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Noam Chomsky on the State of Democracy & Human Rights

4. April 2019
Noam Chomsky on the State of Democracy & Human Rights


In this video, originally produced by Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia (FORSEA) and translated and synchronized into the German language by acTVism Munich, Prof. Noam Chomsky talks about the state of global democracy and human rights. Chomsky also touches upon a number of themes that include the 18th century revolution in the United States and the framing of its constitution, the rise of the extremist right in Europe today and the global refugee crisis facing Western States. To find out more about FORSEA, please click here.


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ABOUT NOAM CHOMSKY

Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, anarchist, linguist, author. Chomsky joined the University of Arizona in fall 2017, coming from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked since 1955 and was Institute Professor, later Institute Professor emeritus. Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his latest being “Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution“. Chomsky has been a highly influential academic figure throughout his career, and was cited within the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. His work has influenced a wide range of domains, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, logic, mathematics, music theory and analysis, psychology and immunology. Chomsky also developed the propaganda model of media criticism with Edward S. Herman which they presented in their book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media“. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberal capitalism, and mainstream news media.



4 replies on “Noam Chomsky on the State of Democracy & Human Rights”

Eine sehr gute Analyse unseres heutigen neoliberalen Systems im Zusammenspiel unserer westlichen repräsentativen “Demokratien” die sich im Wesentlichen darauf beschrönken, dass sich die Einflussmöglichkeit des Wählers darauf beschränkt, dass er alle 4-5 Jahre für 10 Sekunden in der Wahlkabine im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes seine Stimme abzugeben hat.
Danach hat er nichts mehr zu melden.
Er hat noch nicht einmal das Recht, auf die Erfüllung der Wahlversprechen zu bestehen.

Eine sehr gute Analyse des heutigen neoliberalen Systems im Zusammenspiel mit unseren westlichen repräsentativen “Demokratien” die sich im Wesentlichen darauf beschrönken, dass sich die Einflussmöglichkeit des Wählers darauf reduziertt, dass er alle 4-5 Jahre für 10 Sekunden in der Wahlkabine im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes seine Stimme abzugeben hat.
Danach hat er nichts mehr zu melden.
Er hat noch nicht einmal das Recht, auf die Erfüllung der Wahlversprechen zu bestehen.

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