Chomsky: What Next? The Elections, the Economy, and the World - 1/4

Noam Chomsky in his first public address after the 2008 presidential election.

Filmed in Boston, Nov 19.
Excerpt from Democracy Now, 24 Nov 2008.

http://www.democracynow.org

For the full audio version, see http://www.archive.org/details/NoamChomskyOnTheElections

See Chomsky's Nov 25 article "The Election, Economy, War, and Peace" at http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/19749«

***************************

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• noam
• chomsky
• obama
• election
• economy
• democracy
• activism
• foreign
• policy
• campaign

[bif7412]

Europe more racist than USA. that is really a strange statement coming from a linguistic. I think you need to clarify that a little bit.

[yrrmom]

See the following Youtube vid, titled "European racism":

/watch?v=jwpO-nnFY9g

I can't speak for Chomsky, but maybe this is the sort of thing he had in mind.

[chewyfishsticks]

I don't have much of a point, other than Mr. Chomsky always fascinates my 20 year old mind. I wish people my age knew of his name and accomplishments rather than those of athletes and pop stars.

[oldjoe5]

Bush "won" in 2000 with less popular votes than Gore and then won in 2004 by far less than 8 million votes. Yet I seem to recall that result being characterized in the mass media as sufficient for a mandate

[stirrrrrr]

"Europe has never gone through the civil rights movement like the US, to a less extent, Canada." I heard NC giving this as the reason for his argument. But I have only been to Europe for a few days. So dunno if the charge of racism is true.

[oldjoe5]

You shouldn't be throwing around the "word" ironical unless you are being ironic

[mathijs1987j]

I'd like some clarification as well. I'm not saying he's wrong, but his statement does certainly not reflect the common view in the Netherlands, where I live. About the video, soccer-fan vandalists are hardly average europeans.

[Bredac]

well you are an idiot because its very true...do research before you open your dumb mouth.

[oldjoe5]

The I guess Obama needs to declare his victory and landslide and a mandate for his policies (whatever those are)and it becomes so.

[yrrmom]

Of course. But that was just because Bush *declared* it a mandate, and the mass media essentially repeats (with little or no criticism) what the powerful declare.