Noam Chomsky: We're Repeating Afghanistan in Ukraine

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🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Click here for the full interview: https://usefulidiots.substack.com/p/extended-episode-noam-chomsky-were?r=je5va&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web Become a Useful Idiot for extended interviews and bonus content at http://usefulidiots.substack.com Professor Noam Chomsky has a stark prediction for the future of humanity if the US refuses to cooperate with other countries: “It is absolutely necessary for the great powers to cooperate if there’s going to be any hope for survival,” he explains. “China, the US, Russia, they have to be cooperating on the major issues of the day: climate, nuclear war, pandemics. You work on them together or you all fall over the cliff together.” And while cooperation sounds like a smart idea, Chomsky doubts the US will go along. “The US orders allies to follow its rules-based international order while China calls for the UN-based international order. And the US doesn’t accept that for a very good reason: the UN rules out US foreign policy explicitly. The UN charter bans the threat or use of force in international affairs. Can you think of a US president who hasn’t engaged in a threat or use of force?” This sparks an analysis of US censorship and how the government can suppress the truth without throwing us in gulags. “Read things carefully that do come out: the Washington Post had a long, comprehensive article in which they reviewed in great detail the background for the war. Nothing in it about possible negotiations. They don’t want it on the agenda.” Plus, subscribe for the extended interview in which Noam Chomsky explains his worst fear if the Republicans take control of Congress, calls out politicians who oppose forgiving student loans, and criticizes the underwhelming US response to climate change. It’s all this, and more, on this week’s episode of Useful Idiots. Check it out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. I'm one of your host Katie Halfer. And I am the
0:09.8	other host Aaron Nite. How are you Katie? I'm good you. Well, you got a great show for
0:14.7	you today. Oh my god, we have legend legend. No, I'm Tromsky. Yes. The greatest to
0:20.6	ever do it really. So good. We'll be gracing us with his presence and he has a new book
0:25.4	with DJ Prasad. Another recent useful idiot's guest called you draw. We'll talk about.
0:30.6	All right. So should we just get into the where do you want to start? Should we start with the
0:34.5	four basic group? Let's do it. And I had Democrats suck and there's always so many choices.
0:39.4	For example, so many pretty much every week now, there's a new arms package announced for Ukraine.
0:45.6	This week was the biggest one yet $3 billion in zero effort towards diplomacy. So, but that is
0:53.8	such a common Democrat suck that we have to change it up. So let's turn to another target
0:59.3	of US militarism in that Syria where the US just carried out a bombing and killed several
1:05.9	people who were members of Iranian forces there and their allies. And this is the latest
1:12.9	in a series of US bombings inside Syria, which the US claims is in self defense, just
1:19.0	strange because the US is occupying Syria. So the best way for the US to defend itself in
1:24.0	Syria is to leave Syria. But Trita Parcy, who is a various to commentator and with the
1:29.2	Quincy Institute, he explains the real motive behind this US strike in Syria. And this is
1:35.1	what he says, besides retaliating for earlier attacks to additional possible reasons why
1:40.2	Biden strikes Iran affiliated groups just as the US is likely to rejoin the JCPOA. So
1:47.4	this attack on Iranian forces in Syria comes just as the US and Iran are so close to restoring
1:57.0	the Iran nuclear deal, or at least that's what we're being told. And that's the hope.
2:01.5	So this is what Trita Parcy says about that. Israel is pressing Biden not to rejoin the
2:06.0	JCPOA. If Biden stands firm, he'll likely give a concession to Israel. This might be it.
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