the full story of the more people. interested always in the lives and how. nice it. chaunced am i a family at mit and i think. any more my boy and he were activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation as does this one of the national

leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the d.p. is a professor of linguistics who before he was forty is opened to transform the nature of his subject. you are identified with a new lens whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. your time scale. is wasted in anybody's catalogue among the half dozen top girls of the new left. the standard he achieved by adopting over the past two or three years a series of adamant. projects at least american foreign policy most itself. budgeted this notion. but an interesting. session is to tell. you. used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels

going to me or the corruption of the italian state and so on than a cold area ten six they were cold and it ten people would collapse in laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation in the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian . no it's true that in just about every society the critics are maligned. were mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like in so it unions they will be imprisoned. in a us dependency like el salvador at the same time his counterparts have their

brains blown out by a u.s. run state terrorist worse than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone and in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and there's a couple of others like you know more cases there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states you have a very high degree of freedom and so if you're vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work and you these concepts only arise in a culture where if you criticize state power and when i state i mean. we're generally not just government but state corporate power if you criticize concentrated power you're against the society you're against the people it's quite strict in there is used in the united states for and the only democratic society with the concept isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the. culture which are the great the glee.

the american dream mike many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the one nine hundred fifty s. and sixty's it was in the biggest growth period in that american economic history.

gold made. it was pretty gala tarion growth so the lowest fifth of the population was improving about as much as the upper fifth. and there were some welfare state measures which improved life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. black worker to get a decent jobs children go to school and so on and the same across the board. when the u.s. was. primarily a manufacturing center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raised the salary of his workers who would be able to buy cars. when you're moving into an international. plutonic me is the mancs like to call it

blue small percentage of the world's population that's gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers that have much less concern because most of them aren't going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. your goals or profit in next quarter or even it if it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the a wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well there's a term coming into use for them too and they're called the precariat. precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives . and it's related to the attitude toward the country all together. during the period of great growth of the economy fifty's and sixty's but in fact

earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher simply taxes on wealth for much rare the tax system has been redesigned of so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed ponderingly the tax burden on the rest of the populations increased. now the shift is towards trying to keep taxes a just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the rich. the numbers are.

pre-strike you. know there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isn't any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. if you're an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now it's almost absurd and corporations have money coming out of their pocket. so in fact general electric are paying zero taxes and they have enormous profits let's take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. the major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the

population. with a master's you're only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is i got a way for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but it is devastating for everyone else. and it's taken a lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads.

and we see it today in policy for a major for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity saw terry care and i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. for much of the population that's what they serve iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system first defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. privatizing some system. we see it in the attack on public schools and public schools are based on the

principle of solidarity. i no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school. you know that's normal human emotion and it drives it out of people's heads i don't have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. the public education system all the way from kindergarten to higher education is under severe attack i mean that's one of the jewels of american society. go back to the golden age in the great chris period the fifty's and sixty's still to the second world war was the g.i. bill right which enabled veterans remember that's

a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got free education where in communities date or nation regularly invest a substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned in better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing extensive mass public interest nation at every level. but now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from two issues not from the state that's a radical change and that's a terrible burden on students and it means that students if they don't come from very wealthy families they're going to leave college with big debt and if you would think that you're trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a public interest lawyer but you're going to have to go into a corporate law firm to pay off those debts and by the time you're part of the culture you know you're not going to get out of it again and that's true cross the

border. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next that the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to stay in the home field where everything is. amelia on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising people and i saw one not that you think. i'm going to talk about football not three or else you think i was going to do. by the way ways if it's like here. you'll find me go oh then shots few begin murders calls all life. not like their parents not like them liberals. the blacks are always drug school again you always have problems

but you are going to focus a lot is the most ubiquitous gun out there most police departments use it almost every stores in the school tell that they could get their hands on thomas in twenty four hours. through it teach nice kids about racism about police brutality taking kreider and they are these kids are a part of all history. in

the one nine hundred fifty s. it's a much poorer society. but nevertheless could easily and will centrally free mass higher education and today a much richer society claims dozen of the resources for. that said just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the general attack on the principles that and that i mean not only are they humane they're the basis of the prosperity and health of this society.

if you look over the history of regulation say the railroad regulation financial regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly it's it's either initiated by the economic. concentrations that are being regulated or it's supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. and it ends up with what's called regulatory capture. the business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of financial regulation gets to that

extreme. and that's been happening through history and again it's a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. one of the things that expanded enormously in the one nine hundred seventy s. is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business world was pretty upset by the advances in a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not too will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration you get the consumer safety legislation safety and health regulations in the workplace the e.p.a. the environmental protection agency. business didn't like it of course they didn't like that taxes. they didn't like the regulation and they began

a coordinated effort to try to overcome a. lobbying sharply increase deregulation began with the rule ferocity. there were no financial crashes in the fifty's and the sixty's because the regulatory apparatus of the new deal was still in place. as a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. to get more and more crashes. and it goes on through the years. seventy's sort of starts begin. eighty's really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the auto companies about the wan and one half billion dollars all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to rescue so it takes

a break and instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bill out of american history at the time that he ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a family didn't really understand it in a diary saving a fair lady and hundred ninety nine regulation worse dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. and then come see bush and then obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citigroup fannie mae and freddie macin asked for a total at green million dollars more to say aloud could get much bigger billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. and they're building up the next term.

b. each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out of those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. in a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want to capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as they're in trouble and get billed a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no will or it's economic sue them and others none of them were even approached the people picked and sex croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then

what do you expect to happen. meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail don't expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neo liberalism and it's has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. and nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed she's going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate this status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash. which means that the beneficiaries of these credit ratings

like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that's what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect. a. concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major corporations. the

citizens united this was january two thousand and nine i guess that's a very important decisions prim court decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. of fourteenth amendment has a provision that says no person's rights can be infringed without due process of law. and the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok they've got the protection of the law i don't think it's ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights can't be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. corporations are state created legal fictions. maybe they're

good maybe they're bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the twentieth century. as they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say general motors invests in mexico they get national rights the rights of the mexican business well the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the fourteenth amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building their buildings clear lawns and so on they're not persons . but general electric is a person. an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the.

elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law it's quite incredible. in the one nine hundred seventy s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the first value then you won through the years to citizens united which says that the right of free speech of corporations namely spend as much money they want can't be curtailed. take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. very interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c.b.s. is given freedom of speech there are court. why shouldn't general electric be free

to spend as much when it is they want. i mean it's true that c.b.s. is given freedom of speech but they're supposed to be performing a public service that's why that's what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. to incredible decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of the vicious cycle the supreme court justices are put in by reactionary presidents who get in there because they're funded by business and that's the way the cycle works. as an officer and then when toyota to get up off the ground the officer began to pat him down. and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man

missing essentially the officer in the back up and he threw his john in the road squeezed it away from the officer. out of his crib. he obviously did a kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and it would have been done she swung at godfrey stations didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the answer is back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer hold his gun in a bit on three. you know if i can say that i own for example all the brooklyn bridge and i and i sell a bond against the brooklyn bridge and i sell a billion dollar multibillion dollar bond against the brooklyn bridge twelve actually somebody's going to come in they say ok we'll deliver them the brooklyn bridge and i say why can't i have a deed just like in the two thousand a subprime crisis there were no deeds for the houses that goldman sachs package says collateralized markets obligations and then sold into the question mark and

then the wholesale derivatives market where they didn't have the deed they were just making stuff up by pulling rabbits out of their hat and selling that as a yielding security to pension funds but there's nothing fair. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i want. a shot i had to get up on it so today. this was one of. the most of it i was. positive it was just.

you know it down so yeah it was never a second how names have risen and how much that you don't need to do the passage you know for isn't and never was never punished by now. he's even prime minister lashes out at social media platforms for failing to stop the spread of video of last friday's mass shooting at mosques. put the issue of media. control its content up for debate. now listen soccer bergdahl me a paper if you see somebody shooting and killing people shut it down you're talking about keeping people willfully blinded from these things willfully blind but you're not talking about prevention how will this prevented. mayhem once again the speaker

of the house and i was blocked the third vote planned to leave the e.u. substantial changes of.