back from boston where i had the opportunity to sit down with one of america's greatest minds noam chomsky but before we get into that interview i want to point out something and foreign that dr chomsky wrote recently i really puts the boston tragedy in a perspective in his op ed chomsky reminded all americans that these bombings gave us just a taste of the terrorism the u.s. inflicts a broad every day he writes it's rare for privileged westerners to see graphically what many others experience daily for example a remote village in yemen the same week as the marathon bombings chomsky's referring to the drone strikes in yemen near days after the boston bombings an attack that claimed the lives of five people in the u.s. claimed were suspected al qaeda militants of course later we learned that wasn't the case and in fact one yemeni for real muesli name went before a senate subcommittee hearing to counter that very claim. among them and i mean that was the fog of the strike many people and was no good to me and them and a government could have found and that is. yes even though the targeted fa

welcome back eyes here's the rest of my sit down with noam chomsky. the controversial bomb a policy is obvious in the national defense authorization act the n.d.a. which you're a plaintiff on the case you've also said that holder v humanitarian law is actually worse you know providing material support for terrorism do you think that both of these policies are just caught a fine practices that are that have already been in place for decades as a. is pretty much cut a fine practices that have been employed it was a little went a little beyond the court case in fact is narrow it's about the part that went beyond. authorization to imprison american citizens indefinitely without trial that's. and that's a radical violation of principles a go back as i said eight hundred years i don't see frankly much difference between . imprisoning american citizens in the prison anyone else they're all persons but we make a distinction that distinction was extended extended by the end of the humanitarian law project ground there was a concept of material support for terr

welcome back eyes here's the rest of my sit down with noam chomsky. a controversial policies obviously the national defense authorization act the n.d.a. which you're plaintiff on the case you've also said that holder of the humanitarian law is actually worse you know providing material support for terrorism do you think that both of these policies are just caught a fine practices that are that have already been in place for decades i think. is pretty much fun practices that have been employed it was a little it went a little beyond the court case and is narrow it's about the port that went beyond. authorization to imprison american citizens indefinitely without trial that's. i mean that's a radical violation of principles that go back because a city thundered years i don't see frankly much difference between. imprisoning american citizens in the prison anyone else and their role persons but we make a distinction. that distinction was. extended with the. the you know i turn and look for a new ground there was a concept of material support for terrorism

dr noam chomsky he's a linguistics and philosophy professor at mit where he's worked for over fifty years he's also political critic activist and author of over one hundred books amazingly he still holds office hours at mit that is scheduled for meetings every week a testament to how accessible chomsky is and sharing his viewpoints about the world with anyone who wishes to speak with him when i went into his office i couldn't help but notice the hundreds of stacked books plants and memorabilia he's collected from colleagues and events he's participated in over the years the one thing that was missing on his desk amidst the papers and books was a computer kind of a rare sight these days for someone so immersed in research and information but perhaps the thing that stood out the most to me it was a large photo of an address to palestine with a return stamp reading no such address being eighty four years old dr chomsky is still as sharp as ever he was able to maneuver between discussing everything from the war on terror to south vietnam and a concise and calm manner almost join a cup of hot

like a dying art which is why i'm excited to share an in-depth conversation i just had with dr noam chomsky philosopher linguist professor of political critic and author of over one hundred books the last fifty years dr chomsky has worked out of his mit office where i sat down with him surrounded by large stacks of books papers and memorabilia he has collected over the years and it eighty four years old dr chomsky is as sharp as ever and is able to articulate his unique viewpoint on everything from media propaganda to the war on terror so without further ado my one on one with dr noam chomsky. so much for taking the time to meet with me it's a great honor to be sitting here and we're in boston cambridge actually but you know as someone who is a living in the aftermath of the boston bombing the chaos what did you think of the police and media response to them. i hate to second guess police to my impression was was it. that there didn't have to be that degree of militarization of the area.

everything from media propaganda to the war on terror so without further ado my one on one but dr noam chomsky. so much for taking the time to meet with me it's a great honor to be sitting here and were in boston cambridge actually but you know as someone who was a living in the aftermath of the boston bombing the chaos what did you think of the police and media response to them well the. i hate to second guess police tactics but my impression was it was done so that they didn't have to be that degree of militarization of the area maybe they would do maybe it's kind of striking that the suspect they were looking for was. after they lifted the curfew he just noticed some blood on. the street but.

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back from boston where i had the opportunity to sit down with one of america's greatest minds noam chomsky but before we get into that interview i want to point out something important that dr chomsky wrote recently and i really puts the boston tragedy in a perspective in his op ed chomsky reminded all americans that these bombings gave us just a taste of the terrorism the u.s. inflicts a broad every day.

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back from boston where i had the opportunity to sit down with one of america's greatest minds noam chomsky but before we get into that interview i want to point out something important that dr chomsky wrote recently i really puts the boston tragedy in a perspective.

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the man noam chomsky got us thinking about how you talk about what people know. their length with stick competence, so i knew that everybody who is native speaker of a language has a level of competence, knows the difference between what is grammatical and not, and this is the model we worked with for many decades. so you like to think people would be consistent in the way they speak and would care whether it's everybody raised their hand or everybody raided his or her hand, but when you actually talk with people, they say, whatever. why are you so hung up on this? it doesn't matter. and then you go to the next step and say, just for the record, which one is correct? and they say, i don't know. there's a whole model we have had in the linguistic language, what is your way of speaking, i'm finding that people don't care as much. in part it's because language has become far more informal so we speak, we write the way we speak rather than having a different register. wright has to be all corrected and speech can be informal. and we're speaking increasingly informall

the man noam chomsky got us thinking about how you talk about what people know. their length with stick competence, so i knew that everybody who is native speaker of a language has a level of competence, knows the difference between what is grammatical and not, and this is the model we worked with for many decades. so you like to think people would be consistent in the way they speak and would care whether it's everybody raised their hand or everybody raided his or her hand, but when you actually talk with people, they say, whatever. why are you so hung up on this? it doesn't matter. and then you go to the next step and say, just for the record, which one is correct? and they say, i don't know. there's a whole model we have had in the linguistic language, what is your way of speaking, i'm finding that people don't care as much. in part it's because language has become far more informal so we speak, we write the way we speak rather than having a different register. wright has to be all corrected and speech can be informal. and we're speaking increasingly informall

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