Noam Chomsky on the war against ISIL | UpFront 

+Ali Dakmar Good trolling ha.

+A. M. Goudarzi articulately, perhaps. Truthfully or accurately, not a chance.

superNowornever could you give a few examples (or highlighted one example) about Chomsky being untruthful and inaccurate ?

+A. M. Goudarzi Obnoxious interview by Mehdi Hasan.

MARCELO ARIAS SOUTO I agree, actually Chomsky's ideas often require laying some ground before hitting the point. Mehdi Hassan ruins Chomsky's scaffolds before he gets to the point.

+spillett7475 yea it is really frustrating

+Azamspazam91 They should have made the interview a special.

+spillett7475 every Oxbridge educated presenter seems to have the exact same style. So boring to watch

he only has a certain amount of time. I love Noam but he does get long winded, Medhi has to drill down to the basic arguments to keep the flow of the conversation going.

Yes

Nome can handle it.

Of course, Noam Chomsky took Medhi Hasan on and went the distance. Still Noam Chomsky is a teacher and to me it was a missed opportunity because of Medhi Hasan interview style towards NC.

Allowing Noam Chomsky to answer while you machine gun questions to him, is not pandering, it is common courtesy.

+TheDAT573 It wasn't so bad, and Chomsky can (& did) handle himself just fine. It was annoying that the interviewer got distracted over the semantics of Russia's conflict with the Ukraine, though. The definition of imperialism has no bearing on the Syrian crisis, and neither does the annexation of Crimea, right or wrong. Stay focused Mehdi...

+TheDAT573 it was shameful to watch, made me cringe

+Joshua Lord Yeah, the problem is that people from the west have stopped asking this question: "compared to what?" For example, the christians in pakistan are systematically mistreated, discriminated, burning alive, confined in ghettos, raped, subjugated by islamic blasphemy laws, taken from them opportunities of social and economic advancement and many other sad things. And you dont see them doing some kind of "christian jihad" and starting to killing people. But in the other side you see a pakistani living in london and he dont have a job, see that some news papers have headlines like "islamic terrorism" and people criticizing islam and also some people make to him bad looks in the streets, then he realise that the the more logic reaction is to start to behead people, to rape women and children, persecute yazidis, to rob from the infidels, fighting to implement sharia law worldwide and committing suicide martyrdom operations to earn a pass to heaven and his new 72 virgins. And people from the west see that reaction in the muslims and say: that make sense because he has being "radicalized online". Get out of here !!!

Are you familiar with Dylan Roof?

+Thomas Harle He's mostly known as a great intellectual because he has a voice that sounds profound :-)

+gary wood, Ha! Yes, it's important to oooze graavitaaaas.

The true pinnacle of this was Milton Friedman. I know absolutely nothing about economics but when I watch a video of him, I believe everything he says.

+Rok Adamlje Free your mind, and you'll come to understand that they unquestionably are...One need only to do a very basic empirical study of criminal acts and unlawful killing perpetrated by both at the whim of elitist power structures to see this as pretty obvious. Has always been this way, and I'm afraid if you tried to rebut Chomsky on this front, you'd end up dreadfully embarrassed in the process.

James Carr Hmm thats a pretty good description of Saddam right there.

+Rok Adamlje No, of course not! We all live in a shining city on the hill, right?! It's just a shame all those poor, dead souls in third world nations couldn't appreciate the freedom our invasions & coups brought them.

+Rok Adamlje The U.S has engaged in over 75 military interventions since WW2, and financially supported military dictatorships. So yes, the U.S is by far the biggest terrorist state.

+Rok Adamlje Do some reading, mate and plug off the TV. The US and the UK are responsible for millions of deaths and there's no denying the facts.

+mugdays Yea, imagine that Kanye West isn't, right? ^

Adi G Huh?

+mugdays That's ok. It doesn't boggle mine.

Agree, he's incredibly overrated

+mugdays It is quite interesting. When I entered college I was told that Chomsky was a sort of Stephen Hawking of history, insanely brilliant. Then you get to know him and a theme emerges. It doesn't quite seem to make complete sense BUT, who am I, just a impressionable young college student. Years latter you realize the theme is not that intelligent or thought provoking and at the same time your realize why he's so highly regarded. Unfortunately, the shaming of America is a central theme in higher education. Unfortunate because its not nuanced thinking and doesn't help us understand the world.

Its one degreee: "im american. I must focus on the crimes my country is responsible for"

+FifthGear Host asks if a certain action by "x" is imperialism. Chomsky begins to explain why certain action should not be called imperialism. Host interrupts to name a different action by "x." Host did not ask about annexing Crimea. Of course it is another thing completely!

+ FifthGear The people of the Crimea carried out a peaceful referendum on whether they should rejoin the Russian Federation ,after they witnessed the violent coup against the democratically elected Ukraine government backed by vicious ultra nationalist and their Right Sektor Nazi supporters ,who were encouraged by US NEOCON war criminals ,whose policies have turned Middle east nations into hell holes ,.. There are enough Y.T videos of Nazi Right Sektor death squads doing their NAZI torchlight processions ,proudly wearing their Nazi insignia . They have a grim history of ethnic massacre ,that even shocked their wartime Nazi pals

The interview was about the war on ISIL (looking at the title), but the interviewer had to mention 'Russian imperialism' because of what happened in Crimea. What this reporter doesn't understand is that imperialism means you're offensively trying to conquer land (by force or coup), but also try to build up or increase your political/military influence/presence in another country. Russia is not and hasn't acted imperialistisc in Ukraine or Syria; in both countries there already was a Russian military base with the approval of both country's governments. In both countries, Russia has not tried to overthrow any government just to have a puppet regime in favor Russia or used any form of force to destabilize and conquer these countries. Russia secured their military base in Crimea by adding the peninsula to their land, because of the coup that took place on 21st of February on behalf of the Americans (a defensive act). Russia also already had a military base in Syria, nothing imperialistisc about this because this was approved by the Syrian government (which wasn't first overthrown so that the next government would approve it). The US, UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey (and because the US is all of NATO is) on the other hand ARE imperialistisc, but you didn't say they aren't, so I'm not going there.

Hasib _ Its good to see a comment that cuts a path through all the propaganda going on out there, for the politically naive , Your comments simply and correctly defines what imperialism is all about . They say Americas most powerful weapon is propaganda , that is .dispensed through a world wide CIA run network , It must be good ,many Americans are not even aware that their nation is the head of an imperial empire , They really believe US elites have hundreds of military bases around the world , because they are the worlds "policeman ". And the many -millions of people they kill "doing their police work ",men women and children ,must the bad guys . The power of incessant propaganda !

moon beam​ Thank you and I totally agree with what you said. Also when you think about the results coming home to roost of the many wars and death NATO aligned countries have caused, it would almost be 100% justified if not for one very disturbing fact: Washington and London have ever since 2002 (Afghanistan and in particular Iraq) been the most guilty parties and most persuasive and militarily active of the entire alliance. www.independent.co.uk/news/people/tony-blair-apologises-for-mistakes-over-iraq-war-and-admits-elements-of-truth-to-view-that-invasion-a6707776.html This is also the case in Syria (along with Turkey), as it was in Libya (along with France). But the astounding fact is that the 2 most guilty parties, refuse to take the lead and responsibility on the aftermath of their atrocities or at least even share the responsibility and the burden. The United States and England have taken not even 5% of the total amount of refugees that the E.U. has taken in. Most astounding is the behavior of London, being part of the E.U. and yet make it's own rules and get away with it. While Poland, Slovakia, Czech etc are being sanctioned for doing the exact same: refusing to abide by the refugee quota of the E.U. On that same note, London also last year refused to pay the full amount to Brussels regarding the contribution each (economically advanced) nation had to pay annually. uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-osborne-idUKKBN0IJ0ZU20141030

So true that he'd shut them down good. I generally like Sam when it comes to philosophy, science, and religion. But when it comes to politics, he has proven again and again he doesn't really know what he is talking about.

Chomsky flatly declined the offer for a debate with Harris for good reason. Harris would mop the floor with him.

@@SuperSpeedMonkeylol harris attempted to debate chomsky over email and the ensuing exchange-later published on harris’s website bc sam didn’t follow chomsky’s comments sufficiently to grasp what an L he was posting 😂-revealed harris to be kind of a dimwit. basically, harris didn’t know enough about the basic recent history of US foreign policy to understand a straightforward argument chomsky kept restating as his reason for not wanting to further engage with harris on the topic of foreign affairs, so he keeps totally missing the point and doubling down on his initial argument while chomsky’s patience and interest in the correspondence dropped off precipitously. it makes for pretty cringe-inducing reading

+jumpedupchimpanzee He has responded to that accusation many times. As an American it's his job as an intellectual to see through state propaganda and examine and denounce the criminal acts of his own country. USA doesn't seem to need any help from Chomsky denouncing Russia's crimes.

+kovvvas That's bullshit and You know it

David N Why's that?

+David N "That's bullshit and You know it" It's not. What responsibility does Chomsky bear for the actions of Russia?

David N He's not. Your comment is about as infantile as I would have expected on RU-vid.

Educating Ignorant/Intolerant Kulinski Fans I see someone doesn't understand the difference between foreign and domestic policy.

Educating Ignorant/Intolerant Kulinski Fans and you mention Saudi Arabia? Who is their main source of power again? Oh that's right...

+abelmaster little bit of both, he is ignorant ideolog

gurp chirp rubin report fan ?

+Mike limited hhhhh you caught the devil in a different cover who's trying to fool us, thanks to you and to Mehdi Hasan.

That's his point! Crimea wasn't really annexed by Russia, it's full of Russians. Just as Iraqis couldn't annex Iraq from the British, it's their country.

Chomsky is far from a genius

even if be was that lends no credence to the nonsense he spews

+Matan Omer Should be up by Friday

Yes, US And Britain. Maybe the issue Is you Are looking at it only from the view of politics towards Its people - in that case yes, the US And UK arent the most opressive (even though I would argue not the least opressive either). But if you count their foreign policies - He Is undoutably right.