Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Paxman's interview in full Part 1

This is an unedited version of Jeremy Paxman's interview with Professor in linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), philosopher, cognitive scientist and political activist, Noam Chomsky

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• Noam Chomsky
• Egyptian revolution
• Libya
• Jeremy Paxman
• Newsnight

[jaffarm]

looking back now after the libya crisis has been solved, i really can't imagine how wrong he was. Civil war? nope, two separate states? nope, fully united, no constructive western military intervention? .....lets say libya wouldn't be were it is now without NATO.

[ludvan67]

@jaffarm I would not say that any of the so called "Arab Spring" uprisings have been solved. Just one phase has been reached, namely getting rid of certain dictators. Living in this region as i do. If anyone thinks that the countries involved will develop into so called western democracies; they are wrong. The Prof does tend go over the top sometimes, but he has his agenda, and is more times correct than he is wrong. War is looming in this region, believe me.

[jaffarm]

@ludvan67 scary shit. Which country did you say? also remember that western democracy arose after 2 consecutive world wide wars. May be we need to get it out of our system as they did xD haha,....

[ludvan67]

@jaffarm I did not say any country, but the one is Iran & its A-Bomb. Israel has been threatening for some time to do something about it. It needs the OK from the US. Obama is not popular he needs a victory, just as Thatcher was not popular, but the Falklands came along she took the gamble ((she had nothing to lose except the lives of working class people) & won. This is election year in the US & the likelihood is The US will strike with Israel against Iran's nuclear installations. WAR!

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

Lol the Paxman haters don't realise this is as friendly as you'll see him. And he's a legend in slaying political scum.

Paxman obviously had respect for Chomsky, or was wary of his knowledge

[ludvan67]

@diogeneslaertius666 Looked at your profile.Al-Quaida, Christianity, and you talk/write in a most incoherent way. Boy talk about being mixed. Makes me all the more grateful that we have Chomsky, he is so easy to understand.

[SolarJakee]

@jaffarm You're clearly concerned with the best interests of the Libyan people and I would have been saying much the same thing as you - namely, that 'it's better now than it was with Gaddafi' - unless I'd been directed to the facts documented by human rights organisations and some journalists that point in the opposite direction.

[SolarJakee]

@jaffarm 'Libya crisis has been solved'. How did you come to this analysis? Thousands of civilians have been killed as a result of NATO bombing campaigns. Since the NTC came into power, hundreds of Gaddafi supporters have been executed, hundreds of blacks have been murdered, with tens of thousands being driven from their homes, and Sharia law is soon to be implemented. The killings have not stopped. And you say 'the crisis has been solved'? PLEASE do a bit of research!

[haz464]

@z0mgrugbyreturns agreed, paxman is a known fan of the left

[armidas200]

@jaffarm the Libya crisis is solved?!really?!so things are peachy now in Libya?!Just because nothing is reported,does not mean there are not any news.

[MsIthinkthereforeIam]

@shwwnn totally agree with you.

[shwwnn]

Paxman asks "what should We do" MANY times so Chomsky had to answer him MANY times that "WE" had been exploiting and robbing the the people of their resources through dictators we support, and THAT's what they're protesting! So "WE" should do nothing.

I don't know if Paxman is deaf, stupid, or pretending to be deaf in hopes that his audience would also become deaf to Chomsky upon influence.

U can say he's playing devil's advocate, but he's doing it in a very annoyingly stupid way.