Noam Chomsky on Syria, Bahrain, Turkey, the Security Council and Education [Part 2 of 2]

^^Push CC to get English captions - First question "Will the US or Israel attack Iran?" starts at :32 on Part 1. This is Part 2 of 2.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3rpB-...

On Feb. 14, 2012, I sat down with Dr. Noam Chomsky at MIT to ask him questions covering an array of topics.

ONE - Will the US or Israel attack Iran?

TWO - What have been the affects of the US-lead sanctions against Iran?

THREE - What makes Iran such a threat? Could Iran really attack the US?

FOUR - Is there a 2012 Presidential candidate that you think would make a good world leader? Or is it just politics as usual?

FIVE - What is your take on Anonymous' attacks on government and corporate websites and personnel?

SIX - Do you think the internet has helped "level the playing field" between the powerful and the powerless?

SEVEN - Has the internet, where anyone can be a publisher, as apposed to only a few distributors of information prior to the internet, changed the Propaganda Model that you wrote about in Manufacturing Consent?

Part 2 Questions:

EIGHT - In Bahrain, today is the one-year anniversary of the brutal suppression of peaceful protestors by both Bahrain and Saudia Arabia. Do you ever see successful democratic uprisings taking place in either country?

NINE - You recently said that Turkey should be proud of its civil disobedience. But currently there are more than 400 university students in jail. Does this show the civil disobedience is not working? The government seems to be getting more totalitarian, not less. - Sebati Ladikli, Political Science Major at Ankara University

TEN - Do you think the United States, Britain or France should supply arms to the Free Syrian Army?

ELEVEN - Do you think the Security Council should eliminate the power to veto international law?

TWELVE - In your decades of activism, what events have been the most memorable for you?

THIRTEEN- Education is becoming unaffordable. Bloomberg reported that University of California fees have increased 145% since 2004. Why is tuition increasing so sharply all over the country? Can these increases be traced simply to our economic problems?

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[Adam Macmanus]

Great interview but this planet is fucking hopeless :(

[John McGrane]

: (

[Mamdouh Assidmi]

More pleas...and thank you for the amazing interview.

[John McGrane]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

[Boris Belin]

You should read the newspaper "Le Monde diplomatique" in english. Last month there was an interesting article about a possible Krach of the US student's debt who could lead to a new big crisis like the subprimes crisis. I am French and here too the university cost are growing, but you still pay only 300 euros a year and the same for the student social security. We should all fight for free education!

[John McGrane]

I read a similar article in English about the student debt bubble and I think it is very likely.  Yes FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL! : )

[Bliss44]

I love Noam Chomsky.

[unity20000]

no. entire arab spring is something cia has cooked for overthrowing unfriendly regimes. much cheaper than invasion. it started at the SAME time, and it happened ONLY in countries which were unfriendly to usa. despite conditions are FAR worse in saudi arabia, bahrain, NO arab spring there. whomever got out to streets was repressed. saudi arabia even sent military to suppress protesters in bahrain.

[unity20000]

what revolution ? the one which muslim brotherhood has been cooking for a decade ? the one which is manned by libyans, afghans, saudi prisoners ( yeah they let all prisoners out, on condition that they go and fight in syria - rapists, murderers are all 'jihadis' now), brought in by nato after being trained by french in kosovo ? supplied by turkey with money given by saudis ? governed by cia ? FUCK that revolution. i dont want that shit in my country. (turkey)

[unity20000]

maybe if his books sold much better, we wouldnt have SOCIOPATHS running psycho-countries like israel. i used the word sociopath specifically. because, only that word can summarize the mindset of current ruling israeli party. actually, an additional word is needed for precision : delusional. they are the kind of people who can burn entire world if they dont get something little they want.

[waIIflower]

Great interview.

[shon2023]

IF U EDUCATE UR SELF, THEN YOU HAVE AN OPINION. DO YOU THINK THEY WANT THAT? HA! WAKE UP!!!

[hm4386]

In a logical world, the people who live in them lol

[Lilofee23]

I agree with you: education should be free...generally....

[tcorourke2007]

Luv it or leave it, buddy!

[Bliss44]

You should read independent media as opposed to swallowing all the lies that the corporate media feeds you. Then again, thinking independently seems to be a challenge for some. The whole story on Kony who isn't even in Uganda anymore, is a scam,as is the fascist propaganda on Muslims (if you would concern yourself more with geopolitics you'd actually see that; US foreign policy in the Middle East hasn't change much in the past xxx years). The only diff is that the lies have become more creative.

[RachelDerGolem]

The bad news is in the next few years, millions of Syrians will kill each other and millions of Egyptian will starve to death. The good news is Noam Chomsky will write a best selling book, blaming it all on Jewish Republicans.