On Power, Dissent and Racism-Noam Chomsky (2/6)

An extensive interview on a wide range of very important and pressing questions of war and of the struggles within the domestic culture.

This interview has Spanish Subtitles underneath and is known as documental Noam.Chomsky Poder disidencia y racismo.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Power
• Dissent
• Racism
• Noam
• Chomsky
• War
• Terrorism

[portoxali]

Chomsky is a think tank for critically minded people who have opposing views towards current political developments. The analogy between Chomsky and listed activists are insuffcient to my mind, while Chomsky having classical philosophical and scientific backround, Malcolm and Kind both had ethincally and religiously oriented backgrounds, stemmed from folk and not sicentific ideologies. Therefore, Chomsky can not in principle pose the similar direct threat to the government as these activist did.

[DarkestOne7]

Low IQ is synonymous with right wing

[StephenAndersonhk]

@Darkertone - what a load of rubbish -



[chinopisces]

@danieleriskay: Your use of vocabulary does not disguise your apparent lack of rational intellect.

[DonVoghano]

@ShlomoBarak Look at it this way: in the present social arrangement it's impossible to get any 9-11 truth, conspiracy or not. Pushing for 9-11 truth today is like asking a hen to hatch an omelet.

So first we take what we know that is CERTAIN, UNCONTROVERSIAL and DOCUMENTED about power and how it's used, and THEN, once we have restored some sort of democracy, we can hope to get an actual free and open inquiry into the events of 9-11.

[notyou009]

Can anyone suggest a third-world intellectual who doesn't "join the parade" like Noam mentions?

[optimistsRUS]

@danieleriskay

"Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities—and is the only writer among them still alive."

—THE GUARDIAN

[optimistsRUS]

@danieleriskay,

You, Sir, are too dumb to recognize reality, or I am reading it wrong, Noam Chomsky is amongst the most quoted authors ever, and he is the most quoted intellectual living today.

"What it means is that he is very widely read across disciplines and that his work is used by researchers across disciplines," said Theresa A. Tobin, the Humanities Librarian who checked the numbers.

"In fact, it seems that you can't write a paper without citing Noam Chomsky."

[ShlomoBarak]

chomsky likes to talk truth to power and has always encouraged people to challenge received truth. however

when people ask him about 9/11 and the possible questions

to be raised about the 9/11 commission he disregards them

as a waste of time???

the man is suddenly not consistant at all.

having said that i admire the man for many other positions he has taken.

[Dalambam]

Yet I have never managed to find a serious rebuttal to his main points about how U.S. power functions, the media etc.

Criticism of Chomsky seem to be focused on saying he doesn't have the required skills to talk about it, or that e's not part of mainstream opinion, or trying to him to neo-Nazis or something, or setting up strawmen or pointing out he works at the MIT etc. Do you have any actual criticism of his ideas in general, or of what he says in this video?

[Dalambam]

Yes, Muslims. Lol!

[kelly980]

Bit random, but i love reading chomsky but hate listening to him. His voice does my head in!!!!