Noam Chomsky: American Empire After 20 Years in Afghanistan - Full Interview, 2021 

I don't think I've seen Noam smile as much in a single video as he does in this one. He knows he's in good company.

I'm really glad Noam makes the effort he does to still do this. He's really earned some peace, but his knowledge and insights are invaluable.

Here we go again: Jacobin and Noam Chomsky renewing my faith in the relationship between public intellectuals, honest media, and the common good.

Love Noam ✊🏼

I needed this. When I saw Noam I just clicked, sat down and watched the whole video in one sitting.

Professor Chomsky is an incredible example of how to keep your mind sharp well into old age. He uses his mind every day; staying interested and engaged can be a fountain of youth.

Smartest and most Honest Man in the United States

I'm so grateful for this conversation, this was wholesome and inspiring.

One of the most encouraging and heart-warming aspects of the present moment is the recognition and respect that many young people display for the wisdom of Noam Chomsky. When you have certifiable nitwits like Marjorie Taylor Green and Ted Cruz, and Matt Gaetz, etc on the national news regularly, but you have to go looking for Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges, et al. in more obscure corners of the information landscape, I weep for America. I am 72 so I just want you youngsters to know that you are the only hope for Humanity.

Bright young ladies interviewing a luminous intellectual elder. I love it. Faith in humanity restored.

This man is a treasure. Thank you 👏👏👏

Professor Noam Chomsky is unequivocally the world’s greatest intellectual.

Great conversation. Chomsky pulling in context from everywhere and making so many good points as usual.

I love this man

Great interview. Thanks for posting it in its entirety. Everyone should get to watch it.

so grateful for this conversation

Imagine being Noam, 93 years old.. Keep picking his brain Jacobin. His voice is as crucial as it is soothing. Love me some Noam

Awesome, and welcome back, Ariella! What a way to start your return to work.

Gandalf's wisdom is unmatched. We are blessed to have him!

Not enough is said about how well interviews are conducted. Clearly this interview by Ariella Thornhill and Jen Pan was marvelous. Thanks... Just take a moment to look at Norm's smile (at 57:19). Phenomenal!

Wow great interview & conversation

Thank you, Jen Pan and Ariella Thornhill .... We will never stop fighting

Wow! Great interview, thank you!! 🙂

Going on a panel with noam chomsky is like sitting on grandpas lap, if grandpa was Einstein. Even when you think you are sounding great, you know on some level that he sees your mistakes.

The Professor could just relax and read the classics and sip coffee on his balcony, but he still researches these intense and depressing topics that the rest of us don't have the time or patience to study. He's a treasure!

Chomsky is the greatest American public intellectual of all time. And frankly, it's not even close. Absolute GENIUS. ❤👑

THANK YOU for this interview!

I actually don’t think that “if you break it, you fix it”. I think you should PAY to fix it, but other than that, I don’t want you anywhere near it after you’ve broken it.

good audio levels! thank you.

Good questions, great interview Thank you!

We're blessed as a society to get Noam's education and wisdom to analyze major geopolitical news stories or so many decades. Watching Chomsky interviews over the last 60 years will give an American a hell of an insight as to our actual history.

One of my great teachers!

This was very good. There have been some over the past 3 or 4 years that were not as good. I'm glad to see him sharp, again.

Jel & Ariella. Ladies great discussion. Will it be possible for both of you to work towards bringing together Naom Chomsky and like-minded people onto a single platform to discuss critical issues confronting the world and the US. A series perhaps that will enable people like me for instance, come up to speed with the right understanding of current affairs impacting the globe. Thanks

our father who art in arizona, hallowed be thy name--chomsky is an inspiration

Off topic, but it blows my mind that you are speaking to someone who turned 40 in 1968!

Truely amazing !

Chomsky is a national treasure

I met a self-identified Native American Iraq war vet who sustained a head injury while serving who used the term "haji." I didn't know what to say, just thought to myself how the US military teaches its members racist, us vs. them terminology, even ones who have been victimized by the same, so they will be willing to kill.

Great interview. I am very glad to meet this channel, which I intend to follow from now on. And very pleased with the interest of you, young people, in the great Noam Chomsky, whose books I was introduced to decades ago, while studying Linguistics in my home country, Brazil. By the way, do you know if Chomsky did any analysis on the worrying growth of the far right in Brazil? Thanks and all the best.

Good Job girls! Very interesting topic with professor Chomsky who always points out new angle of view you never see on mainstream media. I like btw the sound quality.

Well done

I'm pretty sure Noam is blushing at the end of the video.

when i was a kid, trying to understand people falling from the tower, I couldnt understand why we went to war with poor people. Im not a kid now, and i've tried to understand and the answer is tragic for the world.

One of the interviewers, Arielle Thornhill, refers to Afghans as Afghanis. The other interviewer, Jen Pan, also gets it wrong. An Afghan is to Afghanistan as an American is to America. The afghani is Afghanistan’s unit of currency. Shouldn’t the interviewers know this, after Americans’ TWENTY YEARS in country? I couldn’t stop myself from cringing, it was an involuntary reaction. Professor Chomsky is so polite, he doesn’t react, he doesn’t correct; he simply uses the correct terms.

War is always the answer

Noam's smile.

You heard it from Chomsky himself- the kids are alright.

Chomsky I predict will live until 150 years

Mannnnnnn Noam certainly ghouled out on us.... I hope he is healthy......... Gandalf Look would suit him more

Chompsky Suggestions for Afganistan 1.) Admit refugees (also from South America) 2.) Put an end to Afgan sanctions. The people need humanitarian aid. Sanctions punish the people not the leadership. Unblock IMF and World Bank funding 3.) Don't destroy and call it humanitarian intervention. 4.) Make vaccines available (and to other places). E.g. people's vaccine movement. Free patents to other countries.

Chomsky the Grey

Excellent

Wow, thanks for this show to all involved. Mr. Chomsky puts most of us to shame with his encyclopedic understanding of US foreign policy and historic effects. My only hope is that young Americans can become the new revolutionaries and politicians, and that they will be even more effective than previous generations.

Is there a transcript of this?

Noam's looking a lot like Karl.

I generally agree. I’m not sure how much damage we did to the “infrastructure” of Afghanistan; not sure their “infrastructure” isn’t in better shape now. I’d still have rather spent $1T domestically.

other great true that he says is : "the sanctions are against the common folks, not vs. the leaders of countries that USA sanctions...the most affected are the common folks, the population ...'cos of that we have hondurians fleeing from Honduras and trying to refugee in USA, due to the blind coup that our imperialistl univoc government made in Honduras"

Ask the Iraqi and Afghani civilians if the anti-war movement was effective during Bush years...

You guys have to slow down haha Noam gives these long-winded, and circling responses, and talks very slowly and deliberately, then the hosts come on speaking twice as fast trying to rattle off their questions as fast as possible to give Noam as much time as they can. Just slow down. It's jarring when the hosts are speaking 40wpm faster than the interwee. Remember, Noam is a professor of linguistics. If you want to learn something from him, learn his pacing.

US imperialism will last as long as it's convenient for the US We've demonstrated no tendency to learn anything from our "misfortunes". We should have been listening to Prof. Chomsky the whole time regardless of what the neo-neos were labelling him. I personally am learning Mandarin, e.g. "我帮你多少?"

American politicians all grew up (so to speak) on John Wayne movies.

Thornhill's glowing

You should watch the video from Kraut on Chomsky... he is a Srebrenica Genocide denial...

the same selfishness of USA's ego ...cue observation of Noam Chomsky (my discovered idol since I was reading HIS linguistics theories when I was studying BA in ELT)when he said : "zero documentaries about what was the cost of this gringa war for the Afganos... everybody only asking what was the cost for us, the empire"

Great interview w/ Prof Chomsky by the young ladies. 🇺🇸 has a horrific past, but is very clever at covering its tracks... What's done in the dark will come to light. Prof C uncovers all the dirty work for all to see!

Afghanistan was, is and Always be The Graveyard of the Empires! Advice Word:- Treeth Us Always with Respect, Pation and regards!!! Because the History has been Shown:- That we are the True Heroes and Winners With the Help of Almighty God and Dont Ever intherstemet Us!!!!

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01 Afghanistan was, according to the history books, graveyard of one?, two?, no, three empires: the Persian religious Safavid empire, the Great British colonialist empire, and the Soviet communist empire. 02. Recently Afghanistan became, unwillingly though, again a graveyard, this time, for the world's nr one mighty military pact. 03. Who can guarantee that Afghanistan in the future won't turn into a graveyard for a power who choose to invade her. So, let's respect each other. If a nation doesn't deserve our respect, the least we could do is to refrain from insulting her.

The people we have taken into the US from Afghanistan seem to be getting favorable treatment to the people on our streets and refugees from south of us. I'm not exactly sure I'm comfortable with it. People around Seattle who intensely hate the homeless because they're "tired of it" or "they're not even from here" or "they're just drug users/dealers" rolling out red carpets, just as 60,000 are about to be evicted is not logical. Treat Afghans with respect too, but placing them on a level above others is not something I'm comfortable with. Plus how many will end up in the streets eventually when the news cycle moves on? Their preferred status may not last long.

My 2nd comment. Australia's secret foreign agency had a hand in the military coup in Chile's 9/11. In 1973. I think it had a direct link of the then P M Gough Whitlam ( twice elected government) being sacked in 1975 by the Governor General. Whitlam's government raided the Australian Secret Service Agency. Yes I also consider Kissenger as a mass killer.

The only time that Noam Chomsky ever appeared on television (aka the main stream media) was in 1969, on a show called Firing Line, hosted by conservative commentator William F Buckley jr. Right afterwards, he was taken off the air, and then numerous conservative guests appeared on that show, one after another, all of them conservatives, to mercilessly attack Noam Chomsky, without giving Noam Chomsky any sort of opportunity to respond. Noam Chomsky has effectively been banned from television it seems. The only place to hear Noam Chomsky is on the internet, on shows like this. Here is a link to Noam Chomsky on RU-vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9DvmLMUfGss.html

unfortunately, the poor, homeless, disabled, seniors and minority groups are punished in america?

Even the d******'s at Jacobin can't screw up a Chomsky interview.

Long live capitalism

If the US had just offered a 1 million dollar reward for bin laden, we could have had him in a week. Saved trillions of dollars and thousands of lives. But, the poor weapons manufacturers wouldn't have cleaned up off the taxpayers.

Does professor lock-them-up know about Kary Mullis or David Tyrrell. Yes he probably does, that’s concerning.

As far as the climate crisis we can all individually abate the cH4 problem by become even a little more vegetarian/vegan.

Noam Chomsky looks like a wise wizard 🧙- in contrast Joe Biden looks like a zombie 🧟‍♂️

I recommend Noam to move to CUBA . Sounds like he do NOT like USA , but love socialism and poor " innocent " countries .

Professor lock-them-up would have read gulag archipelago. Perhaps that’s his answer to any old problem.

Minute 13:15, can some one explain to me how the USA is able to kick people out of the international financial system?

Have you given some thought about interviewing radical, activist women scholars; like Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Dr. Chomsky does have a radical , activist daughter

kissinger cambodia, that was bad, man....killing many...war crimes.]

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Jen, stop shaking your head!

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Why on Earth, when he brings up Cambodia, don't you confront him of his denial of the genocide? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chomsky_and_Herman We have to base our knowledge and work on facts, not gut feelings.

Noam''s transformation into Santa Claus is almost complete

AMBER HEARD LIED!!!

Michael Parenti > Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky 🤢👿👎

"Jacobin", wow. So Bold, So brave playing 'Revolutionary' with the permission of your Tech Aristocracy

...I dont know why anyone listens to Noam Chomsky....

ask him about his ties to the pentagon and cia and demand he tells the truth about 9/11 and jfk

parenti>chomsky why dont u bring opn parenti? afraid of the darker truths The only reason this man is popular is because he copied parentis book inventing reality, look it up

Such an international treasure - and still so sharp at his age - amazing . . and largely ignored by the people who actually run the joint . .

Nice! Look forward to this… Vijay Prashad next?

The best interview with Prof. Chomsky I have listened to in several years, thanks to the women who questioned him, listened and offered their own insights.

Wow; this is impressive! How does he manage to keep up to date on so much & with such depth?!?! Love him or hate him, but you've got to respect how he champions human rights for ALL humans, not just the privileged dwellers of the West!