Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality

2003 · 55 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 517 VOTES · DIR. John Junkerman

Overview

In this remarkable documentary, Noam Chomsky offers a riveting but devastating critique of America's current war on terror arguing, in fact, that it is a logistical impossibility for such a war to be taking place. Professor Chomsky presents his reasoning with astonishing and refreshing clarity, drawing from a wealth of historical knowledge and analysis. ""Only those who are entirely ignorant of modern history will be surprised by the course of events, or by the justifications that are provided...""

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00:02:13 Thanks I just got back from Brazil where they don't have any fire codes
00:04:04 classes and in church, the famous definition of hypocrite that's given in the gospels.
00:06:16 include myself in 'we', because I have never proposed that our leaders
00:08:25 waging a war against terrorism. Particularly what they called
00:11:20 They say that was a model for U.S. support for the Northern Alliance
00:13:27 in the present resolution could in any way prejudice the
00:15:52 threatening to conquer the hemisphere with a revolution without borders'.
00:18:00 At that time, the United States was exercising the power element
00:20:27 British Intelligence and Saudi Intelligence, and
00:22:30 The same incidentally was true of the much worse operations of
00:25:04 It was all rather accurately and graphically depicted by a
00:27:29 that are memorable, that count for international terrorism. Well, the hijackers for the TWA plane claim
00:29:50 As I said at the beginning, you don't really have to work very hard to see these things.
00:32:47 some stone throwing, but Israel was in fact using U.S. attack helicopters to attack civilian appartment complexes and so on
00:35:12 It then went to the General Assembly where it wasn't reported
00:36:59 5th in Geneva, and the meeting took place and passed a strong
00:39:16 Well, that's history, but all of this stuff is out of history. History is what is created by well-educated intellectuals
00:41:37 El Salvador.
00:43:39 that is, educated and privileged intellectuals, not the population, of course. In Nicaragua the population had an
00:45:56 our leaders -- was hundred of thousands of people slaughtered
00:47:58 nothing else passes through the filter. As far as I know, that's an
00:50:08 to provide any evidence, and we refuse to enter into any
00:52:10 Everything that I mention is perfectly well known -- you don't
30:20:00 In the first couple of days there was no fire from Palestinians

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Dialogue Record

Lines indexed470
Dialogue density8.5 lines / min
First line00:02:13
Final line30:20:00

Production Record

DirectorJohn Junkerman
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes517