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Nonstate actors but from old nationstate adversaries who have learned from the change right at the end of the Twentieth Century and to understand the only way to defeat us is by using irregular or indirect means of attack, the assassination of general soleimani fit into that theory . It did because of who he was, his in official title. Thank you for having me on this show. The shadow commander. He wasnt a Major General in the regular Army Commanding divisions in a normal battle where you face off in a theater of combat and everything is aboveboard, the battle of the bulge, this isnt the first gulf war. This is an individual who used proxy forces in Six Continents including the us and the recent attempt against the saudi ambassador to wage irregular warfare using means the weaker power developed against a far more powerful adversary, the United States is no longer a superpower. We are a hyperpower, nobody can come close to us in a conventional capacity. We have 12 Nuclear Aircraft carri
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2021 talking about one of his more recentlk books. major poll just came out from pew research, major polling agency,, and which they asked people, they give people a choice of 15 serious problems, ask them to rank them in terms of urgency, divided by republicans and democrats. among republicans the very last one at thehe bottom was global warming. at the top was illegal immigrants and the debt. the debt incidentally became a problem last november 4. up until then the debt was fine. republicans were creating it to enrich very rich people so there was no problem. november 4 biden took it over, might use to help others, or people, terrible. major problem. it s not that the people who said that actually believe it. it starts with the here in the bubble in which they are contained. they listen to the murdoch tv station, ox news, read the murdoch press and that s what you hear. whenen you re stuck in that bube that s what you believe. so theth real problems are illel immigrants,
linguist noam chomsky first appeared on this program. and we ve invited him back to take your calls and talk to you once more time. since 2003 he s written dozens of books and one of those books was consequences of capitalism. here s professor chomsky from 2021 talking about one of his more recentbooks . a major poll just came out from pew research in which they asked people, they gave people a choice of 15 serious problems and asked them to rank themin terms of urgency . that was between republicans and democrats and republicans were the very last one at the bottom was global warming. the top was illegal immigrants and the debt. the death incidentally became a problem from november 4, until then that that was fine. the republicans were craving it to enrich very rich people . november 4 by took it over. it was a major problem. it s not that the people who saidthat actually believed it . but that s what they hear in the polls in which they are contained. they listen to the m