On history
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On history
Haymarket Books, 2011
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On history : Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in conversation
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
In working together on two challenging new documentaries - South of the Border and the forthcoming Untold History of the United States - Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a hard-hitting conversation on the politics of history. Their dialogue brings to light a number of forgotten - or buried - episodes of history. From the U.S. intervention against the Russian Revolution to the connections between Presidents and the Saudi royal family, no stone is left unturned and no topic is sacred in this insightful exchange.
Table of Contents
Section 1
World War I
Russian Revolution
The Wobblies
U.S. enters WWI
Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Economics of WWI
French Revolution
Defeat of the Russian Revolution
King Leopold and the Belgium Congo
British Empire
Wilson sends troops to Russia
Causes of WWII
Atlantic Charter
The Japanese and Pearl Harbor
Oil Embargo against the Japanese and Germans
German thoughts on the U.S.
Section 2
U.S. need for raw materials post-WWII
Saudi royal family ties to U.S.
India
MacArthur Constitution
U.S. as imperial power
U.S. inherits Britain's colonial legacy
Slavery
Dr. Liyingston
Sir Richard Burton
Russian Revolution ends British Empire
Roosevelt
Russians agree to Hiroshima
Anti-communism in the U.S.
American Labor Movement
Wallace vs Truman
The Cold War
Korea
lran
Vietnam
Section 3
U,S. involvement in lndonesia
Nehru in lndia
Pakistan
Greek Civil War
Soviet expansion post WWII
Czarist empire
Cuba and the Soviet Union
Soviet empire and economic control
Marshall Plan and American imperialism
Berlin
Stalin and Tito from Yugoslavia
Section 4
Nuelear bomb as principle weapon
China, India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa
Apartheid ends nuclear system in South Africa
Confessional states
lranian nuclear
Iraq and the United States
Muslim empire 7th and 8th centuries
1099 the Crusades
ottoman empire
lslam and trade
Egypt
Allah and Mohammed
Nasser
American and British opposition to Nasser
Tony Blair
British Empire
Triumph of tIe Vietnamese
My Lai massacre
Section 5
Pax Americana
Venezuela and the IMF
Increase ofAmerican power and influence
Confessional states lsrael and Pakistan
Thomas Freeman and McDonald Douglass
Economics and Marxism
Capitalism
Bourgeois civilization
Eco-Climate issues
Section 6
War on Terror
Terrorism
Iraq War
Madeline Albright
U.S. can't go into lran
Doctrine of pre-emptive war
Afghanistan now
Another Vietnam?
Human Rights as a reason to intervene
Violence and torture as acceptable
Media and profit
Latin America and Chavez
Paid Army, mercenaries
Collective punishment
History has become subversive
Origins of American Empire
Salem witch trials, Monroe Doctrine
The end of History?
George Mccovern
Obama
Nixon and China
Kipling poem
Joseph Conrad
Al-Nawab poem "On the Bird"
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