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In this edition I look at two very similar films made about 15 years apart – The Rocketeer and Iron Man.  Both are military-assisted productions and after outlining their connections to the DOD and USAF I analyse their storylines to explain what they are saying about technological innovation and development in the real world.  I […] (Read more...)

Inspired by a recent video project I decided to take on a Bond film this week and picked Tomorrow Never Dies. I provided a quick commentary on some of the themes and ideas in the film, from the gadgetry to the geopolitical implications, before rounding off looking at the overt, confirmed links between British and […] (Read more...)

I am joined by Adam of CerebralRevolt.com who returned to the show to talk about two recent spy films that he recommended to me – Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit and The East. Both of these films were produced by people whose names appear on the DOD film list, and yet they paint very different pictures […] (Read more...)

In this episode I talk about a new website called Humanarchy, an open source political philosophy project. I discuss some of my own background in philosophy, how I came back to the topic after years researching false flag terrorism and popular culture, the ideas that inspired me to start this project and a basic outline of some of my core political beliefs. (Read more...)

This week I take a look at four films that incorporate notions of weaponised fiction into their dialogue and storylines.  The concepts of predictive programming and the copycat effect, as well as other similar techniques, are identified in four movies from the 1990s – two mystery thrillers (The Usual Suspects and Basic Instinct), a satirical […] (Read more...)

In this special roundtable edition I talked with both Pearse Redmond and Aaron Franz about the film Wrong is Right- a 1982 political conspiracy thriller/black comedy.  We looked at the inevitable intelligence connections to the film, its weird melange of prophetic memes and predictive programming, its very strange psychological techniques (which the dialogue even refers […] (Read more...)

Joining me to discuss this question is Thomas Sheridan, an artist, philosopher, comedian and author of several books.  We talked about the cultish tendencies in the truth movement and other radical or protest movements and discussed Thomas’s reasons for taking a break from the alternative media and his treatment at the hands of fanatical supporters […] (Read more...)

I have recently been filing a lot of Freedom of Information requests and so in this episode I talk about Tony Blair’s statements that the UK FOIA was one of his worst mistakes, before pointing people in the direction of the most interesting material released under FOIA in this country. I outline some of my […] (Read more...)

James Corbett of the Corbett Report joined me to talk about the privatisation of intelligence and the development of the intelligence industrial complex. In this typically wide ranging conversation James began by breaking down the different layers in the existing discussion on this topic. We looked at the history of private intelligence, how 9/11 turned […] (Read more...)

This followup to episode 14 looks at art and media that predicted the Edward Snowden story - either his personal story or the political discussion surrounding it. From Catch-22 to Enemy of the State, James Bond to Spooks to Star Trek, this show reviews the ways in which our perceptions of Snowden and his 'revelations' were shaped and conditioned long before the leaks began. I also touch on the public image of the NSA and how this differs from that of the CIA, and round by emphasizing how we need to get beyond the truth messiahs, the idea of omniscient whistleblowers, if we are to adequately respond to the mass surveillance state. (Read more...)

Aaron Franz of the age of transitions joined me to discuss the remake of 1987 dystopian techno-thriller Robocop.  We compared the original to the remake and discussed the similarities and differences.  Obviously we looked at the involvement of the security state in the production of the film, though the subject of state sponsorship of culture […] (Read more...)

Pearse Redmond joined me again to discuss the 1997 film Wag the Dog, a black comedy about a White House spin doctor and a Hollywood producer faking a war with Albania to cover up a presidential sex scandal. We dug beneath the comic overtones to find a much darker subtext, talking about the total absence of moral values in the film, how the tone of the movie develops from a very light beginning to a very dark ending, and how both of the two main characters are probably based on very real and very significant people. In the case of film producer Stanley Motss that is Stanley Kubrick - a man rumoured to have been involved in the biggest government-hollywood conspiracy of all time, the supposed faking of the moon landings. Meanwhile spin doctor Conrad Breen is likely based on CIA Entertainment Industry Liaison Chase Brandon, who began working in Hollywood at the time this film was developed, and went on to work on several films with Robert De Niro. (Read more...)

This show is a commentary on several different works of cultural significance, primarily looking at how fiction can be used and is used to manipulate and condition public perceptions of past events.  Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, BBC sitcom Yes, Prime Minister, Hollywood blockbuster Crimson Tide, James Bond reboot Casino Royale and […] (Read more...)

Short answer: yes, probably.  Long answer: no, but there are a hell of a lot of them.  In this episode I look at 7 key figures in the history of Al Muhajiroun since its founding in 1996, all of whom are probably or definitely informants for MI5.  From the top of the gang’s hierarchy – […] (Read more...)

Guillermo Jimenez of TracesofReality.com joined me to talk about his time as a live radio host on RBN, the Republic Broadcasting Network.  We discussed the problems he found while working in network radio, how and why he joined up with RBN, how and why he left, and the shows he is now doing: Traces of […] (Read more...)