and with that kind of revving up of anger against obama, obama in tallahassee that day, your thoughts? >> i think it is very clear that he uses this rhetoric of violence and confrontation and his language is deeply dehumanizing. it is dehumanizing to people of color, immigrants, and women.

dehumanizing language is the first step to the humiliation, degradation, and eventually violence that we see against people. there is no disconnecting the language and rhetoric that is being used by the president from the violence that we're seeing, the high, emotional tone of our political life. -- know, i think to subject suggest, as is often the case from the white house, that there is no responsibility or no connection between the words and the actions that we are seeing is misleading, to say the least. amy: soraya chemaly, thank you for being with us, longtime writer, feminist, activist has a new book out called "rage becomes her: the power of women's anger." she is also director of the women's media center speech project. i just want to end with the words of the rabbi in pittsburgh who greeted president trump, the many felt he should not go to

pittsburgh last week after the shooting, in a short speech, sermon on saturday. rabbi jeffrey meyers blamed politicians for a rise in hateful rhetoric saying "it led to the massacre at the synagogue last week in which 11jews were slain worshiping, consider the worst anti-semitic attack on u.s. soil in history. hebi myers said that delivered the message personally to president trump and first they visitedwhen the synagogue. he said "i said to him, mr. president, hate speech leads to hateful actions also hate speech leads to what happened to my sanctuary were seven of my congregants were slaughtered. i witnessed it with my eyes." his is democracy now! we will be bk with nm chsky in a moment. ♪ [ [musibreak]

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peace report. i'm amy goodman. with the u.s. midterm elections a day away, we continue our conversation with the world renowned linguist, dissident and author noam chomsky. democracy now!'s nermeen shaikh and i interviewed him from tucson, arizona, where he now teachehes at the university of arizona. noam chomsky is also institute professor emeritus at the massachusetts institute of technology where he has taught for 50 years. during part one we plalayed on friday, noam chomsky talked about what is at stake in tomorrow's midterm elections. >> so is it the most greatest moment in my life? yes, but also in all of human history. and things like the election will have an impact on this. amy: during our conversation on thursday, , i asked professor chomomsky to outline some of the issues he thinks should be followed most closely. of the domestic policies of the trump administration? they are very straightforward. s on the rich,

powerful, corporate sector and try to undermine and destroy anything that might be of benefit to the general population. that is quite explicitly what is happening before our eyes. so take the legislative achievement that the republican party is most proud of, their , as joseph stiglitz described it, the donor relief plan of 2017. it is an enormous gift to wealth, corporate power, including real estate interests, incidentally. enormous gift. and it has the secondary the republican

leadership was quick to point out, it has the adadvantage e of creating a huge deficit which can be used as a pretext for getting rid of social spending. u.s. social spending is already very meager by wororld standard. thee down at the bottom of oecd, the 30 rich countries, along with greece and turkey in benefit spending. but there is something there, so let's get rid of it. medicaid, which goes to the undeserving poor. let's undermine the social peopley, which working just rely on for survival. lavishause we have to gifts on the superrich and ensure the corporations have profits bulging ouout of their eaears.

pretext foror the tax s scam was s that it was gog to sharply increase investment. that was pretty outlandish to start with. and the corporations already have just overflowing with profits and wealth. and predictably, did nothing of the sort. those are the domestic programs. then come all of these international horrors that we're talking about. i don't want to suggest that the mainststream democrats are all that better in these respects. somewhat. there is a progressive wave among the sectors of the democratic party that could lead and a much more constructive direction. arethe midterms next week going to have a critical impact , andhow the country goes

given the enormous power and wealth of this country, what happens to the world? amy: and on that issue, you have been extremely critical of democrats. that with this full discussion of whether the house will turn democrat and possibly the senate , do you think it matters? matters.k it yes, we have every reason to be critical of the democrats. these policies the last generation, neoliberal policies that have led to these conditions we have been talking about, the so-called new democrats, the c clinton democrs have been right at the forefront. deregulation of financial institutions, one of clinton's great achievements which led directly to the financial crisis .

along with one of the factors that led to it. his attack on the e welfare program. lots we can blame them for. in fact, i should say that some of the things that trump has praise, aremerit bitterly attacked by the democrats and by the republican h awks. in particular, with regard to korea. the two, last april, koreas, north and south, issued his dork declaration -- historic declaration in which they laid out for the first time fairly detailed plans and moves toward reduction of tension, reconciliation, reduction of weaponry, denuclearization.

very sensible, detailed plans. and they virtually pleaded with the outside world, meaning the united states, not to interfere. what they said is, the two koreasas will proceed with these plans on their own accord.d. in other words, let us do it. trump him and to his credit, has not interfered. the singapore summit for which hisas lambasted, was one of more -- one of his very few admirable achievements. he not only did not intervene, but he even withdrew what he correctly described as provocative u.s.-south korean military operations. well, all of that should be supported. i don't know what his reasons were, maybe ridiculous reasons,

but it doesn't matter. these are moves that should be supported. those are the things for which he is being bitterly attacked. so it is not an entirely, you know, sort of clear issue. nevertheless, overwhelmingly, simply alican party is major threat to not only the country, but to human survival. i have said in the past i think they're the most dangerous organization in human history on the issue of climate change is wortht i think that repeating. amy: world renowned linguist, author, noam chomsky. we will return to our conversation with him in a minute to talk about the threats of nuclear war and climate change. tune in tuesday night for democracy now! live coverage of the midterm elections where we are teaming up with the intercept for the special

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with the world-renowned linguist and dissident noam chomsky. we interviewed him thursday in tucson, arizona, where he now teaches at the university of arizona. i asked him to respond to president trump's recent decision to pull out of the imf, intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that landmarkk nuclear arms pact signed in 1987 andresident ronald reagan macau gorbachev. >> it was an important development. period incall in that the early and mid-1980's, -- this has to do with short range nuclear missiles. they were being installed in had a fewrope, which minutes flight time to moscow. means,think what that the russian detection systems are, first of all the far more primitive than ours, but even

sophisticated -- if they had had sophisticated detection systems, it would have given them barely a few minutes warning before a possible heavy nuclear strike, either the decapitation strike .gainst moscow in the russians were doing the same. they were building short-term missiles in western europe. states.he united this was internal to europe, short-term -- short range missiles. endedthe 1987 imf treaty that extreme peril, sharply reduced it. missiles were reduced and so on. an important step forward. breaking the treaty reinstates that system. now, it was an obvious way to do with the problem, namely, it is called -- it is kind of a bad

word, maybe ought to spell it. it is called diplomacy. the way to do with the problems quite straightforward, do what has not been done as yet, have technical experts frorom both sides and neutral ones investigate the c claims that ae being made by both sides. and then determine if they are valid. and to the extent there are o overcome away to these violations off thehe treay and enfoforce the treatyty even further.r. carry it further. we should be moving toward eliminating nuclear weapons. remember, the new start treaty is coming up for renewal. that is a very important one. new start has led to the sharp reduction of nuclear weapons, by no means anywhere far enough,

but nevertheless, quite significant. trump'sd also recall pulling out of the imf treaty has a precursrsor, namemely, the nuclear cost for review of the trump administration -- which already called for developing a new weapons tactical nuclear weapons, which themselves greatly i increased thehe threaf a possibib war. a target of these -- missiles can't know whether they are conventional or nuclear orr whether r they arehortrt range were much more powerful missiles. you have a few minutes warning time to make these decisions. you look over the history of the nuclear age, and it is

practically iraqi less that we survived -- miraculous s that we survived this far. there has been case after case where we came -- both sides came very close to making a decision to launch nuclear weapons, which it, basically, terminating human civilization. and miracles like that can't go on forever. and enhancing the threat is just beyond insanity. ending the imf treaty not only opens the door for the united states and russia to develop more dangerous lethal weapons, but of course, for others to join in as well. greatly increasing the hazard to all of us. and there are diplomatic options that have not been pursued. and they are the ones -- they are the ones that should be look

at the most, and not v vastly endangerering ourselves and others. trump also brought up the fact that china is not a partner to the imf. it is because of the particular western eurasia, eastern eurasia. so the way to deal with that problem is to bring them into the treaty, not to break the treaty and greatly increase the danger to the world. thehould bear in mind that atomic scientists, which has established since 1947, beginning of the nuclear age, has established the doomsday clock where the minute hand is a certain distance from midnight. midnight means goodbye,

termination of all of us. and 1947, ittng was seven minutes to midnight. it has oscillated up and back ever since. last january after a year of the trump administration it moved to two minutes to midnight. that is the closest it has been to terminal disaster ever, with one exception, 1953. the united states, then the soviet union, exploded thermonuclear weapons we had the means to destroy everything. at that point, the clock did move to two minutes to midnight. it hasn't gone that close to disaster cents. but it did last january. now it is worse. the nuclear posture review, the

thatation since that time the u.s. actually has developed a first-rate potential, which could prevent -- could illuminate any to turn to a first strike, then comes nuclear posture review, which calls for extending the nuclear threat another is latest step. this is a march to disaster, which h is only paralleled by te moves of the administratioion to raise toward the cliff of environmental destruction with eyes open. they know exactly what they are doing. trump himself is a firm believer in global warming, the others as well. but just in order to fill a couple of overstuffed pockets with more dollars, they are willing to threaten the

existence of organized human life. there are just no words to describe these two drives to destruction host of or in fact, describe the fact they are fairly discussed in the eleltoral seasason. these are the two most important issues. amy: we wawant to tuturn to an e you u have written about that so many are so deeply concerned gets any playrdly in this country, even in this critical midterm election, the issue of climate change. noam chomsky, a new study has founund the world has massively underestimated the amount of heat absbsorbed b by our oceans. the paper published in the journal nature has concluded thatat for the past quarter of a century, about 150 times the amount of e ergy used to genetete e elericity globally hahas en dosited into the seseas 60% re than evious estimate

nermeen: this comes days after leading nature all it just issued a dire warning following bolsonaro's went in brazil. he tweeted -- meanwhile in the report issued earlier this week, the world wildlife fund found that human beings have wiped out 60% of all mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles on earth since 1970. this is wwf director. >> what is absolutely c clear, looking at the declines of nature we are currently seeing come as the planet does need to be p put on life support. rightly,y, the solutions we're cocoming up with a merely stickg points.

this is that the point now where is people, we have to mamake a choice. are you going to let this continue or are we going to do something about it? globally at the moment, we are completely failing to tackle the loss on the planet. ou are deeplyy concerned about this issue and you're not alone. climate change, the issue of climate change. >> we can add to the list of your dire warnings as if it weren't her renders an outcome a few more examples. a couple of weeks ago, the ipc i[cc came out with a very ominous report warning that the twod has may be a decade or to basically and its reliance on fossil fuels if we are to have

any hope of controlling the global warming below the level of utter disaster. and that incidentally is a conservative estimate. it is a consensus view. there are e repeatedly, , over e yeyears, it has s been shohown t the ipcc analyses were much less alarmist than they should be. now comes this report in nature that you mentioned a couple of days ago, which shows there has ofn serious underestimate the warming of the oceans. and they conclude that if these results hold of, the so-called carbon budget, the amount of spew and inwe can the atmosphere and still have a survival environment, has to be 25%.ed by about

that is over and above the ipcc report. in the opening up of the amazon to furtherer exploitation will e another serious blow at t the prospects of survival, organanid human society. time,e, the trump admiministration right now is w west u up new areas of the for fracking, fofor increasing e ususe of fossil fuels. you have p probably seen may be discussed one ofof the mosost amazingg documents i i have ever trump department of highway standards, whatever it is called, just issued a long report, 100 page report urging

all regulations on automotive emissions should be ended. and they had a very large uncle argument. they said if we extrapolate current trends by the end of the century, the climate will have warmed to several degrees centigrade -- meaning a huge rise in sea level, which they underestimate. so basically, we're going over the cliff anyway. and automotive emissions really don't add much to this, so there is no point cutting them back. the assumption of the department isthat everyone in the world as criminally insane as we are and isn't going to do anything about it. and on that assumption, yeah, let's just rob while the planet burns.

i can't think of anything like this in human history. you just can't find words to describe it. at thehe peak of the monstrosity is, in fact, the trump administration. we should recall that trump himself, as i mentioned, is a firm believer in global wararmi. recently, he applied to the government of ireland for permission to build a huge wall -- one of his famous walls. this one to protect a golf course of his in ireland, which has -- his plea indicates is threatened by sea level rises as a result of global warming. banks,look at the big j.p. morgan chase and the others. they are increasing their investments in fossil fuel development.

the entergy corporation's are working all over the world to try to find new resources that destroyed the environment. realedia are focusing on outrages like the ludicrous military preparation for this wave of mothers and children planning to invade us and destroy us, concentrating on that, but take a look at their coverage of these things. there was a big report to a long front-page report in "the new york times" a couple of days ago about the opening of the west to further fossil fuel extraction. you cand everything think of. did mention some of the negative consequences like it might harm the water resources. it might make things harder for ranchers. not one phrase in this long

report on the effect of the environment in a political campaign cap going on. all caps of issues are not discussed. but not the two existential ththreats that human beinings f. threats that have never risen in human history. we have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in n any decent form. you can just imagine what the world would be like if the sea level rises, say, 10 or 20 feet or even higher -- within the range easily of predictions. the conseququences are unimaginable. but it is as if we're kind of like the proverbial lemmings. just happily marching off the

cliff, led by leaders who understand very well what they're doing, but are so dedicated to enriching themselves and their friends in the near future, that is sadly doesn't matter what happens to the human species. there is nothing like this in all of human history. there have been plenty of monsters in the past, plenty of them. but you can't find one who is dedicated with passion to destroying the prospectsts for organizezed human life. hitler was h horrible enough. linguist, author noam chomsky. you can visit our website for part one of the interview where he talks about u.s. foreign policy in latin america, the migrant caravan, the crisis in gaza, and the white supremacist attack on the pittsburgh synagogue. tune in tuesday night for democracy now! live coverage of the midterm elections, teaming

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