Noam Chomsky and Declassified UK  

I think Noam is so cognisant of his limited time, he's doing what he can to engage in discussions for his intellectual analysis to live on via RU-vid, free for most to listen to and do further research.

Noam is a rare blessing to us all. Being able to relay reports in layman's terms, stripped of all the political & corporate baggage, such as spin, false contexts and outright subterfuges is (for us) like finding a rare gemstone in a sea of heaving bull****. I've tried to do the same just for personal consumption and I know how incredibly difficult it is to unearth the reality of situations.. We desperately need more Noam's. A rare and special breed.

Free Julian Assange! Thank you Mr Chomsky

I marched today in the global strike in Toronto. It felt like finally things were happening here. I want to do that every week...we can't lose momentum!

It's so true. I could listen to you for hours. Thank you so much Prof Chomsky. As always it has been a pleasure.

Such a great privilege listening to Sir Noam Chomsky.

thanks for you the channel, just discovered it.

Noam is a living legend. He's looking so much older now. I don't know of anyone who comes close to his analysis, knowledge and explanations. I hope he goes on for a while yet, but when he goes it will be a huge loss for us all. He holds power to account like no-one else does.

Chomsky isn't a demi-god, he's just a bright man who isn't nearly so bright these days as he once was. In fact, recently he has said some incredibly stupid things. He is after all a very old man now. Don't hero worship Chomsky or anyone else. We're all only people when it comes down to it.

Love listening to Noam, his vast experience allows key insights to be distilled succinctly. However, he gave me impression that the climate prognosis would be linear, but as G. Monbiot say's: If there’s one thing we know about climate breakdown, it’s that it will not be linear, smooth or gradual. Just as one continental plate might push beneath another in sudden fits and starts, causing periodic earthquakes and tsunamis, our atmospheric systems will absorb the stress for a while, then suddenly shift. Yet, everywhere, the programmes designed to avert it are linear, smooth and gradual. A common sign that complex systems are approaching tipping points is rising volatility: they start to flicker. The extreme weather in 2021 - the heat domes, droughts, fires, floods and cyclones - is, frankly, terrifying.

I'm so tearful for our world and the state it is in. Prof Chomsky has so eloquently served the masses with his wisdom and intellectual grace and humility, and we will be forever grateful, but I fear without his direction and clarity on such complex issues, we will fall victim again to the systematic machinery of America that continues to plung our world closer to extinction.

Noam Chomsky is the best!

Humanity is f-cked

Nice questions, I wish we could squeeze every last bit of knowledge out of Noam

As always, Noam says 'what it is'... However, when asked the question by Benjamin Zephaniah on the notion that humans are doomed in the near term, Noam rightly mentions the horrific prospect of nuclear holocaust as one 'vector of doom'... But then posits that human society will probably drag-on for centuries... Most of us that understand, in great depth, the biospheric dynamics at play, would seriously take issue on that assertion. Our species, whether we choose to believe it or not, are entirely reliant upon other species to survive. We understand this as 'The food web' or 'trophic web/pyramid'... The biosphere's trophic pyramid is seriously under threat, due in the main to the ongoing mass extinction event [MEE]; an event that has been driven entirely by human (anthropogenic) actions over their entire modern development. The current MEE is also the most rapidly occuring of all MEE's ranging back over 'Deep Time'. Loss of habitats for other species is also occuring at a faster rate, which obviously affects species that are unable to adapt in time; highly mobile species - the animal kingdom - can feasibly migrate to new habitats and over time adapt; whereas sessile or niche species cannot and become extinct. Depending upon what level of the trophic pyramid a species resides, any loss of species will inevitably affect the higher or lower species on the pyramid; eg: loss of the pollinator species - insects and birds - would directly affect crop yields (agriculture) and lead to an imbalance in the trophic web, favouring perhaps more mobile, invasive species that take over that vacant niche. There are so many 'anthropogenic vectors of doom' to consider when regarding the longevity of life on Earth, that to prophesise how long any given species can survive - including humans - is futile. The fact is, as a species, we simply cannot comprehend the forces at play, which are always challenging our best estimates or hypotheses. Eg: Around a decade ago, climate scientists and particularly glaciologists mostly agreed that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet [EAIS] was the most stable of the three global ice-sheets and whilst it still holds true that the EAIS has far more ice mass than the Greenland [GIS] or West Antarctic Ice Sheet [WAIS], it receives less precipitation than the GIS and is still subject to ablation at its peripheries and vulnerable to the loss of ice shelves that buttress the vast glaciers due to subsurface warming from the warming southern ocean. This dynamic is well understood when regarding the WAIS, where the ice mass is grounded below sea level, unlike the EAIS that is entirely grounded on the Antarctic continental crust and as such the WAIS is subject to more ablation than the EAIS. So the consensus is now that even the EAIS is not as 'stable' as first thought, though being the largest chunk of ice on the planet (99% of Earth's fresh water reserves), still has some way to go, before its thawing raises sea levels by sixty meters or so (around 200ft). By then - all species will be long extinct, save for perhaps the chemotrophs inhabiting the deep ocean geothermal vents. As I said, the dynamics are vast and complex.... Who would consider that the loss of maintenance infrastructure to the 440+ nuclear power plants peppering the Earth, could potentially end up being responsible for *sterilising* the Earth's surface? It is all causal. As it stands - thanks to the evolving grey-matter - the human neocortex - the current ongoing mass extinction will likely be Earth's FINAL MASS EXTINCTION. And that could occur far sooner than anyone would care to contemplate, given the human propensity for thinking *anthropocentrically...*

What about his reactions to Covid vaccine refusers. Was that condoning human rights?

wow noam chomsky, cool! when did this interview take place?

I am a Chomskian.

Is this live

I hope Biden or any of his friends also follow Noam Chomsky's comments as we do!!!

He doesn’t really say anything new or profound. It’s just Noam is saying it and that makes the world of difference.

13:00 Taiwan 35:00 1 state, 2 state solution

Noam Chomsky doesn't get enough credit. He's actually quite intelligent.

An anarchist who thinks people that don't do what the government says should be starved 🤣🤣🤣

Don’t always agree with him, but I love listening to this guy.

I have read articles by Noam, I have quoted Noam, I admire Noam. if as Noam says, we’ve had to do here what the USA say, should we now be kinder to Tony Blair? I’m guilty of saying Blair should be charged with war crimes. I have said this diminished what Tony achieved as PM. Am I wrong to be so harsh on Blair?

Too bad the interviewer talks too much.

A propaganda machine for 92 years, impressive.

so much for holocaust study

Thanks for having Noam on

Great discussion. Chomsky is an international treasure. Couple of points, though: the UK usually reflexively goes along with US foreign policy but it's not a given. The US wanted British military involvement in Vietnam, which we refused. Reagan didn't want Thatcher to commit to a war with Argentina over the Falklands but Thatcher rejected the request. The US State Department generally favours Britain inside the EU and opposed to Brexit.

I hope Noam knows how much he means to my generation, he is a paragon of truth and impartial information to thousands of young people. Your contributions to public discourse and the clearing the misinformation and propaganda in our historical narrative is invaluable. Thank you so much! Here's hoping you have many decades to educate young people in their political awaking. Thank you noam!! 😊

A great privilege to be able to listen to Noam Chomsky - how he maintains his breadth of understanding and attention to detail simultaneously I don’t know. Thank you for hosting this.

Nationally based multinationals? At 16:30 he talks about that. I always wondered what makes companies such as Apple US companies if they have their corporate offices in Ireland to pay taxes there. It's the same thing for all these other companies. So how are they nationally based?

Noam needs new batteries in his fire alarm.

Just in terms of immigration. I urge everyone to look at people per square mile. Major European countries have many times what we have. Germany roughly seven times as many people per square mile. That means we would have to add 1 billion people here to even get close to their population density. Just to put 9,000 Haitians into perspective.

God I listened to this man’s tedious voice for hours. Then stopped when he showed his true psyche , an intellectual jeckel and Hyde living in fame and glory bla bla bla monotonous drone of acceptable anti USA policies from within. Mouthpiece to quell any real dissent. Very clever but outed

I always thought his first name was Noam

99.9% of people have never heard of this guy. When he dies CNN will mention in the same breath as the passing of a minor sitcom celebrity. I will have to explain to everyone else in the room who he is. The cultish comments are embarrissing below.

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What‘s going on with Noam Chomsky? He looks so fragile and old. I hope he‘s not ill...