Noam Chomsky: Democracy & Media Part 1 - Brazilian Coup d'État and Torture (1994)

November 1, 1994 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1604863056?ie=UTF8&tag=doc06-20&link... Watch the full lecture: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/noam-chomsky-on-democracy-and-med...

Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 -- December 24, 2008) was an American political scientist who gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations (1993, 1996) thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.

Huntington was born on April 18, 1927, in New York City. He graduated with distinction from Yale University at age 18, served in the U.S. Army, earned his Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University where he began teaching at age 23. He was a member of Harvard's department of government from 1950 until he was denied tenure in 1959. From 1959 to 1962 he was an associate professor of government at Columbia University where he was also Deputy Director of The Institute for War and Peace Studies. Huntington was invited to return to Harvard with tenure in 1963 and remained there until his death. Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel co-founded and co-edited Foreign Policy. Huntington stayed as co-editor until 1977.

His first major book was The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, (1957) which was highly controversial when it was published, but today is regarded as the most influential book on American civil-military relations. He became prominent with his Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), a work that challenged the conventional view of modernization theorists, that economic and social progress would produce stable democracies in recently decolonized countries. As a consultant to the U.S. Department of State, and in an influential 1968 article in Foreign Affairs, he advocated the concentration of the rural population of South Vietnam as a means of isolating the Viet Cong. He also was co-author of The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies, a report issued by the Trilateral Commission in 1976. During 1977 and 1978, in the administration of Jimmy Carter, he was the White House Coordinator of Security Planning for the National Security Council.

Huntington died on December 24, 2008 at age 81 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état was a coup d'état (though self-denominated Revolution) against President João Goulart by the Brazilian military on the night of 31 March 1964. Democratically elected as vice-president to Jânio Quadros, João Goulart (a moderate nationalist also known as "Jango") had acceded to the presidency upon Quadros' 1961 resignation under difficult circumstances.

At the time, the Brazilian military forced Jango into a compromise with the Congress, where his powers would be reduced through the approval of a constitutional amendment changing Brazil to a Parliamentary Democracy with Jango as a weakened head of state in order to halt his Plano Trienal.

In 1963, however, Jango successfully re-established the presidential system through a referendum. His reforms, contemporaneously interpreted as socialist in a world increasingly polarized by the Cold War, went against the interests of the military and right-wing sectors of society.

The coup thrust Brazil into a military dictatorship lasting until the election of Tancredo Neves in 1985 (see Brazilian military government). The coup is widely understood as being part of the Cold War and a response to the perceived threat of communism. It was the first military intervention in Latin America during the Cold War, followed by the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and the 1976 Argentine coup.

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[Bellantoni]

4:32 to get it started.

[mendali]

Woohoo! New Chomsky! Thanks.

[2001Horatio]

Surely the American interference in South and Central America should be mentioned in K-12: aw... just kidding!

[norehct]

Great Talk Thanks

[IloveJesusYesId0]

@crazyforcanada Nah you didn't understand. It wasn't that hard either..

He was belittling the idea you retained as his meaning.

[crazyforcanada]

Wait -- bombing Afghanistan and killing over a million in Iraq is "lavishing care and attention", it's "altruism"? -- I am on the wrong channel, 'scuse me.

[greenhell666]

16 years after the situation in Colombia is still the same

[leeroynaggins]

Damn, we were so innocent and naive then...

[TheHagueCityTHC]

Real talk