Noam Chomsky: When Elites Fail

Keynote presentation for the Northwest Econvergence held in Portland Oregon in October 2009.


Entitled "When Elites Fail," Chomsky talked for about one hour and 13
minutes. Due to the length of the talk, I broke it up into two parts.

He begins by asking the question, what should we do when elites fail?
His simple answer, "get rid of them", was greeted by thunderous
applause. Chomsky spends the rest of his talk describing various
historical aspects of our circumstances, connecting the dots and
providing avenues of possible redress.

As usual, Chomsky delivers a
wealth of information and connects it up to current events. He speaks
about the economic crisis, health care reform and many other topics
which affect the citizens of this country and the world. Most
interesting to me was his take on the politics surrounding the Vietnam
war, somewhere in the second half of this talk. 

Chomsky One

Chomsky Two: