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Oliver Stone Makes Impassioned Plea for Sanders: 'Hillary Clinton Has
Effectively Closed the Door on Peace'
By Oliver Stone [1] / Huffington Post [2]
April 1, 2016
When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it's extremely
dangerous. It is overwhelming... The mass media and the military-industrial
complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the
same way... We need the courage to express ourselves even when the majority
is going in the opposite direction... because a change of direction can
happen only when there is a collective awakening... Therefore, it is very
important to say, 'I am here!' to those who share the same kind of insight.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk, The Art of Power
I've been in deep despair these last few months about our political
landscape. This quote from Thich Nhat Hanh recently elevated my spirit, and
I share it with you. Because I am - we are - still here! Though it's clear
that the die is cast and that Clinton will win - that is, if you believe in
numbers and materialism, but I don't, not completely.
I enclose here (below) several recent articles, which you need to read to
understand how difficult a situation we'll be in if we continue with a
harder-line version of Obama. Hillary Clinton has effectively closed the
door on peace, blasting both the Palestinian peace process and the Russians
in the same week. NATO is her god, the best thing the "exceptional" US has
to export in this new "American Century."
But who set this policy and who controls this country? Her point of view is
steeped in the traditional post-World War II, Atlanticist, NATO-domination
of the universe. It's set in stone. No president it seems, no democratic
vote, no dissenting media can alter this. We're going to be in border,
resource, and forever wars for the next 10, 20, 100 years, until Trump (who
our shadow government will never allow to exercise power) actually said in
his straight way of talking, "our cities go bust." Our media has been
drained and made callous by war, increasingly sensationalized by TV, looking
for the next high in the next headline, the more outrageous the better.
Modesty in American politics is dead - it's better to be sensational.
Ironically, as they call Trump unelectable (which he is), it leaves you to
think Clinton is the "new normal," in which case you've been deceived by the
unnecessary dichotomy that Clinton is actually "respectable" in the same way
that Eisenhower/Dulles 1950s were respectable when we went about intervening
and overthrowing governments in many countries. But the difference was they
at least had the brains not to get into shooting wars. To suggest that NATO
should've expired in 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated, I suppose,
isn't questionable anymore. NATO, which has expanded to 13 countries since
1991, must be supported and Clinton has been brainwashed by the
neoconservatives to believe it's about "Russian aggression" when it's the
United States that's ensuring the greatest build-up on the European borders
of Russia since Hitler did it in World War II.
We're going to war - either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back
to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country).
Our citizens should know this, but they don't because our media is dumbed
down in its "Pravda"-like support for our "respectable," highly aggressive
government. We are being led, as C. Wright Mills said in the 1950s, by a
government full of "crackpot realists: in the name of realism they've
constructed a paranoid reality all their own." Our media has credited
Hillary Clinton with wonderful foreign policy experience, unlike Trump,
without really noting the results of her power-mongering. She's comparable
to Bill Clinton's choice of Cold War crackpot Madeleine Albright as one of
the worst Secretary of States we've had since ... Condi Rice? Albright
boasted, "If we have to use force it is because we are America; we are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries
into the future."
Hillary's record includes supporting the barbaric "contras" against the
Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former
Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess,
and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the
military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at "regime change" in
Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more
chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders
of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC
speech (don't say you haven't been warned). Can we really bear to watch as
Clinton "takes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level"? Where is our
sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this
extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of "correctness"
that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary
is not).
This is why I'm praying still for Bernie Sanders, because he's the only one
willing, at least in the name of fiscal sanity, to cut back on our foreign
interventions, bring the troops home, and with these trillions of dollars no
longer wasted on malice, try to protect the "homeland" by actually
rebuilding it and putting money into its people, schools, and
infrastructure.
Albert Camus, talking about the doomed Spanish Civil War in the 1930s wrote,
"Men of my generation have had Spain in our hearts. It was there that they
learned ... that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish
spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded." It's true
the light was extinguished for generations in Spain. America was sleeping,
but it finally did the right thing and went to war against Fascism. I
believe Fascism is still our greatest enemy and its face is everywhere in
our so-called "democracies." It was always about the moneyed interests that
had the power. That is what Fascism is and that is the danger we are in now.
Sanders talks about money, listen to him. He talks cogently about money and
its power to distort. He's the only one who has raised his voice against the
corruption in our politics. Clinton has embraced this corruption.
"The Clinton/Trump AIPAC 'Pander-Off,' [3]" by Robert Parry
"Critics Aghast at 'Disgusting Speech' Clinton Just Gave to AIPAC [4]," by
Lauren McCauley
"Fearing Sanders as 'Closet Realist,' [5]" by Robert Parry
"A World War has Begun. Break the Silence [6]," by John Pilger
"Risking Nuclear War for Al-Qaeda [7]," by Robert Parry
"Neocon Kagan Endorses Hillary Clinton [8]," by Robert Parry
"Sanders the 'Realist': Hillary the 'Neocon,' [9]" by Robert Parry
"A Crazy Establishment Demands 'Sanity,' [10]" by Robert Parry
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Oliver Stone Makes Impassioned Plea for Sanders: 'Hillary Clinton Has
Effectively Closed the Door on Peace'
By Oliver Stone [1] / Huffington Post [2]
April 1, 2016
When fear becomes collective, when anger becomes collective, it's extremely
dangerous. It is overwhelming... The mass media and the military-industrial
complex create a prison for us, so we continue to think, see, and act in the
same way... We need the courage to express ourselves even when the majority
is going in the opposite direction... because a change of direction can
happen only when there is a collective awakening... Therefore, it is very
important to say, 'I am here!' to those who share the same kind of insight.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist Monk, The Art of Power
I've been in deep despair these last few months about our political
landscape. This quote from Thich Nhat Hanh recently elevated my spirit, and
I share it with you. Because I am - we are - still here! Though it's clear
that the die is cast and that Clinton will win - that is, if you believe in
numbers and materialism, but I don't, not completely.
I enclose here (below) several recent articles, which you need to read to
understand how difficult a situation we'll be in if we continue with a
harder-line version of Obama. Hillary Clinton has effectively closed the
door on peace, blasting both the Palestinian peace process and the Russians
in the same week. NATO is her god, the best thing the "exceptional" US has
to export in this new "American Century."
But who set this policy and who controls this country? Her point of view is
steeped in the traditional post-World War II, Atlanticist, NATO-domination
of the universe. It's set in stone. No president it seems, no democratic
vote, no dissenting media can alter this. We're going to be in border,
resource, and forever wars for the next 10, 20, 100 years, until Trump (who
our shadow government will never allow to exercise power) actually said in
his straight way of talking, "our cities go bust." Our media has been
drained and made callous by war, increasingly sensationalized by TV, looking
for the next high in the next headline, the more outrageous the better.
Modesty in American politics is dead - it's better to be sensational.
Ironically, as they call Trump unelectable (which he is), it leaves you to
think Clinton is the "new normal," in which case you've been deceived by the
unnecessary dichotomy that Clinton is actually "respectable" in the same way
that Eisenhower/Dulles 1950s were respectable when we went about intervening
and overthrowing governments in many countries. But the difference was they
at least had the brains not to get into shooting wars. To suggest that NATO
should've expired in 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated, I suppose,
isn't questionable anymore. NATO, which has expanded to 13 countries since
1991, must be supported and Clinton has been brainwashed by the
neoconservatives to believe it's about "Russian aggression" when it's the
United States that's ensuring the greatest build-up on the European borders
of Russia since Hitler did it in World War II.
We're going to war - either hybrid in nature to break the Russian state back
to its 1990s subordination, or a hot war (which will destroy our country).
Our citizens should know this, but they don't because our media is dumbed
down in its "Pravda"-like support for our "respectable," highly aggressive
government. We are being led, as C. Wright Mills said in the 1950s, by a
government full of "crackpot realists: in the name of realism they've
constructed a paranoid reality all their own." Our media has credited
Hillary Clinton with wonderful foreign policy experience, unlike Trump,
without really noting the results of her power-mongering. She's comparable
to Bill Clinton's choice of Cold War crackpot Madeleine Albright as one of
the worst Secretary of States we've had since ... Condi Rice? Albright
boasted, "If we have to use force it is because we are America; we are the
indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other countries
into the future."
Hillary's record includes supporting the barbaric "contras" against the
Nicaraguan people in the 1980s, supporting the NATO bombing of the former
Yugoslavia, supporting the ongoing Bush-Iraq War, the ongoing Afghan mess,
and as Secretary of State the destruction of the secular state of Libya, the
military coup in Honduras, and the present attempt at "regime change" in
Syria. Every one of these situations has resulted in more extremism, more
chaos in the world, and more danger to our country. Next will be the borders
of Russia, China, and Iran. Look at the viciousness of her recent AIPAC
speech (don't say you haven't been warned). Can we really bear to watch as
Clinton "takes our alliance [with Israel] to the next level"? Where is our
sense of proportion? Cannot the media, at the least, call her out on this
extremism? The problem, I think, is this political miasma of "correctness"
that dominates American thinking (i.e. Trump is extreme, therefore Hillary
is not).
This is why I'm praying still for Bernie Sanders, because he's the only one
willing, at least in the name of fiscal sanity, to cut back on our foreign
interventions, bring the troops home, and with these trillions of dollars no
longer wasted on malice, try to protect the "homeland" by actually
rebuilding it and putting money into its people, schools, and
infrastructure.
Albert Camus, talking about the doomed Spanish Civil War in the 1930s wrote,
"Men of my generation have had Spain in our hearts. It was there that they
learned ... that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish
spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded." It's true
the light was extinguished for generations in Spain. America was sleeping,
but it finally did the right thing and went to war against Fascism. I
believe Fascism is still our greatest enemy and its face is everywhere in
our so-called "democracies." It was always about the moneyed interests that
had the power. That is what Fascism is and that is the danger we are in now.
Sanders talks about money, listen to him. He talks cogently about money and
its power to distort. He's the only one who has raised his voice against the
corruption in our politics. Clinton has embraced this corruption.
"The Clinton/Trump AIPAC 'Pander-Off,' [3]" by Robert Parry
"Critics Aghast at 'Disgusting Speech' Clinton Just Gave to AIPAC [4]," by
Lauren McCauley
"Fearing Sanders as 'Closet Realist,' [5]" by Robert Parry
"A World War has Begun. Break the Silence [6]," by John Pilger
"Risking Nuclear War for Al-Qaeda [7]," by Robert Parry
"Neocon Kagan Endorses Hillary Clinton [8]," by Robert Parry
"Sanders the 'Realist': Hillary the 'Neocon,' [9]" by Robert Parry
"A Crazy Establishment Demands 'Sanity,' [10]" by Robert Parry
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