Files on government involvement in popular culture, from the CIA in Hollywood to the Pentagon and reality TV. I obtained these documents via FOIA requests and from various archives.
James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad is a soulless, consciousless dumpster fire that uses shock value to cover for a plethora…
According to legend, Joe Stalin hated John Wayne and tried on several occasions to have the leading man killed. This…
The 1996 Olympic Park bombing is one of the most shameful episodes in the FBI’s history, as they spent months…
The CIA’s involvement in Argo is obvious from simply watching the movie – they shot several sequences at Langley, after…
One frequent question I get asked is how the state sponsorship of popular culture (especially movies and TV) works in…
Due to the positive feedback I received on my recent subscribercast on the New Zealand government – Amazon – Lord…
In what has to be one of the most bizarre Hollywood-government collaborations, the DEA once made a PSA video aimed…
Former DOD entertainment liaison Phil Strub once called Oliver Stone ‘the King of self-appointed blacklisted film makers’, but what does…
The Hollywood Arms Race took another step towards mutually assured cultural oblivion this week, as the #BoycottMulan movement grew and…
In my latest article for Shadowproof I delve into the Department of Homeland Security’s Hollywood office, which works on everything…
Ted Cruz has always been a rich dumbass but his latest legislative venture breaks his own record of cretinous behaviour. …
From the WTF? files comes something I missed when it actually happened but was made aware of by the latest…
