Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

The American Power Structure (Part 1)

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
7,012
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Sep 30, 2009

Watch the full compilation: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/american-power-structure-video.html

Harold Dwight Lasswell (February 13, 1902 - December 18, 1978) was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. http://freegovreports.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&... He was a member of the Chicago school of sociology and was a student at Yale University in political science. He was a President of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) and the American Political Science Association (APSA). Along with other influential liberals of the period, such as Walter Lippmann, he argued that democracies needed propaganda to keep the uninformed citizenry in agreement with what the specialized class had determined was in their best interests. As he wrote in his entry on propaganda for the Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, we must put aside "democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests" since "men are often poor judges of their own interests, flitting from one alternative to the next without solid reason."

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. He is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is well known in the academic and scientific community as one of the fathers of modern linguistics. Since the 1960s, he has become known more widely as a political dissident, an anarchist, and a libertarian socialist intellectual.

In the 1950s, Chomsky began developing his theory of generative grammar, which has undergone numerous revisions and has had a profound influence on linguistics. His approach to the study of language emphasizes "an innate set of linguistic principles shared by all humans" known as universal grammar, "the initial state of the language learner," and discovering an "account for linguistic variation via the most general possible mechanisms." He also established the Chomsky hierarchy, a classification of formal languages in terms of their generative power. In 1959, Chomsky published a widely influential review of B. F. Skinner's theoretical book Verbal Behavior, which was the first attempt by a behaviorist to provide a functional, operant analysis of language. Chomsky used this review to broadly and aggressively challenge the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior dominant at the time, and contributed to the cognitive revolution in psychology. His naturalistic approach to the study of language has influenced the philosophy of language and mind.

Randy Harris, author of The Linguistics Wars (1995), has described him as "a hero of Homeric proportions, belonging solidly in the pantheon of our country's finest minds, with all the powers and qualities thereof. First, foremost, and initially he is staggeringly smart. The speed, scope, and synthetic abilities of his intellect are legendary. He is, too, a born leader, able to marshal support, fierce and uncompromising support, for positions he develops or adopts. Often, it seems, he shapes linguistics by sheer force of will."

Beginning with his opposition to the Vietnam War, Chomsky established himself as a prominent critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He is a self-declared adherent of libertarian socialism which he regards as "the proper and natural extension of classical liberalism into the era of advanced industrial society."

According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980-92 period, and was the eighth most-cited source. He is also considered a prominent cultural figure. At the same time, his status as a leading critic of US foreign policy has made him controversial.

Ronald Ernest Paul, M.D. (born August 20, 1935) is an American physician and Republican Congressman for the state of Texas. Paul is a member of the Liberty Caucus of Republican congressmen which aims to limit the size and scope of the federal government, and serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Committee on Financial Services, where he has been an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policy.

Paul has run for President of the United States twice, first in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again in 2008 as a Republican.

He is the founder of the advocacy group Campaign for Liberty and his ideas have been expressed in numerous published articles and books, including End The Fed (2009), and The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008).

Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974) was an influential American award-winning writer, journalist, and political commentator. Lippmann was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958 and 1962 for his syndicated newspaper column, "Today and Tomorrow."

  • likes, 2 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (18)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • whoop whoop.. :) enjoyed it!

  • old news

  • ...I think this video is more effective than the ones which play the soundtrack to requiem for a dream throughout

  • Ron Paul has already debunked the racist smears... the powers-that-be will do anything to dismiss him. His message, like Noam's here, that the people's capacity to influence policy is being destroyed (or has been already) is too important to let that happen.

  • Check out "I KICKES SATAN's ASS!" on youTube. I was at the strip bar last Friday...Satan walked in for a beer...it got ugly....I beat him down...now I get chicks!

  • -2081

    Space Privatization: Road to Conflict, Bruce Gagnon

    Space Privatization: Road to Conflict, Bruce Gagnon

    Space Privatization: Road to Conflict, Bruce Gagnon

    Space Privatization: Road to Conflict, Bruce Gagnon

    Space Privatization: Road to Conflict, Bruce Gagnon

  • @Xenu anti semitic or anti zionist

  • Revolution yet to come, hahaha, what a badass.

  • I liked seeing Noam and Ron Paul back to back. Libertarians and libertarian socialists have a lot more in common then they often care to admit.

  • For more about the despicable nature of Rockwell's character look up "Reason" magazine article "Who Wrote Ron Paul's Newsletters?" by Julian Sanchez & David Weigel; January 16, 2008.

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more