Noam Chomsky: Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours

Noam Chomsky discussing the global economic crisis, environment, wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, resistance to American empire, at Riverside Church, NY, June 12, 2009, camera: Joe Friendly

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[pippo571]

Noam: accurate and brilliant as usual.

[joefriendly]

centurion180ad asked me to post these comments, claims he's blocked:

Chomsky most often characterizes Adam Smith, exactly correctly. Here he seems to stray from the mark, or at least he leaves his meaning ambiguous which may be construed incorrectly.

To be clear, Adam Smith defined business run state policy as being what it is. Then he demonstrated this collusion results in bad outcomes for the home country, but especially for foreign people under colonial exploitation.

[joefriendly]

centurion180ad cont'd:

Adam Smith points out the few instances where state interventionism is good and even necessary, but then points out a myriad of cases where all the good is more than canceled out, and demonstrates that almost all the incentives are eventually set under the influence of the money powers of his day, to generate destructive interventionism.

[Zareste]

the music means they're not psychopaths

[abrosie]

Good one.

[majordbag2]

Get rid of extreme poverty in the world by the end 2015? What rubbish! I'd be surprised if the half the extreme poverty was solved by 2050, let alone in five years.

@fallenempireoverdrve Exactly

[fallenempireoverdrve]

hope is for the weak

[MrNoblemanoflove]

Brilliant gatekeeper

[FRTothus]

Thank you, Joe Friendly, for posting this. Respect.

[FRTothus]

Timeless wisdom.

[68generation]

Brilliant, pitiless and sharp analysis of the contraddictions of Us democracy . Always a privigledge to listen to Prof. Chomsky.