Newest Thoughts on Afghanistan with Noam Chomsky | Current Events with Noam Chomsky
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- Watch on our newest mini-series "Current Events with Noam Chomsky"! In this episode, Lawrence and Noam have a follow-up discussion about the latest developments in Afghanistan.
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Noam Chomsky is sometimes referred to as “the father of modern linguistics”, is a political activist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and philosopher who currently holds joint appointments at MIT and UofA. He is the author of over 100 books and generally considered one of the greatest living public intellectuals as well as being one of the most cited scholars in history. His most recent book, Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution, is a collection of his previously published essays on that country. In the book, Chomsky reflects on the way international politics has affected Yugoslavia over the past 25 years and what it means for the global socio-economic landscape.
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Incredible that he still has a sharp mind and impeccable memory at almost 93.
That's what happens when you take care of your mind. Most people only think to care for their mortal bodies only.
@@MM-vs2et Exactly.
@@MM-vs2et Totally, it's like a muscle, you need to exercise it or it becomes atrophied.
Absolutely incredible.
One of the most impressive people I can imagine. His honesty and intelligence are a shining example for all intellectuals. Not to mention his lack of ego.
I love how Noam says what is so glaringly obvious? What is our intent? Are we actually trying to help Afghans? When he says it out loud like this, it feels so shameful that it so socially acceptable that of course everyone knows US is not there for Afghans interests.
Do you want to help the taliban?
Either are all politicans, what is your point!
@@jeffrutt6331 do you think the us should have given financial aid to the nazis?
@@jeppep95 It didn't. That is conspiracy theory. Germany abolished the international banking standard and created and independent economic system known as Laborism. They abandoned the Gold Standard as their unit of measure for economic growth. They instead used labor, goods, services, and all forms of industry as the stabilizing method for economic stability, and growth. This is why inflation is so great among the nations today. There is no standard in play for the issuing of currency. This causes a rise in the cost of goods to leverage the debt between exported and imported goods.There has to be a standard to back the currency. However using one natural resource as your standard, causes just as many problems. Who ever controls that resource, would control your economic system. So the Germans abolished this practice and went to a system that created a more equilibrium effect. By using all forms of industry you put more balance in your economy. No one Capitalist controls all industry. So when one industry is down, another will pickup in its place. This way there is only short term inflation as opposed to hyper inflation, or long term irreversible inflation. But that inflatation would come back to regulatory levels.Then you reverse the principles of capitalism. When capital is the centralized mechanism of the economic system, two things happen. One money becomes God and the citizens choose careers where they can make the most money, As opposed to careers that can benefit the nation. Two, the exploitation of your citizens will happen. Labor becomes subservient to capital under a capitalistic society. Then the laborer is nothing more than a slave. So by reversing these principles,labor becomes the central force of your economic system. Money will serve the laborer, and not the other way around. Everything must be done for the benefit of the national interest. Citizens must choose careers that can benefit the nation. Capitalism is far better than Commuinsm. Communism you are reliant on the state. No nation will become prosperous by taxing its citizens. Wealth is created by individuals, not by government. At least in capitalism it allows private individuals to create wealth with their ingenuity, and then hire workers to sustain their companies. Then if you are not happy, you can take your services elsewhere. A genius needs to be allowed to be a genius. There is no such thing as universal equality. But as I mentioned earlier there are many problems with capitalism. The only solution is to go to a laborism system. This does not deny private ownership of its citizens, and it allows brilliant minds to develop. There are way too many restrictions in a Communist country. This denys capital to create new capital. The international bankers did not want to see this economic system thrive, for it would of been the beginning of the end for their parasitic means. The Nazis did not need to borrow any money as I said earlier. They abandoned the economic system. You cannot use money to make war materials. They would simply just extrapolate the resources and make the weapons with labor. Money is an abstract concept. It is only a piece of paper. Money cannot stop a farmer from farming his land, or an automaker making automobiles. You do not need money. Money is only the intermediary between trading with nations. However they will return those bonds back to your nation for goods. You are then stuck with pieces of paper. So If there is nothing solid backing your currency, then you have to raise the price of domestic goods. This does not have to be the case . The Germans figured this out. Hjalmar Schlact and Fritz Reinhardt were geniuses. Labor is the greatest asset. You do not need money, to extrapolate natural resources. Nor to use labor to make them into war machines. This is the greatest lie ever told on planet earth. The truth is the bankers created both World wars. The problem was the head Nazi ideology. They blamed everything on the Jews. War brings out the worst in humanity. The Nazis saw if they were going down, they were taken the Jews with them. This is what is sad about the Holocaust. This is why the Holocaust is parallel with the war. Because There was no killing of Jews before WW2. Believe me, I am not defending the Nazis actions. It was not a Nazi, but a German banker who created this economic system. Hitler tried to take the credit, and this is why the nation thought he was a Messiah. The Nazi ideology should be condemned. However the German economic policies of 1933 should become the standard for the nations of the earth.
@@lorrainefrost6285 you probably got Reinhard Heydrich. Fritz Reinhardt. Hjalmar Schact has three good books called confessions of a wizard, the stabilization of the mark, and the end of reparations.
Thank you very much, Lawrence, for these "Current Events with Noam Chomsky" videos.
I have five questions about the multiverse theory (Super Membranes and Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity)
Do the Supermembranes have different physical laws?
Do some Supermembranes have a positive cosmological constant? The third question
Do the Supermembranes need additional theories and models in order to link them to the three theories (The Higgs boson, supersymmetry, and quantum mechanics)?
Can the (Super Membranes and Eleven-Dimensional Supergravity) theory explain the appearance of dark energy after the formation of stars and galaxies? The fifth question about the differences in the physical constants between the (Supermembranes )
How are different physical laws formed in multiple membranes?
We ask physicists to use appropriate theories to develop (super-branes) In order to extract the predictions of the developed theory of membranes and in order to explain the Big Bang theory without the need for branes to collide and cosmic inflation.
Send these requests as well as the five questions to theoretical physicists
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@@user-iy1su8wc8r Lawrence Krauss is a sex offender.
And he hasn’t been cancelled?
Moral decline.
Total societal collapse coming soon.
A courageous and necessary antidote to the incessant spin.Long may you run Mr Chomsky.
And when he does die, let another of equal knowledge and clarity continue his work. We need people like him
It is incredible how naive this guy is. He thinks we should give money, reparations and "humanitarian support" to the Afghans. As if that country has any capacity to distribute vasts amount of money fairly. He also condemns Trump supporters who will treat refugee's poorly with racist slander...as if that is worse then getting your wife and daughter raped and murdered by a begrudged Taliban member. His moral compass is completely jaded.
@@skelestache7281 Care to suggest someone similar?
I want Noam to live 200 years :(
Lol
At least 200yrs
It will be a REAL loss when he leaves us
He looks and sounds as though he HAS lived for 200 years!!!
I mean, love me some Noam, but DANG! I thought he was gonna pass out in the middle of talking like 20 different times! 😅
Socialists are bad get it, old socialists are also bad
@@riverside321 Yeah very solid thinking you got there boy
Chomsky is always very open, clearheaded honest, and objective when describing an event because he sees things in historical context.
and 92 yrs old. Incredible.
Truth well told.
@@batandball617 Always.
His has a pure heart, unlike the US politicians are just evil inside out.
Except for Israel, when he conveniently forgets thousands of years of history, but ok...
It seems amazing how sharp Chomsky's mind still is at 92 years old.
Its amazing at 92 years of age Chomsky still hasn't come to the realisation that the game is fixed .
@Chopin Chopin . I've read and listened to plenty of his work . The man is a Jesuit .
@Chopin Chopin , anybody with half a brain can see that the situation in Afghanistan has been manufactured , the people behind Biden want this to happen . Chomsky would become an outcast amongst his peers if he dared saying anything that hit too close to home .
@@rickydavison6894 You do know that Chomsky wrote "Manufacturing Consent", right? Also, your last line gave you away as being anti-intellectual and conspiratorial.
@@somedudeok1451 did it ?
As ever, a thoughtful, reasoned response that breaks down something as complex as this in a way a layman can understand. Always wonderful hearing Chomskys insights.
I consider one thing is not said openly. Are we ashamed of our offensive wars or not? (Afghanistan, Iraq etc.) If we are, we could act in different way, more moraly in current & future circumstances. I'm putting that question from Poland, one of the countries who were force do go to that wars with States. But the same inquires go back to US.
@@mourdebars My country (Australia), just jumped straight in line with the US. What annoys me though is that even I said this would happen and I was little more than a child. Critics of the war at the time were ridiculed as weak little lefties and of being unpatriotic.
How times change.
Growing up in Australia under Howard, I didn't know what to think of it all at the time. As is often the case, pollies like Howard who, if I recall wasn't too popular at the time, were more than happy to jump head first into a conflict while pushing all the usual right wing platitudes of "freedom" and "liberty." Sadly, you can get away with a lot using that narrative. I'd like to think Australians have wised up and would be more opposed to signing up to such conflicts in future but you never know with these things.
You don't know what you don't know.
Diversity of gods is not a strength it is a recipe for depopulation with the media pitting humans against humans in the name of Gods humans invented from voices humans heard in their human heads.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
On this planetoid/asteroid.
All energy is our solar system cones from and or returns to the galaxies double Toroidal electromagnetic gravitational field.
We are and will be crossing tge center of that em/gravitational field for the next millenia.
Climate Cycles will always be caused by the galactic Milankovitch cycles.
With obliquity, magnetic north regulating global warming/cooling in 4 x 60,000 year cycles.
The 240,000 year rotation of the galactic bulge regulates the intensity of the emp Plasma bursts, Oort cloud comets and global cataclysmic east to west tsunamis.
The 26,000 year Precession-great year-yuga cycles are the one to watch though as it is when we cross the Galaxies Electromagnetic gravitational plane every 13,000 years.
Covid like co2 is a Strawman LIE built upon the INCONVENIENT truth that the Baby BOOMERS who were born enmass 75 years ago are starting to die from the usual suspects of seasonal FLU pneumonia and old age.
The covid1984 mask of the beast to BUY or SELL is a pretext for the covidiot FINAL SOLUTION vaccine.
It takes 10 years to develop a vaccine if you can isolate the virus.
BlM/ALM is a divide and conquer to rule humanity tactic.
Jesus loved All races because there is only one race the HUMAN race with only one minority the individual human.
5G is halfway into the microwave oven range.
Lgbtq, abortion, euthanasia, sterilization, anti children propaganda is the Wests version of China's one child policy Depopulation before the Great Year Resets our water planet with global east to west cataclysmic tsunamis within the next millenia that it takes to cross the Galactic plane.
@@gregorybyrne2453 So? What difference does any of that make? It is all derivative of nature. Your individual will as miniscule or humoungous as you desire and execute. Youre living your life and living that of others, for everything is indeed connected and affected, so is to others, that live the echoes of your life.
What worries you? Is it not all part of the divine master plan of your god in the end?
Everything Chomsky says makes sense. A true humanitarian.
Not everything.
Almost everything he says would make for some really funny satire
@@DailyDriverShort By imbeciles looking for a cheap laugh....
Chomsky would be a better President than the Dementia patient we currently have in office.
@@laturista1000 A stuffed couch would be a better President than we have now. But a West-hating, Islamophile wouldnt be " good" for it either.
This man Noam, was the reason I now have a channel dedicated to truth here on youtube! He was the first man I blessedly came across when i first started tubing. There is no way I could ever be as smart as Noam, but I consider him MY teacher. You have to have a heart of gold and committment to the truth, which is where I eternally connect with this man. I really just want to say goodbye to Noam right now, before I log on and it's too late! Love you Noam.
I came around chomsky in my early 20 s, consider him as a father and as a person who really opened my thinking in the most influential way. I truly love him.
@@konstantinoskostelidis2224I used to think of him as a great man, but he's not the man you imagine him to be. After dealing with Chomsky, I I consider him as a treasonous coward and charlatan hack who doesn't give a damn about you whatsoever. He's all about talk, nothing else and he'd easily sacrifice you, you're nothing to him, we are nothing to him.
@@extrajudiciallytargetedbyUSGOV Dayum, Noam turn you down for a date or something?
@@riffsthatkill2180? l don't worship him and he is a lot less of a good human being than he pretends to be. It's about
Human Rights, you silly. He doesn't give a damn about human rights being violated in America and he is looking the other way fooling those who never dealt with him that he cares. Bad news to gullible millions of his fans, Chomsky will let you get killed easily, even if he could have helped you and many others very, very easily and it would cost him nothing and even make him more famous and really respected and loved for the good reasons. He simply doesn't care.
@@extrajudiciallytargetedbyUSGOV To be fair, it's not hard to understand why you are nothing to him....
We need more Noam in the world.
We are so unbelievably lucky to have this man alive at this moment in history: pandemic, post-Trump, climate crisis, etc. The world is going through a major transition. To have him around offering some perspective as we enter into total chaos is a gift.
I imagine people read books largely because they don't have their own imagination...
AGREED!
The only perspective he has is America is guilty of everything
I take chaos not as a given, but as something that happens when people give up. Till then lets try to get it right.
@@thinkpanzer6690 I know - Chomsky should just shut up about facts and start pushing American tribalism too, the same as you. Sadly for you though, the majority of US tribes just got their arse handed to them on a plate by the Taliban, who clearly outgunned their highly armed US counterparts and their cronies in the tribal stakes. They've had many hundreds of years more practice at this game.
Thanks so much for sharing this interview with the man. Chomsky will be 93 years old this coming december, wow. Sad to think that one of these days he won't be around anymore. God knows we need more great and fearless thinkers. Viva Noam Chomsky.
4:03 "Both of us have the big advantage over the government, that we don't get intelligence reports, so we're not misled about what's happening."
Damn Noam, brutal baby.
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Crazy yet so true. Unlike decision makers in the white house, we are not constantly fed biasing 'intel' into the ear by agencies. That would certainly have an effect on anybody. In that circumstance, can't imagine it's easy for Biden to ever think clearly and simply state that we need to do what's in the best interest of Afghanis, and not US imperialism.
Ironic that the CIA was originally started many years ago to provide real info to the President as opposed to the politicised stuff previously given
I wish he was my grandad. The chats would've been amazing at family parties 😀
Dr. Chomsky is not only prescient, he is also focused on the essential. It is the US that must find its own soul in all of this. If it ever did.
what soul ?
@@alialias3913 It's a metaphor, try not to take it literally or else things are going to be messy.
Pretty sure we sold it at inception
The US has its soul. You just don’t like it.
Soul? 😂😂😂 Semantically language with no solution offered…
I wish these conversations reached more people instead of the finger pointing we get in the corporate media. Thanks for this, we desperately need discussions such as these.
Perhaps the best discussion so far about Afghanistan. Thanks for sharing it.
Glad he’s still around!
"We need to bring civilized values to the United States and Canada."
Truth.
Somebody please bring them freedom and democracy 😆
Freedom starts from within. Autonomous self rule. Self reliance. Self responsibility. In other words, grow your garden and in it; plant the seeds of anarchy.
Yeah values like we have in North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and China!!! Live free or die!!! Chomsky is a commi that defends the most corrupt and bloody regimes.. he does not believe and freedoms and liberties..
Cardi B is the opposit3 of civilized yet Noam Chosnky has no qualms woth her
@@nothanks6549 the values exist in many people within the population. They just aren't in power. They do not have to be imported from some other model country. No country is perfect and really lives up to the ideals they pretend to value.
I still wish, some how some way, a conversation between Noam Chomsky and Thomas Sowell could happen before we lose one of those two legends.
Thomas Sowell would destroy Chomsky’s arguments with ease.
What is something Tom Sowell offers that you wouldn't have heard from Chomsky (i think nothing too much). What is something Chomsky offers that you wouldn't have heard from Sowell...yeah, quite a long list, no? Sowell is a nice and smart fella and all, but doesn't have much of anything to say to an otherwise educated person...Sowell is kind of a sophist in my view dodging reality (similar to his mentor Friedman) even though he purports to tackle serious issues on race and poverty/economics, but it's not very serious :)
Thomas Sowell? He does not even come close to Noam Chomsky! What are you thinking 🤔
@@sarahjackson6714 shew fly....smh
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Thx Noam. Always value for hearing
noam chomsky is amazing - his lucidity at his advanced age is astounding!
i hope also to be this present mentally when im 96
As always, the old gentleman speaks with the force of clarity and truth.
I think he is delusional on this topic. But who am I, just a footnote in his work.
HA ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . Talk is cheap, especially coming from an insignificant like Chomper.
@@oldmanofcotati oh dear, the irony
@@Simon-xi8tb you're really the delusional one. Sad thing you have access to the internet to spread Ur foolishness
@@Simon-xi8tb You flatter yourself...
El genial Noam Chomsky. Uno de los más extraordinarios pensadores de la humanidad.
Important discussion, thank you.
Hearing Chomsky is hearing the truth. Thank you Lawrence.
Cult of personality?
Thank you Dr. Lawrence for this insightful interview
@Maria Sintra time to get back on your meds lady.
Everytime i listen to this master I understand how much one would have to read and read just to maybe come close to what Chomsky represents in terms of knowledge and we all know what he talks about is solid because he has been forshadowing the future for decades now.
Noam's IQ is probably 350. The guy is a super genius, and very a moral person. It's sad that most people are listening to dumb people like Trump and Bush, but don't listen to people like Noam.
*and write. Abundant reading is absolutely necessary but writing does wonders for comprehension and applicability of knowledge.
Nice bootlicking, man:)
@@BanjoSick that's not bootlicking. Reflect on your own issues, don't cast them on others.
Check his family history, so he is the result of 2 generation knowledge
the Noam oasis in a vast expanse of meaningless dust. Thank you for this and the thoughtful interview.
Sending school materials over bombs was as right then as it is now and maybe the most brilliant thing you’ve ever said -and you’ve said a lot of brilliant things.
not really. Talibans would just burn it
@@Simon-xi8tb Who would ever want anything from the American education system.
Look what the results are
@@SuperMikado282 was going to say the same thing. We don't need to indoctrinate these people. We need to let them be.
They should have built roads, hospitals, schools, etc... But they were busy figuring out how to gain money from US tax payers.
May both of you live long and happily and enrich humanity with your scientific investigations. Your discourses has been very constructive.
Bravo, Lawrence 👏🏻
Most interesting chat, thank you both.
Excellent. Thank you. 🕊️❤️🌹
Thanks for this conversation
Excellent update
Noam Chomsky clued me into life during the Ronny Raygun living nightmare / Iran-Contra etc. and has kept me up to date since then.
I bet you liked gill-scott heron, too :)
@@kevincolwell9575 You win a prize, I do!
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Thank you very much Noem and Lawrence.. We need more people like you! And as you said I also wish that the awareness of the people will raise so that we stand together to avoid this wars.
Great series!
Nice discussion.
I love it when Dr. Krauss has Noam Chomsky on.
I was surprised to find out Chomsky had a major contribution towards computer science too with the Chomsky grammar. I assume every undergrad CS student has to learn the Chomsky grammar at some point.
My regards and respect to you from Australia.
This was superb. I love both these guys! Many thanks and peace!
Always nice to hear from Gandalf when he returns from his long hermit solitude and meditation
I remember studying language in grad school and reading about Chomsky’s ideas about the “language acquisition device” and grammatical “deep structures”. My mind was blown.
Great insights from a great man. No to sanctions on the Afghan people.
No to any sanctions. Especially the one that landing from Cuban-American diaspora (Florida senators), for their home country.
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Idiotic view. Very limited.
@@foxp3769 The only thing idiotic is thinking sanctions will have any effect besides pushing Afghanistan further towards China. China will step in if the US decides to punish Afghanistan for winning the war and the US will lose further influence in the region.
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China has already made inroads in Afghanistan.
What a legend. So enviable that his mind is still glowing with power at 92 when my mom's been a vegetable since 60...
This is great. Loving the new opening titles.
Thanks, Lawrence and Noam!
nice to see my beloved Gandalf Noam, love from Saudi
"Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it. But those who do learn from history, are condemned to watch helplessly while those who do not learn from history are repeating it."
Leave them alone! That's what you can do for the Afghan people. They've had enough "help" from America to last them several lifetimes...
You are absolutely right, leave the afghan alone, don't bomb directly or indirectly.
C'mon, doncha know? That's America's job - free the world to death. They're so good at it many of them even do it to themselves.
Yes - if only the AntiImperialist League had prevailed over McKinley and Roosevelt and had therefore been the predominant influence that “cast the foreign policy template” at the turn of the 19th & 20th century..
Then so much needless misery and death could have been avoided and “US Imperialism” would never have become a loathsome norm.
Oh well . . .
Pay attention to Dr Chomsky. He’s not long for this planet. I love you Noam
Great talk..
Mr. Noam Chomsky's personality lets us imagine the ideal character of ancient masters, dedicating entire life to teaching and learning, and making the right use of intellect by being truthful despite having tremendous opportunities to work for global rulers and make a great fortune.
Best wishes professor Chomsky.
I love these conversations and recognize their importance yet always feel depressed that they are futile
Thank you
Noam Sir !!! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge with us … your books made me realise knowledge is the key to being free…knowledge is POWER
What are you blathering on about
Grandad Noam still going strong.
Lawrence, it looks like you are sitting there with a Kalashnikov ! Oh, it's a mic stand ! 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you.
When is Noam going to go full wizard and start wearing a robe everywhere?
Probably after he enters his second century.
I am now “Noam the White”.
Haaaahaaaahaha… 😵 I’m dyin… “full wizard”… classic! 🧙♀️
Thanks Lawrence. Always good to hear you two talk
I would rather hear the conversations he had with Epstein
Gandalf the Grey
thank you
I have just watched this podcast I normally do not listen to this person but I have to say I enjoyed listening to what the old man has had to say so I do thank you for doing this well done maybe we can work together to try to make the world a better place to live together
The "old man" is Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant people on the planet, I would definitely recommend looking into him.
@@Moosup_cinematheque thank you for that information yes certainly I shall watch more of this gentleman’s views to learn more, you may agree with me or disagree with me there nearly 3 billion people belonging to only two groups on earth I belong to one of them and amongst multiple differences that divide us one that burns the most in ones life is the speech that is of someone in near past of axis of evil followed by in the same speech the words which consist of The crusader, well history did not teach the crusaders much. with love we will share our plate, with force you will conquer but not sustain stability untill every one of the Crusader has left or Dissolved within, t b c if like minded
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Noam is looking a little rough. I hope he's with us for a couple more years at least.
Why? He doesn't give a shit about you or the U.S.
He is very old, but at least he still seems quite coherent, even if a lot slower than before.
@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn Actually he thinks more about you than those who claim to. I've watched him for so long, that even I think about you lot all the time and the suffering quote of Bertrand Russell. That's what happens when you talk about real moral issues all the time.
@@JohnJohnson-mo4bn hahah you've clearly not read anything he's written.
Hes spent half his life tirelessly and passionately advocating a better deal for Americans in health care, education and employment.
You hear a criticism of US foreign policy, scream " 'Muricaaa" and throw your toys out.
I personally think that the big beard ages him more. I don't think that he'll look that rough with a shaved beard.
22:55 Exactly this. And furthermore this is how we should think about our involvement in other conflicts. Our conduct in Vietnam for example was was beyond appalling. The conversation around Agent Orange almost always starts with Veterans health issues after the fact. How about the millions of helpless Vietnamese?
Exactly.
I think our conduct was well within the definition of appalling. In fact, the leaders of that era took special pains to ensure that their convict did not go beyond appalling.
Noam is a remarkable human being, one of which the world needs more of. His ability to analyze complex problems in simple humanitarian terms is admirable. Quick story told third hand. A university professor once told a story about a human rights activist who was so despondent that he wanted to talk to Noam, a man whom he had never met. Turns out Noam's name was in the phone book and he picked up the phone when called. Noam spent 30 minutes talking to a stranger, not only to talk him off the ledge but to encourage and restore empowerment in someone whose heart was in the right place. This man is a legendary figure.
The Americans just don’t do ‘hearts and minds’ very well… not necessarily the individual troops on the ground, but definitely the leadership… Cheney’s Folly
Whenever a big event takes place like this one, I always wonder what Chomsk (thats what I call him) has to say about it.
Chompers
Me too
i always start with searching on youtube Chomsky on (insert subject here)
Nice one, Lozza.. Great interview, thanks for the quick upload.
Cheers, Noam. I was hoping for that. Thank you both, guys.
I love you Lawrence 👍🏽 my intellectual hero. Thank you 🙏!
Love Chomsky! Wish he could be around forever!
Fortunately that’s impossible
@@llaurita2 Unfortunately* just fixing your typo
Fortunately this scumbag is working on his last tier.
@@stephenrohaim382 fortunately people like you are very rare
@@weirdsideofyoutube9547 Is it something in the drinking water that made them so dumb?
Thank you. 👁❤️🇨🇦
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I'm grateful to you to for this, as it's awalys good to hear from Chomsky. I hope you don't mind a little constructive observation, but I think it would pay you to think about how to formulate your questions, and particularly to think about shortening and clarifying them.
i actually appreciate a organic conversation, this is not a professional interviewer.
I take your point, each to his own, for sure. I guess I was just finding it a bit hard to follow at times.
I wish it wasn’t so rare to see TH-cam comments this measured and polite, but not surprised seeing as it’s on a Chomsky/Krauss video
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You gotta love Noam Chomsky. Still going strong at 92!
Thanks -
New thoughts just dropped!
Did anyone really expect a different outcome? This was always the way it was going to turn out.
@Joseph Bethnal ..... you lost your brain on the battle field? Usa didnt withdraw..... it fled
Lawrence Krauss has a podcast now!?!?!?! This makes me so happy!
good stuff
A truly remarkable genius and an honest soul.
Meanwhile in the mainstream media, The Economist publishes Henry Kissinger’s thoughts as if that’s who we need to hear from at this time.
Well yes, it is interesting to see what people, who were in positions of power, have to say about the outcome of policies they supported at time of implementation.
Not a fan of the man, mind you, but still thankful for the Economist to let people explain themselves, so that we as readers can draw our own conclusions.
The intellect,insight, humanity & wisdom of this man should be on the level of a present day god.
Unfortunately we hv a problem with truth.
I think Noam is fundamentally confused. Americans by and large wanted out of Afghanistan because we want to focus on bettering America domestically. Proposing that we spend MORE tax money on Afghanistan is completely out of touch with even the farthest left voters. Noam's suggestion that we should funnel MORE money through the Taliban that will supposedly be distributed fairly to Afghan citizens on humanitarian grounds is completely insane.
@@danielm5161 The $$ he's speaking of belongs to Afghanistan. Its just being held hostage by American controlled institutions.Mostly for leverage,control or downright blackmail. Only real question is. Who gets $$ & who has control. If they release this billions of dollars to Taliban & not soveriegn Afghan Gov't we would technically be financing a major terrorist organization. And the cycle WILL continue.
Mr. Chomsky might be ancient but he's rarely confused.
@@khunigan Noam specifically mentioned "Reparations", presumably that will come from the American tax payer in one form or another. That is what I was referring to. To your point, I think you offered a good rebuttal to Noam here. Noam spends minutes on end criticizing America for freezing Afghan money and then spends 3 seconds glossing over your second point there, namely that he is effectively suggesting that America fund terrorist organizations (which ironically he also condemns America for).
@@danielm5161 I do remember the "reparations reference". I just don't recall the context. It is possible. I hope it doesn't mean more $$ out of my pocket. Funny how he does hv a way of pointing out both perspectives. Neg or pos.
P. S. Thanks for not coming back with some idiotic bs. Nice to know people still hv use of their cognitive functions. 😆
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yes my guy keep having noam on
If you break it, it's yours. Such a fitting metaphor. And regarding sending school materials rather than bombs, "The pen is mightier than the sword". Thank you for helping to bring Noam's intellect to the public.
Carter should have said that in 1980!
We wouldn’t be anywhere NEAR here now.
Not much money to be made by selling pens and paper, metaphorically speaking of course.
There was almost zero pushback against the taliban .I guess that is what most afghans want.
At this point it's a lesser evil to them, the devil they know. At least they won't have drones terrorizing them.
Maybe the afghans knew that the ”training” they recieved from the americans wouldn’t be enough; plus, doesn’t the scenes afterwards, from the airport to the streets empty of women, show that the may know something about the taliban worth pushing back on if they had the means?
‘Most of the trillions of dollars spent in Afghanistan comes back right here(in US) and the amount spent on Afghan people is very small percentage of that’.
This simple sentence tell us all about US failure in Afghanistan. Had the United States spent that money on Afghan people rather than on military hardware and contractors the outcome of this 20 year long war would have been different.
I love Noam’s mind. He’s a National treasure. Thank you.
Could we get a source for the records Chomsky talking about at 14:50? I'm very curious. Not because I don't take his word for it, it just sounds like it could be an interesting deep dive.
I am an anarchist and habitually agree with Chomsky, but again here, one of his major flaws is ALWAYS to only focus on the ''Evil american empire'' (and I truly think that all empires are evil by nature), and NOT on the structural and local struggles in the afghan people not only against USA, but also against the talibans. Only general and uninformed vague little words on the fact that Chomsky ''doesn't like the talibans like he doesn't like a lot of governments and powers'', without a word on :
- The antitaliban resistance Front in the Panjshir Valley (Solidarity with the antitaliban resistance of the National Resistance Front and the people of Panjshir! --- th-cam.com/video/tdKUvnPk66w/w-d-xo.html ). It's not true that all the northern alliance has surrender to the talibans.
- the Anarchist Union of Iran and Afghanistan and its opposition to the talibans.
- all the ethnic peoples, minorities, other than the Pashtuns, that are all against talibans. Not without saying that even among the Pashtuns there is a strong opposition to the ''Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'' wanted by the talibans etc.
- same with artists, women etc. and even in the afghan people in general. It is not true that we don't have reliable data concerning the actual support for the talibans in the afghan people. We just have to consult for example the books and reports of the journalist and expert on Afghanistan Ahmed Rashid ( th-cam.com/video/tkk2NMsxVkE/w-d-xo.html ) etc.
To only focus on the USA and the West is detrimental to all the civil groups and antitaliban resistance like the Antitaliban Resistance Front that proposed concrete solutions like the foundation of a new structural type of government, a federation, rather than a concentrated government power localised in Kabul (or Kandahar) etc.
We could, pragmatically, use the current situation of the West trying to ''save the furnitures'' to put pressure for West to support the democratic pro-federation antitaliban resistance of the Panjshir Valley and his public figures like Ahmed Massoud that asked last week in the Washington Post support in weapons, ammunitions and food to protect the Valley and continue to welcome refugees (women, human right activists, ethnic minorities etc.) from all over the country. That is an example of a good ally in the region etc.
It's sad that Chomsky didn't tell a single word on these local opponents of the talibans and their struggles and THEY surely not blame ENTIRELY and ONLY the USA and the West for the situation in their country, talibans are to blame too with their support from Pakistan government (see the critic of Amrullah Saleh), Qatar and Saudi Arabia (I know that Saudi Arabia is a USA ally, but they are free will moral agents too) for examples ...
This information you provide needs to be published far more widely. I try to keep up with what is happening - but I was not aware of the information you provide here. (Thank you!)
@@carladehaas7866 Thank you! Feel free to spread the info.
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I love Noamy enough to bring up the point that we also need to examine what he says just as much as what everyone else says. If he has taught me anything, it is dont believe blindly and questionEVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
Hi Prof.L.Krauss. " nice to see nice to hold once broken considered sold"...
Thankfully you are still with us Mr Chomsky.
A voice of true democracy in knowledge. Love You .
A voice of true democracy? That validates how amazing living in a place where freedom of speech is protected by the constitution. I would love to see this man living in Iran, Cuba, N Korea, Russia, or China how contrarian he would have been to those regimes criminal policies towards their own people. Two probably outcomes: He would have part of the regime or he would have been dead long time ago.
@@LeonelMartinez-kw9vq beautifully said.
People like Leonel speaks as if Chomsky hasn't reiterated times and times again that exact thing. He speaks on his country because that's his main responsibility. And the role of a intellectual is to fight the suppression of their own country. Why would one "love to see him live in Iran, Cuba" if in America is where he does his best work? Are you implying he is on the side of those countries? That would be very armchair-ish and comical.
@@elderlyoogway no respect for that man. He stands behinds bloody, criminal regimes, while hiding and sucking the benefits of living in a free country. I know I’m bias against that man. He was defending the dictator that was torturing me while the US was trying to help.
@@LeonelMartinez-kw9vq Chomsky never defended dictators, that's just misinterpretation of too polarized people. He's again and again, against atrocities to human rights, and he points to America's actions in comparison to its enemies, as a way to condemn both in their actions and call out hypocrisy, not to give a pass to any.
Suppose the U.S. had skipped the first Iraq/Kuwait war, and then ended our involvement in the Middle East. We would not have been a target of al Qaeda, and the 9/11 attacks would not have happened. The war in Afghanistan and the second Iraq war would not have happened.
Thats isolationist position. Rest of the non muslim world is glad that US didnt take this view.
@@akshayrathore2882 Absolute rubbish.
@@SuperMikado282 Look at it this way. We were supporting Northern alliance long before american invasion of afghanistan.
@@akshayrathore2882 Perhaps the USA should learn to mind its own business in future, instead of everyone else's.
The USA homeland is in desperate straights.
Yet the USA continues to interfere everywhere, in Countries and Cultures it knows nothing about because it never takes the trouble to inform itself.
American superiority and exceptionalism.
The scourge of this planet since 1945.
An obtuse country that never learns from it's dreadful errors of judgment
@@SuperMikado282 By we I didnt mean Americans. I am not citizen of united states.