Noam Chomsky reflects on the Iraq War 20 years later | The Mehdi Hasan Show

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  • @SuperMovieLvr933
    @SuperMovieLvr933 Год назад +607

    Wow Noam Chomsky on the mainstream corporate media. Thanks Mehdi!

    • @combatrock
      @combatrock Год назад +31

      I too am shocked lol, this would have been impossible even ten years ago

    • @diamondbracelette
      @diamondbracelette Год назад +14

      Second appearance I believe

    • @SuperMovieLvr933
      @SuperMovieLvr933 Год назад +26

      @@kidmaciek2 Totally false. You're probably just a denier of the Indoneasian genocide of east timor which the US supported.

    • @ShannonJacobs0
      @ShannonJacobs0 Год назад

      But RUclips is all about censorship. Noticed all the extra ads lately?
      You better not DARE say anything about them. The google is so EVIL these days.

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 Год назад +4

      Wow Chomsky the eternal democrat gets invited to a democratic platform WOAAAAH

  • @intlvoiceofreason9239
    @intlvoiceofreason9239 Год назад +313

    "The Military Industrial Complex acts as a transfer mechanism, it transfers Public Funds to the Private Sector" - Noam Chomsky

    • @MrManny075
      @MrManny075 Год назад

      And come back from where it started.

    • @Trund27
      @Trund27 Год назад +2

      @Int’l Voice of Reason: Such a brilliant and truthful quote.

  • @AhmedAzzamAzzam
    @AhmedAzzamAzzam Год назад +61

    As an Iraqi who majors in linguistics, I truly thank you for your words.

    • @gr3ndizer97
      @gr3ndizer97 Год назад

      السلام عليكم.
      شنو قصد چومسكي ب USS Fallujah ؟
      انكليزيتي ضعيفة.
      شكرا.

    • @AhmedAzzamAzzam
      @AhmedAzzamAzzam Год назад

      @@gr3ndizer97 وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله، بيكول البحرية الاميريكية عملت سفينة حربية جديدة وسمتها يوسس فلوجة على اسم مدينة الفلوجة العراقية، فبيكول كيف يسموها مثل هذا الاسم اللي يخلد ذكرى مدمرة لأهل العراق

  • @joshuapowell114
    @joshuapowell114 Год назад +390

    This man is a living hero.

    • @deeznutz8320
      @deeznutz8320 Год назад

      Dude made his money leeching of these wars his Jewish people promoted
      Gets to look like a hero making shekels and looking like a good Jew

    • @raw_dah
      @raw_dah Год назад +3

      What a time to be alive

    • @buttshivaz2505
      @buttshivaz2505 Год назад +6

      Bush has to pay

    • @intlvoiceofreason9239
      @intlvoiceofreason9239 Год назад +3

      @ناصر such as?

    • @davidrappazzo8755
      @davidrappazzo8755 Год назад +5

      Putin Bush and Biden are all the same

  • @FoxMacLeod2501
    @FoxMacLeod2501 Год назад +113

    I cherish Noam Chomsky, and every moment he's shared with us all.

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Год назад

      You cherish the guy who hides behind leftist rhetoric to deny genocides? Wow....

  • @combatrock
    @combatrock Год назад +288

    Im shocked you actually had such an anti imperalist voice on a pro imperialism corporate network. This would have been impossible even ten years ago, but you need to keep it up much longer.

    • @petergreen5337
      @petergreen5337 Год назад +4

      Well said and well REASONED.

    • @davidalvarez7262
      @davidalvarez7262 Год назад

      Only thing you that can be said is that the topics they discuss even the title of what he is know for is different

    • @Joelmonterrey
      @Joelmonterrey Год назад

      Dude, stop. It's not pro-imperialist and Chomsky isn't anti-imperialist unless it's about the USA. With Russian imperialism, he's perfectly fine with that.

    • @combatrock
      @combatrock Год назад +5

      @@Joelmonterrey Chomsky is at best adjacent to Glenn Greenwald but no more than that, which is one of Noams *only* failures as a media critic and public intellectual. And to be frank, he's factually correct about America and its genocidal imperialism and the disinformation used to support that imperialism which has been platformed by the MSM since before we were born and continues to this day. I know this because I'm a media criticism-focused academic journalist and I started down this road because I was raised on Rush Limbaugh. If your only argument against Chomsky is Russia Bad you're fundamentally arguing that our imperialsm isn't as bad and thats...that's not the vibe my man. Read the room, few folks under 35 that are on the left are into your whole "we say we're liberal but really we're neoliberal democrats who uphold the status quo and ensure progressive values are tantamount to communism" mccarthyism nonsense anymore, that way of life is dying the death it deserves before our eyes. Just think! If the ICC finally has any guts they will use the Afghanistan Papers as evidence to haul Obama and Biden in for the many war crimes they committed...and if your answer to those factual realities is that I'm a far left extremist, I hate to break it to you my friend but on a global political spectrum you're a conservative, and an imperialist warmonger. Some of us realized we have blood on our hands and are willing to actually dedicate ourselves to dismantling white supremacy, the rest of yall are the white moderate that MLK wrote about in Letter From Birmingham Jail. Have a nice life tho.

    • @jsschrstsprstr
      @jsschrstsprstr Год назад

      It's an exception that proves the rule, in this case the propaganda model.

  • @patrickgrove3469
    @patrickgrove3469 Год назад +198

    Nothing has been learned 20 years later.

    • @joshuapowell114
      @joshuapowell114 Год назад +9

      Not a thing.

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Год назад +10

      We did Iraq 30-40 years after Vietnam so we have a few years before we make a mess somewhere else.

    • @robertchmielecki2580
      @robertchmielecki2580 Год назад +3

      Well, at least with Iraq again on the news, more people will finally learn the proper pronounciation of the name of this country ;) (no, it's not "eye-rak")

    • @bobs182
      @bobs182 Год назад +3

      @@robertchmielecki2580 I Ran home and I Rack the balls.

    • @benedictcowell6547
      @benedictcowell6547 Год назад +1

      I do not condone the Iraq invasion but just now I find Putin Trump, and Brexit, more of an issue I find Trump a greater menace to the USA than Stalin ever was, and I am no Stalinist but the massive ignorance of the Republican Party and Fox are really more of a menace than Communism.

  • @AA-uf3bl
    @AA-uf3bl Год назад +2

    *What I like about Mehdi the most is that he listens to people and gives them their fair chance to speak, rather than coming with questions and forcing people to get the answers he wants to.*
    Cheers from Somalia.

  • @azizaibrahim1155
    @azizaibrahim1155 Год назад +73

    Thank you, Mehdi, for allowing Chomsky full time to answer your questions. He’s a truth teller !!!

  • @ebv7777
    @ebv7777 Год назад +172

    As an American expat who left in 2006, primarily due to the atrocious and illegal actions being carried out in my name at the time- THANK YOU MEHDI, THANK YOU NOAM!!

    • @adk46er5203
      @adk46er5203 Год назад +2

      You left in 2006. Thank you. Please do not come back.

    • @kyarden7971
      @kyarden7971 Год назад +21

      @@adk46er5203 Why would he want to come back???

    • @L3v3F4l4stin4
      @L3v3F4l4stin4 Год назад

      ​@@adk46er5203 and it's 2023 now. What makes you think the person is coming back?. People like you and Bush and Blair should be tried for crimes against humanity

    • @MidnightSunshine27
      @MidnightSunshine27 Год назад +12

      Why Americans called themselves "Expats" but refer to other as "immigrants"??? I'm just curious...WHY? 🤨🤔

    • @waleed8530
      @waleed8530 Год назад

      @@MidnightSunshine27 all yanks are immigrants.

  • @RocRizzo
    @RocRizzo Год назад +58

    Thank you. You rarely see Chomsky on US media at all these days. It's good to hear his voice once again on US media.

  • @Spock_Rogers
    @Spock_Rogers Год назад +60

    Thank you for having Mr. Chomsky on your program! He's educated me so much! I read 'How the World Works', and I was never the same. 🕊️💕

    • @jackwilliam2965
      @jackwilliam2965 Год назад

      The biggest industry on earth is War. War creates money, so the defence industry is working overtime.

  • @celestialnubian
    @celestialnubian Год назад +119

    Even NPR is scared of Noam so it's shocking to see him get coverage on MSNBC.

    • @americandelusion
      @americandelusion Год назад

      NPR is scared of Noam because Noam isn’t afraid to tell the truth about Israel

    • @sharondavid-melly1498
      @sharondavid-melly1498 Год назад +11

      Shocking? Not on Medhi's show I'm not shocked

    • @intlvoiceofreason9239
      @intlvoiceofreason9239 Год назад +3

      NPR is center-left so it's not really so shocking...

    • @bobomaigret5430
      @bobomaigret5430 Год назад +1

      Their official ban started with Jeff Greenfield, before he moved on to corporate media. You can look up Noam discussing this to learn more if interested.....

    • @bobomaigret5430
      @bobomaigret5430 Год назад

      ​@@intlvoiceofreason9239 NPR started banning Chomsky under Jeff Greenfield.

  • @corneliusrupert7354
    @corneliusrupert7354 Год назад +66

    "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war." - Julian Assange (2011)

    • @lifetech4146
      @lifetech4146 Год назад +6

      Not many will understand it though

    • @intlvoiceofreason9239
      @intlvoiceofreason9239 Год назад +9

      "The Military Industrial Complex acts as a transfer mechanism, it transfers Public Funds to the Private Sector" - Noam Chomsky

    • @VanSisean
      @VanSisean Год назад +1

      "The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact."
      - Emmanuel Goldstein, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism," from George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

    • @GeopoliticsDaily538
      @GeopoliticsDaily538 Год назад +4

      And less than year after the Afghan retreat, the Ukraine war begins, with the same goal.

    • @UncoolForYou
      @UncoolForYou 8 месяцев назад

      The only way to maintain their order is by creating chaos in others destruction.

  • @annchristine47
    @annchristine47 Год назад +2

    I love Mehdi .America is so lucky to have him constantly speaking truth to power.Thankyou.

  • @mdshifathossen5546
    @mdshifathossen5546 Год назад +1

    What a argumentative voice: the great Noam Chomosky. Very much thanks Mehdi for recaping & unveling the truth of US atrocities.

  • @dabay200
    @dabay200 Год назад +68

    Chomsky was right then and he is still right now

    • @mck1972
      @mck1972 Год назад

      Chomsky was not, ' right ', about anything, then or now:
      Chomsky NEVER produced proof that the US Government of, ' Lying ', about the Iraq Intel until AFTER the War started!
      And Chomsky NEVER explained how Saddam could be compelled to allow proper inspections WITHOUT the threat of Military Force!
      SMH

  • @ndotl
    @ndotl Год назад +93

    Noam Chomsky: Producer of formal language theory books that were the standard in the early days of my computer science degree.

    • @ShannonJacobs0
      @ShannonJacobs0 Год назад

      But RUclips is all about censorship. Noticed all the extra ads lately?
      You better not DARE say anything about them. The google is so EVIL these days.

    • @mck1972
      @mck1972 Год назад +1

      Then Chomsky should limit his comments to those fields that he actually knows what he is talking about: Linguistics-And its relationship to Computer Science.
      But he has ZERO Credibility to talk about anything else-Especially Foreign Policy!

    • @khdmhd2947
      @khdmhd2947 Год назад +1

      Boo

    • @mck1972
      @mck1972 Год назад +4

      @@khdmhd2947
      Don't Shoot the Messenger if you can't face the reality of the message.

    • @nightowl1654
      @nightowl1654 Год назад

      Hater?

  • @peterwatchorn5618
    @peterwatchorn5618 Год назад +33

    One of the great, honest thinkers of our time. A privilege to see him here.

  • @thermodynamics458
    @thermodynamics458 Год назад +26

    It really is a step forward that MSNBC are willing to give a platform to a voice like this. Whether you agree or disagree with him (I agree largely with him by the way), these are important voices and they should be heard. Not silenced by ignoring.

  • @notbadnotbad
    @notbadnotbad Год назад +38

    20 Years after Iraq… Msnbc finally let’s him on TV

    • @stevebergman4587
      @stevebergman4587 Год назад

      If Mehdi didn’t invite him, he would have never made it on the show

    • @notbadnotbad
      @notbadnotbad Год назад +1

      @@stevebergman4587 Yea Mehdi is the best thing on MSNBC, but that’s not saying much.

    • @stevebergman4587
      @stevebergman4587 Год назад

      @@notbadnotbad True. Only thing I didn’t like about Mehdi is how he played the entire Trump Russia commentary .

  • @yourgodismean4526
    @yourgodismean4526 Год назад +38

    Ty very much for platforming Noam Chomsky. Pls have more Progressives on. I would watch more

  • @ntscribe
    @ntscribe Год назад +43

    Thank you for interviewing Noam Chomsky, and decades of thanks to Noam Chomsky for offering informed and reasonable responses to a world that lacks both.

  • @kennyc6597
    @kennyc6597 Год назад +55

    George Jr's war for his daddy, based on a lie.

  • @cmvamerica9011
    @cmvamerica9011 Год назад +51

    Bush even said Iraq when speaking about Ukraine.😂

  • @abuahmed6058
    @abuahmed6058 Год назад +44

    Dr Noam chomsky ,we ❤️ you for speaking in favor of truth .

  • @Spiral.Dynamics
    @Spiral.Dynamics 11 месяцев назад +1

    I just heard that this was the first time that Noam Chomsky was invited on MSNBC.
    I also heard that Mehdi Hasan now has his own news platform.

  • @tocino415
    @tocino415 Год назад +7

    This is a gem of an exchange.

  • @tonywords6713
    @tonywords6713 Год назад +28

    Thank you for giving Noam a platform

  • @redangrybird7564
    @redangrybird7564 Год назад +20

    The Australian minister of Defense in 2007, Brendan Nelson MP said that the real reason for the invasion was the Iraqi oil, sure ... the man was sacked later that year.

  • @nimoodukwu6506
    @nimoodukwu6506 Год назад +3

    His still alive cause his a man with integrity

  • @robertbeerbohm1800
    @robertbeerbohm1800 Год назад +33

    Keep shining light on the truth!

  • @EmoBrianEno
    @EmoBrianEno Год назад +25

    Let us not forget this Freudian slip;
    “It was the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq,” former president George W. Bush said before quickly correcting himself, saying he meant to describe Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. He then openly admitted with his iconic chuckle, “Iraq, too, anyway,”

  • @stevenmincin263
    @stevenmincin263 Год назад +117

    Who'd'a thunk a USA mainstream news outlet would air a truthful, fact-based, interview! Now I can have hope!

    • @zhadoomzx
      @zhadoomzx Год назад +23

      Lets not go too far... this wasn't THE MEDIA... it was one show... so credit should go to Mehdi Hasan not the media

    • @tintin5341
      @tintin5341 Год назад +3

      It's Mehdi Hasan not the complete media

    • @Progressive2024
      @Progressive2024 Год назад +4

      Hasan can be fired for this.

  • @randomcomment5321
    @randomcomment5321 Год назад +22

    Many times I disagree with Mehdi Hasan, but he is undoubtedly a hero for bringing Noam Chomsky to his show. Most News shows don't invite Nome Chomsky because he needs time to explain his views which are often different from others.

  • @donalain69
    @donalain69 Год назад +16

    I wasn't aware of what happened in Fallujah until now when I heard Noam Chomsky mention it and did some research about it.
    I found a documentary named: Fallujah, The Hidden Massacre
    I thought I have seen a lot of terrible things... but seeing this and knowing this is real and not scenes from a horror film... can't find any word bad enough to describe this crime. How could human beings do something like that!?
    The least the US could do is apologize for it... but instead they simply ignore it!

    • @koscocosco5309
      @koscocosco5309 Год назад +4

      I saw it years ago.. Was honestly NOT surprised about Americas hypocrisy.

    • @aliceinwonder8978
      @aliceinwonder8978 Год назад

      I recently saw there were video games being made specifically about Fallujah and glorifying american soldiers evil. its disgusting

    • @donalain69
      @donalain69 Год назад

      @@aliceinwonder8978 yes, it's disgusting. That's the Military-entertainment complex. There is an article about it on Wikipedia.

  • @alfredjacobs9465
    @alfredjacobs9465 Год назад +24

    So many of us value you tremendously

  • @anirprasadd
    @anirprasadd Год назад +6

    The United States has spent a few trillions fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Just imagine if that money could've been poured into handling domestic problems...

  • @abrahamlincoln937
    @abrahamlincoln937 Год назад +28

    The Vietnam War and the Iraq War are the two major wars in American history that were unjustified.

    • @Glumclam
      @Glumclam Год назад +22

      There’s more than two

    • @intlvoiceofreason9239
      @intlvoiceofreason9239 Год назад +1

      Korean War? and let's not even begin to talk about all the proxy wars the U.S. has funded

    • @SaddamHussain-we9ec
      @SaddamHussain-we9ec Год назад +1

      Invasion of Afghanistan n many other nations justified? Brutally killing of MILLIONS of innocent civilians justified?

    • @Drugvigil
      @Drugvigil Год назад +10

      And add Afghanistan and Libya too.

    • @4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944
      @4_vaccuum_salesman_of_marr944 Год назад +10

      Yes, the extermination of native tribes was perfectly justified. As was the genocidal invasion of the Philippines. As was our involvement in the Balkans. Etc. Etc.

  • @danremenyi1179
    @danremenyi1179 Год назад +26

    We have to be grateful for Chomsky. Thank you Noam!

  • @suzanneharris8339
    @suzanneharris8339 Год назад +21

    Imagine if Noam was a frequent guest on the Sunday talk shows instead of the military types. Thank you, Mehdi, for giving him a voice. 👆 ♥

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 Год назад

      Give the man a break. He's 94 yrs old. He should be cuddling up with a cat and taking catnaps in the sunlight.

    • @mck1972
      @mck1972 Год назад +1

      I'll do you one better:
      Imagine IF academic egghead Chomsky ever did more with his life than merely complain from the sidelines about fields that he has never had the guts to actually work in himself-Which is everything outside Linguistics-Like the worthless armchair critic that he is! :-D

  • @billy9497able
    @billy9497able Год назад +11

    Credit to Medhi for having the great Noam Chomsky on. Not many mainstream media outlets will have him on, both the left and right. Great stuff.

  • @sharonmassey2923
    @sharonmassey2923 Год назад +18

    4:35 "The rest thought what the rest of the world thinks..." Mehdi, you didn't seem interested in the end of that sentence (not unlike the general attitude of the rest of the country). The motivation behind the invasion seems like kind of an important point to not notice. Thank you, Mr. Chomsky, for shining a light on the long-term, horrific American hypocrisy, and the completely unnecessary suffering it has caused. I'm surprised you were "allowed" to.

  • @cultureal9544
    @cultureal9544 Год назад +29

    THANK YOU Noam Chomsky for YOUR LEGACY of knowledge and better understanding of our language guiding Society for good or bad.
    You and Bernie got it right, it was for oil.

  • @sidakong9467
    @sidakong9467 Год назад +1

    cant believe I’m seeing this on mainstream media

  • @Ludicanti
    @Ludicanti 10 месяцев назад +1

    My dear professor, I miss you! ❤
    How are you???

  • @eduardofktrmp9463
    @eduardofktrmp9463 Год назад +45

    Yes sir, it was and stands as a crime of aggression.

    • @adamjg5061
      @adamjg5061 Год назад

      Aggression against who? I dare you to answer, Eduardo.

  • @Kwelinzito
    @Kwelinzito Год назад +2

    If Mehdi Hassan isn't thrown out of MSNBC, it would be a real miracle.

  • @pauldonohue7672
    @pauldonohue7672 Год назад +19

    I am always dismayed by how American parents tollerate the loss of their children in senseless wars..If it was my son or grandson, I would have a lifetime goal of getting revenge! The war mongers would not live.

  • @diligentmindz
    @diligentmindz Год назад +2

    Truth and wisdom from age

  • @kamruzzamanamit1206
    @kamruzzamanamit1206 Год назад +7

    This man is still young ❤

  • @keithfernandez8965
    @keithfernandez8965 Год назад +17

    Noam....you have been RIGHT.....ON EVERY LEVEL...BLESSINGS

  • @patrickgrove3469
    @patrickgrove3469 Год назад +20

    Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges are two people who keep me from totally writing White people off as innately evil.

    • @katsong3302
      @katsong3302 Год назад +8

      Please consider there are good persons and not good persons regardless of the melanin content in the skin.

    • @lawlcosteroflulz
      @lawlcosteroflulz Год назад +2

      That’s the most ignorant and racist thing I’ve heard all day. Thanks for showing your colors.

    • @combatrock
      @combatrock Год назад

      ​@@lawlcosteroflulz you're the most ignorant and racist thing I've heard all day. Thanks for showing your colors.

    • @patrickgrove3469
      @patrickgrove3469 Год назад +2

      @@lawlcosteroflulz Call the police like most of you do in the first place 😂

    • @ungratefulninja4535
      @ungratefulninja4535 Год назад +2

      Also, Jimmy Dore & Max Blumenthal

  • @alexh1111
    @alexh1111 Год назад +4

    Mehdi, I don't comment on RUclips videos at all but I just have to say THANK YOU for bringing Noam Chomsky on mainstream media. This is moving in itself since these type of independent thinkers aren't highlighted at all.

  • @TanteiGH
    @TanteiGH Год назад +12

    I am so grateful to Noam. I’ve been following him for some years and he’s truly a legendary thinker. I wish I could meet or at least extent my gratitude to him.

  • @abutaher5612
    @abutaher5612 Год назад +10

    Noam Chomsky was right all the time

  • @Focandyface
    @Focandyface Год назад +17

    This guy is absolute gold! thank you gentlemen!

  • @AhmedalHijazi
    @AhmedalHijazi Год назад +11

    Chomsky has dedicated his life earnestly mining for the truth and showing it to the public

  • @AbdulRahman-mk3wl
    @AbdulRahman-mk3wl Год назад +2

    I love norm Chomsky. He is a man of integrity and probity.

  • @_saifr
    @_saifr Год назад +1

    Sad to see him get older. I have become fond of him in last year and have already read two of his books.

  • @janetweil
    @janetweil Год назад +10

    Words of bitter truth. Thank you, Noam.

  • @ew5153
    @ew5153 Год назад +4

    When are they going to arrest all those war criminals.

  • @pantherpopel551
    @pantherpopel551 Год назад +2

    *CHOMSKY ON MSNBC??*
    Who put mushrooms in my water?

  • @pnf197
    @pnf197 Год назад +6

    The premise was to ensure Iraq not invade Kuwait the first time, and push them back to Baghdad the second time - George Jr. finished off what his George Sr. started. Saddam was a brutal dictator, who also happened to furnish his nation with good roads, education, advanced health care and rights for women and minorities. What's left? Maybe a burgeoning democracy 20 yrs on? May be.

    • @ketanjibrownsfavemolester7592
      @ketanjibrownsfavemolester7592 Год назад +1

      NOAM Responded 👈😳
      "Saddamngreatfriendumukraineum"...

    • @lillianmatthew3880
      @lillianmatthew3880 Год назад

      Saddam was a brutal dictator that the U.S. train supported and funded for many a year. You can almost say the U.S made Saddam

  • @alfrednewman2234
    @alfrednewman2234 Год назад +8

    sounds so reasonable. why kept off media?

  • @fungsia5549
    @fungsia5549 Год назад +1

    The ignorant don't like listening to the cold hard truth. The fact Chomsky is still so persistent in speaking the truth despite all odds is truly respectable. The world needs more of these voices for humanity's sake.

  • @MuhammadAli-hr1bj
    @MuhammadAli-hr1bj Год назад +10

    Such an amazing, sharp intellect. Professor Chomsky, may the Almighty God keep you in excellent health.

  • @ravensdotter6843
    @ravensdotter6843 Год назад +29

    Chomsky is a true national treasure.

    • @stevec7770
      @stevec7770 Год назад +1

      He is a charlatan

    • @patrickgrove3469
      @patrickgrove3469 Год назад +5

      @@stevec7770 Based on what?

    • @SuperMovieLvr933
      @SuperMovieLvr933 Год назад

      @@patrickgrove3469 Evidence. You don’t even have to read Chomsky. Just look at any foreign press. Especially not western. No one in the rest of the world thinks the invasion of Iraq was some benevolent act to bring democracy. It’s such a joke.

    • @stevec7770
      @stevec7770 Год назад

      @@patrickgrove3469 he rants about economic inequality while collecting hefty speaking fees

    • @stevec7770
      @stevec7770 Год назад

      @@h.b.7104 nope

  • @Progressive2024
    @Progressive2024 Год назад +1

    I hope msnbc doesn’t fire you for this interview.

  • @rabidbanshee
    @rabidbanshee Год назад +10

    When enough of us want The World to be better it is, slowly but surely.

    • @khdmhd2947
      @khdmhd2947 Год назад +1

      Optimistic but a good thought nonetheless

  • @nohandler1493
    @nohandler1493 Год назад +1

    Professor Chomsky is a MIT linguistic. He designed and develop theories for Context Free Grammar. CFG used for computer programming language design and compiler parser design. It is an important building block of all modern programming language.

  • @conors4430
    @conors4430 Год назад +2

    It doesn’t mean anything for the American establishment to realise that Iraq was a bad move, because they don’t actually learn their lessons when it comes to the next issue. That’s not learning your lesson, that’s being sheepish because you didn’t get what you wanted.

  • @hassanshayegannik155
    @hassanshayegannik155 Год назад +7

    Noam and Mehdi are the conscience of humanity. Bravo! Thanks!

  • @Trund27
    @Trund27 Год назад +7

    One of my heroes. We ignore him at our peril!!!

  • @hodaka1000
    @hodaka1000 Год назад +8

    I knew they had no weapons of mass destruction and I was hanging banners with peace slogans along Highway 1

    • @vitocorleone8323
      @vitocorleone8323 Год назад

      Iraqi General Sada wrote a book detailing how Iraq's WMD were moved to Syria. Look up his name he's very convincing. The weapons were later used by Syria.

    • @T43055
      @T43055 Год назад

      @@vitocorleone8323what were these so called weapons of mass destruction, 99% of sources say there were none.

    • @labeebulshah8424
      @labeebulshah8424 Год назад

      ​@@vitocorleone8323Iraq and Syria were not friends. Still you cannot invade a country for that. Any country has a right to have strong military. You don’t talk about zionist Israel.

  • @TwinGoats
    @TwinGoats Год назад +7

    Charges should have came after this war… wmds????

  • @fishhookism
    @fishhookism Год назад +1

    How about having on Chris Hedges, next?

  • @TanteiGH
    @TanteiGH Год назад +2

    I did not know about them calling a war vessel the USS Fallujah. Absolutely unforgivable

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions Год назад +5

    May Allah bless the Iraqis and Afghans who picked up their weapons and defended their land against American Invaders. History bears witness to US global crimes.

  • @joaobaptista8377
    @joaobaptista8377 Год назад +14

    God Bless Noam

  • @jaykraft9523
    @jaykraft9523 Год назад +1

    So WONDERFUL to see this guy looking so old. Soon he'll be gone and forgotten

  • @JD-od6jh
    @JD-od6jh Год назад +1

    Having Mehdi Hassan on a mainstream network might actually break the mold in what kind of political discourse is allowed.

  • @lau_dhondt
    @lau_dhondt Год назад

    Thanks Mehdi

  • @petercampbell2747
    @petercampbell2747 Год назад +6

    Great to see Noam on the show. Clear and correct analysis as always.

  • @teugene5850
    @teugene5850 Год назад +4

    Noam is the Voltaire of our generation... enjoy him while he is here... a sage's voice will go unheard...

  • @melosova-suav8930
    @melosova-suav8930 Год назад +1

    Why didn’t MSNBS have Chomsky on immediately before the invasion of Iraq?

  • @ErichoTTA
    @ErichoTTA 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'd love to ask him if he thinks Richard Nixon was worse than George W. Bush.

  • @Sadjedi123
    @Sadjedi123 Год назад +1

    Love Chomsky ❤

  • @nilesoien7867
    @nilesoien7867 Год назад +1

    Everyone always quotes the line about "most important intellectual of our time" but the next line from the New York Times is something like "so why does he say such awful things about American foreign policy?". I suspect it's the later part that he'd be proud of.

  • @sreckohorvat2298
    @sreckohorvat2298 Год назад +1

    surprised they gave Noam a little airtime on the Mainstream Media.

  • @harmony9591
    @harmony9591 Год назад +5

    Very good news coverage. Aggravating outro music gets on my nerves, tho
    That's the price I pay I suppose

  • @jessikabat6200
    @jessikabat6200 Год назад

    Credit to Mehdi for having Noam on, and I think at least once (maybe twice?) since he started this show. Noam Chomsky is a voice that should be heard, whether you agree with him 100% of the time or not, he is truly brilliant.
    I remember that he was one of the few people that I can recall that was absolutely correct about how the withdrawal from Afghanistan would play out. I listened to an interview he did before the exit was even fully underway, where he was confident that Afghanistan’s military/government would fall to the Taliban pretty quickly. He was absolutely right. He is often right. The only other two people who were on the record saying that this was going to inevitably occur were Beau of the Fifth Column and Malcom Nance.

  • @araticum2
    @araticum2 Год назад +1

    “When you win a war you celebrate by mourning” Lao Tse

  • @christianapologeticspolemics
    @christianapologeticspolemics Год назад +3

    It sounds like this two people don’t like the us.

    • @Fundamental_Islam.
      @Fundamental_Islam. Год назад

      Nobody with an ounce of morality will like international drone attacking terrorist

  • @CanKicker68
    @CanKicker68 Год назад +1

    Can he comment on his comments made about genocide in Bosnia.....that would be interesting.?

  • @tanvieeahmaddhar9460
    @tanvieeahmaddhar9460 Год назад +1

    Excellent *

  • @Lexomm1
    @Lexomm1 Год назад +2

    Surreal, Chomsky on MSNBC, finally a change?

  • @danaknickerbocker651
    @danaknickerbocker651 Год назад +1

    Who controls Iraq's oil? Nobody talks about that.

  • @ah306
    @ah306 Год назад +5

    He is a living legend!

  • @biroonghiyamate
    @biroonghiyamate Год назад

    The german Federal Administrative Court, which is one of Germany's five Supreme Courts, said in 2005 that the Iraq War was a Crime of aggression and acquited a german soldier who refused to obey an order that would have supported that war. All german newspapers reported on that. Americans don't know that but the protests against the iraq war were the biggest protests many european countries ever saw. Millions of people were on the streets and I'm proud to say that was one of them.
    The fact that the Iraq War was a Crime of aggression is pretty much mainstream in many countries in this world. Just not in the US.
    It's not a "liberal media" problem. It's an american problem and one of the reasons is american exceptionalism, bad edcuation and stupidity. The same stupidity that makes people compare the Iraq War with the Nazis.
    But then again. We're talking about someone who defended the Khmer Rouge and called all media investigation propaganda. So....