flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighties wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it as a piece of satire nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas his portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted sleeves for adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to to be. now delivers obscene wealth for a very few poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the destruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit a precious few over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find

flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it is a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers obscene wealth for a very few well raining poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit a precious few over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has f

but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it is a piece of satire nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers a pretty well for a very few poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit the precious view over five million children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology plac

you can see great movies like oliver stone's "platoon." >> oliver stone was good at that. >> that's aichotomy. you have people like john kerry and chuck hagel who talk about their experiences in vietnam and saying, listen, we think a land war is the last resort. and they have someone like john mccain, and this is a point you have made a couple times since the republican convention, he called for about six wars in his speech in tampa, john mccain did, and so they both -- >> new ones. >> new ones. and major wars. and so he seems to sort of come back from vietnam as if he wants to do it right in another way, and he has this whole thing, people forget, about teddy roosevelt, and teddy roosevelt, who did a lot of progressive things on the foreign policy front, believed national greatness and his own personal greatness would come from war. >> the great white fleet. >> and so mccain seems to have some of that in him, which is not present in john kerry. >> joy, somebody said to me the other day when you watch the whole hearings the other day with the nitpicking and attack and baiting really a

then i went to a of salvador where oliver stone and others romanticized the guerrilla movement. they were killing mayors in cold blood. there were guerrilla camps up in the mountains. women in fatigues would be serving coffee and grumbling that the guys were running the show. there is a black-and-white problem in the way we look at things. there is a polarization going on. you talk about having to strengthen over here. we have to guard against these guys. life is more complicated than that. >> i agree. a theme that runs through my book is many questions, not all answers. i do not think in black-and- white terms. here is a real power structure analysis. you need countervailing forces. we have had such one-sided power, corporate power. if you go back 50 years, you had labor, business, a government that was functioning, more of a balance. 1% may be too simplistic. a lot of 1%ers should not be vilified. you can be a 1% with the 99%. those you call out and hold accountable are those who want to cut taxes for the rich and no fair share who want to live in the privatized environment an

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oliver stone who wrote the script to one of your best known films scarface said in an interview with r.t. that americans are living in an orwellian state it might not be oppressive on the surface but there's no place to hide so eventually some parts of you is going to end up in the database where according to historian peter course nick the us government intercepts over one point seven billion messages a day i you know well that will likely understood notice paranoia because i like myself a very strong. views about what our american foreign policy is and so needless to say i've probably been followed around since the sixty's because i made very political antiwar pictures of me in the sixty's. so i sort of accepted basically. and my last week's political picture were back to. my country because i was criticizing our foreign policy and the fact that what the hell are we doing in iraq. is terrible things happen when you put these young boys in these worlds where they don't understand what they're fighting for why they are. so i can understand why all over things were being followed all

that i think about it this way just go with me for a second here you know that scene from the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that would win him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company or paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says. the lack of better word is good. right. create works. there.

september and december i had the exciting opportunity to sit down with a cademy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter cosmic about their book in showtime series the untold history of the united states we discussed a wide range of topics from self-censorship in hollywood to the growing surveillance state here in the u.s. check out. to the history you cover pearl harbor which of course led to the internment of japanese american citizens i don't think a lot of people really acknowledge that once again under reported aspect of really what that meant when you look at the surveillance grid in america today it almost seems like it is an open air internment camp where they don't need to in turn people anymore because we have this great set up in place of them you know because they're we the u.s. government now intercepts more than one point seven billion messages a day from american citizens one point seven billion that's you know that's telephone calls it's other forms of communication that's about one point seven billion we've got this apparatus set up now with hundreds and hundreds of

in the oliver stone film wall street when gordon gekko played by michael douglas in a role that wouldwin him an oscar appears at a shareholders meeting of a company or paper to defend his actions and his grotesque worldview and delivers the now famous speech where he says. for lack of a better word is good. right. greek works.

september and december i had the exciting opportunity to sit down with a cademy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter cosmic about their book in showtime series the untold history of the united states we discussed a wide range of topics from self-censorship in hollywood to the growing surveillance state here in the u.s. check it out. and to the history you cover pearl harbor which of course led to the internment of japanese american citizens i don't think a lot of people really acknowledge that once again under reported aspect of really what that meant when you look at the surveillance grid in america today it almost seems like it is an open air internment camp where they don't need to interned people anymore because we have this grand set up in place of what you're going to be the u.s. government now intercepts more than one point seven billion messages a day from american citizens one point seven billion that's even know that's telephone calls it's other forms of communication compared to that one point seven billion we've got this apparatus set up now with hundreds and hundreds