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Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA

by lsh on 3/16/20, 5:54 AM with 8 comments

• by alias_neo on 3/16/20, 8:01 AM

  Is this a surprise to Americans (genuine question)?

  It's plain as day that Hollywood films are strongly designed to influence the American's perception of war and their position in it/contribution to it when you watch it as a non-american.

  That's before we even get into the "flag tax".

  The more films you watch over the years the more cringeworthy it gets. Whether that's the whole one-man-army, or some other recipe, it feels like the viewer is being treated like an idiot.

• by notlukesky on 3/16/20, 12:07 PM

  These types of relationships in Hollywood is well documented in the recursive movie Argo:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)

  https://www.wired.com/2007/04/feat-cia/

  https://www.amazon.com/dp/0688163025/ref=as_li_ss_til?imprTo...

• by dasKrokodil on 3/16/20, 10:54 AM

  The essence of this article might not be hugely surprising to anyone, but it's still good that they did all the FoI requests and everything.

• by leed25d on 3/16/20, 6:00 AM

  That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?

• by Harvey_6 on 3/16/20, 10:52 AM

  Probably, because the US wars on behalf of Israel.

  Is this news to anyone at this point? I'm sure we all know it's not Koreans or Eskimos running Hollywood.