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Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of The US .. Bush & Obama Age of Terror
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.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-22/oliver-stone-forget-isis-america-real-threat-world
Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/09/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-us-bush.html
