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today i speak to two giants of the intellectually noam chomsky reed noun linguist and rebel think tara kelley street fighting noblest military historian i want to find out what these two activists think where is the world going where would you go . terry. two thousand and eleven two thousand focus being storage here for liberation movements in many places across the world did you see it coming i didn't see it coming i don't think most people saw it coming but what's interesting is that you have these arab uprisings in a part of the world which commentators was saying people aren't interested in democracy the muslims are genetically all started to go crazy and you have these up surges and then they spread because it's the occupation of buried square in cairo that inspired activists all of the united states even in russia who would have expected these movements suddenly to come up in russia and challenge authority so the the arab spring has been very infectious and it's still going on in different ways and i'm trying to keep no i can't say i predicted it assume that sooner or later there

americans including filmmakers michael moore and oliver stone along with renowned philosopher noam chomsky have signed a letter in support of a song just bit now chomsky is in fact one of the gassed on the whistleblower show that's airing today here on art. you can watch it over an hour here's a preview. now moving over to the middle east the deep concern in the united states and the other traditional imperial powers britain france particularly concern is that now they may the middle east may get out of control and that syria's a much more serious than south america so i agree that's why they invaded libya no i have no doubt about it was to reestablish one crew. i agree but i think it's all over so for example if you take a look at what's happened in the arab spring the countries that are crucial to western imperial power the oil producers they have been under a very tough hand in saudi arabia kuwait the emirates the major oil producing regions it never got off the ground the intimidation of the security forces backed by the west was so enormous that people were literally afraid to go into

hope coming from latin america that's the topics of debate in the modern world in the eyes of noam chomsky and terry levy two prominent thinkers and guests on julia songes show airing next. well to the. point is the magic of transforming airplanes into jet trains dirty diesels into green rail dreams double down on profits by building up instead of out in a german swoon place east for the summer knowledge up here on r.g.p. you've got the central. time julian assange. it is fear of wiki leaks web expose the old secrets these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn the black people all illegally should. be tamed without charge but that doesn't stop. the day. that can change the world tomorrow. during the last few years. today i speak to two giants of the intellectual if noam chomsky read noun linguist rebel think tara kelley street fighting novelist the military historian i want to find out what these two act towards think where is the world going. to go. terry. two thousand and eleven two thousand focus being storage here fo

julian assange just political asylum request a letter signed by michael moore oliver stone and noam chomsky among others has been delivered to the countries of the london embassy where science has been seeking refuge since last week and in fact noam chomsky joins us sots in his latest edition of his show on our chief together with military historian tariq ali in case there's a discussion in about ten minutes now moving over to the middle east the deep concern in the united states and the other imperial traditional imperial powers britain france particularly concern is that now they may the middle east might get out of control and that syria's a much more serious than south america so i agree that's why they invaded libya and i have no doubt about it was to reestablish the crew. i agree but i think it's all over so for example if you take a look at what's happened in the arab spring of the countries that are crucial to western imperial power the oil producers they have been under a very tough hand in saudi arabia kuwait the emirates the major oil producing regions it never got off the ground

landlines coming up next the latest episode of join us on the show features two renowned thinkers noam chomsky and tariq ali who put the changing shape of global policy under scrutiny. i'm truly innocent. it's true what you read where they expose the secret these documents belong the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemn. people illegally should. be paid without. the. park. today where. the can change the world tomorrow or. during the last few years. today i speak to two giants of the intellectually numb from ski read now and linguist rebel think tara kelley street fighting was the military news story and i want to find out what these two i. think where is the world going where would you go. eric two thousand and eleven two thousand focus being storage here for liberation movements in many places across the world did you see it coming i didn't see it coming i don't think most people saw it coming but what's interesting is that you have these arab uprisings in a part of the world which commentators was saying people aren't interested in democracy the musl

the man that he describes as giants of the intellectual left renowned linguist and rebel thinker noam chomskyand believe the street fighting novelist and military historian now during that interview they discussed the new ways of revolutionary movements we've seen taking place around the world in the past couple of years i didn't see it coming i don't think most people saw it coming to your commission of very. inspired activities all of the you moved to the. spring has been very you factions. still going moment different ways don't try. sooner or later there would have to be a popular reaction to the. bitter cliffs were the. crew the generation of it talking about the united states but the phenomena are basically world some are you going to see his eleventh and final interview for his show. i tell you no less controversial and intriguing that we've come to expect from the man he founded wiki leaks he many say have revolution allies whistleblower and he once again has the entire eyes of the wells upon him in his own going struggle against extradition. and sarah mentioned you can catch a lot la

watch him question activist intellectuals noam chomsky entire eco leap on the revolution phenomenon that's taken the world by storm. but first the eurozone will have to find more cash for another of its struggling members after cyprus became the fifth state to say it needs a bailout it cited heavy exposure to greece the block's hardest hit member no official figures have yet been given but i will this figure cyprus could ask for five to fifteen or five to ten billion euros it's only a fraction of the hundred billion that spain's already asked for to shore up its own beleaguered banks the promise of rescue cash though didn't save madrid's banking sector for from another international downgrade ratings giant moody's cut the scores of twenty eight of spain's lenders crisis researcher jerome ruse thinks the eurozone is trapped in a vicious circle of debt and bail out. what we see now is that this this crisis reached sort of a tipping point especially in in the case of cyprus and spain where what economists call the duma to sort of the mutual dependence of banks and states and one another has r

fact grant asylum to us i know you signed a letter also filmmakers oliver stone michael moore noam chomsky's name is on there daniel ellsberg glenn greenwald's i want to put a little bit of that letter up on the screen for people to see you know their concerns and i know you're concerned to have and it says we believe mr assad has good reason to fear extradition to sweden as there is a strong likelihood that once in sweden he would be imprisoned and then likely extradited to the united states as u.s. legal expert and commentator glenn greenwald recently noted were assigned to be charged in sweden he would be imprisoned under very oppressive conditions where he would be held incommunicado rather than released on bail just briefly having because we're almost at a time why do you think that ecuador should in fact take a stand. well i think the key here is that people are suggesting there is a lot of paranoia on the part of the sign supporters to another just beating the narcissism of julius and i think the response to this sort of petulant argument is that there is this why grand jury investiga

i saw an interview with noam chomsky. noam chomsky, by the way, spoke in west point in 2006,invited to spe at wtntbo irar j hr th luravbl o c-span's web site. c-span recorded the lecture. a really, really good lecture. especially the question and answer session, that's the best part. but i say a different interview withimhereoma evhiasmuetter in the '60s. he said, that's in not true. and people romanticize the past. he said that he would give a talk about vtnam in5in st vbeto65 heeetm for years. he says four people would show up to his talk; the person who organized the talk, the preacher of the church where he was speaking, someone walking in off the street a somedy who ntedo klhi aur] prtsaneyld bring in the police to protect the protesters from students. students would try to attack the peace protesters in boston. and he said prior to the iraq war tenof millions of people wafotveegthe war pst whhaim draft. that's why student started protesting, is the draft happened. now, the reason the protest didn't work prior to the

plaintiffs in the lawsuit, a group of journalists, scholars, and political activists including noam chomsky and chris hedges. on wednesday, the judge said it applies broadly, not just to the plaintiffs. new data shows the obama administration is continuing to deport massive numbers of immigrants despite a review aimed at halting deportations for those with no criminal records and with family ties to the u.s. top officials have previously promised to close backlog deportation cases for immigrants with strong family connections. out of hundreds of thousands of deportation cases, fewer than 2% have been closed so far. the department homeland security as they have identified more than who are eligible to have their cases closed, that many cases have been stalled by the need for background checks. immigration advocates say families are still being unjustifiably separated. the israeli government has announced a new round of illegal settlement construction in the occupied west bank. on wednesday, israel said it plans to build more than 500 new housing units in various west bank settlements. speaki

if you go back a generation where professor noam chomsky was doing battle intellectually with the liberalish community, so his main adversaries were people like -- the area of agreement, if you were to take a diagram of the two, they could not even touch. there was no agreement on anything. when i sat down and read peter's book, a representative of the same tradition, and now, i would say i agreed with about 80%. i was very positively surprised by that. the men of various suppressing -- separating me -- the amount of space separating me from them is, ok, there is still a significant 20%, but 80% means a large overlap. i do not think it is because i have gone soft, moving toward the center. no, i'm not. i have the same principles as always. i think because the spectrum has shifted significantly. >> we're talking to offer, scholar, activist norman finkelstein who is just written a book out this week, "knowing too much: why the american jewish romance with israel is coming to an end." when we come back, we will talk about his other book, "what gandhi says: about nonviolence, resistance and c

to take just two examples, michael moore and noam chomsky they've done a lot to raise awareness in the united states to show that both foreign and domestic policy is currently pursued the dead ends are worse. yet both of these men assume that the problem is coming from the top, from the pentagon and the corporations, which is partly true of course. the problem is that this rests on the theory of false consciousness that is the belief that these institutions have pulled the war of the eyes of the average american citizen who is rational and well intentioned. i would say to them get out and talk to some people and find out how accurate that is. so, for them the solution is one of education. pull it away from the eyes and the citizen will spontaneously awaken and commit itself to some sort of populist or democratic social vision. is that happening now with occupy will st.? nexium important question and i think we should talk about it afterwards. my point is what if it turns out that it is the guy is? the so-called average citizen really does want as janis joplin put it in a mercedes benz.

. >> we don't have figures that are recognized us now tops the to be intellectuals lake noam chomsky.we do have researchers was famous and less prestigious being interviewed in media and a new phenomenon a 99 year-old who wrote the book it is interesting. he is extremely old% today. he talks may be at and television radio shows years and years. he was not very famous. started a campaign of ill the gall immigrants and began signing petitions to talk about it and that led him to rates in this book of political as asia and for him and because of the incredible success of the book it was used and in different ways he now becomes a figure. it did is really a of the left side of the zero ways to go up to the rally demonstration. it will be the air -- maybe not. i don't know. [laughter] >> thank you for coming to the panel. derrick o'keefe for about jake lindgaard. joel whitney. [applause] >> i want to read the but what do we do? the inside look line with what you manage the. [inaudible] some shows just how crazy it can get with the freshmen put in by the tea party sadr controlling the way t

>> guest: noam chomsky has made that comparison. in some ways yes. it is always difficult to make those historical analogies because one has to be very cognizant of major differences including massive war reparations and the defeat of world war i and affected germany had no tradition of liberal democracy under its monarchy but i think there are some similarities. the most important being a modernization of the american working class. the disenfranchisement of working men and women. used to be in this country going back to the 50s and the 60s that you could work in an auto plant or a steel mill and make a salary that would support a family and allow you to buy a small house and send your kids to college and have medical benefits and a pension plan and all that has vanished. we have to trust our working class into the service sector economy, low-wage economy, not only people tend to work in the working-class more than one jobs, to keep afloat. that has been a devastating change. one of the rises of the christian right as i argue is directly linked to t

these people in operating as a cultural critic also so i'm from a year to some and very tough on noam chomsky for instance i'm kind of tough on harold bloom. someone wrote that i was tough on an although i felt i was friendly just by letting her in the book. [laughter] but this was somebody during a web page or so on. i don't think for instance the book breaks down easily left or right. i don't break down easily left or right in my political opinions or philosophical judgments generally. i was very sad to see the other day my book was reviewed in "the wall street journal" but st. addition and women philosophers, what philosophers, native american philosophers and so on to identity politics i don't say anything about identity politics. i don't care about identity politics. i talk about a bunch of living people who think, so i hope that doesn't happen to the book while it's out there that people think it's a right wing book or left-wing but because i think what i do about a particular figure like most journalists on an attentive to concrete details so what a particular writer or thinker has don