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The Pentagon Changed the Entire Premise of MegaForce to Shape Our View of the Future
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/27/2020 - 17:46MegaForce has to be one of the dumbest movies the Pentagon has ever supported but hidden until now is the...
COVID-19, World War Z and Chinese Government Censorship of Movies
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 03/27/2020 - 07:58With each passing day of the COVID-19 fiasco it has become abundantly clear that no one has a clue what’s...
How the Pentagon Rewrote Contact
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/24/2020 - 06:35The 1997 sci-fi epic Contact is a fine movie, an unusually profound and intelligent story about contact with alien life....
ClandesTime 202 – Messiah
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/22/2020 - 08:59The recent Netflix series Messiah depicts what would happen if a Jesus-like figure suddenly appeared and started influencing geopolitics. In...
Secret CIA Reports on Torture and the CIA in Afghanistan by Producer of State of Affairs
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 03/18/2020 - 06:04Subscribercast #39 – Rorschach Politics: Coronavirus
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/16/2020 - 16:58So what the hell is going on? Are we all going to die in the great corona-zombie apocalypse of 2020...
Is David Schwimmer’s ‘Intelligence’ Propaganda for GCHQ?
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 03/11/2020 - 08:58I tried something a bit different to my usual approach – a lighthearted, daft-minded video critique of the new Sky...
ClandesTime Special – Kevin Gosztola on the Assange Extradition Case
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 03/04/2020 - 12:05In this episode I welcome Kevin Gosztola, a journalist, editor of Shadowproof and co-host of Unauthorized Disclosure. We talk about...
David Schwimmer Admits His New Show Intelligence is Propaganda for GCHQ
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/03/2020 - 06:51Former Friends star David Schwimmer has been giving a lot of interviews recently to promote his new Sky TV series...
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – The Latest MCU Production Brought to You by the US Army
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 03/03/2020 - 06:13The forthcoming Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will feature Wyatt Russell as the character John Walker/U.S. Agent,...
‘Virtually Every Character in the Film is Either Corrupt, Corrupted or Witless’ – The US Army and Sgt. Bilko
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 03/02/2020 - 07:54One of the most harmless films to be rejected by the US military is 1996’s Sgt. Bilko, based on the...
Coronavirus, Contagion and the Security State
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/01/2020 - 14:16The mass media feeding frenzy over the spread of coronavirus has sparked a range of predictable but weirdly connected consequences. ...
ClandesTime 201 – Thirteen Days and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 03/01/2020 - 05:15In 1962 the US and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Private Armies and Sex in the Ranks: Why the Pentagon Rejected Private Benjamin
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 02/28/2020 - 07:14The raunchy military girls comedy Private Benjamin wasn’t a good movie but it is widely and quite fondly remembered by...
John Krasinski Plays the Innocent Act When it Comes to Making Political Propaganda (Again)
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 02/22/2020 - 12:4313 Hours and Jack Ryan star John Krasinski gave another interview recently where he claimed that appearing in cryptoconservative propaganda...
JAG: The Movie That Was Never Made
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 02/20/2020 - 05:48In 1988, several years prior to the highly successful JAG TV show, DOD representatives met with writers and producers to...
Review: Eagle Kill
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 02/19/2020 - 07:13ClandesTime 200 – Extravaganza
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/16/2020 - 10:48To mark the 200th episode of this podcast I decided to combine several ideas into an open buffet of information...
Inside The US Army’s Massive $2 Million Propaganda Campaign For ‘Independence Day’ Sequel
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 02/11/2020 - 06:57The Pentagon did not provide production support to the movie Independence Day because it portrayed the military as ineffective against...
Subscribercast #38 – The Negotiator and Israel’s Nuclear Smuggling Ring
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 02/09/2020 - 10:26When you think of radical or counter-establishment films the 1998 thriller The Negotiator probably doesn’t come to mind, especially if...
US Air Force Drone Game – Spy Culture in MintPress News
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 02/03/2020 - 08:09‘Leave the Top Gun Quotes to Us’ – US Navy Not Happy the Air Force is Muscling in on Top Gun: Maverick
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/15/2020 - 06:12A recent social media post shows that when it comes to Top Gun: Maverick the US Navy are protective of...
ClandesTime 199 – Neo Nazism and the Yugoslav Wars
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 01/12/2020 - 05:38What’s the connection between the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and the resurgent Neo-Nazi movements popping up in Western...
UK Foreign Office Spent Tens of Thousands of Pounds on ‘Handlers’ for Documentary Film Crew
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 01/10/2020 - 05:48In 2011 the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office granted unprecedented access to consulates in Spain for the TV documentary/reality series...
Is The Crash the Worst Government-Supported Movie of All Time?
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 01/08/2020 - 11:36One of the nice things about searching through documents and databases of government-supported films is that I get to read...
The Captain Marvel Effect: USAF Academy Sees Rise in Female Applicants
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 01/07/2020 - 07:42Why did the Pentagon Reject Rambo, But Were Willing to Work on Commando?
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 01/06/2020 - 06:21Rambo: First Blood and Commando are almost twin movies, both centring on a highly skilled military veteran on some sort...
Jack Ryan vs Venezuela – Tom Secker on Fortress on a Hill
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 01/03/2020 - 13:20Spy Culture Accused of Being Pro-Russian Propaganda (Spoiler: It Isn’t)
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 01/02/2020 - 10:18General Says Real Spy World ‘Not Like James Bond’ as UK Court Rules It’s Exactly Like James Bond
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/23/2019 - 06:23The never-ending doublespeak over whether MI5 and MI6 officers emulate James Bond took a new twist recently, with an Army...
Ex-CIA Rep. Elissa Slotkin Praises CIA’s Entertainment Liaison Office
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 12/22/2019 - 13:08Subscriber Podcast #37 – The CIA, Torture and Hollywood
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 12/22/2019 - 05:54Perhaps the most insidious rewriting of recent history by Hollywood is Zero Dark Thirty‘s narrative that torture helped find Bin...
CIA Mascot Jack Ryan & Venezuelan Regime Change Prestige – Tom Secker on Media Roots
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 12/19/2019 - 07:48Robbie Martin of Media Roots invited me back on the show for a lengthy, often funny discussion partly inspired by...
Rape, Murder, Drugs and Racism: Why the Pentagon Rejected Platoon
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 12/17/2019 - 05:14The Vietnam war drama Platoon was recently inducted into the US Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, in recognition for...
New Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Abandons Any Pretence at Military Realism
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/16/2019 - 09:41The DOD’s doctrine on working with Hollywood says that assistance can only be provided to productions that offer audiences a...
How Hollywood And The Pentagon Collude To Cover Up Military Sex Crimes
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 12/11/2019 - 07:19Sexual assault in the U.S. military is on the rise. Internal documents reveal the Pentagon’s entertainment liaison offices have spent...
ClandesTime 198 – The Day Shall Come
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/09/2019 - 05:26The Day Shall Come is the latest film from Chris Morris, the maker of Four Lions, and tells the story...
Black Widow the Latest Marvel-Military Collaboration
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 12/05/2019 - 08:42For anyone hoping that the end of phase 3 of the MCU would bring some respite from the relentless schedule...
‘We Can’t Rewrite History in a PC Way’ – Pentagon file on Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le mar, 12/03/2019 - 05:54Pentagon File on Under Siege (1992) Reveals How to Punk the Entertainment Liaison Offices
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 12/02/2019 - 05:50Under Siege is by far the second best Steven Seagal movie, but untold until now is the story of how...
Disney Swag and the ‘Quid Pro Quo’ on Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 11/30/2019 - 08:27The military support on Pearl Harbor was extensive, including mothballed battleships being towed around, access to bases in Hawaii and...
Spies, a Japanese Dentist and Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le jeu, 11/28/2019 - 11:34I’ve been spending some more time going through the Pentagon Film Office file on Pearl Harbor and among the numerous...
‘Navy nurses were proper ladies and proper ladies did not get “horny” in 1941’ – DOD File on Pearl Harbor
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 11/27/2019 - 08:11Pearl Harbor (2001) is the perfect example of how to spend a lot of money making a terrible film. Beset...
Subscriber Podcast #36 – The LAPD’s Hollywood Office
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 11/24/2019 - 09:25Just like many federal agencies the Los Angeles Police Department have a dedicated entertainment liaison office for dealing with Hollywood....
Spy Culture in Grayzone and Mint Press News
Soumis par Aggregation le sam, 11/23/2019 - 06:23Just a quickie to highlight some of the coverage resulting from my investigation and analysis of Amazon’s Jack Ryan and...
NPR Censors Their Podcast To Cover Up for US Govt Censorship
Soumis par Aggregation le ven, 11/22/2019 - 08:37Yesterday, NPR’s podcast Marketplace released a new episode titled How Chinese censorship changed “Top Gun” (and the rest of Hollywood)....
‘The Film Respected the Military and Federal Government’ – DOD File on Patriot Games
Soumis par Aggregation le mer, 11/20/2019 - 06:301992’s Patriot Games was supported by both the Pentagon and the CIA, filming at Langley and the US Naval Academy...
[Video] Jack Ryan, the CIA and Venezuela
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 11/18/2019 - 05:30
A video essay presenting my breakdown of Amazon's Jack Ryan, including how the CIA, DOD and other US government agencies were involved in producing it. I outline some of the history between the government and Tom Clancy productions before breaking down how seasons 1 and 2 are propaganda for US foreignJack Ryan, Midway, and For All Mankind
Soumis par Aggregation le dim, 11/10/2019 - 12:55
It has been another curious week of half-truths, spin and outright falsehood as culture commentators get to grips with recent releases Jack Ryan (on Amazon), For all Mankind (on Apple TV) and Midway (in theaters now).
The Politics and Censorship of Video Games
Soumis par Aggregation le lun, 11/04/2019 - 09:22
A recent report in Newsweek’s NewsGeek section has drawn attention to how video games, just like other forms of entertainment, can carry political messages.