tellers in distraught or disturbed societies and we have our own examples of that whether it's noam chomsky or or ralph nader or cornel west all of them for getting up and speaking unpleasant truths been pushed to the fringes of society and on the liberal class is as guilty maybe even more guilty than that stations like m s n b c which are utterly subservient to the democratic party and to the cult of brock obama have kept those voices from a so it's not just the right it's the left that are both trading in a kind of fultz reality and that's very dangerous because when you can't confront reality when your society shuts out those voices that seek to describe what reality is and how it works then you can talk about hope and you can talk about change because all hope and change is essentially redirected into a dead political process or redirected into fantasy i mean the idea that. barack obama's going to save us from wall street or from the drone wars or. from environmental degradation it's a bit like all those poor prisoners in the gulag are writing letters to uncle joe stalin and that is. sy

yes religious and i was at the press conference he was the chomsky also in on professionally a salvage the picture aren't picked her up from last the us on and his story his life story was told. in the film an episode in the light of a tyrant picker which won two silver paris last year with the silver bear for him for best actor on we went back to bosnia though he was ostracized by his own people and forced to leave the country in his words forced to leave the country on the team that has applied for asylum here in germany that has been the first refused bail in allah his back and got him a lawyer and is trying to get that appealed so that he can stay here but today he told a story on and said that he will do whatever they can they can't even get top is golden. is this overt they are to be allowed to stay here for lent. scott rock strewn covering the valley knowledge for scott thanks very much for that. malcolm and losses had a fireworks accident a decade ago has been the first to test a medical breakthrough which could help people with artificial limbs to regain their sense of touch.

if people invested themselves in politics as much as they did football political philosopher noam chomsky said it best in the documentary manufacturing consent he answers why people identify with sports teams by saying quote it's a way of building up a rational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements in fact it's training and irrational jingoism at the point is to quote get them away from things that matter and for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think in other words a diversion created from sporting events like the super bowl or the modern day equivalent of the roman empire's gladiator shows although i could sit here and talk about the n.f.l. as one big giant weapon of mass distraction i don't want to upset the millions of sports fanatics that might want to tackle me for saying so because. all of that aside the real tragedy here is how much the n.f.l. is stealing from you and mean that's right despite the fact the national football league's thirty two teams rake in an estimated nine point five billion dollars annually the organiz

. >> i hope you all will join me in thanking noam chomsky once more. [applause] thank you all so much for coming. there are books available in the back. >> this spill announces the opening of thanksgiving day at the 27th annual sale. >> this universal declaration of civil rights made well become the international magna carta of all men everywhere. >> the equal rights amendment when ratified poe be an instant solution to women's problems. >> i'm trying to find my way through it and trying to figure out how best to be true to myself and how to fulfill my responsibilities to my husband and my daughter and the country. >> what they may not imagine looking at the white house from the outside is that it's actually a very normal life upstairs. >> i try to bring a little bit of michelle obama into this but it at the same time respecting and valuing the tradition that is americas. >> a few months ago in the materials of war it went up. above the clamor of heavy cranes along a thousand docks warships awaited corvus held up by the labor shortage the call persiste

. >> author and mit professor noam chomsky examines the political ideology of anarchism and its history to its current use. from mit in cambridge, massachusetts, this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> it's hardly a sacred, the terms of political discourse are not exactly models of precisiont and considering the way terms eg are used, it's next to impossible to try to give ae meaningful answer to such questions as what is socialism or what is capitalism or what our markets, free markets. and many others in common uses. that's even more true of the term anarchism for reasons that were pointed out. it's not only subject of their use would also quite extreme abuse. sometimes by bitter enemies, sometimes by unfortunately by people who hold its manner hi. so much so, so much as the variation of abuse that it resists any simple atio characterization. in fact, the only way i can see to address the question that his post this evening, what is anarchism, is to try to identifo some leading ideas that animate at least major currents of theaa rich and complex and often contradictory traditions of anarch

activist foreign policy falling in particular we sent people such as ron paul chalmers johnson and on chomsky. so i'm hoping to have that finished and my keychain. he is is is sort of scattered in the school that of international relations of a league of american government over the world politics and my students are very good view of the taiwanese students i have very english. fall makes me ashamed of my mandarin held for years old i have lots of international students go and they are very interested in the united states say they wanna know about politics united states and they wanna know about american history which i think is very good and of the and. so the kids it's been a very good and they're very rewarding experience. yes there's going be no question it's having on the program gave the sermon wanna wish you all the best in the personal professional endeavors. the feature. thank you very much le thank you for having me read it. thank you for watching the program today all seen the sky all mccabe tv thinking. i knew condemning the skirt. and i think. i mean. gcses thus the un the eye. w

. >> i hope you all will join me in thanking noam chomsky once more.[applause]s a history professor at the cooper union for the advancements of science and art in new york city. this is an hour. [applause] >> thank you. if you don't mind i'm going to sit rather than go to the podium. i've had a few health problems and i would just as soon not test myself. thank you for coming tonight. in thinking about the problem of liberalism i have to start off with a simple problem. most people including most people who think they have studied the subject have a very weak idea of the history of liberalism whether it be on the left or the right. there is an idea that you started with progressivism, you move done to -- no, i'm teasing. [laughter] you started with progressivism. he proceeded to the new deal and then you went into the great society as a continuous flow. the trouble is it's simply not true. most progressives did not become new dealers. very few republican progressives you have to remember progressivism was a bipartisan movement. very few republican prog