Right now is to look forward not backwards of course the problem we have right now is look if they dont what words but digital who are stuck there are going to remain stuck where. No i dont think your code will d be the formal systems are believe there are many people who feel theyre all right if you buy what they get in the d car and particulates that didnt exist. And youve been watching at the weekly here and just coming up or just gone half past 1 in the often here in moscow were back again at the top of the. What politicians to do something to. Put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president which. Was something i wanted. To go right to the press this is what the 43 in the morning cant be good. Im interested always in the waters in the house. And i should. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see that. Chomsky am i on a family at mit and i was. Getting more headlines as we were activities for the last few years. Noam chomsky has made 2 International Reputation school wide as does one of the National Leaders of american resistance to the vietnam war the deepish this is a professor of linguistics who before he was 40 years wrote to transform the nature of his subject. If you are identified with a new level whatever that is you certainly have been an activist as well as a writer. As a chomsky. Is wasted in anybodys got a lot of among the. Top girls of the new left. This time leave see. But i got in over the past 2 or 3 years a series of adamant. Rejecting at least american policy ive. Actually this notion anti american is quite an interesting one session to tell tarion notion it is used in free societies so if someone and say italy is criticizing berlusconi or the corruption of the italian state and so on then a cold area 16 they were called india today and people would collapse and laughter in the streets of rome or milan. In totalitarian states the notions used so in the Old Soviet Union dissidents were cold and he said that was the worst condemnation. Of the Brazilian Military dictatorship they were gold in any brazilian. No its true that in just about every society the critics are maligned. Or mistreated different ways depending on the nature of the society like them so it unions they will be imprisoned. In the us dependency like el salvador at the same time this counterfeit as it other brains blown out by a u. S. Run state terrorist worse. Than others is it just condemned their villa from the zone that in the United States or one of the terms of abuse is anti american and theres a couple of others like you know more cases theres an array of terms of abuse. Of in the United States you know a very high degree of freedom and so if youre vilified by some commas or who cares to go on to your work anyway these concepts only arise in a culture where if you chris. State power and when i state i mean. Were generally not just government but state worker or if you criticize concentrated power youre against us youre against the be all its good straight game that is used in the United States and its for another the only Democratic Society where the concept isnt just ridicule and its a sign of. Elements of the elite culture which are the great the glee. The American Dream my many ideals was partly a symbolic but partly real so in the 1950 s. And sixtys there was a the biggest growth period in. American economic history. Gold made. It was pretty gala tarion growth so the lowest 5th of the population was improving about as much as the upper fiftys. And there were some welfare state measures which improve life for much of the population it was for example possible for a. Black worker to get a decent job in an auto plant. The core of his children go to school and so on and the same across the board. When the u. S. Was. Primarily a Manufacturing Center it had to be concerned with its own consumers here famously henry ford raise the salary of his workers so it would be able to buy cars. When youre moving into an international plutonic a is the max like to call it a little small percentage of the worlds population thats gathering increasing wealth what happens to American Consumers that have much less concern because most of them arent going to be consuming your products anyway at least on a major basis. Your goals or profit in next quarter or even it if its based on financial manipulation and. High salary high bonuses produce overseas if you have to and produce for the wealthy classes here and their counterparts abroad what about the rest well theres a term coming in to use for them to as theyre called the precariat. Precarious proletariat the working people of the world who live increasingly precarious lives. And its related to the attitude toward the country altogether. During the period of great growth of the economy fiftys and sixtys but in fact earlier taxes on the wealthy were far higher corporate taxes were much higher taxes on dividends are much higher that simply taxes on wealthier much higher the tax system has been redesigned so that the taxes that are paid by the very wealthy are reduced and cursed beyond only the taxpayer. No the rest of the populations increased. Now the shift is towards trying to keep taxes just done and wages are not consumption which everyone has to do not say and do it and which i go to the ridge. The numbers are pretty striking. Now theres a pretext of course theres always a pretext the pretext in this case is well that increases investment and increases jobs but there isnt any evidence for that if you want to increase investment give money to the poor and the working people they have to keep alive so they spend their incomes and that stimulates production and stimulates investment that leads to job growth and so. If youre an ideologist for the masters you have a different line and in fact right now its almost absurd the corporations have money coming out of their pocket. So in fact General Electric theyre paying 0 taxes and they have enormous profits lets take the profits somewhere else or the for it but not pay taxes and this is common. The major american corporations shift the burden of sustaining the society on to the rest of the population. Solidarity is quite dangerous from the point of view of the masters youre only supposed to care about yourself and not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of peoples heads gotta be for yourself father while maxon dont care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. Going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic Human Emotions out of peoples heads. And we see it today in policy for a major for example in the attack on Social Security. Social security is based on a principle its based on a principle of solidarity saw terry caring for others. A Social Security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. For a much of the population thats what they serve iowa. Its of no use to the very rich a so therefore theres a concerted attempt to destroy it. One of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st defund it. Then it will work people be angry they want Something Else thats a standard technique for. Private eyes exam system. We see it in the attack on public schools. Public schools are based on the principle of solidarity. I no longer have children in school or grown up but the principle of solidarity says i happily pay taxes so that the kid across the street can go to school thats normal Human Emotion that it dries it out of peoples heads i dont have kids in school why should i pay taxes privatized it so on. The Public Education system all the way from kindergarten to Higher Education is under severe attack i mean thats one of the jewels of americans say. Go back to the golden age again the great chris period fiftys and sixtys a lot of that is based on free Public Education. And one of the results of the 2nd world war was the g. I. Bill right which enabled veterans remember its a large part of the population and to go to college they would have been able to otherwise the century got Free Education where a communitys date or nation regularly invest a substantial share of it resources in education the investment invariably it returned in Better Business and a higher standard of living u. S. Was way in the lead in developing extensive mass Public Interest ation at every level. But now more than half the states most of the funding for the colleges comes from tuitions not from the state thats a radical change thats a terrible burden on students and it means that students if they dont come from very wealthy families theyre going to leave college with big debts and if you would think that youre trapped i mean maybe you wanted to become a Public Interest lawyer but youre going to have to go into a Corporate Law firm a tip. Pay off those debts and by the time youre part of the culture you know youre not going to get out of it again and thats true of trust the poor. In a world of big part of the lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Who are all those driven by a. Person that there is greater. Than. The day theres thinks. We dare to ask. In the 1950 s. Theres a much poorer Society Today but nevertheless could easily handle centrally free matters Higher Education today a much Richer Society cleanse dozen of the resources for. Just whats going on right before our eyes and thats the agenda. Well attack on the principles that and that i mean not only are they humane and theyre the basis of the prosperity and health of this society. If you look over the history of regulation say the Railroad RegulationFinancial Regulation and so on and you find that quite commonly its its either initiated by the economic. Concentrations that are being regulated or its supported by them and the reason is because they know that sooner or later they can take over the regulators. And it ends up with whats called regulatory capture. The business being regulated is in fact running the regulators. Bank lobbyists are actually writing the laws of Financial Regulation gets to that extreme. And thats been happening through history and again its a pretty natural tendency when you just look at the distribution of power. One of the things that expanded enormously in the 1970 s. Is lobbying as the Business World moved sharply to try to control legislation. Business where it was pretty upset by the advances in a Public Welfare in the sixtys and in particular by Richard Nixon and its not to will understand that but he was the last new deal president and they regarded that as class treachery. And nixons administration to get the consumer safety legislation safety and Health Regulations in the workplace the e. P. A. The Environmental Protection agency. Business didnt like it of course they did like that taxes. They didnt like the regulation and they began a coordinated effort to try to overcome it. Lobbying sharply increase deregulation began with the rule ferocity. There were no financial crashes in the fiftys and the sixtys because the greater the story apparatus of the new deal was still in place. As a pm to be dismantled under business pressure and political pressure. To get more and more crashes. And it goes on through the years. Seventys sort of starts begin. Eightys really takes off congress was asked to approve federal loan guarantees to the Auto Companies about the want and want to have a 1000000000. 00 all of this is quite safe as long as you know the governments going to come to your rescue so take say reagan instead of letting them pay the cost break and build out the banks like continental the biggest bail out of American History at the time that she ended his term with so the huge financial crisis the savings and loan crisis and the government moved in and build it out for a family to 300 odd if a very fair lady and 999 regulation worse dismantled to separate commercial banks from investment banks. And then come see bush and then obama bill and bear stearns is running to the feds to stay afloat president bush today defended the decision to bail out citi group that in may and freddie macin ask for a total at green 1000000000. 00 more the sale out could get much bigger than billing even in troubles for the u. S. Economy. And theyre building up the next term. B. Each time the taxpayer is called on to bail out those who created the crisis increasingly the major financial institutions. In a capitalist economy you would do that in a capitalist system that would worry about the investors who made risky investments but the rich and powerful they dont want a capitalist system they want to be able to run to the nanny state as soon as theyre in trouble and get build a taxpayer its called the too big to fail. I mean there are no will or its an economics who significantly disagree with the course that were following people look to Stiglitz Paul Krugman others none of them were even approached the people picked to fix the crisis were those who created the robert rubin crowd the Goldman Sachs croak they created the crisis are no more powerful than before is that accident well not when you pick those people to create an economic plan and then what do you expect to happen. Meanwhile for the poor let market principles prevail dont expect any help from the government the government the problem not the solution and so on thats essentially neo liberalism and its has this dual character which goes right back in economic history one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for the poor. And nothing surprising about this exactly the dynamics you expect if the population allows it to proceed just going to go on and on like this until the next crash which is so much expected that credit agencies which kind of evaluate the. Status of firms are now counting into their calculations the taxpayer bailout that they expect to come in after the next crash which means that the beneficiaries of these Credit Ratings like the big banks they can borrow money more cheaply they can push out smaller competitors and you get more and more concentration everywhere you look policies are done this way which should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone thats what happens when you put power into the hands of a narrow sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as youd expect. Be. A. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. Particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parties into the pockets of major corporations. The Citizens United this was january 2009 i guess thats a very important decisions prim Court Decision but it has a history and you got to think about the history. Of 14th amendment has a provision that says no persons rights can be infringed without due process of law. And the intent clearly was to protect freed slaves said ok theyve got the protection of the law i dont think its ever been used for freed slaves if ever marginally almost immediately it was used for businesses corporations their rights cant be infringed without due process of law so they gradually became persons under the law. Corporations or state created legal fictions. Maybe theyre good maybe theyre bed but to call them persons is kind of rages so they get got personal rights back about a century ago and that extended through the 20th century. As they give corporations rights way beyond what persons have so if say General Motors invests in mexico they get National Rights the rights of the mexican business while the notion of person was expanded to include corporations it was also restricted if you take the 14th amendment literally that no undocumented alien can be deprived of rights if theyre persons. Undocumented aliens who are living here and building your buildings clear lawns and so on theyre not persons. But General Electric is a person an immortal super powerful person this perversion of the young elementary morality and the obvious meaning of the law is quite incredible. In the 1970 s. The courts decided that money is a form of speech. That we are swell and that you won through the years to Citizens United which says that the right of free speech of corporations members spend as much money they want cant be curtailed. Take a look what that means it means that corporations which anyway have been pretty much buying elections are now free to do it with virtually no constraint as tremendous attack on the residue of democracy. Interesting to read the rulings like Justice Kennedys swing vote his ruling said well look after all the c. B. S. Is given freedom of speech there are corp why shouldnt General Electric be free to spend as much when it is they want. I mean its true that c. B. S. Has given treat of speech but theyre supposed to be performing a Public Service thats why thats what the press is supposed to be a general electorate is trying to make money for the chief executive some of the shareholders. Sit in critical decisions and it puts the country in a position where business power is greatly extended beyond what it always was this is part of the vicious cycle the Supreme Court justices are put in by reactionary president s who get in there because theyre funded by business and thats the way the cycle works. And. One of the things that i started to realize is that the noise in my head as it me i started the practice of organizing my wife around what i wanted my life to be about even when it conflicted with my internal knowledge so you know i i wrote a book but in my head im not smart enough people like me dont write books. But what i held myself to it was the action and i started to notice that i could coexist with that while still living a life that went beyond. Was the night before christmas and all over the world people are mining back on taking individual sovereignty on a palm i just read anything. Oh you know. The. Many. Russian officials have identified the suspect of a shooting near the federal Security Service building in central moscow 2 people were killed and 5 injured in the attack. And other stories that shape the week moscow and the e. U. Lash out at u. S. Sanctions targeting russias nord stream to gas pipeline to germany berlin saying it amounts to interference in domestic affairs. And another inspector breaks ranks from the Global Chemical weapons watchdog the o. P. C. Interview saying its final report on the alleged attack in the syrian city of duma distorts the fact