Noam Chomsky Video

Noam Chomsky

Authors@Google
Google Cambridge
April 25, 2008

For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century, since the 1960’s Chomsky has also secured a place as perhaps the leading dissident voice in the United States.

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT and the author of numerous books including Chomsky vs. Foucault: A Debate on Human Nature, On Language, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship, and Towards a New Cold War (all published by The New Press).
From Authors@Google.

“The United States is Terrified”– On Latin America’s Move Towards “Independence and Integration”
Excerpts from UN press conference
June 5, 2006

Noam Chomsky–the renowned linguist and political analyst–was in New York Monday where he gave a press conference at the United Nations. Democracy Now! was there to capture Chomsky’s two-hour exchange with reporters. We play an excerpt of the press conference where Chomsky talks about the current political climate in Latin America.
From Democracy Now!.

On the function of so-called missile defense systems
Interview with Jan Tamas of Europe for peace
April 2008

From the interview: “As elsewhere, the term 'defense' is a misnomer: that's not what it is. It's recognized on all sides that so-called missile defense is an offensive weapon.”

“[T]he missile defense systems in Eastern Europe...are a very explicit provocation...”

Video from Europe for peace.

Inside USA
Al Jazeera English
June 20, 2008, Part 1

Includes discussion of the presidential election, changes in elite attitude toward the health care system, Obama’s hope, change and unity strategy and a comparison of Bolivian and Haitian democratic movements to US elections. Part 2 is below.
Video from Al Jazeera English.

Part 2
June 20, 2008

Topics include: US withdrawal from Iraq, Nir Rosen’s reporting, Muqtada al-Sadr, international aggression, Nuremberg war crimes principles, Saudi press, Foreign Affairs condemnation of extreme right Imperial Grand Strategy, persistence of Imperial project regardless of electoral outcome, Clinton foreign policy, US manufacturing system, mainstream Third World Solidarity Movements, atomization of population, and centralized power.
Video from Al Jazeera English.

On Gaza

MIT

January 13, 2009

1 hour 49 minutes

On Obama with Afshin Rattansi
Press TV
January 24, 2009

16 minutes

On Gaza

January 23, 2009

In a visit to the State Department Thursday, President Obama made his first substantive comments on the Middle East conflict since Israel’s attack on Gaza. Obama first mentioned his commitment to Israel’s security, without affirming his commitment to Palestinian security. He condemned Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns, but didn’t criticize the US-backed Israeli bombings of densely populated Gaza. But in a departure from the Bush administration, Obama acknowledged Palestinian suffering and said Gaza’s borders should be opened to aid. We speak with MIT professor, Noam Chomsky.

From Democracy Now!.