on chance am i unfairly at mit and i was. getting more headlines as a war activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation why does does is one of the mission of leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepest is a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 is opened a transformed the nature of his subject. 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 vested in anybody's catalogue among the dozen top girls of the new law. is dandy achieved by adopting over the past 2 or 3 years

a series of adamant. rejecting at least american foreign policy at most america itself. budget this notion that he american is quite an interesting one session is to tell terry a notion it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels going me. corruption the italian state and soon then a cold he. thinks they are cold indeed then people would collapse and lifter the streets of. milan. in total terror and states the notions used so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold. that was the worst condemnation. of the brazilian military dictatorship they were gold in any brazil. you. know it's

true that in just about every society the critics are maligned. or mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions a world imprisoned. in the us dependency like el salvador at the same time is counterforce it either brains blown out by a us or a state terrorist worse. than others is it just condemned their villa from the so on that in the united states or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and a couple of others like you know more because 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 at least 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 b. it's quite strange in that it's used in the united states in effect for another the only democratic society where the concept isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the elite and culture which are the great ugly.

the american dream mike many ideals was partly symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. and sixty's it was. the biggest growth period in. american economic history. gold paint. it was pretty kalak arion growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper 5th. 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 us 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 tunnel me is the max like to call it a little small percentage of the world's population that's a 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 even it if it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary high bonuses produced overseas if you have to and produce for the. i will see 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 altogether. 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 wealthier much rare the tax system has been redesigned 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 just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and dividends which i go to the ridge . the numbers are pretty striking. now there's a pretext of course there's always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment in 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 much print line and in fact right now it's almost absurd that

corporations have money coming out of their pockets. so in fact general electric are paying 0 taxes and have enormous profits let them take the profits somewhere else or defer it but not pay taxes and this is how. 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 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 bury it in the caring for others. ready a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town

can get something to live on. for a much of the population as with those of 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 1st defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a standard technique for. private eyes exam system. we see it in the attack on public schools. 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 that it dries 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 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 2nd world war was the g.i. bill of rights 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 a community is 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 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 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. you know if there's dead by the time you're part of the culture you know you are going to get out of it again and that's true cross the border. played. live. live live.

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in my response to checker a moment a man for shit. or to talk to me so it appears on my it's your bonus for syria to get. it to mr us or its supporters are still with them to iraq to spit over for they seem to be an arguable piece that it's a studio actually of course in the personal growth of a vocal for sure it's just them spinning. expressed she. joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. in the 1950 s. it was a much poorer society today but no the us could easily handle centrally free mass higher education today

a much richer society claims dozen of the resources for. that just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the a general attack on the principles that i mean not only are they schumi 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 1970 s.

is lobbying as the business world moved sharply to try to control legislation. business where it was pretty upset by the advances in 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'd been 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 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 want and want to have a $1000000000.00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the government's going to come to rescue so takes a reagan instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out 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 family to $300.00 in a diary for

a very fair lady. 199 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 $1000000.00 more to sail out could get much bigger than milling 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 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 build a taxpayer it's called the too big to fail. i mean there are no will or it's an economics who 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 neo liberalism and it's has this dual character which goods were 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 just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they take 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. 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 2009 i guess that's a very important decisions print court decision but it has

a history and you've got to think about the history. of 14th 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 it is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th 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 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if they're persons. undocumented aliens who are living here and building your 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 young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. and the 1970 s.

the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but we were swell and then you won 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. 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. interesting to read the rulings like justice kennedy's swing vote his ruling said we'll look at roland c.b.s. has given freedom of speech there are a corporation 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. 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 general

electric is 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 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. where in fairness you know so many people reference and on and on let them eat cake and then you know historians have gone back and they said you know it's actually like a brioche brioche you know that so i brought in actually oh my god what a mess we brought in actual brioche this is a brioche just by the slice there that they had to siri and so this is what she

suggested that the peasants this should be eating because they run out of town they say this is a brioche is a slant they're nice or very and if there's a few in a cupboard let's throw that to the peasants then maybe they'll shut them up ready ready ready ready ready. i am sure you need to stop it for good. during their grow. i just never know very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software program. there's no reason the more. you take

things that are to me the there's no reason to make something else that you need to get rid of to everybody's scared to talk about it survival is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it and reach and even have a conversation of that it then. we're in trouble. ready when lawmakers manufacture consent instantly of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and be the one percent. that's tonight we can all middle of the room sick. leave room for the real news is. the.

united states could potentially be smuggling tons of weapons and ammunition to militants in syria according to because documents obtained by a bug area journalist. with a potent hosts key leaders from asia on the 2nd day of the feast an economic forum in blood it also with the iran nuclear arms race high on the agenda. the u.n. report highlights the role of the united states britain france and alleged human rights violations committed to in yemen. there are certain students who are on well known to be supplied weapons that includes the united states that includes united kingdom and it includes france to name some 3.