23-06-2013, 08:49 PM
Is this series being shown in the US?
I've just watched the final episode and it is a complete and utter demolition of Official History.
Oliver Stone deconstructs and destroys the War on Terror, with its lies and psyop propaganda.
He lacerates the "banksters" and their impoverishment of ordinary working families.
He decries Obama for empowering Rubin's bastard Nazgul to run America by Wall Street and Shock Therapy's rules.
Stone uses highly charged clips to demonstrate that the mass media is nothing more than a propaganda chorus doing Homeland Security's bidding.
Then, through clip after clip, he accuses Obama of betraying promise after promise.
Finally, when the military tell Obama that he cannot refuse their wishes for more troops and escalation in yet another meaningless and unjustified war, because the Chain of Command would be irreparably broken, Stone states that Obama did not show the courage of JFK and folded abjectly.
Stone is clear that this was a betrayal.
A President must be prepared to risk his own death.
This is potent, resonant, weaponised history.
The series ends with imagery of mushroom clouds, of bombs dropping from on high, of American soldiers invading yet another country,
Narrator Oliver Stone intones:
"In looking back at the American century, have we acted wisely and humanely in our relations with the rest of the world?"
Imagery of dollar printing presses, and soup kitchens:
"A world in which a few hundred or thousand or couple of thousand have more wealth than the poorest three billion?"
Over WW2 and Cold War imagery:
"Have we been right to police the globe? Have we been a force for good? For understanding? For peace?"
Over footage of land being blasted and bombed, of war time liberation, of the atomic bomb and leaflets proselytising for "Survival in the Atomic Age":
"We must look in the mirror. Have we perhaps in our self love become angels of our own despair? Claims of victory in the second world war and justifications for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
"The founding myths of domination, the national security state and the nation's elites have benefitted from that."
Over imagery of Hiroshima, America's founding fathers, the Statue of Liberty:
"The Bomb has allowed us to win by any means necessary. Which makes us, because we win, Right. And because we are Right, Good."
Footage of Albright, Bush, Obama:
"Under these conditions, there is no morality but our own. Madeline Albright said that if we have to use force it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. Because we can and have threatened humanity with the Bomb, our mistakes are forgiven, and our cruelties justified as benignly motivated aberrations."
Over imagery of Hitler's legions and the British empire:
"But domination does not last. Five major empires have collapsed in the lifetime of a person born before WW2.
"If history is a barometer, then United States' domination will end as well."
Imagery of American independence, James Stewart, the Statue of Liberty:
"We wisely resisted becoming a colonial empire, and most Americans would deny all imperial pretentions. Perhaps that is why we cling so doggedly to the myth of American Exceptionalism. American uniqueness, benevolence, genorosity.
"Maybe in that fanciful notion lie the seeds of American redemption."
Every European, every non-American, understands Stone's history.
Do Americans understand it?
Stone's series is not perfect, but it is the most potent and truthful documentary history that I've seen since Adam Curtis' Pandora's Box series in 1992, and more far-reaching and epic in scope than that.
For now, the enemy has won, because Oliver Stone's Untold History has broadcast to near complete silence.
His Untold History remains Suppressed.
I've just watched the final episode and it is a complete and utter demolition of Official History.
Oliver Stone deconstructs and destroys the War on Terror, with its lies and psyop propaganda.
He lacerates the "banksters" and their impoverishment of ordinary working families.
He decries Obama for empowering Rubin's bastard Nazgul to run America by Wall Street and Shock Therapy's rules.
Stone uses highly charged clips to demonstrate that the mass media is nothing more than a propaganda chorus doing Homeland Security's bidding.
Then, through clip after clip, he accuses Obama of betraying promise after promise.
Finally, when the military tell Obama that he cannot refuse their wishes for more troops and escalation in yet another meaningless and unjustified war, because the Chain of Command would be irreparably broken, Stone states that Obama did not show the courage of JFK and folded abjectly.
Stone is clear that this was a betrayal.
A President must be prepared to risk his own death.
This is potent, resonant, weaponised history.
The series ends with imagery of mushroom clouds, of bombs dropping from on high, of American soldiers invading yet another country,
Narrator Oliver Stone intones:
"In looking back at the American century, have we acted wisely and humanely in our relations with the rest of the world?"
Imagery of dollar printing presses, and soup kitchens:
"A world in which a few hundred or thousand or couple of thousand have more wealth than the poorest three billion?"
Over WW2 and Cold War imagery:
"Have we been right to police the globe? Have we been a force for good? For understanding? For peace?"
Over footage of land being blasted and bombed, of war time liberation, of the atomic bomb and leaflets proselytising for "Survival in the Atomic Age":
"We must look in the mirror. Have we perhaps in our self love become angels of our own despair? Claims of victory in the second world war and justifications for the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
"The founding myths of domination, the national security state and the nation's elites have benefitted from that."
Over imagery of Hiroshima, America's founding fathers, the Statue of Liberty:
"The Bomb has allowed us to win by any means necessary. Which makes us, because we win, Right. And because we are Right, Good."
Footage of Albright, Bush, Obama:
"Under these conditions, there is no morality but our own. Madeline Albright said that if we have to use force it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. Because we can and have threatened humanity with the Bomb, our mistakes are forgiven, and our cruelties justified as benignly motivated aberrations."
Over imagery of Hitler's legions and the British empire:
"But domination does not last. Five major empires have collapsed in the lifetime of a person born before WW2.
"If history is a barometer, then United States' domination will end as well."
Imagery of American independence, James Stewart, the Statue of Liberty:
"We wisely resisted becoming a colonial empire, and most Americans would deny all imperial pretentions. Perhaps that is why we cling so doggedly to the myth of American Exceptionalism. American uniqueness, benevolence, genorosity.
"Maybe in that fanciful notion lie the seeds of American redemption."
Every European, every non-American, understands Stone's history.
Do Americans understand it?
Stone's series is not perfect, but it is the most potent and truthful documentary history that I've seen since Adam Curtis' Pandora's Box series in 1992, and more far-reaching and epic in scope than that.
For now, the enemy has won, because Oliver Stone's Untold History has broadcast to near complete silence.
His Untold History remains Suppressed.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war