Speaking mostly in French at a press conference in Algiers yesterday, Stone said he was shocked by the global financial crisis and “to see how money was venerated by America”.
Its middle class “is the biggest victim” said the US director, though nothing could be done to change a system that he called “undemocratic, even after the arrival of Obama”, he added.
But the 65-year-old had little sympathy for his compatriots.
“Americans are not really interested in problems abroad,” he said. “They have no empathy.”
The Occupy Wall Street movement would do better to move to “Washington and not New York, to have more impact”, said Stone[.]
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A “Nam” veteran himself, Stone said his life “was already perverted” when he went to war, explaining that he had only discovered the reality of military-industrial power after the war.
“It’s a system that is going to destroy the world,” he said.
Questioned over America’s support of Israel, Stone said it was a subject “that couldn’t be talked about in the US.
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