Noam Chomsky - Haiti, Honduras - History of US Rule in Latin America.

[BLACKPUSSYPUNISHER]

Look deep down in your hearts folks, The United States is 15% good and 85% EVIL!!!

[pvisserandorra]

Today, with Spring in the Middle East, we can only expect more American interference in their political process. The riots themselves are no in the interest of policy, but controlling the new governments hasn't changed much, and will be done by corrupting them.

[celticlord88]

‎"To accuse someone of lying presupposes that they have a certain capacity to tell the truth." love it haha

[jagara1]

I wish I was there to stand and clap.

What an amazing mind this man has :)

[Canada1953]

Well done Prof Chomsky.

[Cypress77]

4:33 Woodrow Wilson isn't on Mt Rushmore!

[lovemyselfforever86]

honduras must have some types of women.

[FedorEight]

Granny Chomsky told me recently that little Noam was a huge Stalin fan in his younger days until the day he found out that Joseph had murdered "only" between 20 and 60 million civilians, as opposed to the figure of 100 million which Noam had originally trusted.

Noam had also ceased being a Pol Pot fan in the late 70s when the Marxist Cambodian regime failed to exterminate the nation's entire population but stopped at 25%.

"He was inconsolable both of these times", Granny Chomsky added.

[kingjoe420]

@FedorEight he is no apologist for any wrong by anyone

but "two wrongs dont make a right"!!!

[albedoshader]

@FedorEight: Wow! You like to spam Chomsky videos with the same comment over and over again. That's impressive, I mean, intellectually.

[telboyy]

@FedorEight when you discover anything that chomsk says to be untrue, do come back and tell us won't you. i will say in your defence that you have done well, as i never knew there was internet capability in trailer parks, let alone someone who could read and write

[shaicapone]

No body wants intelligence anymore, they want opinion.

[photek1944]

haha that guy laughing in the audience is hilarious

[rayturnertile]

That's cause she is hot!

[AdamDLDixon]

noam chomsky for president?

[urlove12day]

succesful defiance of the monroe doctrine

[smilingasteroid]

whos the clown with that crazy laugh?

[Tomshelton25]

wooo hoo chomsky

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

Haiti was once the richest colony in the world due to French rule. Once the stupid natives took control, it became the shithole it is today.

That's "the people" for ya.

[urlove12day]

@UBERGRIMKVLT u obviously wasnt listenin to what he was sayin

haiti has been bullied always!

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@urlove12day You obviously don't know history. As a french colony it was highly successful, and the richest colony in the world. After the revolution, it became the shithole it is today.

[AdamDLDixon]

@UBERGRIMKVLT due to french blockade

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@AdamDLDixon Due to idiots running the society. It went from a vast rich colony, to the western hemispheres Africa due to the slave revolt. They have nothing to blame but themselves.

[AdamDLDixon]

@UBERGRIMKVLT Or the multimillion franc tribute extorted out of the colony to france.

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@AdamDLDixon Goddamn you're stupid.

[JuanEnriqueMarti]

@UBERGRIMKVLT @UBERGRIMKVLT Although it's true that the economic, cultural, social and political forces that exist in Haiti have had a role in the way that their country has turned out, it's also true that foreign or external forces have also had a role in the way that country has turned out. So, when one looks at the facts that exist in regards to this statement of yours, they will have to come to the conclusion that, while there is some truth to it, it is, to a great degree, non-factual.

[JuanEnriqueMarti]

Please excuse my double posting of your username, UBERGRIMKVLT, it was unintentional.

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@JuanEnriqueMarti How is it non-factual? Countries have not been involved in Haiti until this earthquake. The country had nothing anyone wanted. It is unfortunate that we decided to rebuild. We are rewarding failure when they should die out.

[JuanEnriqueMarti]

@UBERGRIMKVLT By "non-factual", I meant that to blame the Haitian people entirely for the way that their country has turned out is historically unfounded as external influences have had just as important a role in how that place has turned out as well. To deny this fact is to allow those foreign actors that have affected the development of Haiti throughout its history as an independent nation to get away with the things that they have done wrong there and that is completely unacceptable.

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@JuanEnriqueMarti Please back up your statement with facts. After the Haitians "won" their independence from the French. people left them alone, because the colony became the shithole it is today. Blaming everyone except the Haitians is a leftist attitude, and is unrealistic.

[MoralityAsTimidity]

@UBERGRIMKVLT Did you listen to anything at all in this video?

[xldjvista]

@UBERGRIMKVLT The French demanded 90 Million francs for loss of property and the other slaves colonies including the home of the brave enstated an embargo on Haiti so congrats on CREATING the shithole ignorant fuck!

[willesnille]

@UBERGRIMKVLT Countries have been very much involved in Haiti before the Earthquake. They've been forced to adopt economic policies that would ruin any country (by the "leftist" Clinton incidentally). That's the latest in a long list of interventions aimed at subverting democracy there. You don't have to troll Chomsky videos to learn about this stuff. A high school encyclopedia should suffice.

[UBERGRIMKVLT]

@willesnille Maybe you should read said encyclopedia. No one forced them to adopt anything, not even Clinton. Haiti is a shithole, and has been due to its own people.

[feyzu66]

@UBERGRIMKVLT  no shit??...

[shaicapone]

@UBERGRIMKVLT You're right, if you don't count the IMF, because they have been in Haiti for a long time, it has been their policies that have devastated the Haitian People, Neoliberalism is enslavement for all people under its guidance.

[HHBerrios]

This guy is making me sick! All he is saying I learned it at the UNAH, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras, beside, he is giving wrong information just to sound as PHD. I studied Honduran history at an autonomous university, I know what are Honduran values, an ignorant in Honduras will know that. Our history has been made be great men, from Morazan to Micheletti. We do not care if the World is against our principles, Viva Honduras! Viva Honduras Y Viva Honduras!

[garddog12]

I hope he never dies. One of my heros.

[secondtolast13]

@garddog12 I feel really sorry for you, Berrios, the honduran student, that apparently went to the UNAH but, just seat on the chairs, and learned nothing! What principles, the principles of opression, agression, and abuse of the real hondurans? how dare you compare Morazan to that murderer Micheletti, his hands are covered with innocent blood!!!! Yes, viva Honduras, free of U.S.A. , oligarchy and ignorant honduran like you!!!

[garddog12]

@secondtolast13 What are you talking about? I'm Canadian, and I was referring to Chomsky being one of my heroes, so you need to tone it down and work on your grammer.

[MEGAGUY21]

DAMMIT PEOPLE!! STOP THINK LEFT AND RIGHT!! shit! judge by the info no the speaker!!

dammit! or and nice upload uploader

[REALHONDURAS]

incredible how to this man a counter-coup from the right is a coup and how when its from the left its "a popular uprising". the Honduran "coup" was supported by all governmental institutions, the constitution, and the majority of the people in Honduras. Now how come he doesnt see zelayas dictatorship as a coup?

[MarioSavioTZM]

Because Zeleya was democractically elected and tried to hold a referendum on allowing re-election? Why? probably because he wanted to reform the country and head away from the oligarch's constitution written to satisfy big business and US interests and take the nations wealth away from it's impoverished population. The 'coup' was supported only by the remains of these oligarchs and those who served them. The one thing that was not represented was the wishes of at least 50-60% of Hondurans.

[REALHONDURAS]

@MarioSavioTZM : Yeah i was looking for more of an indept answer then a simplistic propaganda filled respond, thank you for trying though.

[MarioSavioTZM]

how are these simple, easily researchable facts - propaganda? 'Zeleya was democratically elected' is a simple bite of information necessary to understand what went on here. The constitution was written to satisfy power, not people, another easily researchable fact.

[REALHONDURAS]

Ok mario, what parts of the Honduran constitution satisfy "power" not its people? Ive read it over and over and the way its written it gives a lot of rights to the people. There are other factors involved, including that zelaya admitted to winning the elections with fraud.

[REALHONDURAS]

Dont get me wrong , i usually like agree with what chomsky says, just that in this situation i feel hes taking more of a position due to ideology rather then correct or not.

[secondtolast13]

@REALHONDURAS , what are talking about?

[dayajotnirmal]

the western culture r the real terrorists! they try to control everyone else and make them be like them!

[oceanbound222]

US is a terrorist nation !!

[dayajotnirmal]

To the western culture - Tu makhe muh kyu addi rakkhna e makhe. Bad dua na dei,menu dua dei dhoka nai dei. Tagri phand paindho i mur nazri wi na paindo. Menu nafrat aundi e! Lanlanina,bhens ki aulaad tuki kalay kutay kahn! lol :P

[lahore2vancouver]

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[bapyou]

@marcxopoco "Chomsky wrote the preface to a book by French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson."

Yes he did. Chomsky supports free speech even for those with whom he vehemently disagrees. Have you seen the film 'Manufacturing Consent'? You can watch the entire film free on hulu (dot) com. Chomsky discusses the Faurisson affair in the film.

[pantera1012000]

He is no great thinker he is a typical liberal professor who hates his own Country FUCK him

[flexyco]

You're a brainwashed idiot.

[Deeraise]

Chomsky is brilliant, but who the hell is the guy pacing around behind Noam in the second half of the vid? LOL!

[JaneeAddy]

One of the greatest thinkers ever. I'm just surprised the gov hasn't gone after him for his outspokeness. In a time of war the great thinkers are the first to...I'm so glad we're privileged to have him in our country.

[sil3ntxOblivion]

kinda like Mike C Ruppert more for the leftist view of our gov'ts criminality. then again, they talk about different things. might as well plug him: "Crossing the Rubicon: the Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil". great book.

another good source for economics is Catherine Austin Fitts (not part. left or right).

[keflar5]

Chomp is a cunt

[LimpLoser]

Chomsky will probably die this year.

[anarksee]

If so,then it will most likely be due to a successful assassination by a Rightist.Killing Chomsky WON'T kill Honesty....

[ToddBoyle]

What I've been doing for many years, is, when I place my order at Jack in the Box, Taco Bell etc. give your name, CHOMSKY as loud and clear as you can. They always cannot understand, which is terrific- say CHOM-SKY again and again, louder and louder.

Then when your burger is ready, they have to yell CHOMSKY! CHOMSKY!

Just ignore it. Let them yell it at least ten times..

[BrideAndGroomFilmsHD]

I must try that.

[mdoob11]

hahahhhahaa

[SeraHonduras]

Great clip, i'll record it. The only thing i don't agree w/, is the opinion of Noam, about U.S. not really wanting to invade Venezuela. They've already started the provocations by killing members of the national guard of that country's border (shamelessly), and mainly violating their air space. And we have been in collective numerous wars b4. Is it dangerous? Yes. But Chile recently fell unde a new right-wing dominance, and apparently Brasil is heading the same way :/. Peru already is..

[Elaina43]

Great post! Thanks 8‹D

[s0452804]

This video has less than a thousand views; susan boyle gets 50 million...

[solimiansky]

well, its about the dumbing down of america,

[MissSovietBones]

@solimiansky You're using unsophisticated language and that's not true at all. A lot of Americans are informed citizens and if you don't believe that then I guess you're foolish enough to believe mean spirited stereotypes.Everyone has intelligence and it's too bad that many people don't understand that ignorance doesn't have to do with intelligence; anyone can learn if they want to listen.

[doubtandcertainty]

that is a great shame. It's just show you where the heart of people are and at the same time they think they know everything about the world when listening to 1hr of news and half of that hour is commercial, celebrity gossips etc.

[samsmacdaddy]

@s0452804 That's because as Chomsky himself says, "no likes to be told the emperor has no clothes."

[bewaver]

@s0452804 I has obviously been tampered with.

[demarcos69]

@s0452804 *Excellent point*

[saasaasaa010101]

@s0452804 It show how far we have got to go to get this country on the right track. it like almost being near the bottom of a bottom less pit looking up to the top in hopes of crawling out....seems impossible ...practically impossible in our lifetime..but i still have hope.

[Cambria2112]

@s0452804 Most people are perfectly content to live in blissful ignorance.

[secondtolast13]

@s0452804 and you know why, she gets more viewings? because the vast majority of people in this country is sleeping their "american dream", they are more interested on who wins american idol, than on a subjetct that is really important, duh!!

[Oxa1]

@s0452804 haha =) tragic huuh

[ananiasacts]

I think Noam would get a lot farther if he took an opposite tack--playing down to the greatest extent possible rather than playing up to the harshest interpretation he can defend.

Explain something to me. Guys like this believe in democracy but think ours is utterly corrupt. So why not fix it? Why aren't they building sites to harvest our political will directly? Why doesn't Noam, for example, work towards leveraging Obama's "Open Gov Directive" into a tool that better empowers the electorate?

[applaya]

Building sites to harvest our political will? What?

[ananiasacts]

@applaya, By studying political capital itself I suppose. Ultimately we are the source of it. And we must choose to spend it, which we do in far more ways than simply voting. In what we eat and consume, what we do for a living, how we entertain ourselves. There are so many ways. Why not create a site designed to best reveal the workings of a small communities politics, like a game? The electorate could play roles in an evolving virtual government using the real data and local issues.

[ananiasacts]

@applaya, Suppose you were Noam, and wanted to give our nation back to its people. Wouldn't it be a lot easier to design software that small cities could adopt to manage all of their information more efficiently while simultaneously empowering the local electorate to become far more involved and aware of how their local government works and what it does for them? No local government could afford a to develop a sophisticated system like that. And no private company should be trusted to do it.

[dim1309]

Thank you so much.

[coffeebeaner]

Is he wearing pink glasses?

Want.

Thanks for uploading.