Noam Chomsky on Economic Crisis, Healthcare, and Empire-1/5

Noam Chomsky on the Global Economic Crisis, Healthcare, US Foreign Policy and Resistance to American Empire

Part II of our conversation with MIT professor and author Noam Chomsky on the global economic crisis, healthcare, the media, US foreign policy, the expanding wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, and more.

As far as policy is concerned, unless [Obama] is under a lot of pressure from activist sectors, hes not going to go beyond what hes presented himself as in actual policy statements or cabinet choices and so on: a centrist Democrat [whos] going to basically continue Bushs polices, maybe in a more modulated way, says Chomsky. [includes rush transcript]

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[dappercad]

You are conflating socialism with communism. This is something American's tend to do a lot. In fact there are a great many political terms which I find the American's I meet (And it's a small sample to be sure) tend to have very emotional rather than analytic reactions to. It does you no favours.

[yakooza]

Anarchism is more democratic than any other political idealogy

[dempsey981]

@kotash2 if you really knew the first thing about health care,i mean the nuts and bolts about it,you could write,maybe, an intelligent comment.First,if Noam lost 99% of his capacity to reason he would still dwarf you,please dont berate and disrespect him with senile you fool.secondly,and obviously,the majority dont know really health care either,because if they did they wouldnt allow bankruptcy when a major illness happens.ive spent my life in health care,i assure you it is way over priced.

[urparanoia]

@dempsey981 -Thank you. Glad that you agree.

[dempsey981]

@urparanoia good comment.

[urparanoia]

@aymanzonefly -What we have is a society that has little understanding of issues and supports the people who are picking their pocket.All too many voters don't even understand what caused the financial crisis. They have even less idea of what goes on beyond their borders.Conservatives tell them if they buy into the idea of national healthcare they will lose their freedom and without asking how or why they are against such programs. Nothing in this country will change until citizens wake up

[aymanzonefly]

@erby1kabogey9 don't be so sad, this happens whenever someone tells blunt truths in any society :(. Al least you people have "some" measure of democracy, I genuinely hope things improve for the next generation as people become smarter.

[W0KD]

chomsky is ozom™

[darkmiles22]

@thordoggie The soviets and cubans and north koreans all have/had horrible economies because they were totalitarian kleptocracies and forbidden from trading freely with the international community as punishment by the capitalist hegemony. Capitalism/Communism had little to do with it other than being another propaganda tool to justify regression and conservatism.

[toseeornot2see]

he's so right about the whole protectionist thing. I mean, recently , USA has hiked up visa charges for India, in order to "protect" it's own corporations. Now, Indian IT will suffer as a result.

Also, in Mexico, American farmers are protected under the farming bill, while Mexican government can't even interfere with the markets.

[DontEatEggs666]

Can someone explain to me what Chomsky said Lawrence Summers did at 7:58 and Robert Rubin at 8:19? Sorry, I'm stupid. lol

[praetorezekiel]

I love her reaction to Chomsky's question at 5:40. So brilliant!