TVO - Big Ideas, December 2, 2002: Noam Chomsky on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11

TVO - Big Ideas, December 2, 2002: Noam Chomsky on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11

MIT professor of Linguistics, Noam Chomsky, delivers his 2002 lecture on international policy continuity in the wake of 9-11.

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Runtime: 01:00:27
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 320x240
Audio: AAC 32000Hz mono 48Kbps

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Please note I'm well aware that this is an older lecture from December 2002. My reasons for posting this are multi-purpose.

First, although this lecture is from December 2002 and probably aired on TVO's Big Ideas program in early 2003, TVO only very recently made this video podcast available.

Secondly, this is Chomsky, and Chomsky is always worth listening to. ;; If you're interested in this subject, you'll find this a worthwhile and informative lecture, not to mention incredibly prescient. ;; As usual, Chomsky demonstrates just how ahead of the curve he is of everyone else, which he is rewarded for by being slandered against and marginalized in the American mainstream media and the mainstream American intelligentsia, both liberal and of course conservative, even as establishment pundits and "intellectuals" on American mainstream media such as the war-mongering, NeoCon propagandist David Brooks and the truly vile, racist pompous-buffoon Tom Friedman with his racist, genocidal fever-dreams, not to mention those endless number of American corporate-funded right-wing think-tankers and pundit superstars like Bill Kristol continue to enjoy prominent positions in the media, and are even rewarded and promoted to higher positions and prestigious venues for being repeatedly, completely, and utterly wrong about everything. ;;

It is also quite telling that this discussion doesn't lose much from being a couple of years old. ;; The issue of American foreign policy continuity, only with better PR and a smarter, better managed form of imperialism that Obama, the Democrats and American liberals specialize in, remains relevant given "the continuity that has become the hallmark of our so-called Age of Change," to quote the great Chris Floyd. ;; Of course, this was all completely predictable to those like Chomsky who actually understand the operations of power in the real world that lie behind the facade of elections and politics, who actually understand the American imperial power-structure and the actual motivations behind, and the long bipartisan continuity of, American foreign policy, in the Middle-East and elsewhere; to those who actually know and understand American political history, who know the long, sordid, war-mongering, murderous history of the Democratic party and its long track-record of betrayals of the left, and who understand how crucial and important bottom-up grass-roots activism, existence of third parties and pressure from a strong left were in bringing about civilizing, social progress like civil rights and in forcing the Democratic party to push through progressive policies like the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act; and to those who were actually paying attention to Obama's track record and who were listening to what Obama was actually saying instead of projecting their own (and in many cases, quite sincere and heartfelt) wishes for "Hope and Change" (tm) into Obama's deliberately vague, market-tested slogans (Yes We Can! yes we can .. what??) and "soaring rhetoric" that the dim-witted, shallow and sycophantic talking-heads and pundits on American media were easily dazzled and wowed by.

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