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"W" [The Movie]: The Collision of Entertainment, Politics & Pop Culture

Sunday, 29 June 2008 11:00 A GMT+01

Down in Louisiana, Oliver Stone has been shooting "W," his very personal take on the psychological evolution of George W. Bush, the movie everyone in Hollywood is dying to see but no one was willing to fund. It stars Josh Brolin as Dubya.

Zimbabwe: Western Propaganda Turns Mugabe into a Tyrant

Thursday, 26 June 2008 8:36 A GMT+01

‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’ could be the slogan of political and media operators in Britain and elsewhere in the West, who like to fantasise that Mugabe is ‘Africa’s Hitler’, that he was as bad as the last 'evil' dictator demonised by the Imperialists.

Tim Russert: Front Man for America's 'State' Media

Monday, 23 June 2008 9:23 A GMT+01

The various services held this week in honor of Tim Russert, longtime moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” underscore the extraordinary degree to which the media has been integrated into the state apparatus. Its function is one of indoctrination.

Tim Russert Gave Head to the Political Establishment

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 8:05 A GMT+01

Tim Russert exemplifies what is wrong with America. He is the consummate Washington establishment journalist. Hacks like Russert are media lapdogs who eat the lies they get tossed by the those in power, only too happy to please their masters.

Hillary Clinton & "Sex and the City" - Female Solidarity

Thursday, 12 June 2008 8:49 A GMT+01

Watching Hillary Clinton give up her presidential dream made me think of the "Sex and the City" gals. Her message was one of authenticity, aspiration and the same female solidarity as "SATC." That's a potent mix for the female voter and moviegoer.

Hillary Clinton: We Will Never Forgive the Media for the Way They Treated Her

Monday, 9 June 2008 8:19 A GMT+01

The danger is that, in their headlong rush to stop the first major female candidate (aka "Hildebeast" and "Hitlery") from becoming president, the punditocracy may have landed the Democrats with perhaps the least qualified presidential nominee ever.

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Sex and the City: Cultural Analysis

Monday, 2 June 2008 9:34 A GMT+01

They are materialistic, horny squealers, hungry for brunch and husbands. Lots of women who don't feel in the slightest bit represented by the "SATC" ladies are not thrilled to see them back again, this time plastered all over their multiplexes.

The Awfulness of Indiana Jones [Decline & Disaster]

Tuesday, 27 May 2008 9:50 A GMT+01

19 years after the Last Crusade that clearly wasn't, it's almost unfathomable that this hoary mishmash is the best that Lucas and Spielberg could cough up. Have we learned nothing about disturbing dusty relics and mussing with primordial remains?

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Hollywood: The Propaganda "Iron Man" of America's War Machine

Sunday, 25 May 2008 8:39 A GMT+01

If you want to see the fruits of the relationship between the Pentagon and Hollywood, then head down to your local multiplex. Chances are that "Iron Man" -- the latest military-entertainment masterpiece -- is playing on a couple of screens.

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"YouTomb" Finds Great Videos Killed on YouTube

Sunday, 25 May 2008 8:38 A GMT+01

Where did that Web video go? One moment it was up and you were emailing it to your friends, the next it was gone. It’s not uncommon. Such “takedowns” often result from copyright concerns. YouTomb is waging war on the corporate content creators.

Presidential Campaign: The Circus Comes to Town

Thursday, 22 May 2008 5:29 A GMT+01

Presidential campaigns are a parody, entertaining and often grotesque. They are a ritual danse macabre of flags, balloons and bullshit, designed to camouflage a venal system based on money power, human division and a culture of permanent war.

Bring Down Advertising [Some Great Spoof Ads]

Wednesday, 21 May 2008 8:29 A GMT+01

We are a global network of rebels and counter-culturalists who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we live in the 21st century.

"War Inc." - John Cusack's Brilliant Satire

Wednesday, 21 May 2008 8:27 A GMT+01

The film is scathing, farsighted, bold and truer than nonfiction. Cusack and the stellar cast of War, Inc. don't blink. War, Inc. takes inside the world of war profiteers, war makers, embedded journalists, mercenaries, and entertainment moguls.

Screen Actors Strike: Hollywood Grinds to a Halt Again

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 8:37 A GMT+01

Enormous wealth is celebrated as the ultimate marker of talent in Hollywood. It's considered bad form to state the obvious. Grotesque levels of income inequality are at the root of the industry's current labor troubles. Marxism comes to La-La Land?

Myanmar [Burma]: The West's Propaganda Campaign for "Intervention"

Monday, 12 May 2008 8:29 A GMT+01

The catastrophe has provoked an extraordinary campaign by the US and Europe, and in the western media, demanding that the military junta open its borders to aid and aid officials as well as to American military aircraft, troops and warships.

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Are the Financial Media Downplaying Possibility of a Depression?

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:49 A GMT+01

A major part of the problem is that the financial journalists who cover Wall Street are used to writing for Wall Street's customers--the very mortgage companies and financial institutions that were raking in millions from the subprime bubble.

Middle-Aged Media Hacks Hate Hillary Clinton

Sunday, 11 May 2008 8:46 A GMT+01

When the media act like sheep - which is most of the time - I turn into a wolf. So, fuck those middle-aged, flagging pundits who find Obama flatters their driving desire to imagine themselves forever young in a bright, shiny, upscale world.

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Myanmar [Burma] Disaster: Imperial Powers Itching to Intervene

Friday, 9 May 2008 8:34 A GMT+01

“The death toll could mount to something like 250,000 people.” Such estimates need to be treated with caution as there is an unmistakable media propaganda campaign to vilify the Burmese junta in order to justify international intervention.

"Iron Man" - Capitalist Propaganda Movie

Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:42 A GMT+01

Iron Man represents Stan Lee's adolescent dog-eat-dog version of capitalism, one that appeals to our "might makes right" ape brains: Innovation is good; monopolies rock when we run them, suck when we don't; and big corporations need millionaire CEOs.

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The Brilliant "Mad Men" & America's Culture War

Tuesday, 6 May 2008 10:13 A GMT+01

When conservatives talk bitterly about the 60s, it’s because they romanticize the 50s as the ultimate moment of the American patriarchy, and to varying degrees, also the last gasp of blatant white supremacy, a utopia of white male dominance.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright Faces Racist Abuse

Monday, 5 May 2008 9:05 A GMT+01

After media denunciations and racist abuse, Wright framed the hate campaign as an attack on Black religiosity, pointing to a long list of Black religious figures targeted for media and state vitriol--among them, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

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US Right Wing Accuse Europe of "Anti-Capitalist Propaganda"

Tuesday, 22 April 2008 8:53 A GMT+01

At a time of a worldwide economic reversal, when the instability and exploitation associated with capital accumulation is laid bare, the attack on European “anti-capitalism” is ideological indoctrination of an old-fashioned capitalist kind.

Fuck Hope [And Obama]

Thursday, 17 April 2008 8:59 A GMT+01

It's hope, finally, that makes us sell out. We get so downtrodden we'll do anything for a chance at that happy dreamed-of outcome: Find substance in the airiest speeches, comfort in the slightest promises. It's the best weapon of mass distraction.

Zimbabwe: The BBC & Its Imperial Propaganda War Against Mugabe

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01

The BBC is always eager to attack independent black republics. It can't tolerate them, but it's especially hostile to Zimbabwe. The BBC functions as a propaganda system for elite interests. It's been an essential imperial tool for eighty-six years.

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Obama Propaganda Poster [Big Brother Is Watching Us]

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 3:26 P GMT+01

There's an unequivocal sense of idol worship about the image, a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality. A repackaged Big Brother for 2008.

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