Prof. Chomsky in his calm , confident , n erudite style exposes the many fault lines underlying modern society . We admire his fearless revelations of our lopsided power struggles. Moral conscience does not inform the selfish motives of the super-rich.
Professor Chormsky is a brilliant Scholar of economics and political science, pure intellectual wealth, it's always a learning experience listening to him
Todays 250,000,000 American voters live lives as if they are all powerless. With presidential election, UNLIKE every other country on the PLANET that all have a CEILING on spending, in the U.S. costing 1 billion dollars. With money being the ruling factor in our lives, with there being excellent peoples' candidates, even a measely 20 - 50 bucks each would outspend the tiny few who nowadays RUN OUR LIVES to our abysmal detriment. I know there are HEROES AMONG US STILL.
Keep hearing U.S. is "the richest country in history"....But, with our day to day reality including the fact of most Americans living with HORRIFIC conditions including "wages the lowest since The Great Depression"...what the heck is the point of knowing that, including day to day reality of the tens of thousands of HOMELESS including the fastest growing group of we unfortunates being the ELDERLY after having worked 1/2 CENTURY paying 50 years of taxes SUPPOSED to be spent in part on those same citizens welfare ?
Wait a minute, I call bullshit. If at the micro it’s a chargeable offense than on the macro it’s also chargeable. It’s illegal for individuals to defend themselves, yet a nation has a “right to defend” I happen to agree all have a right to defend. On this we do agree!!! But if I as an individual compel you to take a negligible act of aggression against me I am not justified in cutting your head off. Even police departments have “use of force” policies. The officer must maintain one step or level of aggression above a suspect and there is a process of escalation and deescalation. If a man is raised his voice back to an office he’s not justified in shooting the man until a threshold of resistance warrants deadly force. In this specific scenario none of this applies. MASADA created HAMAS and filled it with Palestinian members, and then MASADA directed HAMAS to attack Israel taking hostages. By proxy Israeli intelligence attacked themselves with the sole intent of giving justification for them to commit genocide against Palestine because they are squeezing them like the same colonial powers are squeezing the working class in all nations. High inflation and taxation impacting their quality of life. The same exact thing that’s ramping up in the US with our government bringing in foreign troops through the airports and know they are here blaming Biden for lax border security on the southern border knowing damn well they aren’t coming in from Mexico, this while video games and fims are being released, and news stories of Texas succeeding from the rest of the nation inciting civil war. This is a dangerous game Great Britain is playing, and I know the Rothschild Family is behind it and know all the places they meet. They better hide. 7 Billion people die at the hand of the decision making of 💯 , or 💯 die to save 7 Billion. When the killing starts happening here the people will know what needs done. It’s been centuries since there has been bloodshed at Buckingham Palace and they are setting a coarse to change this as they rapidly escalate their false flag operations in all nations at once.
What do the other states do differently than the NATO states. If you piss against the wind in NATO countries, you get to feel the tolerance of these states. How is that different from Iran or Iraq? 1:47:00
Mr. Chomsky, you are wrong. Morocco did NOT invade western Sahara. Morocco regained its occupied land peacefully from Spain. Do your homework and read history. As a linguist, I respect your theory, but I was really surprised to hear you giving some wrong facts about Morocco. There is obviously an ideology behind your statement vis a vis Morocco, a country with deep roots in history. It's too bad it's coming from you. Ahmed from Toronto
lawful rights Maxim Sacrifice is the measure of credibility. one who is not willing to swear on oath on ( PERSIONAL) commercial liability for the truth of his statement and legitimacy of his actions has no basis to assert claims or charges and forfeits all credibility. and no to claim of authority
Thanks for trying Noam, however, the government is the worse, corporate office business, Ford , Carnegie built USA business, not Marcy tweed, nor Hillary Clinton, she is psycho, wanted queen, Kings order people around, business has to sell
Funny to hear her say that the only network that will talk to him is Fox News, but because it is Fox news, they must have sinister motives for doing so...and then she goes on about skepticism - of conservatives...blindspot?? As a Canadian, I can honestly say there is no less politically -savvy country on earth than Canada.
As Professor Nom Chompsky said "Those who control the economic life of a country also tend to have overwhelming influince over state policy" -This can be summed up as "Those who control the economy can control the policy." This is similar to how Frank Herbert said "He who controls the spice, controls the universe." -Which, in turn, can, of course, most certainly be summed up as "Rich people got power." -As the professor implied, it can be simply summed up by the American elementary school adage "Money is power." Mathematically that is easily expressed as "m=p." This more importantly elucidates that since time is money and money is power, then power is time (t=m=p). This is a matter of transitive property. Since it is known that Money is fiat and Time is a subjective hallucination produced by the consciousness of one's ability to change and said effects of change, one must conclude that Power too is an illususory fiat- a hallucination of grandeur- a futile legacy in the face of a boundless yawning eternity full of all creation and destruction, forever and ever. 🍃 Or that's the gist of it.🌈⭐️
Basically we're no longer up for the revolution, like the left in other western countries threatened by fascism, we'd sooner die than fight. Because the western left is humanitarian, feminine, liberal and generally pacifist. Which one might argue is the superior leftism rather than the bloody revolutionary tumult of the French and Russian revolutions. but there comes crunch times in history wherein taking the high road is just not gonna work. Such as the US Civil War and the fight against fascism, sometimes there's no way to straighten things out peacefully and democratically. We could be approaching one of those crunch points in the very near future, But I'd say if the US is threatened by fascism, it would be a mistake to keep the country together. Let the Red States go their own way and then apply pressure from the outside, The Blue States can then look to form a new progressive union, including Latin America and Canada. In fact progressive leaning states have to come together globally to see off this new rightist menace. The nightmare scenario is, in trying to keep America together, the Right takes all of America, If the entirety of America falls to fascism, the world is truly fried.
with all the anti-human crimes that America committed and with all the lies manufactured before US attacked a country that didn't follow their will, still most western people buy into all the BS propaganda of US media. Now China become the biggest enemy of US, and see how many people swallow all those brainless lies and demonizing rhetoric against China uncritically!
Conservatism BUILDS society - The opposite of conservatism DESTROYS society. Call it what you wish. It's all the same in some fashion - - Liberals - Leftists - Socialists - Marxists - Communists
I have fun reading comments in response to Chomsky's talks and lectures. Many are well read people, not all of them. I read a comment by one techie senior manager who thinks his long hours and long yeras of work entitled him to luxuries, some fame and excesses he has earned. He was greatly upset that an academic like Chomsky leading a 'competitively' far easier life gets to lecture on unfair practices of businesses, tries to preach ethics to them. He is completely frustrated that a guy like Chomsky could take away his stature as well his rewards. It is a bit nightmarish if you could see his point of view. It is funny in the sense that he could never ever comprehend the relevance of Chomsky, the guy has little idea we (academics) brought down kings who thought of themselves as irreplaceable, had everyone in awe, had bigger wealth than he could imagine. Some people are kids, his mathematics and code may be of significance, he best realize the code we write is beyond him or his team. 😅😅😅😅
It is said companies like Amazon and Walmart cannot give their employees liveable wages because the business operates on razor-thin profit margins. Bullsh*t. From October 31 2022 to October 2023, Walmart's profit was $155,000,000,000 and the business has 1,600,000 employees. They could give every single employee an additional $31,250 dollars a year and still net over 105 billion in profits without increasing their prices at all.
bois, we might all look different. but we all live on the same planet and want and deserve the same things, we have to work together to overcome this bullshit of pepople
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:04 🏛️ *The event starts with housekeeping requests, emphasizing turning off electronic devices and a photography ban.* 02:21 🎓 *Har House emphasizes its commitment to diverse programming and critical discourse, hosting events like today's lecture to engage in vital conversations.* 04:50 🗣️ *Linda McQu introduces Noam Chomsky, highlighting his impact as a prolific intellectual and critic of power, emphasizing his challenge to mainstream narratives.* 19:29 🌐 *Linda McQu praises Chomsky for exposing those in power, criticizing the elites, and speaking truth to power in the public interest.* 20:03 💼 *Noam Chomsky begins his talk, discussing the United States' unique significance globally and the influence of corporate interests on state policies.* 30:03 🏛️ *The Senate, according to Madison, was designed to represent the wealthier class and protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.* 32:31 💼 *In today's richest country, 20% qualify for food stamps, and real unemployment is at Great Depression levels. Economic conditions are worse for many than in the past.* 35:13 🔄 *Goldman Sachs, a key player in the crisis, benefits from government bailouts, demonstrates systemic risk ignorance, and is immune to the consequences of risky transactions.* 36:08 🌍 *Western powers, especially the U.S., resist authentic democracy in the Arab world to maintain their interests, despite public opinion in these regions.* 43:32 🔄 *Historical parallels between early 19th-century U.S. and Egypt illustrate how power dynamics and economic development influence global disparities.* 01:00:10 🌐 *Financial speculation and growth of financial institutions surged after dismantling regulations 40 years ago.* 01:01:00 💰 *Financial institutions' profits came from harmful and socially useless manipulations, contributing to inequality.* 01:02:48 📉 *State-corporate policies over 30 years fueled wealth concentration, resulting in unprecedented inequality.* 01:04:13 📈 *Tax policies shifted since around 1980, benefiting the super-rich, eroding earlier redistributive mechanisms.* 01:10:36 🏦 *Social Security defunding aims to privatize, benefiting investors, but risks undermining social solidarity.* 01:27:28 🌐 *Goldstone did not retract the report; he expressed a hypothetical change based on new information but did not alter the report's content.* 01:30:57 🤔 *The central issue in the Gaza conflict was whether there was a right to use force, not merely the right to self-defense.* 01:34:28 💸 *Shift in university funding, from public support to tuition, creates debt burden for students, shaping career choices and limiting public education.* 01:43:51 🇮🇷 *The "Iranian threat" is often overstated; official reports indicate low military threat, defensive strategy, and efforts to influence neighboring countries.* 01:49:32 🌐 *Chomsky views Hitchens and Harris as defending a state religion, supporting state violence in the name of secularism.* 01:53:00 🧠 *Noam Chomsky discusses morality and its connection to innate structures, drawing on the views of empiricists like David Hume.* 01:56:48 💼 *Chomsky advocates for short-term solutions like financial reform, citing the success of New Deal-type regulations and the need for reasonable health reform.* 01:59:29 📚 *Chomsky shares thoughts on semiotics as a broad field, expressing skepticism about its unity but noting specific interesting aspects like linguistics and animal communication.* 02:00:50 👏 *Chomsky reflects on past events and acknowledges contributions from institutions like Hart House in fostering discussions against the Vietnam War.* Made with HARPA AI
