Noam Chomsky on Fascism, Nuclear Weapons, Climate Change, Julian Assange & More 

Apparently, Noam is the 9th most quoted person in history. That is quite an accomplishment for someone still alive. What makes it even more special, he did it without the help of the mainstream media or political establishment which would prefer he was mute. Noam is a rockstar.

Noam: If you'll indulge me... Me: Hell yeah I will.

It's always good to hear from Noam Chomsky. His perspective is always informative and insightful. I appreciate that he gives several historical examples and provides context to the current situation we are in. I'm about to start reading his book, "Who Rules the World?".

Thank you dear professor chomsky for giving us the opportunity to know the truth. ThankYou for saving our dreams Thank you democracy now

Thanks Professor, a moment of sanity. Thanks Democracy Now for having Chomsky on.

Long live Chomsky! ✊

Stay awesome Noam Chomsky! I appreciate you!

We have to change the established institutions of our country completely. We cannot allow them to continue destroying our planet and not do what is necessary to repair the damages. Our entire government who condones the denial of our climate crisis should be held accountable and punished.

Amazing insightful Talk by the great Noam who I love dearly. Thank you DN! for you!

NOAM! I love you.

Noam: If you'll indulge me.. me: *earbuds max volume*

Thank you Sir Chomsky .. Great educational talks as always

This is one of the most on point speeches I’ve heard in quite a long time. Crazy. We’re at a turning point. Hopefully won’t do go teetering over the edge and into the abyss.

This world needs 100 million more Noam Chomskys of all different types and varieties in all different walks of life. Seems like he's one of the few who talks any sense at all.

Policing the world is what I have always question!

For this man not to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize is proof of who rules the world.

Pretty grim stuff going on. The Mark Twain quote about history rhyming was appropriate. As Chomsky has been hinting at for some time now, thanks to collective lack of wisdom in using STEM to tackle the neo-malthusian problem of rising populations within limited natural resources - other than through zero-sum games played by extreme concentrations of wealth and power ... we will be lucky to survive the rest of this century as a species. It seems that populations beyond the community level inevitably drift towards a post-hoc rationalized political right of zero sum games both within the resulting hierarchy and between competing hierarchies. And with the nuclear weaponry we have now, I have doubts we will survive the next inevitable 'Tower of Babel' meltdown.

What a Man....! Legend 😎

1.25x 👍🏼 ...even 1.5x sounds right.

Its makes me sad to see random videos of make up tutorials hitting 1m views on average while real infromation struggles to break 100k

We need to start a petition to preserve this man's brain and make sure it's the first one that we upload to the cloud. V important

I love Noam Chomsky

True 💯💯👌🏽👍🏽👈🏽 difficult situation anyway 🤙.

The man is a genius

Noam Chomsky will inspire and motivate forever, as long as decent honest human beings survive ...

I've been waiting for this for sometimes, missing his voice of reasoning. Thanks!

My Hero!!!

Other truth speakers are; Noam Chomsky, Richard Wolff, Chris Hedges, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Cornel West, Stephen F Cohen, Steven Ressnick, Steven Shafarman, Donald Jeffries, Paul Krugman, William Blum, Alain Supiot, Yanis Varoufakis, Peter Levelle, Jimmy Dore, Kyle Kulinski, Lee Camp, David Doel, David Degraw, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, Jesse Ventura, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Katie Halper & Phyllis Bennis(anti-AIPAC), Eugene Debs, Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald, Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, Rand Paul(on foreign policy), Gordon Dimmack, John Pilger, Julian Assange, Daniel Everett Hale, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Jeffrey Sterling, Thomas Drake, Daniel Ellsburg, Fred Hampton, Nils Melzer, Dane Wigington of GeoEngineering Watch, Richard Dolan, Joseph Farrell.

Thank you all for your kind comments.

Pretty soon Chomsky won't have to worry about any of this anymore. I hope he enjoyed this life as well as talking about the world's problems, because if you don't enjoy it, the problems don't matter.

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You guys are the best :)

Who's WE gotta silence his voice.These We's must be exposed and dealt with immediately,harshly and according to International laws.

Thank you for presenting imperative content.

Best case ever made for a Sanders presidency

Long live freedom and communism

"have versus have not" and the haves don't like to share.. And then there is those who want without work and effort.. And then there are those who just take... From the beginning of time. I enjoy Mr Chomsky on many but not all issues.

No Borders, No Nations, Stop the deportations! Don't just get angry, take action.

The organizers should have considered to give this 90 plus person a chair.

He is very astute. And he has seen clearly the situation from its origin. What is real and what is smoke.

Fight the power VOTE SMART

Think of the institutions as AI. We're already losing to it.

How does this video not have views

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🏁

This guy is one of my favourite Americans out there. He's probably a little to the left of me, but I still like most of his ideas.

S'il vous plaît, des sous titres français seraient très très appréciés...

Chomsky is a remarkable intellect. He is somewhat confused about Czechoslovakia however. A fair number of Czechoslovakians welcomed the Nazi's. They were swep up in the Fuehrers fantasy. The incorrectly believed that the would benefit from Germany's largess. .

Please, name of the song.

All kneel...

What’s interesting is Bernie Sanders who Chomsky describes as the counter to ultra nationalism is a key driver of ultra nationalism. The over emphasis of race, gender, and sexual inequality is largely responsible for the growing popularity of ultranationalist parties and candidates. Sander’s commented in 2016, that “white people don’t know what it’s like to be poor”, which is interesting since most people who are poor in the United States are white. If you’re white and you’re poor, do you support the guy and the party who doesn’t acknowledge your existence, or do you vote for the other guy who tells you he’s going to make things better for you based on an ultra-nationalist line of reasoning? Does the poor white man vote for the candidate or party that has made race inequality a dominant point of the platform, where everything that can be interpreted as racism is defined as such, and race is pandered to at the neglect of more relevant class based interests? What are you going to legislate to address the issue, it is already illegal to discriminate based on race and it is socially unacceptable. Yet race is probably more talked about today than it was during civil rights, even though a black person born to money is born to advantage whereas a white person born without money is born to disadvantage. To remind you, this comment is arguing that so called progressives like Bernie Sanders mentioned by Chomsky are a driving force behind ultra nationalist popularity. Today on my way home from a job NPR was reporting on the women’s soccer, stating the woman’s championship team is paid about 25% less than a men’s championship team and implying from what I heard that this is a gender issue. I surmise the difference in revenue between what men’s soccer generates and what woman’s soccer generates is probably greater than 25%, meaning despite the woman’s team being paid less than the men’s team in overall dollars, the men are probably underpaid in proportion to overall revenue. It is these kind of issues, the senseless accusations of sexual harassment over comments that used to be called compliments, that reduces the credibility of progressives. Credibility that should be reduced because these candidates motivation is a great distance away from their rhetoric. The third aspect of the progressive wedge is the over emphasis of LGBT discrimination, which is less about equality and tolerance and more about promotion. You have children thinking about their gender identity, and certainly some weighing the value of gay based on the attention they will receive and the protection it may provide. I have no issue with what people choose to do that doesn’t impact the general liberty of others, and no one should, but when a great amount of attention is directed at a problem (intolerance to sexual preference), and the prevalence of true incidents is not great, people recognize the disparity and it compromises the credibility of the candidate and party. Progressives are not a counter to the rise of ultra-nationalism, they are the driver, and I speculate that a great number of people who vote for Trump, do so solely because they hate the racist, feminist, LGBT prioritizing platform of progressives. The counter to ultranationalism is the perceived driving force which goes beyond the issues I’ve raised, and race being much more substantial than the second two. What is interesting about it is, typically you would increase promotion of the counter, but the problem is the counter promotes the thing it is promoted to counter. And whether it’s ultra nationalism or progressivism, neither addresses the general social, economic, or political issues that exist. He mentions the democrats may have given Trump the 2020 election with their focus on Russian collusion allegations, something I agree with and wrote a few months ago, a point of concurence. I don’t understand the point of comparing the rise of fascism to the rise of ultranationalism while emphasizing the ideologies are mildly similar but far from the same. I guess it is a good way to waste 10 minutes in an hour long talk and promote the term ultra-nationalism. What are the functioning democracies? Which states function as democracies? As in the interest represented through the state reflects the will and interest of the public? Very good point in regard to the CEO of JP Morgan, he can take an ethical stance on investment in fossil fuel which will lead to his replacement, or he can continue JP Morgan’s investment in fossil fuels. Either way, JP Morgan is going to continue investing in fossil fuels. I think Chomsky overestimates the significance of Anti-Ballistic Missiles treaty. The only explanation I read I’m almost embarrassed to express because of how obviously incorrect it is. The reasoning stated if one power was close to a 100% efficient anti-ballistic missile system the other side may launch a preemptive strike, rather than lose their deterrent capacity. I’m sure Chomsky probably has another reason, but this reason for an ABM treaty is wrong because technological advances could render the systems useless, meaning the loss of the deterrent capacity due to a break-through in ABM, is at worst a technological problem which will be overcome. And they did. The US has ABM systems but they are useless because of the cost of defense verses the cost of attacking. It’s a hat on a hat, and the attacking side can deploy more warheads, some of which can be conventional warheads not nuclear as decoys, and enough nuclear warheads will get through. While I don’t think a first strike caused by developing an ABM system is realistic and neither did the Soviet Union, the idea was proposed by McNamara. If he proposed the idea, he proposed it because in considering ABM systems, first strike is something he would at least consider discussing with a president or recommending it if the Soviet Union would have been near developing a 100% effective ABM system. Chomsky is disingenuous or plain wrong in his assertion about the GND that the disagreement is it should be a little different here or there. That it’s doable. He doesn’t cite the legislation; he cites an economist who has done what? Accounted for the cost of replacing fossil fuel generated energy with renewable energy? The measurement of costs, anticipated gains made through construction and permanent jobs in the expansion of a new industry. In direct presumed benefits of public investment in the economy? It is whatever anyone says it is, because you can accomplish the goals listed in the bill on paper however you want to. With what political will? This is the main argument against a GND that no one brings up. You don’t’ pile the mission statement of 30 bills into a single piece of legislation and try to pass it. As I wrote about in an article on Bernie Sanders GND, some items will be easier to pass than other and some may serve interests that will aid in their passage. Yet these interests that benefit from 1 item might be averse to the other 29, and in this, the 1 item you could pass, is locked in a cell with 29 others that you can’t. Some of these items in the GND have nothing to do with climate change. In what way is the Green New Deal a remarkable accomplishment? The sources I’ve read about the feasiblity and economic effect of something similar to GND being little more than measuring energy demand and comparing the cost of energy production from renewable sources, which says nothing to most challenging aspect of it which is implementation. Once we’re past this the problem of the GND is there is no GND. I’m so tired of writing this but the GND is a list of problems, goals, and the creation of a select committee to work on achieving those goals along very unspecific guidelines. I saw a headline that read “We need to fund the green new deal”. There is no GND to fund, the only appropriation is to fund the research of a select committee. These are indisputable facts that somehow the people of this country fail to acknowledge. Republicans don’t mention it because it makes more sense to perpetuate the myth and equate the GND with socialism, the GND with progressives, and socialism with totalitarianism and the failed attempts at socialism undermined by US and other western interference. (Previous sentence of associations means in short, that the republicans see the GND as something that is more valuable to call socialism than it is to expose as being nothing, although I did hear at least one republican whose name I don’t remember stating essentially that, that it is nothing.) Chomsky continues to reinforce the unimpactful efforts of activists who comprise most of his acolytes by stating climate change being at the forefront of discussion is a tremendous change. Climate change has been at the forefront of discussion. Obama campaigned on climate change. It is the proliferation of information related to climate change and the impact of climate change which has it at the forefront of discussion, which takes place outside of activist circles. He makes this point to stroke his base probably knowing full well he’s full of shit. Funny part about that was I paused the video just prior to the applause after he said “that shows you the type of things that can be done”. Which is to say the applause reinforced my conclusion that “he makes this point to stroke his base”. You don’t know it happened like that but I do so I thought I would share my personal affirmation. On his last point, although correct about the point of Russian interference not playing a significant role in influencing public opinion or the elections, his example of Israel interfering in US elections is not an example of that. Netanyahu meeting with congress to criticize the policy of the president doesn’t have an impact on elections, it has an impact on policy.

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Please can somebody tell me the names of the economists who wrote extensively on the transition from fossil fuel economy @43:00? Also please could somebody tell me what is the name of the song in the break @41:30?

To read Chomsky's latest book for free, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years', go to this link: @t​

Nazi thing just doesn't work for me. Before Hitlers rise the world was a mess, Stalin was mass murdering people in Russia, enough to justify real concern from Germany, and like today many people fought over control of the German Government.. the same party that had power in Russia was also influencing power in Germany. War turned out bad for everyone, mainly the Russian German people but everyone suffered, so no such thing as a good war.. but I understand why it happened. Now the scary thing is Stalin wasn't defeated and went on to mass murder more people then died in world war 2 and our Government was very concerned about Bolshevism trying to come to America... I'm afraid it did under the name of Zionism. Many immigrants to Israel came from Stalins Russia.

I wish this video had English subtitles, even automatic So I couldn't understand better what NC says.

gatekeeper

Noam Should be an ASMR Artist

Is it Me or is the professor more upbeat and optimistic than usual?

Aw a rerun

What does he call banon at 0:42?

Lila Downs! My Favorite!

Why are these talks in slow motion?

Big Noam and Father Christmas, my two favourite people.

All Chase customers should at least pressure Chase by email or whatever to stop investing in fossil fuel and other climate offending investments, or we will take money else where. See if we do that, how fast they will change the policy. Instead investing in green new deal, modern transit infrastructure like high speed trains etc.

It's so hard to be attentive to his talk without spacing out. When I come to my senses I have no clue want he was talking about.

MINOR CORRUPTION ? MINOR ?! WTF!! C'mon B !

See the TREACHERY of all whites, re-defining racism and WHITE SUPREMACY! 🤔 giving it a new made up name 😂 "whats sometimes called" ...bullshit! ITS A CALL FOR WHITES TO WAGE WAR ON BLACK N BROWN PEOPLE WITHOUT FEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

I like Noam. There's something I don't understand from the second clip, when he's talking about Lula, why is he pulling punches? He kind of stammers around and then says after Lula left office a soft coup took place, then mentions how Lula was going to win, then was imprissoned, put in solitary confinement, and basically had his freedom taken from him. Sounds brutal and unjust, why soften what they did to Lula? Maybe I don't know all of what happened there.

Your concern should be first and foremost centered around Julian Assange and how America is treating those journalists and whistle blowers that call America out. Classic American Hypocrisy!

I'm probably one of few who knew about him before I knew much about his political talks. (I'm normally not much of a political person, I'm just against unreasonableness, and he just says the kinds of things a reasonable person would say, which is not necessarily always 100% exactly the same thing on the topic, but so what. Shouldn't even have to mention the last bit, but it's necessary now, and no it doesn't mean I have some "strong disagreement but respect him nonetheless", or such pompous garbage, it just means what it means...)

Prof Chomsky...ur voice of reason has had me informed for years. In regards to what he's saying....How good is Shitfuckery!!! ( the juice media).

Whoever thought Now! Democracy fans and Noam Chomsky fans need ever repeating graphics changes every few seconds should be fired.

I’ve been waiting for this. my favorite humanist.

Listen to the audience giggle like a bunch of little school children

Tax pollution and speculation, reward ecoproduction and job creation. Create robots. Make meat very pricy and subsidize fruits and vegies.

What happened to the ozone layer panic? If they fixed that they shouldn't need all our money to fix climate change!

Give this guy a N price

Government control's the press! Wise up stop making excuses for your ignorance! The search for truth is in our hands if u don't know something look for it. Don't expect it to fall into your lap🤔

I dont get why my grandpa is up this late..come come home vovô,we are going yo order pizza

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I cannot support chomsky's opinion that only muslims have a right to nationalism in the middle east

ZEITGEIST MOVEMENT

please somebody or something, fix that what is wrong

Trump has got to go ASAP !

To read Chomsky's latest book for free, 'The Responsibility of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 years', go to this link: @t​

Amy is a Goddess.

Also thanks dn for doing stories addressing colonialism . We need more optics in this corporate chicanery

Thank you Professor Chomsky, for this insightful talk! I wish you well! 🙏

just increase the speed to 1.25. He speaks like he's twenty years younger.

Thank you everyone at DN!

National treasure: Noam Chomsky ✊

I have never heard a more clear explanation about what is REALLY going on in the world today! Thank you Noam Chomsky!

He’s never rattled or fired up in a debate, he just maintains the calm onslaught of information on his opponent as if he’s just giving a talk like he is here. He counters his opponent so softly & gently, it’s extremely rare, and fun to watch also.

Thank you Amy for all your work throughout the years, you are truly appreciated, we all love you!!!!

Thanks DN for this sobering hour of sensible sanity , it’s far too uncommon 🏴‍☠️❤️☠️🖤

Heed the words of this man.

His voice reminds me of John Pilger's. Both great peace activists and intellectuals. Thank you so much for bringing the truth to the mass.

What a genious, this video needs more views.

Great intellectual forever

Noam2020