Damn, the audience @ this lecture are very well informed and more enlightened than most Chomsky Lectures? Why do I wonder? If you notice the audience sounds like they are listening for a pin to drop. You can calculate how bored an audience is by hearing coughing. Coughing here is at a very minimum. And, then they laugh in the right places at Chomsky human rights humor that sometimes goes unnoticed? Enlightened audience? Chomsky gives me hope, seeing the masses that go to his lectures more so
@JJJosh321 He isn't any of those things. He is a Noam Chomsky. I don't think I agree he is a great teacher, the man has the most boring voice I've ever heard. It is a testament to him that I can listen to that boring voice for hours, but I've always thought that he holds himself back. Probably as he understands that it isn't difficult to "get rid" of someone who is too much of a problem. I try to read between the lines of what he says, and I usually fail.
Dr. Chomsky recently told Iranian TV that at the time the US invaded Afghanistan, they had no evidence that al Qaeda did 9/11. See my video "Chomsky on Faith-Based Wars and 9/11"
@JJJosh321 "I'm curious as to what (Chomsky's) stated political affiliation/s are?"
Chomsky considers himself a libertarian anarchist and definitely leftist in orientation. At the beginning of this talk, he tells the story of how his father became a Wobblie while a young man. He also "received an education" at his uncle's news stand in New York City during the 1930s where leftists of all stripes met and argued the fine points of Marxism and Anarchism.
As much as I admire Professor Chomsky and bow to his towering intellect, I'm always tempted to buy him a new sweater - or should I say, a SECOND sweater?
As much as I admire to Professor Chomsky and bow to his towering intellect, I'm always tempted to buy him a new sweater - or should I say, a SECOND sweater?
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Chomsky is a gatekeeper shill, a controlled opposition agent for the Governement, as there is no way any intelligent person with even a basic grasp of logic and physics could fail to realise that 911 was an inside job, it's scientifically proven.
Whether or not 9/11 was an inside job is irrelevant. The Bush administration -- even without a conspiracy to pin on them -- is guilty of vast & overwhelming crimes. The fact that Obama won't prosecute them means the U.S. public endures in frustration and a gnawing sense of injustice. And all of this because Americans have a short attention span & are distracted by our vacuous & inane culture. Our government is a terrorist organization.
Pseudo-intellectual crap from the king of the Leftist-Progressive, anti-Capitalist, anti-individual freedom movement who can only survive in a world where he can prey on the minds full of mush ... both student and faculty.
To paraphrase a statement that perfectly sums-up Mr. Chomsky ... It's not that Chomsky is ignorant, it's just that he knows so much that isn't so..
Literary criticism puts imperialism at the center of western civilization? How is that? How is this "center" the result of imperialism? Western civilization is in its core (center) imperialistic, i.e. malevolent?
What is unique to western civilization? How does it differ from other civilizations? imperialism is not unique to western civilization. The history of Islam is a history of imperialism. Imperialism is not at the center of western civilization.
@bhigr Just because other civilizations are also imperialistic does not diminish the fact that western civilization is imperialistic. And the fact that you would resort to such denialism is proof that Said's arguments are necessary.
Props to the Noamster. Genius. Shrewd marketing skillz. Dude has made a fortune with books that allow countless numbers of 1st world suburbia's many flakes and Leftards to feel important. Lived the American Dream.I personally know dozens of dipshit Lefties who buy anything he writes.
Hes a walking encyclopedia, but he is VERY dry. Needs to work on his approach. Guess it wouldn't matter anyways because the mass media only allow conventional thought to be mentioned.
@BadHabit202 Each patrol invaded an average of 30 Iraqi homes a day, with the mission to interrogate, arrest, or kill suspects. Any fighting age man was considered not just a suspect, but a potential lethal adversary. US soldiers were told not to take any chances. Patrols in 2007 resulted in just under 3,000 firefights each month, about 100 per day, not counting about 25 involving our Iraqi allies, resulting in 1000s of innocent Iraqi deaths and brutal detentions. Google: million Iraqis killed
@BadHabit202 Interviewers from the Lancet report of October 2006 asked Iraqi respondents how their loved ones died. Of deaths for which families were certain of the perpetrator, 56 percent were attributable to US forces or their allies. For the first four years of the occupation the American military sent over 1,000 patrols each day into hostile neighborhoods, looking to capture or kill “insurgents” and “terrorists.” Since February 2007 it has increased to nearly 5,000 patrols a day.
@joefriendly 1.) Lancet report is one of many sources. 2.) Polling, if scientifically done, can only go so far. These are opinions of Iraqis who 'attribute' (key word) their family or friends death to Americans. One, the information given is 'opinion' of Iraqis. Second, the word 'attribute' can mean that the War in Iraq has 'caused' lawlessness and has 'attributed' to Iraqi deaths. Not the sole cause of Iraqi deaths. The underlying assumption is obvious; when Muslims kill other Muslims.....
@BadHabit202 The current count of Iraqi deaths caused by the criminal 2003 US invasion and occupation displayed online at JustForeignPolicy dotOrg is 1,366,350. You seem to find it comforting to claim most of that is fighting of Shiite vs.Sunni. Not so. GOOGLE! Besides, US and Britain cooked up violence between the religious groups to distract their fighting us. Are not the "enemies" the US is killing there rightfully defending their country? Were you troubled by the Fallujah massacre?
@joefriendly I wonder if JustForeignPolicy is an activist organization? The answer is obvious, they are. The UN estimates are nearly half of this and what makes it a 'criminal invasion'? Do some research, in fact, read Christopher Hitchens' articles on the war. The invasion wasn't done overnight.
The Fallujah massacre was horrible, period. But what is your point? Should the US just disengage from the world? Because this will not happen, we must look out for our interests and cannot be passive
@joefriendly Morals and international relations do not coincide. It may seem that the US acts immoral at times, but you must remember we live in a amoral world. A nation, therefore, must act accordingly in order to survive.
@BadHabit202 The US does claim to its citizens that its reasons are the honorable ones of promoting freedom, democracy, peace, stability. The fact that such are big lies argues for the US government fooling its people and that we are but a sham democracy, not a real one. The US violates its treaty obligation when it signed the UN Charter outlawing aggression. Chomsky makes clear, the US is using our military to dominate the world like a cruel bully, i.e. immorally! Our piggy "interests?"
@joefriendly I admire your pursuit of knowledge. Hopefully you will continue to expand your understanding of the world-because it isn't as simple as Chomsky puts it. If it were, we humans, would have come to peace by now. I suggest you read George Friedman, or study 'geopolitics' (very revealing). If you have any suggestions for me-I'll be open to check it out.
You put too much 'faith' in the far left ideology.
Nothing about this talk is particularly leftist. It seems as though you're responding to your own conceptions of what Chomsky is about rather than what he is actually saying here. Nothing he says in this talk is in any way controversial, nor is it overtly political. He does not suggest foreign or domestic policies. He simply describes a series of unfortunate events, and does so quite accurately.
@yunikage This is what concerns me about ideologues and religious folks-they can't seem to see the 'assumptions' being made. Nor do they realize that Chomsky is one source of many , who purposely focuses on imperialism.
Therefore Chomsky views everything through a specific lens, a lens in which imperialism and a pursuit of power guides history to its present-which is a fundamental liberal theory (Mao Zedong's 'political power through a barrel of a gun'.).
The idea that pursuit of power by institutions and individuals is the ruling force in history is evident to anyone who is paying attention. It's not a "controversial theory", it's a virtually universal interpretation. Likewise, the idea that state power is violence at its most fundamental level is not a liberal or Marxist theory, it's a definition of "state" which goes back hundreds of years before Marx.
How about a list of the "assumptions" you refer to?
@joefriendly It's not your "piggy interests" that are behind the American Empire; it's the richest people in the world that desire to promote democracy (corporatism) around the world. Why would America (a republic) want to promote democracy? It's about collective, corporate socialism. It's not a new desire either.
@BadHabit202 At times? It acts immoral all the time. I'm not talking about the people, I'm talking about its pharisee corporate feudal government called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
@Cstrife234 Another platitude from a nonthinking leftist. What else is new? Study geopolitcs. Study evolutionary biology-read Dawkin's 'The Selfish Gene' and realize that human nature is not purely benevolent.
The left is myopic beyong repair. I am convinced that you all know little about history except from WWII until present. Keep studying Marxism and continue to treat as if it were the revealed word of God.
@BadHabit202 I never said we were purely benevolent. I never claimed to be a leftist, because I'm not a leftist. I'm not a Marxist either. I actually know quite a bit about history. The people aren't off the hook either. A considerable number of the people are proletariat. They escape their meager labor-centered existence around sport, combat, video games, and tv, without any concept of the illusory world around them. No character building, or self-awareness. No growth.
@BadHabit202 Only because and insofar as other countries act amorally. It certainly seems just that the most powerful and secure state in the world would show a bit more integrity and lead the way. Not to mention listen to the majority of its population.
@BadHabit202 I disagree with this argument (if you're actually making a serious one). If everyone else is raping, killing and stealing, should I do it too to survive? It's not about survival anyway. If you look at the administrations from Wilson on, it's about destroying America - no industry, destruction of the currency, destruction of constitution, bill of rights, education, family, morals... The true aim is to destroy the middle class in favour of the richest (to rule).
@BadHabit202 The sentence in the Lancet report with the word "attribute" also has language of the victim families being "certain" of who caused the deaths. In addition to US killings by patrols "cleaning up neighborhoods" by smashing into apartments, there is the claim 95 percent of increase in deaths over peacetime were caused by bombs or fire from helicopter gunships." Then there's the cynical using of Depleted Uranium weapons that'll be causing cancer and mutations for millions of years.
@BadHabit202 It is an accepted fact that much of the violence not related to direct US or allied attacks on Iraqis is caused by the utter destruction and societal confusion caused by our illegal occupation. If a state engages in aggression they are guilty of all of the evils that follow.(according to Nuremberg principles or international law generally) It does not matter who is to blame for particular acts of violence. Once aggression has been enjoined the aggressor is guilty of it all.
@joefriendly .......continued. The underlying 'assumption' is that when Muslims kill other Muslims there 'must' be another actor responsible. The majority of the deaths in Iraq have been the result of 'Shiite vs. Sunni' extremists.
I don't deny that the dismantling of the Iraqi National Guard by Paul Bremer or the destruction of Saddam's regime contributed to the anarchy. Although I think you are generalizing when you state that the 'US is responsible for a million Iraqi deaths'.
Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
I think the reason people respect Noam so much when he speaks, is it quickly, and plainly becomes obvious, that he never speaks to further his own personal agenda.
This is very refreshing to so many of us (no matter what "wing" you think you are) because we are so used to seeing a slimy, palm greasing wanker, spit out rhetoric that only benefits themselves, or their own personal view point.
@JonnyCashmore Amen brother, Chomsky is a post-partisan and post-neoliberal agenda wonder... we are lucky to have him to speak for those who can't speak for their selves.
@JonnyCashmore You're too naive. Chomsky sells his material to anyone willing to buy, including the Pentagon (as records have shown).
I don't believe Chomsky is a liar, but he is definitely a pseudo-intellectual. Chomsky comes from the 'assumption' that humans generally behave in a morally righteous manner--which hasn't been proven by history. Chomsky is right, the US pushed through the Western territories without the slightest trepidation or worry for those living their.
@BadHabit202 "Chomsky comes from the 'assumption' that humans generally behave in a morally righteous manner" Can you please provide an example of this claim?
Noam Chomsky is a Libertarian Communist(also know as Anarchist) the notions of patriotism and nationalism do not apply to such a mind. The word Communism can make American people feel a pain in the ass... but the intelligent ones, the ones that search information in Books... not in the Saving Private Ryan knows what I'm talking about.
He is not practicing moderation... he is jut being an anarchist.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. - Mikhail Bakunin
@paunocu666 Libertarian Communism is not the same as Anarchism. Communism has a greater emphasis on representative democracy whereas Anarchism emphasizes direct democracy. There are other differences too.
(Cont'd )Like Soviet dissidents, what Chomsky can affect most is what HIS government does. No one respects the Soviet who denounced Western crimes while his country was carrying out egregious policies. He is a hypocrite. Thus, Chomsky is correct in not practicing "moderation" and in focusing on the crimes of his government. It is apparent to all that you cannot attack the substance of Chomsky's argument so you pursue this absurd line of reasoning befitting only the most vulgar propagandist.
You seem stupidly confused as to why Chomsky doesn't spend more time criticizing the imperialism of other states. This is a very common propaganda tool. The Soviet Commisars also excoriated their country's critics for their "exclusive focus" on Soviet crimes and not the racism of the US south.
People like you are so full of shit. Let's face it if I never brought up China, Russia and Islam into this conversation, you and your terrorist comrades would be having a field day going on about anti-Western imperialism. In other words, Eastern imperialism exists in your mind as having secondary importance to Western imperialism when in fact it should be the reverse given how the scale of suffering and misery of Eastern imperialism far exceeds that caused by the West.
Manifest treason! Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer as traitors do. Therefore lay hold of him; bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence into destruction cast him. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock with rigorous hands: he hath resisted law, and therefore law shall scorn him further trial than the severity of the public power which he so sets at nought. AEdiles, seize him!
When China becomes a superpower, you wont be able to criticize anything that they do without them shoving your ass in a "work camp". Fallun gong, political dissidents, democracy activists, etc.
If CHINA is so EVIL why don't U sign USA-TAIWAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT as of now! This should be TOP PRIORITY to keep TAIWAN out of CHINA's ORBIT PULL!! >=)
Then, proceed to sell TAIWAN many of those F-16 C/D Block 52s, Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers w/ BGM-109 Tomahawks, Virginia Class Submarines also w/ BGM-109 Tomahawks, and so on that we need! In the end, who's the BULL SHITTER around here!? >=(
Signing USA-TAIWAN FTA create JOBS in America! More USA exports into Taiwan without any TARIFF, which create JOBS! Massive Investments from Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and create JOBS! R U People RETARDED!? >=(
Selling those F-16 C/D Blocks 52s, Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers, and so on would create JOBS in America, too! Grow a BRAIN!? =/
American Dream is DEAD.....
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Who's the RETARDS around here keep pushing TAIWAN the LAMB into a DEN OF LIONS!? >=(
Noam Chomsky is a JEW, which mean they all liked to hear thmeselves talking.... Narcissistic..... huh!? {roll my eyes}
This is WHY he knows a lot of their ZIONIST & NEO-CON INSIDE WORKING! This is also WHY he is against RECOGNIZED 911 INSIDE JOB!! =/
JEWS have nearly full control of American Global Mass Media! Non-JEWS simply are not allowed to have the MICROPHONEs sorta speak! If they did, they'll end up like Pat Tillman (DEAD NON-JEW ATHEIST) and so on!! >=(
Let Jewish American Noam Chomsky talked! This is part of his Inner Guilt pouring out! He does give us an INSIDE LOOKED into mind set of JEWISH GLOBAL DOMINATION along with Christian KKK White Trash that THEIR KINDS worked for!! =/
Remember that, Jewish American Noam Chomsky is IMMUNE from ZIONST & NEO-CON retributions and retaliations! Some of us have NEAR-DEATH experience where we realized that we simply do not have those ONLY JEWS CAN TALK IMMUNITY!! >=(
"If China becomes a super power in a few decades, then you should start a new line of Scholarship on Eastern Imperialism."
No, sorry I am not Chinese but if I was and I did in fact start a new line of scholarship on Eastern imperialism, will you accompany me as one of the founding fathers of Occidentalism? No? No. Of course you won't.
"As for Eastern Imperialism, read what the Ancient Greeks wrote about the Persian Empire." But wasn't it the Persians that first invaded the Greeks?
So citizenship and familiarity are now the dual criterion for criticism. That is one of the stupidest self-contradictory shit I have ever heard. Right, and so if that was the case, why would the US have to care about what the world thinks? Why does it matter what the fuck Islamists or Communists living outside the US thinks about the US they don't live there therefore they don't know it best. And while you're at it, where are the scholars of Eastern imperialism?
The key finding in the paper: nano-thermite particles and chips were found to be present in 4 samples of WTC dust, with verification by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry.
The 1,3-diphenylpropane may have been a component of the spray used to distribute the nano-thermite throughout the WTC buildings.
LVI Services, in the demolition business, had a pentagon contract to develop such a spray and a WTC contract to treat asbestos.
Rocketeer. Checked out your favorites: Christians triumphant over Muslims.
You haven't figured out yet 911is a Big Lie?
??Burning jet fuel causes buildings to collapse exactly as if by controlled demolition, symmetrically, in their own footprint at the speed of gravity? duh. That's a lot of steel to turn to wet spaghetti all in the same 10 seconds!
Watch videos like on this channel
and wise up. Seems you do want to be wise eventually.
And I checked out your favourites: conspiracy theories, anti-Western self-hate left-wing bullshit.
9/11 is a big lie? Of course it was! Just like how Islam and the Gaza Strip are also lies. Like really, do you expect me to believe that biggest hoax in human history that millions of Muslims are actually living under some man-made phony al-Jazeera concocted story of colonisation? Don't fall for it, that's just manufactured consent horseshit.
Then again, maybe you won't eventually wise up! Inconvenient truth you deal with by empty rationalization and name-calling.
US imperialism is not sensibly defensible. It's destructive, cynical, criminal, Your comeback is to say Islam's was worse. Irrelevant even if true.
Christianity is a Roman conjob, actually, a defilement of the First Commandment, for starters. Hyam MacCoby explains it so well in Revolution in Judea.
Hell even Noam Chomsky would be ashamed of you. Inconvenient truth? Sure. Kind of like the inconvenient truth that the US MSM swallowed for hook, line and sinker that Saddam possessed WMDs? Nah, didn't think so.
You say US imperialism is indefensible. Right, what a pathetic sorry excuse of a cop-out to my argument that Islam is the most efficient killing machine known to mankind.
You say Christianity is a conjob. Right, and so is Islam but somehow I don't Muslim house masters (contd)
told you that one. But then again, so is communism, which is so morally polluted yet clinically masqueraded by its mindless drones of zombified supporters as a universal force for good, that it's no more than a step up from the barrel of low-grade pornography.
@Rocketeer1001 You seem to be lapsing into incoherent babbling. Christianity's being a conjob you answer with, "Sure, so is Islam." When US imperialism is accurately stated to be wrongful you come back with Islam's was worse.
The MSM did not fall for the WMD hoax, they were deliberate agents of the US government propaganda apparatus. They are part of the corruption our military is fooled into maintaining in power.
Are you in the employ of the U.S.? You sound like bootcamp brainwash.
I had a hard time wading through your sceptic tank of verbal diarrhea. Though I'm sure I don't work for the US government as they've yet to do good and behead you. And I sure as hell am not brainwash because al-Jazeera isn't part of the MSM of the USA. Praise Allah.
And when I accurately state Islam's imperialism is bloodifully merciless retrogade force of evil, you're only response is US imperialism is worse.
But hey it's at times like these I wish I was still Muslim at least (contd)
then I could say I'm the legal owner of some continential house eunuch whose free entertainment of public fucking makes it different from a dog only in the size of the leash!
By the way does that hooker mother of yours happen to be a janitor? Your arguments reek of ship monkey low-grade sticky glob of vaginal discharge. Clean up on aile four.
The number of people who have died since 1950 as result of US imperialism is several million, well more that a million just in Iraq since our criminal invasion and occupation. So many countries have we caused so much damage in, physically, economically, socially, politically. It is a painful truth Americans need to wake up to and correct, Islamic history notwithstanding!
The tasteless sex talk you have resorted to will get you blocked, knuckle-head! Clean up your act or out!
Your foolish notions about US Mainstream Media (MSM) being the unfortunate victim of misinformation cry for correction: Like, Time Magazine's picking Bernanke for Man of the Year, with Nancy Pelosi among their runners-up, urges our remembering who they tellingly picked for 1939 Man of the Year: Hitler
"Your foolish notions about US Mainstream Media (MSM) being the unfortunate victim of misinformation cry for correction"
I couldn't make anything out of your verbal vomit, but like I said, I'm glad that unlike you I'm not brainwashed by the state-controlled media that is al-Jazeera.
And as for TIME picking Hitler as the man of year, renew your subscriptions to TIME ASAP you Jew-hating Nazi last time I checked you probably think they're behind 9/11!
"Islamic history notwithstanding!" AND THERE'S THE RUB Islamic and Communist history notwithstanding, Western (particularly US) history would be atrocious by the standards of comparison to the annals of mankind. But Islamic-Communist history withstanding, it makes the actions of US "imperialism" look like an atom compared to the galaxy of the hundreds of millions of people around the four corners of the globe suffer the nightmares of war, genocide, murder and poverty.
Yes, the Chomsky Unipolar Moment Q and A session is posted on the JoeFriendly Channel, twice at this point , with the only difference being what is Before and After the full Chomsky Q and A session.
I have watched hours and hours of Noma chomsky lectures. The more i watch the more helpless i feel. The clarity and percison of his topics are brilliant. When will we wake up??
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"WHen will we wake up??"
When will you wake up from the corporate Eastern state-controlled media propaganda brainwashing? But wait. No, I'm sorry. That's right. That's just the usual Western propaganda up to its no-good deeds of manufacturing consent.
Eastern? What east? East starts at the Middle-East, and, well, you'll have a hard time showing their propaganda (if there's even any kind of unified Middle-Eastern ideological bloc, which there isn't much) lines up in any way significant way with, er, anything like Noam Chomsky's views.
Yes you are right the East includes the Middle East and pretty much anything to the East of it, just like generalising terminology that Chomsky and Said use when they refer to "the West."
As for the lecture that posits a correlation between American unipolarity and cultural imperialism. Really? I must have missed the slave trade and wars of conquest on which the Arab Empire was built. Or the total destruction of Eastern Europe by the USSR.
Of course that's not Western propaganda, but both are almost entirely gone by now. Imperialism in the Middle-East from Middle-Eastern sources is practically nonexistant and, if anything, comes from Islam and not any nation. A past history of warmongering is irrelevant as it's long gone (aside from the Israeli wars, which by the way, can partly be traced to US and European influence), and again, the Caliphate, the closest thing there ever was to an Arab Empire, is directly linked to Islam.
No no, history is important for two reasons: because, firstly, of the inter-generational effects from historical events that, secondly, provides the context for understanding present events. So if you go back to history, you'll see that Eastern imperialism (which isn't even discussed in the East) occurred on a scale ten times that of Western imperialism (which is discussed in the West). Which is basically my point. Not that it matters though since you don't even have one.
Okay, for the sake of avoiding pointless rhetoric, I'll buy your statement that Eastern imperialism (from who? The Caliphate? Clarify that if you want to be taken seriously. There was never an Arabic Empire. Arabic people are a people living across a relatively well-defined area that was never really united, but was certainly subjected to imperialism from its own region) was much worse than modern American imperialism. I give you that free of any of the scrutiny I should give it. Then what?
Again you nitwit, yes Eastern imperialism the kind that Pat Condell would agree with which is also known as the Islamic wars of conquest and the Ottoman Empire that included the genocide, theft, slavery of Christians, Jews, Hindus and non-Muslims. Or the pogroms and massacre of Chinese and Russians in the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution.
Then what? Then Chomsky's basic premise falls apart: that imperialism is the province of American/Western history. It isn't. And it never was.
Chomsky's premise is not and never was that the West is the only source of imperialism, not at the moment and most certainly not historically. That's a convenient straw man, but it doesn't hold up. Certainly he focuses almost exclusively on Western imperialism, in past history and today, but he has said a few times exactly the opposite of what you say is his point.
Methinks you are trying too hard. When did I ever say that?
But yes, just for the record, this is what I said: Chomsky's premise is that imperialism is PROVINCE (not source) of American/Western history. And it's something of which you even admit when you say, "Certainly he focuses almost exclusively on Western imperialism."
Yes, that is one of the most prominent things he says, and the subject of this speech. But then your pointing out of unjustified violence and imperialism outside of what we call the West doesn't actually undermine that premise, especially given that Chomsky has on occasion pointed out more or less what you're pointing out. What you're saying doesn't actually rule out what he's saying.
Again, I never said that Chomsky's premise is that imperialism is the exclusive province of Western civilisation. What I do take issue with the lack of moderation is Chomsky's exclusive focus on Western imperialism when other types of civilisation have committed criminal acts of colonialism on a magnitude a millennia-fold greater than Western colonialism. Also, you make the point that he's at a "few times" said the contrary. So what? Did you know that when Bush was governor of Texas (contd)
his tax-break policies so incentivised the wind industry that ClearWater, Texas is home to the largest number of solar-powered wind-mills in the world? But then again, nobody in their right fucking minds would call that gas-guzzling, oil-thieving bastard an environmentalist now would they?
but there's entire news networks focused on atrocities carried out by those not in line with US imperialism. so chomsky doesn't need to worry about it.
Perhaps you review Chomsky's novel, "World Orders Old and New" There he describes several examples of Eastern Imperial powers and makes comparisions to Western imperial regimes of recent times. Then you may (or not) alter your stance.
Perhaps I should review Chomsky's...no thanks I don't read propaganda. Besides, being his unofficial salesperson, it's safe to assume you imbibe everything he says. Which means only one of you two are thinking. So again, thanks but no thanks I'm a freethinker not a sheep with a herd mentality.
do u have any evidence 2 show wat chomsky is saying is false if not pls shut d fuk up.
u claimed 2 be a free thinker but i bet u dnt have any problem wat so eva wiv d way d us conducts its foreign policy i bet ppl like u still think they wld eventually fing wmd in iraq.
Then, there's the fact that USSR influence and warmongering is gone by virtue of there being no USSR anymore. There was clearly imperialism from the USSR on a level at least comparable to that of the US, and certainly more open and obvious. Russia today doesn't have any real hegemony outside of Russia itself, even in Belarus, which is still oddly close to the former USSR.
And finally, none of this is relevant to my point: What Eastern propaganda? How are Eastern interests valued unfairly compared to Western interests? Imperialism in the past has most definitely been linked to many places other than the US; on the world stage, US imperialism was not particularly big until at least the end of WWI. If you want to argue past history, go ahead, but that's not the point here. Sarcasm on its own won't get you anywhere, get proper arguments and adress my point.
Fair enough, Mikister, my error. The Open Chemical Physics Journal is not apparently. peer-reviewed. It's more open than peer-reviewed journals which our culture has made into gate-keepers of official scientific truth.
However, this paper by Niels Harrit, Steve Jones, and others, does speak for itself as a truly scientific finding of nano-thermite in all four dust samples collected of the WTC collapses. This is a smoking gun in almost a literal sense!
@joefriendly You say theres an abundance of evidence for a controlled demolition, please show me one peer reviewed paper explaining this "controlled demolition".You cant because there is no evidence for a controlled demolition.
The finding of nano-thermite in all four samples of 911 dust IS in a peer reviewed journal! ISSN: 1874-4125 Lead author: Niels Harrit.
A smoking gun! Nano-thermite doesn't just happen. Has to be high-tech manufactured.
How else might you explain virtually all the concrete flooring, office furniture, and people reduced to an extraordinarily fine dust? Pancake collapse would have resulted in that stuff and people crudely crushed, not fine dust that could be conveniently washed down sewers.
Chomsky on Haircuts: promotes blowhard conspiracy theorists claiming he is a tool.
Conclusion: You fell into his trap, you are a tool.
I do agree with the JFK assassination, the official story is pretty ludicrous. As for 9/11, it is common knowledge that Rice had a memo on her desk entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S." however to say that the proverbial "they" knew about it beforehand requires proof.
Do you know of documents or witnesses corroborating this, besides websites?
Besides the fact that anyone with a basic understanding of material properties and conservation of momentum should be able to recognize that the WTC 1,2 & 7 were brought down by more than planes and office fires.
You are changing conspiracy theories now, before you stated that there was merely foreknowledge. Now you are alluding to a concerted effort to bring down the buildings beyond merely flying planes into them. Again I ask, where is your smoking gun?
Are you a material science expert or a physicist? Have you conclusively researched the matter or are your claims merely based upon what you have seen in a YouTube video or a website?
The REAL crime was the subsequent occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan.
Depending upon your definition (good old Chomsky semantics) yes, I am a material science expert and a physicist. I hold a degree in Civil Engineering and am a licensed Professional Engineer whose professional experience is in structural steel design and quality assurance. How about you?
I keep trying to post a link to eyewitness testimony that proves 9/11 to be an event staged by federal insiders with regard to the pentagon incident. It seems youtube won't allow the link to appear; if you are sincere then I encourage you to google citizens investigation team and watch the evidence for yourself.
There is an abundance of evidence that controlled demolition brought down the 3 WTC buildings. LVI Services got a $3 million pentagon contract to develop a nano-thermite spray in 1999. Then they got a one million contract supposedly to treat the asbestos in the WTC buildings, starting Sept 12, 2000. What was the treatment? Some spraying? What was found in all 4 samples of WTC powder on 9/11: Nano-thermite. But let's carry on this discussion elsewhere. Chomsky isn't a 911 truther. It's sad.
Chomsky doesn't promote any JFK story. He does say, in both cases, that he suspects that "planners," as he calls "them," are probably pretty contented with the drain of leftist energy that goes into both JFK and 9/11. I think that the 9/11 Truth people need to look outside of their own circles for truth, just as Chomsky readers, myself included, need to look outside of Chomsky for their own truth.
Personally, I don't constrain my search for truth within a circle. I was a Chomsky fan a decade ago, but I find his stance on 9/11 more than sad, I find it troubling and it raises (in my mind, anyway) serious questions about the man's underlying motivations. Perhaps, as you put it, Chomsky himself is a "drain on leftist energy" - has he prevented any wars, decreased any suffering, brought any peace?
Those, to me, should be the goals of a man of his age, stature, and supposed leanings.
tahooey, I wonder if you realize you are not alone; not everyone who is a fan of Chomsky agrees with him re: false flag etc. Not everyone who reads Chomsky reads ONLY Chomsky. I hope you aren't making such an assumption in your comment. Furthermore, have you prevented any wars? Decreased any suffering? Brought any Peace? Can one man, alone, do so? Chomsky himself has led a life of activism, scholarship, and teaching. And we can too. People together change things, and Chomsky says this.
Awesome. I started listening to him back when "Prospects for Democracy" audio cd was going around, and ever since I've been a huge fan. Noam is like the father I wished I'd had. I went ahead and subscribed to your channel, btw.
@ stellarconverter: thanks =) but I highly recommend subscribing also to Chomskyan and Joe Friendly here as well if you haven't already. Their uploads are often first-hand, just smashing; I just know what to "favorite" =)
Pretty good lecture.. Imperialism will only grow with larger government control.. Notice how his only example of pre 60s imperialism is colonization itself which was essentially set in motion by the huge british government.. When our government was smaller.. so was our imperialism.. although always existant in some form.
you have too many zits
smellymexicanhindu 1 week ago
Damn, the audience @ this lecture are very well informed and more enlightened than most Chomsky Lectures? Why do I wonder? If you notice the audience sounds like they are listening for a pin to drop. You can calculate how bored an audience is by hearing coughing. Coughing here is at a very minimum. And, then they laugh in the right places at Chomsky human rights humor that sometimes goes unnoticed? Enlightened audience? Chomsky gives me hope, seeing the masses that go to his lectures more so
ELMENDORFX 1 month ago
Youtube comments convince me that the world is fucked. It's all just a matter of time.
jacksawild 7 months ago 2
@JJJosh321 He isn't any of those things. He is a Noam Chomsky. I don't think I agree he is a great teacher, the man has the most boring voice I've ever heard. It is a testament to him that I can listen to that boring voice for hours, but I've always thought that he holds himself back. Probably as he understands that it isn't difficult to "get rid" of someone who is too much of a problem. I try to read between the lines of what he says, and I usually fail.
jacksawild 7 months ago
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Anti-western scum. Die, you old fart.
TheGoldenKing20 7 months ago
He sure earns loads of money. He is an elitist himself and goes where the money is.
wonder what he thinks about the global strike 2012 for the abolition of money
nick9tap 9 months ago
great man and great upload!
Thanks a lot! :)
PNACATTACKdotCOM 1 year ago
Dr. Chomsky recently told Iranian TV that at the time the US invaded Afghanistan, they had no evidence that al Qaeda did 9/11. See my video "Chomsky on Faith-Based Wars and 9/11"
punxsutawneybarney 1 year ago
@JJJosh321 "I'm curious as to what (Chomsky's) stated political affiliation/s are?"
Chomsky considers himself a libertarian anarchist and definitely leftist in orientation. At the beginning of this talk, he tells the story of how his father became a Wobblie while a young man. He also "received an education" at his uncle's news stand in New York City during the 1930s where leftists of all stripes met and argued the fine points of Marxism and Anarchism.
bapyou 1 year ago
I love chomsky blasting U.S policies and the ignorants Americans..
bazzatt1 1 year ago
This is such a great lecture
dubified89 1 year ago
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As much as I admire Professor Chomsky and bow to his towering intellect, I'm always tempted to buy him a new sweater - or should I say, a SECOND sweater?
JoeStunner 1 year ago
As much as I admire to Professor Chomsky and bow to his towering intellect, I'm always tempted to buy him a new sweater - or should I say, a SECOND sweater?
JoeStunner 1 year ago 6
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Chomsky is a gatekeeper shill, a controlled opposition agent for the Governement, as there is no way any intelligent person with even a basic grasp of logic and physics could fail to realise that 911 was an inside job, it's scientifically proven.
Chomsky is scum.
pixarian72 1 year ago
@pixarian72 "911 was an inside job"
Whether or not 9/11 was an inside job is irrelevant. The Bush administration -- even without a conspiracy to pin on them -- is guilty of vast & overwhelming crimes. The fact that Obama won't prosecute them means the U.S. public endures in frustration and a gnawing sense of injustice. And all of this because Americans have a short attention span & are distracted by our vacuous & inane culture. Our government is a terrorist organization.
bapyou 1 year ago 5
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@pixarian72 Even if 9/11 was an inside job, it would be among the least of the Bush war crimes.
DoctorMandible 3 months ago
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It's not that Mr. Chomsky is ignorant, it's just that he knows so much that isn't so.
onceuponamidnightdry 1 year ago
It's not that Mr. Chomsky is ignorant, it's just that he knows so much that isn't so.
onceuponamidnightdry 1 year ago
Pseudo-intellectual crap from the king of the Leftist-Progressive, anti-Capitalist, anti-individual freedom movement who can only survive in a world where he can prey on the minds full of mush ... both student and faculty.
To paraphrase a statement that perfectly sums-up Mr. Chomsky ... It's not that Chomsky is ignorant, it's just that he knows so much that isn't so..
onceuponamidnightdry 1 year ago
@onceuponamidnightdry
"it's just that he knows so much that isn't so."
Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you had the time
Could you give examples of what he is wrong about?
festyosemtex 1 year ago
@festyosemtex Ummmm, try 911 for starters.
pixarian72 1 year ago
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@pixarian72 what about 911?
festyosemtex 1 year ago
zionists at its best
Stgfre 1 year ago
Literary criticism puts imperialism at the center of western civilization? How is that? How is this "center" the result of imperialism? Western civilization is in its core (center) imperialistic, i.e. malevolent?
What is unique to western civilization? How does it differ from other civilizations? imperialism is not unique to western civilization. The history of Islam is a history of imperialism. Imperialism is not at the center of western civilization.
bhigr 1 year ago
@bhigr Just because other civilizations are also imperialistic does not diminish the fact that western civilization is imperialistic. And the fact that you would resort to such denialism is proof that Said's arguments are necessary.
DoctorMandible 3 months ago
@DoctorMandible What is denialism and what is Said's argument?
bhigr 3 months ago
Chomski is a shining light in a sea of human ignorance.
A proper candidate for the Nobel Peace prize (rather than a puppet president)
bbagginz 1 year ago 2
Props to the Noamster. Genius. Shrewd marketing skillz. Dude has made a fortune with books that allow countless numbers of 1st world suburbia's many flakes and Leftards to feel important. Lived the American Dream.I personally know dozens of dipshit Lefties who buy anything he writes.
alphecca2539 1 year ago
Hes a walking encyclopedia, but he is VERY dry. Needs to work on his approach. Guess it wouldn't matter anyways because the mass media only allow conventional thought to be mentioned.
ColdCypher 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 Each patrol invaded an average of 30 Iraqi homes a day, with the mission to interrogate, arrest, or kill suspects. Any fighting age man was considered not just a suspect, but a potential lethal adversary. US soldiers were told not to take any chances. Patrols in 2007 resulted in just under 3,000 firefights each month, about 100 per day, not counting about 25 involving our Iraqi allies, resulting in 1000s of innocent Iraqi deaths and brutal detentions. Google: million Iraqis killed
joefriendly 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 Interviewers from the Lancet report of October 2006 asked Iraqi respondents how their loved ones died. Of deaths for which families were certain of the perpetrator, 56 percent were attributable to US forces or their allies. For the first four years of the occupation the American military sent over 1,000 patrols each day into hostile neighborhoods, looking to capture or kill “insurgents” and “terrorists.” Since February 2007 it has increased to nearly 5,000 patrols a day.
joefriendly 1 year ago
@joefriendly 1.) Lancet report is one of many sources. 2.) Polling, if scientifically done, can only go so far. These are opinions of Iraqis who 'attribute' (key word) their family or friends death to Americans. One, the information given is 'opinion' of Iraqis. Second, the word 'attribute' can mean that the War in Iraq has 'caused' lawlessness and has 'attributed' to Iraqi deaths. Not the sole cause of Iraqi deaths. The underlying assumption is obvious; when Muslims kill other Muslims.....
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 The current count of Iraqi deaths caused by the criminal 2003 US invasion and occupation displayed online at JustForeignPolicy dotOrg is 1,366,350. You seem to find it comforting to claim most of that is fighting of Shiite vs.Sunni. Not so. GOOGLE! Besides, US and Britain cooked up violence between the religious groups to distract their fighting us. Are not the "enemies" the US is killing there rightfully defending their country? Were you troubled by the Fallujah massacre?
joefriendly 1 year ago
@joefriendly I wonder if JustForeignPolicy is an activist organization? The answer is obvious, they are. The UN estimates are nearly half of this and what makes it a 'criminal invasion'? Do some research, in fact, read Christopher Hitchens' articles on the war. The invasion wasn't done overnight.
The Fallujah massacre was horrible, period. But what is your point? Should the US just disengage from the world? Because this will not happen, we must look out for our interests and cannot be passive
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@joefriendly Morals and international relations do not coincide. It may seem that the US acts immoral at times, but you must remember we live in a amoral world. A nation, therefore, must act accordingly in order to survive.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 The US does claim to its citizens that its reasons are the honorable ones of promoting freedom, democracy, peace, stability. The fact that such are big lies argues for the US government fooling its people and that we are but a sham democracy, not a real one. The US violates its treaty obligation when it signed the UN Charter outlawing aggression. Chomsky makes clear, the US is using our military to dominate the world like a cruel bully, i.e. immorally! Our piggy "interests?"
joefriendly 1 year ago 11
@joefriendly I admire your pursuit of knowledge. Hopefully you will continue to expand your understanding of the world-because it isn't as simple as Chomsky puts it. If it were, we humans, would have come to peace by now. I suggest you read George Friedman, or study 'geopolitics' (very revealing). If you have any suggestions for me-I'll be open to check it out.
You put too much 'faith' in the far left ideology.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@BadHabit202
Nothing about this talk is particularly leftist. It seems as though you're responding to your own conceptions of what Chomsky is about rather than what he is actually saying here. Nothing he says in this talk is in any way controversial, nor is it overtly political. He does not suggest foreign or domestic policies. He simply describes a series of unfortunate events, and does so quite accurately.
yunikage 1 year ago
@yunikage This is what concerns me about ideologues and religious folks-they can't seem to see the 'assumptions' being made. Nor do they realize that Chomsky is one source of many , who purposely focuses on imperialism.
Therefore Chomsky views everything through a specific lens, a lens in which imperialism and a pursuit of power guides history to its present-which is a fundamental liberal theory (Mao Zedong's 'political power through a barrel of a gun'.).
Nice talking with you.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@BadHabit202
The idea that pursuit of power by institutions and individuals is the ruling force in history is evident to anyone who is paying attention. It's not a "controversial theory", it's a virtually universal interpretation. Likewise, the idea that state power is violence at its most fundamental level is not a liberal or Marxist theory, it's a definition of "state" which goes back hundreds of years before Marx.
How about a list of the "assumptions" you refer to?
yunikage 1 year ago
@joefriendly It's not your "piggy interests" that are behind the American Empire; it's the richest people in the world that desire to promote democracy (corporatism) around the world. Why would America (a republic) want to promote democracy? It's about collective, corporate socialism. It's not a new desire either.
BogusDonut 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 At times? It acts immoral all the time. I'm not talking about the people, I'm talking about its pharisee corporate feudal government called the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Cstrife234 1 year ago
@Cstrife234 Another platitude from a nonthinking leftist. What else is new? Study geopolitcs. Study evolutionary biology-read Dawkin's 'The Selfish Gene' and realize that human nature is not purely benevolent.
The left is myopic beyong repair. I am convinced that you all know little about history except from WWII until present. Keep studying Marxism and continue to treat as if it were the revealed word of God.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 I never said we were purely benevolent. I never claimed to be a leftist, because I'm not a leftist. I'm not a Marxist either. I actually know quite a bit about history. The people aren't off the hook either. A considerable number of the people are proletariat. They escape their meager labor-centered existence around sport, combat, video games, and tv, without any concept of the illusory world around them. No character building, or self-awareness. No growth.
Cstrife234 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 Only because and insofar as other countries act amorally. It certainly seems just that the most powerful and secure state in the world would show a bit more integrity and lead the way. Not to mention listen to the majority of its population.
nohonor89 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 I disagree with this argument (if you're actually making a serious one). If everyone else is raping, killing and stealing, should I do it too to survive? It's not about survival anyway. If you look at the administrations from Wilson on, it's about destroying America - no industry, destruction of the currency, destruction of constitution, bill of rights, education, family, morals... The true aim is to destroy the middle class in favour of the richest (to rule).
BogusDonut 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 The sentence in the Lancet report with the word "attribute" also has language of the victim families being "certain" of who caused the deaths. In addition to US killings by patrols "cleaning up neighborhoods" by smashing into apartments, there is the claim 95 percent of increase in deaths over peacetime were caused by bombs or fire from helicopter gunships." Then there's the cynical using of Depleted Uranium weapons that'll be causing cancer and mutations for millions of years.
joefriendly 1 year ago
@BadHabit202 It is an accepted fact that much of the violence not related to direct US or allied attacks on Iraqis is caused by the utter destruction and societal confusion caused by our illegal occupation. If a state engages in aggression they are guilty of all of the evils that follow.(according to Nuremberg principles or international law generally) It does not matter who is to blame for particular acts of violence. Once aggression has been enjoined the aggressor is guilty of it all.
cincishaman 1 year ago 2
@joefriendly .......continued. The underlying 'assumption' is that when Muslims kill other Muslims there 'must' be another actor responsible. The majority of the deaths in Iraq have been the result of 'Shiite vs. Sunni' extremists.
I don't deny that the dismantling of the Iraqi National Guard by Paul Bremer or the destruction of Saddam's regime contributed to the anarchy. Although I think you are generalizing when you state that the 'US is responsible for a million Iraqi deaths'.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
Go Noam!
bersenev 1 year ago
Every thing Chomski says checks out, do some research. Noam Chomski is a great patriot.... we need more like him.
tom474e 1 year ago
:D great speaking i respect Noam
Lynnc83 1 year ago
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Now, Chomsky, do I turn to thee, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. Thou art a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat; and wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.
GreatGrumbledook 1 year ago
Simple point, walk out side if you need to cough 15 times. These people have no consideration, damn.
mrcarlos15 1 year ago
I think the reason people respect Noam so much when he speaks, is it quickly, and plainly becomes obvious, that he never speaks to further his own personal agenda.
This is very refreshing to so many of us (no matter what "wing" you think you are) because we are so used to seeing a slimy, palm greasing wanker, spit out rhetoric that only benefits themselves, or their own personal view point.
JonnyCashmore 2 years ago 51
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joefriendly 2 years ago
@JonnyCashmore Amen brother, Chomsky is a post-partisan and post-neoliberal agenda wonder... we are lucky to have him to speak for those who can't speak for their selves.
chrisrhudy02 1 year ago
@JonnyCashmore You're too naive. Chomsky sells his material to anyone willing to buy, including the Pentagon (as records have shown).
I don't believe Chomsky is a liar, but he is definitely a pseudo-intellectual. Chomsky comes from the 'assumption' that humans generally behave in a morally righteous manner--which hasn't been proven by history. Chomsky is right, the US pushed through the Western territories without the slightest trepidation or worry for those living their.
BadHabit202 1 year ago
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@BadHabit202 "Chomsky comes from the 'assumption' that humans generally behave in a morally righteous manner" Can you please provide an example of this claim?
DoctorMandible 3 months ago
@JonnyCashmore: I concur. His selflessness is admirable beyond all expectations.
chinopisces 8 months ago
Noam Chomsky is a Libertarian Communist(also know as Anarchist) the notions of patriotism and nationalism do not apply to such a mind. The word Communism can make American people feel a pain in the ass... but the intelligent ones, the ones that search information in Books... not in the Saving Private Ryan knows what I'm talking about.
He is not practicing moderation... he is jut being an anarchist.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. - Mikhail Bakunin
paunocu666 2 years ago 7
Bakunin FTW
greenhell666 2 years ago
@paunocu666 he is not a communist
anarchy is a different theoretical strain
he aligns himself with anacho-synidicatism
Southwestrepresent 2 years ago
@paunocu666 Libertarian Communism is not the same as Anarchism. Communism has a greater emphasis on representative democracy whereas Anarchism emphasizes direct democracy. There are other differences too.
DoctorMandible 3 months ago
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wda013 2 years ago
@peymaania Why don't you stop telling others how to behave and what to do?
Arkinight 2 years ago
(Cont'd )Like Soviet dissidents, what Chomsky can affect most is what HIS government does. No one respects the Soviet who denounced Western crimes while his country was carrying out egregious policies. He is a hypocrite. Thus, Chomsky is correct in not practicing "moderation" and in focusing on the crimes of his government. It is apparent to all that you cannot attack the substance of Chomsky's argument so you pursue this absurd line of reasoning befitting only the most vulgar propagandist.
jseiter2 2 years ago 36
@jseiter2
Well said.
jumpnjza2 2 years ago
@Rocketeer10001
You seem stupidly confused as to why Chomsky doesn't spend more time criticizing the imperialism of other states. This is a very common propaganda tool. The Soviet Commisars also excoriated their country's critics for their "exclusive focus" on Soviet crimes and not the racism of the US south.
jseiter2 2 years ago 7
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@peymaania
People like you are so full of shit. Let's face it if I never brought up China, Russia and Islam into this conversation, you and your terrorist comrades would be having a field day going on about anti-Western imperialism. In other words, Eastern imperialism exists in your mind as having secondary importance to Western imperialism when in fact it should be the reverse given how the scale of suffering and misery of Eastern imperialism far exceeds that caused by the West.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
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Manifest treason! Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer as traitors do. Therefore lay hold of him; bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence into destruction cast him. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock with rigorous hands: he hath resisted law, and therefore law shall scorn him further trial than the severity of the public power which he so sets at nought. AEdiles, seize him!
GreatGrumbledook 2 years ago
When China becomes a superpower, you wont be able to criticize anything that they do without them shoving your ass in a "work camp". Fallun gong, political dissidents, democracy activists, etc.
Exoteric01 2 years ago
Exoteric01,
If CHINA is so EVIL why don't U sign USA-TAIWAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT as of now! This should be TOP PRIORITY to keep TAIWAN out of CHINA's ORBIT PULL!! >=)
Then, proceed to sell TAIWAN many of those F-16 C/D Block 52s, Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers w/ BGM-109 Tomahawks, Virginia Class Submarines also w/ BGM-109 Tomahawks, and so on that we need! In the end, who's the BULL SHITTER around here!? >=(
IronJackalTw 1 year ago
Exoteric01,
Signing USA-TAIWAN FTA create JOBS in America! More USA exports into Taiwan without any TARIFF, which create JOBS! Massive Investments from Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and create JOBS! R U People RETARDED!? >=(
Selling those F-16 C/D Blocks 52s, Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers, and so on would create JOBS in America, too! Grow a BRAIN!? =/
American Dream is DEAD.....
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Who's the RETARDS around here keep pushing TAIWAN the LAMB into a DEN OF LIONS!? >=(
IronJackalTw 1 year ago
Exoteric01,
Noam Chomsky is a JEW, which mean they all liked to hear thmeselves talking.... Narcissistic..... huh!? {roll my eyes}
This is WHY he knows a lot of their ZIONIST & NEO-CON INSIDE WORKING! This is also WHY he is against RECOGNIZED 911 INSIDE JOB!! =/
JEWS have nearly full control of American Global Mass Media! Non-JEWS simply are not allowed to have the MICROPHONEs sorta speak! If they did, they'll end up like Pat Tillman (DEAD NON-JEW ATHEIST) and so on!! >=(
IronJackalTw 1 year ago
Exoteric01,
Let Jewish American Noam Chomsky talked! This is part of his Inner Guilt pouring out! He does give us an INSIDE LOOKED into mind set of JEWISH GLOBAL DOMINATION along with Christian KKK White Trash that THEIR KINDS worked for!! =/
Remember that, Jewish American Noam Chomsky is IMMUNE from ZIONST & NEO-CON retributions and retaliations! Some of us have NEAR-DEATH experience where we realized that we simply do not have those ONLY JEWS CAN TALK IMMUNITY!! >=(
IronJackalTw 1 year ago
I heard that there is a narritive Noam Chomsky movie in development!!!!!
midnightstudiorats 2 years ago
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"If China becomes a super power in a few decades, then you should start a new line of Scholarship on Eastern Imperialism."
No, sorry I am not Chinese but if I was and I did in fact start a new line of scholarship on Eastern imperialism, will you accompany me as one of the founding fathers of Occidentalism? No? No. Of course you won't.
"As for Eastern Imperialism, read what the Ancient Greeks wrote about the Persian Empire." But wasn't it the Persians that first invaded the Greeks?
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
@peymaania
@peymaania
So citizenship and familiarity are now the dual criterion for criticism. That is one of the stupidest self-contradictory shit I have ever heard. Right, and so if that was the case, why would the US have to care about what the world thinks? Why does it matter what the fuck Islamists or Communists living outside the US thinks about the US they don't live there therefore they don't know it best. And while you're at it, where are the scholars of Eastern imperialism?
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Brilliant as always. I have posted this on my site.
AtTheZoneDOTcom 2 years ago 3
i love you
magazinestock 2 years ago
Then what is the excuse for Americans being so ignorant about the goings on arouind the world?
mrraven888 2 years ago
Manufacture of consent
guts777 2 years ago
We have a state-of-the-art propaganda apparatus.
Antiks72 2 years ago
the Jews should pay the Palestinians for all the territory the have robbed, and the destruction they have caused
putasensura 2 years ago
He is giving gestures
johnbambammorgan 2 years ago
love this man thinking and analyses
amet1980 2 years ago
It is so educational to listen to man!
Canada1953 2 years ago 5
The key finding in the paper: nano-thermite particles and chips were found to be present in 4 samples of WTC dust, with verification by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry.
The 1,3-diphenylpropane may have been a component of the spray used to distribute the nano-thermite throughout the WTC buildings.
LVI Services, in the demolition business, had a pentagon contract to develop such a spray and a WTC contract to treat asbestos.
joefriendly 2 years ago
Socialists and 9/11 conspiracy theorists.
Who could have guessed.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Rocketeer. Checked out your favorites: Christians triumphant over Muslims.
You haven't figured out yet 911is a Big Lie?
??Burning jet fuel causes buildings to collapse exactly as if by controlled demolition, symmetrically, in their own footprint at the speed of gravity? duh. That's a lot of steel to turn to wet spaghetti all in the same 10 seconds!
Watch videos like on this channel
and wise up. Seems you do want to be wise eventually.
Join up with the good guys: us!
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joefriendly 2 years ago
And I checked out your favourites: conspiracy theories, anti-Western self-hate left-wing bullshit.
9/11 is a big lie? Of course it was! Just like how Islam and the Gaza Strip are also lies. Like really, do you expect me to believe that biggest hoax in human history that millions of Muslims are actually living under some man-made phony al-Jazeera concocted story of colonisation? Don't fall for it, that's just manufactured consent horseshit.
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Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Then again, maybe you won't eventually wise up! Inconvenient truth you deal with by empty rationalization and name-calling.
US imperialism is not sensibly defensible. It's destructive, cynical, criminal, Your comeback is to say Islam's was worse. Irrelevant even if true.
Christianity is a Roman conjob, actually, a defilement of the First Commandment, for starters. Hyam MacCoby explains it so well in Revolution in Judea.
joefriendly 2 years ago
Hell even Noam Chomsky would be ashamed of you. Inconvenient truth? Sure. Kind of like the inconvenient truth that the US MSM swallowed for hook, line and sinker that Saddam possessed WMDs? Nah, didn't think so.
You say US imperialism is indefensible. Right, what a pathetic sorry excuse of a cop-out to my argument that Islam is the most efficient killing machine known to mankind.
You say Christianity is a conjob. Right, and so is Islam but somehow I don't Muslim house masters (contd)
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
told you that one. But then again, so is communism, which is so morally polluted yet clinically masqueraded by its mindless drones of zombified supporters as a universal force for good, that it's no more than a step up from the barrel of low-grade pornography.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
@Rocketeer1001 You seem to be lapsing into incoherent babbling. Christianity's being a conjob you answer with, "Sure, so is Islam." When US imperialism is accurately stated to be wrongful you come back with Islam's was worse.
The MSM did not fall for the WMD hoax, they were deliberate agents of the US government propaganda apparatus. They are part of the corruption our military is fooled into maintaining in power.
Are you in the employ of the U.S.? You sound like bootcamp brainwash.
joefriendly 2 years ago
I had a hard time wading through your sceptic tank of verbal diarrhea. Though I'm sure I don't work for the US government as they've yet to do good and behead you. And I sure as hell am not brainwash because al-Jazeera isn't part of the MSM of the USA. Praise Allah.
And when I accurately state Islam's imperialism is bloodifully merciless retrogade force of evil, you're only response is US imperialism is worse.
But hey it's at times like these I wish I was still Muslim at least (contd)
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
then I could say I'm the legal owner of some continential house eunuch whose free entertainment of public fucking makes it different from a dog only in the size of the leash!
By the way does that hooker mother of yours happen to be a janitor? Your arguments reek of ship monkey low-grade sticky glob of vaginal discharge. Clean up on aile four.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
@Rocketeer1001
The number of people who have died since 1950 as result of US imperialism is several million, well more that a million just in Iraq since our criminal invasion and occupation. So many countries have we caused so much damage in, physically, economically, socially, politically. It is a painful truth Americans need to wake up to and correct, Islamic history notwithstanding!
The tasteless sex talk you have resorted to will get you blocked, knuckle-head! Clean up your act or out!
joefriendly 2 years ago
Rocketeer101
Your foolish notions about US Mainstream Media (MSM) being the unfortunate victim of misinformation cry for correction: Like, Time Magazine's picking Bernanke for Man of the Year, with Nancy Pelosi among their runners-up, urges our remembering who they tellingly picked for 1939 Man of the Year: Hitler
joefriendly 2 years ago
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"Your foolish notions about US Mainstream Media (MSM) being the unfortunate victim of misinformation cry for correction"
I couldn't make anything out of your verbal vomit, but like I said, I'm glad that unlike you I'm not brainwashed by the state-controlled media that is al-Jazeera.
And as for TIME picking Hitler as the man of year, renew your subscriptions to TIME ASAP you Jew-hating Nazi last time I checked you probably think they're behind 9/11!
bin Laden as the Man of Year?
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
"Islamic history notwithstanding!" AND THERE'S THE RUB Islamic and Communist history notwithstanding, Western (particularly US) history would be atrocious by the standards of comparison to the annals of mankind. But Islamic-Communist history withstanding, it makes the actions of US "imperialism" look like an atom compared to the galaxy of the hundreds of millions of people around the four corners of the globe suffer the nightmares of war, genocide, murder and poverty.
I know. The truth bites
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Nah, he doesn't work for the government, he's just one of the mindless right wing knuckle draggers that can't deal with cognitive dissonance.
Antiks72 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this! Is there a questions & answers section by any chance?
peterfdrucker 2 years ago
Yes, the Chomsky Unipolar Moment Q and A session is posted on the JoeFriendly Channel, twice at this point , with the only difference being what is Before and After the full Chomsky Q and A session.
joefriendly 2 years ago
I have watched hours and hours of Noma chomsky lectures. The more i watch the more helpless i feel. The clarity and percison of his topics are brilliant. When will we wake up??
redsam888 2 years ago 3
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"WHen will we wake up??"
When will you wake up from the corporate Eastern state-controlled media propaganda brainwashing? But wait. No, I'm sorry. That's right. That's just the usual Western propaganda up to its no-good deeds of manufacturing consent.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Eastern? What east? East starts at the Middle-East, and, well, you'll have a hard time showing their propaganda (if there's even any kind of unified Middle-Eastern ideological bloc, which there isn't much) lines up in any way significant way with, er, anything like Noam Chomsky's views.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
Yes you are right the East includes the Middle East and pretty much anything to the East of it, just like generalising terminology that Chomsky and Said use when they refer to "the West."
As for the lecture that posits a correlation between American unipolarity and cultural imperialism. Really? I must have missed the slave trade and wars of conquest on which the Arab Empire was built. Or the total destruction of Eastern Europe by the USSR.
But wait. I'm sorry. That's Western propaganda.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Of course that's not Western propaganda, but both are almost entirely gone by now. Imperialism in the Middle-East from Middle-Eastern sources is practically nonexistant and, if anything, comes from Islam and not any nation. A past history of warmongering is irrelevant as it's long gone (aside from the Israeli wars, which by the way, can partly be traced to US and European influence), and again, the Caliphate, the closest thing there ever was to an Arab Empire, is directly linked to Islam.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
No no, history is important for two reasons: because, firstly, of the inter-generational effects from historical events that, secondly, provides the context for understanding present events. So if you go back to history, you'll see that Eastern imperialism (which isn't even discussed in the East) occurred on a scale ten times that of Western imperialism (which is discussed in the West). Which is basically my point. Not that it matters though since you don't even have one.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Okay, for the sake of avoiding pointless rhetoric, I'll buy your statement that Eastern imperialism (from who? The Caliphate? Clarify that if you want to be taken seriously. There was never an Arabic Empire. Arabic people are a people living across a relatively well-defined area that was never really united, but was certainly subjected to imperialism from its own region) was much worse than modern American imperialism. I give you that free of any of the scrutiny I should give it. Then what?
Rykemasters 2 years ago
Again you nitwit, yes Eastern imperialism the kind that Pat Condell would agree with which is also known as the Islamic wars of conquest and the Ottoman Empire that included the genocide, theft, slavery of Christians, Jews, Hindus and non-Muslims. Or the pogroms and massacre of Chinese and Russians in the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution.
Then what? Then Chomsky's basic premise falls apart: that imperialism is the province of American/Western history. It isn't. And it never was.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Chomsky's premise is not and never was that the West is the only source of imperialism, not at the moment and most certainly not historically. That's a convenient straw man, but it doesn't hold up. Certainly he focuses almost exclusively on Western imperialism, in past history and today, but he has said a few times exactly the opposite of what you say is his point.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
"West is the only source of imperialism"
Methinks you are trying too hard. When did I ever say that?
But yes, just for the record, this is what I said: Chomsky's premise is that imperialism is PROVINCE (not source) of American/Western history. And it's something of which you even admit when you say, "Certainly he focuses almost exclusively on Western imperialism."
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Yes, that is one of the most prominent things he says, and the subject of this speech. But then your pointing out of unjustified violence and imperialism outside of what we call the West doesn't actually undermine that premise, especially given that Chomsky has on occasion pointed out more or less what you're pointing out. What you're saying doesn't actually rule out what he's saying.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
Again, I never said that Chomsky's premise is that imperialism is the exclusive province of Western civilisation. What I do take issue with the lack of moderation is Chomsky's exclusive focus on Western imperialism when other types of civilisation have committed criminal acts of colonialism on a magnitude a millennia-fold greater than Western colonialism. Also, you make the point that he's at a "few times" said the contrary. So what? Did you know that when Bush was governor of Texas (contd)
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
his tax-break policies so incentivised the wind industry that ClearWater, Texas is home to the largest number of solar-powered wind-mills in the world? But then again, nobody in their right fucking minds would call that gas-guzzling, oil-thieving bastard an environmentalist now would they?
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
but there's entire news networks focused on atrocities carried out by those not in line with US imperialism. so chomsky doesn't need to worry about it.
myroncope 2 years ago
Perhaps you review Chomsky's novel, "World Orders Old and New" There he describes several examples of Eastern Imperial powers and makes comparisions to Western imperial regimes of recent times. Then you may (or not) alter your stance.
wilsola 2 years ago
@wilsola
Perhaps I should review Chomsky's...no thanks I don't read propaganda. Besides, being his unofficial salesperson, it's safe to assume you imbibe everything he says. Which means only one of you two are thinking. So again, thanks but no thanks I'm a freethinker not a sheep with a herd mentality.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
do u have any evidence 2 show wat chomsky is saying is false if not pls shut d fuk up.
u claimed 2 be a free thinker but i bet u dnt have any problem wat so eva wiv d way d us conducts its foreign policy i bet ppl like u still think they wld eventually fing wmd in iraq.
aadejumo 2 years ago 3
Then, there's the fact that USSR influence and warmongering is gone by virtue of there being no USSR anymore. There was clearly imperialism from the USSR on a level at least comparable to that of the US, and certainly more open and obvious. Russia today doesn't have any real hegemony outside of Russia itself, even in Belarus, which is still oddly close to the former USSR.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
And finally, none of this is relevant to my point: What Eastern propaganda? How are Eastern interests valued unfairly compared to Western interests? Imperialism in the past has most definitely been linked to many places other than the US; on the world stage, US imperialism was not particularly big until at least the end of WWI. If you want to argue past history, go ahead, but that's not the point here. Sarcasm on its own won't get you anywhere, get proper arguments and adress my point.
Rykemasters 2 years ago
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stephenrtate 2 years ago
Fair enough, Mikister, my error. The Open Chemical Physics Journal is not apparently. peer-reviewed. It's more open than peer-reviewed journals which our culture has made into gate-keepers of official scientific truth.
However, this paper by Niels Harrit, Steve Jones, and others, does speak for itself as a truly scientific finding of nano-thermite in all four dust samples collected of the WTC collapses. This is a smoking gun in almost a literal sense!
joefriendly 2 years ago
@joefriendly You say theres an abundance of evidence for a controlled demolition, please show me one peer reviewed paper explaining this "controlled demolition".You cant because there is no evidence for a controlled demolition.
verbalps 2 years ago
The finding of nano-thermite in all four samples of 911 dust IS in a peer reviewed journal! ISSN: 1874-4125 Lead author: Niels Harrit.
A smoking gun! Nano-thermite doesn't just happen. Has to be high-tech manufactured.
How else might you explain virtually all the concrete flooring, office furniture, and people reduced to an extraordinarily fine dust? Pancake collapse would have resulted in that stuff and people crudely crushed, not fine dust that could be conveniently washed down sewers.
joefriendly 2 years ago
joefriendly,thank you for posting this very important lecture !!!
k9a2g6 2 years ago 2
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can't he afford a haircut? the 80s are long over.
tahooey 2 years ago
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Chomsky on 9/11: promotes blowback and denies official foreknowledge
Chomsky on JFK: promotes Official Story of Oswald as Lone Gunman
Conclusion: Chomsky is a tool, a tool in need of a haircut.
tahooey 2 years ago
Chomsky on Haircuts: promotes blowhard conspiracy theorists claiming he is a tool.
Conclusion: You fell into his trap, you are a tool.
I do agree with the JFK assassination, the official story is pretty ludicrous. As for 9/11, it is common knowledge that Rice had a memo on her desk entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside U.S." however to say that the proverbial "they" knew about it beforehand requires proof.
Do you know of documents or witnesses corroborating this, besides websites?
ThinkBEFOREUPost 2 years ago
Besides the fact that anyone with a basic understanding of material properties and conservation of momentum should be able to recognize that the WTC 1,2 & 7 were brought down by more than planes and office fires.
tahooey 2 years ago
You are changing conspiracy theories now, before you stated that there was merely foreknowledge. Now you are alluding to a concerted effort to bring down the buildings beyond merely flying planes into them. Again I ask, where is your smoking gun?
Are you a material science expert or a physicist? Have you conclusively researched the matter or are your claims merely based upon what you have seen in a YouTube video or a website?
The REAL crime was the subsequent occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan.
ThinkBEFOREUPost 2 years ago
Depending upon your definition (good old Chomsky semantics) yes, I am a material science expert and a physicist. I hold a degree in Civil Engineering and am a licensed Professional Engineer whose professional experience is in structural steel design and quality assurance. How about you?
tahooey 2 years ago
I keep trying to post a link to eyewitness testimony that proves 9/11 to be an event staged by federal insiders with regard to the pentagon incident. It seems youtube won't allow the link to appear; if you are sincere then I encourage you to google citizens investigation team and watch the evidence for yourself.
tahooey 2 years ago
There is an abundance of evidence that controlled demolition brought down the 3 WTC buildings. LVI Services got a $3 million pentagon contract to develop a nano-thermite spray in 1999. Then they got a one million contract supposedly to treat the asbestos in the WTC buildings, starting Sept 12, 2000. What was the treatment? Some spraying? What was found in all 4 samples of WTC powder on 9/11: Nano-thermite. But let's carry on this discussion elsewhere. Chomsky isn't a 911 truther. It's sad.
joefriendly 2 years ago
/watch?v=IsrfSKZ7N7U
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/watch?v=tK9MmoVaO5U
Arkinight 2 years ago
Since when is dissent , disagreement or debate sad?
Like Ice-T said "If you agree with everything I'm saying, then only one of us is thinking"
WilhelmDrake 2 years ago
Hey so do you believe in the basic premise of what Chomsky says? Don't. If you do, then only one of you two is thinking.
Rocketeer1001 2 years ago
Chomsky doesn't promote any JFK story. He does say, in both cases, that he suspects that "planners," as he calls "them," are probably pretty contented with the drain of leftist energy that goes into both JFK and 9/11. I think that the 9/11 Truth people need to look outside of their own circles for truth, just as Chomsky readers, myself included, need to look outside of Chomsky for their own truth.
weaselbatch 2 years ago 2
Personally, I don't constrain my search for truth within a circle. I was a Chomsky fan a decade ago, but I find his stance on 9/11 more than sad, I find it troubling and it raises (in my mind, anyway) serious questions about the man's underlying motivations. Perhaps, as you put it, Chomsky himself is a "drain on leftist energy" - has he prevented any wars, decreased any suffering, brought any peace?
Those, to me, should be the goals of a man of his age, stature, and supposed leanings.
tahooey 2 years ago
tahooey, I wonder if you realize you are not alone; not everyone who is a fan of Chomsky agrees with him re: false flag etc. Not everyone who reads Chomsky reads ONLY Chomsky. I hope you aren't making such an assumption in your comment. Furthermore, have you prevented any wars? Decreased any suffering? Brought any Peace? Can one man, alone, do so? Chomsky himself has led a life of activism, scholarship, and teaching. And we can too. People together change things, and Chomsky says this.
SweetDissident 2 years ago 2
Have you inquired about his views on 9-11? Will probably make you think twice, lest you're dogmatic about it.
mdoob11 2 years ago
no one person 'stops a war' you incredible jack-ass. no, chomsky is going to body-slam the american air-force yes this is going to happen.
has he decreased any suffering, yes. he's one man on this planet, of billions. he has done more than his fair share.
his stance on 9/11 is non-nationalistic and emotionally removed. deal with it.
OctopusDropkick 2 years ago 8
chomsky is the best person.
AndroidPolitician 2 years ago 3
How awesome to find a new talk by Noam. I hope he sticks around for a lot longer.
stellarconverter 2 years ago 8
He's delivered at least 2 lectures since this one. He stays really active.
SweetDissident 2 years ago
Awesome. I started listening to him back when "Prospects for Democracy" audio cd was going around, and ever since I've been a huge fan. Noam is like the father I wished I'd had. I went ahead and subscribed to your channel, btw.
stellarconverter 2 years ago
@ stellarconverter: thanks =) but I highly recommend subscribing also to Chomskyan and Joe Friendly here as well if you haven't already. Their uploads are often first-hand, just smashing; I just know what to "favorite" =)
SweetDissident 2 years ago
Pretty good lecture.. Imperialism will only grow with larger government control.. Notice how his only example of pre 60s imperialism is colonization itself which was essentially set in motion by the huge british government.. When our government was smaller.. so was our imperialism.. although always existant in some form.
RayHoli0 2 years ago
Noam Chomsky is a brave hero.
hamidious 2 years ago 3
Fucking eh, new video!
Arkinight 2 years ago 2
thank you!
dosedneurons 2 years ago
best lecture i have listened to in 4 years. Noam is not a coward. I love him
discterb 2 years ago 9
share,share and share....kim
kimlea69 2 years ago
I hope one day that youtube will have controls that allow for faster or slower playback - In the case of Chomsky Faster.
pkunzipstardotstar 2 years ago
Excellent!
lonelycubicle 2 years ago 3
Big thanks!
subscrubing!
keep em coming!!!!
stephgautron 2 years ago 3
yeah i agree with yellowcakewalk, good job joefriendly
shippingnewsful 2 years ago
Excellent work, joefriendly!
yellowcakewalk 2 years ago 3