Oliver Stone: America Is The Real Threat To The World, Not ISIS

Oliver Stone has said in a new 10-part documentary that the real threat to the world is America, and not ISIS.



His new book and TV series “The Untold History of the United States” suggests that the U.S. governments destabilising influence in the world far predates ISIS.

Theantimedia.org reports:

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 etched his way into the hearts and minds of the American public in the mid-to-late 1980s with two films depicting powerful experiences from the Vietnam War. Platoon and Born on the 4th of July represent Stone’s confusion over his own service in the war, for which he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Stone’s JFK famously questioned the mainstream narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, endearing the filmmaker to conspiracy theory circles for decades with a fictional account of a lawyer bringing the U.S. government to trial for its role in the assassination.

In recent years, 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.

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 whistleblowers, 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.”

To watch the video:

http://yournewswire.com/oliver-stone-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world-not-isis/

eddie wrote:Oliver Stone has said in a new 10-part documentary that the real threat to the world is America, and not ISIS.



His new book and TV series “The Untold History of the United States” suggests that the U.S. governments destabilising influence in the world far predates ISIS.

Theantimedia.org reports:

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 etched his way into the hearts and minds of the American public in the mid-to-late 1980s with two films depicting powerful experiences from the Vietnam War. Platoon and Born on the 4th of July represent Stone’s confusion over his own service in the war, for which he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Stone’s JFK famously questioned the mainstream narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, endearing the filmmaker to conspiracy theory circles for decades with a fictional account of a lawyer bringing the U.S. government to trial for its role in the assassination.

In recent years, 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.

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 whistleblowers, 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.”

To watch the video:

http://yournewswire.com/oliver-stone-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world-not-isis/

According to Quill,the USA is the greatest nation on the planet.

In fact,it's a twisted shithole.

Shady wrote:

eddie wrote:Oliver Stone has said in a new 10-part documentary that the real threat to the world is America, and not ISIS.



His new book and TV series “The Untold History of the United States” suggests that the U.S. governments destabilising influence in the world far predates ISIS.

Theantimedia.org reports:

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 etched his way into the hearts and minds of the American public in the mid-to-late 1980s with two films depicting powerful experiences from the Vietnam War. Platoon and Born on the 4th of July represent Stone’s confusion over his own service in the war, for which he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

Stone’s JFK famously questioned the mainstream narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, endearing the filmmaker to conspiracy theory circles for decades with a fictional account of a lawyer bringing the U.S. government to trial for its role in the assassination.

In recent years, 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.

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 whistleblowers, 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.”

To watch the video:

http://yournewswire.com/oliver-stone-america-is-the-real-threat-to-the-world-not-isis/

According to Quill,the USA is the greatest nation on the planet.

In fact,it's a twisted shithole.

Jealousy...it's never becoming, shady.

I think Stone is making the same point as I did when I said that, though.  The US is not only the strongest nation now, but that there ever has been in history.  Therefore, the Moral Politics of America are most important, not only to America, but to the world.

I recognized this point in March, 2003, when the US Republicans took the boat out for a ride in Iraq.  Clearly, that was the worst disaster in the history of warfare.  It was built on a deliberate lie, and encompassed kidnapping, rape, torture and murder.  I would say that was taking the country off-course.

By comparison, ISIL is just a confused piece in a confusing puzzle of conflicting political and economic forces.  ISIL is relatively small in the whole picture.  But the picture of Islamic confusion--anchored by the 1,500-year old civil war--is huge.  

So...the greatest nation, and a problem that huge...it foretells of difficulty, to say the least.