@Firm Fiasco 7 or 8 years ago now, it was kind of unreal! A man of his intelligence with what I imagine would be a busy schedule as well took time out of his day to talk to a couple kids for about an hour. It was awesome
@@TomorrowWeLive There is not a single data/fact-based refutation of Chomsky's positions in that article that shows him "denying and justifying genocides". On the other hand, there are ample cases of the author of that drivel having been embroiled in academic malpractice and hoax himself, on subjects from whitewashing crimes against Australian Aborigines to publishing ideologically motivated fake stories on GMO food. Linking complete rubbish like a good-intentioned critical reader while all it is represents is a desperate attempt by a nobody to smear someone is shameful at the very least.
The list of countries the US invaded since WWII "ended". Is longer than most rock groups tour stops. I wish we had leaders instead of rulers and that people had brains and backbone.
@Steffan R Blanco The evidence in support of US President Jimmy Carter's statement of US war mongering is strong. Since the end of WW2 the US led the illegal invasion of Iraq that was based on deliberate false pretenses and manipulated intelligence where over a million innocent Iraqi civilians were murdered, waged war against Vietnam, Korea, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan that killed over 70,000 innocent civilians, Lebanon, Laos, Bosnia, Serbia, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and others. By it's own admission the US has launched at least 251 military interventions AFTER the USSR collapsed in 1991. That does not include still classified covert missions which the US has not yet admitted to. In what way is Carter wrong?
@@samsharma3659 CRT is absolutely indoctrination of the same level as radical political indoctrination. I wouldn't attribute these things not being taught to direct indoctrination or a campaign of lies, but just to an incompetent education system. If it was actually a forced lie and indoctrination, you wouldn't literally just be able to read a book about it or google it...
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ” ― George Orwell
You have to respect not only his knowledge, but Chomsky's incessant commitment to inconvenient truth-telling. To speak candidly about the evils and atrocities committed in the name of western imperialism so openly exemplifies a level of audacity seldom seen and is entirely commendable. We should praise his work and thank him for his contributions.
I neeed to respect a guy who is trashing on all US presidents?? Does anyone realize what 'Chomsky's real agenda is? he hates the US. and you like this guy?? (I don't) Socialist-marxist political activist. Now your friend
Arthur James Schildgen oh really? So I would hope that you would also be highly opposed of those millions of incarcerations under the Obama administration as well right? Yknow since America is about equality? Obama has deported more illegal aliens than Trump has. Trumps deportations are majority criminals such as sex traffickers. Listen Obama was also against illegal immigration and openly denounced illegal immigration in his rallies, speeches, and his time during senator, nobody called him racist nor were their meltdowns over his millions in deportations. If you want to make this a case of pity for those immigrants than you should acknowledge the issue of both presidents, not just focus all that hate on one guy due to your opposing political views. What is communicated poorly and twisted negatively is trumps stance on immigration. He is FOR Legal immigrants, has nothing against them and has helped out many, what he won’t tolerate is those illegal immigrants who abuse the welfare system, have anchor babies, and even use false identification for work. There have been cases reported that illegal aliens have used the documents of deceased Americans for work, which frankly is disgusting. And before you talk about the border cages, most of those photos and the initiative of such harsh treatment started during the Obama administration. So please kind sir(hope I’m not assuming your gender) do not be fueled by prejudice and hatred, I share your dislike for the harsh treatment of those illegals but you cannot simply believe this is trumps fault their is only so much pity that can be given. I’ll end my response to your false rhetoric by giving you a real life example. If I’m driving intoxicated while my child is in the car and I get stopped, then surely my child will be separated from me as I go to jail. The same outcome can be viewed for those illegals who get deported, if you get deported the you can’t expect special treatment, coming here illegally is against the law. End of story
Jose Perez Supplying weapons for saudi arabia to commit a genocide in yemen. Increase drone strikes 400% from the obama era. Accepting saudi emoluments through hotel businesses.
Every time he says , " I don't think we even need to discuss , Reagan , Nixon ect. , I wanna say , unfortunately you do. The average person (American) is quite unaware of these crimes committed by there elected "leaders".
Even if you documented it in exquisite detail with incontrovertable evidence, they still would not believe it. The herd live and die by their propaganda and made-for-tv imagined reality.
As an Indonesian who lived through the sixties and not knowing what had happened then in Jakarta and outer islands of Java and now hearing these from this scholar, an initial natural anger against the US in me subsided to the feeling of pity to the CIA and their coward operatives, and gratefulness to this man … We must learn from history, a true history calmly and with wisdom so as to summon our hope of NOT repeating it again and NEVER support any regimes who may instigate these kinds of attrocities. Let us build a better world, a better international order and justice for all world citizen …. 🙏🏾.
Unless humanity does away with this monetary system and shuts down technology right now, peace will never be. AI has taken over at this point. Hell, maybe it has always been. All this seems done by design to me. History has been changed in my own short time here. Humanity is in very grave danger it seems.
Love this video and all and if anything it's a brilliant breakdown of about 50 years of near-complete corruption in US government, but he forgot Truman. I'm pretty sure he started with Truman in his original 1990 lecture.
@@poncccceolymusica998 I think it’s a post ww2 thing. That’s when America entered the Cold War McCarthy era and you became an enemy of the state for speaking out of line
@@WillJL20 Interesting. I know that the Committee on Public Information arrested people (the likes of Eugene Debs) during WWI for speaking against the war. I'm wondering when that attitude really started to leak out into the public sphere. The McCarthy Era angle makes sense.
We(I'm Canadian) need more intelligent,calm people like Chomsky. I'm surprised the CIA haven't tried to do him in. Truthful words to make the powerful squirm.
@@user-ek9go3kf2w Chomsky didn't like the USSR from what I remember and he actually considers himself an old school Libertarian (not idiot Ayn Rand "greed is good" bunch).
He's not knowledabgle and wise. He's a nazi apologist. He clearly wants to give ammo to the same people that call it a hypocritical Kangaroo court. He does understand what Nuremburg trials were about. It has nothing to do with taking over countries or war. That isn't why nazi germany was on trial. There was a minor charge that would have been dropped if the case came forward since invading isn't a crime. The reason the nazis were on trial for the war crimes, in camps, POWs, Civilians, Genocide of jew. And it's ironic because Noam Chomsky describes himself as a socialist. Which is as Goebbels said are all anti semetic. Since Marx Wrote the jewish Question which inspired hitler. About the cabal of jewish capitalism running the world in the stock market.
His memory and knowledge are very FLAWED!!!!!!. John. F. Kennedy ENDED THE VIETNAM WAR. N.S.A.M.# 263 Signed by J.F.K. IN October of 63 . History. PEACE AND LOVE ❣️
Not always. Alot of Axis war criminals were let off the hook to help their captors. Such as using former Wehrmacht officers to rebuilt both German armies, and use of scientists in various programs that mostly went nowhere (such as pardoning Unit 731 members or Nazi camp doctors for ultimately useless infomation). We like to think that most of the Nazis were killed by our justice system, when really most of these men lived relatively luxurious lives, and had no apologies or redemption for their crimes. People say history is written by the winners, but I've come to see that as a generality instead of a rule.
@@Williamatics … Yes it is. And who defines evil? America is an evil nation. Is it ok to kill everyone here? Considering the continual decline of the American Empire you should be begging the world to abide by laws you’re saying don’t matter. To have mercy, basically
Jack D, well he did block congress when congress voted to stop aiding the saudi-led genocide of yemenese civilians and soldiers. and is escalating tensions with iran.
@Jack D Never said Trump was solely responsible. And your making assumptions of my character which you have no place in doing, either way, I wasn't aware that it was happening under Obama and it's horrible regardless of which President is overseeing it, though Donald Trump is factually perpetuating it. In result "continuing the trend" as you said.
I love the interviewer's change in tone and body language between the first and second question. When he asks about Eisenhower, he sounds like he thinks the question is vaguely ridiculous, and probably expects Chomsky to qualify his position or dodge the question. By the time he asks about Kennedy, his demeanor has already done a 180.
For any Americans that wonder "Why are they mad at us? What did we do?" It's all the stuff left out of AP US History or most regular history classes. Instead, we're taught in US History high school class that ALL problems ended with The Civil Rights Act, or WWII when we bombed Japan into peace or something. And the current enemy can't be understood, ever, whether it's Iran, Russia, China...
You mean Fake news😬 Yikes we are uneducated 😢. We and only us the American people are at fault, because out of fear of others we give our presidents and elected officials to much power and treat them like gods.
@@Saztog1425 when America does it it’s only to appease our Israeli puppet masters so they don’t decimate our dollar that has been worthless ever since they stole all of the gold that once backed it.
Me rompe el corazón. Como raza humana debemos dejar de apoyar líderes totalitarios y necesitamos dejar que los pueblos del mundo evolucionen a su ritmo.
"If the Nuremberg principles were applied, every post World War II president would be indictable." The victor never learns a damn thing from their actions.
@@TheMoonchild12 ---- at least you admit critics don't make things better . . . and yet you worship at their feet. Says quite a bit about your logic circuits.
@@hardworker5588 Yeah sure I worship theorists. I say my prayers to Chomsky at the morning, and to Foucault before sleeping. And of course I ask for the blessing of the Frankfurt School before and after any meal. Very cool religion!
In its more than 240-year-long history since declaring independence on July 4, 1776, there have only been 16 years in which the US was not at war. From the end of World War II (WWII) to 2001, the US has initiated 201 of the 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations, accounting for over 80 percent of total wars fought.
That is a staggering, horrific statistics! What makes it even worse is the fact that most of the wars between countries that the US are supposedly uninvolved in are actually also instigated by the US despite not being listed as such!
As an Indonesian, im surprised how many times he mentioned Indonesia. Sadly, those are true. Every history books in school only tell East Timor integration in 1975 and breakaway in 1999. A gap of 25 years that most dont know.
Manufacturing Consent, the documentary on UA-cam, has a pretty lengthy section on it I believe. It was so depressing that I really haven't watched it since it came out a LONG time ago.
@@hansfrankfurter2903 now talk about the 100 million people murdered under Communism and millions more starved and the millions greedy socialist Marxist theives stole from. This is communist propaganda
@@mikearchibald744 now talk about the 100 million people murdered under Communism and millions more starved and the millions greedy socialist Marxist theives stole from. This is communist propaganda
As an independent voter, I don't ever see any US president, former or otherwise ever going to jail. If it takes 397 police officers an hour to stop one 18 year old shooter and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company walking away with $926 million of taxpayer money our democracy is beyond broken.
This is not a democracy its a constitutional republic with rule of law ,which no one is following.a democracy is a problem then its majority rules its all Human emotions not a rule of law.
How do you think you ever lived in a democracy when even you had to petition the blood sucking cabal for the right to vote and choose who leads you? They also moved the goal post at that time and made it no matter who you vote for, because whoever you vote for is only a member of that same cabal. Is their no one who possesses any critical thinking?🤔 I'm just asking... You can either address my question with thought and reflection or get triggered or leave it alone.
Chomsky gets so many things wrong about JFK and has such a warped perspective on him that I'd have to write several paragraphs to correct all his inaccuracies. JFK ultimately ended up avoiding War at least six times during his administration when pressured by the military hardliners and was pulling out of Vietnam as of October 11th 1963 (nsam 263) which called for the complete withdrawal of all military personnel from Vietnam by 1965 and the first thousand troops home in December of 63 something Chomsky dismisses time and time again. Most of the cia's raids against Cuba and attempts to get Castro were not authorized by Kennedy but were being continued against his orders.
Adorable how it seems like the interviewer keeps throwing presidents at Chomsky, as if he's expecting him to slip up and go "okay, well maybe not all of them", but every time he gives not just one but about three or four different indictable offenses by each and every name thrown at him (with the exception of Nixon, which he seemed to figure was self-explanatory)
In germany also nothing, we also didnt learn that there was a genocide before the Holocaust, in Namibia.. its slowly getting aknowledged.. But i wanted to say be careful in Indonesia, i dont how the situation is, but it might be dangerous to speak about these things.. bless you
The whole world needs to wake up to USA atrocities.... From genocide of native Indians to current farce in London, Assange... Trying to extradite him to stop him from telling the world about corrupt usa...
It would not have happened if so many affected timor leste genocide. Do you know why indonesia invade timor leste because there was a civil war of timor leste and then indonesia invade timor leste became a supply of weapons of the US and western countries indonesian military against timor leste and more, let's say indonesian special force elite or kopassus became training of the US special force. ua-cam.com/video/s8mP2jN6bJI/v-deo.html
Read the article “ America’s two week engagement with Khomeini”. Google it. This wasn’t even all the facts so Chomsky was rather brief and very nice to Carter to put it lightly . You’ll need a bottle of whisky to go through this article.
@R V Here's a joke: Married couple decides to spend the holiday separately. When they rejoin the wife asks: "Did you cheat on me?" And the husband admits "Yes, twice. With a receptionist, and a waitress. You?" "What a coincidence, I cheated on you twice as well; with a local football team and the local water polo team."
This is so different from hearing people like Sam Harris talk. No weird analogies, no hidden insults, no attacks on Cenk Uygur's intelligence, no rationalizing of purposefully outrageous statements, just facts, facts and more facts.
+Forkbeard I largely aggree. But I think Chomsky's point was not that leaders violate rules, the point was that American leaders violate the same rules they set up to convict the nazis. It's like a teacher chewing gum while punishing a student for chewing gum. The problem is not the illegality, but the hypocricy.
@Uni BlackSister Could you give me a link to the exact video? After seeing who G Edward Griffin is I believe you. I've heard of G Edward Griffin and heard him talk about The Monster From Jekyll Island before, but forgot that was the guy's name
Garth Caesar well I mean yes but sometimes even congress was unaware or lied to about presidents waging wars and funding genocides. For example during the Iran Contra scandal, Congress was completely in the dark and lied to by Reagan, Bush, and Abrams who committed genocide in Latin America.
They are indictable because they receive money for re-election for signing an agreement to support Israel. That’s treason. In fact those funds are taxpayer funds as well.
Chad Simmons held hearings and sentenced quite a few high ranking members for counts of misconduct and criminality ... unfortunately Bush pardoned them all
Malcom X was right in his Ballot or the Bullet speech when he described Democrats and Republicans as, one is a wolf and the other is a wolf in sheep clothing!
As an educator, I promise all you in the comment section that I will be showing this to all of my classes going forward and they will know who Noam Chomsky is :) I solemnly, swear to try and make a difference in our upcoming generation(s)
Here is an interesting reference for you. Much more of what Chomsky says is fully documented there. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Was lucky enough to hear this genius lecture in person while I was in college. Chomsky's insights taught me to question everything, especially when it comes to political propaganda and the commercial pollution of huge corporations.
@@garrettsummerlin3546 It was a brilliant 90 minute guest lecture back in 1990, that inspired me to pursue his teachings. Unfortunately it wasn't recorded, but it changed my intellectual life.
Unfortunate that this information is not much more widely disseminated by the media. Would love to see DW-Germany do a documentary series on this topic and highlight such for each presidency.
And this is why we need to study history. Horrors happened during the holocaust. But the U.S. government has waged its own share of terror: Central America, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Iran, Cambodia, Indonesia and the countries where we were visibly fighting--Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. These stories are painful, they are distressing, but we need to hear them and learn from them, because these are the sorts of things that have shaped the world we live in today.
Whites did not experience holocaust. Indigenous black global population has experience holocaust and whites are still trying to kill us. I will never drum up any concern for that fairytale in Germany. Even if it did really happen, It’s a tear drop in the Ocean compared to what has happens to black indigenous people 👉🏽around the world🕵🏽♂️
Strangely, however, when the effects of American involvement are readily visible, it's always the American side that is better, freer, richer: East vs West Germany; North vs South Korea; Taiwan vs China; eastern vs western Europe. And it's always the anti-American side that is a brutal and impoverished dictatorship: Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, etc etc etc. And still millions try to sneak in every year into this land of evil of ours from the various paradise dreamlands.
@@plasmakitten4261 And you live in What country that is so much better at government and regulations? Why don't you tell everyone where you live that is just so good at "regulating capitalism"?
I heard "Hollywood is the entertainments division of the military industrial complex" when you look at what comes out of Hollywood its all propaganda. Good old nice guy Tom Hanks presenting a very likeable face to very likeable USA
It's the Law of the Land - the rich get richer. Did you honestly think that we elected these guys from Column A or Column B because they're such knights in shining armor? You don't toe the line, you don't get in the game.
U.S Terrorism around the globe after 100 million natives 1840 - invasion of Fiji. 1841 - genocide on the island of Upolu (Drummond). 1843 - invasion of China. 1846-1848 war with Mexico. 1846 - aggression against the New Granada (Colombia). 1849 - shelling of Indochina. 1852 - invasion of Argentina. 1853-1856 - invasion of China. 1853 - invasion of Argentina and Nicaragua. 1854 - the destruction of the Nicaraguan city of San Juan del Norte. 1854 - an attempt to capture the Hawaiian Islands. 1855 - invasion and coup in Nicaragua. 1855 - invasion of Fiji and Uruguay. 1856 - invasion of Panama. 1858 - intervention in Fiji, genocide. 1858 - invasion of Uruguay. 1859 - attack on the Japanese fort of Taku. 1859 - invasion of Angola. 1860 - invasion of Panama. 1863 - punitive expedition to Shimonoseki (Japan). 1864 - military expedition to Japan. 1865 - invasion of Paraguay, genocide, 85% of the population destroyed. 1865 - intervention of Panama, coup d'état. 1866 - an attack on Mexico. 1866 - punitive expedition to China. 1867 - attack on the Midway Islands. 1868 - repeated invasion of Japan. 1868 - invasion of Uruguay and Colombia. 1874 - the entry of troops into China and Hawaii. 1876 - invasion of Mexico. 1878 - attack on Samoa. 1882 - the entry of troops into Egypt. 1888 - an attack on Korea. 1889 - punitive expedition to Hawaii. 1890 - the introduction of troops in Haiti. 1890 - the introduction of troops into Argentina. 1891 - intervention in Chile. 1891 - punitive expedition to Haiti. 1893 - the introduction of troops into Hawaii, the invasion of China. 1894 - intervention in Nicaragua. 1894-1896 - invasion of Korea. 1894-1895 - the war in China. 1895 - invasion of Panama. 1896 - the invasion of Nicaragua. 1898 - the capture of the Philippines, genocide (600,000 Filipinos). 1898 - invasion of the port of San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua). 1898 - the capture of the Hawaiian Islands. 1899-1901 - war with the Philippines. 1899 - invasion of the Nicaraguan port of Bluefields. 1901 - the entry of troops into Colombia. 1902 - invasion of Panama. 1903 - the entry of troops into Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Syria. 1904 - the entry of troops into Korea, Morocco. 1904-1905 - intervention in the Russo-Japanese War. 1905 - intervention in the revolution in Honduras. 1905 - the entry of troops to Mexico. 1905 - the entry of troops into Korea. 1906 - invasion of the Philippines. 1906-1909 - invasion of Cuba. 1907 - operations in Nicaragua. 1907 - intervention in the revolution in the Dominican Republic. 1907 - participation in the war of Honduras with Nicaragua. 1908 - invasion of Panama. 1910 - invasion of Bluefields and Corintho (Nicaragua). 1911 - intervention in Honduras. 1911 - genocide in the Philippines. 1911 - the introduction of troops into China. 1912 - the capture of Havana (Cuba). 1912 - intervention in Panama during the elections. 1912 - invasion of Honduras. 1912-1933 - the occupation of Nicaragua. 1914 - intervention in the Dominican Republic. 1914-1918 - a series of incursions into Mexico. 1914-1934 - the occupation of Haiti. 1916-1924 - occupation of the Dominican Republic. 1917-1933 - the occupation of Cuba. 1918-1922 - occupation of the Russian Far East. 1918-1920 - the introduction of troops into Panama. 1919 - landing of troops in Costa Rica. 1919 - war against the Serbs in Dolmatia on the side of Italy. 1919 - intervention in Honduras during the elections. 1920 - intervention in Guatemala. 1922 - intervention in Turkey. 1922-1927 - intervention in China. 1924-1925 - invasion of Honduras. 1925 - military operations in Panama. 1926 - the invasion of Nicaragua. 1927-1934 - the occupation of China. 1932 - the invasion of El Salvador. 1936 - intervention in Spain. 1937 - won with Japan. 1937 - intervention in Nicaragua, state coup. 1939 - the introduction of troops in China. 1941-1945 - the genocide of the civilian population of Germany (Dresden, Hamburg). 1945 - nuclear attack on Japan. 1945-1991 - sabotage activity against the USSR. (Invasion of the airspace - more than 5000, parachute assaults - 1940, direct diversions, the total budget - 13 trillion dollars). 1946 - punitive operations in Yugoslavia. 1946-1949 - the bombing of China. 1947-1948 - Reconciliation of Vietnam, genocide. 1947-1949 - military operations in Greece. 1948-1953 - military operations in the Philippines. 1948 - military coup in Peru. 1948 - military coup in Nicaragua. 1948 - military coup in Costa Rica. 1949-1953 - attempts to overthrow the government in Albania. 1950 - punitive operations in Puerto Rico. 1950-1953 - intervention in Korea. 1951 - military assistance to Chinese rebels. 1953-1964 - security operations in British Guyana. 1953 - the overthrow of Mossadegh, who received 99.9% of the vote in the referendum. 1953 - Forcible deportation of the Inuit (Greenland). 1954 - Overthrow of the government in Guatemala. 1956 - the beginning of military assistance to Tibetan insurgents in the fight against China. 1957-1958 - an attempt to overthrow the government in Indonesia. 1958 - the occupation of Lebanon. 1958 - bombing of Indonesia. 1959 - the entry of troops into Laos. 1959 - punitive operations in Haiti. 1960 - military operations in Ecuador. 1960 - invasion of Guatemala. 1960 - Support for a military coup in El Salvador. 1960-1965 - interference in the internal affairs of the Congo. Support Mobutu. 1961-1964 - a military coup in Brazil. 1961 - a terrorist war against Cuba using bacteriological weapons. 1962 - punitive operations in Guatemala. 1963-1966 - coup d'état and punitive operations in the Dominican Republic. 1964 - punitive operation in Panama. 1964 - support for the coup in Brazil. 1964-1974 - interference in the internal affairs of Greece. 1965 - a coup d'état in Indonesia, genocide. 1965-1973 - aggression against Vietnam. 1966 - intervention in Guatemala. 1967 - Support for the coup and subsequent fascist regime in Greece. 1968 - hunting for Che Guevara in Bolivia. 1971-1973 - the bombing of Laos. 1971 - American military assistance in the coup in Bolivia. 1972 - the entry of troops into Nicaragua. 1973 - coup in Chile. 1973 - terror in Uruguay. 1974 - Support for the regime of Moboth in Zaire. 1974 - preparation of aggression in Portugal. 1974 - attempted coup in Cyprus. 1975 - the occupation of Western Sahara, the introduction of troops in Morocco. 1975 - interference in the internal affairs of Australia. 1975 - an attack on Cambodia. 1975-1989 - Support for the genocide in East Timor. 1978 - military assistance to the dictator, financing of the genocide. 1979 - Support for the cannibal Bocas. 1979 - military assistance to the rebels of Yemen. 1980-1992 - military presence in El Salvador, special operations, genocide. 1980-1990 - military assistance to Iraq. A million dead in ten years. 1980 - support and funding of the Khmer Rouge. 1980 - operation "Gladio" in Italy, 86 victims. 1980 - punitive operation in South Korea. 1981 - attempted coup in Zambia. 1981 - military pressure on Libya, downed two Libyan aircraft. 1981-1990 - Contra support, terrorism, genocide. 1982 - interference in the internal affairs of Suriname. 1982-1983 - attack on Lebanon. 1982 - Support for the genocide in Guatemala. 1983 - intervention in Grenada. 1983 - interference in the internal affairs of Angola. 1984 - two Iranian planes were shot down. 1984 - mining of the bays of Nicaragua. 1985 - financing of the genocide in Chad. 1986 - an attack on Libya. 1986-1987 - attack on an Iranian ship in international waters, the destruction of the Iranian oil platform. 1986 - financing and military support of social terror, seizure of natural resources. 1987-1988 - participation in the Iraq war against Iran, the use of chemical weapons. 1988 - financing of terror and genocide in Turkey. 1988 - the explosion of a passenger plane "Pan American" over Scotland. The wine was recognized in 2003. 1988 - invasion of Honduras. 1988 - the destruction of the Iranian passenger aircraft. 1989 - intervention in Panama. 1989 - two Libyan planes were shot down. 1989 - bombing in the Philippines. 1989 - punitive operation on the Virgin Islands. 1990 - the genocide in Guatemala. 1990 - Iraq's naval blockade. 1990 - financing of the Bulgarian opposition ($ 1.5 million) 1991 - aggression against Iraq. 1991 - the bombing of Kuwait. 1992-1994 - the occupation of Somalia. 1992 - genocide and terror in the capture of the natural resources of Angola (destroyed 650,000 people). 1993-1995 - the bombing of Bosnia. 1994-1996 - terror against Iraq. 1994 - genocide in Rwanda (about 800,000 people). 1995 - the bombing of Croatia. 1998 - the destruction of a missile strike by a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan. 1998 - the bombing of Iraq. 1999 - aggression against Yugoslavia. 2001 - invasion of Afghanistan. 2002 - the entry of troops into the Philippines. 2003 - actions in Liberia. 2003 - clashes with Syrian border guards. 2004 - the entry of troops into Haiti. 2004 - Attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. 2008 - the invasion of Pakistan. 2008 - The war in South Ossetia 2011 - The war in Libya 2013 - The war in Syria 2014 - The War in Ukraine
@@reginagonzales4049 Karma isn’t real unless you’re a Buddhist, a Hindu or another Indian religion. Karma is all linked to rebirth and reincarnation. I see a lot of Christians and even Jews believe in karma and it’s all bogus. I’m a Christian myself and believing in the concept of karma goes against Christianity. Heaven and Hell is the Christian concept of “karma.” Oh, and an atheist shouldn’t believe in karma or else they’re not an “atheist.”
These accusations aren't the whole story. In all of those cases it was the CIA sticking it's nose in existing conflicts that were already killing thousands of people.
@@Bitchslapper316 Nope : these presidents made elaborate plans for democracy to be destroyed in so many countries lest it should be the initial stage to communism. As JFK himself said a new Frontier had to be declared open so as for civilization to be brought no longer to red-inhabited plains in America but to red-infested countries in the world. But he said that in so embellished phrases that it seemed almost leftist. Nixon said he was the last liberal president, meaning he had fully decided upon the progressive abandonment of democracy and social justice as a long term orientation.
@@MrMirville What do you mean "nope"? Are you trying to say the foreign countries that were already in the midst of civil war and were actively killing tens of thousands of people actually weren't? You have to be delusional if you think the U.S is the cause of all the violence. I don't know what you were trying to say with all that other gibberish but it had nothing to do with what I wrote.
Even if the general public would be aware of the warcrimes of all the presidents it wouldnt really matter. People dont care what happens on the other side of the globe as long as their own lives are improved back home.
@@Bitchslapper316 not in all of those cases, dude! In fact a lot, and I mean really a lot of these conflicts, wars, civil wars, coups and so on all around the world were started, because of actions the US took or their proxies! And if not, the US stepping in (because they had economic interests or wanted to strengthentheir position as hegemon in the region), made it a lot worse! Just think of Chile, Guatemala, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (2×), Italy, Greece, Russia and and and
@@somerandomguy7458 I think this is more important to know then learning poems about christopher columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. The curriculum in America is a joke, originally setup to educate people to be wage workers
@@avalsonline2 correct, teachers are not employed to provide knowledge, their job is to provide the next generation of wage slaves. Parents have already been conditioned.
For the moment of the two is at hand: and the time, times, and half ah time, is here; And when the fire dies down, only those that endureeth to the end, will be standing!
Not many. If people knew, they wouldn't be in every war possible. Take the war in Iraq for example. Even children in Africa who barely watch Television knew that Bush was lying. Yet USA went in, killed so many people, destroyed lives, and in the end was... oops... my bad... no weapons... nothing to see here Any other country does that and the world will be sanctioning and declaring war on it. But as they say: the powerful do as the wish, and the powerless suffer as they must
You notice Noam never ran for office and was never encouraged by a large block of voters to do so. The reason is fairly obvious, Noam believes he is close to being perfect and everyone else is Hitler. What do you think that level of narcissistic ego would do if it were the leader of the most powerful nation in history? Do ya think Noam would live up to Noam's standards, or be another Nixon/Obama?
@@hardworker5588 .... If you had perhaps read more you would understand that for many of us, including Noam we have graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
@@factstrumpprejudice6740 ---- so tell us what you're doing to live in a world without rules?? uuhhhhhhyeah -- that's what we all thought anarchy-boy. Your GED doesn't qualify you for the title of Socrates Jr.
@@hardworker5588 demanding to be governed makes you merely a slave, wage slavery is obviously the pinicule of your ambition. Happy you, your already in your heaven.
SO NOW WE KNOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT. WE, THE PEOPLE, HAVE BEEN CHEATED, LIED TO AND STRIPED OF OUR RIGHTS ON A WHOLE SALE LEVEL. WE DEMAND RETRIBUTION.
THAT, is EXACTLY the response that the Far left wants from us. Guess what? it never works. Do your thing at the polls, and pray that this election is not tampered with. 80 million Americans believe that is what happened in the last one. I agree
Chomsky is like a back seat driver telling the driver how it should be done but not contributing anything by getting his hands dirty - when did he ever run for an office or try to affect change? I would have driven him to the airport if I were an American!
@@nordique59 when has an elected politician ever contributed to bringing down the system they're a part of? Him campaigning, writing and overall educating and radicalising people has done far more good than him running for office ever could.
That’s like asking why not journalists all run for public office. His job is to research and provide information. In a free country it is up to the citizens to find that information and take it to heart. If that happens, and that’s a big if, there will be systemic change.
Stop present time discrimination!!! What is it with you people?!?! Wether it's music or television or anything whatsoever...you act like the past was perfect and anything negative you see is nothing more than a product of the present! This is 100% untrue
🔥🔥 This was the start that I can remember: Morton Downey Jr., was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show. 🔥🔥
Does anyone have recommendations for books that would take a critical eye to contemporary US imperialism on this manner? A sort of historical-critical approach to imperialism/colonialism viz the contemporary American scene?
Have you ever heard of Victor Davis Hanson? He's incredible & explains things in an understandable way. And Bill O'Reilly! Alot of Ppl don't like him because he's Conservative but he knows his History, Big-time! I heard that his residence could be a Historical Museum because he collects a plethora of military, etc artifacts & related items spanning decades. Good Luck.
Depending upon the type of leader in office such as globalists, and democrats, republicans and socialists within both party's. It's always been a crapshoot and an independent non-political outsider may have been our last chance but the evil that exists in both party's especially the leftist socialist cancel culture political correct crowd being the worst among us and eventually got away with fraud ending so far with this past election all but sealed our fate of armageddon!
@@HebdebaV of course other countries do the same stuff! Wherever evil exists evil doers do as they will, and nowhere are we free from it and that's why we must be on guard for it or it'll take us over as quick as it can gain the reigns of power, as they've just done with this past election fraud!
Dijahtal Arts we already know you have no intellectual integrity since you think marxist is synonymous with evil chomsky has said he is anti-marxist as he is critical of state power in all its forms, and also of hero worship, though he also sees the good in marxists part of the general working class movement, and of course isn’t such a baby tiny brain to think that marxist=stalinist give me any example of him being a fraud what on earth has your ridiculous idea of marxism got do with women’s sufferage? chomsky being a non-psychopath thinks all women should have a vote, something all marxists also believe strongly also on the charge of propagandist, i mean you simple havent ever heard the man speak or write of you think that, and are clearly yourself the one arguing in bad faith not chomsky disagree on the points - and i would sympathise, but to show yourself to be an mindless ideologue, that is a waste ps you imply he should leave the us to be killed for his beliefs? why? also has traveled all his life to places in peril
@Sunsetsully Awakened : Reagan took credit for the end of the cold war the way Trump now claims credit for a "good" economy. Both were / are criminals and both were/ are republicans. They stumble through everything, always looking for an opportunity to look as though they never stumble.
I loved how he said almost whispering "it's probably true" in the beginning, then move on to expose all their crimes with facts without a second thought.
The larger and stronger the country and government, the GREATER the ATROCITIES. No nation is immune. Humanity has always been and will be always predatory.
@@lisaisabella2339 European schools are not teaching their students about the crimes that have been committed in recent history by their governments. European school children are not learning about all the ins and outs of the war in Afghanistan and how European countries contributed; nor to any other ongoing conflict. No government is going to out themselves for their wrongdoings in their government-run institutions (i.e. public schools).
This is a complicated subject to discussed as contexts and on the ground facts varied and more often than not are difficult to assess immediately. Nevertheless it’s interesting and informative …
Could you imagine if other countries had the "freedom" to invade other nations without ANY repercussion and not being called "extremist, communist, terrorist, etc"? Really the US is doing more damage than the countries they are "stopping"
Having the biggest military force in the world by an order of magnitude gives you the privilege to do whatever the fuck you want and not face any consequences.
Just listening to the list of horrible historical events is terrifying, what about experiencing it ???!!!! And all of these atrocities are after WWII !! What did we learn ??!!!
Noam Chomsky knows these facts and presents them clearly. Some will be angry, some will stay asleep, some will hate that he exposed these crimes in our name.
@Jack Coleman I'm guessing you're american. You yanks have been force fed anti-communist propaganda since 1917. The irony of course is that in the US you've had socialism for the rich and free market for everyone else for decades
@@wowrude I'm not American, but you have to be willfully blind not to see the vast pile of murdered corpses present day communists are standing on when they spout their Utopian propaganda. Open your eyes.
@@RADVIX313 lol I’m Canadian too, idiot 😂 I was actually showing the 2 face of American politics using Saddam as an example. Nice speech though…pat yourself on the back
CHRONOLOGY OF MASS KILLINGS DURING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966-1976) Date: 25 August, 2011. Auteur: Yongyi Song Chronology of Mass Killings during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) Song Yongyi The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a historical tragedy launched by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It claimed the lives of several million people and inflicted cruel and inhuman treatments on hundreds of million people. However, 40 years after it ended, the total number of victims of the Cultural Revolution and especially the death toll of mass killings still remain a mystery both in China and overseas. For the Chinese communist government, it is a highly classified “state secret,” although they do maintain statistics for the so-called “abnormal death” numbers all over China. Nevertheless, the government, realizing that the totalitarian regime and the endless power struggles in the CCP Central Committee (CCP CC) were the root cause of the Cultural Revolution, has consistently discounted the significance of looking back and reflecting on this important period of Chinese history. They even forbid Chinese scholars from studying it independently and discourage overseas scholars from undertaking research on this subject in China. Owing to difficulties that scholars in and outside China encounter in accessing “state secrets,” the exact figure of the “abnormal death” has become a recurring debate in the field of China studies. Estimates by various scholars range from one-half to eight million. According to Rummel’s 1991 analysis of, the figure should be around 7.73 million (Rummel, 1991: 253). In the following year, however, Harvard scholar John K. Fairbank arrived at a rough estimate of around one million (Fairbank, 1992: 402). Several years later, Ding Shu, an overseas Chinese scholar, disagreed with Rummel’s conclusion by using diverse analyses, and estimated the figure to be around two to three million (Ding, 1999: 214). Recently, Andrew Walder and Su Yang contributed a much more detailed analysis of the death toll in China’s rural areas based upon statistics drawn from 1,500 Chinese county annals. In their estimate, “the number killed [was] between 750,000 and 1.5 million, with roughly equal numbers permanently injured” (Walder and Su, 2003). In a newly published biography of Mao Zedong by two UK authors, the estimated totality of death is discussed: “at least 3 million people died violent deaths and post-Mao leaders acknowledged that 100 million people, one-ninth of the entire population, suffered in one way or another” (Chang and Halliday, 2005: 547). Interestingly, the reporter of a Hong Kong-based political journal released the classified official statistics, according to which nearly two million Chinese were killed and another 125 million were either persecuted or “struggled against”(subjected to “struggle sessions”) as a result of the state-sponsored killings and atrocities committed during the Cultural Revolution (Cheng Min, 1996: 21-22). The average death toll based on the aforementioned six investigators’ figures is nearly 2.95 million. Considering that the Cultural Revolution took place in China during a period when it was not invaded by other states, the number of victims estimated above is extremely high. The widespread phenomenon of mass killings in the Cultural Revolution consisted of five types: 1) mass terror or mass dictatorship encouraged by the government - victims were humiliated and then killed by mobs or forced to commit suicide on streets or other public places; 2) direct killing of unarmed civilians by armed forces; 3) pogroms against traditional “class enemies” by government-led perpetrators such as local security officers, militias and mass; 4) killings as part of political witch-hunts (a huge number of suspects of alleged conspiratorial groups were tortured to death during investigations); and 5) summary execution of captives, that is, disarmed prisoners from factional armed conflicts. The most frequent forms of massacres were the first four types, which were all state-sponsored killings. The degree of brutality in the mass killings of the Cultural Revolution was very high. Usually, the victims perished only after first being humiliated, struggled and then imprisoned for a long period of time. The entire turbulent decade during which the waves of mass killings occurredis divided into four time periods: I. “The Red Terror” (August -- December 1966) II. “All-round Civil War” in China (January - December 1967) III. Killing for and by the New Organs of Power (1968-1971) IV. Endless Killing (1972-1977) I. “THE RED TERROR” (AUGUST -- DECEMBER 1966) The very beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China immediately led to violent mass chaos in June 1966. As indicated by a militant editorial on June 1 in the People’s Daily, an official guideline for the Cultural Revolution, the main purpose of this unprecedented political campaign was to “Sweep Away All Cow-Demons and Snake-Spirits,” which not only included traditional class enemies such as the “Five Black Categories” (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists), but also “capitalist-roaders in the Party” (cadres) and “reactionary academics” (teachers and other intellectuals). Mao’s strategy for the Cultural Revolution included using forces both within and outside the Party to defeat his rivals in the Party and to bolster his own primacy, all in a manner inseparably linked to his political idealism. Mao and the Party Central stirred up the passions of thousands of rebellious youth in Beijing middle schools and colleges, where students began to establish Red Guards to challenge and attack school authority and teachers. During the short period of June- July 1966, mass violence spread over campuses, where teachers and other educators were abusively subjected to “struggle sessions,” humiliated, and beaten by fervent students. Despite the fact that the Chinese government had received urgent requests to curtail the wave of violence that was unfolding every day, Mao and the Party Central did not want to address the issue, as they “appeared to view it as a necessary feature of rebellion, and the suffering of victims as acceptable collateral damage” (Walder, 2009: 148). On July 28, 1966, Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife and a key figure of the Central Cultural Revolution Group, conveyed Mao’s instruction regarding mass violence at a students’ rally: “If good people beat bad people, it serves them right; if bad people beat good people, the good people achieve glory; if good people beat good people, it is a misunderstanding; without beatings, you do not get acquainted and then no longer need to beat them.”. In other words, Mao thought the government “should turn a blind eye to violence as an inevitable by-product” of the Red Guard mobilization (Walder, 2009: 149). In August, the main target of the Red Guards’ agitation shifted from campuses to the society at large. Xie Fuzhi, the Minister of Public Security, mirrored Mao’s attitude. In an important internal meeting, he directed all police stations and other security forces to assist Red Guards in identifying “reactionary” households for searching, beating and deportations. On August 22, at the climax of the mass terror in Beijing and other major cities, the CCP CC issued a directive entitled “Stipulations of the Ministry of Public Security forbidding the use of police force to suppress the revolutionary student movements,” which fueled the violence and put the targets of the Red Guards, several thousand people, in a virtually defenseless position. As a result, a significantly increased mass violence was perpetrated against those residents with “bad” family backgrounds: their houses were searched, their personal properties confiscated and then the entire households were expelled from the city to the countryside. A mob of thousands of Red Guards also roamed the cities’ streets and attacked any person whom they believed to have hobbies and consumer habits associated with the bourgeois class; the targeted individuals were then subjected to violent “struggle sessions.” When the waves of unrestricted violence swept over major cities all over China, ruthless mass killings ensued. Chronology
@@davidemmet7343 my man based qnd woke I hate 'liberals' say shit like Mao is the best or China made it as a succesful Commuist country ppl like infrared something (streamer) god damn annoying
@@ihatenwo Agreed. These leftist idiots have never read history so they have nothing to compare anything to except their own privileged lives in our country. In addition the same pieces of shit in our CIA who have committed war crimes are the same ones who are running the show with Bush, Biden and Obama. Look into John Brennan, he was originally a communist (today they are now just fascists) who covered up the CIA'S use of torture.
I called his office once when I was 15 or 16 for a school project. He actually let me interview him. Really nice guy
@Firm Fiasco 7 or 8 years ago now, it was kind of unreal! A man of his intelligence with what I imagine would be a busy schedule as well took time out of his day to talk to a couple kids for about an hour. It was awesome
Wow :)
That’s great!
@@TomorrowWeLive There is not a single data/fact-based refutation of Chomsky's positions in that article that shows him "denying and justifying genocides". On the other hand, there are ample cases of the author of that drivel having been embroiled in academic malpractice and hoax himself, on subjects from whitewashing crimes against Australian Aborigines to publishing ideologically motivated fake stories on GMO food.
Linking complete rubbish like a good-intentioned critical reader while all it is represents is a desperate attempt by a nobody to smear someone is shameful at the very least.
@@tripper3737 his smart he could do his work faster than an average person
That was the most relaxing description of war crimes I’ve ever heard
That's Chomsky for you. He's a living political ASMR video.
Public international law is what states do.
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it's a fact of life. No need to freak out about the truth.
@@kofferfischii - unfortunately, many people in the US government are under the impression that "Foreign Relations" means "Fucking Other Countries."
And 8 years later to this video nothing has changed...
In a 1000 years time if Humans are still alive it'll continue, humanity needs a massive catastrophe to evolve or risk extinction.
Because humanity has chosen keyboards over guns
@@charlesbhustlin they tried, government guns still won.
The list of countries the US invaded since WWII "ended". Is longer than most rock groups tour stops. I wish we had leaders instead of rulers and that people had brains and backbone.
"We are the most warlike nation in the history of the world" - US President Jimmy Carter
@Steffan R Blanco Are you disputing what Carter said?
@Steffan R Blanco The evidence in support of US President Jimmy Carter's statement of US war mongering is strong. Since the end of WW2 the US led the illegal invasion of Iraq that was based on deliberate false pretenses and manipulated intelligence where over a million innocent Iraqi civilians were murdered, waged war against Vietnam, Korea, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan that killed over 70,000 innocent civilians, Lebanon, Laos, Bosnia, Serbia, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and others.
By it's own admission the US has launched at least 251 military interventions AFTER the USSR collapsed in 1991. That does not include still classified covert missions which the US has not yet admitted to.
In what way is Carter wrong?
Do you really take into account what Carter ever said?
@@Rey-yc7vz Are disputing Carter's statement? If so you have NO idea about history and American war mongering.
Carter was not too smart
It's truly terrifying how only small portion of this is taught in schools
yet crt is ‘indoctrination’, the right has been indoctrinating american children for years
@@samsharma3659 CRT is indoctrination. Both parties have been brainwashing for generations.
@@samsharma3659 CRT is absolutely indoctrination of the same level as radical political indoctrination. I wouldn't attribute these things not being taught to direct indoctrination or a campaign of lies, but just to an incompetent education system. If it was actually a forced lie and indoctrination, you wouldn't literally just be able to read a book about it or google it...
@@samsharma3659 both those who push crt and the right wing indoctrinate children.
@@samsharma3659 crt lmfao. Gtfo shill
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell
Lidia Goldfeld you get that from a fortune cookie, or public school?
Looks like she got it from George Orwell.
Fact (n) - a thing that is known or proved to be true.
Fact (n) merriam-webster:
a: something that has actual existence
b: an actual occurrence
It's very Machiavellian.
That is mixtape fire right there.
You have to respect not only his knowledge, but Chomsky's incessant commitment to inconvenient truth-telling. To speak candidly about the evils and atrocities committed in the name of western imperialism so openly exemplifies a level of audacity seldom seen and is entirely commendable. We should praise his work and thank him for his contributions.
I neeed to respect a guy who is trashing on all US presidents?? Does anyone realize what 'Chomsky's real agenda is? he hates the US. and you like this guy?? (I don't) Socialist-marxist political activist. Now your friend
Damn right, and I 100% champion his work.
Respect to The Honorable Thomas Sankara
@@Kasate_Berhan23 Very honorable. May he rest peacefully.
The IS is not and never has been an Imperialist country. Maybe you should look up the definition of Imperialism!!
I'm shoked Mr. Chomsky has never been censored or even assassinated. This man has been spitting facts ever since the 60's
What would it achieve. It was already out there. Did he ever whistle blow?
They're trying to ruin his name now by linking him with Epstein and his Island
Being friends with epstein might have helped. Man this still breaks my head.
You can get assassinated more than once? I think you could have just said he was never censored nor did he die yet.
He hasn't said anything that isn't already known. Now if he were to try and publish top secret government documents is another matter all together
And he didn't even get to Bush II and Obama, let that sink in...
Arthur James Schildgen like what?
Arthur James Schildgen oh really? So I would hope that you would also be highly opposed of those millions of incarcerations under the Obama administration as well right? Yknow since America is about equality? Obama has deported more illegal aliens than Trump has. Trumps deportations are majority criminals such as sex traffickers. Listen Obama was also against illegal immigration and openly denounced illegal immigration in his rallies, speeches, and his time during senator, nobody called him racist nor were their meltdowns over his millions in deportations. If you want to make this a case of pity for those immigrants than you should acknowledge the issue of both presidents, not just focus all that hate on one guy due to your opposing political views. What is communicated poorly and twisted negatively is trumps stance on immigration. He is FOR Legal immigrants, has nothing against them and has helped out many, what he won’t tolerate is those illegal immigrants who abuse the welfare system, have anchor babies, and even use false identification for work. There have been cases reported that illegal aliens have used the documents of deceased Americans for work, which frankly is disgusting. And before you talk about the border cages, most of those photos and the initiative of such harsh treatment started during the Obama administration. So please kind sir(hope I’m not assuming your gender) do not be fueled by prejudice and hatred, I share your dislike for the harsh treatment of those illegals but you cannot simply believe this is trumps fault their is only so much pity that can be given. I’ll end my response to your false rhetoric by giving you a real life example. If I’m driving intoxicated while my child is in the car and I get stopped, then surely my child will be separated from me as I go to jail. The same outcome can be viewed for those illegals who get deported, if you get deported the you can’t expect special treatment, coming here illegally is against the law. End of story
@Arthur James Schildgen those cages were built under the Obama administration
@@Sugarman96 GOP talking point that is nonsense.
Jose Perez Supplying weapons for saudi arabia to commit a genocide in yemen. Increase drone strikes 400% from the obama era. Accepting saudi emoluments through hotel businesses.
Every time he says , " I don't think we even need to discuss , Reagan , Nixon ect. , I wanna say , unfortunately you do. The average person (American) is quite unaware of these crimes committed by there elected "leaders".
Even if you documented it in exquisite detail with incontrovertable evidence, they still would not believe it. The herd live and die by their propaganda and made-for-tv imagined reality.
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
just pay tax
exactly my thought as well... here I sit an idiot because no one wants the truth, cant handle the truth.
Everyone knows, they just don't care. Just like Trump supporters.
AMERICAN IGNORACE IS A BLISS TO THEIR PRESIDENTS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY !
As an Indonesian who lived through the sixties and not knowing what had happened then in Jakarta and outer islands of Java and now hearing these from this scholar, an initial natural anger against the US in me subsided to the feeling of pity to the CIA and their coward operatives, and gratefulness to this man … We must learn from history, a true history calmly and with wisdom so as to summon our hope of NOT repeating it again and NEVER support any regimes who may instigate these kinds of attrocities. Let us build a better world, a better international order and justice for all world citizen …. 🙏🏾.
Keep daydreaming
It's worse now then ever
He's just saying his beliefs as facts. Also trust me when I say Indonesia can't get mad about a few islands lol
Justice is stitched into our fiber. Justification is from God. We also know right from wrong. We refuse the knowing when we disregard it.
Unless humanity does away with this monetary system and shuts down technology right now, peace will never be. AI has taken over at this point. Hell, maybe it has always been. All this seems done by design to me. History has been changed in my own short time here. Humanity is in very grave danger it seems.
0:10 Eisenhower
1:36 Kennedy
3:02 Johnson
3:31 Nixon
3:39 Ford
5:13 Carter
7:17 Reagan
7:44 Bush #1
9:32 Clinton
11:32 Bush #2
Thanks
Love this video and all and if anything it's a brilliant breakdown of about 50 years of near-complete corruption in US government, but he forgot Truman. I'm pretty sure he started with Truman in his original 1990 lecture.
Obama &Hillary Clinton should be included for creating ISIS.
Obama and Biden as well
@@Hardees903don’t forget orange Hitler
This interview was a while back, but even now at 87, Chomsky has a memory like a steel trap.
Stephen Nielsen I wish that he was immortal because he is one of the rare people who always talk about the bitter truth
His writings, videos, and audios will persist for our common enrichment, but I will probably cry when we lose him.
It's because he is constantly reading and researching. He keeps his brain very very active
TC Just TC : An Academic of the highest integrity and highly respected all over the Planet ! A great voice !
Ayman B. Wish he and dawkins were in their 50's
The problem now is half the country would hear this interview and say, “He hates America!”
*Exhibit A: the comments below
So very true
people would've still said this at the time
Am I right in thinking that the classic hysterical "He hates America!" dates back to WWI or to before that?
@@poncccceolymusica998 I think it’s a post ww2 thing. That’s when America entered the Cold War McCarthy era and you became an enemy of the state for speaking out of line
@@WillJL20 Interesting.
I know that the Committee on Public Information arrested people (the likes of Eugene Debs) during WWI for speaking against the war. I'm wondering when that attitude really started to leak out into the public sphere. The McCarthy Era angle makes sense.
We(I'm Canadian) need more intelligent,calm people like Chomsky. I'm surprised the CIA haven't tried to do him in. Truthful words to make the powerful squirm.
No one’s squirming. Clearly
He is long gone dead.
Did he lived in communism to talk about or just fantasizing about it.
If his views become more popular and create any difficulty for the CIA, you can damn sure count on his demise from CIA lead poisoning.
@@user-ek9go3kf2w Chomsky didn't like the USSR from what I remember and he actually considers himself an old school Libertarian (not idiot Ayn Rand "greed is good" bunch).
His memory and knowledge is insane. What a truly wise person.
He's not knowledabgle and wise. He's a nazi apologist. He clearly wants to give ammo to the same people that call it a hypocritical Kangaroo court. He does understand what Nuremburg trials were about. It has nothing to do with taking over countries or war. That isn't why nazi germany was on trial. There was a minor charge that would have been dropped if the case came forward since invading isn't a crime. The reason the nazis were on trial for the war crimes, in camps, POWs, Civilians, Genocide of jew. And it's ironic because Noam Chomsky describes himself as a socialist. Which is as Goebbels said are all anti semetic. Since Marx Wrote the jewish Question which inspired hitler. About the cabal of jewish capitalism running the world in the stock market.
His memory and knowledge are* insane ...
His memory and knowledge are very FLAWED!!!!!!. John. F. Kennedy ENDED THE VIETNAM WAR. N.S.A.M.# 263 Signed by J.F.K. IN October of 63 . History. PEACE AND LOVE ❣️
@@Steven-nj8le It was Nixon who pulled the US out of Vietnam
@@Steven-nj8le 🤦🏽♂️
Remember, it’s only a war crime if you lose the war.
You only get done for stealing if you get caught
@@ironsideeve2955 Or the News Media decide to tell the truth ?They are all in it.Never going to happen.
Not always.
Alot of Axis war criminals were let off the hook to help their captors. Such as using former Wehrmacht officers to rebuilt both German armies, and use of scientists in various programs that mostly went nowhere (such as pardoning Unit 731 members or Nazi camp doctors for ultimately useless infomation).
We like to think that most of the Nazis were killed by our justice system, when really most of these men lived relatively luxurious lives, and had no apologies or redemption for their crimes.
People say history is written by the winners, but I've come to see that as a generality instead of a rule.
It's not a crime if you do it to evil people.
@@Williamatics … Yes it is. And who defines evil? America is an evil nation. Is it ok to kill everyone here? Considering the continual decline of the American Empire you should be begging the world to abide by laws you’re saying don’t matter. To have mercy, basically
How does Chomsky speak in lowercase?
His voice is calming, makes me more concentrated.
@bee he is covertly paid by fake democratic aka liberal Leeches.
@@goodlife1150 you obviously don't know who Chomsky is. He criticizes the hawkish and corrupt liberals on a regular basis since decades.
😀😃😄😁 please edit to uppercase 😄
@@goodlife1150 chomsky fucking hates liberals, what the fuck are u smoking
Yep , the worst that could happen ...is still happening .
Presidents come and go but the military complex behind all of them is the real threat. What can we do when they aren't accountable to the voters?
Absolutely spot on comment. Thanks!
Who IS accountable to the voters, seriously?
Every company that has stockholders.@@pitchforkpeasant6219
Quit volunteering to fight their wars.
@@alwillkthey’ll bring back conscription
I would like to hear an update with Bush 2, Obama, and Trump
Yes we all would.!!!!
Obama might be the worst. And I’m not on either side of the “political spectrum”
Jack D, well he did block congress when congress voted to stop aiding the saudi-led genocide of yemenese civilians and soldiers. and is escalating tensions with iran.
@Jack D Migrant children have been put in cages and the entire situation is being poorly dealt with.
@Jack D Never said Trump was solely responsible. And your making assumptions of my character which you have no place in doing, either way, I wasn't aware that it was happening under Obama and it's horrible regardless of which President is overseeing it, though Donald Trump is factually perpetuating it. In result "continuing the trend" as you said.
I love the interviewer's change in tone and body language between the first and second question.
When he asks about Eisenhower, he sounds like he thinks the question is vaguely ridiculous, and probably expects Chomsky to qualify his position or dodge the question.
By the time he asks about Kennedy, his demeanor has already done a 180.
Yeah, he’s being at least a bit facetious when he asks about Eisenhower, he’s completely genuine when asking about Kennedy
Because Tom was talking.
Because Tom was talking.
For any Americans that wonder "Why are they mad at us? What did we do?" It's all the stuff left out of AP US History or most regular history classes.
Instead, we're taught in US History high school class that ALL problems ended with The Civil Rights Act, or WWII when we bombed Japan into peace or something. And the current enemy can't be understood, ever, whether it's Iran, Russia, China...
I don’t think any of us wonder
We know
Wow what amazes me the most he said everything from his own mind not from anything written down
Track Listing
0:12 Eisenhower
1:37 Kennedy
3:02 Johnson
3:32 Nixon
3:40 Ford
5:15 Carter
7:18 Reagan
7:46 HW Bush
9:45 Clinton
Only four Democrats.
ANDROLOMA and what are you trying to imply?
@@ANDROLOMA dude, this is literally every post war president.
@@jayperez495 No implication; just summation.
@@TRICROTIC1 Very astute of you to notice.
"If somebody did that to us, we'd regard it as bad news."
You mean Fake news😬 Yikes we are uneducated 😢. We and only us the American people are at fault, because out of fear of others we give our presidents and elected officials to much power and treat them like gods.
@@inocencianieves9909 When anyone else does it, it's called terrorism, but when America does it, it's called saving the free world.
@@Saztog1425 totally agree😢
@@Saztog1425 when America does it it’s only to appease our Israeli puppet masters so they don’t decimate our dollar that has been worthless ever since they stole all of the gold that once backed it.
10:20
I’ve never felt so relaxed while listening to topics such a genocide, imperialism and war crimes.
Me rompe el corazón. Como raza humana debemos dejar de apoyar líderes totalitarios y necesitamos dejar que los pueblos del mundo evolucionen a su ritmo.
"If the Nuremberg principles were applied, every post World War II president would be indictable."
The victor never learns a damn thing from their actions.
Noam critic of everything ---- solver of nothing
@@hardworker5588 implying theorists have to solve anything
@@TheMoonchild12 ---- at least you admit critics don't make things better . . . and yet you worship at their feet. Says quite a bit about your logic circuits.
@@hardworker5588 Yeah sure I worship theorists. I say my prayers to Chomsky at the morning, and to Foucault before sleeping. And of course I ask for the blessing of the Frankfurt School before and after any meal. Very cool religion!
@@TheMoonchild12 --- you do realize how this ends ??
"He who controls the past, controls the future...and he who controls the present, controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984
Thats god
I dont think he would of made all these horrific actions if it was
Chomsky supports the Orwellian commies.
@@tedmccarron chomsky is a socialist. And George Orwell was a socialist as well. 1984 was about fascist totalitarian regimes.
@@tedmccarron
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Do you even have a 🧠
Unintentional ASMR at its finest
This video is a gold mine
He basically summed up 50 years of American imperialism in 11 minutes. I love it.
Search on UA-cam . ' Noam Chomsky : ' US is World's Biggest Terrorist . '
Not to love!!!!
You mean OTHER THAN the years (which, apparently history doesn't really want) Nixon was President!
I think you mean American liberation
What did he say about the un-jabbed? He is just another globalist tiny hat pushing globalist tiny hat agendas.
In its more than 240-year-long history since declaring independence on July 4, 1776, there have only been 16 years in which the US was not at war. From the end of World War II (WWII) to 2001, the US has initiated 201 of the 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations, accounting for over 80 percent of total wars fought.
That is a staggering, horrific statistics! What makes it even worse is the fact that most of the wars between countries that the US are supposedly uninvolved in are actually also instigated by the US despite not being listed as such!
Wow
But they Blast Other Countries as War Mongers !
The end of WWII to 2001 would be 56 years, not 16. (1945-2001).
@@AndyBlanchfield perhaps from ww2 to Vietnam is more correct
I love this guy. He’s still alive too!! I hope he loves at least another 10 when he would turn 104.
Chomsky is a world treasure and should live eternally.
It's only a war crime if America says so.
As an Indonesian, im surprised how many times he mentioned Indonesia. Sadly, those are true. Every history books in school only tell East Timor integration in 1975 and breakaway in 1999. A gap of 25 years that most dont know.
Hi, do you have any source on his Eisenhauer terror reference ?
Manufacturing Consent, the documentary on UA-cam, has a pretty lengthy section on it I believe. It was so depressing that I really haven't watched it since it came out a LONG time ago.
@Cintinu Europe has caused 100x of times more damae than the Americans in Africa, unfortunately the US is trying to ppay catch up
@@hansfrankfurter2903 now talk about the 100 million people murdered under Communism and millions more starved and the millions greedy socialist Marxist theives stole from. This is communist propaganda
@@mikearchibald744 now talk about the 100 million people murdered under Communism and millions more starved and the millions greedy socialist Marxist theives stole from. This is communist propaganda
As an independent voter, I don't ever see any US president, former or otherwise ever going to jail. If it takes 397 police officers an hour to stop one 18 year old shooter and the CEO of a pharmaceutical company walking away with $926 million of taxpayer money our democracy is beyond broken.
He did not say anything about Haiti
This is not a democracy its a constitutional republic with rule of law ,which no one is following.a democracy is a problem then its majority rules its all Human emotions not a rule of law.
Well said
The deepstate isnt going to arrest itself
How do you think you ever lived in a democracy when even you had to petition the blood sucking cabal for the right to vote and choose who leads you? They also moved the goal post at that time and made it no matter who you vote for, because whoever you vote for is only a member of that same cabal. Is their no one who possesses any critical thinking?🤔 I'm just asking... You can either address my question with thought and reflection or get triggered or leave it alone.
Thanks to you and yours!
Chomsky gets so many things wrong about JFK and has such a warped perspective on him that I'd have to write several paragraphs to correct all his inaccuracies.
JFK ultimately ended up avoiding War at least six times during his administration when pressured by the military hardliners and was pulling out of Vietnam as of October 11th 1963 (nsam 263) which called for the complete withdrawal of all military personnel from Vietnam by 1965 and the first thousand troops home in December of 63 something Chomsky dismisses time and time again. Most of the cia's raids against Cuba and attempts to get Castro were not authorized by Kennedy but were being continued against his orders.
Adorable how it seems like the interviewer keeps throwing presidents at Chomsky, as if he's expecting him to slip up and go "okay, well maybe not all of them", but every time he gives not just one but about three or four different indictable offenses by each and every name thrown at him (with the exception of Nixon, which he seemed to figure was self-explanatory)
lol he’s not throwing presidents at him randomly he’s making Chomsky back up his claim by going over each one
@@CoolDrifty Randomness was never mentioned in their comment but nice strawman attempt.
Mike “but nice strawman attempt”, *tips fedora*. God people like you are insufferable
When he says, "hold on we'll get there..." it's Noam Chomsky, wth is wrong with you?
@Chris Schneider You upset, buddy?
I’m Indonesian. But we were never told this history in schools. What a mess 😣
I'm American, and this history was also untold to us as well.
@@ANDROLOMA I think I'm starting to notice some kind of a pattern...
In germany also nothing, we also didnt learn that there was a genocide before the Holocaust, in Namibia.. its slowly getting aknowledged..
But i wanted to say be careful in Indonesia, i dont how the situation is, but it might be dangerous to speak about these things.. bless you
The whole world needs to wake up to USA atrocities.... From genocide of native Indians to current farce in London, Assange... Trying to extradite him to stop him from telling the world about corrupt usa...
It would not have happened if so many affected timor leste genocide. Do you know why indonesia invade timor leste because there was a civil war of timor leste and then indonesia invade timor leste became a supply of weapons of the US and western countries indonesian military against timor leste and more, let's say indonesian special force elite or kopassus became training of the US special force.
ua-cam.com/video/s8mP2jN6bJI/v-deo.html
Thank you, for reporting 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
After sitting through the obligatory Shein ad, it was refreshing(?) to see someone speak so freely. One wonders how this is able to persist if true?!
How do you retain such knowledge???? When this man passes on, we will have lost a tremendous mind.......
creeper46 yes sir
creeper46 He's such an inspiration. I hope I can be half the man as chomsky
creeper46 that has been one of my biggest worries for years now! He has influenced me more than all academics combined!
nitwit beta male closet commie posing as an intellectual.
really strong criticism you got there, love how you backed it up with plenty of evidence
These are just checkable facts.
How much more is there that "We" don't know?
Read the article “ America’s two week engagement with Khomeini”. Google it. This wasn’t even all the facts so Chomsky was rather brief and very nice to Carter to put it lightly . You’ll need a bottle of whisky to go through this article.
@R V Here's a joke:
Married couple decides to spend the holiday separately. When they rejoin the wife asks:
"Did you cheat on me?" And the husband admits "Yes, twice. With a receptionist, and a waitress. You?"
"What a coincidence, I cheated on you twice as well; with a local football team and the local water polo team."
Eisenhower also helped and funded rhe murder of Congo’s first real leader. Patrice Lumumba
So much more that you don't know
Mate because you don't wana leave your bigot bowel 🌹
P2!
The crimes of the passengers on the Lolita Express
Every time I finish a Chomsky book I learn so much more about the world. This man is one of the most important American intellectuals in history.
This is so different from hearing people like Sam Harris talk. No weird analogies, no hidden insults, no attacks on Cenk Uygur's intelligence, no rationalizing of purposefully outrageous statements, just facts, facts and more facts.
Chomsky isnt always about just facts. Hes more philosophical mostly
***** Philosophy can and should be fact-based. This video is a good example of that.
Harris never should have done more than look at a talk like this, realize that politics is not his forte, and stick with what he knows.
RatatRatR Absolutely
+Forkbeard I largely aggree. But I think Chomsky's point was not that leaders violate rules, the point was that American leaders violate the same rules they set up to convict the nazis. It's like a teacher chewing gum while punishing a student for chewing gum. The problem is not the illegality, but the hypocricy.
The fact that this courageous truthteller has lived so long without the CIA bumping him off is something of a miracle.
That's because he's not that well known.
When ones audience is small and not reaching young open minds you're allowed to live.
The CIA has better things to do than kill Noam Chomsky
Don't forget that "Ike" murdered 1.5 million POWs by refusing them food and water.
And intentionally leveled black neighborhoods with the interstate highway act
“Kennedy was one of the worst.” Damn
I thought the opposite and maybe that's why he died
Kennedy at least tried to end the federal reserve
@@djcogdill9263 so they keep telling us
@Uni BlackSister Whatever you say. This is the first I'm hearing of anyone saying it's fake
@Uni BlackSister Could you give me a link to the exact video? After seeing who G Edward Griffin is I believe you. I've heard of G Edward Griffin and heard him talk about The Monster From Jekyll Island before, but forgot that was the guy's name
If these presidents were indictable so are the members of Congress in support of these attacks, and the military leaders who carried them out.
Garth Caesar well I mean yes but sometimes even congress was unaware or lied to about presidents waging wars and funding genocides. For example during the Iran Contra scandal, Congress was completely in the dark and lied to by Reagan, Bush, and Abrams who committed genocide in Latin America.
They are indictable because they receive money for re-election for signing an agreement to support Israel. That’s treason. In fact those funds are taxpayer funds as well.
@@thegeopoliticalforecaster2994 then when they found out....did nothing....as usual.
@@thegeopoliticalforecaster2994 then congress is guilty of negligence.
Chad Simmons held hearings and sentenced quite a few high ranking members for counts of misconduct and criminality ... unfortunately Bush pardoned them all
Great program..!!
Noam Chomsky is an absolute legend
Malcom X was right in his Ballot or the Bullet speech when he described Democrats and Republicans as, one is a wolf and the other is a wolf in sheep clothing!
Yep.
Rip Malcolm X
If more people, of all races, read X, things might actually progress.
Too bad that right-wingers often edit that speech for propaganda purposes
Truth is what is lacking in the political system, For the GOP lying is a prerequisite for getting elected.
As an educator, I promise all you in the comment section that I will be showing this to all of my classes going forward and they will know who Noam Chomsky is :)
I solemnly, swear to try and make a difference in our upcoming generation(s)
Here is an interesting reference for you. Much more of what Chomsky says is fully documented there.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
Thank you
Does your organization compel anyone to pay for it - the seeds of evil are everywhere.
@trevor mcgaw For some the brain dies long before the remainder of the body. This disorder is called socialism .
Bruce Frykman Funny commenting that under a video which is about a socialist.
I appreciate his comments.
Imagine that...
Also, imagine supporting the Presidents who committed crimes against the American people.
Was lucky enough to hear this genius lecture in person while I was in college. Chomsky's insights taught me to question everything, especially when it comes to political propaganda and the commercial pollution of huge corporations.
How long was the speech was it more in-depth than in the video?
@@garrettsummerlin3546 It was a brilliant 90 minute guest lecture back in 1990, that inspired me to pursue his teachings. Unfortunately it wasn't recorded, but it changed my intellectual life.
Unfortunate that this information is not much more widely disseminated by the media. Would love to see DW-Germany do a documentary series on this topic and highlight such for each presidency.
Did he ever speak about NaziRussia?
"Genius" is a bit much.
And this is why we need to study history. Horrors happened during the holocaust. But the U.S. government has waged its own share of terror: Central America, Chile, Argentina, Cuba, Iran, Cambodia, Indonesia and the countries where we were visibly fighting--Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. These stories are painful, they are distressing, but we need to hear them and learn from them, because these are the sorts of things that have shaped the world we live in today.
Whites did not experience holocaust.
Indigenous black global population has experience holocaust
and
whites are still trying to kill us.
I will never drum up any concern for that fairytale in Germany.
Even if it did really happen,
It’s a tear drop in the Ocean compared to what has happens
to black indigenous people
👉🏽around the world🕵🏽♂️
And their involvement with coups in other countries as well as palestine affects
Strangely, however, when the effects of American involvement are readily visible, it's always the American side that is better, freer, richer: East vs West Germany; North vs South Korea; Taiwan vs China; eastern vs western Europe. And it's always the anti-American side that is a brutal and impoverished dictatorship: Cuba, Nicaragua, Syria, Venezuela, etc etc etc. And still millions try to sneak in every year into this land of evil of ours from the various paradise dreamlands.
This is 8 yrs ago ...many more atrocities have been added..
Sri Lanka too. Western countries support tamil terrorists who massacred innocent people in their villages.
Great history lesson
How could something so evil be so uninteresting
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry." Frank Zappa
Tom & Inga Foley Military industrial complex
Both Sagittarians lels
@@plasmakitten4261 And you live in What country that is so much better at government and regulations? Why don't you tell everyone where you live that is just so good at "regulating capitalism"?
Chompsky isn’t a Politician, he’s a Political Theorist
I heard "Hollywood is the entertainments division of the military industrial complex" when you look at what comes out of Hollywood its all propaganda. Good old nice guy Tom Hanks presenting a very likeable face to very likeable USA
It sounds like the worst bedtime story ever told
"Worst" is a little unfair, "one of the scariest" is what I'd go with. :)
You ever read a german bedtime story?
@@shengaorenhasser no
And then there were none as the world succumbed to a nuclear winter...the end.
538 people are common sense thinkers. 🙂
It's the Law of the Land - the rich get richer. Did you honestly think that we elected these guys from Column A or Column B because they're such knights in shining armor? You don't toe the line, you don't get in the game.
Everyone should see this video.
It's just one big lie. See the video on youtube or google *"The Top 200 Lies of Noam Chomsky"*
Kristen Michelle: Hmmm...thanks for the referral. I will follow up on your suggestion and I'm sure I'll find the truth somewhere in the middle.
You're probably right. LOL :)
It should be mandatory viewing for all 1st graders.
U.S Terrorism around the globe after 100 million natives
1840 - invasion of Fiji.
1841 - genocide on the island of Upolu (Drummond).
1843 - invasion of China.
1846-1848 war with Mexico.
1846 - aggression against the New Granada (Colombia).
1849 - shelling of Indochina.
1852 - invasion of Argentina.
1853-1856 - invasion of China.
1853 - invasion of Argentina and Nicaragua.
1854 - the destruction of the Nicaraguan city of San Juan del Norte.
1854 - an attempt to capture the Hawaiian Islands.
1855 - invasion and coup in Nicaragua.
1855 - invasion of Fiji and Uruguay.
1856 - invasion of Panama.
1858 - intervention in Fiji, genocide.
1858 - invasion of Uruguay.
1859 - attack on the Japanese fort of Taku.
1859 - invasion of Angola.
1860 - invasion of Panama.
1863 - punitive expedition to Shimonoseki (Japan).
1864 - military expedition to Japan.
1865 - invasion of Paraguay, genocide, 85% of the population destroyed.
1865 - intervention of Panama, coup d'état.
1866 - an attack on Mexico.
1866 - punitive expedition to China.
1867 - attack on the Midway Islands.
1868 - repeated invasion of Japan.
1868 - invasion of Uruguay and Colombia.
1874 - the entry of troops into China and Hawaii.
1876 - invasion of Mexico.
1878 - attack on Samoa.
1882 - the entry of troops into Egypt.
1888 - an attack on Korea.
1889 - punitive expedition to Hawaii.
1890 - the introduction of troops in Haiti.
1890 - the introduction of troops into Argentina.
1891 - intervention in Chile.
1891 - punitive expedition to Haiti.
1893 - the introduction of troops into Hawaii, the invasion of China.
1894 - intervention in Nicaragua.
1894-1896 - invasion of Korea.
1894-1895 - the war in China.
1895 - invasion of Panama.
1896 - the invasion of Nicaragua.
1898 - the capture of the Philippines, genocide (600,000 Filipinos).
1898 - invasion of the port of San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua).
1898 - the capture of the Hawaiian Islands.
1899-1901 - war with the Philippines.
1899 - invasion of the Nicaraguan port of Bluefields.
1901 - the entry of troops into Colombia.
1902 - invasion of Panama.
1903 - the entry of troops into Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Syria.
1904 - the entry of troops into Korea, Morocco.
1904-1905 - intervention in the Russo-Japanese War.
1905 - intervention in the revolution in Honduras.
1905 - the entry of troops to Mexico.
1905 - the entry of troops into Korea.
1906 - invasion of the Philippines.
1906-1909 - invasion of Cuba.
1907 - operations in Nicaragua.
1907 - intervention in the revolution in the Dominican Republic.
1907 - participation in the war of Honduras with Nicaragua.
1908 - invasion of Panama.
1910 - invasion of Bluefields and Corintho (Nicaragua).
1911 - intervention in Honduras.
1911 - genocide in the Philippines.
1911 - the introduction of troops into China.
1912 - the capture of Havana (Cuba).
1912 - intervention in Panama during the elections.
1912 - invasion of Honduras.
1912-1933 - the occupation of Nicaragua.
1914 - intervention in the Dominican Republic.
1914-1918 - a series of incursions into Mexico.
1914-1934 - the occupation of Haiti.
1916-1924 - occupation of the Dominican Republic.
1917-1933 - the occupation of Cuba.
1918-1922 - occupation of the Russian Far East.
1918-1920 - the introduction of troops into Panama.
1919 - landing of troops in Costa Rica.
1919 - war against the Serbs in Dolmatia on the side of Italy.
1919 - intervention in Honduras during the elections.
1920 - intervention in Guatemala.
1922 - intervention in Turkey.
1922-1927 - intervention in China.
1924-1925 - invasion of Honduras.
1925 - military operations in Panama.
1926 - the invasion of Nicaragua.
1927-1934 - the occupation of China.
1932 - the invasion of El Salvador.
1936 - intervention in Spain.
1937 - won with Japan.
1937 - intervention in Nicaragua, state coup.
1939 - the introduction of troops in China.
1941-1945 - the genocide of the civilian population of Germany (Dresden, Hamburg).
1945 - nuclear attack on Japan.
1945-1991 - sabotage activity against the USSR. (Invasion of the airspace - more than 5000, parachute assaults -
1940, direct diversions, the total budget - 13 trillion dollars).
1946 - punitive operations in Yugoslavia.
1946-1949 - the bombing of China.
1947-1948 - Reconciliation of Vietnam, genocide.
1947-1949 - military operations in Greece.
1948-1953 - military operations in the Philippines.
1948 - military coup in Peru.
1948 - military coup in Nicaragua.
1948 - military coup in Costa Rica.
1949-1953 - attempts to overthrow the government in Albania.
1950 - punitive operations in Puerto Rico.
1950-1953 - intervention in Korea.
1951 - military assistance to Chinese rebels.
1953-1964 - security operations in British Guyana.
1953 - the overthrow of Mossadegh, who received 99.9% of the vote in the referendum.
1953 - Forcible deportation of the Inuit (Greenland).
1954 - Overthrow of the government in Guatemala.
1956 - the beginning of military assistance to Tibetan insurgents in the fight against China.
1957-1958 - an attempt to overthrow the government in Indonesia.
1958 - the occupation of Lebanon.
1958 - bombing of Indonesia.
1959 - the entry of troops into Laos.
1959 - punitive operations in Haiti.
1960 - military operations in Ecuador.
1960 - invasion of Guatemala.
1960 - Support for a military coup in El Salvador.
1960-1965 - interference in the internal affairs of the Congo. Support Mobutu.
1961-1964 - a military coup in Brazil.
1961 - a terrorist war against Cuba using bacteriological weapons.
1962 - punitive operations in Guatemala.
1963-1966 - coup d'état and punitive operations in the Dominican Republic.
1964 - punitive operation in Panama.
1964 - support for the coup in Brazil.
1964-1974 - interference in the internal affairs of Greece.
1965 - a coup d'état in Indonesia, genocide.
1965-1973 - aggression against Vietnam.
1966 - intervention in Guatemala.
1967 - Support for the coup and subsequent fascist regime in Greece.
1968 - hunting for Che Guevara in Bolivia.
1971-1973 - the bombing of Laos.
1971 - American military assistance in the coup in Bolivia.
1972 - the entry of troops into Nicaragua.
1973 - coup in Chile.
1973 - terror in Uruguay.
1974 - Support for the regime of Moboth in Zaire.
1974 - preparation of aggression in Portugal.
1974 - attempted coup in Cyprus.
1975 - the occupation of Western Sahara, the introduction of troops in Morocco.
1975 - interference in the internal affairs of Australia.
1975 - an attack on Cambodia.
1975-1989 - Support for the genocide in East Timor.
1978 - military assistance to the dictator, financing of the genocide.
1979 - Support for the cannibal Bocas.
1979 - military assistance to the rebels of Yemen.
1980-1992 - military presence in El Salvador, special operations, genocide.
1980-1990 - military assistance to Iraq. A million dead in ten years.
1980 - support and funding of the Khmer Rouge.
1980 - operation "Gladio" in Italy, 86 victims.
1980 - punitive operation in South Korea.
1981 - attempted coup in Zambia.
1981 - military pressure on Libya, downed two Libyan aircraft.
1981-1990 - Contra support, terrorism, genocide.
1982 - interference in the internal affairs of Suriname.
1982-1983 - attack on Lebanon.
1982 - Support for the genocide in Guatemala.
1983 - intervention in Grenada.
1983 - interference in the internal affairs of Angola.
1984 - two Iranian planes were shot down.
1984 - mining of the bays of Nicaragua.
1985 - financing of the genocide in Chad.
1986 - an attack on Libya.
1986-1987 - attack on an Iranian ship in international waters, the destruction of the Iranian oil platform.
1986 - financing and military support of social terror, seizure of natural resources.
1987-1988 - participation in the Iraq war against Iran, the use of chemical weapons.
1988 - financing of terror and genocide in Turkey.
1988 - the explosion of a passenger plane "Pan American" over Scotland. The wine was recognized in 2003.
1988 - invasion of Honduras.
1988 - the destruction of the Iranian passenger aircraft.
1989 - intervention in Panama.
1989 - two Libyan planes were shot down.
1989 - bombing in the Philippines.
1989 - punitive operation on the Virgin Islands.
1990 - the genocide in Guatemala.
1990 - Iraq's naval blockade.
1990 - financing of the Bulgarian opposition ($ 1.5 million)
1991 - aggression against Iraq.
1991 - the bombing of Kuwait.
1992-1994 - the occupation of Somalia.
1992 - genocide and terror in the capture of the natural resources of Angola (destroyed 650,000 people).
1993-1995 - the bombing of Bosnia.
1994-1996 - terror against Iraq.
1994 - genocide in Rwanda (about 800,000 people).
1995 - the bombing of Croatia.
1998 - the destruction of a missile strike by a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan.
1998 - the bombing of Iraq.
1999 - aggression against Yugoslavia.
2001 - invasion of Afghanistan.
2002 - the entry of troops into the Philippines.
2003 - actions in Liberia.
2003 - clashes with Syrian border guards.
2004 - the entry of troops into Haiti.
2004 - Attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.
2008 - the invasion of Pakistan.
2008 - The war in South Ossetia
2011 - The war in Libya
2013 - The war in Syria
2014 - The War in Ukraine
"Give me the man, Ill show you his crimes" This is the voice of power
@The Wraith you are the first person in these comments I've seen who makes any sense, thank you!
The best weapon in bad power is ultimate karma
Chomsky is the avatar of Anubis confirmed
If Chomsky had power he'd commit crimes.
@@reginagonzales4049 Karma isn’t real unless you’re a Buddhist, a Hindu or another Indian religion. Karma is all linked to rebirth and reincarnation. I see a lot of Christians and even Jews believe in karma and it’s all bogus. I’m a Christian myself and believing in the concept of karma goes against Christianity. Heaven and Hell is the Christian concept of “karma.” Oh, and an atheist shouldn’t believe in karma or else they’re not an “atheist.”
Well, this blew my mind😱
Noam is a very underrated scholar
OVER rated. and anti american,like Kissinger, Like Carter LIKE Obama LIKE Biden. He is a phoney
Nixon and Reagan both won re-election in a 49-state landslide.
Yes, I do think the general public needed to be made aware about what they both did.
These accusations aren't the whole story. In all of those cases it was the CIA sticking it's nose in existing conflicts that were already killing thousands of people.
@@Bitchslapper316 Nope : these presidents made elaborate plans for democracy to be destroyed in so many countries lest it should be the initial stage to communism. As JFK himself said a new Frontier had to be declared open so as for civilization to be brought no longer to red-inhabited plains in America but to red-infested countries in the world. But he said that in so embellished phrases that it seemed almost leftist. Nixon said he was the last liberal president, meaning he had fully decided upon the progressive abandonment of democracy and social justice as a long term orientation.
@@MrMirville What do you mean "nope"? Are you trying to say the foreign countries that were already in the midst of civil war and were actively killing tens of thousands of people actually weren't?
You have to be delusional if you think the U.S is the cause of all the violence.
I don't know what you were trying to say with all that other gibberish but it had nothing to do with what I wrote.
Even if the general public would be aware of the warcrimes of all the presidents it wouldnt really matter. People dont care what happens on the other side of the globe as long as their own lives are improved back home.
@@Bitchslapper316 not in all of those cases, dude! In fact a lot, and I mean really a lot of these conflicts, wars, civil wars, coups and so on all around the world were started, because of actions the US took or their proxies! And if not, the US stepping in (because they had economic interests or wanted to strengthentheir position as hegemon in the region), made it a lot worse!
Just think of Chile, Guatemala, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan (2×), Italy, Greece, Russia and and and
it would be interesting to see what would happen if this information was taught in schools.
In colleges they are. In high schools, you used to have the occasional rough teacher in a liberal school district, but I doubt if there are any now.
There isn’t time to teach all of this shit
@@somerandomguy7458 I think this is more important to know then learning poems about christopher columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. The curriculum in America is a joke, originally setup to educate people to be wage workers
the parents would be in an uproar. and the teacher would be fired
@@avalsonline2 correct, teachers are not employed to provide knowledge, their job is to provide the next generation of wage slaves. Parents have already been conditioned.
Why do people not trust our government? TRUTH?? We can't handle the truth.
So true
For the moment of the two is at hand: and the time, times, and half ah time, is here;
And when the fire dies down, only those that endureeth to the end, will be standing!
I just wonder how many Americans know of Chomsky, let alone if they ever listened to one or two of his lectures.
Chomsky isn't allowed on US TV.
What?
Tim Dunk , some of them think Shomsky is a chocolate's name. loooooool
Not many. If people knew, they wouldn't be in every war possible. Take the war in Iraq for example. Even children in Africa who barely watch Television knew that Bush was lying.
Yet USA went in, killed so many people, destroyed lives, and in the end was...
oops... my bad... no weapons... nothing to see here
Any other country does that and the world will be sanctioning and declaring war on it.
But as they say: the powerful do as the wish, and the powerless suffer as they must
TC Just TC the perfect comment. 100% agree with you.
The look on the hosts face at the end was like...”sorry I asked”.....
You notice Noam never ran for office and was never encouraged by a large block of voters to do so. The reason is fairly obvious, Noam believes he is close to being perfect and everyone else is Hitler. What do you think that level of narcissistic ego would do if it were the leader of the most powerful nation in history? Do ya think Noam would live up to Noam's standards, or be another Nixon/Obama?
@@hardworker5588 .... If you had perhaps read more you would understand that for many of us, including Noam we have graduated from thinking that there are problems with the state to realizing that the state is the problem. To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
@@factstrumpprejudice6740 --- You pretty much summed up the Democratic Party of the USA. IN short, Shut up and obey!
@@factstrumpprejudice6740 ---- so tell us what you're doing to live in a world without rules?? uuhhhhhhyeah -- that's what we all thought anarchy-boy. Your GED doesn't qualify you for the title of Socrates Jr.
@@hardworker5588 demanding to be governed makes you merely a slave, wage slavery is obviously the pinicule of your ambition. Happy you, your already in your heaven.
This is exactly why dc is called the
District of criminals 💯
SO NOW WE KNOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT. WE, THE PEOPLE, HAVE BEEN CHEATED, LIED TO AND STRIPED OF OUR RIGHTS ON A WHOLE SALE LEVEL. WE DEMAND RETRIBUTION.
THAT, is EXACTLY the response that the Far left wants from us. Guess what? it never works. Do your thing at the polls, and pray that this election is not tampered with. 80 million Americans believe that is what happened in the last one. I agree
I love how he goes from “hmm, that’s probably true” into ruthlessly dismantling presidential careers
Chomsky is like a back seat driver telling the driver how it should be done but not contributing anything by getting his hands dirty - when did he ever run for an office or try to affect change? I would have driven him to the airport if I were an American!
@@nordique59 when has an elected politician ever contributed to bringing down the system they're a part of? Him campaigning, writing and overall educating and radicalising people has done far more good than him running for office ever could.
That’s like asking why not journalists all run for public office. His job is to research and provide information. In a free country it is up to the citizens to find that information and take it to heart. If that happens, and that’s a big if, there will be systemic change.
Greg MacMillan are you also upset that your personal trainer doesn’t do your deadlifts for you?
Trouble is who will ever prosecute any of these people past and present mmm wonder why i have no faith in any government.
Back when people didn’t interrupt each other
Obviously you havent seen the Chomsky Buckley debate. All that happened was interrupting
Stop present time discrimination!!! What is it with you people?!?! Wether it's music or television or anything whatsoever...you act like the past was perfect and anything negative you see is nothing more than a product of the present! This is 100% untrue
@@frankegordon326 remember when Gore Vidal smoked Buckley?? Awesome.
lol! Yeah, now even stale political discussions are the "Jerry Springer Show"!
~JSV
🔥🔥 This was the start that I can remember:
Morton Downey Jr., was an American television talk show host and actor who pioneered the "trash TV" format in the late-1980s on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show. 🔥🔥
Does anyone have recommendations for books that would take a critical eye to contemporary US imperialism on this manner? A sort of historical-critical approach to imperialism/colonialism viz the contemporary American scene?
Have you ever heard of Victor Davis Hanson? He's incredible & explains things in an understandable way. And Bill O'Reilly! Alot of Ppl don't like him because he's Conservative but he knows his History, Big-time! I heard that his residence could be a Historical Museum because he collects a plethora of military, etc artifacts & related items spanning decades. Good Luck.
Michael parenti has multiple books on this topic, michael hudson 'super imperialism ', confessions of an economic hitman(cant remember his name)
Can we get a up to date to this video? Just a bit curious on the current acting president.
The USA- We expect all other countries to follow the rules of war but when it comes to us the rules do not apply.
Depending upon the type of leader in office such as globalists, and democrats, republicans and socialists within both party's. It's always been a crapshoot and an independent non-political outsider may have been our last chance but the evil that exists in both party's especially the leftist socialist cancel culture political correct crowd being the worst among us and eventually got away with fraud ending so far with this past election all but sealed our fate of armageddon!
actin like other countries don’t do the same stuff
@@HebdebaV only the US is supposedly world police tho
We are the exception
@@HebdebaV of course other countries do the same stuff! Wherever evil exists evil doers do as they will, and nowhere are we free from it and that's why we must be on guard for it or it'll take us over as quick as it can gain the reigns of power, as they've just done with this past election fraud!
I’m so grateful for Chomsky. He doesn’t pick sides, he’s all about facts and critical thinking. We need more intellectuals like him.
Bullshit.
Mouth of Sauron
how so
Hes a Marxist apologist, a fraud and deluded propagandist....just give the women of a Iran a free vote.
Hes not an intellectual. Hes a Marxist...never left his cozy democracy that allows him to talk rubbish
Dijahtal Arts
we already know you have no intellectual integrity since you think marxist is synonymous with evil
chomsky has said he is anti-marxist as he is critical of state power in all its forms, and also of hero worship, though he also sees the good in marxists part of the general working class movement, and of course isn’t such a baby tiny brain to think that marxist=stalinist
give me any example of him being a fraud
what on earth has your ridiculous idea of marxism got do with women’s sufferage?
chomsky being a non-psychopath thinks all women should have a vote, something all marxists also believe strongly
also on the charge of propagandist, i mean you simple havent ever heard the man speak or write of you think that, and are clearly yourself the one arguing in bad faith not chomsky
disagree on the points - and i would sympathise, but to show yourself to be an mindless ideologue, that is a waste
ps you imply he should leave the us to be killed for his beliefs? why? also has traveled all his life to places in peril
"One cannot reign innocently." Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
How did this all begin? Why is this happening, and is there any hope of it ever stopping?
Reagan deserves his own video, if not a series.
And we all should shit on Regan's grave.
The problem with shitting on Reagan’s grave is that you eventually run out of shit.
Gorbachev tear down that wall I say! If I was gorbachev I would have said or else what?
Sunsetsully Awakened 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@Sunsetsully Awakened : Reagan took credit for the end of the cold war the way Trump now claims credit for a "good" economy. Both were / are criminals and both were/ are republicans. They stumble through everything, always looking for an opportunity to look as though they never stumble.
I loved how he said almost whispering "it's probably true" in the beginning, then move on to expose all their crimes with facts without a second thought.
WHY? no schools in USA, teach as a mandatory curriculum , America's History, like any other schools in Europe????
The larger and stronger the country and government, the GREATER the ATROCITIES. No nation is immune. Humanity has always been and will be always predatory.
@@lisaisabella2339 our schools in the United States of America have ALWAYS been that way.
Correction: he went on to describe SOME of their crimes!
@@lisaisabella2339 European schools are not teaching their students about the crimes that have been committed in recent history by their governments. European school children are not learning about all the ins and outs of the war in Afghanistan and how European countries contributed; nor to any other ongoing conflict. No government is going to out themselves for their wrongdoings in their government-run institutions (i.e. public schools).
Damnn, i never thought the records were that back.
This is a complicated subject to discussed as contexts and on the ground facts varied and more often than not are difficult to assess immediately.
Nevertheless it’s interesting and informative …
Could you imagine if other countries had the "freedom" to invade other nations without ANY repercussion and not being called "extremist, communist, terrorist, etc"? Really the US is doing more damage than the countries they are "stopping"
Having the biggest military force in the world by an order of magnitude gives you the privilege to do whatever the fuck you want and not face any consequences.
EZ win 🥇
@@buca9696 the idea that america is military powerful or the most powerful country on earth.....
Is just that!!! An idea... And nothing else
@@yvesdikel4297lol ur a clown
The us controls all the money, money is power
the truly evil ones never die in prison.
Nor do they ever see a prison.
@Rahul D I don’t think sugg really makes this list
Stalin comes to mind
Deep and profound when you really think about it.🎓
like epstein
Well, we’re all here watching UA-cam, I guess we’ve done our part and can sleep soundly
Just listening to the list of horrible historical events is terrifying, what about experiencing it ???!!!!
And all of these atrocities are after WWII !! What did we learn ??!!!
Noam Chomsky knows these facts and presents them clearly. Some will be angry, some will stay asleep, some will hate that he exposed these crimes in our name.
...and some will see his views as what they are--the opinion of a strident hater of the US. To make an omelet you must break a few eggs.
And no one will actually research to see if he is full of shit or not
@@frankfonseca5039 Did you?
@@frankfonseca5039 we all know where you will do your research
And everyone will believe every word without actually fact checking anything.
it’s really beautiful how calm, controlled and peaceful he is.
Oh isn’t it just! Just sooo soothing
Jack Coleman is this an “all leftists will put me in a gulag” joke or your actual political philosophy?
@Jack Coleman Chomsky isn't a communist. And he's deeply, deeply moral. Your comparison with Pol Pot is utterly ridiculous.
@Jack Coleman I'm guessing you're american. You yanks have been force fed anti-communist propaganda since 1917. The irony of course is that in the US you've had socialism for the rich and free market for everyone else for decades
@@wowrude
I'm not American, but you have to be willfully blind not to see the vast pile of murdered corpses present day communists are standing on when they spout their Utopian propaganda. Open your eyes.
Notice how the interviewer tried to skip by Clinton.
"To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"
- fellow american warcriminal
poor Europe eh
Source?
Saddam Hussein agrees.
@@RADVIX313 lol I’m Canadian too, idiot 😂 I was actually showing the 2 face of American politics using Saddam as an example. Nice speech though…pat yourself on the back
@@RADVIX313 you first, slav bot 😂 if English was your first language you might have understood the first time lmao bottom feeder
Listening to Chomsky is just blunt truth after blunt truth, it's honestly shocking to hear someone speak that way, but extremely refreshing
And they call others “Terrorists”
“Evil regime”
Etc
tbh, Sadam, Kim's (il sung, jung il, jung un), Bin Laden ARE bad ppl regardless of Murica's evil ass doings.
CHRONOLOGY OF MASS KILLINGS DURING THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION (1966-1976)
Date: 25 August, 2011. Auteur: Yongyi Song
Chronology of Mass Killings during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Song Yongyi
The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was a historical tragedy launched by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It claimed the lives of several million people and inflicted cruel and inhuman treatments on hundreds of million people. However, 40 years after it ended, the total number of victims of the Cultural Revolution and especially the death toll of mass killings still remain a mystery both in China and overseas. For the Chinese communist government, it is a highly classified “state secret,” although they do maintain statistics for the so-called “abnormal death” numbers all over China. Nevertheless, the government, realizing that the totalitarian regime and the endless power struggles in the CCP Central Committee (CCP CC) were the root cause of the Cultural Revolution, has consistently discounted the significance of looking back and reflecting on this important period of Chinese history. They even forbid Chinese scholars from studying it independently and discourage overseas scholars from undertaking research on this subject in China.
Owing to difficulties that scholars in and outside China encounter in accessing “state secrets,” the exact figure of the “abnormal death” has become a recurring debate in the field of China studies. Estimates by various scholars range from one-half to eight million. According to Rummel’s 1991 analysis of, the figure should be around 7.73 million (Rummel, 1991: 253). In the following year, however, Harvard scholar John K. Fairbank arrived at a rough estimate of around one million (Fairbank, 1992: 402). Several years later, Ding Shu, an overseas Chinese scholar, disagreed with Rummel’s conclusion by using diverse analyses, and estimated the figure to be around two to three million (Ding, 1999: 214). Recently, Andrew Walder and Su Yang contributed a much more detailed analysis of the death toll in China’s rural areas based upon statistics drawn from 1,500 Chinese county annals. In their estimate, “the number killed [was] between 750,000 and 1.5 million, with roughly equal numbers permanently injured” (Walder and Su, 2003). In a newly published biography of Mao Zedong by two UK authors, the estimated totality of death is discussed: “at least 3 million people died violent deaths and post-Mao leaders acknowledged that 100 million people, one-ninth of the entire population, suffered in one way or another” (Chang and Halliday, 2005: 547). Interestingly, the reporter of a Hong Kong-based political journal released the classified official statistics, according to which nearly two million Chinese were killed and another 125 million were either persecuted or “struggled against”(subjected to “struggle sessions”) as a result of the state-sponsored killings and atrocities committed during the Cultural Revolution (Cheng Min, 1996: 21-22). The average death toll based on the aforementioned six investigators’ figures is nearly 2.95 million. Considering that the Cultural Revolution took place in China during a period when it was not invaded by other states, the number of victims estimated above is extremely high.
The widespread phenomenon of mass killings in the Cultural Revolution consisted of five types: 1) mass terror or mass dictatorship encouraged by the government - victims were humiliated and then killed by mobs or forced to commit suicide on streets or other public places; 2) direct killing of unarmed civilians by armed forces; 3) pogroms against traditional “class enemies” by government-led perpetrators such as local security officers, militias and mass; 4) killings as part of political witch-hunts (a huge number of suspects of alleged conspiratorial groups were tortured to death during investigations); and 5) summary execution of captives, that is, disarmed prisoners from factional armed conflicts. The most frequent forms of massacres were the first four types, which were all state-sponsored killings. The degree of brutality in the mass killings of the Cultural Revolution was very high. Usually, the victims perished only after first being humiliated, struggled and then imprisoned for a long period of time.
The entire turbulent decade during which the waves of mass killings occurredis divided into four time periods:
I. “The Red Terror” (August -- December 1966)
II. “All-round Civil War” in China (January - December 1967)
III. Killing for and by the New Organs of Power (1968-1971)
IV. Endless Killing (1972-1977)
I. “THE RED TERROR” (AUGUST -- DECEMBER 1966)
The very beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China immediately led to violent mass chaos in June 1966. As indicated by a militant editorial on June 1 in the People’s Daily, an official guideline for the Cultural Revolution, the main purpose of this unprecedented political campaign was to “Sweep Away All Cow-Demons and Snake-Spirits,” which not only included traditional class enemies such as the “Five Black Categories” (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and rightists), but also “capitalist-roaders in the Party” (cadres) and “reactionary academics” (teachers and other intellectuals). Mao’s strategy for the Cultural Revolution included using forces both within and outside the Party to defeat his rivals in the Party and to bolster his own primacy, all in a manner inseparably linked to his political idealism. Mao and the Party Central stirred up the passions of thousands of rebellious youth in Beijing middle schools and colleges, where students began to establish Red Guards to challenge and attack school authority and teachers. During the short period of June- July 1966, mass violence spread over campuses, where teachers and other educators were abusively subjected to “struggle sessions,” humiliated, and beaten by fervent students. Despite the fact that the Chinese government had received urgent requests to curtail the wave of violence that was unfolding every day, Mao and the Party Central did not want to address the issue, as they “appeared to view it as a necessary feature of rebellion, and the suffering of victims as acceptable collateral damage” (Walder, 2009: 148).
On July 28, 1966, Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife and a key figure of the Central Cultural Revolution Group, conveyed Mao’s instruction regarding mass violence at a students’ rally: “If good people beat bad people, it serves them right; if bad people beat good people, the good people achieve glory; if good people beat good people, it is a misunderstanding; without beatings, you do not get acquainted and then no longer need to beat them.”. In other words, Mao thought the government “should turn a blind eye to violence as an inevitable by-product” of the Red Guard mobilization (Walder, 2009: 149).
In August, the main target of the Red Guards’ agitation shifted from campuses to the society at large. Xie Fuzhi, the Minister of Public Security, mirrored Mao’s attitude. In an important internal meeting, he directed all police stations and other security forces to assist Red Guards in identifying “reactionary” households for searching, beating and deportations. On August 22, at the climax of the mass terror in Beijing and other major cities, the CCP CC issued a directive entitled “Stipulations of the Ministry of Public Security forbidding the use of police force to suppress the revolutionary student movements,” which fueled the violence and put the targets of the Red Guards, several thousand people, in a virtually defenseless position. As a result, a significantly increased mass violence was perpetrated against those residents with “bad” family backgrounds: their houses were searched, their personal properties confiscated and then the entire households were expelled from the city to the countryside. A mob of thousands of Red Guards also roamed the cities’ streets and attacked any person whom they believed to have hobbies and consumer habits associated with the bourgeois class; the targeted individuals were then subjected to violent “struggle sessions.” When the waves of unrestricted violence swept over major cities all over China, ruthless mass killings ensued.
Chronology
@@davidemmet7343 my man based qnd woke
I hate 'liberals' say shit like Mao is the best or China made it as a succesful Commuist country
ppl like infrared something (streamer) god damn annoying
@@ihatenwo Agreed. These leftist idiots have never read history so they have nothing to compare anything to except their own privileged lives in our country. In addition the same pieces of shit in our CIA who have committed war crimes are the same ones who are running the show with Bush, Biden and Obama. Look into John Brennan, he was originally a communist (today they are now just fascists) who covered up the CIA'S use of torture.
Trump was the first US president since Carter to not start a new war!