norm chomsky am i a fairly at mit and i was. getting more heavily involved in a war activities for the last few years. noam chomsky has made to international reputation school wide as does one of the national leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepest is a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 is wrote 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. your times. and is listed in anybody's catalog among the app doesn't top your rows of them you let. this dandy

achieved by adopting over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. rejecting at least american foreign policy that most america itself. but actually this notion that he american is quite an interesting one sashes to tell tearing. it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing barrels going to me or the corruption of the italian state and soon the nickel that he. thinks they're cool down to 10 people would collapse and laughter in the streets of. milan. to tell a terrorist states the notions used so in the old soviet union dissidents were cold and he says he was the worst condemnation. the brazilian military dictatorship

they were gold in every brazilian. 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 in soviet union's a world imprisoned. in the us dependency like el salvador at the same time this kind of force it either brains blown out by a u.s. or a state terrorist worse than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone 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 because there's an array of terms of abuse. of in the united states 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 i think for another the only democratic society where the concept isn't just ridicule and it's a sign of. elements of the elite culture which are the point the glee.

the american dream my 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 area and 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 improve 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 to 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 it if it's based on financial manipulation and. high salary hide. bonuses produce 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 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 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. 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 0 taxes and have enormous profits let them take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is. 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 terry it is caring for others.

a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. with fred 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 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. and i no longer have children in school they're 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 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 right which enabled veterans remember that's a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to do otherwise the century of free education where

a community's date or nation regularly and best 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 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. off those debts by the time you're part of the culture you are going to get out of it again and that's truly cross the board.

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being on a 635 and you have a career and a career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you start getting headaches a circular t.v. you could have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou the minutes must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up winning it and the box. around it a very strong magnetic field on. you know in my head. i think of it like a real hard pressure i think in burns and that wireless access point and says continues on a day when our students in this school. we are just continually bagle our citizens

in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro smaug and it's getting worse. the people who are printing the money don't rely on taxes to get wealthy they're not part of a real economy that's it that's the same thing as saying that rulers of saudi arabia rely on the wages of the people living in saudi arabia to get rich they they don't they just print more or pump more oil in the america the princes that run our economy just print more money they don't need the workers they don't need their taxes that's why they don't have wage growth that's why there's been a that this aeration as there are needed. in the 1950 s. is a much poorer. they know the us could easily centrally sri matters are

urged. to do a much richer society one dozen of the researchers were. just what's going on right before our eyes and it's the general attack on the principles 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 1970 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 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 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 that he handed it in

a diary savings and later in 1992 regulation was dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. and then come see bush and obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bear out citigroup that in may and freddie macin ask for a total after being $1000000.00 more to sail out could get much bigger than 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 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 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 prim 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 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 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 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.

in the 1970 s. the courts decided that money is a form of speech. but the 1st well and then you 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 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 corp why shouldn't general electric be free to spend as much when is that one. 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 trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. 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. but that is so it's a bust it's not what doesn't etc columbus them it's as if the bullets you're looking is now. seem to be swinging my feet and. looked with

a showing at the plant look up scotty is lost when i said. he think it will ship with you and yet you have this and 30. boat on a ship and. yet when you lost it on the book it the woman had the thing that still doesn't know i don't know what the oh. was the latest news in the us. that arsenal boys and all throughout their yacht have put. lyricists through the summer and still had fulfill it. of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military decision. every

thing came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know told to shut up kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my own and he right mean. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i give the sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. died

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