Noam Chomsky On The Fentanyl Crisis, Mexican Cartels, and the Rising Violence in the United States. 

“Fortunate to Coincide in time with such a beautiful mind” love this

So much clarity of thought and so little malice.

You are so naive. The man does nothing but hate i the USA, and lives there. Since he has protected freedom of speach, he says what he likes. The question was about fetanyl. He talks about other issues to get round to attacking the white, republicans. People take drugs because they are great cheap fun, specially for certain personally types. Chomsky cannot say that though with his leftist mindset. Treatment is available for some who want it. There are ways to make enough cheap guns anyway, so the cartels can get them. It goes on and on. There are so many guns in the USA, and that was the case years and years ago. A multimillionaire group pays 100 buck for a gun, or a ten times that it little to no difference. Pot wasused by some undesirable blacks, but also by lots of others too. It is illogical to make this point. Pot was seen as a gateway to harder drugs, but it so happened that pot was used by black free thinkers, so what? i give up. Treatment should be readily available of course. Chomsky would naively give more money to help homeless drug users. The drug user then buys more drugs...When the outcome was obvious, then Chomsky, would then start about who to blame for it. Circular reasoning.

Agreed. V few know

@@Eoin_D Communist Apologist.

@@Eoin_D Communism avoids profit and substitutes graft and corruption. Which is less efficient.

You care. I care... a few commenters above do too....Take it from there...I know what you mean though.

Not enough care

why wont he say why epstein gave him 100k, sorry whyd he give a multibillionare 100k?

Mexico is an unsafe country. Let's start there. The problem is that the US and Mexico do not deal with crime seriously. Noam relishes logic that is black and white and it is very grey in the fact that laws do not reflect law enforcement and judicial systems actions, instead corruption at all levels rules the day.

​​@@ProgessivesBwhitetho that has nothing to do with what he speaks of now. His present words are absolute truth.

Better when he wasn’t fooly “vaccinated” 🤓

Alternate universe perspective from Chomsky.

Indeed. Too much for some people, clearly.

Nah, manufacturing contempt is the business of our times.

Not only is it dying off but it’s hardly even existed in this country. That’s why we’re in the situation we’re in now. We haven’t had enough people that have had as much exposure that can speak to all of these issues like Dr. Chomsky has.

The USA is not the problem. Mexico has itself to blame.

Yes, problem is in America where demand is.

​@@brendatenorio5721 get lost, creep.

@@brendatenorio5721 yes, and America is where the guns are sold.

Douglas Valentine has done great research on CIA drug smuggling

The guy may be a moron!

Noam is cool but I don't want drug freaks invading homes, and nobody can defend themselves because it'll be like a clockwork orange.

Neither you nor him, couple dingbats...

For the CIA.

Communism is not very intellectual. Aside from the discussions bereft of reality. And he misses the obvious - as do most - people in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. Making war on people in pain isn't moral.

Sy Hersh is 88.

@@nicka731 True enough, same generation, good call. Let's see if we can find a few more of them and get them together for an elders conference to help us think some things over before we lose them. I don't think any of the newer generations of Americans have much critical thinking left.

@@MrLoobu I like Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald (who happens to be personal friends with Chomsky).

Sowell and Hansen are terrible. Good to listen to if you want to be gaslighted, I suppose. Greenwald, Hedges and Taibbi lost the plot. They got carried away with their own viewpoints and lost objectivity. "When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail" - that kind of thinking. Chomsky is still the best

what, that its coming from somewhere other than mexico? Dude is a commmmie pos.

How did your drug addict mate not know all drugs are laced with fentanyl

me too

Yup and then you have people who say "just test your coke, it's easy to get a test strip" But what they must not understand is that could be a few grains of Fent elsewhere in the bag of coke. So to really test your coke, you're gonna have to dissolve the entire bag into water and then rest the solution. And no one is gonna do that unless they inject it

@@MarvinMonroe JUST LEGALIZE IT FOR PEOPLE AND CONTROL IT USING THE FDA

@@MarvinMonroe I don’t know anything about it anymore, just glad I got away from it over a decade ago.

Real heroin is available but Most addicts want the stronger synthetic drug =fentanyl smh

@Hood Intellect Not most those I know. Fentynal isn't the same as good raw. It has almost totally disappeared from Baltimore over the last 5 years since Fentynal is so much cheaper to sell. Occasionally, it is around. The only person I knew who had it regularly charged $25 for .1 and got arrested recently. Even when I was in tenderloin San Francisco in February, I asked for raw, but everyone said only had Fentynal. A lot of old heads are dying after 40 years of being a herion addict from Fentynal.

@@Franz19970 Same thing in NYC. It took a while for F to take over. Was already everywhere else but NYC finally collapsed into F. Almost impossible to find real.

Child abuse. Right? Mine wasn't so severe. Weed smoker. Chronic.

@@Franz19970 The Mexicans is definitely flooding the streets with fentanyl sense it’s cheaper and more profitable

I used to shoot heroin and crack into my forehead veins, I never went to war, never even been in a real fight. This is higher than ppl realize. The money goes to the top above the US fed government. All senators judges get a cut. Chappo was a CiA asset. It's about control and keeping the masses medicated. It's bigger than money cuz these are the ppl that print the money and have too much of it to even store. Drugs are EASILY ACCESSABLE, and it keeps ppl from reaching there potential. It keeps ppl scared. It's about jobs that waste everyone's time. Drugs are about wasting human life as an overall resources that could benefit humanity, but won't. Cuz drugs are fun

You are so right. I have been saying this same thing since I finally learned what matters - we have to stop blaming others and ourselves and start really learning about, discussing, and addressing The Root Foundations of the problems - this is what must happen, can happen, and almost nobody realizes this or has the simple empowering Courage to say it like it is. Thank you Noam for being one of the brave Courageous souls Mindfully thinking with your heart for so long now

Look into the military use and history of meth amphetamine. All the troops since WW1 have been dosed up.

I think you're right. Also capitalism and economic reasons are a big driver.

Your spot on!! I live in Miami and the use of drugs is out of this world.

Good point

@@shepherdanton Different factors break down and uplift spirit. Oppression is certainly a factor.

@@shepherdanton lair

pa leeeese, He is so ignorant...

Too bad he was buddies with Epstein...

He thinks so.

@@joecasey7415 though so, now hes remote controlled.

"one of our greatest thinkers of our time"? Why would you say that? Because he made lasting contributions to linguistics, psychology*, philosophy, political theory and anthropology among other academic disciplines? Because he was one the first anti-war activists during the Vietnam War? Because, even when he admitted he doesn't like doing it and would much rather spend his energy within academia, has continued being politically outspoken? * Amazingly, in 1957 Chomsky wrote one 30 page article that laid to rest the BF Skinner's Behaviorist tradition within psychology that had existed since the 1930s

like defending epstein and giving the multi billionaire 100 k but wont say why?

@@ProgessivesBwhitetho this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Sounds like you don't like him lol.

@@paulomilan515 i like his articles, not opinions, like his intellect, not his views, but cmon hes not an anarchist and loves big government he complains about

@@paulomilan515he said none of your business when asked about hanging out with Epstein

@@cirogarcia9951 link

Are you high too?

lol He wanted to starve the unjabbed !

Speaking of crazed culture ^^^

Lol yea he’s the man! Best buddies with Epstein - maybe you can send your toddler over to him since you think he’s so great 🤡

@@lilmoe4364 means nothing coming from a chomskynite who ignores norm giving epstein 100k

he is a big part of why our culture is crazed.

It's the british who opened that bottle of opium in China in the nineties century because they drank too much tea and buy too many porcelain. Their commercial balance was down versus China and they find the good solution : create the drugs traffic in China and made 2 wars to have very good treaties versus Quing dynasty. And the Usa was in the party too...the return of the wave in history.

Without Prohibition the cartels wouldn't exist. Prohibition is a Government program. If people really hated the cartels they would want to put addicts under medical care. Legalize.

The mexican cartels take the drugs to the border. And then, WHO distributes them to ALL the country, to EACH and EVERY city in the USA? Why does everyone ignore the fact that there ARE many cartes in the USA? they do much more work and they do much more MONEY than them. Mexico captures and kills druglords every year, HOW MANY does the US govt capture and kill in US soil???

Don't forget all those benign legal drugs that are addictive as well that aren't but are psychological thuggery at its best but I always get asked drinking drugs ?yes your bs I still feel bad it's your drugs ...he's still using ....ass hats .

Watch Canada is Dying. We have other issues to worry about.

Sorry, neighbor. Wish I could change it.

try North Korea, Russia and China as your neighbors

Poor baby

You’re also on Red Man land.

Disarm the population and increase the police budget very reasonable 😅

POLAR BEARS human resources or food source GEORGE FLOYD RIP human resources for police

Porfirio Diaz said that 😂

Good luck with that

It's the media that created and promotes this modeen gun culture. Before it was only military and police enforcement who had it. Maybe some had rifle for hunting. Today, inner city kids killing each other for fun. And the fear tactics pumped out non-stop by MSM is intended to get people to rush to the gun store. It's all intentional.

I think you're confusing him with Dershowitz.

Yeah, Americans are a strange lot

❤🙏🙏👍👍👏

@Fifigoesforth many governments are already paying under universal health insurance coverage and the marginal cost would probably be minimal. The savings from so-called war against drugs would pay for it many times over. But the politicians all over the world would lose a very generous and endless source of income😡

Drugs should be harshly banned and all users either put in jail or in rehab. If you relapse, straight to jail and no rehab option. The nicer the US has gotten about drugs the worse the problem has gotten. If you want less of something, you ban it. You guys are so happy to ban guns and be strict about it but with drugs we have to take this magical new approach of NOT banning them

And don't get me wrong, I loved all of his books, I always found his political analysis to be spot on, I'm fucking depressed about the whole thing, but unless he at least tries to explain himself or respond in any way, I don't know what to believe anymore. Kyle Kulinski's coverage is spot on. It makes you sad and it makes you sick but you've got to face it, you can't just accept that it's all fine. If it is the worst that's true, if he was in some kind of blackmail sting, perhaps it might explain some of the weird issues that Michael Parenti observed many years ago, about lines that Chomsky never seemed willing to cross --for example unwillingness to address some state-initiated domestic political violence within the United States.

Ask Noam what he was doing with Epstein. I did

Hope doesn't exist unless we make it.

@Andrew Mortensen. No way Chomsky messed with little girls. There were charitable agreements Epstein tried to pilot so he could try to look legit.

@@anthonydargan857 I don't. I want decriminalization and every Adult to have any Drug they can afford until Evolutionary Natural Selection process work their Magic. It may take a Decade and we may loose 5 to 10% of People but in the End, Drug Problems will end. Crime Syndicate Drug Income will Collapse as well as Overall Crrine. Illegal Fentanyl and other serious poison will fall off a Cliff once Users can legally obtain all their Hearts Desire and quickly bring to Conclusion whatever Fate has in store for them without degredation by Government Policy we have now. Abundant, Legal, low cost Drugs for all adults. The System now produces far too many malfunctioning People who are miserable due to restrictive Drug Laws which perpetuate misery rather than end it Naturally. Interfering in Natural Selection process is what I oppose. Those who can use Drugs and still function will survive, those who can't won't. No need to commit crimes to support a Habit. Natural Systems are self correcting when Government doesn't interfere with it. Go ahead, buy a pound of Heroin or Meth for the price of a loaf of Bread? Use as much as you want. End the self termination process in blissful Days instead of miserable Years. What's wrong with that?

You are correct. People who take drugs are very self destructive as only people in pain can be. Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin users had been sexually abused in childhood. People in Chronic Pain Chronically take pain relievers. We have laws against that. And we also have the criminals that go with such laws. The Senators and Congressmen know how it works. And they like it just fine.

@@anthonydargan857 Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin users had been sexually abused in childhood.

Binary thinking. That's not what happened in Portugal. And they didn't completely legalize drug use. Legalization allows users access a safe source as opposed to illegal source thereby eliminating the risk of overdose, not increasing the risk.of overdose.

@@daniel213141 Good to know. I've seen Meth and Heroin addicts. They never have enough until they die which often happens in Months not Years. If they get clean, their Bodies are often ruined for Life. Nonetheless, People should be free to do whatever as long as they don't harm others. Maybe Portuguese Addicts are different? For now, we don't have good examples of Drug Legalization in enough Countries to do cross Country comparison.

Canada doesn't have a drug problem? Maybe because they don't have a War on Drugs.

Lol what??? We do have a problem too in Canada... BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario are ridden with drugs.

@@kubasniak The Canadians are too sensible to declare war on a social problem. instead they work to solve it. Here in the US we embrace warfare, so we get casualties. The nose bleed sentences drive desperation, which drives murder over drug debt and sales turf. Naturally some Americans think what "worked" for drug abuse will also work for gun violence. Some people can't see the obvious in front of their faces.

@@kubasniak you have drug cartels exporting drugs to the USA from canada? That was my question. I edited in case it was ambiguous. From the context of the video I thought my question would be easily understood but it seems I should have been more specific

@@martinzarzarmusic5338 A common border. That’s the big difference.

the problem is illegal drugs from dealers, make it legal in controlled areas

Indeed

Don’t think so, he’s way above that, the nobel has been instrumentalized way too much

While he deserves a Nobel Prize, I'm sure he would accept our support and activism to effect real, progressive change for the better.

He's just answering what he's asked. Some of these criticisms of him are downright strange. Strange the mental gymnastics people go through to avoid accepting things

@@lilmoe4364 you just got part of the answer right. He answers only specific questions, because he's only asked questions in order to avoid things that are inconvenient to his narrative. I think this also includes his handlers.

It's because you don't listen what he said...

Guns are built into the fabric of US society and culture. The guns aren’t the issue. The lack of community, mental health services and total disregard for human life Is the issue. I’m a single mom with two children (one in high school, one in college). I do fear for them. But my fear is nothing compared to inner city parents who have to worry about their babies catching a stray bullet sleeping in bed. It’s a CULTURE issue, not a poverty issue. 99% of legal gun owners do not commit crimes. And there’s tens of billions of us. As far as the drugs go, my thinking is much more going towards the harm reduction model because what’s being done now isn’t working. Decriminalizing drug use isn’t compassionate. It removes that only interventions most people will ever get that might force them to get sober. We are losing a generation of talent to drugs. If we’re not going to arrest them, we need to keep them alive long enough to get clean. Leaving them in the streets to commit crimes, poop on the streets and eventually die is cruel in the extreme, not only to them but everyone around them. And since the police can’t or won’t protect us, we’re forced to do it ourselves.

@@brookeceron8091 you know I disagree, guns are the issue. I don't care about anybody's Second Amendment rights. we are not organized for a militia from the 1800s. Other countries are doing very well when they're citizens are not armed to the teeth and killing each other. Check that out. People with guns kill children.

Yeah a very intelligent man who couldnt forsee his Democrat friends would start wars first day in office. Please!!!

@@brookeceron8091 that what the Crumbleys said as they gave there son a gun for xmas and he shot up oxford mi schools

Tell that to Bobert and MJ Greene...

That takes political will genius. Big business runs this country

@@llanos8320 Big business doesn't make people do drugs.

Not so sure about that....have you ever watched tv commercials that make viewers salivate for this food, this car, or that pair or stilettos? Commercial enterprises control our lives in ways few of us are aware of.@@David53D

Chomsky, the left, cancel culture on campus, his excuses, and Trump as a result. People do not pin Chomsky down to one issue, he goes off in tangents. The left is not for democracy.

The guns used by mexican cartel is weaponry not even the mexican army have access to. Fast and furious was an operation to smuggle guns into mexico by CIA to track the movement of such guns. As they did in afganistan by training and providing weapons they did in mexico.

Very tight gun control laws in Mexico

Have a "banker" in the family....got his kicks in NYC watching yachts dock to unload the scantily clad blonde, buxom bikini babes while those below deck rounded up the drugs to sell on city streets to the miserables (and the stock brokers) who purchased those drugs. It was a "fun times." As long as you didn't get caught...and "streeters knew how to Not get caught.