with chris hedges. noam chomsky is probably america's greatest intellectual who has written on the palestine israel conflict the nature of the liberal capitalist democracy how imperialism works as well as the reconfiguration of the american economy into an oligarchy system that makes war on the middle class this is part one of our conversation with professor chomsky in his office at mit. with chris hedges. so professor chomsky i want to ask you about the ten principles that are laid out and organized in the book requiem for the american dream which was based on the documentary that you did the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power and the first one you talk about is reducing democracy what i mean by that i should first come to the. construction of the ten principles is really the contribution of the editors it's there are quite effective console edition of person hours of interviews and discussion which they were going to this form reducing the bucker so it means the gradual marginalizatio

with chris hedges. this is the second part of our conversation at his office at mit focusing on his latest book requiem for the american dream. with chris hedges. principal number five attack solidarity and you bring up social security what we are watching this happen as we speak what is this about. concern for the fate of others so i don't have children or grandchildren in elementary school so why should i pay taxes why do i have to care that the kid across the street goes to school well solidarity means you do care social security is based on the concept of solidarity you care the the widow across town has no food. the institution that was built them so there is the labor movement so there is it slogan. we're all in it together we work together to try to achieve common goals that's the ideal at least and a functioning society of as any healthy society will be built on they want why is it important. it's important for people to defend themselves to protect themselves if you're alone standing against co

with chris hedges. this is the second part of our conversation at his office at mit focusing on his latest book requiem for the american dream. with chris hedges so.

with chris hedges. this is the second part of our conversation at his office at mit focusing on his latest book requiem for the american dream. with chris hedges so principle number five attack solidarity and you bring up social security what we're watching this happen as we speak what is this about soledad remains concerned for the fate of others so i don't have children or grandchildren in elementary school so why should i put it to x.'s why do i have to care that the kid across the street goes to school well solidarity means you do care social security is based on the concept of soul a very you care the the widow across town has enough food to eat the institution that was built them so there is the labor movement so there is it slogan. we're all in it together we work together to try to achieve common goals that's the ideal at least and a functioning society of as and a healthy society will be built on the ai why is it important so it's important for people to defend themselves to protect themselves

with chris hedges. noam chomsky is probably america's greatest intellectual who has written on the palestine israel conflict the nature of the liberal class in a capitalist democracy how imperialism works as well as the reconfiguration of the american economy into an oligarchy system. that makes war on the middle class this is part one of our conversation with professor chomsky in his office at mit. with chris hedges. so professor chomsky i want to ask you about the ten principles that are laid out or have been organized in the book requiem for the american dream which was based on the documentary that you did the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power and the first one you talk about is reducing democracy what i mean by that. should first come to the. construction of the ten principles is really the contribution of the editors it's there are quite effective can.

with chris hedges. chomsky is probably america's greatest intellectual who has written on the palestine israel conflict the nature of the liberal capitalist democracy how imperialism works as well as the reconfiguration of the american economy into an oligarchy system that makes war on the middle class this is part one of our conversation with professor chomsky in his office at mit. with chris hedges. so professor chomsky i wanted to ask you about the ten principles that are laid out in organized in the book requiem for the american dream which was based on the documentary that you did the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power and the first one you talk about is reducing democracy what i mean by that. should first come to the. construction of the ten principles is really the contribution of the editors it's there are quite effective console edition of person hours of interviews and discussion in which they were going to this form reducing to buck or so that means the gradual marginalizatio

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with chris hedges. this is the second part of our conversation at his office at mit focusing on his latest book requiem for the american dream. with chris hedges so principle number five attack solidarity and you bring up social security what we are watching this happen as we speak what is this about soul diary men's concern for the fate of others so i don't have children or grandchildren in elementary school so why should i pay taxes why do i have to care that the kid across the street goes to school well solidarity means you do care social security is based on the concept of solidarity you care that the widow across town has enough food to eat the. institution that was built on solidarity or is the labor movement so there is it slogan we're all in it together we work together to try to achieve common goals that's the ideal at least and a functioning society.

with chris hedges. our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security especially the judiciary in the police can be adjusted modernized or professional laws to make possible a post racial america we discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation all of it legal and built into the ruling operad us that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy no discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class and until that discussion takes place despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity are to correspondent on your part and bell looks at how democrats and republicans conspired to build our police and our prison system no matter where you live in the united states chances are your community is patrolled by a heavily militarized police force how did they come

americanism label is used by politicians at this all in the latest episode of on contact with chris hedges on all of the america the full interview available that are on our website. because you tube is a quick preview suddenly critics of american am american capitalism got tarred with this and he american is you know any american is a very interesting concept it's a concept that only exists to filter in states in the soviet union the old soviet union you could be condemned for being in the soviet the brazilian military dictatorship you could be. put aside from the united states i don't know of any other. told her in order to earn country with the concept even exist it's a very striking country concept if you're critical of policy you're an idiot american actually this is an interesting biblical or. who is the. ultimate also medieval of the bible he called the prophet as a larger. word he is hater of israel meaning condemning the evil that basic concept authority if you challenge authority you're opposed to the society culture community and so on. is all to international a new one point fo

with chris hedges. so professor chomsky i want to ask you about the ten principles that are laid out in organized in the book requiem for the american dream which was based on the documentary that you did the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power and the first one you talk about is reducing democracy what i mean by that i should first comment that the. construction of the ten principles is really the contribution of the editors it's their quiet effect of consolidation of hours and hours of interviews and discussions which they organize this for reducing the buckers the means the gradual marginalization of the population the. reduction of the role of the general population and decision making in the public arena which is. an expected and predictable consequence of the introduction of the transition to neo liberal principles in the seventy's and. there's basically two general phases of post-war us socio economic history the first phase was sometimes called regulated capitalism embedded liber

explain how the anti-americanism label is used by politicians and the latest episode of contact with chris hedges the full interview of valuable on our website and america's u. two page is a quick preview. suddenly critics of american empire american capitalism got tarred with this and he american is you know that american is a very interesting concept it's a concept that only exists to filter in states in the soviet union old soviet union you could be condemned for being the soviet the brazilian military dictatorship you could be. but aside from the united states i don't know of any other. toter in authority there and country with the concept even exist it's a very striking country concept if you're critical of policy you're an idiot american actually this is an interesting biblical origin. who is the ultimate ultimate evil of the bible the cold the prophet. elijah to him the. way he is hater of israel meaning condemning the evil that's a basic concept authority if you challenge authority you're opposed to the society culture community and so on. a new one point four billion dollar deal sealed b

with chris hedges. our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security especially the judiciary and the police can be adjusted modernized or professionalized to make possible a post racial america we discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation all of it legal and built into the ruling apparatus that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy no discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class and until that discussion takes place despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity are to chorus.

on the back with chris hedges. i want to move on to your eighth principle keep the rabble and why which may be the seminal pointed out is the break in the labor movement breaking the labor movement is critical the u.s. has a very violent labor history much more so than comparable so at ease all kinds of reasons but the labor movement is the for example the hundreds of workers were literally being murdered in the labor actions at a time when that was on her to europe australia were in fact repeated the labor movement has just been smashed by the one nine hundred twenty s. a very vital was crushed labor movement was just simply wiped out. this is a book that one of the leading labor historians of the david month gomery called the for the house of labor about the twenty's. it did revive in the one nine hundred thirty s. we should say with the breakdown of capitalism with the after the great depression really serious worse than the two thousand and seven eight crash which was bad enough the labor movement did reconstit

art see new york well tune into on contact tonight for the second installment of chris hedges interview with the renowned linguist author and political analyst professor noam chomsky they discuss how the public relations industry working on behalf of corporations and the government has effectively created an informed electorate that will make irrational choices against their own interests take a look pick the last election as an example particularly striking feature of that was that issues were ignored in favor of personalities so it has not been true for a long time though in truth for a very long time but here it was really dramatic after all we were facing two existing true crises. new in human history one which has been going on for a while is the threat of nuclear war which in fact increases you know there's the threat of environmental catastrophe now take a look at how much coverage it was with the. in the last two elections just these two things well even on the meet the media it's not just coverage the media does all they talk about is russia not an issue you know talk about mar

with chris hedges. corporations have not only seized control of the executive legislative and judicial branches of government but have used their money to take over the non-profits and regulatory agencies that once protected the citizens from predatory corporate practices transparency international usa for example supposedly dedicated to combating corruption receives corporate grants from exxon mobil citi group raytheon and bechtel corp the sierra club has received twenty five million dollars from the natural gas industry leading civil rights groups including the n.w.a. c.p.a. and the national urban league have been heavily bankrolled by the telecom industry making them an unlikely partner in the effort to kill net neutrality the american diabetes association is underwritten by grants from coca-cola and oscar meyer process to be the american heart association excepts money from the national cattlemen's beef association and a v.a. poor and domino's pizza r t correspondent on your part and tell looks at h

with chris hedges. the sixteen year old afghan conflict which has cost the country eight hundred billion dollars and two thousand american lives is the longest foreign war in u.s. history a recent u.s. government report called two thousand and sixteen the worst so far for afghan civilians and soldiers the three and a half to four billion dollars a year we spend to prop up an inept corrupt and brutal afghan military and police about one third of them desert every year has failed to stem a resurgence of the taleban who in one attack recently killed one hundred forty afghan soldiers and left another one hundred fifty wounded last year alone eleven thousand four hundred eighteen civilians were killed the highest number since the un began keeping records in two thousand and nine there are eight thousand four hundred u.s. troops in afghanistan down from nearly one hundred thousand at the height of the war military commanders recently requested an additional five thousand troops how a mere five thousand soldie

with chris hedges.welcome back to on contact let's continue our discussion with russell macabre editor of corporate crime reporter so let's talk about the american diabetes association which is excepts money from. processed meats cadbury schweppes. coca-cola hershey's dan all these things medics should not be we got we got onto them. ten years or so ago when we learned about this grant from cadbury schweppes it was more than a million dollars. and we were i wrote a story and quoted gary ruskin from then a group called commercial alert saying that you know they should change their name to the american junk food association and and we got our sort of testy call from the head of the american diabetes association so how come you know i said well let's do the interview so i ran the tape and we did it on the record interview which anybody can look up american diabetes association corporate crime reporter and you can see it and it was really remarkable because he was actually defending in this interview. soda

with chris hedges. welcome back to on contact we continue our conversation with matthew hoh marine corps veteran and former state department official who resigned his post in afghanistan in protest over the war i want to talk about weapon systems because unless you've been around hellfire missiles one fifty five howitzers ninety millimeter tank rounds you don't understand that once you start deploying not to mention cruise missiles these kinds of weapons are in fragmentation bombs and cost are bombs you can't talk about human rights you can't talk about women's liberation the use of the these kinds of industrial weapons have such a massive kind of kill field that i want to talk about her. how that reliance on these weapons what it's done to the civilian population and how it i think in many ways became the best recruiting tool the taliban oh absolutely you know. the priority in afghanistan has to be to stop the fighting has to be to stop the killing there are a lot of people who i think a very well inte

and tune into on contact this saturday chris hedges is being joined by activist and author eugene per year for a discussion on how combat in racism also requires facing the consequences of capitalism. so let's talk about capitalism because so many on the laugh especially when they talk about building a post racial america don't go there this you know absolutely and i think that a lot of it is people are looking for something that can sort of assuage their guilt and their frustration about the system that oftentimes can be benefiting them and i think a lot of especially upper middle class liberal officialdom they may know racism is wrong they may dislike it they may think mass incarceration is a terrible idea but they still want to try to view it as basically neutral so we don't have to look at the depth of the system the role of the system the fact that really institutions of social control over black labor have been really essential to the building up of capitalism in america there's no way to separate the genocide of native americans but from slavery from jim crow and i think mass i

with chris hedges. our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction it is the fiction that the organs of internal security especially the dish area in the police can be adjusted modernized or professionalized to make possible a post racial america we discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation all of it legal and built into the ruling operad us that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy no discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class and until that discussion takes place despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity r t correspondent on your part looks at how democrats and republicans conspired to build our police and our prison system no matter where you live in the united states chances are your community is patrolled by a heavily militarized police force how did they come to be accordi

and then forget to tune into on contact this saturday for part two of chris hedges interview with one of america's most important intellectuals professor noam chomsky he's a linguist political activist and author to discuss and he discusses rather his latest book called requiem for the american dream you point out the. attack on labor came. the idiology one demonizing government and two you say politicians always talk about jobs. but they never talk about profit that unpronounceable obscene word that when a politician says i want to defend jobs he means i want to defend profit but jobs goes right to the present to our current official leaders but you know a lot of the pronounce the word profits that's an obscene word so it's pronounced jobs that's one of the devices like free trade and others that are used to mask policies that are in fact directed in oriented towards the masters of men in their will for. the. this is all the attacks on labor or various significant because the labor movement is the one major organization in which the general much of the public the general working publ

increasing tyranny instead of increasing freedom all of this in the latest episode of on contact with chris hedges the full interview available on our website at r.t. america's you tube page is a quick clip. what did you see this is the so-called neo liberal shift to try to shift decisions from the public arena to what's called the market the market how do you define the a liberalism it's basically the idea is private is reduce the rule of the public institution. deregulate to. permit the encourage the growth of natural institutions the. policies of this kind of the ideology claims it's increasing freedom so actually increasing. it means that instead of decisions and choices being made in the public arena where the public good principle has something to rule the state to the degree that the state is democratic maybe an actual rule shifting it to private tyrannies corporate sector. it's all to international it seems there's just no stopping the german footballing machine the world cup holders are now at the confederations cup with a trophy cap on it after seeing off chile in the final sunday's game

increasing tyranny instead of increasing freedom all of this in the latest episode of on contact with chris hedges the full interview on our website and on our america's youtube page here's a quick clip. what did you say well this is the so-called neo liberal shift to try to shift decisions from the public arena to what's called the market the market how do you define the a liberalism it's basically the idea is private is reduce the role of the public institutions. to regulate to. permit to infect encourage the growth of financial institutions the network of policies of this kind as the ideology claims it's increasing freedom so actually increasing tyranny it means that instead of decisions and choices being made in the public arena where the public in principle has something of a role in the state to the degree that the state is democratic maybe an actual rule shifting it to private tyrannies corporate sector. twenty foster in moscow the russian foreign ministry has condemned what it calls a smear campaign against the syrian government ministries spokeswoman marie as a was referring to videos cir

chris ruddy, is here. >>> and one of bill broader's hedge fund employees died in a russian prison. so brouder took on putin. he, too, is here. >>> and arnold schwarzenegger is back with me to explain how california overcame party differences to tackle climate change. but first, we're six months and two days into the trump administration. this week like many that preceded it was marked with volatility. i wanted to take note that he actually made a good decision this week. but i understand why it got lost in the shuffle. despite literally years of promises to the contrary, the republicans, who control both houses and the white house, failed in their effort to repeal and replace obamacare. then on wednesday, in a rambling interview with the "new york times," the president seemed to throw his earliest supporter in the senate under the bus. the now attorney general jeff sessions. the president said that he would have never appointed sessions if he knew he would recuse himself from overseeing the russia investigation. he had more choice words for former fbi director james comey and said

chris ruddy, is here. >>> and one of bill broader's hedge fund employees died in a russian prison.zenegger is back with me to explain how california overcame party

chris: lightning round. >> anthony: the lightning rod on your showing a clip, you have to give me a chance to explain myself. he was hitting the hedge fund industry on "fox & friends." when he's hitting the hedge fund industry and that's my life look, i'm heading back. he knows that and he respects that about me. we were laughing about that last night. what i love about you guys is it's a three minute segment that i guess is going to be played for eternity, we should put it on the voyager spacecraft and send it interstellar. >> chris: let me just say -- >> anthony: we are new yorkers and this is my point. i love the guy, i spent the last 18 months supporting him unyielding only because he's a great person. he's going -- he's a phenomenal president and he's even going to be a better president. you're not allowed to fight a little bit amongst her friends? if you are not allowed to do that, where we doing? stone am i not not allowed to actually put that on? it's funny, i make your promise, i will never play that cliff again. >> anthony: you can play it again. >> chris: i don't want to. >> anthony: my point, i'm a new yorker, he's a new

tom: zero hedge did a great job this week on what low-volume and low volatility means. the idea here is it is complacency, or is it paralysis. which is it? chrisooking at the vix is simply a reflection of what is happening, not will happen. tom: what about volumes? chris: volumes have been declining for the better part of 15 years and so much volume has moved off market. we don't really know where it is taking place. what's important about volatility is it only describes low volatility as exclusively a feature of bull markets. tom: the theory he just posited is exceptionally important. we don't have time to go into it this morning. let me tell you, this idea of anti-,e vix means, ex, before, or post and after is the heart of the theater. we have a killer single best chart in the next hour. francine: coming up, we are back of strategicrrone research and a little bit later on bloomberg tv, we have a conversation with the siemens ceo joe kaiser and we will talk about active investors and shareholders and how to keep them onside. that is tonight and throughout the weekend. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ is bloombergs surveillance with tom and francine fro