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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopeOn the costs and profitability of the British
Empire, see for example, John
Strachey, The End of Empire, New York: Random House, 1959, especially chs. 10 to
12
(an early investigation of the question).
On the costs of the 1980s interventions in Central America, see for example,
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, Inequity and Intervention: The Federal Budget and
Central America, Boston: South End, 1986, p. 42.
Chomsky remarks that insight about the class interests underpinning empire goes
back as far as the classical economist Adam Smith in the eighteenth century (Yea
r 501:
The Conqueolent and beseeching society? Never our aim, but seems to be the stan
dard by which Chomsky intends to measure us (and only US) by.
His worldview seems to be "if you were only as smart and good-natured as I, I co
uld give you some measure of respect - but no one will ever measure up to me so
forget it." Difficult to measure arrogance at this level.?
Red Firefly
Red Firefly2 weeks agofrom Aime Cesaire, the invention of new souls. In other
word s, although there is inestimable value to what an intellectual
does to ensure the community's survival during
periods of extreme national emergency, loyalty to the
group's fight for survival cannot draw in the intellectual so
far as to narcotize the critical sense, or reduce its imperatives,
which are always to go beyond survival to question s
of political liberation, to critiques of the leadership, to
presenting alternatives that are too often marginalized o r
pushed aside a s irrelevant t o the main battle a t hand. Even
among the oppressed there are also victors and losers, and
the intellectual's loyalty must not be restricted only to
joining the collective march: great intellectuals like Tagore
of India or Jose Marti of Cuba were exemplary in this
regard, never abating their criticism because of nationalism,
even though they remained nationalists themselves.
I n no country more than modern Japan has the
interplay between the imperatives of the collective and [he
problem of intellectual alignment been so tragically problematic
and vexed . The Meiji Restoration of 1 868 that
brought back the emperor was followed by the abolition
of feudalism, and the deliberate course of building a new
42 EDWARD W. SAID
composite ideology began. This led d isastrously to fascist
militarism and national perdition that culminated in the
defeat of imperial Japan in 1 94 5 . As the historian Carol
Gluck has argued, the tennosei ideorogii (emperor ideology)
was the creation of intellectuals during the Meij i period ,
and while it was originally nurtured by a sense of national
defensiveness, even inferiority, in 1 9 1 5 it had become a
full-fledged nationalism capable simultaneously of extreme
militarism, veneration of the emperor, and a sort of nativism
that subordinated the individual to the state. 8 It also
d enigrated other races to such an extent as to permit the
willful slaughter of Chinese in the 1 9 3 0s, for example, in
the name of shido minzeku, the idea that the Japanese were
the lead ing race.
One of the most shameful episodes in the modern
history of intellectuals took place during World War Two
when, as John Dower has described it, Japanese and American
intellectuals j oined the battle of national and racial
name-calling on an offensive and ultimately debasing
topoorc10 months ago
+McScreamo I enjoy both to yeah human beings just love vomiting there egos all o
ver the comment section that's all.???
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Matthew Norberg
Matthew Norberg2 years ago
I agree with Hitchens on religion and Kissinger, but how did he decry Kissinger'
s murderous bombings in Southeast Asia while endorsing those of the Bush adminis
tration in Iraq? Quite hypocritical. ?
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Thus Spake Mike
Thus Spake Mike2 weeks ago (edited)
+Peer Huggins? How are the atrocities and US melding all over the world that are
documented. ...south America. ....Iran. ...south east asia.....Africa. ....cons
piracy theories, you Fucking idiot??
Thus Spake Mike
Thus Spake Mike2 weeks ago
+Jonathan CF What the fuck are you talking about? If you are seriously denying t
he US does not interfere (usually at the cost of innocent human life) and meddle
with the affairs of other nations, or, that they are and always have been 'just
a benevolent world peace keeping force' you are a certifiable retard of the hig
hest magnitude?
Jack Mehoff
Jack Mehoff9 months ago
Someone has to be the devils advocate to the US . Hitchens RIP . Dont hate . Oh
so when hes gone are you uneducated tools gonna take his place? Doubtful.?
Peer Huggins
Peer Huggins1 year ago
Who is that soft-spoken old woman trying to debate the Hitch??
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Billy Bowden
Billy Bowden10 months ago
+Peer Huggins This Peer guy is hilarious, he seems retarded for some reason.?
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Peer Huggins
Peer Huggins10 months ago
+Billy Bowden retarded like a fox...?
zxxc cxxz
zxxc cxxz11 months ago
lmao guys getting pissed off that hearing impaired ppl for needing accomodations
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Bram Govers
Bram Govers11 months ago
Chomsky at his fiecest. Thanks for the upload.?
Adquid Orator
Adquid Orator1 year ago
clash of the motherfucking titans up in dis bitch?
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Robertl Quetzalcoatl
Robertl Quetzalcoatl10 months ago
AMERICA IS JUST LIKE NAZI GERMANY
HELL BENT ON GLOBAL DOMINATION .?
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common101sense
common101sense9 months ago
You're dumb.?
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Noel Rayland
Noel Rayland1 year ago
Chomsky starts at 9:40.?
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mcstreamer9
mcstreamer91 year ago
Ty?
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Miranda McKennitt
Miranda McKennitt1 year ago
+Noel Rayland Hat/tip?
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Jim
Jim1 year ago
+Noel Rayland Ta.?
The Green Revolution
The Green Revolution1 year ago
+TheJimmax Thank you Noel, saved me 9 minutes.?
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Sagaciousish
Sagaciousish1 year ago
For those of you who are awesome, Hitch begins at 1:14:30?
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Brian Drewry
Brian Drewry1 year ago
You can summarize all of Chomsky's speeches as "blame, blame, blame and more bla
me, blame,?
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CHANNEL ONE
CHANNEL ONE1 year ago (edited)
Chomsky regularly points to the small number of groups and individuals who he do
es respect - he calls them the danger of a good example?
coilltin
coilltin9 months ago (edited)
+Brian Drewry ...
is it boring for you?- I know ..he should say 'nice' things?
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Brian Drewry
Brian Drewry9 months ago
+coilltin No. Chomsky hates the West for some reason and lays all of the world'
s problems at it's feet. I don't agree with that assumption.?
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coilltin
coilltin9 months ago
+Brian Drewry no..he hates the charlatans,frauds & profiteers who dominate and c
all the shots in the west?
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Brian Drewry
Brian Drewry8 months ago
Uh...no. Western governments are evil as compared to what? Chomsky has made a
career on blaming the West for everything, but he never manages to give a viable
alternative. Hence the blame, blame game that he has trotted out for decades?
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LoveBandit1000
LoveBandit10009 months ago
I have read many amorphous definitions of the word but WTF is a "linguist" anyw
ay? Can anybody name another person that is considered a "linguist" off the top
of their head? Chomsky's entire gig is complete BS....?
neuterallrednecks
neuterallrednecks7 months ago
+LoveBandit1000 Random fuckwit can't understand something ergo it must be bullsh
it. Alternative possibility is random fuckwit is just a dumb prick!?
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HitchensImmortal
HitchensImmortal5 months ago
It's a fantastic field of study. I'm a huge fan of comparative philology myself.
But it's not very lucrative. Chomsky's made far more money selling anti-western
propaganda books to college freshmen than he ever did teaching courses.
As far as the his professional 'field' is concerned, he was all the rage of the
community in the 60s and 70s, but since then psychologists like Pinker have offe
red up far more tangible theories on the development of language.?
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wiremessiah
wiremessiah2 years ago
Hitchens is eloquent but boring. And not good boring like Chomsky, but just a pr
etentious egomaniac kind of boring. At least he can't utter another word in favo
r of the iraq war.?
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Edward Nigma
Edward Nigma1 year ago
+Patavinity Piracy is a result of Islam too?! Invading a nation in order to esta
blish a puppet government which will play ball with the US is imperialism, an ac
t which he supported. There as not even a pretence of self-defence in Hithens ar
guments, but that we should topple government that we deem to be problematic wit
hout a resolution from the UN.
In terms of the justifications of my use of the term empire, I'm going to quote
George Galloway; a man who I have serious problems with, "If it looks like a duc
k, and it quacks like a duck, chances are it's a duck.". Hegemony would be a bet
ter term, imperialism is used for effect, but it really is essentially what it i
s. ?
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Paul Mccarter
Paul Mccarter1 year ago
+Patavinity "When a person decides to become a soldier, it is made very clear th
at they may be wounded, killed, captured or otherwise." No, they don't...It's b
lindingly obvious to me you've never served, nor have you been subject to any re
cruiting effort, as I had and did. Don't speak of things you know nothing about
, ok??
John Camery
John Camery3 months ago
Noam Chomsky spouts out Jesuit propaganda. Jesuits are responsible the slave tr
ade, genocide, torture, the Inquisition, book burning, banning the printing of t
he Bible in native languages, and atrocities from Europe to Japan to Africa to
South America to Nicaragua and throughout their history. They were outlawed by P
ope Clement and countries all around the world. Hitler modeled the SS after them
. Jesuits are not Catholics. He is a disgusting liar.
Noam Chomsky also spouts propaganda covering up the real corruption in the gover
nment. Ignorant fools like him who do not read the leaked documents, undercover
videos, and papers on physics have no what is actually going on. He has no idea
what the Russian Federation order of battle consists of, or the policies of cre
ating frozen proxy wars to destabilize the world. The business about a carbon t
ax is a scam. There is an very cheap way of converting carbon dioxide to ethano
l that can already be used in cars. Read the link about this:
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-carbon-dioxide-captured-air-methanol.html
He is just a scan artist and political hack for the Clintons, the bankers and bi
g oil companies that want to rip us off. Don't believe a word he says. He plays
the blame game to divide us and keep us divided and weak.
The real problem is the politicians getting massive kickbacks from TARP funds as
 documented in the leaked DNC spreadsheet. See the link at the end of this post.
How many more emails must be leaked of questions being revealed to the Clintons
ahead of time at debates and town halls, before CNN's cover is blown and people
realize the collusion?
Democrats were perfectly willing to leave the falsehood on the record that the C
linton email case was concluded with no charges, yet criticize setting the recor
d straight.
What about the Weiner case? Where is your moral outrage against the perverted c
rimes of the Clinton entourage, the Clintons, the Weiners and the Kaines. None
have any repect for their marriage vows. The charge against Anthony Weiner has b
een public knowledge for months. He has been sending obscene photos to women fo
r years as has been documented in the Showtime Documentary, "Weiner".
There was no outrage by the Democrats when he made his previous announcement of
the case that they used for political gain.
James Comey testified under before Congress that the investigation of the Clinto
n Server had concluded. Should he let stand what he said, when he just finds ou
t that the FBI found additional information on the case a couple months ago? He
would be guilty of misleading Congress and the American people. This is certain
ly more important than any internal FBI rule.
Fox and Democrats have been covering up the charges against Anthony Weiner for m
onths. This shows their duplicity with the crimes of the Democrats. They use th
eir spurious charges against Donald Trump to divert attention from the real cri
minal investigations of Democrats like Huma Abedin's husband.
Emails with the full classification headers and date to be declassified, that Hi
llary Clinton forwarded to Huma Abedin have been revealed. These may well have e
nded up on the devices the FBI seized in the Weiner case. Wait and see.
A document does not need a header to not make a classified, it depends on the da
mage that would be done to the U.S., by revealing that information.
This email shows Hillary R. Clinton (HRC) herself is colluding with Avi Glazer,
the Super PAC named "Priorities USA" and the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) in viola
tion of election laws:
From:slatham@hillaryclinton.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-12-17 14:5
9 Subject:
HRC Priorities mtg on Monday is w/Avi Glazer, both Priorities and HVF
A Project Veritas undercover video describes how the Clinton campaign transports
illegal aliens from state to state to vote using other people's names. It is in
teresting that they base the illegal organization in Wisconsin because they beli
eve the authorities there would never prosecute them no matter what criminal act
s they might perform. They choose the destination or rather the states they inte
nd victimize on the same criteria.
There is lots of other evidence supporting the validity of the Project Veritas u
ndercover videos and fact that the Democrats actually carried out the political
violence and other crimes that they bragged about. Some of this evidence is show
n in the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkgTCLTuy1Y
The White House visitor logs showing how many times Bob Cramer met with Presiden
t Obama pretty much nails who is responsible for the violence. Who else would ha
ve the power to think they could get away with it? Using surrogates they hire to
bomb the North Carolina GOP Headquarters, spray painting threats on the adjoini
ng building, attacking people trying to attend Republican rallies, fomenting rio
ts, is terrorism. The ATF out in force with their paint brushes and black paint
covering up the threats in red spray paint.
For this election, the Democrats formed a new organization called Patriot Majori
ty USA to commit voter registration fraud, since Acorn was prosecuted and many a
re in jail.
The following video shows how they do voter fraud in New York City according a N
YC Democratic Board of Elections Commissioner:
http://projectveritas.com/video/hidden-camera-nyc-democratic-election-commission
er-i-think-there-is-a-lot-of-voter-fraud/
The emails show that Clinton's private, real positions all seem to differ from h
er public ones. Her private positions reflect the groups that pay for the Clinto
n speeches and give to the Clinton Foundation and her election campaign. They ta
lly up the bribes, such as, getting a million dollars from the companies behind
the keystone pipeline. In this day and age, you don't need to wait until they ge
t elected to find out that the politicians are liars and will do the opposite of
their campaign pledges. Not so surprising when you realize that her advise is c
oming John Podesta. Funny that the speeches even tell her when to smile.
Some emails are about the Clinton speech scams. How his speech in Canada was pai
d by taxpayer money that was supposed to be used to promote tourism. What an eno
rmous amount to be paid for someone to visit Canada! Is that the way you promote
tourism?
Why does America spend more on "education" than any other country? Because it is
one of the Clinton's scams to fund their cronies and themselves, H-1B visa frau
d, immigration fraud, Islamist (Gulan inspired) Charter Schools in the U.S., fig
hting Islamist legal problems, anti-American propaganda, Islamic terrorist train
ing camps, etc.? Half a billion dollars has been spent to establish Charter Scho
ols with Islamist teachers imported from Turkey on the pretext that no Americans
are qualified to teach our kids. On what grounds are the Justice Department pro
secutors ordered not to prosecute these crimes?
Congress authorized $475 billion TARP funds under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Ref
orm and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).
Of that, the following amounts were committed through TARP's five program areas:
Approximately $250 billion was committed in programs to stabilize banking instit
utions ($5 billion of which was ultimately cancelled).
Approximately $27 billion was committed through programs to restart credit marke
ts.
Approximately $82 billion was committed to stabilize the U.S. auto industry ($2
billion of which was ultimately cancelled).
Approximately $70 billion was committed to stabilize American International Grou
p (AIG) ($2 billion of which was ultimately cancelled).
Approximately $46 billion was committed for programs to help struggling families
avoid foreclosure, with these expenditures being made over time.
It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a cer
tain percentage of the allocated TARP funds. Check the documents in the link to
see which Congessman's PACS got the kickbacks and see if you still want to vote
for them. The only name you may not recognize is DCCC. Check out https://dccc.or
g/about/ to find out who that is. The metadata shows that workers at the DNC and
DCCC created a lot of the documents. Here are the details:
https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/clinton-foundation/?
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Max Planck
Max Planck2 years ago
Hitchens' contributions to the intellectual scene are comparable to Justin Biebe
r's efforts to advance Western harmony. ?
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Uzair Azhar
Uzair Azhar1 year ago
That's exactly what the Pope said to him. He was still wrong.?
Uzair Azhar
Uzair Azhar1 year ago
+Babak Golshahi This WILL be my last comment to you. "That's got to be the dumbe
st analogy I have ever heard". It is a VERY accurate analogy. All the Pope had t
o do was look through the teliscope, all you have to do is look at the facts Max
has provided you.?
Blaine Walton
Blaine Walton1 year ago
Did this statement: "It's not just false, it's ludicrous false," make anyone els
e think of Space Balls??
Cael McDiarmid
Cael McDiarmid1 year ago
Wow Hitchens really did change.?
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Matthew Singh-Dosanjh
Matthew Singh-Dosanjh9 months ago
+coilltin Babbling nonsense.?
coilltin
coilltin9 months ago
Hitchens said before he died that he would still consider himself to be leftwing
but I think like Sam Harris he found the low hanging fruit of Islamic Fundament
alism just too tempting and pursued the eviceration of zealots as an alternative
career.?
Karolis stl
Karolis stl1 year ago
Lived most of my life that is 25 years in Lithuania,and i can vouch for Mister C
homskys words on eastern europe.Sadly after decades of fighting against the oppr
essors from east and the west in the twentieth century my country ended up being
a puppet state... which is coincidentally now the NR:1 country in europe lead
ing by suicides per capita?
Atticus Ory
Atticus Ory1 year ago
I'm sorry to hear that, I have family from Lithuania.?
Neil Mcintosh
Neil Mcintosh1 year ago
1:26:37 - Funny how Chomsky hugs and shakes Hitchens hand here and forward 2 yea
rs Chomsky is now slagging HItchens off for being an apologetic to a religion ba
sed government!!?
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Allan Castellon
Allan Castellon3 weeks ago
Matthew Singh-Dosanjh >all four need to be broken
so essentially it's arbitrary and fucking stupid then??
iskandergo
iskandergo1 year ago
did ya all see those people in the audience bothered by the bright light from th
e right, with their folders and papers shading off their faces LOL LOL how apt!!
think i even saw some leave cause of it, 2 ladies halfway chomskyi think..?
Spoo
Spoo1 year ago
What the fuck? Hitchens begins his speech by asking for money??
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Dr. Dhoom
Dr. Dhoom10 months ago
+Spoo o why do you have a little Asian girl as your profile pic??
Jonathan CF
Jonathan CF9 months ago
+Spoo o If you're not related to that little girl, that should be illegal.?
Grandfather_Din_Racket
Grandfather_Din_Racket1 year ago (edited)
The grotesque export of murderous prohibitionism has polluted the entire world,
and is in direct contradiction to America's stated core principles of individual
property rights, and the common law. The drug war exported to Mexico alone has
resulted in greater than 20,000 deaths prior to 2010. The Drug War jails 2.3 mil
lion innocent Americans (who have committed no injury and no intent, or "mala in
se" corpus delicti.) The Drug War has corrupted the legal systems of Singapore,
Thailand, China, and the Philippines, resulting in murdering regimes.?
d0101d
d0101d1 year ago
Hitchens certainly changed his tone..?
Last_Money
Last_Money1 year ago
Jeez, a whole lotta Chomsky sycophants in this comment thread.?
Int Er
Int Er10 months ago
Chomsky just your typical democrat who hates the US. Anyone who never criticizes
Islam but participates in debates like these is a fucking liar and a con artist
.?
HitchensImmortal
HitchensImmortal5 months ago
He's a country mile left of any actual democrat including 'temporary Democrats f
or party funds' like Sanders.?
Brett Perry
Brett Perry1 year ago
I'll never understand peoples fascination with Chomsky.
Don't get me wrong I certainly recognize his brilliance, but for me it's oversh
adowed by the naive way he sees the world as black and white while showing compl
ete disregard for all of the shades of gray in between. And while that's all wel
l and good philosophically, it has no practical applications to the real world w
here the black and the white simply don't exist. ?
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rd264
rd2641 year ago
+Brett Perry I personally dont think there are "shades of gray" in this area hav
ing spent my career working in state and federal government offices at a fairly
high level]. Ive read a few of Noam's books and they all are well supported, f
ootnoted, and go into great close detail in support of his claims.?
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Jonathan CF
Jonathan CF9 months ago
+Brett Perry It really is mind-boggling how someone so brilliant in linguistics
can talk about a subject he really has no expertise in and is clearly out of hi
s depth. The complexities of international relations turns foreign policy debate
s into a breeding ground for conspiracy theorists.?
Red Fag
Red Fag1 year ago (edited)
The people screaming at 3:00 are an example of ableism.?
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Matt Silva
Matt Silva1 year ago
+Black Flag Proletarian What a bunch of whiny fucks.?
Red Fag
Red Fag1 year ago
+Matt Silva tru?
Nat Brown
Nat Brown1 year ago
The problem I have with Chomsky, that speaking form my point of view, he seems t
o offer, that the United States should not have done anything against the Sovjet
Union or against the spreading of communism, since it did not really effect the
US.
But I am a European and I am very happy about the fact, that US troops remained
in Europe, because without those troops, the Sovjets with have just taken over E
urope, which was actually their goal and what Stalin actually intended to do, bu
t he could not, because to the US foreign policy.
So I think criticism is okay, but stll, one should not just leave out the Sovjet
Union and communist China all the time as if they did not play an important rol
e.?
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Seamus McKnight
Seamus McKnight9 months ago
+Nat Brown exactly, it takes two to tango.?
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