Narrated by Lord of the Rings star, Viggo Mortenson, this video retells in the first-person, world-renown American historian, political commentator and activist, Howard Zinn's political awakening and steady realization that the United States had before his very eyes, ceased to resemble its national mythology founded on the principles of liberty, freedom and justice for all, he had read about in his history books as a young man. By contrast, he witnessed the disingenuous denials that his nation had been transformed into a predatory Empire in the course of the Cold War, and later the brazen promotion and projection of American power, obfuscated and sold to the American people in the name of 'humanitarian intervention' and 'democracy promotion'. The animation is great too...  

Narrated by Viggo Mortensen [1].  Art by Mike Konopacki [2].  Video editing by Eric Wold.  The video is based on Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle, A People's History of American Empire [3] (Metropolitan Books, 2008).