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Theaters of War in Military Times – But is it Propaganda?
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 08/05/2022 - 05:06I know, you weren’t expecting this, but Military Times have reviewed our documentary Theaters of War. Davis Winkie, who did...
Theaters of War – Matt and Tom on Fortress on a Hill
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 08/04/2022 - 13:27Henri invited Matt and I on his podcast to discuss Theaters of War (though Matt drops in about halfway through...
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Theaters of War on the Dangerous History Podcast
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 07/29/2022 - 16:41Matt and I were recently invited on the Dangerous History podcast to discuss our documentary Theaters of War. We talk...
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How the Pentagon dictates Hollywood storylines – Theaters of War in Middle East Eye
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 07/28/2022 - 06:45Jonathan Cook wrote up a very complimentary review of Theaters of War for Middle East Eye recently, that summarises the...
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The National Security Act Turns 75 – and so do the US Military’s Entertainment Liaison Offices
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 07/27/2022 - 11:2275 years ago this week, President Harry Truman signed into law the National Security Act, which brought into being the...
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AFSOC and the Swag Bag Controversy
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 07/26/2022 - 08:40In September 2018 the US Air Force ran a tour of Special Operations Command for a dozen Hollywood bigshots. The...
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ClandesTime 232 – Hollywood Goes to Special Operations Command
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 07/24/2022 - 06:33In 2018, the US Air Force ran its annual Hollywood ‘industry leader tour’, this time to Air Force Special Operations...
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“I Would Like to See a Show that Makes Every Boy and Girl Want to be an FBI agent” – James Comey
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 07/19/2022 - 13:48In 2015, legendary TV producer Dick Wolf approached the FBI about developing scripted and unscripted products based around the Bureau. ...
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Subscribercast #66 – The Undeclared War vs Slow Horses
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 07/16/2022 - 08:42When it comes to British intelligence, there are three rules: (1) Trust no one, (2) Trust nothing that they say...
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Spy Culture on the Struggle Session Podcast
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 07/04/2022 - 04:56A listener kindly alerted me to how Spy Culture was flagged up on a recent episode of the Struggle Session...
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ClandesTime 231 – Commando
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 07/03/2022 - 11:25When it comes to fondly remembered cult 80s action movies, Commando has near-legendary status. In this episode we take a...
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No Porn, No Sitcoms and No Soap Operas: The Croatian Ministry of Culture’s Rules
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 06/29/2022 - 05:32While digging into the production of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent I contacted the Croatian Ministry of Culture for...
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Subscribercast #65 – The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 06/27/2022 - 09:21Imagine a world where Nicholas Cage plays himself and is recruited by the CIA to spy on a drug kingpin,...
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The President Cannot be Racist – FBI File on Clear and Present Danger
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 06/27/2022 - 05:13Among the numerous agencies who vetted and reviewed the script for the 1994 film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Clear and...
In Hollywood, You’re More Likely to be Rescued by the CIA and the Pentagon than by an Ambulance
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 06/22/2022 - 04:52One of the recurring propaganda techniques identified by Roger Stahl in Theaters of War is that you can remediate military...
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ClandesTime 230 – The Ministries of Culture
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 06/19/2022 - 09:59Over a hundred governments across the world have a culture ministry – though they often go by other names. These...
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CIA Confirm Months-Long Relationship with Producers of Designated Survivor
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 06/18/2022 - 08:00Three years ago, when the third and final season of Designated Survivor came out on Netflix, I said the show...
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Top Gun: Maverick Documents Prove Film is Propaganda – Spy Culture in MintPress News
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 06/14/2022 - 10:48Alan MacLeod put together a feature for MintPress on the Top Gun: Maverick documents, and how film is military recruitment...
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The Pentagon and Top Gun: Maverick – Tom on the Scott Horton Show
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 06/06/2022 - 18:01Scott Horton invited me on his show to discuss the relationship between the Pentagon and Top Gun: Maverick. We outline...
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ClandesTime Special – Top Gun: Maverick
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 06/03/2022 - 05:30Well, it’s here. The least-needed film in cinematic history, and therefore likely the box office smash of 2022. In this...
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Theaters of War in the LA Times
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 05/30/2022 - 10:10Theaters of War director Roger Stahl recently wrote an op-ed that came out in the Los Angeles Times today, looking...
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Subscribercast #64 – The CIA and Fake News
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 05/27/2022 - 14:01In the summer of 2020 a former CIA officer published a book with the overt aim of countering the tide...
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Top Gun For Hire – Spy Culture (and Theaters of War) in the Guardian
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 05/27/2022 - 04:25I recently spoke with Steve Rose for his feature in the Guardian about Top Gun: Maverick, and the Pentagon’s entertainment...
How the Pentagon Shaped Top Gun: Maverick into a PR Vehicle
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 05/26/2022 - 14:29In my latest piece for Shadowproof I outline the production history of Top Gun: Maverick, using documents from the Pentagon,...
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Was Manchester Arena Bomber Salman Abedi Working for MI5?
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 05/22/2022 - 04:47The Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017 killed 23 people and injured over 1,000. On the fifth anniversary of the...
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ClandesTime 229 – Black Operations and the Entertainment Liaison Offices
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 05/21/2022 - 10:26Black operations make the world go round, and have become the subject of major movies and TV, from Jack Ryan...
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Top Gun: Maverick – Tom Secker on Newsy
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 05/20/2022 - 10:06ClandesTime 228 – Don’t Look Up
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 05/13/2022 - 15:39Can you make an environmentalist movie with the help of the Pentagon? In this episode we answer this and other...
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‘We Don’t Request Script Changes’ – US Navy File on Crimson Tide
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 05/12/2022 - 12:57The 1995 nuclear submarine mutiny thriller Crimson Tide was rejected by the US Navy, for fairly obvious reasons (the whole...
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Theaters of War Now Available On Demand
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 05/07/2022 - 14:50It has been a long time coming, but the documentary Theaters of War is now available via on demand streaming. ...
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You Can’t Get Away With It – The First Film to Star J Edgar Hoover
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 05/02/2022 - 13:12In the first of a series of releases, the FBI sent me some of their historical files on working with...
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Subscribercast #63 – Moonfall
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 04/30/2022 - 10:11Moonfall is the latest Roland Emmerich disaster movie, and while it isn’t as bad as Don’t Look Up, it isn’t...
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In Hollywood the Metro Trains Have to Run on Time – Even if You’re Blowing Them Up
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 04/24/2022 - 10:32Something I recently stumbled on while researching the 2011 terrorism sci-fi thriller Source Code is a batch of contracts between...
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ClandesTime 227 – The Loudest Voice
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 04/17/2022 - 11:44Roger Ailes founded and ran Fox News for the first 20 years of its existence, making it the highest rated...
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ClandesTime 226 – In the Loop vs Shock and Awe
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 04/06/2022 - 10:08The invasion of Iraq has been called the greatest intelligence failure of all time. This is – of course –...
How the US Military Rewrote Don’t Look Up
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 03/31/2022 - 04:45Superheroes, Movies and the State one of the Top Books of 2022 (apparently)
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/29/2022 - 04:52BookAuthority – a website purporting to be an authority, or possibly the authority, on books has placed Superheroes, Movies and...
Battlefield Hollywood – Matt and Tom on the Historic.ly Podcast
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/28/2022 - 18:35In one of our more raucous and totally unscripted appearances, Matt and I were recently on Historic.ly, a podcast devoted...
Black Ops in Hollywood: From Censorship to Normalization
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/27/2022 - 14:42First the CIA tried to block the public from being exposed to its dirty deeds—but now the strategy has shifted...
Enemy of the State – Tom on William Ramsey Investigates
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 03/23/2022 - 15:26Today I joined William Ramsey of William Ramsey Investigates to discuss some of the weird and wonderful things in the...
Subscribercast #62 – Cultural Warfare Over Ukraine, and the Polandistan Option
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/20/2022 - 13:20Perhaps unavoidably, in this month’s subscriber-only podcast we discuss the war in Ukraine – what led up to this point,...
Ryan Coogler Atlanta Police Arrest Report for Bank Robbery That Never Happened
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 03/10/2022 - 11:28A story doing the rounds on entertainment industry websites in the last couple of days revealed that Black Panther director...
ClandesTime 225 – The Battle for Bond
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 03/05/2022 - 05:20Perhaps the most infamous story in the history of James Bond is the plagiarism lawsuit brought against Ian Fleming for...
Subscribercast #61 – The Epstein Prison Files
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 03/02/2022 - 09:48How Ben Affleck (and Bryan Cranston) got into the CIA
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/19/2022 - 16:25In this video I do a deep dive into Ben Affleck, his Oscar-winning film Argo, how the CIA supported and...
Reacher Revealed: The Disturbing Background and Subtext to Amazon’s Latest Hit
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 02/08/2022 - 13:08While Amazon’s new Reacher series may not have enjoyed the support of any of the usual suspects in the state-sponsored...
Yes, Minister, the Pentagon and the Kyoto Greenhouse Gas Negotiations
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 01/25/2022 - 05:29Subscribercast #60 – Pawn Stars Goes to Langley
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/23/2022 - 14:18What Connects the next Mission: Impossible to the First Movie to Shoot at CIA Headquarters?
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 01/21/2022 - 07:50Something I found while flicking through Production Weekly (a Hollywood newsletter that charts in-production TV and films) is that the...
Spider-Man: No Way Home – Spy Culture in Jacobin Mag
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/27/2021 - 08:24Roger alerted me to a recent article in Jacobin Mag about how Spider-Man’s working class origins have been thoroughly subverted...