Noam Chomsky On The Fentanyl Crisis, Mexican Cartels, and the Rising Violence in the United States.
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- I asked Professor Chomsky for his view on the current fentanyl crisis hitting the United States, and for his perspective on how to put an end to it once in for all.
Watch the full interview with Chomsky were we discuss the 2024 presidential elections, artificial intelligence, and the growing tensions with China here: • Noam Chomsky: On China...
A RARE example of intellectual independence, and rigor. I feel so fortunate to coincide in time with such a beautiful mind.
“Fortunate to Coincide in time with such a beautiful mind” love this
So much clarity of thought and so little malice.
You are so naive. The man does nothing but hate i the USA, and lives there. Since he has protected freedom of speach, he says what he likes.
The question was about fetanyl. He talks about other issues to get round to attacking the white, republicans. People take drugs because they are great cheap fun, specially for certain personally types. Chomsky cannot say that though with his leftist mindset.
Treatment is available for some who want it. There are ways to make enough cheap guns anyway, so the cartels can get them. It goes on and on. There are so many guns in the USA, and that was the case years and years ago. A multimillionaire group pays 100 buck for a gun, or a ten times that it little to no difference.
Pot wasused by some undesirable blacks, but also by lots of others too. It is illogical to make this point. Pot was seen as a gateway to harder drugs, but it so happened that pot was used by black free thinkers, so what?
i give up. Treatment should be readily available of course. Chomsky would naively give more money to help homeless drug users. The drug user then buys more drugs...When the outcome was obvious, then Chomsky, would then start about who to blame for it. Circular reasoning.
Watching Chomsky in his final years is like watching the last flicker of a flame of hope in what will soon be a very dark world. He’s still connecting all of the dots for us but nobody seems to care.
Agreed. V few know
@@Eoin_D Communist Apologist.
@@Eoin_D Communism avoids profit and substitutes graft and corruption. Which is less efficient.
You care. I care... a few commenters above do too....Take it from there...I know what you mean though.
Not enough care
Old (94!), but lucid and wonderfully well spoken. He both knows the history and follows current developments. Hard to believe. He's an inspiration.
why wont he say why epstein gave him 100k, sorry whyd he give a multibillionare 100k?
Mexico is an unsafe country. Let's start there. The problem is that the US and Mexico do not deal with crime seriously. Noam relishes logic that is black and white and it is very grey in the fact that laws do not reflect law enforcement and judicial systems actions, instead corruption at all levels rules the day.
@@ProgessivesBwhitetho that has nothing to do with what he speaks of now. His present words are absolute truth.
Better when he wasn’t fooly “vaccinated” 🤓
Alternate universe perspective from Chomsky.
I feel that this type of wisdom is dying off. Too logical, and on point.
Indeed. Too much for some people, clearly.
Nah, manufacturing contempt is the business of our times.
Not only is it dying off but it’s hardly even existed in this country. That’s why we’re in the situation we’re in now. We haven’t had enough people that have had as much exposure that can speak to all of these issues like Dr. Chomsky has.
Professor Chomsky is a bright light in an ever darker world.
As a mexican citizen I totally agree with Chomsky, the root of the problem is in the USA
The USA is not the problem. Mexico has itself to blame.
Yes, problem is in America where demand is.
@@brendatenorio5721 get lost, creep.
@@brendatenorio5721 yes, and America is where the guns are sold.
Douglas Valentine has done great research on CIA drug smuggling
Thank you Noam Chompsky, for all your honor, service and dedication to righteousness. Much Love and Thanks. This guys so full of truth, honesty, love. HERO.💯
Bravo Noam tell it like it is. You are a man of great wisdom
The guy may be a moron!
Noam is cool but I don't want drug freaks invading homes, and nobody can defend themselves because it'll be like a clockwork orange.
Neither you nor him, couple dingbats...
Dr Chomsky is a national treasure.
For the CIA.
He is the last old school intellectual, still living and still intellectual. Connecting the dots with his own mind for a refreshing change.
Communism is not very intellectual. Aside from the discussions bereft of reality. And he misses the obvious - as do most - people in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. Making war on people in pain isn't moral.
Sy Hersh is 88.
@@nicka731 True enough, same generation, good call. Let's see if we can find a few more of them and get them together for an elders conference to help us think some things over before we lose them. I don't think any of the newer generations of Americans have much critical thinking left.
@@MrLoobu I like Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald (who happens to be personal friends with Chomsky).
Sowell and Hansen are terrible. Good to listen to if you want to be gaslighted, I suppose. Greenwald, Hedges and Taibbi lost the plot. They got carried away with their own viewpoints and lost objectivity. "When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail" - that kind of thinking. Chomsky is still the best
Unvarnished truth bites hard !
what, that its coming from somewhere other than mexico? Dude is a commmmie pos.
I lost an old friend to Fentanyl tainted cocaine 2 weeks ago. In British Columbia. The pathologist said they are seeing a pattern of deaths among people who aren’t locals. There were three extra drugs in the cocaine.
How did your drug addict mate not know all drugs are laced with fentanyl
me too
Yup and then you have people who say "just test your coke, it's easy to get a test strip"
But what they must not understand is that could be a few grains of Fent elsewhere in the bag of coke.
So to really test your coke, you're gonna have to dissolve the entire bag into water and then rest the solution. And no one is gonna do that unless they inject it
@@MarvinMonroe JUST LEGALIZE IT FOR PEOPLE AND CONTROL IT USING THE FDA
@@MarvinMonroe I don’t know anything about it anymore, just glad I got away from it over a decade ago.
As an opiate addict I feel the drug war has made things worse. Went from real herion to fentynal almost overnight. Regular herion is very hard to find and more expensive now.
Real heroin is available but Most addicts want the stronger synthetic drug =fentanyl smh
@Hood Intellect Not most those I know. Fentynal isn't the same as good raw. It has almost totally disappeared from Baltimore over the last 5 years since Fentynal is so much cheaper to sell. Occasionally, it is around. The only person I knew who had it regularly charged $25 for .1 and got arrested recently. Even when I was in tenderloin San Francisco in February, I asked for raw, but everyone said only had Fentynal. A lot of old heads are dying after 40 years of being a herion addict from Fentynal.
@@Franz19970 Same thing in NYC. It took a while for F to take over. Was already everywhere else but NYC finally collapsed into F. Almost impossible to find real.
Child abuse. Right? Mine wasn't so severe. Weed smoker. Chronic.
@@Franz19970 The Mexicans is definitely flooding the streets with fentanyl sense it’s cheaper and more profitable
Have the experts ever realised the drug use increased dramatically after the Vietnam War? The soldiers were scared sick to kill the enemies in the battle, another living human just like them. They cannot cope with the reality of war that is killing. They take drugs to numb the pain. We have to get to the bottom of these social issues way more seriously. Unless we cannot understand the root causes, we cannot have effective solutions. So long as there is a demand in the US, the suppliers will supply gladly.
I used to shoot heroin and crack into my forehead veins, I never went to war, never even been in a real fight. This is higher than ppl realize. The money goes to the top above the US fed government. All senators judges get a cut. Chappo was a CiA asset. It's about control and keeping the masses medicated. It's bigger than money cuz these are the ppl that print the money and have too much of it to even store. Drugs are EASILY ACCESSABLE, and it keeps ppl from reaching there potential. It keeps ppl scared. It's about jobs that waste everyone's time. Drugs are about wasting human life as an overall resources that could benefit humanity, but won't. Cuz drugs are fun
You are so right. I have been saying this same thing since I finally learned what matters - we have to stop blaming others and ourselves and start really learning about, discussing, and addressing The Root Foundations of the problems - this is what must happen, can happen, and almost nobody realizes this or has the simple empowering Courage to say it like it is. Thank you Noam for being one of the brave Courageous souls Mindfully thinking with your heart for so long now
Look into the military use and history of meth amphetamine. All the troops since WW1 have been dosed up.
Never did a drug in my life, but definitely see hopelessness, depression, anxiety issues, despair, are the driving factors for drug abuse, as well as economic opportunities for some to get rich quick. Unfortunately because our country has become so dystopian in nature in combination with a religious oppression =more drug abusers! America is a most angry society.
I think you're right. Also capitalism and economic reasons are a big driver.
Your spot on!! I live in Miami and the use of drugs is out of this world.
Good point
@@shepherdanton Different factors break down and uplift spirit. Oppression is certainly a factor.
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Noam is one of our greatest thinkers of our time …
pa leeeese, He is so ignorant...
Too bad he was buddies with Epstein...
He thinks so.
@@joecasey7415 though so, now hes remote controlled.
"one of our greatest thinkers of our time"? Why would you say that? Because he made lasting contributions to linguistics, psychology*, philosophy, political theory and anthropology among other academic disciplines? Because he was one the first anti-war activists during the Vietnam War? Because, even when he admitted he doesn't like doing it and would much rather spend his energy within academia, has continued being politically outspoken?
* Amazingly, in 1957 Chomsky wrote one 30 page article that laid to rest the BF Skinner's Behaviorist tradition within psychology that had existed since the 1930s
Than you for continuing to offer your perspective, sir.
I really like this guy he lays the blatant truth down.
like defending epstein and giving the multi billionaire 100 k but wont say why?
@@ProgessivesBwhitetho this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Sounds like you don't like him lol.
@@paulomilan515 i like his articles, not opinions, like his intellect, not his views, but cmon hes not an anarchist and loves big government he complains about
@@paulomilan515he said none of your business when asked about hanging out with Epstein
@@cirogarcia9951 link
Thanks for this conversion.
It is pure joy to listen to Professor Chomsky
Are you high too?
"Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the US." - Porfirio Diaz, former president of Mexico
BRAVO!!!...My highest respect for this man.
❤ Noam
Noam's the man! Thanks for all you've done over the years to bring rational thought to our crazed culture.
lol He wanted to starve the unjabbed !
Speaking of crazed culture ^^^
Lol yea he’s the man! Best buddies with Epstein - maybe you can send your toddler over to him since you think he’s so great 🤡
@@lilmoe4364 means nothing coming from a chomskynite who ignores norm giving epstein 100k
he is a big part of why our culture is crazed.
It has def spiralled into far more complex issues but the heart of the issue always seemed to me to be more economic. There is little opportunity for upward mobility in Mexico and drugs provide a quick way to make money. On the US side, the issue is similar - the rampant drug use can be attributed to the sense of despair and there's also the issue of how big pharma hooked millions on overprescribed legal opiates. A lot fentanyl is coming from China as well, which can't be overlooked. Totally spot on regarding the gun violence but with the number of gun owners in the US and the industry they have...can't put the genie back in the bottle at this point.
It's the british who opened that bottle of opium in China in the nineties century because they drank too much tea and buy too many porcelain. Their commercial balance was down versus China and they find the good solution : create the drugs traffic in China and made 2 wars to have very good treaties versus Quing dynasty. And the Usa was in the party too...the return of the wave in history.
Without Prohibition the cartels wouldn't exist. Prohibition is a Government program. If people really hated the cartels they would want to put addicts under medical care. Legalize.
The mexican cartels take the drugs to the border. And then, WHO distributes them to ALL the country, to EACH and EVERY city in the USA? Why does everyone ignore the fact that there ARE many cartes in the USA? they do much more work and they do much more MONEY than them. Mexico captures and kills druglords every year, HOW MANY does the US govt capture and kill in US soil???
Don't forget all those benign legal drugs that are addictive as well that aren't but are psychological thuggery at its best but I always get asked drinking drugs ?yes your bs I still feel bad it's your drugs ...he's still using ....ass hats .
Always very interesting.
As a Canadian, nothing scares me more than being neighbours of America. 😢
Watch Canada is Dying. We have other issues to worry about.
Sorry, neighbor. Wish I could change it.
try North Korea, Russia and China as your neighbors
Poor baby
You’re also on Red Man land.
I always enjoy listening to him
“Mexico is too far from God, and too close to the U.S.” Chomsky quote. “Majority of guns and drugs is primarily in the U.S.””We must change the “Gun Crazed Culture , that exists in the U. S.”
Disarm the population and increase the police budget very reasonable 😅
POLAR BEARS
human resources or food source
GEORGE FLOYD RIP
human resources for police
Porfirio Diaz said that 😂
Good luck with that
It's the media that created and promotes this modeen gun culture. Before it was only military and police enforcement who had it. Maybe some had rifle for hunting. Today, inner city kids killing each other for fun. And the fear tactics pumped out non-stop by MSM is intended to get people to rush to the gun store. It's all intentional.
Thank you dear Noam
Thanks Noam.
Chomsky gives so much of his time and energy to people who just ask him stupid fucking questions.
Didn’t he have a few trips on the Lolita express? 😳
I think you're confusing him with Dershowitz.
Could provide a lucid and efficacious response to pretty much any serious question you could ask him. An intellectual giant, the likes of whom only come along once in a lifetime (if we are that lucky).
Very wise man..
Too many Americans are in Peter Pan mode all the time. Have everything, or at least more than many in other nations on this planet, and yet can’t handle this existence. It is damn rough, this existence (unless you are rich rich rich). But damn!!
Yeah, Americans are a strange lot
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Good question young man.
The true intellectual athlete he is shows in his astonishing mental gymnastics when it comes to causalities.
Drugs should be legalized in all countries simultaneously and the users should be monitored and advised by doctors to facilitate rehabilitation where possible.
@Fifigoesforth many governments are already paying under universal health insurance coverage and the marginal cost would probably be minimal. The savings from so-called war against drugs would pay for it many times over. But the politicians all over the world would lose a very generous and endless source of income😡
Drugs should be harshly banned and all users either put in jail or in rehab. If you relapse, straight to jail and no rehab option. The nicer the US has gotten about drugs the worse the problem has gotten. If you want less of something, you ban it. You guys are so happy to ban guns and be strict about it but with drugs we have to take this magical new approach of NOT banning them
I'm not a huge fan of Chomsky, but i certainly agree on many things. And i'm really proud of being a swiss, i think many things here are going right. With drugs for example, having most of the effort in prevention, treatment and re-integration and rather minor or even disappearing penalties on consumption (no prison at all, if you don't have previous major crimes on your back). The same with crime in general. I just lately talked with an ex-convict that had some major offenses and spent 5 years in prison. he said it was really "nice". with courses, even professional education, inside prison. and it's pretty safe in there.
I believe the "winner-takes-all" system in american politics is the root of all problems!! i don't understand why this is not addressed more often.
So what we all just ignore the fact that he totally refused to explain what he was doing on "Mr Private Island's" plane?
And don't get me wrong, I loved all of his books, I always found his political analysis to be spot on, I'm fucking depressed about the whole thing, but unless he at least tries to explain himself or respond in any way, I don't know what to believe anymore. Kyle Kulinski's coverage is spot on. It makes you sad and it makes you sick but you've got to face it, you can't just accept that it's all fine. If it is the worst that's true, if he was in some kind of blackmail sting, perhaps it might explain some of the weird issues that Michael Parenti observed many years ago, about lines that Chomsky never seemed willing to cross --for example unwillingness to address some state-initiated domestic political violence within the United States.
Salute to Chomsky! 🫡
im glad Noam is around to make me realize there is no hope.
Ask Noam what he was doing with Epstein. I did
Hope doesn't exist unless we make it.
@Andrew Mortensen. No way Chomsky messed with little girls. There were charitable agreements Epstein tried to pilot so he could try to look legit.
Elders are our gems. The government paying all these so called experts......hell, just listen to Noam. 🤜🏾💥🤛🏾 Power to the people. Noam knows. ❤
Noam Chomsky is a HERO of TRUTH!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I've seen family, friends, and neighbors impacted by this. I support liberalizing Drug Laws so people who wish to destroy their lives can do so without benefits to Criminal Cartels. Lacking incentive, and decline in Drug use via Natural Selection process, the Drug problem will resolve via Evolutionary Process.
Treatment should be available to those who ask for it, otherwise we should accelerate the process via legalization.
@@anthonydargan857 I don't. I want decriminalization and every Adult to have any Drug they can afford until Evolutionary Natural Selection process work their Magic.
It may take a Decade and we may loose 5 to 10% of People but in the End, Drug Problems will end.
Crime Syndicate Drug Income will Collapse as well as Overall Crrine.
Illegal Fentanyl and other serious poison will fall off a Cliff once Users can legally obtain all their Hearts Desire and quickly bring to Conclusion whatever Fate has in store for them without degredation by Government Policy we have now. Abundant, Legal, low cost Drugs for all adults.
The System now produces far too many malfunctioning People who are miserable due to restrictive Drug Laws which perpetuate misery rather than end it Naturally.
Interfering in Natural Selection process is what I oppose.
Those who can use Drugs and still function will survive, those who can't won't. No need to commit crimes to support a Habit.
Natural Systems are self correcting when Government doesn't interfere with it.
Go ahead, buy a pound of Heroin or Meth for the price of a loaf of Bread? Use as much as you want. End the self termination process in blissful Days instead of miserable Years.
What's wrong with that?
You are correct. People who take drugs are very self destructive as only people in pain can be. Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin users had been sexually abused in childhood. People in Chronic Pain Chronically take pain relievers. We have laws against that. And we also have the criminals that go with such laws. The Senators and Congressmen know how it works. And they like it just fine.
@@anthonydargan857 Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin users had been sexually abused in childhood.
Binary thinking. That's not what happened in Portugal. And they didn't completely legalize drug use. Legalization allows users access a safe source as opposed to illegal source thereby eliminating the risk of overdose, not increasing the risk.of overdose.
@@daniel213141 Good to know. I've seen Meth and Heroin addicts. They never have enough until they die which often happens in Months not Years. If they get clean, their Bodies are often ruined for Life. Nonetheless, People should be free to do whatever as long as they don't harm others.
Maybe Portuguese Addicts are different?
For now, we don't have good examples of Drug Legalization in enough Countries to do cross Country comparison.
I never thought I'd hear Chomsky praise Nixon. But here we are.
I live in the PNW now. Was brought up in AZ and can remember a drive through liquor store in Flagstaff that also sold guns & ammo. Probably is still there over 30years later…”MERICA!We all see the problem, but we need guys like Chomsky to spell it out for us. Most won’t listen, too many will disagree, and nothing changes. We’re becoming complicit in our fate by not taking a stand.
Professor Chomsky is always very informative. I would like to see his opinion on why Canada doesn’t have a similar problem. I mean why canada doesn’t seem to have the problems Mexico is having even though it shares a border with the USA.
Canada doesn't have a drug problem? Maybe because they don't have a War on Drugs.
Lol what??? We do have a problem too in Canada... BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario are ridden with drugs.
@@kubasniak The Canadians are too sensible to declare war on a social problem. instead they work to solve it.
Here in the US we embrace warfare, so we get casualties. The nose bleed sentences drive desperation, which drives murder over drug debt and sales turf.
Naturally some Americans think what "worked" for drug abuse will also work for gun violence. Some people can't see the obvious in front of their faces.
@@kubasniak you have drug cartels exporting drugs to the USA from canada? That was my question. I edited in case it was ambiguous. From the context of the video I thought my question would be easily understood but it seems I should have been more specific
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A common border. That’s the big difference.
I agree with this man.
Chomaky is the man
The Problem with fumigetting crops Is that it just opens the door for the synthetic drugs which are a hundred times Worse
the problem is illegal drugs from dealers, make it legal in controlled areas
If politicians were to pay a little attention to Professor Chomsky. Nope! He is pushed aside as an outsider. It’s a shame to see the sorry state of the public discourse in the USA!
Indeed
Would the professor accept a Nobel Prize?
Don’t think so, he’s way above that, the nobel has been instrumentalized way too much
While he deserves a Nobel Prize, I'm sure he would accept our support and activism to effect real, progressive change for the better.
Those that can't do, teach.
Pride in ones self and personal accomplishments prevents excess drug use.
Chomsky gets to these issues 8 years after they start and when they are finally being addressed. Convenient Chomsky
He's just answering what he's asked. Some of these criticisms of him are downright strange. Strange the mental gymnastics people go through to avoid accepting things
@@lilmoe4364 you just got part of the answer right.
He answers only specific questions, because he's only asked questions in order to avoid things that are inconvenient to his narrative. I think this also includes his handlers.
Noam smokes everyday and look how good he’s looking!😮
It's because you don't listen what he said...
I think that both supply and demand are to blame for this terrible problem. It is true that huge demand in the US drives production in Mexico, but at the same time, a poor American kid that's offered drugs for the first time is innocent in the middle of this nonsense. I agree that prevention and values are key in both countries, in all countries for that matter to curb this problem. Huge weapons supply is certainly not helping
Those are vitamins in the picture
"The [results of the ] drug war is the removing of the most dangerous classes."
Please subtitle Noam Chomsky, it is sooo interesting, but I am not a native speaker so I can‘t understand properly 😢
It's so wonderful to hear truth and logic from a very intelligent man. Didn't think much of Nixon but he makes a good point about approaching a solution for drug addiction then. We need a strong middle class to get rid of so much ignorance in this country especially about guns. Children deserve the right to live without danger of being shot in school. It's their right to live.
Guns are built into the fabric of US society and culture. The guns aren’t the issue. The lack of community, mental health services and total disregard for human life Is the issue. I’m a single mom with two children (one in high school, one in college). I do fear for them. But my fear is nothing compared to inner city parents who have to worry about their babies catching a stray bullet sleeping in bed. It’s a CULTURE issue, not a poverty issue. 99% of legal gun owners do not commit crimes. And there’s tens of billions of us. As far as the drugs go, my thinking is much more going towards the harm reduction model because what’s being done now isn’t working. Decriminalizing drug use isn’t compassionate. It removes that only interventions most people will ever get that might force them to get sober. We are losing a generation of talent to drugs. If we’re not going to arrest them, we need to keep them alive long enough to get clean. Leaving them in the streets to commit crimes, poop on the streets and eventually die is cruel in the extreme, not only to them but everyone around them. And since the police can’t or won’t protect us, we’re forced to do it ourselves.
@@brookeceron8091 you know I disagree, guns are the issue. I don't care about anybody's Second Amendment rights. we are not organized for a militia from the 1800s. Other countries are doing very well when they're citizens are not armed to the teeth and killing each other. Check that out. People with guns kill children.
Yeah a very intelligent man who couldnt forsee his Democrat friends would start wars first day in office.
Please!!!
@@brookeceron8091 that what the Crumbleys said as they gave there son a gun for xmas and he shot up oxford mi schools
Tell that to Bobert and MJ Greene...
He has been on a podcast rampage recently.
He is a national treasure.
This started with Fredrick Predue and Sackuler with Opiets.
Professor Is Chomsky Is Pure Gold! Blessings On You And Your Family Too!😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅‼️
Chomsky been around for some quite tyme now. A mind that embryo in New York City, Manhattan, Massachusetts and isreal and captured the momentum of the secrets of world governments: a candel light and the breathe of the p e o p l e; kindling hope and reason thus champion, comforter; father of the humane. Chomsky the Great!
Chomsky is the President the United States deserved but didn’t have!
every street substance is mixed up to cause effect, often with much cheaper chemicals that may be toxic or carcinogenic or immediately fatal in themselves
WISDOM speaks. Question is will ppl, SCOTUS, Trump, politicians listen?
Will we surive or not?☮️
Ask him about his relationship with epstein next time
If you want to stop the drug problem. Make it ALL legal! Sooner or later, ya gotta let it be survival of the fittest! As far as the "fentynal" problem, and the overdoses. You've gotta ask yourself: "If you are a CEO of a company, do you want to kill off your clientele? NOT IN AMERICA!😂
Noam Chomsky is a wizard of wisdom
What the hell does this old man know?
What has he changed in this world in his life that any other human hasnt?
Never ceases to amaze me how people seek out a intellectual and think that they have the answers any more than a savant.
Attack the demands ... Demands = Supplies.
Wouldn’t it be remarkable if his theories actually did anything?
That takes political will genius. Big business runs this country
@@llanos8320 Big business doesn't make people do drugs.
Not so sure about that....have you ever watched tv commercials that make viewers salivate for this food, this car, or that pair or stilettos? Commercial enterprises control our lives in ways few of us are aware of.@@David53D
Agree with Santa
Old Chomsky just reminding us all that the hazards of life are infinite. You bet ....
Este homem esta a fazer serviço publico nos estados unidos.ainda bem que ele não saiu.
I blame all this on America’s drug war , as long as there’s prohibition more dangerous easy to smuggle drugs will emerge. We didn’t have half the problem with heroin as we do the sythectic easily to smuggle drug as fentanyl. We created this and as long as we don’t let people do to their own bodies as they will more dangerous things like this will emerge. Only thing the drug war has achieved is mass incarceration which is class war and more dangerous alternatives
A drug crisis in the US is an understatement!
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Such a simple, clear talk. Noam is a jewel for Democracy.
Chomsky, the left, cancel culture on campus, his excuses, and Trump as a result.
People do not pin Chomsky down to one issue, he goes off in tangents. The left is not for democracy.
Its too bad we are so dysfunctional as a society that we ignore Mr. Chomsky. He speaks in a way that is rational and true. He never resorts to waste of time hyperbole. I admire his consistency and his transition into modern day topics although truth be told we have had these problems for decades. I hope to meet him one day. Tiene mucho sentido lo que dice el viejo desgraciadamente los cabezillas de nuestro pais odian el sentido comun.
People like this old man are why we still have these problems. Can’t fix what you choose not to see
"Mexico itself has pretty tight gun laws' 8:54. Yes, and only the criminals there own guns.
The guns used by mexican cartel is weaponry not even the mexican army have access to. Fast and furious was an operation to smuggle guns into mexico by CIA to track the movement of such guns. As they did in afganistan by training and providing weapons they did in mexico.
Very tight gun control laws in Mexico
He’s definitely out touch with the real world. I heard he was once a bright young man.
A psychotic person can not be bribed.
I've come to the conclusion that a drug problem is universal. They have too many drug users in every corner of the globe. The US, China, Middle East, Africa. There is no solving it.
0:21 Just for the record; I'm stoned on fentanyl right now. It costs less than coffee in my city - in Canada. I have tried to stop every week. I'm on methadone so I am "cheating" and don't undergo physical withdrawal. 3:25 I am not side-stepping my own responsibility for using, but he's absolutely right in everything he is saying. 4:56 Take it from me - I've been in the middle of the drug war since I was 15. It's not always as draconian here in 🇨🇦 but it's still a war on human behaviour.
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Us Mexican-Americans. We have to be truly exceptional people to get the same opportunities in business or academia or media as people of other races or backgrounds in America.
We receive so much discrimination and hate, it creates so much internalized anger. lack of encouragement to assimilate or denied participation in the American Dream.
Theres a certain level of joy when it comes to income from the sell of drugs to the people that take advantage of your people in so many ways everday. A certain sense of joy when a person dies from the sell of your drug. Its a revenge thats twice as sweet. You are killing the offspring of the people that brought you and your people generational suffering.
Wow . Eyebrow raising truth.
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Sorry, Noam lost me at a 6-year-old with an AR.
It's a bit of a disconnect to blame the bankers for societies problems when you are a professor. The intellectual make his living in close proximity to credit created by bankers. If we are to look at the societal results from his time as an intellectual he would be on the losing side.
Have a "banker" in the family....got his kicks in NYC watching yachts dock to unload the scantily clad blonde, buxom bikini babes while those below deck rounded up the drugs to sell on city streets to the miserables (and the stock brokers) who purchased those drugs. It was a "fun times." As long as you didn't get caught...and "streeters knew how to Not get caught.
There is something people don't understand about fentanyl. Let's imagine that the demand for opiates in the USA stayed the same. You can look at the total KG of heroin smuggling necessary to supply that demand. Each kilogram of heroin might supply a few thousand doses; whereas a KG of fentanyl supplies over a million doses. Think about that for a second.
It means that for everything to remain the same; we would have to become a hundredfold more effective at stopping smuggling. The cartels could fail to smuggle the fentanyl 99% of the time and that 1% that makes it through would still be enough to supply a million users. Think about that.
Even if we could stop 99% of the crossings; it still would not be enough to stop fentanyl. It's simply too potent. We must legalize and provide support for our addicted citizens; otherwise, we will continue to fuel the flames of this drug war at the expense of quality of life for millions of people throughout the Americas.
People being addicted to fentanyl is their choice. Make it legal and get it over with.
The consumption in the USA is the problem, the normalization of the use of drugs in this country is the problem.