you know what is it doesn't you know. norm chance am i unfairly at mit and i think. any former have a war activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation why does does is one of the national leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the d.p.'s does a professor of linguistics who before he was forty is also a transformed the bishop assumption. you are identified with

a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. has a lot of times. and is listed in anybody's catalog among the app doesn't top euros of the new left. this dandy achieved by adopting over the past two or three years a series of adamant. project at least american foreign policy at most america itself. budget this nation. but an interesting one so she has to tell terry. it is used in tree societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels going to me. state and someone holding.

fics they were called india today and people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. in totalitarian states the notion to use so in the old soviet union dissidents were called anti so via that was the worst condemnation. of the present in military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian. or mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like in soviet union say they will be imprisoned. in the u.s. 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 that 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 other who cares to go on to your work anyway 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 in effect i think for another the only democratic society where the concert isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the leading culture which are the point 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. american economic history. gold paint. it was pretty go at carrion 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 job in an auto plant. get a core of 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 a is the max like call it a little small percentage of the world's population that's a gathering increasing wealth what happens to american consumers a much less a 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 even if it's based on financial manipulation. high salary high bonuses produce 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 as 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 a 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. no the shift is towards trying to keep taxes 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 pretty striking. now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext. yes 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 them 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 a society on to the rest of the population.

solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters 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 a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today in policy for 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 caring for others. a social security means i pay payroll taxes. for a much of the population that's what they survive iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. and 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 them privatizing exam 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 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 americans. go back to the golden age again the great chris period the fifty's and sixty's a lot of that is based on free public education. and one of the results of 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 substantial shared resources in education the investment invariably returned and better business and a higher standard of living u.s. was way in the lead in developing extensive mass public education at every level. but now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from tuitions 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 debts and if you are 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. you know world big partisan group a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race is on offense period dramatic they followed the only

i'm going to lose this i don't see how that strategy will be successful very chaotic at a time time to sit down and talk. in the one nine hundred fifty s. it's a much clearer society today but no the us could easily handle centrally free. higher education today's much richer side. eddie claims dozen of the resources for.

that just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the general attack on the principals that and that i mean not only are they humane they're the basis of the press parity and health of this society. elation financial regulation and so on 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 where it was pretty upset by the advances in

a public welfare in the sixty's and in particular by richard nixon and it's not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. and nixon's administration to 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 it. lobbying sharply increase deregulation began with a real 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 right 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 wand 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 reagan instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bailout of american history at the time that she 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 kind of three hundred in a diary for a very fairly. benign hundred ninety nine regulation was dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. and then come see bush and then obama

bill in bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total after being million dollars more to sail out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u.s. economy. 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 wipe out the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they don't want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as the.

i mean there are no will or it's an economic sue significantly disagree with the course that we're following people like just stiglitz paul krugman others none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the goldman sachs 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's the problem not the solution and so on that's essentially neoliberalism and it's has this dual character which goes we're 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

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 a 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. be.

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've got to think about the history. of fourteenth amendment has a provision as it 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 have 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 there are 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 while 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 is quite incredible. in the one nine hundred seventy s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the first well and the new one through the years to citizens united which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want can't be curtailed. very interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling

said we'll look after all the c.b.s. is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldn't general electric be free to spend as much when is that what. i mean it's true that c.b.s. has 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 just trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. sitting critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of that 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.

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i think contests or be as. possible because that is the same position of serbia. the context. of the international law. are more more on the serbian side i think not on notice. but also just find the act which got in peace imo the nobility of all borders. the tense situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been faithfully implement from the inside venezuela things look different we're

going to. noun sanctions against petroleum venezuela associated. famous will have a supplement to. that person that. data to see on the patent. the moment the focus of the who story isn't new makes him cold in henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make the chilean economy scream so wants and making the economy of venezuela screed.

you know. in the week's top stories organizers claim one million people marched in london demanding another referendum on the. u.k. two week extension to the brakes. failed to get support. for the group of american mercenaries illegally traveled to haiti to help the country's president consolidate power eight hundred million dollars. many of them without. support without going through immigration without.