John Lennon mocks the Japanese language while his wife Yoko Ono looks on adoringly, on national (U.S.) television in 1971. (See also: link)
(I think maybe I’ll just keep re-posting this until it gets some appropriate reaction.)
John Lennon mocks the Japanese language while his wife Yoko Ono looks on adoringly, on national (U.S.) television in 1971. (See also: link)
(I think maybe I’ll just keep re-posting this until it gets some appropriate reaction.)
Noam Chomsky on Adam Smith & the Invisible Hand (4 min 31 sec)
An extra scene from the 2008 documentary, American Feud: A History of Conservatives and Liberals.
“…and therefore as if by an invisible hand, England will be saved from the menace of free capital movement and free imports [link]. That’s ‘invisible hand.’ What’s that got to do with the CATO [laughs] Institute or the modern enthusiasm about free capital flow… ?”
(4 min 31 sec)
nuked: Maze, 12, New York 2008
The Bolivian mission to the United Nations recently passed a resolution called: Rights to Water and Sanitation. This is why….
Science, Religion, and Human Nature (Part 1 of 5)
February 2010, Noam Chomsky interviewed by Michael Albert in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
(15 min 0 sec)
See also: parts 2, 3, 4, 5.
@ 11:00 “They’re nice people. A lot of them are friends. And if you look at what’s happening I think it’s pretty easy to figure out what’s going on. I mean suppose you’re a literary scholar at some elite university or anthropologist or whatever. I mean if you do your work seriously that’s fine, you know, but it’s not very… I mean you don’t get any big prizes for it. On the other hand you take a look over in the rest of the university and you’ve got these guys in the physics department and the math department and they have all kind of complicated theories, which of course we can’t understand but they seem to understand them, and they have, you know, principles and they deduce complicated things from the principles and they do experiments and you know they find either they work or they don’t work and that’s really, you know, impressive stuff. So I want to be like that too. So I want to have a theory. In the humanities, you know, literary criticism, anthropology and so on, there’s a field called ‘theory.’ We’re just like the physicists. They talk incomprehensibly. We can talk incomprehensibly. They have big words. We’ll have big words. They draw, you know, far-reaching conclusions. We’ll draw far-reaching conclusions. We’re just as prestigious as they are. Now if they say well look we’re doing real science and you guys aren’t, uh that’s uh white male sexist uh you know bourgeois whatever the answer is. How are we any different from them? Okay that’s appealing. And there are other things that went on. Remember that a lot of this stuff comes from Paris… “
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (Part 1), a documentary film by David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier, via Al Jazeera. (46 min 4 sec)
Purchase the highly recommended film on DVD here: http://www.americanradicalthefilm.com/purchase.html
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18 days ago: “Liberated Libya Rejects US intervention”
