Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
2002
(first lines) Title Card: '9-11': Suprise Best Seller Blames U.S. - New York Times Title Card: No place for gray in Noam Chomsky's black and white world - Japan Times Title Card: Not about to fade away quietly at the age of 73. - San Francisco Examiner Title Card: Fearless. - Frontline magazine (India) Title Card: Chomsky's anti-Americanism is just plain wrong. - New Statesman Title Card: Rebel without a pause. - Bono (U2) Title Card: Arguably the most important intellectual alive... his political writings are maddeningly simple-minded. - New York Times
Noam Chomsky: (about 9/11) Obviously a horrible atrocity but, you know I reacted pretty much the way people did around the world. Terrible atrocity, but unless you're in Europe and the United States you know, or Japan I guess, you know, it's nothing new. That's the way the imperial powers have treated the rest of the world for hundreds of years. This is historic event but not, unfortunately not because of scale but for the nature of the atrocity, but because of who the victims were. You look through hundreds of years of history, the imperial countries have been basically immune. There's plenty of atrocities, but they're somewhere else.
(last lines) Noam Chomsky: (beginning a speech) Let me first do the usual check and make sure you can hear me, okay? Can you hear me?