{"id":208281,"date":"2022-04-04T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=208281"},"modified":"2022-04-01T05:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T04:27:21","slug":"oliver-stone-documents-the-past-to-illuminate-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/04\/oliver-stone-documents-the-past-to-illuminate-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

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29 Mar 2022 – <\/em>The timing of the early March 2022 release of this digital streaming documentary could not be more auspicious.\u00a0 For anyone wanting to understand how we arrived at a new Cold War with the second Irish-Catholic Democratic president in U.S. history, Joseph Biden, spewing belligerent absurdities about Ukraine, Russia, and Vladimir Putin, and leading a charge toward a World War III that could easily turn nuclear, the aggregated factual details in this series of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA and its minions is essential history that illuminates current events.<\/p>\n

While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness\u00a0 that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description.\u00a0 They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.\u00a0 Pusillanimous in the extreme, they have sought the presidency knowing they would never oppose the gunmen in the shadows who demanded their obedience.\u00a0 They heard the message from the streets of Dallas loud and clear and followed orders as required.<\/p>\n

Their long history of provocations against Russia in Eastern Europe and Ukraine that has resulted in the current Russian attack on Ukraine is a most frightening case in point.\u00a0 While Kennedy embraced dialogue and negotiations that recognized the humanity and validity of other countries leaders\u2019 viewpoints \u2013 e.g. Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, et al. \u2013 and was cognizant, as he said, that genuine peace had to exclude a Pax Americana, his replacements have demanded U.S. dominance and the growth of empire.<\/p>\n

It is therefore essential to understand why<\/strong> JFK was assassinated by the U.S. national security state; it is a fundamental requisite for piercing the miasma of lies that have been used over the decades to conceal the true nature of U.S. foreign policy and the intense anti-Russia hatred.<\/p>\n

JFK: Destiny Betrayed<\/a>, <\/em>a four-hour, four-part follow-up to Oliver Stone\u2019s two hour feature film JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (11\/22\/21), <\/em>does precisely that.\u00a0 While JFK Revisited<\/a> <\/em>is by the nature of its shorter and undivided length a better film as film, JFK: Destiny Betrayed <\/em>is the deeper history lesson because of its more extensive documentation.\u00a0 It is largely based on the scriptwriter, James DiEugenio\u2019s masterful book, Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case<\/a>, <\/em>which draws on hundreds of thousands of documents released by the Assassination Records Review Board, which was formed as a result of Oliver Stone\u2019s 1991 film, JFK<\/em>. \u00a0As such, the book, and the new film, hoist the U.S. government by its own petard, and thus the film\u2019s powerful indictment can only be dismissed by ignoramuses, propagandists, or sensibilities too tender to accept factual truth. \u00a0At an Orwellian time when \u201cfictionalized documentaries\u201d are being promoted, and the difference between fact and fiction is being scrambled to scramble brains, that, regrettably, may be many people.\u00a0 But for anyone who takes history and facts seriously, this is a dazzling and deeply disturbing film whose implications are enormous.<\/p>\n

It is divided into four parts, each approximately an hour.\u00a0 This allows the viewer to space out their viewing to allow each section to sink in.\u00a0 I think this is a good idea, for there is much to comprehend, especially for one not well-versed in this history.<\/p>\n

Chapter One opens with an emphatic point: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tells how his father immediately suspected that the CIA was involved in the murder of President Kennedy and that when the Warren Commission Report (WC) was released he didn\u2019t believe it.\u00a0 The WC had been pushed by people such as Eugene Rostow, Joseph Alsop, et al., no friends to Kennedy; was controlled by Allen Dulles, the CIA Director whom Kennedy had fired following the Bay of Pigs treachery; and was promoted by The New York Times<\/em> upon its release with the claim that the commission\u2019s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president was supported by all its documents when in fact those documents were not released for many months following.\u00a0 Thus the N.Y. Times<\/em> lied to serve the coverup as it has done ever since. This was typical of mainstream media then and now.<\/p>\n

The first part of the documentary informs the viewer of many such lies of commission and omission:<\/p>\n