Awesome….Oliver Stone is truly one of the few enlightened filmmakers in the United States. Keep speaking up Mr Stone, America needs to hear from you. The world is a little better as a result of your great work. Good health, prosperity and long life to you.
A good health in the very first place! As a matter of fact, I noticed he's looking quite tired lately, and it even seems to me his left arm is kind of partly paralyzed in this new clip. Such a remarkable American public figure must necessarily feel bad about all that has been happening on this miserable planet of ours, over the last few years. Hard times to keep faith in the future of humankind, in spite of the Xmas season. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏
The movie ''Patton'' (1970) inspired me to go back to Viet-Nam for my 2nd tour. The movie ''All Quiet On The Western Front'' (1930 film) confirmed what I learned from going to war. The movie ''Platoon'' intensified my remorse for going to war. The movie ''JFK'' caused me to despise the deep swamp that runs the corrupt US government. Oliver Stone is one of my heroes.
In the '60s, we opposed the draft/war in Viet Nam & my husband lost his case in a federal trial & paid the price. We opposed both the draft/war & also Communism. Here's the interesting thing: Communism is atheistic materialism by govt. force. It killed millions in Soviet Union, China, & more. However, the U.S. has meanwhile become a similar regime of atheistic materialism by govt. force. Therefore as Christians we opposed Communism but ALSO its neo-copycat in the U.S. / MIC that Pres. Eisenhower warned against. I agree with your good work opposing the endless wars of internal & external regime change. We have become what we supposed we once opposed. Col. Douglas Macgregor is one who spells it out. Viva Crsto Rey.
@@LadyJane29030 < Thank you. The lessons i learned: empires always do what empires do... destroy countless millions of hearts, minds, lives to feed the empire's appetite... yet always whispering to their proud young men... "your empire is the good empire"
Oliver Stone and my life intersected in Vietnam 67-68, fighting in some of the same battles and we both came back to the world hating war, and fighting for peace.He had the courage to disagree with Brother Vietnam Vets on issues, that’s never easy. A great director and a man with a moral compass.
Oliver Stone is great. If you haven't seen his 10 part documentary called 'The Untold History of the United States', you owe it to yourself to watch it.
It has always made me smile when people talked about their freedom. They think that the possibility of walking in the streets and shouting out their opinion is a democracy and freedom. But I always asked them ‘has the problem been resolved?’ . What I want to say is that democracy is not just giving people the opportunity for free speech.
Stone is such a great thinker, so very erudite too. Watching his energy, not just here but always, he exhibits an abiding nervous tiredness from fighting the popular stupidity and blindness and warmongering. I feel just like him.
A few American man had the virtue and kindness of your heart!!!! We are missing this kind of people in the media, like Noam Chomsky, Eduard Norton and our very best John Pilger
The collective west is like that old demented uncle oblivious to his own smelly farts. He projects his own evil doings on to his would be enemies; Russia, China and Iran.
I would appreciate any assistance in my inquiry on the history of my Locke Family in Vietnam. I am Vance Locke youngest son of Gwyn K. &Robert P. (BURMA BOB) Locke.
“I’m sick of rejection, frankly, I’m sick of the business too because the business went through all the worst impulses, the people who do the best and make the most money are the most prostituted.” Oliver Stone, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
it's beautiful to see, but so sad to watch these great people like Oliver Stone and Chris Hedges and Gabor Mate who try so hard to educate the American people into caring about the world and having compassion and yet as Oliver says the country makes to same stupid mistakes over and over....the tragedy of America
it comes down to collective unconsciousness and shadows being rejected from acceptance (a.k.a. learning from past mistakes) therefore the collective of the nation is predestined to repeat the same phenomenon over and over.
Talking abt 19 year olds who serve in wars: My dad served in WWII as an old man of 31 years. He said later: "The younger soldiers followed orders they should have disobeyed, and disobeyed orders that they should have followed." He never openly stated that due to his influence over younger men, lives were saved. But I think he did help. Like others with experience, he once refused orders to take three other soldiers up a hill to take down a flag that was being shot at. Most likely he & his men would have been killed. Although threatened continually with courtmartials, he made it through & was honorably discharged w/ the rank of sergeant in 1946.
Only in America, where you can discuss, talk, debate about wars all day long and all year long, but it changes nothing...US is still doing it all over the world, funding coups, wars, jan no side even today....talk talk talk talk talk. LMAO!
America since 1776 has undoubtedly been at war 225 years out of 247 years (roughly 93% of its existence). the US was directly involved in wars and conflicts all over the world out of which the US has undertaken almost 400 military interventions and invasion. including 200 of which took place between 1950 and 2019, of those 200 more than 100 have taken place during the post-Cold War era between 1991 and 2019. "The post-Cold War era has produced fewer great power conflict and circumstances in which to defend vital US interests. yet US military interventions continue at high rates and higher hostilities," the study concluded. The study has found that US military interventions "increasingly" target the Middle East and Africa: more than a quarter of the country's campaigns throughout its history..US involvement in wars, invasions, and regime changes around the world. Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since World War 2 (* indicates successful ouster of a gov).. China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s-1991* permanently occupied by US Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 * Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 * Pakistan 2022 * Bangladesh 2024 * Syria 2024 * Georgia 2024
Thank You from Bulgaria. America has to be proud with Oliver Stone. The Host was very good. I and my circle of People were working class,grow up with Oliver Stone"s movies, especially Platoon. Our Father prepared is for the Army service,at the time was mandatory in Bulgaria.Telling us exactly what Mr.Stone told us in Platoon and this why our service was easy mentally.We knew in advance everything is BS. At the time(the first half of the1990"s) even not educated,we made clear difference between Platoon from one side and the stupid movies from another. I think,this why now the young get in trouble,as They can not make the difference what is right and what is wrong. And when They face the reality,this how Their mental trouble begins. Thank You!
I'm writing this from Phong My commune in Ben Tre province, Viet Nam, in the Mekong Delta. We are here visiting my in-laws. Even now 50 years after the war it is astounding how much evidence there is left from the war. There are places you cannot leave the trail because there is unexploded ordnance. There are bomb craters virtually everywhere you walk, now filled in with water. There are still ruined houses, destroyed by bombs. Every little town you visit has a war memorial. The one here in Phong My has more than 240 names of the dead and those were just soldiers. Many more civilians were killed. My wife's family was typical, so many killed in the war it is almost impossible to keep track. Both of her uncles killed, her mother's father, all 3 of her aunt's husbands, all 4 of her children, her brother...
Re touch General Smedley Butler, a true patriot in his latter years after being duped for decades. To the moderator: If you think we live in a democracy you need to be jolted into reality.
Only in America, where you can discuss, talk, debate about wars all day long and all year long, but it changes nothing...US is still doing it all over the world, funding coups, wars, jan no side even today....talk talk talk talk talk. LMAO!
You know that Russia wanted to join NATO , but US didnt wanted Russia to join. Why? because US needs an enemy so the military complex can make billions of dollars to have an enemy.. And now we got China as well so we have to enemies and that makes the Military industry super happy..
NOTHING will change until the US audience experience real pain, financial or physical. Sad to say, but as long as living in america is ”good enough” nothing will change.
"until the US audience experience real pain, financial or physical" No. All of that will be twised by the American psy-op machine (CIA + corporate media) as it's all the fault of the other guy out there that you must fight now. AND IT WILL WORK AS ALWAYS. Normies will be sent to a meat grinder and those who are behind the curtain will be rubbing hands and counting money. hahahaha "The conscious and organized manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this invisible mechanism of society thus create an invisible government which is the real power in our country." - Edward Bernays (Goebbels' big inspiration btw hahaha)
Fantastic talk thank you so much to you all, especially to Oliver Stone! The takeaways are so important so I dared to summarize some of them: @6:25 - “I had to have my eyes awakened by experience” @26:08 - “…A full employment economy with a war, A kind of setting, It’s a bible, it’s religious, it’s more than reason, an indoctrination of the soul” @28:00 - “…he had to go on offbeat radio shows, because he said the truth on CNN one time to somebody and they no longer booked him… It seems to be some corporate control of television and the media that is pushing for war; it’s a very subtle thing, not a conspiracy but a drive towards profit” @33:36 - “…the press is One of the worst media in this country the mainstream media, thank God for the internet, there are people saying other things, we’ve got to listen to them, you’ve got to look for that stuff because you’re not gonna get if from the top 7 media companies, you’re just not, they don’t want to hear it, they don’t want controversy, just want sell you stuff ”
Well, we learned from the Church Commission in the 1970s we have CIA minders covering every mainstream outlet. Now we have something called the NED doing this officially overseas as a snooty NGO of sorts.
Madison, Wi. 2011 fundraiser. I'm sitting in a booth at a restaurant. A man sits down. I say why did you come here? Olvier Stone says "You're my people". I didn't know who he was. He gets up and walks away. I visited El Salvador in 1982 and later watched Oliver's El Salvador film. He makes me cry.
I served in Vietnam in 1972-1973, everything that Oliver Stone says about Vietnam is the real deal. Four years after Oliver served in Vietnam American young men were still fighting and dying in this war, we sure did not want to be the last soldiers to die in Vietnam, why did the people in Washington continue to prolong the war knowing we could not win it? Money and hubris.
& I now have & am reading her book. From the mention of her in this interview I am very glad to know that she is still alivie & I hope that she is well. From a retired UK citizen, who as a teenager, grew up with the Vietnam war on the media news each & every day.
I think if Oliver were to think carefully about the best war movie he knows other than his own it would be Kirk Douglas’s Paths of Glory. Which he did actually reference during this talk. It’s my personal favourite on many different levels. Made in 1957 in black and white.
He speaks for this American. Everyone should read his biography to know what real work ethic is all about. Unfortunately since the Vietnam War America has become dumber so I don't expect brakes into the abyss anytime soon.
It was Oliver Stone, bless him, who introduced me to Edward Bellamy, long repressed and forgotten. Read Bellamy to recapture revolutionary imagination. First, Looking Backward; then Equality. Both free on the net.
Wonderful filmmaker he has made revealing movies issue based, and he stuck to his scripts point of view ideologies to what he wants to show as filmmaker
Vietnam is only slightly bigger than Italy. It was an odd comparison for Stone to make : "A country smaller than Europe" 8:10 Yes Oliver it is smaller than Europe. Much.
Naive is the one function fixed in Time no running away from it :) much respect Mr. Stone beside some great books, and movies i send my love and respect to your son ❤
1. His father in France. 2. His father in Wall Street. 3. Oliver Stone was in Vietnam. 4. Oliver Stone was arrested on smuggling charges. 5. Oliver Stone went to school with George Bush. 6. He made the JFK movie with a Mossad agent.
The American-Vietnam War was about oil; the South China Sea was thought to be another Persian Gulf with enormous destabilizing geopolitical consequences for the oil industry.
Paths of Glory is also a great war film by an American director. There’s a saying Don’t throw good money after bad money. In other words, when you start losing at the casino, it’s time to leave. The ruling elite would do well to remember this.
31:00 ish he says we are not wise diplomats, more or less. Here is an excerpt from "South Asia Papers". by Stephen P. Cohen (not he Stephen F. Cohen who was his mentor). "I was astonished; the much-vaunted American government had a weaker capacity to recall past events than the Indians, who fanatically kept up their files, minuting every conversation (including my interview with the officials I was meeting). Things have improved with computer-based data systems, but Indians are much better prepared for discussions with American counterparts than one would expect. Indeed, there have been instances when American negotiators had to be prompted or corrected by Indian and Pakistani interlocutors regarding America’s own position on various issues."
to break that lock: ...Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; [13] That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? ... And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. [33] For Tophet is ordained of old... Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. [35] And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. [36] A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
Awesome….Oliver Stone is truly one of the few enlightened filmmakers in the United States.
Keep speaking up Mr Stone, America needs to hear from you. The world is a little better as a result of your great work. Good health, prosperity and long life to you.
A good health in the very first place! As a matter of fact, I noticed he's looking quite tired lately, and it even seems to me his left arm is kind of partly paralyzed in this new clip. Such a remarkable American public figure must necessarily feel bad about all that has been happening on this miserable planet of ours, over the last few years. Hard times to keep faith in the future of humankind, in spite of the Xmas season. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏
The movie ''Patton'' (1970) inspired me to go back to Viet-Nam for my 2nd tour. The movie ''All Quiet On The Western Front'' (1930 film) confirmed what I learned from going to war. The movie ''Platoon'' intensified my remorse for going to war. The movie ''JFK'' caused me to despise the deep swamp that runs the corrupt US government. Oliver Stone is one of my heroes.
Read trail of assassins by garrison
His JFK is a must c
@@rastaman39The JFK movie is a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories. But it's good entertainment, with great acting.
In the '60s, we opposed the draft/war in Viet Nam & my husband lost his case in a federal trial & paid the price.
We opposed both the draft/war & also Communism.
Here's the interesting thing: Communism is atheistic materialism by govt. force. It killed millions in Soviet Union, China, & more.
However, the U.S. has meanwhile become a similar regime of atheistic materialism by govt. force.
Therefore as Christians we opposed Communism but ALSO its neo-copycat in the U.S. / MIC that Pres. Eisenhower warned against.
I agree with your good work opposing the endless wars of internal & external regime change. We have become what we supposed we once opposed. Col. Douglas Macgregor is one who spells it out. Viva Crsto Rey.
@@LadyJane29030 < Thank you. The lessons i learned: empires always do what empires do... destroy countless millions of hearts, minds, lives to feed the empire's appetite... yet always whispering to their proud young men... "your empire is the good empire"
Oliver Stone is a legend.
I've always admired the Oliver Stone's courage to speak the truth. Such a talented filmmaker 🎬
"... speak HIS truth."
@@beausie-woesieherewegoesie2548 speak *THE* truth..
WHY was his film banned ( Ukraine on fire) ??
Yes he spoke THE truth.
Oliver Stone a good man.
11b❤
Oliver Stone and my life intersected in Vietnam 67-68, fighting in some of the same battles and we both came back to the world hating war, and fighting for peace.He had the courage to disagree with Brother Vietnam Vets on issues, that’s never easy. A great director and a man with a moral compass.
His book, The Untold History of the US is interesting!
Bots in 'Nam? 😂
I am amazed at how super sharp and articulate Oliver Stone is at his age. I could have listened to him for another couple of hours.
Dude, not everybody collapses mentally in their 70s like Joe Biden. I’m 75 and the wisdom I have learned makes me sharper than I have ever been.
I admire Oliver so much. I read history, and have lived in Asia for 40 years.
He exposes the war machine with humanity
What are you trying to tell us by the fact that you have lived in Asia for 40 years?
OLIVER STONE= WONDERFUL MAN. HUMANITY.
Oliver Stone is the true patriot.
Oliver Stone is great. If you haven't seen his 10 part documentary called 'The Untold History of the United States', you owe it to yourself to watch it.
" Don't call yourselves a free people, if you can't make a change, if you can't stop a genocide that's still ongoing." Motaz Azaiza
Thank you for this quote ❤️
It has always made me smile when people talked about their freedom. They think that the possibility of walking in the streets and shouting out their opinion is a democracy and freedom. But I always asked them ‘has the problem been resolved?’ . What I want to say is that democracy is not just giving people the opportunity for free speech.
@@UvarovaDianaI call this performative democracy, just words. It's just a show in the end.
Oliver Stone is a very wise man. I was in Vietnam 68-69.
Thank you Oliver Stone for passing on your perspectives from your experiences.
(War is a Racket) General Smedley Butler
Well said Pia
ua-cam.com/video/AkJqraXqKLU/v-deo.html 2 hours of Smedley Butler II
Stone is such a great thinker, so very erudite too. Watching his energy, not just here but always, he exhibits an abiding nervous tiredness from fighting the popular stupidity and blindness and warmongering. I feel just like him.
A few American man had the virtue and kindness of your heart!!!! We are missing this kind of people in the media, like Noam Chomsky, Eduard Norton and our very best John Pilger
OLIVER IS THE BEST! Ukraine on fire 2016 movie. Piia from Finland.
He is right about Ukraine .. and others like Jeffrey Sachs, and John Mearsheimer has always been right..
The collective west is like that old demented uncle oblivious to his own smelly farts. He projects his own evil doings on to his would be enemies; Russia, China and Iran.
I would appreciate any assistance in my inquiry on the history of my Locke Family in Vietnam. I am Vance Locke youngest son of Gwyn K. &Robert P. (BURMA BOB) Locke.
Damn, I didn't know this movie existed until now. Thanks for the heads up. I am going to watch it right now
Wasn't a movie it was a documentary
“I’m sick of rejection, frankly, I’m sick of the business too because the business went through all the worst impulses, the people who do the best and make the most money are the most prostituted.”
Oliver Stone, American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Mr. Stone is a sage offering Americans a very objective perception of our society. Thank you, Mr. Oliver Stone.
Respect to Mr. Oliver Stone.
Oliver is a nan with deep sense of integrity, honesty and experience.
it's beautiful to see, but so sad to watch these great people like Oliver Stone and Chris Hedges and Gabor Mate who try so hard to educate the American people into caring about the world and having compassion and yet as Oliver says the country makes to same stupid mistakes over and over....the tragedy of America
Superiority complex blended with arrogance, deep ignorance, and perfidy inherited from the Perfidious Albion.
Oliver stone is posting literal russian propaganda on his twitter page.
@@vrrdt342 Ah yeah, in Russian of course.
it comes down to collective unconsciousness and shadows being rejected from acceptance (a.k.a. learning from past mistakes) therefore the collective of the nation is predestined to repeat the same phenomenon over and over.
Oliver stone is the best movie director in America history
Lol that’s a funny joke. He has made more 💩 than gold
Oliver Stone is a walking history book, he is so smart.
it was never been easy to be human amongst the people, Oliver truly and surly is
Thank everyone.
Oliver Stone, what an honor, sir!!
🙏❤️🌍🌎🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫✨️💫
Talking abt 19 year olds who serve in wars: My dad served in WWII as an old man of 31 years.
He said later: "The younger soldiers followed orders they should have disobeyed, and disobeyed orders that they should have followed." He never openly stated that due to his influence over younger men, lives were saved. But I think he did help. Like others with experience, he once refused orders to take three other soldiers up a hill to take down a flag that was being shot at. Most likely he & his men would have been killed. Although threatened continually with courtmartials, he made it through & was honorably discharged w/ the rank of sergeant in 1946.
his courage to disobey was the courage of the wisdom
The warmest greetings from Russia!
Privet ~ from NY. Peace 🕊
You gotta just love Oliver Stone .... he is a bona-fide national treasure
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Enjoy hearing Oliver. Thanks.
Only in America, where you can discuss, talk, debate about wars all day long and all year long, but it changes nothing...US is still doing it all over the world, funding coups, wars, jan no side even today....talk talk talk talk talk. LMAO!
Brilliant, thanks! I've been hoping to hear from Oliver Stone! 💎💗🌠💚🌃
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is a voice of reason and competence. It deserves our support.
A great interview with Oliver Stone! Oliver Stone is right on so many issues involving war and peace.
I'm a disciple of this brilliant and honest man.
Seems Oliver is a good, honest man with principles.
America since 1776 has undoubtedly been at war 225 years out of 247 years (roughly 93% of its existence). the US was directly involved in wars and conflicts all over the world out of which the US has undertaken almost 400 military interventions and invasion. including 200 of which took place between 1950 and 2019, of those 200 more than 100 have taken place during the post-Cold War era between 1991 and 2019.
"The post-Cold War era has produced fewer great power conflict and circumstances in which to defend vital US interests. yet US military interventions continue at high rates and higher hostilities," the study concluded.
The study has found that US military interventions "increasingly" target the Middle East and Africa: more than a quarter of the country's campaigns throughout its history..US involvement in wars, invasions, and regime changes around the world.
Instances of the United States "liberated" or overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since World War 2 (* indicates successful ouster of a gov)..
China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s-1991* permanently occupied by US
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *
Pakistan 2022 *
Bangladesh 2024 *
Syria 2024 *
Georgia 2024
Thank You from Bulgaria.
America has to be proud with Oliver Stone.
The Host was very good.
I and my circle of People were working class,grow up with Oliver Stone"s movies, especially Platoon.
Our Father prepared is for the Army service,at the time was mandatory in Bulgaria.Telling us exactly what Mr.Stone told us in Platoon and this why our service was easy mentally.We knew in advance everything is BS.
At the time(the first half of the1990"s)
even not educated,we made clear difference between Platoon from one side and the stupid movies from another.
I think,this why now the young get in trouble,as They can not make the difference what is right and what is wrong.
And when They face the reality,this how Their mental trouble begins.
Thank You!
Oliver us the best. His movies predicted almoast all that has happened in Ukraine in the middle east even Europe . Putin interwiew is the best.
Amazing, more people should watch it
His message of peace and diplomacy is so needed and is just lost in western politics right now.
I'm writing this from Phong My commune in Ben Tre province, Viet Nam, in the Mekong Delta. We are here visiting my in-laws. Even now 50 years after the war it is astounding how much evidence there is left from the war. There are places you cannot leave the trail because there is unexploded ordnance. There are bomb craters virtually everywhere you walk, now filled in with water. There are still ruined houses, destroyed by bombs. Every little town you visit has a war memorial. The one here in Phong My has more than 240 names of the dead and those were just soldiers. Many more civilians were killed. My wife's family was typical, so many killed in the war it is almost impossible to keep track. Both of her uncles killed, her mother's father, all 3 of her aunt's husbands, all 4 of her children, her brother...
Re touch General Smedley Butler, a true patriot in his latter years after being duped for decades. To the moderator: If you think we live in a democracy you need to be jolted into reality.
Oh, so true! At 5:19 "the Red Scare repeats cyclically". Yes, it does!
Only in America, where you can discuss, talk, debate about wars all day long and all year long, but it changes nothing...US is still doing it all over the world, funding coups, wars, jan no side even today....talk talk talk talk talk. LMAO!
You know that Russia wanted to join NATO , but US didnt wanted Russia to join. Why? because US needs an enemy so the military complex can make billions of dollars to have an enemy.. And now we got China as well so we have to enemies and that makes the Military industry super happy..
If Trump were smart, he'd put Oliver Stone on his cabinet. He could run DOD better than any tattoed 9/11 warrior.
rumpty dumpty a puppet to JFKMLKRFKillerjr2same bul-let is real nazionists
IF.
Insightful, thank you.
"Ukraine on fire" was an eye opener
This was special, revelatory, insightful. The questions were excellent, except on film making at the end. ;-) Thank you.
revelatory*
@ Thank you, corrected now.
NOTHING will change until the US audience experience real pain, financial or physical. Sad to say, but as long as living in america is ”good enough” nothing will change.
4154 Well stated !
"until the US audience experience real pain, financial or physical"
No. All of that will be twised by the American psy-op machine (CIA + corporate media) as it's all the fault of the other guy out there that you must fight now. AND IT WILL WORK AS ALWAYS. Normies will be sent to a meat grinder and those who are behind the curtain will be rubbing hands and counting money. hahahaha
"The conscious and organized manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this invisible mechanism of society thus create an invisible government which is the real power in our country." - Edward Bernays (Goebbels' big inspiration btw hahaha)
Sad truth.
Sadly, this is true.
Fantastic talk thank you so much to you all, especially to Oliver Stone!
The takeaways are so important so I dared to summarize some of them:
@6:25 - “I had to have my eyes awakened by experience”
@26:08 - “…A full employment economy with a war, A kind of setting, It’s a bible, it’s religious, it’s more than reason, an indoctrination of the soul”
@28:00 - “…he had to go on offbeat radio shows, because he said the truth on CNN one time to somebody and they no longer booked him… It seems to be some corporate control of television and the media that is pushing for war; it’s a very subtle thing, not a conspiracy but a drive towards profit”
@33:36 - “…the press is One of the worst media in this country the mainstream media, thank God for the internet, there are people saying other things, we’ve got to listen to them, you’ve got to look for that stuff because you’re not gonna get if from the top 7 media companies, you’re just not, they don’t want to hear it, they don’t want controversy, just want sell you stuff ”
Well, we learned from the Church Commission in the 1970s we have CIA minders covering every mainstream outlet. Now we have something called the NED doing this officially overseas as a snooty NGO of sorts.
@@robertrichard6107 So true
I saw the fallacy of the Vietnam War in 1965. I was 15 and lived in an insular farming community, raised by a single mother.
Madison, Wi. 2011 fundraiser. I'm sitting in a booth at a restaurant. A man sits down. I say why did you come here? Olvier Stone says "You're my people". I didn't know who he was. He gets up and walks away. I visited El Salvador in 1982 and later watched Oliver's El Salvador film. He makes me cry.
WHat was the fundraiser for? Who was the people?
So much for the students being the ones asking the questions.
Love Oliver ❤
Absolutely Brilliant- Sir Oliver arise ❤
My Man, Oliver.
Great respect for Oliver Stone. He walks the talk, either you like it or not.
Thank you
What a great talk ❤ thank you so much
I served in Vietnam in 1972-1973, everything that Oliver Stone says about Vietnam is the real deal. Four years after Oliver served in Vietnam American young men were still fighting and dying in this war, we sure did not want to be the last soldiers to die in Vietnam, why did the people in Washington continue to prolong the war knowing we could not win it? Money and hubris.
Great interview. Shocking how poorly the sound is tuned.
fantastic: Thank you so much!
Thank you!
ukraine on fire, great documentary. thanmk you Oliver Stone! you are a true American Hero!
Ms Hayslip is a saga in her own right. A beautiful soul.
& I now have & am reading her book. From the mention of her in this interview I am very glad to know that she is still alivie & I hope that she is well. From a retired UK citizen, who as a teenager, grew up with the Vietnam war on the media news each & every day.
I think if Oliver were to think carefully about the best war movie he knows other than his own it would be Kirk Douglas’s Paths of Glory. Which he did actually reference during this talk. It’s my personal favourite on many different levels. Made in 1957 in black and white.
Same here. Love Paths...
A good man, always ready to speak his mind, that is truth. Great film-maker as well. My deepest respect to Mr Stone.
Thanks for your service, Oliver.
As time goes by & I learn more Oliver Stone just makes more cents...
Sense*
@@Buf-g6m Yer a troll, not bright enough to see word play... Soccer anyone?
@@Buf-g6mmust be a victim of the American educational system 😂 Spend all their money on warmongering 😢
@@chrisgillard6129 exactly right
What a great guy! Thank you!
THANK YOU & GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS OLIVER 💜✌️🖐️🤟☝️👍👍👍
He speaks for this American. Everyone should read his biography to know what real work ethic is all about.
Unfortunately since the Vietnam War America has become dumber so I don't expect brakes into the abyss anytime soon.
It was Oliver Stone, bless him, who introduced me to Edward Bellamy, long repressed and forgotten. Read Bellamy to recapture revolutionary imagination. First, Looking Backward; then Equality. Both free on the net.
Wonderful filmmaker he has made revealing movies issue based, and he stuck to his scripts point of view ideologies to what he wants to show as filmmaker
Question about MLK and it's affect on the black soldiers was a great question
Vietnam is only slightly bigger than Italy. It was an odd comparison for Stone to make : "A country smaller than Europe" 8:10
Yes Oliver it is smaller than Europe. Much.
Naive is the one function fixed in Time no running away from it :) much respect Mr. Stone beside some great books, and movies i send my love and respect to your son ❤
Yes great examples of pure propaganda for future reference. I agree. 😊
Hats off to Oliver ❤.
Clever and pro peace ✌️
Oliver Stone is an American treasure
Respect 🎉
The Russians and the other Slavs won World War II and the Germans had been fighting on two fronts.
1. His father in France.
2. His father in Wall Street.
3. Oliver Stone was in Vietnam.
4. Oliver Stone was arrested on smuggling charges.
5. Oliver Stone went to school with George Bush.
6. He made the JFK movie with a Mossad agent.
The farmers are gone the family's are gone, honestly and integrity gone America gone by by 😢
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH,,,,,,,
The American-Vietnam War was about oil; the South China Sea was thought to be another Persian Gulf with enormous destabilizing geopolitical consequences for the oil industry.
just before 7:20 Who is that "Lily"/"Leelee" ? they are talking about ?
Le Ly Hayslip 😊
@@ronanrogers4127 Thank you very much ! I never would have guessed that name which i had never heard before.
Wow!!
Great talk!
Paths of Glory is also a great war film by an American director. There’s a saying Don’t throw good money after bad money. In other words, when you start losing at the casino, it’s time to leave. The ruling elite would do well to remember this.
Monsieur Stone, Merci !!!
Very good guy and like his movie JFK, guess it is hitting reality!
.. 💘! Oliver, SIR! 💌 jc (thou 'moderator' didn't GOT IT) ..
Whittaker Chambers was not joking, even if it should not have been exaggerated after Stalin's death. Solzhenitsyn's warnings too.
1961 A Military Industrial Complex.......( like the one I just built).
31:00 ish he says we are not wise diplomats, more or less. Here is an excerpt from "South Asia Papers". by Stephen P. Cohen (not he Stephen F. Cohen who was his mentor). "I was astonished; the much-vaunted American government had a weaker capacity to recall past events than the Indians, who fanatically kept up their files, minuting every conversation (including my interview with the officials I was meeting). Things have improved with computer-based data systems, but Indians are much better prepared for discussions with American counterparts than one would expect. Indeed, there have been instances when American negotiators had to be prompted or corrected by Indian and Pakistani interlocutors regarding America’s own position on various issues."
“Let people talk. You should hear the other side before you go to war”…that’s very close to the crux of the matter. That, and the MIC dollars.
Oliver Stone just states the obvious historical reality ! Nothing controversial . Why so much hate to the truth ?
Bravo.
38:45 he was right, he didn’t need a microphone.
to break that lock: ...Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
[13] That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
... And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
[33] For Tophet is ordained of old...
Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
[35] And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
[36] A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
The only way to understand properly about events in Ukraine is to watch Oliver’s documentary “ Ukraine on Fire”.