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Captain Marvel: the latest propaganda collaboration between the military and the MCU
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Captain Marvel: the latest propaganda collaboration between the military and the MCU

Tom Secker 22nd March 2019 November 19th, 2019

Captain Marvel opened this weekend to a monster box office haul of $153 million domestically and over $450 million worldwide. Its star Brie Larson heralded it as ‘the biggest feminist movie of all time’ but behind this glossy, progressive veneer lies a troubling connection. Marvel is being used for military PR and recruitment propaganda, and Captain Marvel is merely the latest incarnation of a relationship that goes back decades.

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Read article in Italian here. 

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Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster.  His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism.  Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.

Tom lives on the Lancashire coast and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag.  He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.

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