The famed Hollywood director and Academy Award winner Oliver Stone said in a new 10-part documentary that the real threat to the world is America, and not ISIS.
His new documentary TV series “The Untold History of the United States” suggests that the U.S. governments destabilizing influence in the world far predates ISIS.
As reported by the Stone indicates that the US is far greater threat to the stability of the world than the terrorist group ISIS.
His new series pinpoints moments of American intrusion in the region as far back as the 1930s and follows it all the way to the CIA-backed Iranian coup in 1953, support for Afghanistan-based, anti-Soviet Union militants in the 1980s, George H.W. Bush’s Iraq invasion of 1990, and present-day efforts in Iran, Syria, and other countries.
Stone’s 2012 series, The Untold History of the United States, is a return to the intellectual form of one of his earliest successes, Salvador, which was strongly critical of the U.S.-supported right wing military of the Salvadoran Civil War. The last episode in the series is called Bush & Obama: Age of Terror. It covers the following subjects:
The Project For A New American Century, a neoconservative think tank that called for a Pearl Harbor-type event to catalyze military action in the Middle East
The tyranny of neoconservatives who pushed us to war with Iraq using faulty intelligence
The rushing through of the Patriot Act, which stripped Americans of a wide variety of civil liberties while bestowing legal precedent to the new surveillance state
The national brainwashing and fear-mongering of the War on Terror
Invading Afghanistan to defeat some of the same terrorists the U.S. armed and trained two decades earlier
Unconstitutional torture and interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay
The mainstream media’s facilitation of war through propaganda and corporate collusion
Obama selling out to J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, General Electric, and Big Pharma
The $700 billion financial bailout paid for by workers, pensioners, homeowners, small businessmen, and students with loans
The rise of CEO compensation amid the collapse of the middle class
Obama’s failure to deliver hope, change, or transparency, his prosecution of government whistle blowers, his fortification of Bush’s national security state (though he repudiated the unilateralism of Bush, he doubled down on troops and, according to Stone, “lacked the courage of a John F. Kennedy”)
Obama’s targeted drone strikes on Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia (includes a breathtaking clip of his remark to troops: “Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources….We do it because it’s right.”
Stone stated that his documentary series is an alternative approach to American history, one he hopes will fight the “educational crime” of exposing today’s schoolchildren to the propaganda of standard textbooks and television programs.
Stone doesn’t spare words and says that:
“American exceptionalism has to be driven out of our curriculum's. We’re not under threat. We are the threat.”
But lately Oliver Stone has received less acclaim for films like World Trade Center, which failed to question the mainstream narrative of 9/11, and W., which gave relatively gentle treatment to George W. Bush’s presidency.
Source:
http://theantimedia.org/oliver-stone-forget-isis-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world/
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150922/1027364838/Oliver-Stone-Untold-History.html
His new documentary TV series “The Untold History of the United States” suggests that the U.S. governments destabilizing influence in the world far predates ISIS.
As reported by the Stone indicates that the US is far greater threat to the stability of the world than the terrorist group ISIS.
His new series pinpoints moments of American intrusion in the region as far back as the 1930s and follows it all the way to the CIA-backed Iranian coup in 1953, support for Afghanistan-based, anti-Soviet Union militants in the 1980s, George H.W. Bush’s Iraq invasion of 1990, and present-day efforts in Iran, Syria, and other countries.
Stone’s 2012 series, The Untold History of the United States, is a return to the intellectual form of one of his earliest successes, Salvador, which was strongly critical of the U.S.-supported right wing military of the Salvadoran Civil War. The last episode in the series is called Bush & Obama: Age of Terror. It covers the following subjects:
The Project For A New American Century, a neoconservative think tank that called for a Pearl Harbor-type event to catalyze military action in the Middle East
The tyranny of neoconservatives who pushed us to war with Iraq using faulty intelligence
The rushing through of the Patriot Act, which stripped Americans of a wide variety of civil liberties while bestowing legal precedent to the new surveillance state
The national brainwashing and fear-mongering of the War on Terror
Invading Afghanistan to defeat some of the same terrorists the U.S. armed and trained two decades earlier
Unconstitutional torture and interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay
The mainstream media’s facilitation of war through propaganda and corporate collusion
Obama selling out to J.P. Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, General Electric, and Big Pharma
The $700 billion financial bailout paid for by workers, pensioners, homeowners, small businessmen, and students with loans
The rise of CEO compensation amid the collapse of the middle class
Obama’s failure to deliver hope, change, or transparency, his prosecution of government whistle blowers, his fortification of Bush’s national security state (though he repudiated the unilateralism of Bush, he doubled down on troops and, according to Stone, “lacked the courage of a John F. Kennedy”)
Obama’s targeted drone strikes on Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia (includes a breathtaking clip of his remark to troops: “Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources….We do it because it’s right.”
Stone stated that his documentary series is an alternative approach to American history, one he hopes will fight the “educational crime” of exposing today’s schoolchildren to the propaganda of standard textbooks and television programs.
Stone doesn’t spare words and says that:
“American exceptionalism has to be driven out of our curriculum's. We’re not under threat. We are the threat.”
But lately Oliver Stone has received less acclaim for films like World Trade Center, which failed to question the mainstream narrative of 9/11, and W., which gave relatively gentle treatment to George W. Bush’s presidency.
Source:
http://theantimedia.org/oliver-stone-forget-isis-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world/
http://sputniknews.com/us/20150922/1027364838/Oliver-Stone-Untold-History.html
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