"Judged in terms of the power, green, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky...
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I'd like to welcome all of you to this lecture today. Several years ago Professor Chomsky was described in a U.S book review as follows: "Judged in terms of the power, green, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive." Professor Noam Chomsky.
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I signed a petition
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calling on the tribunal to defend his civil rights
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At that point the French press which has no conception of freedom of speech
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concluded that since I had called for his civil rights
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I was therefore defending his thesis
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Faurisson then published a book
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in which he tried to prove that the Nazi gas chambers never existed
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What we deny is that there was
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an extermination programme
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and an extermination actually
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 256
Timestamp in movie: 00h 44m 42s
Uploaded: 03 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, biography, war
Summary: A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
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00:36 It means you have to develop an independent mind and work on...
00:21 In the nature of man both in his motivation his altruism
00:15 Goebbels was in favour of freedom of speech for views he...
00:22 There's no contradiction there
00:12 On the contrary
00:35 There is a centre to the
00:27 For the first time in this century
00:15 In that you must meet the condition of concision
00:24 He's out
00:11 And I point out that General Motors tries to maximise profit...
00:35 Yeah for the last hour and 41 minutes
00:10 If the Nuremberg laws were applied
00:26 That makes us more easily manipulated
00:36 There is nothing more remote from what I'm discussing...
00:35 The way things change is because lots of people are working...
00:36 Or suppose you say
00:37 Referring back to your earlier comment
00:04 This guy's got to go home he really does
00:06 This book has poisoned the world
00:34 I signed a petition