What scares me is Chomsky's examples of how close people have gotten to enacting a nuclear mistake that could destroy all life. Also, how stubborn America's powerful wealthy are to not take global warming to heart. We can't ignore the hell out of them, so we have to fight them intelligently, which is what Chomsky is helping to do by elucidating everything that has, is, and probably will continue to destroy the 99% here and internationally. "Even the pawn must hold a grudge." (Dylan, a decade younger than Chomsky)

@Robecology Thanks! When I catch with my chores today, I'll check it out and reply.

@michaelinlivonia No one here said global warming is entirely America's doing. "The US, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, France and China, are considered "nuclear-weapon states" (NWS) under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), while India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea also stockpile nuclear warheads. More than 95% of the world's nuclear weapons are in the US and Russian inventory." How are the US and Russia not a threat. No one knows what some idiot in power will do ultimately to aggravate the world and then decide to retaliate. Example: The US decides to aggravate Iran or other Islamic states with its foreign policy decisions, and in retaliation they begin to make nuclear weapons, instead of merely having materials to make them. How could you claim that either the US or Russia didn't try to cause exactly those dangerous conditions by using aggressive and accusatory foreign policy against the Islamic states.
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@michaelinlivonia G.W. isn't "America's" fault, but we live a far more lavish lifestyle than any other nation....so it can be said that it's a typical American's fault.

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You said; " instead of economically sanctioning them, we send them foreign aid money." Also false. The Iran multi-nation agreement restricts Iran development of nuclear material. We even heard they were trying to secretly speed up their centrifuges (to create weapons grade Plutonium) and we sent them a computer bug to mess up all of their centrifuges...so we are "sanctioning" them tightly (and Trump wants out of that agreement, which is unwise) and we don't just "send them money".

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@michaelinlivonia You have the right to your opinion. However, you really need to double check your own facts and cite your sources for them, before defending all the horrible things the imperialistic capitalist military industrial complex has forced upon so many countries, including the Islamic ones. You have a right to dislike their religion, but not to hate their citizens by, as you stated, 'put[ting] them back in the Stone Age.' By the same token you can't trust a treaty with a Christian country, because they will say all people of all other religions are insane and cannot be trusted, therefore the U.S., the Christian country has a duty and right to make life miserable or to exterminate them. Hate crimes are illegal both in the U.S. and according to U.N. international agreement.

@michaelinlivonia What about white supremacists and hate groups targeting American citizens with violence and death ... regardless of the targeted person's innocence.

Some of his interviews may give the impression he has a bias about seeing both sides. I think he has a very strong lie detector talent. He knows a huge amount of history and international politics. He is against the tactics America and Israel have used to get own way, instead of America and Israel seeing both sides with no bias. That is what he speaks against. I am only against problems that Israeli government leaders are creating rather than solving, not against Israeli citizens. Same with America, and ours is much bigger, therefore more examples of corruption, which makes it suicide for us to ignore it or accept status quo.

We cannot do much about the rest of the world until we do what needs done with our country. The idea is rather like: I have to love myself before I can love others. Did you allow time to listen to the whole video?

@AnonySchmoose Yes, I have watched the video. It is not as broad a view of the world as I would have liked.

@AnonySchmoose, @powder There is a lot that happens outside the U.S. that we Americans do not know about. During Iran Contra affair and investigation in 1987, a survey was conducted on how many people knew where Nicaragua was? Only 11% knew Nicaragua which at the fucking hear of the whole Iran Contra deal.Italy is not as big in the world but it is a one of the major meddler.

@powder I am addressing American voters who will decide the next president in 2020.

@St-Sinner I always knew about Iran Contra and where Nicaragua is, but then I was college educated back then, and I'm from a family of teachers.