if you enjoyed this historian then I can't recommend enough his collaboration with Oliver Stone in the documentary series the Untold History of the United States and Abby Martin's interviews with his notably on her Telesur program on Japan and the bomb and modern day Japan.

HEAR HEAR Mr. Brian!! SO well~spoken & millionsss share your forebodings. We are indeed on a "runaway train" :""((

I just finished the documentary myself. Should i read the book too? Is there more to get out of the book than the series?

@@CatHostage If you have the time read the book

David Schlessinger truman began the trajectory the u.s. continues on to this day. it's been a disaster, but it's profitable for a powerful few, and it's the only game they have, so unlikely to change of its own accord.

Truman was widely liked. Probably because he was not Roosevelt. Roosevelt was loved but also like a mythic figure. He had after all been President for an unprecedented amount of time during two national crisis. And there were those that feared Roosevelt. Truman was not feared. He also went through a revision in the 1970’s. When John Kennedy was running for President he made pilgrimages to talk with Eleanor Roosevelt. Truman was almost persona non grata.

Well to err is Truman.

He literally quantified it to put other tragedies in perspective. We have killed countless civilians in supposed revenge for that day in countries that had nothing to do with it while Saudi Arabia is our best friend

@@Lightningkuriboh that was by design, The Bin laden's and bush's had their thumb on the scale of keeping the theatre of war outside the confines of Saudi Arabia. Ironic, considering it was our squatting at a military base in S. Arabia that predicated 9/11 and afterwards it was the Saudis that paid the paks to protect Usama .🤬

Both Long and Wallace were real liberals. Most no longer understand what a liberal is because the history and politics was hijack by propagandists. But consider one of Long’s policies. He wanted to cap individual inheritances at $5 million ($99 million in 2022). Well none other than Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin wanted a 100% tax on inheritance. The fear was Plutocracy. And they saw inherited wealth as unearned and unproductive. John Adams who initially opposed the idea signed a moderate inheritance tax law. Long also proposed capping wealth. Thomas Jefferson proposed to tax land monopolies out of existence. Land of course then was the dominant form of wealth.

@@matthewkopp2391 I guess , but if you read Franklin's autobiography, he sounds like Gordon Gecko or Milton Friedman. He's not laid back and cool at all

@@ttacking_youFranklin would have consider Milton Friedman a traitor to the country and a complete imbecile. I think Ben was secretly cool. He looked like toad but Judging at the reports of him partying in France with his silly hat. I think hr was pretty loose. But the other reason I say that is he supported Thomas Paine, but told him only to publish certain things because the US public can’t handle it. So judging him by his autobiography which self propaganda is not the best source. Paine BTW totally fuc up and wrote a book on atheism and the Christians in the US went completely bonkers.

Hush Long was a populist.

Found it. Cheers.

I think the same!

Being ignorant is one thing, but talking utter nonsese is a sin. Go back and do some reading you imbicille, read about the atrocities of Churchill in India and Africa, leave the British interpretation of Soviet history alone.

Can you provide any evidence? The interesting thing about Stalin is much of things we think we know of Stalin has been proven to be a lie. And other things have zero evidence. I am sure somethings we think we know might be true. But I actually want evidence not speculation or anecdotes. But with so little evidence, and with such great contention and propaganda one would think there should be just a little bit of reflexive skepticism on the matter. At the time of Wallace almost all negative information on Stalin was fabricated by the Nazi and their sympathizers like William Randolph Hearst. But even if Stalin was a monster it is never said about Churchill who starved the Bengal Indians and said “they were breeding like rabbits anyway” or Truman who evaporated three hundred thousand Japanese in an instant and maiming burning and poisoning countless others and somehow he is not consider a monster. Not to mention burning down the majority of villages in North Korea. But here is a true statement about the USSR under Stalin. No country in the history of the world had as rapid sustained GDP growth than Stalin’s USSR until Moa had even more rapid sustained GDP growth. This rapid development was extremely impressive to many at the time, going from feudalism to space exploration within a generation. Lifting millions upon millions out of poverty, not to mention things like the literacy rate skyrocketed in both cases. As it did in Cuba. Here is another true statement Stalin saved 1.7 million Jews from the Nazi. Strangely when you read about stories of this many reports they read “Stalin inadvertently saved 1.7 millions Jews.” The actually go by the evidence that he actually did, they can’t deny the hard evidence in that account, but then conclude there really must have been some sinister plan to do so? Meanwhile USA and GB and Canada ignored the problem and put quotas on Jewish immigration fully knowing the oppression. Strangely we don’t get as many articles that read “Roosevelt, Churchill and King intentional sent Jews to there death”. Do you see how propaganda works. This is not to say Stalin was an angel or that I agree with Stalin’s politics, but the parts I disagree with I can actually back up with evidence. Not propaganda like Robert Conquest who is a proven liar. The strange thing with your statement is you are 100% sure of yourself. Well I would argue far more skepticism is in order. After all Stalin threatened the existence of the wealthiest people on earth. Maybe you might tell a few lies to preserve your wealth as well?