telling the untold history of the united states

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Film director Oliver Stone and American University history professor Peter Kuznick have produced a project called “The Untold History of the United States.” The project consists of a book released on October 30 and a documentary series that is scheduled to begin airing on Showtime on November 12.

The series begins with a kind of artist’s statement from Stone. To-camera, he reflects:

When I was a young boy growing up in New York City, I thought I received a good education. I studied history extensively, especially American history. It made sense. We were the center of the world. There was a manifest destiny. We were the good guys.
Well, I’ve traveled the world now. I continued my education as an infantrymen in Vietnam, made a lot of movies (some of them about history) and, when I heard from my children what they were learning in school, I was perturbed to hear that they were not really getting a more honest view of the world than I did…

The book covers the past one hundred years of American history and appropriately treats America as an empire, something textbooks school children are required to read do not do. The “roots of empire” are highlighted in the first chapter. The final chapter on President Barack Obama’s first term details the actions of a president tasked with managing a “wounded empire.”

—Why does our country have military bases in every region of the globe totaling more than a thousand by some counts?

—Why does it still possess thousands of nuclear weapons, many on hair-trigger alert, even though no nation poses an imminent threat?

—Why are a tiny minority of wealthy Americans allowed to exert so much control over US domestic politics, foreign policy and media while the great masses see a diminution of their real power and standards of living?

—Why have Americans submitted to levels of surveillance, government intrusion, abuse of civil liberties and loss of privacy that would have appalled the Founding Fathers and earlier generations?

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/11/02/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-united-states-challenges-americans-ignorance-of-their-countrys-history/