Noam Chomsky: Democracy Is a Threat to Any Power System

To mark The Nation’s 150th anniversary, John Nichols was joined in conversation by the eminent radical intellectual Noam Chomsky at the Tucson Festival of Books in Arizona on March 15. Discussing issues ranging from media accountability and voter participation, to money in politics and income inequality, Chomsky offered insight into the greatest challenges of our time.
“The race towards disaster is being carried out with almost euphoric intensity,” said Chomsky. Chomsky maintains that meaningful change requires a democratic awakening. “Democracy is a threat to any power system,” he said.

[@medicuswashington9870]

I am grateful to Professor Noam Chomsky for sharing information and giving guidance. Stay Strong. Thanks from those of us at the bottom of the well.

[@Killernaut16]

"Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up." - George Carlin

[@followedtodeath5850]

Great quote, thanks!

[@maxime05c]

They also have a bunch of ex CIA men as contributors. Do i need to say more? Like operation Mockingbird. Also, don't we call them t.v. programs?

[@JayAr709]

Correct

[@onefootoutthedoor9937]

The illusion of a democracy (an oligarchy) is much worse for the populace The world is a stage

[@euminkong]

Scary when you see the big picture

[@doreekaplan2589]

This man is a literal "influencer" as kids on social media are labeled today. The one being an intellectual.

[@CaireneRevival]

I sometimes think I'm lucky to be living in a time where someone like Noam Chomsky exists

[@kzzz9445]

You'd be much luckier to live in a time where he is not so relevant.

[@kzzz9445]

luvcheney1 50 years being an MTI professor and somehow you must be more intelligent than him, huh? Or perhaps, some moron that disagrees with him speaks idiot and therefore is more appealing to you?

[@kzzz9445]

luvcheney1 You do realize you haven’t said anything here. Just saying stuff that everyone knows - what about it?

[@kzzz9445]

luvcheney1 Man, you’re a little dense aren’t you? I’d assume that you know very well that he isn’t just a regular professor, and that it’s not just the authority he has that proves him smart. Never mind the fact that he has written more than 100 books and is called, that’s right, the father of modern linguistics. That should at least show to any reasonable person that the guy most likely is smart. And I assume you know that these books aren’t children story books. And so far you still haven’t said anything more specific or nuanced that common knowledge. Either you put a good explanation of why you’re the smarter one here, coupled with citations in the next answer or shut the fuck up. Otherwise you’re just a demagogue. Simple as that, my friend.

[@kzzz9445]

luvcheney1 Ok, tag along brainwashed tard. Any sane person should support them. Unless you’re an exploitative piece of shit that doesn’t treat your workers well.

[@salasvalor01]

Contrary to what someone else said, John Nichols was the perfect interviewer for Noam Chomsky. This is one of the best talks by Chomsky in history, in the top 50.

[@marceloariassouto8545]

Sage Mantis I agree. It’s one of the best interviews made to Noam Chomsky that I’ve ever seen: insightful, enlightening, and also entertaining and funny. At 86, Chomsky is as sharp as ever. And Nichols didn’t interrupt him much (like others interviewers do). He let Noam speak, made clever questions and amusing comments at the right time. The story about the Swedish taxi drivers is unforgettable.

[@marceloariassouto8545]

***** The challenges are how to abolish it (or overthrow it), and find a better form of social organization to replace it.

[@marceloariassouto8545]

***** Are you serious? Treason of what, of being critical of the U.S. foreign policy and its criminal actions? The social inequality suffered by almost half the population of his country, who live in poverty or near poverty, exploited by the ruling elite? Since when being critical of the government of your own country makes you a "traitor"? That's a chauvinistic, right-wing mindset. Like Chomsky, the most remarkable American political activists, intellectuals, artists and journalists criticized U.S. government policies (Henry David Thoreau, John Dewey, Mark Twain, Eugene Debs, Orson Welles, I. F. Stone, Martin Luther King, Susan Sontag, Howard Zinn, among others). Their criticism makes them all guilty of “treason”? Is George W. Bush a better historical figure than Martin Luther King? Are the thieves in Wall Street or the war profiteers in Washington better “Americans”, more patriotic than the Occupy and human rights activists? What are you, a fascist?

[@marceloariassouto8545]

***** You have to be an ignorant to call Chomsky a "pseudo intellectual". He's the father of modern liguistics, a logician, cognitive scientist, philosopher, a man who has written more than one hundred books. I don’t always agree with him, but he’s one of the most influential thinkers of the last sixty years, and the U.S. leading public intellectual. Even The New York Times (a newspaper he always criticizes) called him “the most important intellectual alive”. At 86, Chomsky is still travelling to every place of his country and the world where people are struggling for social justice and peace, as he has done it for decades, since the Vietnam war. Show a little respect.

[@marceloariassouto8545]

***** The U.S. (and almost every country in the world) is not a real democracy, but a plutocracy. We live in a world in which 900 million people don't have enough food to eat. And the 85 richest people on Earth have more money than the 3 billion poorest combined. That's a plutocracy. And this bankrupted system, this corporate-financial world, has to be replaced with a real democracy.

[@pappapaps]

3:58 Intro skip service

[@thenight1732]

+pappapaps Thank you. I was hoping someone in the comments would do this :D

[@pappapaps]

Always Skeptical No problem friend :)

[@Jonathanswiftsbabycake]

God bless

[@csvideos2582]

pappapaps thank you sit

[@csvideos2582]

sir

[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

Still very mentally active at 86, Noam Chomsky is truly amazing!

[@appleslover]

91 now

[@doreekaplan2589]

Listening to him today when he is 95 in 2024

[@williamjameslehy1341]

Crazy seeing a genuine, audible laugh from Noam.

[@fionayamamoto]

Watching now as the year approaches 2020.... Plus ça change... Also, I might not be a taxi driver but I want a chomsky T shirt! 😂

[@vjwebster]

.... plus c'est la même chose

[@Books_Makeup]

I appreciate his humour and candor. This video is still relevant.

[@navigill3017]

Thank you Professor Chomsky.

[@laghlanfogarty9630]

Thank you Noam. You are my lecturer albeit on line - me listening to all you say!

[@jaywolf7428]

"What happens to people of independent minds? They become taxi drivers." Or they become freelance journalists. And both travel a lot.

[@timeWaster76]

Well so much for becoming a neural linguist

[@khanmuhammadjaved2154]

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[@Joseph_mother]

There is a movie called Taxi Driver that was basically the OG version of joker about a guy who loses his mind

[@bperez8656]

I don’t understand the joke. Can someone explain

[@psagar]

love Noam's hypnotic hands

[@hidingod]

If you get hypnotized by his delicate and magical hands, that tells me how much of a lunatic you may be 😂😂😂

[@faithalessandri968]

I want a Chomsky tattoo. I love him so much. This is a great talk

[@XxDUFTExX]

a tattoo ??? hahaha

[@fountainofyouth000]

i fw it lol

[@splinterbyrd]

Actually that's a really good idea....

[@suesjoy]

Cool idea!

[@michaelaurelius2609]

I am not a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a communist. I am not an anarcho communist. I am however a man with enough wisdom to see the folly of believing fully in one doctrine. I am unswayed by intellectual babble that makes people lay claim to somehow arriving at some absolute truth. To me that is not only childish but dangerous and an ideological fallacy. As if some men have figured out the "Truth" To politically pledge allegiance to one school of politics is as foolish to believe in one God above all others. I would never want to be tied to one way of thinking or one political philosophy. It defies a deeper analysis of the actual complexities of human nature.

[@JamieNixx]

Please come to the University of Minnesota, it would be the lecture of my lifetime.

[@trishthompson4109]

Independent minds get marginalized. That's how they remain in power.

[@lukasbuzz]

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[@lukasbuzz]

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[@lukasbuzz]

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[@lukasbuzz]

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[@lukasbuzz]

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[@Confucius_76]

'There were no financial crises in the 50s and 60s, before the banks were deregulated.' Ha. I never thought of it like that before! Regulate the banks again!

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

Well then what about the 1930s Great Depression?

[@rjamesstephens]

@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath Financial markets leading up to the great depression were notoriously unregulated. Many reforms were introduced only as a reactive measure.

[@davidbojaca5227]

I wonder how different the world would be if Chomsky (or someone with his mind) was president of the US at some point over the past 30 years. The world would be a better place.

[@nosuchthing8]

David Bojaca See the movie reds.

[@oregonmeds]

David Bojaca We'd be discussing conspiracy theories about his suspicious suicide where chompsky supposedly shoots himself in the back of the head while his hands are both tied.

[@southside-hornbaby5325]

oregonmeds you so dramatic but I like it 😂. No lies there.

[@BelieveOnlyJesus]

@Joseph Henderson Frankly, i think he would be just as horrible as mao or hitler!

[@0pct-Zscrop2-bcue7im9a.4space]

@@BelieveOnlyJesus of course you think that, because you Believe Only Jesus, you don't think for yourself. You are one of the disenfranchised and brainwashed religious fanatics that never mentally grew past 12.

[@MaxMaximilianMaxi2458]

lol that dude's name at the beginning is the same like one of the former members off led zeppelin thats sort of hilarious. gotta love chomsky! Im reading plenty of his books, really tough but catchy and stimulating stuff

[@virolee3776]

Simply the best !

[@chinhau8702]

He's really a baobab with big loving heart :by proselyting democracy with bombs the americans has destroyed every drop of democracy all around the world..Thank you Professor....Chinh..from VN.

[@35crazysexy]

I love Noam Chomsky such an intelligent man. 💓👏

[@annemillbrooke7779]

Transcript, please. That would make this much more accessible as well as assignable in university classes (which must meet accessibility requirements that include text for any audio).

[@rocksparadox]

Anne Millbrooke What University would require a transscript for some informal babble?

[@rocksparadox]

***** Where is the rudeness in formulating a factual observation , based upon the slow subjective dribble we're fed here?? Get the f out of here ''KThanksBai''

[@rocksparadox]

***** How does one ''blindly throw oneself in ignorance''? Reread your own hypocritical bullshit and realize you made no argument and you brought no facts.

[@lawrencechristopherskufcaj4286]

Anne Millbrooke Maybe contact the Nation since they conducted the interview? They will probably have transcripts.

[@Confucius_76]

Do it yourself :)

[@luisathought]

Thank You

[@kyletopfer7818]

52:25 the speaker actually makes a very witty and quick joke that didn't get anywhere near the laughs it deserved, that was brilliant.

[@CyberspacedLoner]

Citizens Divided, Billionaires United.

[@perkyporkpie]

Excellent chat from both men.

[@DavidTokio]

Brilliant interview !! and im only 30 minutes in so far..

[@MauriatOttolink]

David Tokio Hmm ..It took me a lot less to desert his ship!

[@37Dionysos]

Really worthwhile all the way, thanks---though I jumped over Simon at times. Quite a last answer at 1:20:30 about his biggest mistake---"getting involved too late."

[@LivinginSouthChina]

great!

[@martinezlopez4699]

@ Uploader or other contributors; is there any way to upload this GREAT Video and its SUBTITLE again? - May be to re-upload it w-/could do the trick too?

[@PoetlaureateNFDL]

Noam's insights on Eisenhower were interesting, that he would be "far left on the political spectrum" when compared to the Walker's and other modern day conservatives.

[@jshepard152]

And JFK would be far right. So there's that.

[@tartanhandbag]

@6:40 Chomsky is the original intellectual dark web, lol. But seriously, that motley crew of middlebrow surrogate dads seems utterly uninterested in including him as part of their cohort. i wonder why.

[@MatthewBorn88]

X4rrr Chomsky illuminates, the idw is where people get fed bullshit and contract brain rot. Not to mention they took their little club’s name from an online haven for frauds, grifters, identity thieves and child pornographers. Not exactly the best brand association lol - I liked the “middlebrow surrogate dads” bit too.

[@tartanhandbag]

@RED PILL PORTAL ...the caps lock tactic doesn't actually make you any more convincing, in fact it's just a red flag that indicates your desperation. As to the content of your message; it doesn't even merit a response...

[@tartanhandbag]

@RED PILL PORTAL mate, you couldn't advertise your idiocy harder than writing in caps lock from an account called "red pill portal". You've really set yourself up for failure here. I won't be wasting much more time here, but a quick note on the red pill metaphor as you clearly weren't paying attention to the metaphysics of the matrix trilogy: as the architect explains in the second movie, the prior matrixes didn't work because people want choice, so he created false choice to keep them from asking too many questions. When people in the mateix take the red pill, they simply "wake up" into another matrix that they think is real. A matrix inside a matrix. This is why neo has powers in the "real" world, although it explains many other things in the second and third movies. The entire red pill movement continually announces with its name its flawed and hubristic reading of both the matrix movie and culture in general, ignorantly thinking they're woke, while simply succumbing to another cheap manipulation, which is about right considering it's subscribed to by a bunch of half-wits like yourself. It's really very funny. I don't imagine this will convince you of anything as it's easier to pull the wool over someone's eyes than it is to convince someone that the wool has been pulled over their eyes, but, just for the record, you're still stuck in the matrix. Ta-ra

[@neotheone97]

@RED PILL PORTAL let have a opinion damn I don't care if his opinion is wrong but let him that opinion. You guys complain not having a opinion

[@michaelaurelius2609]

I am not a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a communist. I am not an anarcho communist. I am however a man with enough wisdom to see the folly of believing fully in one doctrine. I am unswayed by intellectual babble that makes people lay claim to somehow arriving at some absolute truth. To me that is not only childish but dangerous and an ideological fallacy. As if some men have figured out the "Truth" To politically pledge allegiance to one school of politics is as foolish to believe in one God above all others. I would never want to be tied to one way of thinking or one political philosophy. It defies a deeper analysis of the actual complexities of human nature.

[@suesjoy]

Listen to Leonard Cohen’s Democracy- it raises the same issues.

[@louistracy6964]

An old old man. beacon to us all, give us strength. And humour!!

[@TheKamikazenaz]

Every day is school day, but especially when Sir Noam is in the house. We are honoured.

[@michaelaurelius2609]

I am not a conservative. I am not a liberal. I am not a communist. I am not an anarcho communist. I am however a man with enough wisdom to see the folly of believing fully in one doctrine. I am unswayed by intellectual babble that makes people lay claim to somehow arriving at some absolute truth. To me that is not only childish but dangerous and an ideological fallacy. As if some men have figured out the "Truth" To politically pledge allegiance to one school of politics is as foolish to believe in one God above all others. I would never want to be tied to one way of thinking or one political philosophy. It defies a deeper analysis of the actual complexities of human nature.

[@MichiruPoster]

Democracy is not a threat the power system that controls it and influences it. Chomsky's own book, Manufactured Consent, shows this. If the media and corporations are in ideological lockstep, you might as well be living in an authoritarian society. Nowadays wee see people that claim to understand Chomsky's work also say "corporations have the right to censor" whenever someone brings up free speech, inadvertently supporting the institutions that they claim to despise.

[@armchairradical2665]

This literally describes my parents. Fucking libs, everything is suddenly ok now because biden is president. Im trying so hard not to pull my own hair out

[@LynetteChubb]

MY HERO. MY HERO. If only we could have every human/citizen of Earth hear his intelligence & have a chance to understand it and act on it.

[@philfluther2713]

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" Noam Chomsky.

[@APHS-B]

Excellent discussion

[@offshoremigrationagents6984]

One of Australia's most influential Senators was a Taxi Driver before being elected to the Senate and later appointed Minister of Immigration and Defence.. I recall once catching a taxi after a Student Council meeting and having a very informed and stimulating conversation with him. At the time he was unknown.

[@gooddogreallygooddog6157]

Noam chomsky is such a sweet guy aww man i love him so much❤️

[@v1das007]

He is a deceitful and hateful bastard. Half of his theses that sound compassionate on the surface have an implicit, opposite, effect.

[@FrankGarnettWelsh]

Absolute fucking bossman

[@TesterBoy]

Absolute fucking delusional idiot. The fact that so many rate him so highly demonstrates how many other delusional, idiots there are out there who don't know JACK SHIT about history!

[@andrewprice8820]

Reality Check Good argument

[@TuanNguyen-zc8ig]

Reality Check Evidence, please!!!

[@juveniledavidi1183]

could't have gotten involved earlier ,,lesson learnt,,we will regret for not heeding you this

[@ArtursLusis-ArthurALewis]

In Latvia, just recently they've managed to successfuly demolish the state health care system, that is, basically people can't receive quility medical care from state medical institutions due to overexceeded quotas, depleted hospital and GP budgets, people not being able to pay for services leaving them in dept tothe hospitals, and hospitals being in dept to various service providers. The state of social welfare is laughable - the system is exploited by those who needn't any state social support, those that need it are questioned for their needing it and denied support, all due to corruption on all levels of the service. The latest turn of events is that people who seek personally financed medical care, won't be able to receive "state funded" medical assistance, and I put state funded in quotation marks to emphasise that the system though described as such doesn't function as a state funded system since, in my opinion, if whether people can receive state medical care is decided by their capacity to wait in months-worth of queues and meeting co-payments, then the system is too deeply flawed to be called state funded. People literally die in queue for diagnostic tests, vital procedures and operations. Prices of medicines are consistantly increased year after year, the percentage of state subsidy for various medicines is manipulated in ways so that the private consumer should cover most of the costs (there are exceptions, of course, such as epilepsy, cancer, medicine for pregnancy related issues, etc.), and all changes apply without prior notice. So, prices increase, susidies - decrease. When it comes to diagnostic tests and further state medical care - this year they divised this new model, or a payment strategy, so that people wouldn't abuse GP practises, at least that's the way the government posed it. If there's is need to have some diagnostics test then the patients should go to the GP, get a referal to a specialist in the field relevant to tests in question, and only then they would be able to get the test in the first place, that is, the GP decides what needs to be done without testing - how can that work? And if they get their diagnostic tests, e.g. blood sample analysis, etc., covering the costs themselves, further on all medical services should be covered by the patient, meaning, they couldn't go to their GP with the relevant matter. And this is the tip of the iceberg, a small patch of undying weeds at the front of a field with no end. Extremely low minimal salaries, expansive, watered-down higher education which is inavitably required everywhere by employers, without any reasonable motivation, most often with hardly any relevancy to the occupation (bachelor's or master's degrees for selling souvenirs, or shoes, but not for working in the government and related offices?). Most retired people are compelled to counting dimes and living below the subsistence level, in alarmingly many cases, even below the existential minimum, only to pay their bills, if so lucky. The assignment of goods and prosperity seems to depend alot on luck these days in Latvia, or a hairy hand, as they say. Further on, salaries of governmental and parliamentary officials wouldn't seem that unjust if the rest of the country earned a decent amount more, yet they somehow won't find a way how to deliver new policies, such as higher taxes for the wealthy, lower for the less earning majority of the nation, i.e. the progressive tax; nor they intend on increasing the nontaxable gross income. And it is most outrageous how much the board members of partially government owned companies are paid - sometimes hundreds of times more than an avarge citizen earns in a year. Anywho, vented a little bit, hoping this might seem and interesting insight into how things are in one of the "economical recovery success stories after the global financial crisis" (they even did a book about it, in English and all that). :) I appologize if this is a bit too long.

[@kzzz9445]

Well, funny enough, I never thought I'll find a fellow countryman in this comment section, but I'm not entirely sure about the stuff you are saying here. Yes, the queues are fairly long, but not for all of the procedures and the costs are not insane too for what the people are making here. Of course, retired folks got fucked over majestically by our government, but that's not something that has happened as of late. That happened with the change of power in 90's. Pretty much then all of their pension got razed. The assignment of goods and prosperity though depends on whether You are on good terms with people that were on the receiving end on privatization era, but not only that. Mostly contacts and your skills. I mean, in a lot of things You are talking about here, You're right, but not for the right reasons in all of the cases. And if You'd put these "alarming" rates in absolute numbers or percentages, You'd see that it is not that crazy tbh.

[@PaniczJaszczur]

Love the way he laughs :)

[@miguelchippsinteligente6072]

After war in Germany they came to America and got involved in politics 👨‍🎓🌬🌪🗽🤍🌪👨‍🎓🗽💞🌪

[@miguelchippsinteligente6072]

@An Deo perspective is purposes to 😐

[@videobyredjade]

someone should make a transcript of this

[@Confucius_76]

you should

[@justgivemethetruth]

When you see the wages lost by workers, it tracks perfectly with the profits made by corporations and billionaires. Why now? A big part of that money is being spent to institute slavery 2.0, a virtual system where the masters do not have to pay anything for the slaves. They do not have to house them. They do not have to provide medical care. They certainly do not want to educate them, and then want to beat them down and stomp on them, and use every possible example of bad behavior to broadcast and pretend that is the norm, that workers are useless animals and deserve no respect or humanity. That is why for democracy to resurge we must remove re-energize and support the people, and institution progressive taxation in every taxable situation. Real Estate taxes should be made progressive so that people who live modestly on small pieces of land pay a standard tax, while billionaire who pave over acres and acres of the best land in their quest for conspicuous consumption must pay multiples for their land tax. That would reset the incentives properly to help the environment.

[@kzzz9445]

Except You'd have to exclude farmers here. Otherwise we'll starve.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@kzzz9445 We won't starve if we have to pay farmworkers a fair wage. Then also we will not need to have foreign people coming here and forming a virtual slave labor block.

[@kzzz9445]

justgivemethetruth I’m just talking about specifically land tax as in if you’d have to institute those changes immediately. Of course ideally it would be a coop, but yeah.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

Good luck with that.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc No one wants to hear some troll jump into the conversation and say nothing - get lost stupid.

[@andrew-barlow]

Please add captions

[@sodaxcandy08]

I agree with all Chomsky's said in this interview up until his hypothesis about libertarianism, I wish he'd have more of an detailed explanation to his view than simply reject it based on assumptions that Milton Friedman have argued against

[@123JumpingJacks]

You can find him in other talks brewing the topic down. Basically he is for traditional libertarians theory in some regard. He debunks current libertarian views as not in line with foundational libertarian theory.

[@omarmahfouz5599]

He says that liberatanians like Wilhelm Von Humbolt were pre-capitalists and when he wrote Limits of State Action he could not conceieve corporations in its current form with immense rights. So basically he said current liberatanians are advocates of extreme corporate tyranny.

[@Colours-dl3nu]

Who is the scholar mentioned at min 57?

[@mhayat4585]

Great philosophical discourse in this modern world no one replaces him MSHAYAT

[@pandawandafloop]

Chomsky is truly brilliant.

[@StarfieldRailway]

... at linguistics.

[@mck1972]

@@StarfieldRailway, And ONLY Linguistics!

[@StarfieldRailway]

@@mck1972, exactly. He is a complete fool at analyzing politics. I think multi-millionaire socialists are hilarious. The hypocrisy is outrageously obvious.

[@mck1972]

@@StarfieldRailway , Well Stated-Couldn't have said it better myself! :-)

[@malekal-onazi3513]

complexity approach to sustainability-Stafford Beer revisited‏

[@RyanHalas]

Also who is Elizabeth Fonton Wolfe, who he mentioned when he was talking about early US labor history at about 19mins.

[@paulkesler1744]

The name is Elizabeth Fones-Wolfe if memory serves. I haven't looked her up lately but Chomsky's often referred to her in books, articles and lectures. As I recall, she wrote about the plight of women factory workers in the U.S. around the mid-19th century and levied deep criticisms at the "wage slavery" these women had to undergo on a daily basis. The phrase went out of fashion for well over a century, but now, to some extent, seems to be experiencing a revival (at least among progressive leftists).

[@MauriatOttolink]

Well..His fears are allayed in Europe! Not find a trace there!

[@RyanHalas]

Is there a transcript of this? Does anyone know who Ori Ovnari, the israeli activist and scholar is?

[@tussilein2012]

original.antiwar.com/avnery/2011/05/25/bibi-and-the-yo-yos/ (by Uri Avnery)

[@justgivemethetruth]

Hahahaha, yeah I remember seeing that Firing Line as a kid, and it kicked off a whole series of political realizations. Noam Chomsky ran circles around Buckley, and all Buckley could do was threaten to sock him in the goddam face. Very peculiar. One of the things I used to like about Buckley was the equanimity with which he lost an argument, because the Left always seemed to get the better of him, and his Right-wing cohorts.

[@carolgates5297]

Outstanding insight, thanks for waking me up.

[@maruenahmedbaroud761]

love U2 comrade,..Venceremos!!

[@balajis1602]

@23:00 Host realized he was talking to Chomsky

[@hamzagayurzoda6344]

This videos of Chomsky must get millions of views. This world is heading in a wrong path

[@mariaangelova8275]

Hamzat Gelaev I don't understand why it doesn't get more views either!!! is it because people are too disinterested... brainwashed...is it too late?! I think we have to talk to our friends, family and people around us about this more and more!!!

[@hamzagayurzoda6344]

Maria Angelova I think people are scared of new ideas and only surround themselves with like minded people. both Republicans and Democrats are hypocrites and care more about corporation than people, so they just give people the illusion that they have choice. people like chomsky are hated on both side.

[@mariaangelova8275]

Hamzat Gelaev I completely agree and I think that it's because he criticizes both sides equally. Which, frankly, is something we all ought to do as we are all vested in what's being decided. :-)

[@hamzagayurzoda6344]

Maria Angelova absolutely, hopefully more women like you will rise out of these dark times and dominate the political spectrum.

[@mariaangelova8275]

Hamzat Gelaev Amen to that!!! 😁😁😁

[@rileylaforge7640]

Absolutely love the man whether I agree with what he says or not. He is a walking encyclopedia that is seemingly a-emotional. He just seems to care, and will talk to anyone about anything. Give that I truly wish it wouldn't have seemed like he dodged the question at the very end of being wrong about some things. He neither gave a yay or a nay just an impartial answer to part of the question :/

[@yabadabadu1660]

+Riley LaForge Because it is not worth wasting the time on such a stupid question.

[@teacherrobin3192]

Merit based democracy is for sure

[@nachoking8289]

Great man dr. Noam chomsky .

[@alexbade]

57:45 can someone help me spell the name of this journalist ?

[@kaanarslan2264]

If not democracy, what system should be put in place in 1st world (western) countries in particular?

[@tertiary7]

This is the most humorous I've seen Noam.

[@bertcanepa5651]

Mr. Nichols has done his damage at the Nation Mag as acting as a "gatekeeper" as to what is written and discussed. Nation used to be a good radical rag. No more. Bravo to Chomsky; have been following him since the early Vietnam War days.

[@giovannisolinas4334]

I am wondering if Noam Chomsky and scolar in the US know about the model of democracy and corporate governance of Adriano Olivetti “l’ordine politico delle communita” and what he-they think about it. To me it is one of the most interesting alternative to the current political models in western countries (US and Europe).

[@fuckyougeorgebush]

You can't delegate a right you don't have. Democracy is taking rights that no individual has and giving them to a group. You can only create chaos with that kind of immorality.

[@mrheem]

Nom Chompsky is a threat to any melon system

[@914vella]

Just want say It again Demoracy is a treat to the Greedy Incompassionate!!

[@AdamCharlton]

@DIANE M. ESTRADA Republicans and corporate dems, centrists... They're all bought

[@culturedthug8850]

I would have loved to watch a debate between Noam Chomsky and Thimas Sowell. That would have been amazing.

[@stephenrhodes6660]

subject of (interview/its title) begins about 31: 50

[@gabrielbeckford1699]

The moment the speaker said his name I had a second of surreality. Am I in for dissidence or dissonant guitar solos?

[@user-nn7mg3bp4u]

Real Intro Skip Service 6:49

[@uttaradit2]

I wish I'd been at that New York news stand.

[@scotthullinger9955]

Feel free to tell us what is NOT a threat to democracy.

[@kn9ioutom]

FROM DEMOCRACY TO GOP OLIGARCHY !!!

[@maximilian333]

True Democracy vs Representative Democracy. But with True Democracy the people need to be well-educated critical thinkers and have a confortable standard of living so won’t be prone to manipulation by demogogues

[@coryprovost2277]

So many times I see KZbin comments about the correct methodology of taxation, yet none provide the mathematical proof. So saddening.

[@seenyourshine6989]

"Right To Work" = "Right To Work For Less"

[@masonainsworth]

This interview occurred about 1 month prior to Bernie Sanders' entry into the 2016 Presidential election ! ! !

[@ursulaphillips5309]

Policies can be transformed and laws can be changed.

[@shanana569]

Does he talk about the TPP?

[@gmodrules123456789]

In 2020, this is frighteningly relevant.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

40:55 I'm very confused about this statement. I'm by no means a political expert. I'd consider myself very poorly educated in economics as well. But to my understanding of a loan both parties have to agree to some terms which concern which amount is to be loaned, what the interest is and how soon it is to be paid back (or in what way it is supposed to be paid back). So when you talk about risk, that means there's a condition where the loaner can say "I won't pay this back". Presumably this is when the country is out of money to spend on interest in some way (but I really don't know who's to determine that, loan giver or loan taker or an impartial party? Do they even need to be out of money? It's my understanding that most countries are in pretty unreasonable debt most of the time). 41:25 He describes that the responsibility lies with the loan giver when the country defaults on this loan right? But Greece (for instance) is part of the eurozone and/or is protected by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). So ESM provides Greece with bailouts to its loans as was agreed upon when they entered into the agreement (right?). So yes Troika gives bailouts. Which are to pay back the loans, as was agreed upon. He calls this anti-capitalist and he calls this money "money to Greece" but with my admittedly limited understanding that money was never "to Greece". It was to pay off a bad Greek situation. Werther this is the wise decision in generating value for the region or not (it probably isn't right?) doesn't seem all that relevant. I don't quite understand what Noam wanted to happen? Greece gets into trouble and ESM pays Greece to get back on their feet but the loan givers are screwed out of the deal? Loan givers have of course considered the ESM agreement, it's very likely that's why they give loans to Greece right? What I think should have happened is that Greece as a country should have realized it can't pay the loans it wanted to take so it doesn't take them. Perhaps the ESM is simply "too safe" the promise of having an economically big country like Germany back you up when things go south makes it so that it doesn't really make sense to not take loans. It's "free money" in some sense. Especially for politicians who only stay in office a few years. And again. I can't stress enough how little I know about this. I probably am using the wrong terminology most o the time. But I'm having major problems understanding what Noam is trying to say here. He's normally a very sensible person but right here it doesn't sound like it at all to me. To me it sounds like he's certain the agreements a country makes should be ignored when loans are concerned. Loan givers are to blame for trusting the security which is put in place for these countries. While these very securities are targeted at making loan givers safer (from my POV). And I can understand the reasons for that. If you have money you can invest and get richer. But what my local press tells me is that the loans haven't been funding smart investments but rather low retirement ages and such. Things that don't generate wealth cannot sensibly be paid for with loans in my eyes. Could someone care to explain how I'm wrong or what I got right? It is incredibly confusing to me why he's making these statements.

[@saayagain65]

+MrSnowman If they can't pay they can't pay.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

Saay WhatMakesSense That makes little sense. It'd be a non issue then. If they don't have the money they can't give the money. Are loan givers asking for money that doesn't exist and that has negative consequences?

[@saayagain65]

MrSnowman It's too complicated to explain on here. If you lend me money, you will do so if you believe that I can pay it back. You won't lend me money if you do not believe I can pay it back. Interest represents opportunity cost. The next best alternative use of the money you are lending me. If you lend me money and then I can't pay you on time you can lend me more money in the hope that I will get some income from somewhere or the debt is written off or you make me your slave or balliffs can repossess my belongings. These loans are unsecured. There is no collateral backing these loans. Risk is ignored by bankers. They are backed by governments. They can make loans to entities that will never pay them back and still get paid their money. That's what happened in Greece. German and French banks lent money to Greek banks. Greek banks were exposed to the Mortgage Back Securities that lost value in the financial collapse. This means they become insolvent and have to default on their debts. Instead of this happening, the ECB covered these debts by shifting them to the Greek state. This plus the deficit that is symptomatic of a government budget during a recession means that the Greek state is in no position to pay back its debts. The Germans are forcing Greece to close their budget deficit and repay the debts when what should have happened way before this is a write off of most of those debts when the private Greek banks went under. Interest rates are supposed to serve as indicators of risk, yes. If the interest rate is high, then lenders believe you are too risky or that the opportunity cost is high.

[@0xCAFEF00D]

Saay WhatMakesSense I think I get it (assuming what you say is accurate). And it's pretty sick.

[@saayagain65]

MrSnowman Yeah. It's a way of protecting capitalism from scrutiny. In the boom is all good but the bust will be just as bad. They learned from the Great Depression. Don't allow a widespread failure of the banks. It causes a lot of issues. But capitalism needs debt to function.

[@paolomarani7957]

Per favore, potete inserire i sottotitoli, grazie.

[@johnrambo3909]

non parlare pizza

[@paolomarani7957]

@@johnrambo3909 Hai qualche problema?.

[@jshepard152]

The debate with William F. Buckley is worth watching. It's fun to see Noam actually challenged instead of adored, as he is here.

[@Adamb87]

Noam Chomsky is a super legend he needs to be the leader who basically tells all future American Presidents what to the fuck to do

[@AncientMarinerNY]

This is so true. For example, in Latin America democracy makes it nearly impossible to start a long term business. Rules change so much and so often. Rule of law is antithetical to democracy.

[@rydermcdermott1973]

This is what I should've learned in school, and people wonder why I dropped out.

[@KevinKanthur]

11:45 That story :')

[@japiro14]

I strongly recommend all of you to watch the documentary "princes of the yen" based on a book of the same name by professor richard Werner. It's truly eye opening almost like finding Chomsky for the first time. It goes into detail about the function of central banks, money creation and economic crisis. It goes deeper into many of the thing Chomsky talked about here.

[@johnmcentegart8537]

With second quarter 2020 GDP growth down to -32.9 percent (annualized rate compared to the first quarter of 2020) the US economy is struggling to recover from the single largest quarterly contraction in 75 years. This historic figure followed a contraction of 5 percent in the first quarter. Trump Outright Lied On National TV. What A Smuck..

[@Jordan.Vaughn]

Arggghh the audio 😖

[@ridicule1313]

I love that Chomsky was saying single payer healthcare wasn’t that popular anymore bc of propaganda in 2015, and right after that Bernie came in MASSIVELY CLUTCH and saved the era as far as that goes, even tho he didn’t win