Noam Chomsky Lectures on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond

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  @abramshelley9691 · 4 years ago

  This is always going to be relevant. Hearing it for the first time. 2022

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• EF

  @efortune357 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=480">8:00</a> &nbsp; Noam begins <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=500">8:20</a> &nbsp; “Talking about American Imperialism is like talking about triangular triangles.” &nbsp;Only country he knows that was founded as an empire. &nbsp;Has <br>never changed. &nbsp;Borrowed from Britain and before them the Roman empire. <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=570">9:30</a> &nbsp; Benjamin Franklin complains about limited expansion <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=630">10:30</a> &nbsp; Thomas Jefferson <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=690">11:30</a> &nbsp;US tried to invade Canada. &nbsp;Blocked by Britain <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=745">12:25</a> &nbsp;John Quincy Adams, Manifest Destiny <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=800">13:20</a> &nbsp; John Lewis Gaddis (sp?) most respected historian on Cold War. <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=920">15:20</a> &nbsp; no congress declaring war. Model ever since. <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1265">21:05</a> &nbsp; Woodrow Wilson atrocities in Haiti <br>Quotes Of Woodrow Wilson <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1380">23:00</a> &nbsp; ww2 <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1635">27:15</a> &nbsp; propaganda and colleges <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1665">27:45</a> &nbsp; the middle east in Latin America <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1710">28:30</a> &nbsp; Southeast Asia <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1780">29:40</a> &nbsp; Africa <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1845">30:45</a> &nbsp; examples to read of fanatic jingoism. NSE68 <br>Book “Washington’s China” by Peck <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1910">31:50</a> &nbsp; Latin America “our resources” <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=1950">32:30</a> &nbsp; Cold War <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2010">33:30</a> &nbsp; “radical nationalism” aka sovereign countries who don’t do what we want. Even the smallest place could become a serious danger. Henry Kissinger <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2130">35:30</a> &nbsp; A couple of weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall the US invaded panama. For Noriega, who committed crimes while on CIA payroll <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2310">38:30</a> &nbsp; what US said after Cold War. Middle East. Needs reason to invade. Can no longer blame Soviet Union. <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2470">41:10</a> &nbsp;Hillary Clinton, if Iran attack Israel <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2555">42:35</a> &nbsp; resistance from other countries equals aggression, <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2560">42:40</a> &nbsp; Vietnam <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2605">43:25</a> &nbsp; Iran “aggression “ <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2690">44:50</a> &nbsp; Condolezza Rice, Iraq, brainwashed by US education <br>Financial weapons <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2875">47:55</a> &nbsp; two principals: <br>1. We own the world. <br>2. Everything we do is with the best of intentions. No evidence required <br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=2940">49:00</a> &nbsp; Vietnam, several millions died, “blundering efforts to do good” <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3000">50:00</a> &nbsp; establishing democracy in Vietnam was like Soviet Union establishing democracy in other <br>countries <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3030">50:30</a> &nbsp; historian Arthur Schleshinger , war hawk, on Vietnam <br>70% of populace was anti-war, but “educated” sector never spoke of that. <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3135">52:15</a> &nbsp; should read, but it taught, final parts of The Pentagon Papers. Wanted to send more troops it worried about anti-war protest and social unrest. <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3230">53:50</a> &nbsp; parallels Vietnam and Iraq, no principled critique <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3330">55:30</a> &nbsp; John Berns, senior correspondent quote. America stabilizes the world and always does good no matter what the population or the rest of the world experiences <br> <br>***<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3475">57:55</a> &nbsp; “Current George Bush after 9/11 asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ &nbsp;Cause of our Freedoms’ and so on. &nbsp;You remember that. &nbsp;What the press should’ve reported is that he was just repeating a question that President Eisenhower asked in 1958. &nbsp;Eisenhower asked his staff ‘Why is there a campaign of hatred against us among the people of the Middle East?’ &nbsp;And the National Security Council, the highest planning agency, had provided an answer. &nbsp;They said the people in the Middle East, their perception is that The United States supports brutal tyrannies, and blocks democracy and development, and does so because we want control of their oil. &nbsp;And then they went on to say ‘Yeah, their perception is more or less correct and that’s the way it ought to be.’ &nbsp;So therefore there’s a campaign of hatred against us. &nbsp;And so it continues.” <br> <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3530">58:50</a> &nbsp; Wall St Journal conducted some polls in Middle East <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3675">1:01:15</a> book “A Different kind of war” <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=3820">1:03:40</a> what about Iran? <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=4080">1:08:00</a> Israel Palestinian solution <br>Everyone agrees except US and Israel <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=4290">1:11:30</a> Q&amp;A <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=4320">1:12:00</a> Question: <br>undermining Chomsky’s credibility <br> <br>***<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=4660">1:17:40</a> Question: <br>US undermining foreign food markets with farm subsidies. Ethanol. <br>NAFTA drives Mexican farmers out of business cause they can’t compete with US subsidies, leave Mexico but ten we hold walls <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=4905">1:21:45</a> destruction of Haitian economy by Bill Clinton policies <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5055">1:24:15</a> question: might the US foment violence to further action in Iran? <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5265">1:27:45</a> Iraq was the first war in history that was extremely protested before it started that he can remember <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5280">1:28:00</a> US didn’t care about Vietnam being wiped off the map. Eisenhower mentioned in build up to war rubber and tin but that was a joke. Vietnam had no resources of significance to the United States. Concern of Vietnam waste virus infection theory. Deep concern that independent development in Vietnam might inspire other countries. Didn’t care about Vietnam’s resources at all. That’s why we could destroy it. Iraq is not the same. We want to cheap oil <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5610">1:33:30</a> <br>Question: manufacturing consent: talk of North Korea building a nuclear reactor In Syria. Israel was able to successfully wipe it out. What’s your take? <br> <br>Piece on NPR’s of the story only covered half the story. <br> <br>***<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5955">1:39:15</a> Question: &nbsp; US support of dictators in Latin America, middles East, even support of Saddam Hussein. Most people are unaware. How can we educate them? <br> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=5990">1:39:50</a> most people don’t know we supported Saddam Hussein or the extent to which we supported him. <br>1982 Reagan removes Iraq from list of terrorist states. Aka countries we want to go after. In order to proved aid to Saddam Hussein right through his worst atrocities. <br>1989 invites Iraq for nuclear weapons production <br>US was upset when he disobeyed and invaded Kuwait. <br>Authorized him to crush rebellion <br>Thomas Friedman, New York Times propagandist <br> <br>***<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PdJ9TAdTdA&amp;t=6520">1:48:40</a> Latin America question <br>Awesome response

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• SA

  @samsimonsen4995 · 5 years ago

  The clap back from Chomsky lmao

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• KR

  @kreyvegas1 · 8 years ago

  This is a must-see for the 8 billion people around our planet !!!

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• PA

  @paintedhorse6880 · 5 years ago

  This is that American history you don&apos;t learn in school.

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• CR

  @crosbyspsychedelics1383 · 5 years ago

  Not only did I get to watch this awesome speech I got to watch noam light the first questioner up with straight facts

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• EL

  @eleonoramarkopaljusevic3501 · 5 years ago

  Thank you for such beautiful video.

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• BO

  @bofootball30 · 4 years ago

  she is awesome, the young girl who introduced Noam

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• LU

  @luisinharamos · 4 years ago

  12 years after this talk every opinnion of yours is stil updated. Congrats and thank you for keeping my mind stil sane in 2022. (English is not my first language. Sorry)

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• IW

  @iwontgiveyoumyinformation8895 · 6 years ago

  wow! how he reacts to the first questioner is immensly impressive.

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• EQ

  @equanimousawareness · 6 years ago

  And we&apos;ll take the first question from Mr. Shillster.....

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• CA

  @carmel-wayfinder5401 · 4 years ago

  There are some people in this world who are real honest human beings that do a great service to humanity ⚖️

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