Noam Chomsky - Is Iran a Threat?

Ok? They still have proxies

@@MarioPeeps Oh what twisty creepy logic. America has proxies too and so does Israel (America for example) but that doesn't stop them invading,bombing and occupying other countries. Google US military invasions since 1890 - it's clear America has invaded or bombed practically everyone. Israel being a monomaniac keeps bombing the same ones- Gaza and Lebanon. For either of them to accuse Iran of aggression is hilarious in a Monty Python way. Both Israel and America are nuclear armed of course so basically uninvadable except in a MAD scenario. National security is just an excuse to bomb and invade other countries. Iraq and Afghanistan for example. And so many others.

No they don't, these are independent groups that are affiliated with Iran on their fight against Western imperialism, not "proxies." Iran does not have a neocon foreign policy which sees others as pawns to be played with. As much as I disagree with their fundamentalist regime and think that the Iranian people have the right to resist it, in terms of foreign policy they are much more humane than the United States.

This didn't age well

@@tesladavinci Why?

Can have many houses BUT A home is what is important. Why not explain who are the Palestinians???

@@nurabdullah8110 wut

Well..both of that not enough, they want the whole world for themselves. That why the jews is said to be cursed nation by god. They kill prophet and they claiming to be a child of god. except for minority of them truly follow the Judaism.

​@@ethnicleanserberg7975 They meant that Israel/Palestine is their homeland /promised land, true home etc (As though it's not so for Palestinians 😅)

​@@nurabdullah8110who are the jews?

"I MUST BE RIGHT BECAUSE I HAVE A GUN"

if you see an american talking about politics like he knows what the word even means, ask em if they got a passport, that will shut them up

America is being dismantled. White or Black in America .... short term or long term, you are FUCKED !! I used to be proud of having friends from the states. But once the subject of Géographie or History opened up, I realized they Numb Dumb af. Not all, but most. Heck, ask any American in the Streets in 2018 , where is Canada ? Same old answers similar to back in the 1990’s ; mmm that’s that cold place in Alaska 🤦‍♂️ Being called an American in 2018, anywhere in the world, other than the states, is embarrassing at times.

the U.S. is always right ... even when it's wrong it's right

Như Phương ...it's part of the US indoctrination, that has been programmed into the minds of US citizens for decades, by mainstream media and other methods. The US history books are written to promote the United States as a beacon of light that fights for freedom and democracy around the world. The United States has never spread an ounce of democracy, only dictatorships and terrorism. But ask the average US citizen about the CIA overthrowing democratically elected leaders of other nations, to install a dictators that allows US corporations to pillage and rape the resources of those nations, and those same US citizens will not believe you. Because they're never informed of the realities of their criminal government, so they *believe* the US is the greatest nation in the world. The US citizens are told lies on a daily basis, and it was not until the Internet really developed into what it is today, that US citizens are starting to be exposed to the corrupt and criminal acts of the US gov and its corporations. Take the Iraq war, and the lie that was broadcasted across all the US news networks, that Iraq had WMDs. It was all a manufactured lie by the criminal US gov, and the news networks pushed that lie to the US citizens. But how long before the US Empire enforces censorship on independent networks, KZhead channels and etc, will be interesting. KZhead has already censored videos that expose Israel war crimes by Abby Martin.

Lefty Gatekeeper well said

@jacob it was worse under the shah than it is now.

well I fear ben salman is gonna change it

Ali Ahmad : Lets hope he is able to overcome the fanaticism prevalent in his country, considering that its kind of Islamism is WAHABISM, Islam's most extreme...!!!!!!!!!!

saudi arabia is a hell!

In fact, the US is the only country that has used them twice on the civilian population in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

@@encomunismo Both civilian targets, with no prior warning. Breaking international law.

There was a warning look it up

That's when Liberals bust out the "whataboutism" excuse and just call you a Ayatollah Puppet

whatever04 Tell me where Chomsky supported Iranian civil rights violations.

where did he say he supports what the state does you

"TALENT WITHOUT HONESTY IS A SCOURGE" Simon Bolivar

"TALENT WITHOUT HONESTY IS A SCOURGE" Simon Bolivar

what Chomsky doesnt realize is that he is exactly the type person that gets rounded up and exterminated as soon as a fundamentalist theocracy comes to power...... useful idiot..... look at what Stalin did to Trotsky........ Chomsky would buddy up to the leftists and dictators then when they come to power he would end up with a bullet while in exile......such a blind, deluded person. Fodder for the gulag......read Solzhenitsyn..... you will see what Russia thought about people like Chomsky..... Lenin and Stalin ground them to dust.

whatever04 You are just plain ignorant. Iran is waaaay better than Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is where most of the 9/11 terrorists came from, it is where Osama bin Laden came from, it's the birth place of whahabi Islam that is the source of Islamic terrorism. You can live freely as a woman in Iran, all you need is a head scarf. Iranian Universities produce some of the best students and academics. No one is saying Iran is a paradise but they are not the ones causing instability in the region. The US, Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing that all on their own.

If you believe what your media says, you are a slave who doesnt know his/her masters, learn for your self

Have you heard of a place called Yemen?

i would love to visit iran its amazing history is awesome

whatever04 well the difference between the iranian government and the saudi Regime is that the iranians are Not nearly as radical and would Never support terrorists in order to spread islam. they spread islam by speech. While saudi arabia is proven to support and Finance al qaida, al nusra, isis and many more terrorist groups that Blow up all over the world

No... he lied, because Iran countlessly said they want to wipe out Israel.

Imperialism 101

Ok let china fuck the world.

@@peymanmarufi8034 China don’t need nuclear weapons to screw the world. They are employing far more insidious and dangerous methods to achieve that aim.

@@paulk2257 dude I'm Iranian and I know well W. T. F is our govrenments doing. They are Chinese allies and if they get a nuclear weapon, they certainly use it for Chinese aims. Iran is puppet. Playing by China and especially Russia. But only we as Iranian understand how evil our government is

@@peymanmarufi8034 I think the world can see how evil many governments are at the moment. But Iran is highly unlikely to deploy a nuclear weapon in anger, whether under Chinese influence or not. If they did, the country would be vaporised in an instant. Even China are not stupid enough to start a nuclear confrontation - they are slowly invading and influencing the world very successfully by other means.

trouble with the us is there is no left and right, just right and more right. a 3rd party is required whenever a progressive party arrives in the us they will dominate, there is no decent party for the wise people in the us and their are many. Bernie needs to get his ass into gear fast he cant save the democratic party from neoliberalism

Stephen tarr - absolutely correct

@@1man1bike1road Bernie & Tulsi 2020

@@1man1bike1road no left??? Are you insane? The DNC has gone far left

@@1man1bike1road same argument again?

He's a linguist scientist and he's a Jewish so he can say that.

@ najgauner: Chomsky is a linguist.English is not his first language.

Which video did you listen to? Most definitely he answered her question, just not what you wanted to hear.

Trump Folk/Punk he said the jewish state should not longer exist and be a democratic state. He answered her question, zionists like yourself don't like the answer.

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And Norm Finklestein even though they're trying to erase him 😂

And how lucky we are that we can look up his 'claims' on the internet and through critiques of his work-see how his political outlook is entrenched in far left ideology and therefore inherently bias. But of course the converted will always sing his praise!

@@wilsonhodge71 He is far left, but these statements have nothing to do with that. Right supports Israel, so their support is also biased because of their right wing ideology. What is your point?

It's a crime that Chomsky and others have zero presence on cable media

You are not lucky , you are listening to the controlled opposition nothing more .

I guess it's because facts actually represent the 50% of a true opinion. Most people are just impelled to say something (anything, indeed), so they replace the facts with ideology. We can see that in all platforms. And when it comes to international policy it's a shame.

Couldn’t agree more. He has more facts at his command than just about anyone.

I think the main point is that Chomsky, has not just dug undera the surface to get these facts, but he's got a fact, and turned it on its head to see what is relevant to the debate at large. Understanding takes intellectual rigour, and people|I rarely do this. This girl who asked the question, actually asked a good question. E.G one or 2 nuclear weapons, require deployment technology, That which is jus Adapt as difficult as developiing tthe bomb, in terms of reaching anywhere the US,, Would be concerned about. Evening. They did get this technology, the US capability, would vaporise the state immediately. Which then suggests the question "why is Israel really worried?" Then it helpss you to explore to find out tthat there is a significant exodus, from israel, which has become gradually more exponential over time The girl should havve questioned his answer on the phrase used by Iran to describe the legitimacy of Israel, and particularly the semantics Involved. She should have prompted Chomsky to ellaborate, because just leaving it at ," would be no need for Israel to exist", does not in itself, subordinate the phrase to non-violent forms of state eradication. That I'm sure Chomsky would be able to explain this with more clarity, he just wasn't asked to do so, And he should be

Shane Shankly a world run by atheist neo marxists. I think we'd be better off just having the world run by women. Europe is and look how wonderful things are there. Babies are replaced by immigrants. What a great future.

Not if you're a Rothschild it wouldn't! But hey, who's going to listen to such an intelligent, morally upright individual like Noam Chomsky?

There are more voices like Noam. You just don't like the package they come in.

NathansHVAC Europe is not run by women and the immigration crisis that affects Europe is because the Americans and their allies have almost obliterated the middle east and people are running for their lives pouring into Europe.

G*man, How can you say he is anti-US and say he contributes nothing positive to the world? The world would be a much nicer place if it wasn’t for the US

It happens EVERY YEAR at the General Assembly of the United Nations. The resolution is titled 'The Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine." This has gone on for nearly 40 years.

The "offer" is empty. It is never going to happen. Israel would lose part of Jerusalem. There would be thousands of refugees (on both sides) to deal with. And many other resource, holy site, and technical issues. And there is ZERO reason to believe the Muslim countries and Palestinians would abide and leave Israel in peace. It would just be giving them back land (that Israel won) while changing nothing for Israel. It's like the old saying "never give the devil an inch". You are talking about 2002 while conveniently ignoring 50+ years before that. Conveniently ignoring the original UN Partition Plan (from 1947) which was agreed upon by everybody except Arab leaders (who refused any negotiation). Conveniently ignoring the invasion and war started by Arab countries. Look at all of the land in the Middle East owned by Muslim Arabs. Israel had to take Jews as refugees from Arab lands... how about the Arab countries take the Palestinians as refugees? If they really cared about the Palestinian people they would have done that years ago. Instead, they use them as bargaining chips and weapons to try to destroy Israel and take over that land. That offer is on the table, but of course the Arab countries would never accept that.

@@daniellemeyer8568 Israel took jews as refugees? wow.

@@daniellemeyer8568 1947 UN partition plan was not fairly divided. Open the partition map and take a look. In 1947 Jews lived in 10 percent territory while they were given 65 percent territory. Who would accept that complete bias map made by USA and USSR. In the beginning all great powers were backing Israel even USSR. Later Soviets started backing arabs

@@daniellemeyer8568 You ignorance is frightening

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an American agrees

Same with many Canadians, sadly.

It’s more I think what we were taught in public school; critical thinking about the U.S. is only tolerated if we agree with our prospective political parties.

normal people who aren't hopeless ideologues like you dont object to learning new things that add to their worldview

So do I.

YOU DONT KNOW THIS MAN....AND HE DONT KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.

@@robertmeloyanaxley1530 oh shut up

@@eliza1826 bitch please

Yes, you have the best human rights in iran than anywhere else, look at how gays and atheists jews and women are treated

johnny roe you are the biggest ignorant in history. 1st, The jews are treated well in Iran, in fact Iran has the largest jewish community in the middle east after Israel. 2nd, you can be gay in Iran, but you are not allowed to show it on the streets, parks etc. Every muslim country including US biggest ally Saudi Arabia oppresses the gay people but I dont see the media telling the same thing about them; and the 3rd, I'm an atheist myself and I was many times in Iran and I had the opportunity to speak to lots of atheist people living in Iran. They live just fine without any problem. Please stop being an ignorant piece of shit and try to search before claiming false things you stupid fuck.

ah I misread your original comment, my bad, its in comparison to the US allies, ok. It is still a shithole for human rights, though, Ive actually met iranians who fleed because of persecution, because they are bahai. Atheists, gays, jews and women are treated like shit there everyone knows this, the only people who dont are regressive teenagers who live in a bubble, protected from the real world, I know you want to believe that the US is the only evil and that its all the conservative christian white imperialists in the US but there are millions of bigots in the middle east who will kill their own family member if they dare be honest about their religious beliefs, there are millions of people who would kill their own family member, if they come out as gay, in the middle east. This is because of islam. Iran doesnt recognize atheists and bahais as citizens, "Therefore, despite the fact that they constitute the largest religious minority in Iran, the Bahá’ís are a “non-recognized” religious minority without any legal existence, classified as “unprotected infidels” by the authorities. They are not even granted the theoretical right to perform their religion and are subject to systematic discrimination on the basis of their religious beliefs. The second part of this report will focus on the different types of discrimination faced by the Bahá’ís. In the same manner, atheists do not have any recognized status. They must declare their faith in one of the four officially recognized religions in order to be able to claim a number of legal rights, such as the possibility to apply for the general examination to enter any university in Iran" www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/ir0108a.pdf If you have a problem with reality, don't try to distort it to fit your narrative, just accept it

johnny roe you have right in some parts and I can recognize that however, you just can't say that Iran has no human rights, when there are more women who get higher education then men, while in Saudi Arabia the women got permission to drive only couple of months ago and they got permission to go to the CINEMA only couple of days ago and nobody adresses this things to them because you are sucking Saudis oil. The thing with the gay people also happends in Indonesia, Malayesia, Qatar, UAE etc.

abcde fghij You should ashamed of yourself!The Iranian regime has killed thousands of innocents people’s and put in jails hundreds of thousands during the course of its existence!

How's it going there?

@@Isnapthesky You can't even imagine how great it is !😂

@@simorq6685 I'll take that as sarcasm.

@@IsnaptheskyI’m alive. That means God exists.

I’m also an Iranian.

What a strange little fella you are

please include the others putting thumbs up, lots of strange little fellas

@@jaykraft9523 by lots you mean.....four?

Meh. He tends to reduce everything down to a few talking points (while ignoring other significant points/evidence). Also, like in this video he likes to bring up Israel and Palestine. Literally, 90% of this conversation had nothing to do with Iran.

There is no truth about. Is straight up propaganda.

What courage do you need to preach to the converted? Chomsky only addresses those who are knee deep in far left ideology who just love to hear anything anti American and against the state of Israel. And that is what you admire! Pathetic really.

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@Michellle Foucault XVI Europeans aren't native to the North American continent. Go home, we don't want you here.

this thruth is wrong dude...

Thank U, but, sanctions has made us confident in our abilities, self-reliant & almost self-sufficient in most of our needs, above all of these, we are most independent & fearless nation on planet of water of our solar system. We have not & will not develope nuclear weapons, as long as our leader, Emam Sayyed Ali Khamanei lives, because of his Fatwa-religious edict-that nuclear WMDs are HARAM that is according to Islamic Sharia-law- completely forbidden, not because USA criminals lies that, they are the ones, who hinder Iran to have nuclear weapons.

@@mwinyimkuu7372 Salam. I have many friends in Iran. Great people. Long Live the Islamic Republic of Iran.

@@mikewalls684 Good Morning my dear pen-pal, thanx again 4 Ur kind cosideration, as U know meaning of ''Salaam'' in Arabic means peace, reply is compulsory according 2 Moslem relegion, hence, Wa Alay komos Salaam Wa Rahmatol Lah Wa Barakatoh. =And Upon U Peace And Merci of Allah-God- And His Bounty. This rough translation, I'm sure U understand what the phrase means, so, U'll get the meaning correctly according 2 English grammer. From Ahwaz Oil capitol of Iran.

Nice comment..

The left has a horrible track record of recognizing evil. They love Stalin. They loved Chaves. They loved Hitler because he was a socialist up until 1942. Castro and so on. Now they love Iran.

+ NathansHVAC Intelectualist intelectualism from the intelectuals intelectualizating intelectually intelect the intelectionalization for the intelectualand of the *Intelectualistan* (and NOT the Intelectualistates) !!! This is intelectualdent! You can indeed understand the meaning of the sentence. It's as easy as that.

Wise decision 👍🏽

Wow, a wise American. It's rare to see.

Yes, the far left like all extremist love it when someone reflects their own distorted vision of the world.

There is a typo in your comment. It's spelled SATANYahu. No need to thank me.

Chalk vs Cheese

it can be either it really makes no difference

Every country have some 😂

2010 at brown university

Israel has told Trump he must continue backing the Saudis, and continue demonizing Syria and Iran. So that is the way it is. Even Trump must follow orders when his superiors command him. I also heard Trump is thinking of moving the Pentagon to Israel to save time. Since all of the major USA foreign policy decisions are made there anyway.

+ dylan thomas So Saudi Arabia is shttier than Iran... oh shhhhhhttt!!

@@OpportunisticHunter Iran no shitty at all, indeed a great, beautiful country.

@@OpportunisticHunter shit considers all like him/her as shit.

@ dylan thomas;👏👏👏🤝🤝🤝