. >> we will get reaction from noam chomsky. israeli historian avi shlaim, and rashid khalidi. >> ariel sharon began his career as a military commander with atrocities in 1953 and continued through masterminding the lebanon war in which 50,000 became casualties. he ended his career as the architect of the israeli expansion in the occupied territories of the west bank, largely his handiwork from 1977 onward. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. hundreds of thousands of west virginia residents are on their fifth day without safe cap water after a chemical spill in the elk river. the company freedom industries leaked up to 7500 gallons of an agent used in coal extraction on thursday. residents have been barred from drinking, cooking, or bathing with water from their taps. scores of schools and businesses have enclosed, including in the state capital am a. the head of the west virginia water company told residents to only use water for flushing toilet

i can't explain chomsky. from my perspective, chomsky hates american and its constitutions. he would disagree with me. how am i supposed to make sense of of him or that? i can't. i just don't know how guys like him get tenure. well, actually, i do, because academia's full of people like that. but he can use whatever words he wants, i explain myself, and he can explain himself. >> host: janis is calling from smithfield, utah. hi, janis. >> caller: hi. first of all, mr. levin, i am a great admirer of yours. i think you're a national treasure. so don't let the kooks get you down. >> host: janis, why do you think he's a national treasure? >> caller: i think he's got so many things right and so many -- he's got a wonderful mind. [laughter] i just admire his wonderful mind. but there was one thing i wanted to ask him, and that is as a conservative i'm, i've been concerned about the division among conservatives not over goals, but over tactics. it seems to be kind of creating a fission that i think's going to be very detrimental in the success of the goals we all want to achieve su

journey from hiroshima," which was nominated for an academy award, and "power and terror -- noam chomskyn our times." welcome to democracy now! explain the latest. >> there was a relocation to a and people have protested for longer than 15 years by now. the latest development, to our surprise, is the governor approved the reclamation of the , to build the new facility, like you said, a state-of-the- art marine corps facility. yourll that change position on the governor? >> yes and no. in his first term, he was clear the relocation was necessary. , and this is term the end of his second term, he said the relocation needs to be outside of okinawa, because people protested so hard and so long and that was the will expressed for several years. , if you couldman talk about the history of these , which arein okinawa been following for decades. can you go back to why it has been there to begin with? >> the u.s. seized the island of okinawa in 1945 after a battle that lasted for two and a half months, where over 200,000 people were killed. literally, the entire island was drenched with blood. th

filmmakers oliver stone and michael moore, and linguist noam chomsky, were among 29 prominent figures who signed the document. they say they oppose the plan to relocate the marine corps futenma air station within okinawa. they want authorities to return the land to the people but they oppose plans to build a new base in the same prefecture. the air base is located in a heavily populated area of okinawa. the people living there have been campaigning to move it off the prefecture. but the japanese government has decided to move it to another location in okinawa. the group's statement says it's unjust that okinawa is 1% of the country's land mass, but it hosts more than 70% of u.s. military bases and facilities in japan. they say the situation runs counter to the u.s. declaration of independence, which denounces the presence of armies without legislative consent. >>> scientists in japan, china, and south korea, are working to the to better understand how tiny, but dangerous particles, move around east asia. they're tracking pollutants known as pn 2.5. they launched a joint study last yea

[laughter] >> hi, professor chomsky, this is an unimaginable honor. thank you so much for doing this. i just wanted -- you touched briefly, you had this wonderful shelley quote and your family's engagement with high culture, and i was just going to ask you to reflect briefly on the contemporary state of serious art and how important you think engagement with that, you know, serious contemporary literature, music, cinema, whatever it is, how important it is in exploring the sort of the vanguard of political thought and, you know, whether or not contemporary artists and contemporary audiences are rising to that challenge. >> oh, i think it's very important. and i'm not the only one who thinks so. i think people with power think so. that's why famous rivera mural wasn't allowed to be put in rockefeller center. that's why if you go back to cinema, say go back 60 years, early '50s. some of you'll will be. so in 1953, or interesting year for cinema, there were two major films that came out. one finish well, two film -- one -- well, two films that came out o

noam chomsky were among twenty nine prominent figures to sign the documents they say they oppose the plan to relocate the marine corps asked and i am station with an ok now i'm the one authorities to return the land to the people that get those plans to build the new ac in the same prefecture. base is located in a heavily populated area of looking now at the people living there. having ten twenty two minutes off the prefecture that the japanese government has decided to move it to another location in okie now a bit of steam and says i'm just that okie now i is one percent of the country's landmass the hosts more than seventy percent of the us military bases and facilities in japan the sea the situation runs counter to the us declaration of independence which denounces the presence of the army's with our legislative consent discovery at will hold its first parliamentary elections since two thousand and nine in march. authorities in pyongyang made the announcement on wednesday but said to be the thirty first birthday at the very keen job on the day is not designated a national holiday

government protests of the month with the opposition calling for closer ties with the e t a t six a m chomsky has been following the demonstrations from the beginning for us this is a political protesters as b and got out to the country's government and the president president something which has been going on for more than six weeks now as a drug that total is six weeks with brain as i mentioned my report first they wanted to be in europe . the then they wanted a revolution the greens leaders few get a free trade zone with the eu would cost the industry to collapse the crowds never bought that when the police used force against peaceful world. you protest is. they still cheering all together the government building storm barry kids build and told western politicians dropping by. the german and dutch foreign ministers and deputy us secretary of state before us senator john mccain weekend taking a swipe and russia stalls while staring out the huge crowds to sell green arrow. i do. i am but none of them dogs ukraine out of its mass most relate to agree to help with a discount on gas prices and

peter you're one of the signers of the statement along with all of our stone michael moore and noam chomsky how did you guys all get together to sign this state and and what are you trying to get out of it but we decided to issue this statement after the barrier after the governor of okinawa governor not betrayed his electoral pledge to the people of okinawa had agreed with. prime minister abbay that the base could be relocated to the had no part of it now or you have to realize that the base already. exists and give no one city is that for ten base u.s. marine air base and for ten more and there's been a lot of protest about that for many years in one thousand nine hundred sixty three u.s. troops raped a twelve year old girl and the people there were just fed up so since one thousand nine hundred six it's been a movement that okinawa to get the base out of going to one city which is heavily populated area and the people of okinawa want to get it out of okinawa completely it's been a very unfair situation for a long time and they were first taken over by the japanese and then there was the

i can't explain chomsky. from my perspective, chomsky hates american and its constitutions. he would disagree with me. how am i supposed to make sense of of him or that? i can't. i just don't know how guys like him get tenure. well, actually, i do, because academia's full of people like that. but he can use whatever words he wants, i explain myself, and he can explain himself. >> host: janis is calling from smithfield, utah. hi, janis. >> caller: hi. first of all, mr. levin, i am a great admirer of yours. i think you're a national treasure. so don't let the kooks get you down. >> host: janis, why do you think he's a national treasure? >> caller: i think he's got so many things right and so many -- he's got a wonderful mind. [laughter] i just admire his wonderful mind. but there was one thing i wanted to ask him, and that is as a conservative i'm, i've been concerned about the division among conservatives not over goals, but over tactics. it seems to be kind of creating a fission that i think's going to be very detrimental in the success of the goals we all want to achieve su

you know if you're out is through a political thinkers like winston churchill tocqueville chomsky they have condemned little krauts for ignoring their social responsibilities and using their power to serve their own purposes they say this increases poverty and nurtures class conflict corrupting societies with greed which ultimately leads to revolutions now at. all great empires have fallen eventually do you believe that america is the next one to go. i don't know you know it is they only know that i would say no america's here today i mean i think that jim rickards is interesting in that he talks about you know the monetary system faltering but he says wait a minute you know we've already in the last hundred years we've had the re faltering of the monetary system so i think that you can have a lot of upheaval but it doesn't necessarily mean that you know the economy is going to collapse into a heap and the system going to be overthrown i think we are going to go through turmoil but at the end of the day america will continue on to see revolution on the horizon none is still in the unit

you know if you're out is through a political thinkers like winston churchill tocqueville chomsky they have condemned little krauts for ignoring their social responsibilities and using their power to serve their own purposes they say this increases poverty and nurtures class conflict corrupting societies with greed which ultimately leads to revolutions now at. all great empires have fallen eventually do you believe that america is the next one to go oh that's a little you know you understand exactly what i would say that no america is here to stay i mean i think that jim rickards is interesting in that he talks about you know the monetary system faltering but he says wait a minute you know we've already in the last hundred years we've had three false rings of the monetary system so i think that you can have a lot of upheaval but it doesn't necessarily mean that you know the economy is going to collapse into a heap and the system going to be overthrown i think we are going to go through turmoil but at the end of the day america will continue on to see revolution on the horizon none is s

you know if you're out is through a political thinkers like winston churchill tocqueville chomsky they have condemned little krauts for ignoring their social responsibilities and using their power to serve their own purposes they say this increases poverty and nurtures class conflict corrupting societies with greed which ultimately leads to revolutions now at. all great empires have fallen eventually do you believe that america is the next one to go oh that's a little you know you understand exactly what i would say that no america is here to stay i mean i think that jim rickards is interesting in that he talks about you know the monetary system faltering but he says wait a minute you know we've already in the last hundred years we've had three false reigns of the monetary system so i think that you can have a lot of upheaval but it doesn't necessarily mean that you know the economy is going to collapse into a heap and the system going to be overthrown i think we are going to go through turmoil but at the end of the day america will continue all to see revolution on the horizon none is

. >> well, i hope you all join me in thanking noam chomsky once more. [applause] >> thank you all so much for coming. there are books available in the back. thank you also for the questions. >> booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers, watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> up next on booktv, margaret mcmillan, oxford university, examines the leadup to world war i. this is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> well, welcome, everybody, to today's council on foreign relations meeting. i look back at the buildup to the great war with margaret macmillan. i'm david andelman, editor of world policy journal, and i'd like to welcome members participating in this meeting through the live stream. you know, i was saying at lunch that i have a little surprise for our two guests here, because i checked a hundred years ago today just out of curiosity. november 4, 1913. of the united states was preparing to muster 500,000 troops and gear up for war against a major power. president wils

listener of the radio show for years and recently i've been listening to lectures by the professor noam chomsky on youtube. and i was struck at the language that he used that is strikingly similar used by mark levin. i find it interesting that these two men have such similar language and yet seem to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum. i'm wondering if you could comment on this. >> he is a left-wing kook. and that's right, professor, you are. and he is a radical individual. so why is it my responsibility to bring rationality to rational people? i can't understand that. and so obviously you disagree although i don't see how. so how am i supposed to make sense of them? and so i just don't know how guys like him get this. because he can use whatever words he wants. >> janus is calling from smith field utah. >> hello, i think you are a national treasure. don't let the kooks get you down. >> janus, whitey think is a national treasure? >> i think that he is getting so many things right and yes a wonderful mind. and there's nothing else i could ask except as a conservative, i have been conc

i can't explain chomsky. to my understanding he hates america and its institutions. he would disagree with me but i don't see how. so how am i supposed to make sense of him or that? i can't. i don't know how the guys like him get tenure -- actually, i do because the full people like that, that he can use whatever words he wants. i can express myself and he can explain himself. >> host: janice is calling from utah. hello, janice. >> caller: first of all mr. levin, a great admirer of yours. you are a national treasure so don't let the kooks get you down. >> host: why do you think he is a national treasure? >> caller: i just think he has got so many things right, and he's got a wonderful mind. i just add my ear his wonderful mind. as a conservative, i'm concerned about the division among the conservatives not over the goals, but over the tactics that seem to be kind of creating things that are going to be very detrimental in the success of the goals that we all want to achieve such as obamacare and stuff like that because we argued among ourselves over the tactics of ho