Noam Chomsky: "Reagan didn't exist" - The New World Order Part 8 (1991)

November 23, 1991 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww....

Watch the full lecture: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/07/noam-chomsky-on-new-world-order-1...

Palestine is a conventional name used, among others, to describe a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.

As a geographic term, Palestine can refer to 'ancient Palestine,' an area that today includes Israel and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, as well as part of Jordan, and some of both Lebanon and Syria. In classical or contemporary terms, it is also the common name for the area west of the Jordan River. The boundaries of two new states were laid down within the territory of the British Mandate, Palestine and Transjordan. The term Land of Israel is used to refer to the same geographic region, both narrowly or broadly defined, by Israelis, Jews, and Christian Zionists, among others. Other terms for the same area include Canaan, Zion, and the Holy Land.

The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States wherein 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American Embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution.

Sixty-six Americans were taken captive when Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, including three who were at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Six more Americans escaped and Of the 66 who were taken hostage, 13 were released on Nov. 19 and 20, 1979; one was released on July 11, 1980, and the remaining 52 were released on Jan. 20, 1981.

The episode reached a climax when, after failed attempts to negotiate a release, the United States military attempted a rescue operation, Operation Eagle Claw, on April 24, 1980, which resulted in a failed mission, the destruction of two aircraft and the deaths of eight American servicemen and one Iranian civilian. It ended with the signing of the Algiers Accords in Algeria on January 19, 1981. The hostages were formally released into United States custody the following day, just minutes after the new American president Ronald Reagan was sworn in.

The crisis has been described as an entanglement of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension." In Iran, despite freezing of all Iranian assets held in the United States (Executive Order 12170), the hostage taking was widely seen as a blow against the U.S, and its influence in Iran, its perceived attempts to undermine the Iranian Revolution, and its long-standing support of the recently overthrown government of the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah had been restored to power in a 1953 coup against a democratically-elected nationalist Iranian government organized by the CIA at the American Embassy and had recently been allowed into the United States for medical treatment. In the United States, the hostage-taking was seen as an outrage violating a centuries-old principle of international law granting diplomats immunity from arrest and diplomatic compounds sovereignty in their embassies.

The crisis has also been described as the "pivotal episode" in the history of Iran United States relations. In the U.S., some political analysts believe the crisis was a major reason for U.S. President Jimmy Carter's defeat in the November 1980 presidential election. In Iran, the crisis strengthened the prestige of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the political power of those who supported theocracy and opposed any normalization of relations with the West. The crisis also marked the beginning of U.S. legal action, or economic sanctions against Iran, that further weakened economic ties between Iran and the United States.

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[zensorship]

@smith401287

Audio didn't exist.

[ast453000]

If this isn't obvious, I think what he meant was that Reagan was sort of a non-entity in his administration. He read the speeches his handlers wrote for him, but other than that he was just a figurehead and tool of the people around him. Chomsky's speaking off script, and sometimes we make little mistakes like that when speaking in front of a large crowd. Try doing it sometime. It's not as easy as it looks.

[SUpersaiyajinjerkbag]

How come he never went in to Reagan's drug trafficking?

[xlucim]

Reminds me of Woody Allen. But with a tad less humor and drama.

[domine3]

I personally know an illiterate twit who thinks Constantine created the Catholic Church. Do some research before you begin running your fingers over the keyboard in ignorant bliss. Maybe antisemite Martin Luther and the printing press did a good thing. NOT

[RoyalKnightVII]

@fefe74e Do we exist?! I doubt it.

[Fhuaran]

The idiot asking questions around the 10 minute mark could have reworded that into a single short sentence...Surprised Chomsky didn't tell the guy to read some of his works on linguistics!

[fefe74e]

Maybe Noam Chomsky didnt exist either.

[chris2002Rocklin]

@randomlaughingman St. Peter had nothing to do with the Roman Catholic Pagan Church. It was formed by Constantine in early 4th century, and ruled with military power until the printing press put the power in the hands of the beleivers. A church can contain beleivers in spite of corrupt leadership. Just as Pharisees had their day, so too did Roman Pagans.