Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama's Targeted Assassinations and Latin America's Break From US

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  • DemocracyNow.org - As the United States carries out another deadly drone strike in Yemen, Noam Chomsky compares the counterterrorism policies of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. "If the Bush administration didn't like somebody, they'd kidnap them and send them to torture chambers," Chomsky says. "If the Obama administration decides they don't like somebody, they murder them." Chomsky also praises the whistleblowing activities of WikiLeaks, as well as the ongoing Latin American shift away from Washington's long-running political and economic dominance.
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Komentáře • 172

  • @coreycox2345
    @coreycox2345 Před 7 lety +16

    Thank you, Noam Chomsky, for changing my view of the world with your many videos.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety +5

    a new Chomsky-DN! interview!!!! on my birthday! this is the best gift so far

  • @mzambo666
    @mzambo666 Před 12 lety +1

    Thanks for the interview DN!!!

  • @livevegan
    @livevegan Před 12 lety +1

    Thanks for the interview DN :)

  • @KyleGarciaBernal
    @KyleGarciaBernal Před 11 lety +1

    great video!

  • @guccione2
    @guccione2 Před 12 lety +1

    There are very few people left in this world that have the courage to speak the truth. Thank you Noam for the hard work you do to get to the truth of the matter and then say it. You are a fantastic person, thank you.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    thanks DN! !!!!

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    thank you DN! !!!!!!!!!

  • @LiquidYogi
    @LiquidYogi Před 12 lety +1

    You can find the citations in his books. Mostly it's mainstream sources, other times it's from local journalists on the ground in the place where the thing is happening. His sources are really well done, and he's conservative with what he uses.

  • @Notecrusher
    @Notecrusher Před 11 lety +1

    It doesn't get any better than Amy Goodman interviewing Noam Chomsky.

  • @maiqueashworth
    @maiqueashworth Před 2 lety

    Very refreshing listening to truth spoken clearly

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    I haven't read Singer but, in my college class, one of his books is on the list i can choose from to write a book critique; thanks for the suggestion

  • @TruthUnderFire
    @TruthUnderFire Před 11 lety

    Damned straight.

  • @gwachberg
    @gwachberg Před 12 lety +3

    i love to hear noam chomsky, even if he is interviewed in a jazzy bird house ...

  • @matthewkopp2391
    @matthewkopp2391 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank God for Chomsky.

  • @Streunekater
    @Streunekater Před 11 lety

    OMG. And I gave up my course of studies in computer sciences (here in German: Informatics) because I couldn't get a grasp on the "Chomsky Hierarchy"... Thinking: "What this guy »scienced about« has nothing to do with the real world..." OK, now I'll try to understand what his science stuff means, now that I understood how important his "real life" and politics "stuff" was... This man is a great thinker and yet uses his heart. Thanks, Mr. Chomsky. Utmost regards and humble greetings from Germany.

  • @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs
    @GlassesAndCoffeeMugs Před 9 měsíci

    "Assange should get the presidential medal of honor" Absolutely love how blunt he is lol

  • @GiantSandles
    @GiantSandles Před 12 lety

    I assume the music was there in real life anyway, lol

  • @zerosum318
    @zerosum318 Před 12 lety

    I agree. There's a piano player and birds in the background. WTF?

  • @fracktuis2716
    @fracktuis2716 Před 12 lety

    Plus Peter Singer.

  • @ares1815
    @ares1815 Před 11 lety

    just wanted to complain about it too

  • @genericfacelessuser
    @genericfacelessuser Před 11 lety

    Yeah, apparently someone skipped the interview portion(s) of their journalism class(es). Elementary mistakes made by "pros" is why we're griping.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    rockin' my DN! bumper sticker

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    FYI: I've read philosophers from Plato to Quine. A couple of my favorite historians are the more popular Barbara W. Tuchman and the more philosophical Hayden White. I've read social historians like Friedrich Engles and Foucault and labor historians like Paul Buhle among others.

  • @bodryn
    @bodryn Před 11 lety

    We have a neighbor who is 91 and is as sharp as a tack.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    i guess you've never watched him debate Dershowitz then

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    They didn’t debate each other alone in a room together; there was an audience…
    I read what you wrote the first time; you don’t need to repeat it over and over again…
    Just because you listen to Chomsky and hopefully read him as well, doesn’t mean you should consider yourself superior and view everyone else as “fools.”

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    there was

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    And you're basing this on....?

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    Jealous?!

  • @HAL_NlNETH0USAND
    @HAL_NlNETH0USAND Před 12 lety

    John Dewey

  • @walterd02
    @walterd02 Před 12 lety

    Can someone tell me this Dewey's full name, I'd like to look into him

  • @jasonborotra4208
    @jasonborotra4208 Před 11 lety

    The dude is like 84 years old and is constantly moving around giving speeches, so this is pretty good. When I'm his age I hope I'll still be alive, have all my brain still working and be able to travel everywhere like that.

  • @Crushchin
    @Crushchin Před 12 lety

    Good ol Normy! Man can that dude drone!

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    I know that. I specifically mentioned political franchise which includes everything. Upper class women had "pin money," an income and property prior to marriage and not subject to their husband's management. Still, an official separation of marital property was passed even though some women argued the only salient point of the new marriage law was to put women (rather than their husbands) in prison for not paying their own debts.

  • @azizukman
    @azizukman Před 12 lety

    It's nice that the polite pianist stopped when the reporter was talking but a shame he/she starting up again soon as Mr Chomsky talked.
    Mmm... Was the audio edited so that utubers wouldn't bother listening to the professor.

  • @Streunekater
    @Streunekater Před 11 lety +1

    Yes! God Dman The Birds! :D Hehe... (OKOK, I understand you as I tried to live out in nature and the birds woke me up at 4:30 every day :D )

  • @TruthUnderFire
    @TruthUnderFire Před 11 lety

    Are you seriously going to complain about the audio? LOL. A lot of times these interviews are unscheduled. They happen when they happen. If it were planned out ahead of time maybe they didn't get there in time for sound check.
    But you CAN understand what he's saying. That's what matters.

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    The more I read MagicKirin comments the more I realize he works next to MIT, not at MIT.
    -
    The proverb says that 'the answer to a fool is silence'.Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

  • @contacter
    @contacter Před 12 lety

    Chomsky is a hero of the Revolution.

  • @evenkeel87
    @evenkeel87 Před 12 lety

    I would really like to know where Chomsky finds his information (I mean that sincerely, not skeptically). Like that case of the 15 year-old in Afghanistan: where the hell did he find that? Wikileaks?

  • @ror312gallery19
    @ror312gallery19 Před 10 lety

    its a jazz guitarist,,,,actually it adds something to the interview,reality maybe.

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees Před 12 lety

    Morality as if it mattered, that's Chomsky.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    you've read all the philosophers except the most important and reasonable one, Dewey

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    if chomsky lived by that rule then we wouldn't even be here

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Causality in the case of male/female relations is indeterminable.

  • @TiffanyMadison
    @TiffanyMadison Před 11 lety

    Terrible audio. Who decided to interview him with birds and a piano in the background?

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    As for Aristotle, his influence has been negligible. Most western societies have, until recently, believed that the differences between peoples were "in the blood," that the differences between men and women were ingrained in nature, and that the moral world they inhabited was given by God. Such beliefs didn't leave much room for change. Behaviorism and the notion that "human nature" is malleable are relatively new ideas as are the social sciences.

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Dewey's most cherished, philosophic principle was Fallibilism. I will honor it with my own skepticism concerning the fashionable ideas and pop ideology of my day. Let us agree here to disagree. Whatever I can freely assert, you can freely deny and I will never deny you your right to be wrong.. Take Care,

  • @Streunekater
    @Streunekater Před 11 lety

    If the content is passionate enough to make an abundance of people passionately talking about what he said, he is passionate enough! If you sum up to takl as passionate and moving in your life as he did in his life, I'll make a deeeeeeeeeep bough for you.

  • @Streunekater
    @Streunekater Před 11 lety

    Maybe you're right. But I'd rather listen to an interview with him for 10h with birds and trucks in the background than 10mins of an interview with any current politician of any country withOUT any annoying BG noises :)

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Also, our concepts of Natural Rights are relatively new. To presume men and women in the past felt "oppressed" because they did not possess our notions of democracy and entitlement would be like expecting the practice of voting to become universal in the instant is was conceived and then calling men unfair because it did not. People may also complain that men did not allow women their education but none expected women to build the schools. Institutions and inclusion take time to develop.

  • @PhilmanX
    @PhilmanX Před 11 lety

    Where the hell do you get that from? He was never a U.S. citizen from what all the info out there says.

  • @conifergreen2
    @conifergreen2 Před 9 lety

    Omar Khadr was not "defending his village". He is a Canadian citizen. His "village" is Toronto. He was not defending Canada. He was overseas building IED`s. He killed an American medic.

  • @gloiven
    @gloiven Před 12 lety

    i wish the interviewer would stop using the past tense towards noam. he is still alive and she is a fan, that's clear, but she needs to correct her language.

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    That's the answer Noam would have given and has given him/her.
    I guess he/she didn't learn much from Noam.(;

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    I repeated it only once.
    -
    Just because I think Dershowitz is a dishonest fool doesn't mean I think that I am superior to everybody else and that everybody else is a fool.

  • @andyx1205
    @andyx1205 Před 12 lety

    Please do not idol worship Chomsky, he himself would dislike it since he's an anarchist. It's not up to people like Chomsky to save America, intellectuals like him can serve a meaningful purpose to educate the people and expose the system. Yet, at the end of the day, it's up to the people themselves to bring about the change they seek. Chomsky and others like him can play a meaningful role, the bourgeois intelligentsia often play important roles in revolutions, but it's up to the people.

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Dewey's assessments of philosophy are, as Chomsky would say, uncontroversial. One could say the same of law. And not much has changed. I find many modern beliefs about the nature of male/female relations, let alone traditional ones, unconvincing. I am more distant from Aristotle than I am from Gloria Steinem. Although, in the end, I would say that old Aristotle, for all his timely prejudices, remains a far brighter star than Steinem will ever hope to be.

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Leading question there. With racism, the prejudices of one people against another are not held by the other people. With sexism, there is no such thing as a sexual prejudice that is unique to one gender. (At least as far as I know.)

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    I would add that coercion and oppression are linked to new institutions and patterns as well. Nonetheless, the statement doesn't explain those institutions and patterns. It's been argued that violence and coercion go hand in hand with civilization. Certainly, some groups gain the upper hand over others. However, if women are an oppressed class, they are the only oppressed class that can proudly say they have born and raised their own oppressors. That complicates claims of their subjugation.

  • @whatwayzup
    @whatwayzup Před 12 lety

    I click on these videos just to hear people say his name.

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    I realize that to some women no right is more precious than the right to think of their gender as an oppressed class, as if their politics and culture were untouched by the system of domination, as if women did not participate in their own submission. To reduce domination to a simple relation of doer and done-to is to substitute moral outrage for analysis.
    The faults of philosophy are many but I prefer its disciple to the fashionable ideas and pop ideology that count for public knowledge.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    are you trying to insult me (and yourself)?

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Male dominance is a function of how we evolved as a species, sexual selection, and finally, cultural expectation. Men are, as the feminist/anthropologist Margaret Mead said, "The impetus of culture." This is to say that men have been the architects, engineers, and builders of our physical world.

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    I'm sorry if I insulted you, but I stand by my observation.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    i remember there was information about Israeli aggression toward Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, etc. Not sure of the specifics though
    John Dewey and Robert Fisk (journalist). Dewey is the Chomsky of the first half of the twentieth century. chomsky is inspired by dewey a lot

  • @MagicKirin
    @MagicKirin Před 12 lety

    First no difference than killing with a drone or a missle it's progress.
    Second waterboarding is not torture but I would like see Chomsky waterboarded

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    What's ignored in the usual bemoaning that women were once, at least nominally, regarded as men's "property," is that women were fully complicit in promoting their own dependence on men and even damned men for not being good providers. The law went so far as to provide women the means to sue their own husbands for lack of support and legislation to this effect continues today. While I deeply respect Chomsky, I'm less a believer in progress than good fortune as what we have now can be taken away

  • @duddersrules
    @duddersrules Před 10 lety

    Bitch please he is perfectly audible.

  • @genericfacelessuser
    @genericfacelessuser Před 11 lety +2

    I like Noam and all, but sometimes I wish he would SPEAK UP! lol

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    Noam Chomsky 2012!
    -
    If I were to run for president, I would say: Don't vote for me.
    ---Noam Chomsky
    -
    Nobody 2012! (;

  • @domain387
    @domain387 Před 12 lety

    She didn't. You must not be talking about this interview and are on the wrong page.

  • @MagicKirin
    @MagicKirin Před 12 lety

    He would have denounced his religion just like he renounces everything great about this country.

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    Isn't Dershowitz that fictional writer?

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    Dershowitz is not Noam's audience.
    Dershowitz is a fool.And you know what they say about fools.
    -
    The proverb says that 'the answer to a fool is silence'.Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    i recommend you read Dewey, and not just read one word on Wiki
    "Philosophy has arrogated to itself the office of demonstrating the existence of a transcendent, absolute or inner reality and of revealing to man the nature and features of this ultimate and higher reality. It has therefore claimed that it was in possession of a higher organ of knowledge than is employed by positive science and ordinary practical experience, and that it is marked by a superior dignity and important..." Dewey

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Slavery is another subject. Women's lagging political enfranchisement was not in any way commensurate to the position of slaves and attempts to equate the two is hyperbole. Women were not less sexist than men throughout history and fully complicit is the traditional moral order of things. These and other facts make the notion that women were a subjugated "class" impalpable.
    Our argument is purely academic

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    MagicKirin must be a janitor or a groundskeeper at MIT.
    If he had a higher position he wouldn't have the time to be on the CZcams comment section.
    Just an observation.(;

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    "At the worst, this has reduced philosophy to a show of elaborate terminology, a hair-splitting logic, and a fictitious devotion to the mere external forms of comprehensive and minute demonstration.Even at the best, it has tended to produce an overdeveloped attachment to system for its own sake, and an over-pretentious claim to certainty."
    -John Dewey
    why are you so passionate about being an apologist for forms of subjegation? ....

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    Feminism has constructed the problem of domination as a drama of female vulnerability victimized by male aggression. Even the more sophisticated feminist thinkers frequently shy away from the analysis of submission, for fear that in admitting woman’s participation in the relationship of domination, the onus of responsibility will appear to shift from men to women, and the moral victory from women to men.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    Saying "our argument is purely academic" serves a purpose: it justifies using 'philosophy' in a way that is entirely abstracted from reality and real-world situations. the rationalistic logic that you employ has been used by philosophers to justify existing institutions and forms of indoctrination.
    'Philosophy' has been reduced to "a show of elaborate terminology, a hair-splitting logic, and a fictitious devotion to the mere external forms of comprehensive and minute demonstration" (Dewey).

  • @richardstockton8680
    @richardstockton8680 Před 11 lety

    His next words were unfortunately hard to hear over the sound of heavily armed wrong blowing him the fuck away. Of course, the bad people who shot him down were only hurting themselves, right?
    I've had enough of goddamn hippies imagining that a system of organized cannibalism will *someday* come crashing down in the face of "unarmed truth."
    When the sheriff's deputies come to foreclose on your house, I urge you to strike at the bank with "unconditional love" and see how far you get.

  • @kkjood100
    @kkjood100 Před 11 lety

    Not every country is bad. Come to europe bro..

  • @spukus
    @spukus Před 11 lety

    The guitar is annoying as hell

  • @MagicKirin
    @MagicKirin Před 12 lety

    Only that he has a cusy job at MIT despite being held in contempt by the student and the faculty.
    Morally and intellectually not a chance

  • @d5486
    @d5486 Před 12 lety

    one thing about smart people... they still havent figured out a way to make the stupid listen...
    .. to make them smarter...

  • @pierrefrederick3763
    @pierrefrederick3763 Před 12 lety

    I wouldn't be so sure. Harper has been showing his colors since he took power yet people still elected him.

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    So your looking for a cushy job? The American Dream.
    I somehow doubt the students at MIT hold him in contempt.
    It sure would be interesting to see you debate Noam.
    Even Chuck Norris knows better than to debate Noam! (;

  • @Woutanclan2000
    @Woutanclan2000 Před 11 lety +1

    What a hilariously terrible place to interview a softly spoken person. Sounds like piano practice in the background.

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    he does not "support islamic terrorism"....

  • @MagicKirin
    @MagicKirin Před 12 lety

    Go to Frontpagemagazine
    May 15 2006
    since you refuse to google it, here is one source. Until you read it shut up!

  • @PetraKann
    @PetraKann Před 12 lety

    CHomsky what about Zionism?

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    As for the level of women's subjugation, I've heard all manner of horror stories usually pertaining to how women "are treated" in society's other than our own and how women "were treated" in the past rather than the present. In all these stories, there is certain amount of local, modern conceit. Ethnocentrism to be sure as regards other societies. But also the presumption that because we think the past ought to have been different that it could have been different.

  • @79MzKitty
    @79MzKitty Před 11 lety

    not saying i agree with you, but i find it hilarious that this was marked as spam simply because you didnt agree. smh... freedom of speech means just that...freedom of speech. definetly doesnt mean freedom of speech ooonly if you agree with my thoughts and ideas

  • @dog-n2b
    @dog-n2b Před 11 lety

    Quit complaining, its not that bad

  • @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk
    @DeweyZinnChomskyFisk Před 12 lety

    you've reversed the cause and effect

  • @urbanverificationist
    @urbanverificationist Před 12 lety

    By "purely academic" I mean much ado about nothing and certainly irrelevant to the pragmatic goals of the women's movement which I support. No one is denying the facts of sexism and sexual discrimination whether against women or men for that matter. That these facts in themselves constitute an intentionally concerted effort on the part of men to oppression women is another matter.

  • @nickst0ne
    @nickst0ne Před 12 lety

    HOLY SHIT !!!
    I can't follow anything he says due to the level of the music and the birds ! What a waste !

  • @bozolazic
    @bozolazic Před 12 lety

    Yes, but his audience isn't always packed with fools.
    -
    Haven't you ever told somebody a truth and they look at you as though you have just dropped from the moon?