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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OLIVER STONE has won Oscars for directing Born On The Fourth Of
July” and Platoon”, and for writing Midnight Express”. He was
nominated for director (JFK) and co-writer (Nixon). He’s also
received three Golden Globes for directing (Platoon”, Born On The
Fourth Of July” and JFK”), one for writing (Midnight Express”).
He is director for the forthcoming Showtime 10-hour series
Forgotten History of the United States.”
Stone wrote a novel, published in 1997 by St. Martin’s Press,
entitled A Child’s Night Dream”, based on Stone’s experiences as a
young man. He is a contributor of some 200 pages of essays on
movies, culture, politics and history to the book Oliver Stone’s
USA”, edited by Robert Brent Toplin and published by the University
Press of Kansas (2000). Stone wrote the afterword for a book of
scholarly essays analyzing his film Alexander” called Oliver
Stone’s Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies” (2009).
Stone was born September 15, 1946 in New York, New York. Prior to
his film career, Stone worked as a schoolteacher in Vietnam, a
Merchant Marine sailor, taxi driver, messenger, production
assistant, and sales representative. He served in the U.S. Army
Infantry in Vietnam in 1967-68. He was wounded twice and decorated
with the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning from Vietnam, he
completed his undergraduate studies at New York University Film
School in 1971.
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TARIQ ALI is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than two
dozen books on world history and politics, and seven novels
(translated into over a dozen languages) as well as scripts for the
stage and screen. He is an editor of New Left Review and lives in
London. His website is http://tariqali.org/.
“Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali, two of our most provocative and
radical voices, engage in a thought-provoking conversation about
history—ripping apart entrenched establishment narratives which
have suppressed the
alternative visions we desperately need for our radical social
movements and a true participatory democracy.”
—Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, the Nation
“Reading On History is like watching a fascinating and mesmerizing
film . . . a must read if you want to understand the world
today.”
—Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
“Oliver Stone asks smart questions about the rise and fall of the
United States and its empire in the twentieth century, and Tariq
Ali provides smart answers. The result is a provocative book that
is sure to
incite controversy and stimulate debate.”
—Jon Wiener, professor of history at the University of California
at Irvine
Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali, two of our most provocative and
radical voices, engage in a thought-provoking conversation about
historyripping apart entrenched establishment narratives which
have suppressed the
alternative visions we desperately need for our radical social
movements and a true participatory democracy.”
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, the Nation
Reading On History is like watching a fascinating and mesmerizing
film . . . a must read if you want to understand the world
today.”
Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights
Oliver Stone asks smart questions about the rise and fall of the
United States and its empire in the twentieth century, and Tariq
Ali provides smart answers. The result is a provocative book that
is sure to
incite controversy and stimulate debate.”
Jon Wiener, professor of history at the University of California
at Irvine
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