maintains his breadth of understanding and attention to detail simultaneously I don’t know. Thank you for hosting this.
Gandalf
It's so true. I could listen to you for hours. Thank you so much Prof Chomsky. As always it has been a pleasure.
Chomsky isn't a demi-god, he's just a bright man who isn't nearly so bright these days as he once was. In fact, recently he has said some incredibly stupid things. He is after all a very old man now. Don't hero worship Chomsky or anyone else. We're all only people when it comes down to it.
Great discussion. Chomsky is an international treasure.
Couple of points, though: the UK usually reflexively goes along with US foreign policy but it's not a given. The US wanted British military involvement in Vietnam, which we refused. Reagan didn't want Thatcher to commit to a war with Argentina over the Falklands but Thatcher rejected the request. The US State Department generally favours Britain inside the EU and opposed to Brexit.
Of course he’s oversimplifying but Britain is a US vassal without a doubt.
Britain was covertly in Vietnam due to difficulties of managing public perception in an overt engagement in a country were Britain had no sphere of influence. Mark Curtis has covered the declassified files on SAS engagement through deep seated subterfuge and deceit.
On Brexit, the US empire was divided between a pro EU faction (Democrats/Wall Street/East Coast elites/Big Tech) and an insurgent faction in the Republican wing of the US empire which actually provided financial and logistics support for Brexiteers. So, the leeway on Brexit was a result of an ongoing civil war in the US empire not a result of any meaningful agency on the part of the U.K.. This sort of schism happens in empires of old and is nothing new at all.
As for the Falkland war, useful to go beyond the surface. See the article below on US covert support including Reagan’s assurances.
www.standard.co.uk/news/world/cia-files-reveal-how-us-helped-britain-retake-the-falklands-7618420.html
Such a great privilege listening to Sir Noam Chomsky.
thanks for you the channel, just discovered it.
Noam is a living legend. He's looking so much older now. I don't know of anyone who comes close to his analysis, knowledge and explanations. I hope he goes on for a while yet, but when he goes it will be a huge loss for us all. He holds power to account like no-one else does.
When he dies, it'll be up to us. I know that's a truism, but we'll have no choice. Besides, Chomsky has been nothing but an incredible, moral pillar, someone to at least try to imitate.
Noam Chomsky is the best!
I'm so tearful for our world and the state it is in. Prof Chomsky has so eloquently served the masses with his wisdom and intellectual grace and humility, and we will be forever grateful, but I fear without his direction and clarity on such complex issues, we will fall victim again to the systematic machinery of America that continues to plung our world closer to extinction.
Love listening to Noam, his vast experience allows key insights to be distilled succinctly. However, he gave me impression that the climate prognosis would be linear, but as G. Monbiot say's:
If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual.
A common sign that complex systems are approaching tipping points is rising volatility: they start to flicker. The extreme weather in 2021 - the heat domes, droughts, fires, floods and cyclones - is, frankly, terrifying.
can we have chaotic systems in place to deal with chaotic effects in nature? would seem very difficult to envisage that, closest we can come would beto be very very flexible, and certainly not assume our models are anything near 100% accurate
Just in terms of immigration. I urge everyone to look at people per square mile. Major European countries have many times what we have. Germany roughly seven times as many people per square mile. That means we would have to add 1 billion people here to even get close to their population density. Just to put 9,000 Haitians into perspective.
@Hans Janmaat How so? Does a black person use up more resources on a particular land than a white person? I don't understand this logic. Or are you talking about the culture changing? It's diverse here already anyway.
@Hans Janmaat Reagan gave 3 million Latinos amnesty and they could then file for all their millions of family members. And it would be nice if all of them voted for Democrats. But many also vote against others coming the way they did.
@Hans Janmaat Lol. Yes, California was Republican before that. The country is massively more Democratic as a result. So he was really really smart. Like all you right wingers.
Parts of Germany are Arab run dumps
He doesn’t really say anything new or profound. It’s just Noam is saying it and that makes the world of difference.
Nationally based multinationals? At 16:30 he talks about that. I always wondered what makes companies such as Apple US companies if they have their corporate offices in Ireland to pay taxes there. It's the same thing for all these other companies. So how are they nationally based?
i live in NZ and Apple has a trackrecord of not paying their taxes
When they’re backed by the US government perhaps? Or when the majority of executive management is ordinarily resident/domiciled in the US? Let’s put it this way, we know a US company when we see one.
I think he means those companies that influence U.S. foreign policy , are seen as national institutions and whose brands act as ambassadors of Americanism. Basically the corporations that the American govt is willing to go to war to secure their interests. Where you shelter from taxes also doesnt define the corporate philosophy and policies you enact.
Well this is where you hit a crossed roads with "International" Socialists. They want everything to be globalised yet when companies take advantage of Globalisation they take that as a negative thing. Yet they also decry Conseravtives and right leaning people for wanting more protectionist policies in regards supposedly native companies to keep them in the mainland.
@@Kirovxx true socialists are “internationalist” in the sense that they view class collaboration across national boundaries; knowing full well that they need worker solidarity across borders in order to overthrow capitalists and imperialism, the highest form of capitalism. Until this international solidarity is realised, socialists know that capitalist will continually play one group of the working class against the other to the benefit of the capitalist class. Lenin expressed this idea when he pulled the newly formed Soviet Republics out of WWI (what he correctly referred to as an imperialist war). However, the imperialists (so called globalists in current parlance) can always depend on right wingers to fracture the working class as they indulge their base instincts to segregate and discriminate, albeit using different guises such as defending jobs at home (never mind if that leads to a beggar thy neighbour attitude), or maintaining racial purity (a precursor to fascism). Ultimately, conservatives who thinly cloak themselves in the guise socialistic tendencies, turn out becoming confused and ineffectual as a result of the inherent contradictions; or they resort to the most vile form of fascism, National Socialism (Nazi ideology).
Humanity is f-cked
We're trash with the potential to be useful. But mainly trash!
Nothing to do but let the bastards ruin everything, then pick up the pieces. Just like in 1914.
Noam needs new batteries in his fire alarm.
Nice questions, I wish we could squeeze every last bit of knowledge out of Noam
I’d say let’s be like Noam
Noam has spent a life time as a political activist he's done his bit LA. All it takes is reading his books and he has written a 100 of them. " No education but self education " and Noam himself would say activism, your responsibilities LA.
As always, Noam says 'what it is'... However, when asked the question by Benjamin Zephaniah on the notion that humans are doomed in the near term, Noam rightly mentions the horrific prospect of nuclear holocaust as one 'vector of doom'... But then posits that human society will probably drag-on for centuries... Most of us that understand, in great depth, the biospheric dynamics at play, would seriously take issue on that assertion.
Our species, whether we choose to believe it or not, are entirely reliant upon other species to survive. We understand this as 'The food web' or 'trophic web/pyramid'... The biosphere's trophic pyramid is seriously under threat, due in the main to the ongoing mass extinction event [MEE]; an event that has been driven entirely by human (anthropogenic) actions over their entire modern development. The current MEE is also the most rapidly occuring of all MEE's ranging back over 'Deep Time'. Loss of habitats for other species is also occuring at a faster rate, which obviously affects species that are unable to adapt in time; highly mobile species - the animal kingdom - can feasibly migrate to new habitats and over time adapt; whereas sessile or niche species cannot and become extinct. Depending upon what level of the trophic pyramid a species resides, any loss of species will inevitably affect the higher or lower species on the pyramid; eg: loss of the pollinator species - insects and birds - would directly affect crop yields (agriculture) and lead to an imbalance in the trophic web, favouring perhaps more mobile, invasive species that take over that vacant niche.
There are so many 'anthropogenic vectors of doom' to consider when regarding the longevity of life on Earth, that to prophesise how long any given species can survive - including humans - is futile. The fact is, as a species, we simply cannot comprehend the forces at play, which are always challenging our best estimates or hypotheses.
Eg: Around a decade ago, climate scientists and particularly glaciologists mostly agreed that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet [EAIS] was the most stable of the three global ice-sheets and whilst it still holds true that the EAIS has far more ice mass than the Greenland [GIS] or West Antarctic Ice Sheet [WAIS], it receives less precipitation than the GIS and is still subject to ablation at its peripheries and vulnerable to the loss of ice shelves that buttress the vast glaciers due to subsurface warming from the warming southern ocean. This dynamic is well understood when regarding the WAIS, where the ice mass is grounded below sea level, unlike the EAIS that is entirely grounded on the Antarctic continental crust and as such the WAIS is subject to more ablation than the EAIS. So the consensus is now that even the EAIS is not as 'stable' as first thought, though being the largest chunk of ice on the planet (99% of Earth's fresh water reserves), still has some way to go, before its thawing raises sea levels by sixty meters or so (around 200ft). By then - all species will be long extinct, save for perhaps the chemotrophs inhabiting the deep ocean geothermal vents.
As I said, the dynamics are vast and complex.... Who would consider that the loss of maintenance infrastructure to the 440+ nuclear power plants peppering the Earth, could potentially end up being responsible for *sterilising* the Earth's surface? It is all causal.
As it stands - thanks to the evolving grey-matter - the human neocortex - the current ongoing mass extinction will likely be Earth's
FINAL MASS EXTINCTION. And that could occur far sooner than anyone would care to contemplate, given the human propensity for thinking *anthropocentrically...*
What about his reactions to Covid vaccine refusers. Was that condoning human rights?
I hope Biden or any of his friends also follow Noam Chomsky's comments as we do!!!
Of course they don’t
I am a Chomskian.
I always thought his first name was Noam
Is this live
wow noam chomsky, cool! when did this interview take place?
Gandalf
We will be joined by Noam Chomsky on Wednesday 22nd @ 6pm to discuss the UK/US special relationship
13:00 Taiwan
35:00 1 state, 2 state solution
Noam Chomsky doesn't get enough credit. He's actually quite intelligent.
I'm always learning from Noam and I spent a couple years just reading his books - way back about 25 years ago.
That’s actually quite an understatement.
An anarchist who thinks people that don't do what the government says should be starved 🤣🤣🤣
Fucking anarchist my arse!! He is a middle class thought mirage full of philosophy with no substance. When placed into personal harm he showed his true mind.
I have read articles by Noam, I have quoted Noam, I admire Noam. if as Noam says, we’ve had to do here what the USA say, should we now be kinder to Tony Blair? I’m guilty of saying Blair should be charged with war crimes. I have said this diminished what Tony achieved as PM. Am I wrong to be so harsh on Blair?
No you’re not wrong on Blair. He is an unapologetic war criminal and needs to be in the inside of a jail cell not being feted by the press. Think 1 million Iraqis dead and deformed babies from Fallujah and this should reset your compass whenever it starts assuaging.
Even by standards of Nuremberg Trials Blair would be given the death sentence. We frame information and thus even questions posed, thus even thought, to suit power interests.
What!??... Blair is a war criminal, a evil money and power worshiper. If listening to Chomsky in any way makes you question that. I'd start questioning listening to Chomsky. He has biases and huge faults too, he's not some divinity.
After Northern Ireland and Kosovo, after two overwhelming election victories, Blair deluded himself he was a force for good in the world and would be just as successful in moderating US intentions, seek UN approval and gain international support. He couldn’t. In the end it was go with it or withdraw support, which by that time, after all the ballyhoo and shoulder to shoulder rhetoric, was unthinkable. His hopes of being the next great world leader proved unrealistic and turned to ashes in his mouth. Just being Tony proved not to be enough. His only concession has been to acknowledge that the religious and intertribal violence that arose post Saddam should have been anticipated and planned for. Almost like blaming Iraq for its own destruction. Hubris.
99.9% of people have never heard of this guy. When he dies CNN will mention in the same breath as the passing of a minor sitcom celebrity. I will have to explain to everyone else in the room who he is. The cultish comments are embarrissing below.
Don’t always agree with him, but I love listening to this guy.
Too bad the interviewer talks too much.
God I listened to this man’s tedious voice for hours. Then stopped when he showed his true psyche , an intellectual jeckel and Hyde living in fame and glory bla bla bla monotonous drone of acceptable anti USA policies from within. Mouthpiece to quell any real dissent. Very clever but outed
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so much for holocaust study
A propaganda machine for 92 years, impressive.
What‘s going on with Noam Chomsky? He looks so fragile and old. I hope he‘s not ill...
He's 92 years old and humans tend to look 'fragile and old' when they get fragile and old. For someone who is 92 he actually seems quite healthy and mentally he is sharper than almost anyone on the planet.
@@Xen0Phanes Right? He's in impeccable shape mentally for a 92 year old. Obviously he speaks a lot slower these days but his mind is still clearly razor sharp. He doesn't look that fragile to me, or at least no more fragile than your average 92 year old.
If he sounds tired its because his activity level is so high. He is giving youtube interviews to everyone, authoring articles and a new book , working as a Professor. Too he is trying to keep up with his wonderful wife who is 60 years his junior. lol
@@kevinjohnson9533 35 year old gap. Huge, but not 60 year huge, lol.
@@Gooner184 Ahhhh see since you lot beat Spurs all of a sudden Gooner knows everything !lol Yes you are right and I stand corrected. Continued good luck with the season.