Noam Chomsky: The dangers of Donald Trump
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- Noam Chomsky sits down with Lawrence Krauss in this episode of The Origins Podcast.
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Good old Noam "just to give you an example" Chomsky
Noam "quite striking" Chomsky
Goodness me...not you too Noam...destruction of the environment?..Lord
Noam "take a look at" Chomsky.
I feel hope when I look at this man.
Still a man... Put all my hope in the Almighty men never impress me... Oh there are a few that the demonstrate a semblance of God it's only those that I listen to all the others you can pack them away there is none good in this world no not one
May the sun kiss you in the morning and the sun embrace you come evening, Arohanui from Aotearoa
Noam Chomsky is one of the most reliable touchstones for reorienting toward sanity in such insane times.
True
....if your compass points left.....
He wrote the book on the "MSM" before it became a catchphrase. You gotta be able to recognize someone who stands for truth. He doesn't even talk ideologically much. He likes to talk about hypocrisies, logical errors and inconsistencies instead. THAT is what we need to do today because we fall for soo much trickery because our political/media heros make us feel like we know things when in reality we're desperately inept. We need a complete reorientation.
@@bmphil3400 True, but my compass doesn't point left over right in the way I prefer chocolate over vanilla or the Yankees over the Red Sox. I have certain core values I try to maintain without one precluding the other, or the particular superseding the principle, or exceptions compromising the fundamental; while simultaneously attempting to prevent those ends (as in, the values) from justifying immoral means. While those root values may not be strictly objective, I imagine if I laid them out we'd all agree (democracy, basic human rights, dignity, an aversion to unjustified power structures, etc.). From that point, however, there are certain positions on issues and systems of governance that either do or do not meet those criteria and, therefore, are no longer a matter of personal taste.
@@Len124 the true problem all over the world is that for some reason corrupt people naturally gravitate to centers of power...ie the government. Chomsky rightly criticizes corporate influence on government......but capitalism is not the root of the problem. The problem has never been fixed no matter what the system of government. The middle East theocracies to the Russian and Chinese communists to the French socialist have never solved the problem of corrupt political hierarchy. They need things like zero tolerance laws for politicians......you get caught taking a bribe, dui, groping staff, deleting evidence, setting up sweetheart deals etc you should be fired immediately and your job considered forfeit......but because they make and enforce the laws....nothing ever happens. I hold a professional license. To keep that, I have to take ethics classes, professional development and sign affidavits every year that I have had no more legal trouble than a traffic ticket. Why then am I held to such a rigid standard but politicians can be caught with a live boy or a dead girl and pretty much get it swept under the rug?......When you solve those problems then you can have an ethical government with honest people......that is the only factor that will really make a difference.
Leo Alexander TRUMP is truly MAGA
In dark times, always consult a wise old man.
Dark times?
The only dark times are for crying democrats that have been brainwashed into thinking white privilege and supremacy are an actual thing.
Dark times for humanity, if you take seriously what Chomsky is saying in many of his recent interviews. For what it's worth, Chomsky, and many who would turn to him for insight, are extremely critical of, not loyal to, the Democratic Party.
Noah G TRUMP is truly MAGA
Chomsky has been peddling his totalitarian Marxist claptrap for years and years. Dark times are under the fists the likes of Russian Soviet Socialists or German Nazi Socialists. Same beasts different names. Totalitarian tyranny
@@wannaduckfin purely propoganda based lie. But what sound comment could one really expect from such a yt channel name choosing?😂
I'm so excited that this is a thing now. Way to kick it off! Noam Chomsky is a great mind. His book "What Kind of Creatures Are We?" is a very knowledgeable read.
Nice. I hadn’t heard of that one.
Thx, have to look into that one!
synchronicity checking in, this is the next book i'll be reading.
"Steve Bannon you know kind of a Rasputin"
Very good liked the way it was spoken.
Good analogy. Lol.
Steve is smart as shit
The conversation would be more helpful if the interviewer stopped trying to relay information to Prof. Chomsky and just ask questions and then step back.
Chomsky doesn't use a coaster. Pure badass.
@Will Smith You're an absolute legend, good sir.
Will Smith you give us hope in dark times. thank you.
Pure bad.
Can we just start calling “subsidies” welfare already?
Welfare for the rich.. or corporate welfare
@@stephenmonash821 ,
Just as soon as we all agree to start calling Entitlement Programs personal welfare, that DWARFS the amount we give to corporations!
DEAL??? 😀
thx god for a lawrence krauss podcast ;)
when was this recorded?
Always strange to me that Krauss likes Chomsky, he also had a conversation with him back when he was doing the origins project in the US. Krauss was with the new atheist crowds like Sam Harris et al, and the new atheists tend to hate Chomsky politics.
A bit surprising but he is above being so tribal I think...science/objectivism tends to allow one to borrow from many sources
What's a _new_ atheist? Someone who only doesn't believe new gods exist? I've only ever heard theists use the phrase.
Lawrence Krauss has podcast , Good job man
farhaddaeva - I didn't know it was him until I heard his voice. He looks very different to the last time I see him.
@@BrigidC123 tough times I guess
Everyone is saying Donald Trump has no morals...and you’d have to agree with them.
Mark Ferrari TRUMP is truly MAGA
💥This is making my day!💥
wow, it's Krauss. So that's how you got Chomsky.
1:04 I cracked up
Noam "very serious" chomsky
Having Chomsky explain why Trump is dangerous seems like overkill. I think Sesame Street could have handled this one.
Nathan Lawrence Can’t tell that by the stock market
GOD BLESS YOU NOAM CHOMSKY.
@@zoyaspencer8025 Didn't Jesus?
@@zoyaspencer8025 Well Chomsky is the main critic of those with no heart and no morals.
@@MrVidLuv The Bible says that unrepentant people are not capable of knowing good from evil...only God knows that. This was the lie told to Adam and Eve by Satan "You can know good from evil by yourself ...you don't need God". Hitler thought that he was doing what was good...so did Lenin and Castro...too bad about the millions that lost their lives. For all his "smarts" I have to say Chomsky is the dumbest smart man alive.
@@markanthony3275 The Bible is a lie. Do you even know the origin of the Bible? Ancient Sumerian writings. If you study them you'll be shocked to see the similarities. Who pieced the modern Bible together after confiscating all others? Emperor Constantine, at the request of his mother.
@@MrVidLuv Have you considered that the Sumerians writings were fashioned after the original account of Genesis? Sumerian writings do not have the depth of explanation or the depth of meaning that the accounts in Genesis have. Here's why the Bible has been proven to be historically accurate...I'll give you just a few of many reasons.
- Daniel's prophecy of the rise of Antiochus Epiphanies...date of the prophecy? 586 B.C. How do we know that? It was the second year of the son of Nebuchadnezzer's reign...lots of documentation confirms this date from sources outside the Bible. What was the prophecy? That the Babylonian kingdom would fall, that the Medes and Persians would takeover, and then they would be beaten by Alexander the Great "the warrior king". The warrior king would be cut off with no heirs, and his kingdom would be divided between his four generals...out of this Antiochus Epiphanies would arise and corrupt the kingdom of Israel. This all happened as prophesied...Antiochus Epiphanies did come into being, and did destroy and enslave Israel around 164 B.C. ...that's 300 years after Daniel wrote down the prophecy. Now...people like you have said that it was all made up well after it happened...except for one major problem. All historians have dated the Dead sea scrolls as being written around 194 B.C. there is unanimous consensus on that...but in the dead sea scrolls they found a part of the book of Daniel...so it could not have possibly been written after the fact.
- The prophecy that as a warning to the world that God's judgement on all evildoers was immanent , the nation of Israel would reappear as a nation back on it's own land. "Can a nation be born in one day? " the prophecy said. And in April of 1948, the nation of Israel reappeared after having been destroyed almost 20 centuries earlier...in one day. Do yo really think that's just coincidence? How many other nations have disappeared for twenty centuries and then suddenly re-emerged? NONE
- The prophecy that during the apocalypse , as part of the punishment on evildoers , God will cause the sun and moon to be darkened and not give one third of their light...and that he will cause the wind to cease blowing all over the entire world. When this was written 2,000 years ago nobody had the remotest clue that the world would undergo industrial development and then attempt to move to generating energy from solar panels and wind turbines. Deny that if you can.
I know what your problem is...you know that the Bible is true because your reasons against it are flimsy...and ...you don't READ. Because if you did read the Bible and compared it to all the archeological evidence out there from non-Biblical sources that you can actually see for yourself in museums all over the world...you would see that there is overwhelming historical evidence that the Bible is historically accurate. As the saying goes among archeologists "Every time a shovel goes in the ground in Israel...another skeptic is buried".
Hundreds of billions of dollars spent on National Defense and still there is so much fear that they are not safe.
Where can i watch the full podcast instead of snippets.
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@@indianbrotheradventures thanks. really appreciate this.
When 2 people with TDS have a conversation you get this.
Having googled TDS a few times I've found it means different things to different people. I think that's why many stopped using the term.
Trump Derrangement Syndrome can be used to describe Trump or his followers as it can those who believe he's going to end the world tomorrow.
That said Trumps economic achievements seem lacking in regards to what those who promote his beliefs say. (Meanwhile his policies seem to do little more than harm).
But yeah, "greatest president of all time"... (Or the most narcissistic)
@@AvatarOfBhaal I have never seen it or used it to mean anymore then people who think Trump is some combination Hitler and the Anti-christ. You can believe what you want, I am tired of arguing this with people. But he does good and bad things, and anyone who thinks he is some grand force of pure evil who will end existence or the worst president of all time or some other such nonsense is a moron.
Lol "to raise money for the wall"
Interviewer needs to think about his questions in advance, and talk less.. don't interrupt your interviewee...
Absolutely. And too many cutaways for each question while talking over his guest. You're not the messed up networks with scattershot presentations. Think fewer questions, longer answers.
Daniel Smith
Oh shut up idiot.
They're good friends tbf.
@@mastersplinter9901 lol.. that's a useful contribution...
@@Gooner184 that's good, but be a friend or be an interviewer.. when interviewing, interview, … when being a friend, be a friend.. they are not the same thing..
Three compelling characters: Krause, Chomsky, and Chomsky’s melanoma.
How come no scientist ever got nominated to Congress or white house!! 😗
"the political opposition, if there were one." That's says it all!
Thank you Prof. Kraus for the upload! Chompers isn't always on target but he's right more often than not. And the environment problem with Trump is indeed the worst. Thx from NYC - D.A., J.D.
You all keep saying that Trump,s threat to the environment is the worst. However no examples of this are provided. Would someone care to state exactly what Trump did that was such a threat to the environment. Also Noam said that Trump gave Oil and Gas companies subsidies. This false, in fact Oil and Gas companies do not get any "subsidies" at all. Oil and Gas is one of the most heavily taxed products in the country. In fact the taxes collected by the counties and cities where the Oil and gas is produced is often the biggest tax revenue income that they have. Also, royalties paid to land owners who own the mineral rights benefit greatly form this income.
4yrs later & Trumps predicted a lot
3:08
"... ought to be emphasized by the political opposition, if there were one .... " so sad.
As a Canadian, I don't know why the people south do not understand their country's politics.
MH Read up on SOCIOPATHS (=ZERO-conscience)....They are dramatically more common than people realize.
You have Trudeau and dare to question US?!?
Because many people only care about themselves and how much is in their pocket!
Steve just try'n to build that wall. I guess. Know the name of a good bail bondsman?
The dr Spock dummy in the background gives added credibility.
It's mr. Spock.
Dummy
Lawrence Krauss IS AWESOME!!!! His ability to speak effectively on many subjects is incredible.
Agreed!
This is shear tomfoolery. Chompsky is wrong.
He loves America and all its people
how’s I on going with one in isolated ? please advise me 🙏🏼. How can I lead him with words to live togetherness with kindness to support Peaceful for the children? Especially .
Trump is arresting pedophiles. I think that helps children.
@@jeanburk9539 Nice of you to credit DT for the work of others.
FYI: America has the highest incarceration rates in the western world. It also has the highest murder rates. Trump has also hung out with paedophiles (and wished a known trafficker luck).
But you carry on being dellusional, Jean.
Look at the oranges!
Why need to raise funds when Mexico is paying....
Chomsky can’t do any more, he’s had been screaming about these things for years and little seems to be happening.
The greatest living political philosopher and yet Chomsky has never been on network television !
@@ssmith2019 yeah he has, just not often
@@emmmmmmma92 Well I've never seen him on Network TV, perhaps you could tell me which programs and when ? I only remember him on William F.Buckley's show in the 60's and Noam obliterated Buckley !
@@ssmith2019 he was on Donahue and Posner once. You can find it on CZcams.
@@emmmmmmma92 Cheers ! But he's never been on "Meet the Press' or "Face the Nation"
The man who never met a communist he didn't love.
Chomsky is extremely critical of Marxist-Leninism. You've obviously never read him or if you have, you're not comprehending.
Chomsky... the only orator for which I can consistently increase the play speed and still catch everything he is saying.
Combine his Intellect with real Political savvy for a Democratic candidate, and Trump would look like the Fool he is and be laughed off the stage! And No not Chomsky specifically.
@Jesper Jansen Same reason Republicans couldn't get better than Donald....
A country “any” country cannot deploy such radical shifts without,
imminent demise....
Mr. Noam Chomsky is exactly same carácter of Pepe Mujica, they sound very clever but the results are horrible, today Paraguay is a very poor country.
Maybe the US will like the way the Cartels run things.
Lawrence Krauss, think of what you're trying to say before you stammer and stutter it out or better yet, get someone who can speak to interview your guests.
Really wish we had the ability to clone and preserve this great mind that is NC 💙
Very depressing!
People on the right aren't depressed at all.😃😄 God bless.
Chomsky. The best there is
Yes at ridiculous paranoid rants! 😀
if you have dementia and believe marx wasn't a sadistic liar
The interviewer just needs to relax a little bit.
Chompsky
Noam can't see beyond his Libertarian-Socialist nose.
Trump 2024 ! Thank God !
Communists represent!
Trump is playing the same psychological game as Hitler did
Zorka Kelly Shut up you fool
Zorka Kelly I agree with you
Asha Farah TRUMP is truly MAGA
Trump is going down in history as one of the greatest presidents ever. Democrats are not going to be able to change historians writing about President Trump.
TRUMP 2020!!!!
@@AtheistChristian TRUMP really is a GREAT president!!! The economy is great. The way he handles the lying Dems and the lying news..... TRUMP 2020!!!
The only danger is Chomsky's danger.
Chompsky talking 😴😴😴😴
When you find a wise old man .
Let me know...lol.
Chumpsky has his own agenda
Hey , guess what ? We the people are tired of giving away the wealth of America, I don’t need some elitist telling me what a bad person I am ,
"Buy Origins Podcast merchandise" Umm no, thumbs down.
Oh wow this is no treat lol, if in maybe that it's more substantive. I'll see if I've got 2 bucks lol..
Funny how you could be as smart as known chomp ski or Lawrence Krauss and still not see what's going on
Simply being smart does not necessarily mean you grasp reality!
Chomsky & Krauss sure don't! smh
Noam, there was once a time, alas, as it is with all things, they lose relevance.
Noam has always bit the hand that feeds him! Hahaha!
Noam Chomsky is the man who
would give the world to Putin.
You're off your rocker
Trump picks up where Obama left off and somehow Obama is infallible. Hilarious.
中继他修剪可爱
English translation, please? I wish I could read Mandarin traditional characters, but unfortunately, I can’t.
Donald Trump is just the man we need. Noam Chomsky not so much.
Not impressed with either of them. To say that Trump is dedicated and committed to destroying the environment is quite an exaggeration.
Nah it's not. He installed a climate change denier as head of the EPA. He's violated international agreements focused primarily on the reduction of emissions. He's lied about the extent to which the US pollutes. He's blocked state subsidy of renewables. And the list goes on and on.
Actually it's really not! We have no idea what is going on behind the scenes when Trump is diverting and distracting, which is all the time!
Alan Kuntz what do you know?
@@royglenn2487 I know he is making a conscious commitment to help keep Americans tax dollars from being exploited by every country who chooses to think The United States should dole out the funds when they think they should, even when it's not recipricol. What good does it do for a country to pay out funds for an international climate project when those countries are allowing people to over come it with muslim religious ideology who shit on its people with sharia law, demand to be taken care of financially while they absolutely have no respect for western civilization and its people. Personally I just as soon the planet choke it self to death before it caves into islam any more than it has. PARIS has turned into a shit hole and so have many other countries . I would want to give $0.01 to any countries endeavors when they don't want to acknowledge that Islam is a problem especially when all they want to do is beat you to death with islamophobia rhetoric and refer to you as deplorable.. that's what I know ! What do you know? obviously not very much.
These two r chief among d reasons why I admire America.
Trump is fuelling my hatred for America.
I’ve never seen or studied such a brilliant and naive person. He’s got good points and horrible policy.
Dangerous low unemployment, successfully economy, rising Black conservative movement, prison reform, regulatory reform.... the guy is a holy terror. Nice call Noam... got another one spot on.
lowest black unemployment in US history, lowest latino unemployment in US history, a politician looking out for his people - a true horror show
Waste of time
Lol 😂 enter our country legally In order not to disenfranchise our citizens is all trump is saying but y’all treat him like he is Hitler .
It's legal to seek asylum, it's only a misdemeanor to cross border illegally, and it's very Hitlerish to put people in camps for that. But as long as you can laugh at it I guess it's ok
Saucy Pupper people on the left seem not to have a clue as to what’s going on at the border. The asylum laws need the people to be held while their claims are being processed and so they’re forced to stay at camps . They can be released into the country but that simply amounts to open borders and subsequently disenfranchises the working class citizenry. The asylum laws can be restructured in such a way that such dire conditions can be prevented but democrats have resorted to obstructionism and hypocrisy rather than pragmatic problem solving in order to have something to point to and say”ha ha orange man bad” . The fact is that unmitigated border traffic is problematic to the citizens of USA and trump is right to try to have full operational control over the border.Drawing arbitrary similarities between all forms of camps and the holocaust camps reveals a gross ignorance of history that is almost dangerous. Look as you can tell I’m a lot more educated than you so just drop the CNN talking points . It doesn’t work in the real world
Noam lost all credibility when he declared JFK's assassination and 911 "irrelevant" in today's political climate. He couldn't be more wrong. He's a gatekeeper.
exactly
He's a piece of shit that is the same as other Jews, he's doing his part to keep the lies going.
@@myshadowkungfu Read some of "Manufacturing Consent" or watch a video about it, he seems to be the opposite
I just thought of a fix to all this BS thank you Noam and Krauss. Like to hear it, well here it go, just give trump the border wall money to resign from office. Im sure 6 billion will be enough and will save not only money but also the dam Republic.
Trump wouldn't take any amount of money to resign from office. He won't even take a salary. His primary mission is to get rid of human trafficking and drugs and weapons running. Changing the balance of trade, along with getting rid of the proposed TPP and the UN fake environment pact has been his pleasure. www.investors.com/politics/editorials/the-un-admits-that-the-paris-climate-deal-was-a-fraud/
Don't bother to thank him or pin any medals on him. He is too busy doing that for others. If he can get the dems off their impeachment obsession, by showing the world how hypocritical they have been, he might actually get way more done. Vote your president back in in 2020 and watch the US take off like a rocket.
So “FRIGHTENING” this guy knows the ( truth ) as to immigration.... he knows!!
Yet this interview;
our children have no chance “none”
Why can't we have one freaking channel on CZcams without mentioning Trump? Really Dr. Krauss?
Noam 4 president
I don’t think Trump is doing this
Someone is telling him to do this
I don’t think Trump really cares
Chomsky - one of the ‘anointed’, a public intellectual who has bored us rigid for too long with his pronouncements on matters of which he knows no more than anyone else. Stick to linguistics and give us all a break.
rightmarker1...bored us rigid? Mr Chomsky has never been concerned with entertaining you or anyone else.
Give yourself a break and don't watch Chomsky videos then. What a fatuously moronic comment.
rightmarker1 oh my u need help
Noam Chomsky really lost me after his excessive praise of Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. Extensive government reform that Chavez enacted only confirmed the criticism of socialist like societies.
A powerful few who wield too much control over the economy. Enacting huge social services with no reliable way to afford them in the long term.
Leads to one the worst hyperinflation in history, the nation descends into a dictatorship and riddled with mass starvation
Elmo I think the situation is crystal clear. Venezuela is a nation with a huge supply of petroleum natural resources. And US corporate interest wants to control those resources. A person can argue about specifics in regards to Chavez's governance.
But the idea of nationalizing the oil industry should not be very controversial. Norway has nationalized its oil industry and created a social welfare state through that. And to a lesser extent Alaska within the United States has demanded a dividend to its citizens for the use of public lands. What has happened in Venezuela is US corporations want control of it so they will do whatever the can to gain control including demanding the US apply sanctions, and actively destroying Red Cross aid etc.
I stopped listening after Noam said “trump knows what he’s doing when.......”
.......no...... I’m fairly certain Donald trump doesn’t have a fraction of a clue what he’s doing EVER. That might sound like an insult. NO. I’m claiming that’s an objective fact. The dude is making it up as he goes along, and does so completely on ill-considered instinct.
I agree with Larry more than Noam. Noam gives trump too much credit.
You stopped listening because you aren’t ready for the truth but it’s a good thing you stopped listening because you won’t find the truth here, just biased opinion.
communists ar also prone to build walls, this is not a characteristic only of free societies. who built the berlin wall?
neil degrasse tyson said something very important about the issue - conservatives/republicans x environment. conservatives don't want to die poor. it's simple to make them start protecting the environment - show them how they will be poor if degradation happens.
It helped USSR and US to have communism tied to Russia ..US so it could be demonised and Russia so it could control world communism but socialism was betrayed in Lennon's time when he dismantled the soviets and further with Stalin . As we know there was no democracy nevermind worker control of anything . Way too much for ordinary people to get their heads around unless they are interested . USSR was a brutal authoritarian nightmare brought on by Bolshevik idea of vanguardism 'we know best' . Bastards ruined any chance of freedom and socialism for generations .
@@rippedtorn2310Lenin* ... not Lennon
@@rushpan93 erm no i think you'll find it's Lennon . Dont tell me you're a McCartneyist ?
@@rippedtorn2310 I see.. I've always been Floydist, me. Different ball game altogether.
We have too be careful with this trouble making president.
Luis Sanchez -name one..
NOAM CHOMSKY FOR PRESIDENT
I love TRUMP!!!! TRUMP is truly MAGA!!!! Ty President TRUMP!!!!
Commie schmuck.
I used to like Chomsky a few years ago but since then I have moved to the right on many issues. I just couldn't take his nonsense anymore.
Ajay Pasricha...choosing left or right is the real nonsense.
@@andrewzcolvin No it has nothing to do with racism, delusions or anger. I still think Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are idiots. But I enjoy lower taxes because I'm not a complete fuckup and actually have a good career. I like my employer health insurance because it is cheap. And I don't like pandering morons like the ones I saw on the Democratic stage that apparently care about illegal immigrants more than American citizens.
@@akp167 www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/immigration-reparations.html
Noam you are over thinking things.....the wall is needed to keep the mass migration of poor people and criminal activities and the drug trade and huma trafficking
Propaganda video.
@John Gregg - where do you get your news from John? And what facts do you disagree with in this video?
I never realized how much of a fraud Norm is . What the heck is he talking about . He just lies to prove his point . Norms not creditable any longer .
You're a fucking idiot. Period. Full stop fucking moron.
Who’s Norm?
@@jogendron6320 Norms restaurant .
TRUMP 2020 and beyond!
These clueless leftists do not understand Trump and why he was elected.Trump 2020.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
@ Seekthetruth3000 - why are you hiding behind a fake name?
For anyone to focus on or discuss 'Trump", is not only moronic but perpetuates a fraud that has existed in the US since 1776. The so called 'President of the United States' is nothing more than a puppet whose real purpose is to give the ignorant masses the illusion of a 'Democracy'. The individuals that own and control their respective countries have existed since the creation of nation states, territories etc.
Any government official whether appointed or elected, merely serves as a middle manager as in any corporate structure. The US has never been ruled by any government. The "Owners" create Domestic and Foreign Policies to serve their economic interests in every sector imaginable. The following represent the controlled institutions that have enslaved the american people: The Military Industrial Complex, The Medical Industrial Complex, The Religious Industrial Complex, The Prison Industrial Complex, The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex and the Entertainment Industrial Complex.
The millionaire English Founding Fathers created the US by stealing the real estate from 'Mother England and murdering the indigenous natives of North America. The American Revolution was nothing more than a war of the "Ruling Class" of landowners to enrich themselves. Of all the industrialized nations in the world, Americans are by far the most ignorant and stupid people to be found. That very stupidity is what permits the "Owners" to do anything they choose. The main purpose of a military force is to Protect and Safeguard the wealth and control of the "Power Elite" Chomsky appears to be nothing more than a public figure to project an illusion of dissent and democracy.
So true.