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The Two Faces Of The US Empire
The Two Faces Of The US Empire The Biden/Harris inauguration event is going to be a star-studded celebration spanning an unprecedented five days, a giddy orgy of excitement at a murderous oligarchic empire having a new face behind the front desk after promising wealthy donors that nothing will fundamentally change. This comes at a time when Americans are now reporting that they trust […]
Hollywood Is Dying, And The Elites Don’t Care…
Hollywood Is Dying, And The Elites Don’t Care… I don’t write much about the entertainment industry because, frankly, I see it as mostly irrelevant to the bigger picture. Geopolitics and economics are the great driving force in our society, and the elitist groups that influence these elements should be our primary focus. That said, I […]
For Hollywood, ‘Vice’ Remarkably Astute about Politics
For Hollywood, ‘Vice’ Remarkably Astute about Politics Adam McKay’s movie may be flawed, but it’s still must-see for his depiction of how Cheney amassed power by exploiting Watergate, an inexperienced president and 9/11, writes James DiEugenio. In 2015, director Adam McKay did something unusual in Hollywood. He made a good film out of a good […]
The Pentagon & Hollywood’s successful and deadly propaganda alliance
The Pentagon & Hollywood’s successful and deadly propaganda alliance © U.S. Army The Pentagon helps Hollywood to make money and, in turn, Hollywood churns out effective propaganda for the brutal American war machine. The US has the largest military budget in the world, spending over $611 billion – far larger than any other nation on […]
Hollywood hoopla ignores media’s history of servility
Hollywood hoopla ignores media’s history of servility © Getty Much of the media nowadays is portraying itself as heroes of the #Resist Trump movement. To exploit that meme, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out “The Post,” a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. But regardless of whether Spielberg’s latest wins the […]
I Paid To See A Movie About Singing. I Got Ninety Minutes Of Pentagon Propaganda.
I Paid To See A Movie About Singing. I Got Ninety Minutes Of Pentagon Propaganda. To cap off a long, strange day, my husband and I took the kids out last night to see Pitch Perfect 3. The first Pitch Perfect is a firm favorite in our household, the kind of movie we end up […]
The Superhero Complex: Are We Incapable of Saving Ourselves?
The Superhero Complex: Are We Incapable of Saving Ourselves? If we felt empowered in daily life, would we be so enamored of superheroes constantly saving our world from destruction? It’s been widely noted that the U.S. film industry ably functions as a pro-global hegemony propaganda machine: even when the plot features evil rogue elements at […]
Spanking the Monkey
Spanking the Monkey The hysteria manufacturing business formerly known as the news media is enjoying multiple orgasms this morning in the outing of notoriously vulgar comedian Louis CK for exactly the sort of vulgar behavior offstage that he riffed about onstage. What a surprise. We also learn today that Jeremy Piven, beloved and admired for […]
The Future (Not)
The Future (Not) I took myself to the new movie Blade Runner 2049 to see what kind of future the Hollywood dream-shop is serving up in these days. It was an excellent illustration of the over-investments in technology with diminishing returns that are dragging us into collapse and of the attendant techno-narcissism that afflicts the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA
EXCLUSIVE: Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA US military intelligence agencies have influenced over 1,800 movies and TV shows Plato’s Cave reimagined for the Hollywood era — copyright Derek Swansonn Tom Secker and Matthew Alford report on their astonishing findings from trawling through thousands of new US military and intelligence documents obtained […]
New Film Tells the Story of Edward Snowden; Here Are the Surveillance Programs He Helped Expose
NEW FILM TELLS THE STORY OF EDWARD SNOWDEN; HERE ARE THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMS HE HELPED EXPOSE OLIVER STONE’S LATEST film, “Snowden,” bills itself as a dramatized version of the life of Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower who revealed the global extent of U.S. surveillance capabilities. Stone’s rendering of Snowden’s life combines facts with Hollywood invention, covering […]
Atlantic Article on Hollywood Misses Powerful Points About CIA Control
Atlantic Article on Hollywood Misses Powerful Points About CIA Control How the CIA Hoodwinked Hollywood Since its inception, the agency has wooed filmmakers, producers, and actors in order to present a rosy portrait of its operations to the American public. –Atlantic This is a good article by the Atlantic, a neo-con publication that aspires to be […]
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad
The History of Hollywood: Propaganda for White Supremacy at Home and US Militarism Abroad turtix | Shutterstock.com For more than a century American film has been one of the most important apparatus used for perpetuating American white supremacy and justifying American military adventures. Racism in film and white supremacy are so intricately interwoven into the fabric of America […]
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message
In Films About Climate Change, the Medium is the Wrong Message If you’d like, I’m what you’d call an ex-(aspiring) filmmaker, an early vanguard of what promises to be, in one way or another, an eventual mass exodus from the film and television industries. I won’t go into my reasoning behind film and television’s future […]
San Andreas for Preppers: 12 Earthquake Survival Lessons from the Movie
San Andreas for Preppers: 12 Earthquake Survival Lessons from the Movie Nothing warms my prepper’s heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception. Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a boat through post-tsunami […]
