Re: [Salon] Noam Chomsky Oral History Interview - YouTube

[Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com>]

"marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view”

No, but any tendentiousness on my part I believe was shared by them, as all three of us take a critical view of US foreign policy, etc., and in the case of Bill Polk, I had many conversations with him on these issues, and he hosted me 2 or 3 times a this home in France to share my views with his friends in Europe, indicatin his agreement.  

While I and 3 others, 2 associated with TAC at one time, incorporporated a non-profit we called the “Institute for the Study of American Militarism” (echoing Institute for the Study of War) back around 2013, which we later dissolved for practical reasons, in 2018, I adopted for FaceBook and YouTube, and a webpage I had built, all called the “Project for the Study of American Militarism,” echoing PNAC. Everyone I’ve interviewed for oral histories agree with my “point of view” and both the the “Institute” and the “Project” had/have the same "biased view" that The American Conservative magazine once had, as against “American Militarism,” which requires looking at its “Origins,” in the 1950s Conservative Movement, as “Tradition Conservatism.” As any reading of Burnham, Kendall, Buckley, et al., reveals in their ‘plain meaning.” Even if some here support Trumpite’s and others of the New Right, try to deny that, even while they demand off the chart’s levels of military spending. 

So yes, as this was on behalf of the Project for the Study of American Militarism, biased as it (I) is against “American Militarism” and investigating it’s “origins,” I fully admit to my tendentiousness, and I think Bill and Noam would agree with me on that, as their interviews show. As John Johns, Roger Waters, Dan Ellsberg do.

 

> On Jun 15, 2023, at 10:10 AM, SCOTT MCCONNELL <scottpost@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Polk and Chomsky are giants (Chomsky even when I don’t agree with him)  and the former I’m happy to say has written for TAC. Did the two make any effort to tone down your tendentiousness? 
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>> On Jun 15, 2023, at 7:59 AM, Todd Pierce via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
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>> Ignore all those additional YouTube links that came with “sharing” this webpage. I didn’t think to realize that all of those were coming along with sharing the page. Here is the Noam Chomsky Oral History Interview link:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GMQ-EcCys
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GMQ-EcCys
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>>> On Jun 15, 2023, at 6:49 AM, Todd Pierce <todd.e.pierce@icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This link is to an oral history interview I had done with Noam Chomsky in 2019 and edited it and attached it to a clip from Bill Polk to emphasize the danger of nuclear war. But this is the complete interview which was overdue for release. I took some artistic license in attaching some pictures interspersed throughout for emphasis of what he was saying. Such as when he mentions My Lai, or Hiroshima. At the end of the interview at about the 58:00 minute mark, I added a photo collage covering some of the topics he had discussed, with a music score; "Bring the Boys Back Home,” to keep people looking at the “fruits of our wars.” With a brief tribute I pay to Prof. Chomsky for keeping the American people informed of what our “Boys" (and Girl’s) do when we send them out in the world with guns and bomb’s, etc., to the people they meet. And what inevitably happens to some of them. 
>>> 
>>> The music score is by some obscure musician whom Republicans and their fascist allies in other countries would have silenced as he is a spokesperson for BDS and an ardent defender of “Free Speech” and “Freedom of the Press,” as with Assange. As I am, even if Conservatives here echo the people who institutionalized suppression of each of those two “Rights,” which by their Conservative “doctrine” first laid down in the U.S. post-WW II by anti-Constitutional Villains who belong in a Hall of Shame: McCarthy, Burnham, Buckley, Bozell, and of course Willmoore Kendall who led the ideological Conservative charge against the Bill of Rights, would eviserate those Rights, and flush them down the Memory Hole. As they do with the lurid militaristic history of these venerated Conservative heroes and others whom they revere, and work to conceal their uninterrupted support for U.S. Imperialism, and the war crimes which inevitably come with enforcing Imperial Control. 
>>> 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GMQ-EcCys
>>> 
>>> YouTube threw me a curve ball so that when I attempt to add a video to my original "Project for the Study of American Militarism" YouTube channel, it will only go to the new one I had to create to upload videos to. But here is the original, with Bill Polk interview videos, and others: 
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR5bV_yxnkVkx40q1OO2zCg
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>>> And here is the new one, with this Noam Chomsky interview added to Larry Wilkerson’s:
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>>> https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectfortheStudyofAmer-eb2cn/videos
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