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  • Just Listen to the elegance in the Language....

  • Chomsky is a great American, and he speaks the Truth. What we have in this country is welfare for the rich and a combination of laisser-faire and laissez-aller for the poor. It's a rigged game and most of us will lose in the end. The elites who run this country will always be the winning team. Noam: HELP! It is 2011 and getting worse.

  • Yeah, right... he says 'oh, they elected someone from their own ranks' as if that means anything, I could care less where people come from, I care about they think and what they do. Most of South America is nothing more than communist dictatorships, who may have risen to power with popular support, but don't remain in power through it. Chomsky is just an anti-westerner.

  • @TheGoldenKing20 Why is Chomsky an 'anti-westerner'. What do you think he actually wants to happen?

  • @MrDarkbloom Same thing every other communist besides him wants, what do you think?

  • @TheGoldenKing20 Why do you say he's a 'communist'? What do you mean?

  • @MrDarkbloom I am NOT getting into this type of argument. He's a communist, an anti-american, and an anti-westerner, I know it, you know it, anyone who listens to him for 2 minutes can figure it out, and I'm not gonna waste time pointing the obvious.

  • @TheGoldenKing20 You sound like an ideal victim of anti-democratic indoctrination. If only you understood the most elementary ideas of Chomsky... Take a LONG hard look in the mirror and you may see see what a gullible self-destructive fool you are.

  • @MrDarkbloom And you sound like a victim of indocrination by Marxist agents posing as college professors, I'm not going to debate you as it would be fruitless, but I'll say this: either get yourself straightened out or stay out of the Free World's way, or you'll be hurt.

  • 5:23- That is a pure lie. The bottom 20% income has been increasing at a much higher rate than the top 20% income for the last 30 years.

  • @qwertypoiu4321 can you please direct me to the source of those statistics

  • @TheCrappyaccount 1. The University of Michigan's Panel Survey on Income Dynamics and research on income mobility: A Panel Study of Income Dynamics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research) 2. "By Our Own Bootstraps: Economics Opportunity and the Dynamics of Income Distribution," Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1995 Annual Report, pp. 2-23.

  • Is this why they call it the Canadian Complex?

  • YEA BOLIVIA!!!

  • Is the easiest way to cover the media to paint the world red in a scare and all we see is the aftermath of war and the death of a man to save the whole world from destruction?

    We need to use this media as a tool to pass along the answers, post your questions, no more answers

  • can someone please direct me to where I can read/find polls online, I tried gallup but its not that helpful in finding information, I would like to know some of chomsky's sources! thank you!!!!!

  • "the government is being run by a few big interest looking out for themselves not for the population " "the government ought to pay attention to public opinion but doesnt" noam chomsky absolutely hit the nail on this one

  • Still a brilliant mind. When he dies the world will be much poorer. Wish him a long life.

  • Dr. Chomsky recently told Iranian TV that at the time the USA attacked Afghanistan they had no evidence that al Qaeda did 9/11. See my video "Chomsky on Faith-based Wars and 9/11"

  • why is everyone fascinated by this guy ?

  • @phakim33 Well, I think, most people, when they hear Chomsky for the first time, get fascinated when they hear him speak things that are radically different to everyone else. Then when they start reading his books, articles, etc., they realise just how he arrived at such assertions. As they get immersed in his work, they realise that the guy is a genius; the way he reads and compiles information from different sources is truly incredible. Well, that's why I am fascinated by him, at least.

  • @phakim33: Because he speaks the truth.

  • @phakim33

    yes.

    just not the people in charge.

    

  • I wish for Chomsky to never die.

  • This guy is the only decent american!!!

  • @WorldGlobal2010 hey man, some of us aren't so bad. but yeah, i know what you mean...

  • @MichaelPrikakis The majority of any modern day country doesn't read.

  • One can only dream to have gained this much knowledge in a lifetime as Noam Chomsky has. Sadly life is too short but the upside is Chomsky had written many books that can prime the human mind for more drastic radical ideas to make this world a better place. Before Chomsky there were Descartes, Marx, Plato, Socrates, Tolstoy.

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  • *One of the greatest minds in our time*

  • @demarcos69 Do you mean "of" our "times"? You moron.

  • @bahramf your mother u cunt bitch

  • It's so nice to see someone who is not full of shi t.

  • no wonder the media doesnt talk about this guy. he's tell like it is!

  • Isn't Chosky a disinformant....

  • @ExquisiteDoom no.  And get the last name right before you try to "criticize." LOL

  • @GeneralJakass You'Re right, but he is still a dishonest troll.

  • @ExquisiteDoom You still have yet to give me any evidence of how he is dishonest.

  • @GeneralJakass I still have to care enough to. And i don't. I'm just asserting it, and you'll have to live with it.

  • @ExquisiteDoom Okay, so you're just blindly assuming Chomsky is lying, without checking or researching anything he talks about. Smart.

  • @GeneralJakass You don't have to lie to be dishonest. You can simply not mention certain bits of info that goes counter to your beleifs. Dishonesty is subjective, an opinion, since there is no way i can prove that he is cognizant of such information, at least, without intensive research on that one guy; which i see as a wasteful use of my time.

  • @ExquisiteDoom And what bits are those? If you care enough to make some blatant statement that doesn't have any support just because Chomsky says something you don't like (no matter how truthful), you should care enough to back up what you said. It would be extremely useful of your time to research some of the topics he talks about because they are very real indeed. If he is lying and being dishonest, then that information (upon research) should become apparent.

  • @GeneralJakass Isn't Chomsky an anarcho-socialist that advocates more government like it's not a contradiction? It's been too long for me to remember where i got my opinions of him from. I tend to trust my past judgement though. I think you replied to a message that was just way too long ago for me to remember why i made it. lol

  • @ExquisiteDoom lol once again you're facts are right on as usual. You ought to do yourself a favor and put just a little time into research before voicing such an uneducated opinion. "I don't remember where I got my opinions from." Ignorance will always breed ignorance my friend :)

  • @GeneralJakass Like i said i don't care enough to, i'm even wondering why i'm still responding. What do i gain out of this? Some self knowledge i guess? lol. Chomsky is a very low priority list since i understood the basics of social anarchism. It is still an educated opinion if his social anarchistic thoughts revolve around the ones of i don't know, kropotkin , bakunin and all those funky people's ideologies i just don't care for. Blah.

  • @ExquisiteDoom And how does this make Chomsky a "disinformant" (you realize that's not even a word)? If anything you're being the "disinformant" by putting up on Facebook fallacious and uneducated remarks about social-anarchism.

  • @GeneralJakass Well i didn't care for language back then obviously, lol. Lots of shit happens in a year. I pretty much just take it on faith that what i do know about social anarchism, Chomsky must be advocating things i am against; and those tend to sit on erroneous grounds either ignoring economics, or overrides any theory , science, or axiom with the use of objective morality. e.g. Working is exploitation.

    I've seen some people critiquing some fallacies he uses here on youtube, too.

  • @ExquisiteDoom So the argument goes that "I have faith in what I say, even though there isn't any fact behind it." And what are those things you are against? Workers rights? Freedom for the masses? If this guy was the "disinformant" (lol) you say he is, then his career would have been completely ruined long ago.

  • @GeneralJakass Well , no tons of theorists out there are wrong even at the very surface yet they aren't ruined. Name any top institutional liberal intellectual and there you have it. For example Nancy Pellosi, lol.

    I don't dispute the idea of freedom and workers rights, i only dispute the means to go at it. How do we gain those rights without giving them "too much" power? Which, would resort in economic parasitism.

  • why are you wasting your time talking to a guy who names himself in contridictions, apparently he's a fool and proud of it! you can expect him to be confused trying to make a point with fragments of information, he simply ignores the overwhelming evidence of Chomsky views who is likely 3x as old as this monkey where experience is wisdom, a strong position since the beginning, accurate if not yet proven all views, intelligent mind, no serious intellectual opponents all the while humble in person.

  • Excuse me, public schools

  • Noam Chomsky is a testament to the effectiveness of government censorship. He is one of the most important intellectuals of the age and I just heard about him last year. His thoughts and idea's should be taught in schools.

  • american need higher IQ to understand Noam chomsky.

  • wow, a lot of lies there in just one sentence. good job...

  • One thought I have about democracy or voting is it, in a sense, is a form of the voter passing responsibility for the country's actions on to a party or person. Washing their hands of any association with what happens thereafter.

    "I did my part and voted, the rest is up to the government and its not my fault what happens."

  • @slartibartfast68 Interesting point. In an ideal democracy perhaps that wouldn't be true, but maybe it is true to some extent at the moment. But, the problem is that not enough different views are represented in elections, so that there is'nt that much choice. On many issues you cant say "I vote for this policy, now ill wait 5 years and see what happens" because that option just isn't there.

  • Noam chomsky know what he talking about and what happining to US politics and who they working for. sadly many american dont have a clue.

  • I think it's Noam Chomsky the one who doesn't have a clue!

  • LOL, Do you think a no clue person can become professor at Cambridge and MIT?. Gosh!, I want to be clue less ;)

  • Well, I am just saying that I don't share Noam Chomsky's political views, of course this doesn't mean he can't be a good professor.

  • No, he doesn't know anything in my opinion.

  • they never show the name of the guy doing the interview

  • This man is a domocratic..

  • FUCK ACADEMIA!!

  • was "curse" instead of "course" a freudian slip perhaps? me thinks yes....

  • ,,just mispelt...

  • There's a difference between taking time to change and saying one thing, then doing the complete opposite. People still hold on to the image that barack gave himself during the campaign but when closely observed and followed we find that it was just an image.

  • the USA are a great coutry, of course they did many bad things. Obama represents a big change: Bush was a nightmare!!! This is a big improvement...we shouldn't miss this occasion..think of what might happen in the future with a new Bush administration..I can't even think of that.

    I am socialist and think that Europe has a better system, but the USA aren't just a crazy place where people shoot at each other: more respect is needed for Obama.

  • Bush good? anyway, probably Noam Chomsky could leave and thought of that in the past, but since the USA aren't that bad if you have some money, why should he leave? There is freedom in the USA, that's good. Plus I think that, due to his job, probabily he travels a lot and spends lot of time abroad.

  • Yes, Bush was good, and since many people voted for him you shouldn't be surprised to find some Bush supporters if you come from the USA instead of North Korea... yes, of course Chomsky does travel a lot: something they would not permit him to do in countries like North Korea or Iran he likes so much!

  • He "likes" Europe, he doesn't like neither North Korea nor Iran...he's a democratic person, and pretty advanced too...no one is perfect though, so he might be wrong sometimes.

  • He's wrong very often in my opinion! And I think you are a little bit too optimistic when you say you like Europe.

  • In what way is he "wrong very often"? Thats not saying anything of substance is it? Im open to hear how he is wrong often. Have you ever even read anything my him? Michele 640 confuses what he is saying to those that are anti-american. More than anything, he states facts that he references. Why is it dissent to mention what is plainly wrong? Sorry Michele, you are under informed and your posts are not factual. Mention facts like Chomsky does instead of 5th grade put downs.

  • He says the United States is an absurd country that should not exist, so he couldn't be wronger! If you don't understand such basic things, go to hell!

  • ignoring the distinction between "hate" and "critic of", by that logic the United States would remain a society with legally instituted racism: the civil rights movement would have never happened because, being critical of US policies, those who thought racism was wrong would have left rather than challenged it. Just one example. etc etc

  • I think your example has neither rhyme nor reason. As for "legally instituted racism", are you sure you don't need help? What is then doing Obama at the White House?

  • Then you lack basic history: I was referring to the civil rights movement and racist law in the United States going back to the constitution in which blacks were 3/5 of people. The example is appt: if, as you say, critics of state policy simply left, instead of opposing state racism, then US race laws would continue to exist.

  • I doubt the U.S. constitution ever said that... in any case, racism in the southern states sure wasn't defeated thanks to people like Noam Chomsky.

  • @Michele640

    Actually racism still exists, but referring to the Civil Rights movement actually people like Chomsky played a large role. Lots of Jewish intellectuals from northern states supported the southern blacks including Howard Zinn who taught at a black college took part in protests. And Dr. King himself was very leftwing btw.

  • I'm not saying racism completely disappeared, but it is no longer so widespread nowadays, anyway it's not certainly one-sided: I daresay racism from blacks to whites is more frequent than the opposite.

  • @Michele640 I've lived in a few majority black cities and worked at jobs where I was one of only a couple or so 'white boys' growing up. I don't think it's possible to be "pc" and working class. lol. I mean, your right, there is a lot of hate all around. I'd say your right. Institutional racism is another thing tho.

  • Institutional racism also doesn't exist anymore in my opinion.

  • YES

    I also live in the deep south

    I would say less than 95% of the population is racist, or lets race effect their descisions

  • I suppose you means less than 5%...

  • haha yes, statistics are messing with my head

    im thinking of p-values and significance levels on a normal curve

  • ditto

    i hate hearing "hey whitegirl" or "hey whiteboy"

    if i said "hey black ___", id have my self a lawsuit in an instant

    and probibly lose...

  • Your lack of understanding of history is embarrassing. The 3/5 Compromise was instituted to HELP blacks get a vote - there was no way they would have gotten a full vote at that time, and enlightened people were trying to get them at least a little bit of a voice. This is documented and widely understood. Drop the victimhood stuff and read a book sometime.

  • entirely irrelevant -- the issue at hand is racism in the united states and American history, which your comment verifies; the point at hand is institutionalized racism, among other repressive practices, has been reveresed largely due to popular movements which engaged in criticism of the united states. Unless you hold criticism of the 3/5 rule was not constructive then your comment is moot and its tone misguided

  • Yes - my example of whites trying to help blacks have a voice clearly proves what a racist country this is. Criticism of the 3/5 compromise was misguided because the poster did not understand it. What is wrong with you? God you're arrogant and lack credibility.

  • ok -- now you're just confused. You see, the 3/5 compromised wasn't white's helping blacks get the vote, correcting some preexisting racial repression, it was whites preventing black's from counting as full people. It was whites who made the law. Yes, that is an instance of institutionalized racism - if pointing out that fact is "arrogant" and "lack[s] credibility" then we simply don't live on the same planet.

  • If you don't understand the idea of the whites needing to make incremental change (as was done in the civil rights movement) then I can't help you. Without the 3/5 Compromise, blacks would never have had the right to vote. This is not complicated, but you seem to need to hold on to the feeling of victimhood. I suppose that Brown vs board of ed. was racist, since it only addressed a specific district instead of eliminating all segregation everywhere? Get real and think.

  • 1). the 3/5 did not give black voting rights, it made blacks count for 3/5ths of humans in distributing representation in the house of representatives (all white congressmen) -- the concern was congressmen, not blacks; 2) that's not incremental change, it was in the original constitution, there was nothing to change from; 3) again, the original point: is popular criticizing racism legitimate/progressive and was the 3/5 rule racist? yes or no? one word answer, everything else is blowing smoke.

  • No it was not racist. It limited the power of the slave owners. Do you seriously not understand that??

  • Just let us know when you have an earthquake.

  • Need to turn the volume up on this friend

  • This man is not blinded by the flag. He is a realist, who see's crimes against humanity for what they are. I hope he had kids.

  • @mrcarlos15 Noam Chomsky did have kids.

  • @mrcarlos15 Yes, Chomsky speaks the truth because he is allowed to speak the truth, he most probably has a contract with the USA Goverment to be honest and is seen to be their enemy. Clever Goverment!!!!!! Behind the Gov. is the drugs companies, as we all know they run the world. How many Books has this man sold???? He even says himself of the media they are controled and so is he.

  • @teresamayireland Where are your sources to back up your information? Or are you just "speaking your mind"?

  • @mrcarlos15 Ever hear of the Official Secret Act, that is my source, and five years of Goverments experience.

  • @teresamayireland

    what chomsky states can be observed by anyone who is conscious and spends some time reading in the non-mainstream media.

    the problem is that most people are to lazy to check the facts so it sounds like mongolian to most of them; but if you want to hear so called secrets aka unproven conspiracy theories with no link to reality chomsky definitly isn't the one to listen to. i could very well imagine that people like alex jones get paid to spred their nonsense

  • @sectioncp5518 Well it is america, and this is capitalism, so if your going to complain about a journalist getting paid this isnt the country to do it in. But then again for what you say about Alex Jones, the same could be said for ANY reporter, its just going to depend on your acceptance of what they say... that which you call non-sense.

  • @mrcarlos15

    ww w. anarchadia. c om

    Check It!

  • @mrcarlos15 has , hes still alive and he does have kids :)

  • indeed the truth and fact tellers are usually denied by the washed minds thus disrespecting them with comments. may God bless you sir Noam even if you are derogated by your own fellow americans.

  • @abdallatyf

    hahahaha like Noam Chomsky believes in god.... he's smart enough to explain the modern American corporate control democracy but not aware enough to renounce religion?

  • ive just watched the john bolton episode of this.

    couldnt be any more different

  • MIT robot informs CBC droid. Fantastic!

  • oh why does he have to lie about 9/11.

    hey chomsky if you like polls, look at the ones that say 4 to 1 9/11 was a conspiracy.

  • @tnix80 Polls show what people believe and what their opinions are, not what the facts are. The sun wouldn't rise in the west because 80% of people said so.

  • Looks whose talking

  • they why are you on this page?

  • Would've = would have. It's not "would of."

  • 30% of medicine in American goes to HMOs, so even the Democrats Bauckus bill is nothing but an HMO stimulus package. As long as their are HMOs we are pissing away a few hundred billion on an industry whos job is to deny payment for medicine.

  • i hope people in other places realize this guy is full of lies and does not represent the mainstream at all.

  • Oh, don't worry, people as un-educated, misinformed and gullible as you surely will come to that conclusion.

  • im sure you think that of all people... hes a boldfaced liar when he says his views are mainstream.

  • Prove it! Oh that's right you can't, you are just a mouth piece and a tool. you're opinions or lies are unfounded, if you actually pay attention to the world our history and everything that exists not just the manipulators, anyone can see you are dead wrong...

  • i can demonstrate that hes wrong but all anyone has to do to figure it out themselves is learn economics. thats what i did and now i dont agree with him anymore.... its just that simple.

  • what exactly did he lie about? :/

  • what an idiot. if america democracy is so fake why dont he leave america and go to cuba and write a column. oh wait he cant write a column in cuba.

  • i dont think the point was that cuban communism is better than american democracy. i think the point was that american democracy is imperfect and can be made better.

  • ok if american democracy is not perfect tell me which is . i challenge you to find a better democracy than that of usa

  • I guess it depends on what basis we are using to gauge what constitutes a better or worse democracy.

    My personal opinion, since I've lived in a few countries, is that that America's democracy is probably one of the better ones.

    My point is a small one: A good democracy or even the best democracy doesn't necessarily mean its a perfect democracy.

    A perfect democracy would mean that each one of the $300 million Americans cast a vote on every little bill that passes that Senate Floor....

  • democracy does better when less people vote. and people who vote are more educated and are knowledgeable about issues. in 2008 people voted for Obama because he was black.

  • France.

    DUN DUN DUN.

  • u cant call chomsky an idiot, he only ever argues with facts. if u actually listened to him or read ne of his books ull see why america has no democracy. and why wud u leave sumwhere if u want to improve it?

  • You either have not listened, don't know history, do no research or only listen to the people/sources that Chomsky is warning us about... you are a fool!

  • look at the videos on this guys channel!!! haha

  • I have listened, I do know history and I do research and I listen to everybody. What you don't understand is value judgement, which follows on the heels of one's biases, motives and agenda. Has it occured to you that we can have the same fact set, and different value judgements of them? Why should we think alike if perhaps we are so different, if perhaps our rank is so different? Chomsky has emotional issues,and that forms his perspectives. Go ahead and try to make a Utopia - it's impossible.

  • further reply: The vast majority of Americans or people anywhere are not capable of being the kind of good citizen that Chomsky imagines. People are not that good - never have been, never will be. Chomsky and perhaps you also are slave-moralists. The slave demonizes his masters, but if the truth were known, and the tables reversed, the slave would be just as horrible as he claims his master is. This kind of moralizing can be seen in every culture at all times. Yet life progresses anyway.

  • You're a fucking lamb.

    Chomsky has forgotten five times as much as you will ever know, you stupid redneck.

  • ...that's why he's a friend of Michel Foucault his mentor.

  • noam chomsky videos r fantastic cant wait unitl i buy some of his books esh!

  • I don't think we'll see as great a political mind as Noam Chomsky for quite sometime.

    I'm 21, and it's my dream to one day be able to stand beside a man of such great honor and intellect.

  • ya could you imagine say even a 10 minute conversation with him?

  • @Wowy71 um wtf!! i didnt write this. I didnt watch this video, but this is f****d up...!

  • and you sir are trolling

  • g20 september 24-25th pittsburgh SHUT EM DOWN!

  • I heard that there is a Noam Chomsky movie being made!!!!!

  • Most people don't want to touch 9/11. Chomsky too. Who knows what to believe, story line, alternate info...

  • controlled demoltion

  • i have been saying this since 2005 that i predict by 2012-13 this country will collapse. We need a revolution!! and there will be one becuase even the most ignorant people will have enough of this corrupted government that has been robbing us of out freedom, and prosperity. WE The People need a revolution and bring this country back where it belongs far too long they have been robbing us, it has reached the maximum of corruption. Time to fight back!!!

  • We think this is the America of our grandfathers. It isn't. This country is run by people of great power & wealth at the expense of the common people. Didn't the Marquis die in prison? He was jailed for his sex perversions. He also had unwelcome political views. Voltaire said, 'It's dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.' The people of power & wealth are educated people as well. Of course they want to silence people like Mr. Chomsky.

  • the founding fathers meant to be like this who you think Madison's " minority of the opulent " is ?? the founding fathers themselves said the wealthy will lead the country check their own quotes the system itself is designed to be like this

  • !!!

  • Sophist: One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation. A scholar or thinker. Americans emphasize education and we want our children to learn to think idependently, creatively. Mr. Chomsky's opinions are based on a life time of paying attention, weighing and measuring information, and expressing the truths of our history in world context. For years our political system has been giving us a choice between one devil and another as it becomes wealthier and greedier.

  • There is good reason why here in France the infamous Marquis De Sade has always been in prison: In the legitimate old Monarchy as well as in the revolutionary Republic and even under the tyrannical usurpation of the Italian warlord Naopleone Buonaparte! I wonder why this dangerous sophist, paid by the Chinese and Saudi-Arabia, is at liberty in the USA. Obviously he contrived to take all democratic office from the US and to wind himself into a power tyrannical!

  • dude, you took too much

  • @udi0Point: Damn right! Adrenochrome: Just a little tiny taste, that stuff makes pure mescaline seem like ginger-beer.

  • adrenochrome is fake/doesn't actually do anything other than start your heart when you are dead. Hunter S. = journalisms finest troll

  • @udi0Point: Sure, but still Terry Gilliam made a most excellent movie out of his fake drug stories! And few people know this and thus the quote usually works...

  • I can't get enough of Noam Chomsky! its too bad we don't have another million men like him.

  • I loved Chomsky, but not recognizing the blatant questions of 9/11 make him either compromised or 'part of the criminal system'.

  • Indosmith that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. The American Government has only ever regulated the American health system lightly. So your healthcare systems failure and discrimination of the poor in favour of profit is due to the market. Go watch Michael Moores Sicko.

  • i've always thought chomsky to be crazy but as time went on i realised he and most other intellectuals have been right all along.

  • I just cant stand the voice of Chomsky