know are chomsky is a professor at the massachusetts institute of technology and chair and a prominent critic of to what i say sure. you must be very busy i suppose. as you can say. ok that. greenwashing started something in the same minute is speaking of the seventy's. when the beginnings of concern with the environment began to me raised among the general population so of course our systems after it's on the triumph is they're going to maintain their control some of that lot is the power of corporates today bears on. power is based on their control of capital on their control of investment decisions. that are massive influence on government which derives from the private eye or that basically the nature of state capitalism but it's extended and around it is thunder the neo liberal policies of the last generation which are sharply with us for that and we have all those companies telling you that they are all they have sustainable products that they're extremely fair and doing their best and the christian is how do we need to deal with green eyes directly is that the proposals may be w

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specialized language but you're right people have wondered where did language come from and noam chomsky has some interesting ideas for the origin of language there are others who have a different approach a more darwinian approach that language gives a survival advantage when we can't communicate we can coordinate our actions we can function as a more effective group and that's really why we humans prevailed we are highly social as a species allowing us to do things that the individual would not be able to accomplish on his or who know and therefore the language has been vital to that and therefore i am pretty convinced as many evolutionary psychologists who studied this as a professional undertaking that language emerged because it helped us survive implications for free will which i know you also explore in the book again i have very strong perspective on that perspective that many people require all add i do not. that we have free will in the sense that i do not feel that we are the ultimate authors of our actions we are not the place in which our decisions fundamentally originate wh

his forthcoming book he co-authored with noam chomsky is titled "the climate crisis and the global greenew deal: the political economy of saving the planet." in 2018, he co-authored a paper titled "economic analysis of medicare for all." welcome back to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. we thank the team that is in the studio now with your university closing. if you can talk about what medicare for all would mean in the time of the coronavirus, and what president trump is proposing around this payroll tax cut? >> sure. wellll, you kind of characterizd everything very well with his dues from the insurance companies, wherein trump announced just last night that the insurance companies agreed toto waive all copaymements. well, that turnsns out to not en bebe trurue. that is a a minimal gesesture, t it turnsns out to not even be te because the insurance companies said they would only waive copayments for testingng and not treatment. so what we have is the exacerbation of a crisis due too thee fact the absurdity, as bernie sanders put it, the absurdity that people c cannot feel

then senior white house official and i spend the time-consuming at each other in the lobby of the chomsky hotel. in with people around us, sort of egging us on and trying to break things up pretty so at some point, he said enough extends his hand to shake mine. and i scream at least twice. i'm not shaking his f and because he just got in my face. they don't just f do that. so he threw up his hands at some point and started walking away with one of his principal when we got to the middle of the lobby, i think he also felt like he was cute. so i turned around and made eye contact. at that point, i think it's a good idea to pursue it and if he wants to step outside, we can do that, why not . simply somebody puts a hand on my shoulder and i think i shut that person harder than i thought and the security was called and people started screaming at me, rick, bless his heart with us one tiny specific things start doing this and telling security that they can go away. and we spent the rest of the night drinking in the lobby of the trump hotel . and this is a microcosm for a lot of the trump era. a