he mentioned a book by noam bookky, he put chomsky's new york times best- seller list. when you are trying to raise the country, does that not put you against headwind? does that make you automatically a heated and reviled figure by at least some people in the country? >> it depends on how you manage it. he had an opportunity to reach across and deal with the elite in this country, with the managerial and technical class. this is an oil based economy. the only thing that venezuela produces is oil. everything else the imports. chavez got into power and polarized the country, he attacked the elites and they left the country. the national oil company became politicized and suffer from low investment, declining production. the irony is that here is someone came in and had an opportunity to diversify the economy, to make it a more broadbased basis for economic growth and he is more reliant on the oil sector than ever. he is more reliant on the u.s. market than ever, even despite his attacks against the united states, so i think that is the question. he could have -- he clear

exposing n.g.o.s is the agents and governments for you know could i you know listen if i want to play my noam chomsky card i could say you know solving the aids crisis in africa for some people means you have more consumers divide g.m. products you know it is that kind of all true left stuff interests me not a whit i'm interested in what can be done about aids in africa and you know the fact that big develop. and geos take money from government does not seem to me something that should be the main focus of our attention let alone of our indignation. is there the right attention right now for development because a lot of people say it's the expense of other things the development strategy of today is not positive not strong enough global justice should be applied those kinds of ideas. i think that's a political question i was ok. yeah and what how you developed countries is also very political whether aid is a good idea to help countries develop or whether free market mechanisms should be at play again i think that we have a huge debate among non-governmental organizations scholars journalists

noam, appreciate it. he's from the area where these rockets hit.o talk a little wit more about what we heard from iran today as well. very strong words from the supreme leader there, the one that really has the power. he is not optimistic, he says, about nuclear negotiations with the united states, but he also said he's not opposed to them either. he went on the to say if israel attacks iran, iran will annihilate tel aviv. michael singh joins us often on these issues from -- can we scroll up a little bit? he's a senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council, current managing director after the washington institute for near east policy studies. michael, what do you make of the timing of it all? >> hi, jenna. and, you know, the timing here -- and it's important, i just want to make sure people understand, this is iran's supreme leader, so this is a decision maker in iran. the timing has to do with the iranian new year, of course. he gives a speecher year at this time but, of course, the substance and why he's saying what

lifetime plus seventy years you know copyright is important i do believe there is copyright i mean even noam chomsky copyright says material you know many people believe in copyright but it can be very oppressive and i don't agree with the disney decision at all right so we have some common common ground here in terms of copyright as is currently in aerated is what lawrence lessig would call perpetual copyright and it's extremely damaging to artists because what happens is that ideas end up being perpetually locked up behind corporate firewalls and this isn't doing anybody any good so i mean it seems as though we agree on that's not part of this this debate well i absolutely agree but i think that art is sometimes make very foolish decisions like signing to a major label like one of the reasons we call ourselves thievery corporation is that we're a d.i.y. company we never signed to a major label we own our copyrights we set up our own distribution networks and we financed everything we bootstrapped it and financed everything for a self we never sold our souls to any major label or any large

lifetime plus seventy years you know copyright is important i do believe there is copyright i mean even noam chomsky copyright says material you know many people believe in copyright but it can be very oppressive and i don't agree with the disney decision at all right so we have some common common ground here in terms of copyright as is currently in aerated is what lawrence lessig would call perpetual copyright and it's extremely damaging to artists because what happens is that idea is end up being perpetually locked up behind corporate firewalls and this isn't doing anybody any good so i mean it seems as though we agree on that's not part of this of this debate well i absolutely agree but i think that art is sometimes make very foolish decisions like signing to a major label like one of the reasons we call ourselves the every corporation. why a company we never signed to a major label we own our copyrights we set up our own distribution network and we financed everything we bootstrapped it and financed everything for us sells we never sold our souls to any major label or any large corporati

noam chomsky who got us thing about how you talk about people no linguist competence. so i knew, i knew that everybody who is a native speaker of a language has a level of competence. knows the difference between what's grammatical and what's not grammatical. and this is the moment we've worked with for many decades. so you'd like to think that people would be consistent in the way they speak, and people would care whether it's everybody raised their hand, everybody raised his or her hand. but when you actually talk to people, they say, whatever. why are you so hung up on this? it doesn't matter. and the next step and you say okay, but just for the record which one is correct? you say, i don't know. so this whole model that we've had of what counts as knowledge, whether the standard language or dialect, doesn't matter. what is your way of speaking, and finding that people don't care as much. partly because language has become far more informal. so we speak, we write the way we speak rather than having a different register. has to be all corrected and speech can be info