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24. I was not fooled

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Wed Dec 31, 2014, 10:06 AM

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Oliver Stone agrees: The Maidan Square riots were just another CIA coup. [View all] another_liberal Dec 2014 OP

RT and Oliver Stone - a match made in heaven. Nt hack89 Dec 2014 #1

Maybe you'd like to suggest something else? n/t MattSh Dec 2014 #65

If you can't believe everything to come out of Hollywood, what can you believe? Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #2

Well, it's not as if there's well-documented precedent or anything... Scootaloo Dec 2014 #4

And Oliver Stone has almost as long a history of being a tool. Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #8

If "being a tool" is grounds for dismissal, we ought to just roll up DU and go home Scootaloo Dec 2014 #17

I nowhere implied the CIA had nothing to be held to account for. Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #25

You kinda did, actually... Scootaloo Dec 2014 #69

And Putin has a history of manipulating nations against the will of their people, even violently so? MattSh Dec 2014 #66

you just won't quit, will you? hobbit709 Dec 2014 #3

If what I'm posting bothers you and perhaps even makes you think . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #5

My goal has been achieved too. hobbit709 Dec 2014 #7

Good for you . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #12

If someone ran an anti-Obama story from FR, they'd likely get tombstoned... brooklynite Dec 2014 #6

Are President Obama and the CIA one and the same now? another_liberal Dec 2014 #11

Last time I checked, the CIA was an Executive Branch agency... brooklynite Dec 2014 #16

Last I checked, the CIA was piping food up prisoner's asses and getting called "patriots" for it Scootaloo Dec 2014 #18

Last time I checked, those actions occurred during the Bush Administration... brooklynite Dec 2014 #23

excellent question nt grasswire Dec 2014 #56

And the crime goes unpunished, even commended, by President obama Scootaloo Dec 2014 #70

Well, it's better than most USA media... MattSh Dec 2014 #67

People protesting the reversal of a major foreign/economic policy. That must be a CIA plot. pampango Dec 2014 #9

It was what it was . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #10

"... this underhanded intervention in the internal affairs of another sovereign country." pampango Dec 2014 #14

Thank you Duckhunter935 Dec 2014 #27

You clearly buy into that scenario . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #61

The CIA would never do such a thing! nationalize the fed Dec 2014 #13

Imagine a world without the CIA newfie11 Dec 2014 #15

We'd probably have world peace if the CIA and the Pentagon didn't exist. Initech Dec 2014 #64

Yep newfie11 Dec 2014 #68

Oliver Stone? Who are you kidding? Archae Dec 2014 #19

He says Hitler and Stalin are just misunderstood and the Jews are preventing an "honest discussion" Major Nikon Dec 2014 #26

Got a link for that? Octafish Dec 2014 #29

... NuclearDem Dec 2014 #32

It doesn't really say what Major Nikon said, though, does it? Octafish Dec 2014 #35

Yes it does, and you know it. NuclearDem Dec 2014 #37

No. I heard Oliver Stone address these questions in person. Octafish Dec 2014 #40

When someone starts ranting about "Jewish domination of the media?" Sure. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #44

Like Chomsky? Octafish Dec 2014 #46

No, I don't. To his credit, he apologized for those remarks, very sincerely. NuclearDem Dec 2014 #47

Here's one of many Major Nikon Dec 2014 #33

Where does it say what you wrote? Octafish Dec 2014 #34

... Major Nikon Dec 2014 #36

It reminds me of the uproar over Hannah Arendt's observation about Hitler's henchmen. Octafish Dec 2014 #41

But it's okay this time because it fits a pre-selected narrative, you see. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #45

... SidDithers Dec 2014 #20

+1 Tarheel_Dem Dec 2014 #48

Let me answer in emoticons edhopper Dec 2014 #21

And yet a_l edhopper Dec 2014 #22

How much do you imagine I'm getting paid to post here? another_liberal Dec 2014 #58

Good answer edhopper Dec 2014 #59

Who said I ignore anyone . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #60

I was not fooled malaise Dec 2014 #24

No, you never were . . . another_liberal Dec 2014 #62

CIA -- Overthrowing democratically elected governments since 1947 nichomachus Dec 2014 #28

But it's not what Truman wanted. Octafish Dec 2014 #30

Oh Yeah. The Dulles Brothers flim-flammed Harry. nichomachus Dec 2014 #31

Stephen Kinzer has written a boffo bio on the brothers Dulles. Octafish Dec 2014 #38

Read it. It was like reading Russ Bakers book on the Bushes nichomachus Dec 2014 #49

That is the exact feeling. Octafish Dec 2014 #55

I love Stone's work as a filmmaker... NuclearDem Dec 2014 #39

Conspiracy nuts love Putin? I'm SHOCKED!!! Odin2005 Dec 2014 #42

Mere foreigners can never have any agency of their own. It's all the US. Oy. (nt) Posteritatis Dec 2014 #43

And I'll bet these guys agree with Oliver Stone. You know..."birds of a feather" & all..... Tarheel_Dem Dec 2014 #50

Is that Steven Segal with Putin? zappaman Dec 2014 #52

It is indeed. He really hearts Putin, and I'm learning that Stone likes him a lot too. Tarheel_Dem Dec 2014 #54

This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Dec 2014 #51

Oliver Stone: "Obama, a wolf in sheep's clothing". Tarheel_Dem Dec 2014 #53

kick. Thanks for posting. +1 eom Purveyor Dec 2014 #57

Well, Oliver Stone, then that settles that. tammywammy Dec 2014 #63

Locking - please post in Creative Speculation Chemisse Dec 2014 #71