t is amazing to me, how the rest of the civilized world admires Noam Chomsky, devours his books of political analysis, and yet he is hated in his own country. Every stripe of American conservative curses him. Mainstream Media avoids him as if he were the swine flu itself. Publishers reject his manuscripts preferring instead, to publish such garbage as Sarah Palin's book, Anne Coulter's mad ravings and the laughable "historian" who tried to show that liberals were the inspiration and true function of Hitler's Third Reich. Why? After all, Chomsky's books are invariably numbered among the Top Ten sellers list of The New York Times. By not publishing Chomsky you would seem to be passing up a big money maker.True!
So why would corporate bosses willingly pass on the chance to make a big profit?
The more deeply you study Chomsky's work the more easily you understand why he is the source of deep distress among Neo-cons and other conservatives. In the words of Harold Pinter, at the Nobel Prize Ceremonies, Noam Chomsky does what few do, and he will not be intimidated, or back down. Youtube has videos of interviews with both admiring students and young, idealistic journalists, and not so admiring conservatives of the ilk of William Buckley, Jr. There is even the now famous interview on Firing Line where Buckley becomes so demoralized that he threatens Chomsky with physical violence.
Buckley flashes the baby blues, but he also slows down to an intellectually feeble limp in Chomsky's company.
Chomsky is despised in America for one simple reason: he tells the truth. The truth, you see, is very embarrassing to both the Big Bully of a central government and the big business concerns who run the government. And telling the Truth in a country whose business it is to lie; to create and dispense immense amounts of propaganda, through the agency of a Mainstream Media which has become nothing more than the handmaiden of liars, has become a radical and revolutionary act.
This video, however, shows Chomsky offering some potent insights. On government, he points out that although the public outcry against George W. Bush's unprovoked invasion of Iraq was huge and unprecedented, the Federal government's response to the anti-war demonstrations was zip, zero, nada. Bush and Cheney played "Let's Carpet Bomb, Kidnap, Torture and Murder the Innocent" with their fingers in their ears, while Halliburton poisoned our soldiers and Exxon gobbled up as much oil as they could illegally steal and then gouged the public to the tune of obscene profits. How do these sleazoids get away with such outrageous criminal activity? Again, easy. They simply shape the thoughts of the citizenry. Thus, it isn't difficult to grasp the thrust of Chomsky's most famous work, Manufacturing Consent.♦
ost everyone was outraged when the Vicar made a case for Christians to show compassion to poor people who shoplift. Little does the Vicar understand that property is sacred beyond church or anything. And at no time does this clinging to material goods and selfishness show itself than when a Vicar, the conscience of the community, reminds his congregation that all of life is actually illusion. And besides your greed is showing, people.
ancing in the streets. Hearing the news that America had been attacked on its' own soil, we all focused our eyes on the TVs in our living rooms and saw the rest of the world celebrating the take down and indignity of America. There was no compassion for the 3000 innocents who died in the World Trade Center. There was only rejoicing that now America had been paid back for the appalling foriegn Policies of deceipt, murder and interference with the rest of the world governments for the past sixty or seventy years. 
hat is most difficult to understand, is why the Republicans, who do not have even enough votes to fillibuster this bill, have so much clout. If this situation had arisen five years ago when there was a Republican majority in the Senate and the House, as well as in the Whitehouse, we all know that the Repulicans would have ridden rough shod over the Dems and laughed in the face of anybody stupid enough to object to any of their provisions at all. But what we are witnessing now, is a Democratic Congress unwilling to so much as whisper that the Republicans need to get on board with what the vast majority of Americans have expressly demanded of Congress, or else, you Repukes go to Hell and we will take it from here and for once, do our jobs--- which the voters sent us here to do. 
onsanto provides a perfect model for study of the abuse of intellectual patents. Other questions, such as the real value of Genetically Modified food are certainly worthy of discussion. And whether or not there is any real validity to Monsanto's intellectual patent on seeds. The problem is, they want to control all the seeds in the world; just as they want to control all the world's supply of food, while pretending to be concerned with the welfare of poorer nations, and how they Monsanto will be able to feed everyone who now hungers. But their behavior now, is the all important clue as to how they will behave once they have accomplished their nefarious goal of having all the farmers under their profit motivated thumb: is more to be lost in the public sector than gained by this kind of privatization of property which has always belonged to the farmers, and the government merely held them in Trust, like the world's water supply, on behalf of the citizens. George Bush and Dick Cheney and a few other Neocons certainly believe that what Monsanto is doing is a good thing. But they want to privatize the air we breathe, the water we drink, and ground we walk upon. This kind of doctrine makes one want to proclaim oneself a socialist, even if one has never considered oneself a socialist before. We saw that during the Bush administration, privatization was considered a good thing, but now, we realize that this sort of thing when done by corporations---is inevitably the path to intolerable abuse. And the damage doesn't stop at abuse, but these economic policies are, historically, the road to the destruction of civilization.
oam Chomsky makes one grateful that we have access through Youtube.com, to his far ranging political insight and strenuous logic. Somehow, for me at least, the image and the sound of the voice combine to make for quicker absorption and comprehension of big ideas, although books are a good tool for preservation of thought in low-tech mode. Here is Chomsky recalling a ditty composed by a Canadian Economist on the subject of Globalization: