Talks: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism

Noam Chomsky delivers the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture Columbia University School for International Affairs for the Heyman Center for the Humanities. After paying homage to Edward Said's stress on imperialism as central to our culture, Chomsky builds his case with telling rationalizations and denials by American leaders from the extermination of Native Americans through United States terrorism in Latin and South America -- in Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Panama, Nicaragua -- and the Middle East.