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* Radha Mitchell Talks Take My Hand, Finding Neverland, And Kerouac's Lover In Big Sur * Self-described Young Lord for life Carlito Rovira discusses painting revolutionaries * UK desk: Jack Clarke and Matthew Alford on military video games

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On this Moats, George Galloway talks the night before the General Election as he stands in Rochdale. Kier Starmer courts a dirty little rag called the Sun. Politics is a moral-free zone. Will President Biden resign next week? Hey Joe, where you going with that Zimmer in your hand? Rumours from insiders say he could be gone by November. Meanwhile in France Macron is French toast. George speaks to Dr Matthew Alford about his film 'The Writer with no hands' and the research he has done on the 'Hidden Hand' of the deep state vets and the rewrites Hollywood and TV scripts do year after year so the US looks good behind the blood, greasepaint and AI. Miko Peled returns to Moats to speak about what the media isn't showing you and what is really happening within the Jewish communities in Israel. Miko talks his new book, living under an apartheid regime and why he may he himself may have to leave Israel.Dr Matthew Alford: Writer, Documentary maker and Parliamentary Candidate for The Worker's Party for Bath- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/9PPyn9L5rLasWLPG/?mibextid=LQQJ4dMiko Peled: Anti-Zionist Israeli Author, Podcast Host & Political Commentator- Twitter: https://x.com/mikopeled- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikopeled- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikoPeledOfficial- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@MikoPeledOfficial Become a MOATS Graduate at https://plus.acast.com/s/moatswithgorgegalloway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My special guest is author Matthew Alford who's here to discuss his research into how the government has very long tentacles in Hollywood movie making. You can get his book National Security Cinema on Amazon. This is a book about secrecy, militarism, and censorship at the heart of the world's leading democracy—and about those who fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, 'National Security Cinema' exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government have gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting franchises like Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; PTSD in servicemen; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. Matt is back to discuss the launch of his YouTube channel and some of the topics he discusses in his videos, through this episode we talk about his activism about Julian Assange and why its important to not censor speech especially when it pertains to criticism of corruption. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

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Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. Matt joins me again to catch up and discuss the ramifications on the globe, politics and individual thought from influence of the military into entertainment sources such as films, songs and careers. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Welcome to Gorilla Radio, recorded January 7th, 2023. It's been almost thirty-one years since UNPROFOR, the UN Protection Forces' mission to the Former Yugoslavia. Canada's military, then famed for peacekeeping, played a role in standing between the warring parties in hopes of a brokered truce. That mission failed, but not for the reasons believed then. In fact, according to records recently declassified, little about the conflict that led to the destruction of thousands of lives and ultimately redrew the political map of the Balkans occurred either why or how we were told. Tom Secker is a UK-based private researcher, journalist, and frequently featured commentator on security and intelligence issues. He's the host of the podcast, ClandesTime, principal behind Spyculture.com, “the world's premier online archive about government involvement in the entertainment industry”, and author, with Matthew Alford, of the book, 'National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood'. Tom recently collaborated with Kit Klarenberg of the Grayzone on the article, 'Declassified Intelligence Files Expose Inconvenient Truths of Bosnian War'. Tom Secker in the first half. And, though it may be difficult to imagine now, back in the day people came out en masse to give voice to the notion of a World without war. They marched and sang, colourfully costumed and carrying clever signs, while massive puppets, designed to attract the attention of a media more normalized to war footage, danced along the boulevards and in the High Street. They were then called "The Left", now they're simply known as departed. David Rovics' frequent essays on political issues and societal observation are featured at CounterPunch and Dissident Voice.org among other places. He's a broadcaster, musician, blogger, and author of the novel, ‘A Busker's Adventures'. His weekly program, This Week with David Rovics can be found through his website, DavidRovics.com - and on Substack - where you can read his essays, listen to his hundreds of original songs, and catch some of his hundreds of interviews. His recent article, 'An Autopsy on the US Left' verifies what many of us have known but may not have admitted, the fact that "that parrot is dead!" David Rovics and 'An Autopsy on the US Left in the second half. But first, Tom Secker and "CIA black ops, illegal weapon shipments, imported jihadist fighters, potential false flags, and stage-managed atrocities" revealed in Canada's declassified Yugoslavia cables. Song: At the End of World War III Artist: Chet Gardiner David sez: "If you've never heard of a musician named Chet Gardiner, here's a fine introduction. This is his solo acoustic version of a song I wrote a few months ago, which he recorded at his home studio in Hawaii. "Both the bassy resonance of Chet's voice and his delivery reminds me very much of the last recordings Johnny Cash made, which I think were brilliant. Chet's fingerstyle DADGAD guitar playing is so evocative as well."   Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, broad/webcasting since 1999. Check out the Archive at Gorilla-Radio.com, GRadio.Substack.com, and the GR blog at: https://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com/

This is the first episode in our special series on entertainment and the law of war.In this episode, Dr Sebastian Kaempf, a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, joins Dr Lauren Sanders to discuss. his documentary: and the documents he's uncovered from the US CIA and military Entertainment Liaison Offices as part of this project.   Dr Sebastian Kaempf is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the School of Political Science and International Studies, at the University of Queensland. Sebastian received his PhD at Aberystwyth University in the UK, at the Department of International Politics. He also holds a BSc and MSc (Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Among his awards is the ISA Deborah Gerner Award for Teaching Innovation in 2020. His work at UQ includes producing and convening 'MediaWarX', one of UQ's Massive Open Online Courses. Sebastian also hosts a podcast with his colleague Associate Professor Al Stark, where they interview some of the best teachers about their practical advice on engaging university students in the classroom. You can listen to 'Higher Ed Heroes' here on Buzzsprout.  Additional Resources:‘Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA took Hollywood' is a feature-length film documentary, produced and directed by Roger Stahl, Tom Secker, Matthew Alford and Sebastian Kaempf, funded and released through the Media Education Foundation in May 2022.  Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, ‘New Evidence for the Surprisingly Significant Propaganda Role of the Central Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense in the Screen Entertainment Industry' (2019) 45(3) Critical Sociology 347. Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, ‘Why are the Pentagon and the CIA in Hollywood?' (2017) 76(2) The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 381. James Der Derian, Virtuous War: Mapping the Military-industrial-media-entertainment Network (Routledge, 2nd ed, 2009)

Matthew Alford is a teaching fellow at Bath university UK, in politics with research interests in the relationship between screen entertainment and political power. His new documentary "Theaters Of War" digs deep into a vast new trove of recently released internal government documents about the government influence in Hollywood. Matt discovers how the military and CIA have pushed official narratives while systematically scrubbing scripts of war crimes, corruption, racism, sexual assault, coups, assassinations, and torture. From The Longest Day to Lone Survivor, Iron Man to Iron Chef, and James Bond to Jack Ryan, Theaters of War uncovers an alternative “cinematic universe” that stands as one of the great Pentagon PR coups of our time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/out-of-the-blank-podcast/support

The Writer with No Hands is a 2017 British documentary feature film, which follows unemployed academic Matthew Alford as he tries to establish that the accidental death of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore was, in fact, an assassination by the United States government

Aaron speaks with Dr. Matthew Alford, one of the co-producers of the soon to be released documentary film, Theaters of War. They discuss the film and it main subject--the covert and propagandistic role of the Pentagon and CIA in the entertainment world.  Alford is the co-author with Tom Secker of National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood. Along with TJ Coles, he is also co-author Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy, as well as author of The Writer with No Hands—a book, I hope to discuss on a future episode. Here's a trailer for Theaters of War featuring Matthew Alford. Also check out Tom Secker's site, Spy Culture.  Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!   Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange

One of the biggest Western foreign policy adventures in recent years is something that is underreported in the media. So-called ‘intervention' in Libya has created a failed state that is riven with extremists all vying for power. So we ask: was this really an epic foreign policy mistake? Or was destroying Libya just another day at the office for politicians, shortsighted bureaucrats, and vulture corporates who continually try to enforce global economic supremacy? Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by Dr. Matthew Alford, teaching fellow in politics at University of Bath, and Dr. Tim Coles, director and founder of Plymouth Institute for Peace Research. - Broadcast June 2018 - Read & Watch: https://renegadeinc.com/looting-libya/

Propaganda is a word thrown around, but very few people understand the nature of the indoctrination within the. United States. David Swanson of “World Beyond War” says:When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived. The actual impact is on thousands of movies made, and thousands of others never made. And television shows of every variety. The military guests and celebrations of the U.S. military on game shows and cooking shows are no more spontaneous or civilian in origin than the ceremonies glorifying members of the U.S. military at professional sports games–ceremonies that have been paid for and choreographed by U.S. tax dollars and the U.S. military. The “entertainment” content carefully shaped by the “entertainment” offices of the Pentagon and the CIA doesn’t just insidiously prepare people to react differently to news about war and peace in the world. To a huge extent it substitutes a different reality for people who learn very little actual news about the world at all.The alliance between the military and Hollywood is the main reason that we have lots of big blockbuster movies on certain topics and few if any on others. Studios have written scripts and hired top actors for movies on things like Iran-Contra that have never seen the light of day because of a Pentagon rejection. Today, we interview award winning researchers Tom Secker and Matthew Alford who have spent decades trying to uncover the shady relationship between Hollywood, the Pentagon, the CIA and the Department of Defense. In fact, very little gets made without approving eyes our national security state. This is a must listen-to interview with Award Winning researchers Tom Secker and Matthew Alford about their new Documentary film “Theaters of War” 1:00 - 3:00 - How extensive is the DOD input? 3:00 - 5:30 - FOIA request runaround5:30 - 6:00 - What is not made? and Why?6:00 - 8:00 Why does Hollywood go to the military?8:00 - 11:30 - “Countermeasures” not made because opposed US interests11:30 - 14:30 - Selling the military to the audience14:30 - 16:20 - Deleted scenes from “Independence Day”16:20 - 24:00 Matthew visits US and the Lawrence Suid Files24:00 - 28:40 - The “2 Hour Infomercial” & how the word “propaganda” is never mentioned28:40 - 29:55 - Tom’s a “vexatious requester”29:55 - 33:15 - Pentagon’s PR move after “Jarhead” and “Full Metal Jacket” came out33:15 - 36:30 - “Lone Survivor” - War crimes whitewashed36:30 - 39:00 - They’re tired of looking like the bad guys39:00 - 43:30 - Opting against nukes in remakes for environmental disasters43:30 - 45:25 - Mid 70’s is when DoD got more involved in films and shows45:25 - 48:25 - Zero Dark 30 tried to make a case for “torture good”48:25 - 51:45 - Jack Ryan series51:45 - 53:00 - DoD creating their own hyper-reality53:00 - 53:40 - Iron Man was anti-war in comics but pro-war in movies53:40 - 1:00:00 - Why would actors sign on?1:00:00 - 1:01:03 - Serbian movie “Dara of Jasenovac” vs “The Courier” reviews1:01:00 - 1:04:50 - Stop watching “Transformers”. Watch “The Boys” instead1:04:50 - 1:06:00 - Take Culture Action - Disengage or engage critically1:06:00 - End - “Theatre of War” release and what Matthew and Tom are up to nextTo learn more visit: Spy Culture Get full access to Historic.ly at historicly.substack.com/subscribe

Author Matthew Alford discusses his book National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood. Show notes: Author Facebook page: Thewriterwithnohands Tom Secker website: www.spyculture.com Upcoming documentary featuring Matthew Alford and Oliver Stone: Theatres of War https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11841496/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt Streaming soon on canopy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the wonderful world of espionage!  This episode discusses the life and disappearance of Gary DeVore, a successful scriptwriter.  Everyone thought of Gary as a charismatic guy with a bit of a rough edge for Hollywood.  Yet when he suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, people began looking into his life and his next project.  What they uncovered was more complicated than a 5,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.  SHOW NOTEShttps://www.vice.com/sv/article/gq95k9/the-writer-with-no-hands-gary-devore-matthew-alfordhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_DeVorehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2905392/Hollywood-screenwriter-mysteriously-killed-20-years-ago-working-CIA-hands-sent-autopsy-200-years-old.htmlhttps://www.imdb.com/name/nm0222904/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_trv_sm#triviahttps://foreignpolicy.com/2010/03/12/the-history-of-the-honey-trap/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega#U.S._invasion_of_Panamahttp://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9807/15/devore/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkDzpt9b9WAhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/michael-sands-dead-publicist-choking-deli-meat-gelsons-312295/The Writer With No Hands, Dr. Matthew Alford

Some of your favourite films have been rewritten by the Pentagon, the US Defence Department and the CIA. This isn't a conspiracy theory: as research by Bath University's Matthew Alford underlines, thousands of films and TV shows have received support from the US national security state over the last century in exchange for rewrites to eliminate criticisms of- or give glowing support to - the US military and US foreign policy goals. From Zero Dark Thirty to Hulk, from Terminator films to Contact to Homeland, this influence is everywhere - and part of a concerted propaganda effort to whitewash the true horrors committed in the name of US power.Check out Matthew's work here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Matthew-Alford/e/B0045YIR2K and here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmFfPcW_KMArhjNb0zmO1PAHelp us take on the right wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Christian talks to author, documentary filmmaker, and lecturer in media Dr Matthew Alford about mass media as an institution and relates it to coverage of Modern Monetary Theory.   Please help sustain this podcast! Patrons get early access to all episodes and patron-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/MMTpodcast   For an intro to MMT: Listen to our first three episodes: https://www.patreon.com/posts/41742417   All our episodes in chronological order: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43111643   National Security Cinema by Matthew Alford and Tom Secker: https://www.amazon.co.uk/National-Security-Cinema-Government-Hollywood/dp/1548084980   Follow Matthew on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheWriterWithNoHands   “A mainstream outlet accepted my pitch on what media refuses to say about US empire – then refused to let me say it” by Matthew Alford: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/13/mainstream-outlet-media-refuses-say/   For more on the Propaganda Model: https://www.medialens.org/the-propaganda-model/   Media critical projects: Media Lens: https://www.medialens.org/ Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR): https://fair.org/ FAIR's podcast, “Counterspin”: https://fair.org/counterspin-radio/ Citations Needed podcast: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ Democracy Now!: https://www.democracynow.org/   Details about the 2nd International European MMT conference (September 13th-15th 2021): https://www.mmtconference.eu A list of upcoming MMT events and courses: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47531455   A list of MMT-informed campaigns and organisations worldwide: https://www.patreon.com/posts/47900757   We are working towards full transcripts, but in the meantime, closed captions for all episodes are available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp_nGVTuMfBun2wiG-c0Ew/videos

My special guest is author Matthew Alford who's here to discuss his research into how the government has very long tentacles in Hollywood movie making. You can get his book National Security Cinema on Amazon. Want more paranormal episodes? Follow our new podcast 'Paranormal Fears' on any podcast app or Apple Podcasts. Enjoy the AD-FREE versions of our latest episodes and our archives right now from anywhere in the world. Check Out Mysterious Radio! (copy the link to share with your friends and family via text) Follow us on Instagram @mysteriousradio Follow us on TikTok mysteriousradioTikTok Follow us on Twitter @mysteriousradio Follow us on Pinterest pinterest.com/mysteriousradio Like us on Facebook Facebook.com/mysteriousradio Visit our website: https://www.mysteriousradio.com Check Out Mysterious Radio! (copy the link to share with your friends and family via text) This is a book about secrecy, militarism, and censorship at the heart of the world's leading democracy—and about those who fight them.  Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, 'National Security Cinema' exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows.  The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government have gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated.  National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting franchises like Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator.  These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; PTSD in servicemen; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In großen amerikanischen Action-Blockbustern sind wir diesen Anblick längst gewöhnt. Kriegsgerät aller Couleur flimmert über den Bildschirm. Panzer, Soldat*innen und Waffen zuhauf. So ist das eben in den USA – mag der eine oder die andere denken. Doch es steckt meist wesentlich mehr hinter dieser Überrepräsentation von Militär in großen Filmen. Manchmal geht es dabei sogar um Außenpolitik. Großzügig werden vom Department of Defense Produktionshilfen in Form von Leihgaben, Beratungsleistungen oder Drehgenehmigungen bereitgestellt. Und was gibts als Gegenleistung von den Filmstudios? Ach gar nicht so viel, eigentlich! Lediglich Einfluss aufs Drehbuch – und das nicht zu knapp. Veröffentlichte Akten zeugen von unzähligen Einflussnahmen durch das US-Militär auf Filme und deren Geschichten. Dazu zählen nicht nur duzende Werke über den Vietnamkrieg, sondern auch die frühen Vertreter des Marvel Cinematic Universe. In ihrem Buch "National Security Cinema" dokumentieren Matthew Alford und Tom Secker diese Einflussnahmen. Lucas stellt das Buch in dieser Episode vor.

In the first We Go Way Back of the year, Kit speaks with Dr Matthew Alford about the relationship between the US federal government and the film industry. Hundreds of household favourites such as Transformers and Argo have been directly influenced by US state propaganda. In this episode, Kit's in search of what this means for freedom of thought, US hegemony and the balance of geopolitics. Dr Alford is a lecturer at the University of Bath. His research — based in freedom of information requests — has exposed the deep ties between Washington DC and Hollywood stretching back 80 years. He's just the person to be speaking on this topic and you can find out more about his work at the link below. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/matthew-alford

George Noory and Dr. Matthew Alford explore his research into how the U.S. government and military have worked with makers of Hollywood movies like Kingsmen, Mission: Impossible and Independence Day to make their agencies look good, or even prevent messages from getting to the public. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week I welcomed Matthew Alford to discuss all things Brexit. We kicked off the show by talking about Boris Johnson’s rise to power. Matt talked about Johnson’s public persona as an “inbred upperclass twit,” and how this has shaped his political career. Next, we dove head first into the ongoing drama of Brexit. Matt […]

A PARALLAX VIEWS DOUBLE FEATURE: First... IS IT ANARCHY IN THE U.K.? The Bollocks of Brexit Update! w/ Matthew Alford Then, POSTMODERN... CONSERVATISM??? w/ Prof. Matthew McManus It's a jam-packed double feature edition of Parallax Views. First, we're joined from across the pond by scholar of media and propaganda Matthew Alford for a half hour conversation on the latest Brexit bollocks! What is happening with Brexit under the governance of Boris Johnson and what could a no-deal Brexit mean for Great Britain? Matthew and I try to parse out the complex and unpredictable situation currently unfolding in the United Kingdom. Then, is there such a thing as postmodern conservatism? Matthew McManus, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, argue there is in his new academic book The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics and the upcoming Zero Books title What is Post-Modernism Conservatism?: Essays on Our Hugely Tremendous Times. THE RISE OF POSTMODERN CONSERVATISM by Matthew McManus Available Now From Palgrave MacMillan SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWS ON PATREON! WHERE YOU CAN HEAR... PARALLAX VIEWS AFTER HOURS! - THE LATEST FROMPARALLAX VIEWS AFTER HOURS: HOW ANTIWAR IS TULSI GABBARD REALLY? w/ Marlon Ettinger

On this edition of Parallax Views, British author and commentator T.J. Coles joins us to discuss the UK's controversial new Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the midst of Brexit. Since June 23rd, 2016, when the U.K. voted in favor of a referendum to leave the European Union, Britain has experienced a sustained period of political turbulence. Who was behind the Brexit campaign? Who were the forces opposing it? What does the British exit from the United Kingdom entail? And, of course, how did this happen? T.J. Coles, author of The Great Brexit Swindle: Why the Mega-Rich and Free Market Fanatics Conspired to Force Britain from the European Union, provides interesting answers to these questions while also unpacking the ideas of neoliberalism, the state of democracy in Britain, criticisms of the EU's technocratic nature, the negative media portrayals of Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, and parallels between the political economies of the U.K. and the U.S. Articles: "The Tragic Inevitability of Boris Johnson MP" by T.J. Coles (Counterpunch) "'Strategic Extremism': How Republicans and Establishment Democrats Use Identity Politics to Divide and Rule" by T.J. Coles (Counterpunch) "The Billionaires Behind the Far-Right" by T.J. Coles (Counterpunch) "Corbyn and the Mainstream Media: A Case-Study in Fake News" by T.J. Coles (Counterfire) "We Need a People's Globalization to Defeat Global Neoliberalism" by T.J. Coles (Truth Out) Books: Real Fake News by T.J. Coles (Red Pill Press) Privatized Planet by T.J. Coles (New Internationalist) The Great Brexit Swindle by T.J. Coles (Clairview Books) See also:Parallax Views Ep. 61: Matthew Alford on Corbyn, Brexit, and the "Union Jackboot" of British Foreign Policy

On this edition of Parallax Views, we travel across the pond to the United Kingdom to discuss Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit, and British foreign policy with Matthew Alford, co-author with T.J. Coles of Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy. The conversation begins with Matthew filling listeners in on his prior work investigating the Pentagon and CIA's little-known role in the entertainment industry. In his books Reel Power and National Security Cinema w/ Tom Secker, Matthew exposes how the military-industrial complex has influenced and manipulated Hollywood films and television show to promote an uncritical image of the national security state and recruit impressionable youths to the war machine. From there we delve into how Matthew came to work on his latest book, Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy, with T.J. Coles. T.J. is, by day, an academic researcher at the Plymouth Institute's Cognition Institute focused on visual impairment and blindness. By night, however, he is an astute analyst, commentator, and investigator of human right abuses and geopolitics related to the United Kingdom and its foreign policy. Matthew gives an insight into T.J., his parallels to Chomsky, and the important insights he provided in the Union Jackboot interviews. We then move onto discussing the rise of the Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn, whose political leftism has led many to consider him the British equivalent of Bernie Sanders. We discuss the many attacks that have been made on Corbyn including accusations of anti-Semitism. Matthew and I delve into how Corbyn is a throwback to an older version of the Labour Part before the rise of Tony Blair and Third Way neoliberalism. From there we discuss T.J.'s views on Britain's foreign policy and how it has been downplayed in not only the British mainstream media but also many left-wing circles. Matthew also discusses how Britain, although not the Empire it once was, has a great deal of standing in the international scene and still is involved in many foreign policy actions that should be up for criticism. Then we briefly switch our focus to the U.S. with a discussion of Donald Trump and Matthew provides his own English-flavored take on the controversial POTUS. Matthew you and I then have an extended discussion about Brexit and Britain's leaving the European Union (EU). This makes up an entire, fascinating chapter in Union Jackboot that's a must read. Matthew lays out the complicated nature of Brexit and how there are many different factors that lead people to support either Brexit or its Remain opposition. We discuss the way in which anti-immigration sentiment played a role in Brexit and how many of Brexit supporters are the made it's being handled. At the same time, Matthew talks about how racism isn't the only motivator of Brexit. Then we delve into some of the main proponent of the Brexit campaign, specifically Jacob Reese-Mogg and Nigel Farage. In addition, we discuss Boris Johnson and David Cameron, the former Primer Minister who left his position immediately after the Brexit vote came in. And finally we discuss what Brexit could mean in terms of a possible return of The Troubles and what effect it could have on the National Health Service (NHS). Then, before wrapping up the conversation we discuss conspiracy theories with a particular focus on the kookiness that is David Icke and his eccentric belief that shapeshifting reptilians rule the world. During this part of the conversation we also talk about Matthew and T.J.'s appearance on RT and how T.J. has a critical view of state-owned Russian media outlet like RT, Sputnik, etc. Additionally, we discuss T.J.'s observation that elites may actually be the biggest conspiracy theorists of them all. We then wrap up by discussing the humor and energy that permeates Union Jackboot and why listeners should consider giving it a read. UNION JACKBOOT IS AVAILABLE NOW IN HARD COPY AND KINDLE E-READERS! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY PARALLAX VIEWS! SUPPORT PARALLAX VIEWS ON PATREON!

We have our first t-shirt for sale!!!  Click here to check it out. Today, I sit down with Tom Secker of spyculture.com to discuss the National Geographic series The Long Road Home.  Here, Tom and I note its lack of discussion on the historical and cultural questions surrounding the massive battle in Sadr City, known by veterans of the battle as Black Sunday, and the military questions I have as a soldier who was fighting against the same Mahdi militia in southern Iraq at the same time. Thanks again to Tom for chatting with me.  He wrote an amazing piece of analysis with journalist Matthew Alford on the influence of the Pentagon and the CIA in American films and television.  It’s called National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood.  Definitely pick up a copy!!  And don’t forget to subscribe to Tom’s podcast, ClandesTime.  He recently did a review on Executive Decision, the Kurt Russell/Steven Seagal film from 1996. Enjoy the show?!  Please leave us a review right here. Contact us direct by email at fortressonahill@gmail.com Leave us a voicemail at 860-598-0570.  We might even play it on the podcast!!! Not a contributor on Patreon? You're missing out on amazing bonus content! Sign up to be one of our contributors today! - www.patreon.com/fortressonahill A special thanks to our honorary producers Matthew Hoh, Will Ahrens, Gage Counts, Fahim Shirazee, James Higgins, and James O'Barr.  Without you guys, we couldn't continue our work.  Thank you so much!!! Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?!  Visit Paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!! FOH is hosted, written, and produced by Chris 'Henri' Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, and BT Hampton Intro / outro music "Fortress on a hill" written and performed by Clifton Hicks.  Clifton's Bandcamp page; Clifton's Patreon page Thanks to Nate Bethea from What A Hell of a Way to Die for editing and mixing this episode Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

Security Services Cinema – Lights, Camera, Redaction. It was the screenwriter Blake Snyder who said that screenplays are Swiss clocks of emotion. But what effect on society do screenwriters have if their work is being influenced by institutions that push a government narrative? Could that Swiss clock of emotion be used nefariously to further geopolitical agendas – or is that just conspiracy theory from cloud cuckoo land? Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by author of ‘Reel Power, Hollywood cinema and American supremacy’, Dr. Matthew Alford and a few interview questions with Jay Dyer toward the end.

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we're discussing the documentary film The Writer with No Hands. Directed by William Westaway, the film tells the story of writer and professor Matthew Alford and his investigation into the strange case of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore.Rod Lott (Bookgasm, Flickattack) joins Mike to tackle this film.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re discussing the documentary film The Writer with No Hands. Directed by William Westaway, the film tells the story of writer and professor Matthew Alford and his investigation into the strange case of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore. Rod Lott (Bookgasm, Flickattack) joins Mike to tackle this film.

On this special episode of The Projection Booth we’re discussing the documentary film The Writer with No Hands. Directed by William Westaway, the film tells the story of writer and professor Matthew Alford and his investigation into the strange case of Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore. Rod Lott (Bookgasm, Flickattack) joins Mike to tackle this film.

Dr Matthew Alford is a scholar whose thesis applied Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the contemporary Hollywood film industry. He is now the author of many articles and books on Hollywood propaganda including his latest book “National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood” Daniel starts off by […]

Buy Paperback of National Security Cinema: https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Cinema-Government-Hollywood/dp/1548084980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500352078&sr=8-1&keywords=national+security+cinema Please Donate to Media Roots Radio using Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio National Security Cinema: This is a book about secrecy, militarism, manipulation, and censorship at the heart of the world’s leading democracy—and about those who try to fight them. Using thousands of pages of documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act National Security Cinema exclusively reveals that the national security state—led by the CIA and Pentagon—has worked on more than eight-hundred Hollywood films and over a thousand network television shows. The latest scholarship has underestimated the size of this operation, in part because the government has gone to considerable lengths to prevent data emerging, especially in the 21st Century, as the practice of government-Hollywood cooperation has escalated and become more aggressive. National Security Cinema reveals for the first time specific script changes made by the government for political reasons on dozens of blockbusting films and franchises like Transformers, Avatar, Meet the Parents, and The Terminator. These forces have suppressed important narratives about: CIA drug trafficking; illegal arms sales; military creation of bio-weapons; the interaction of private armies and oil companies; government treatment of minorities; torture; coups; assassinations, and the failure to prevent 9/11. Dr. Matthew is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath in England. His doctoral thesis applied Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the contemporary Hollywood film industry. His first book, Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy, was published by Pluto Press in 2010 and has since been translated into Chinese. In 2014, Dr. Alford produced a documentary film of his research, The Writer with No Hands, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and won the Tablet of Honor at the Ammar Popular Film Festival in Tehran. Tom Secker is a private researcher who runs spyculture.com— the world’s premier online archive about government involvement in the entertainment industry. He has used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain unique government documents since 2010, which has been reported on by Russia Today, Salon, Techdirt, The Mirror, The Express and other outlets. He has authored and co-authored articles for Critical Sociology and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology and hosts the popular ClandesTime podcast.

Matthew Alford completed his doctorate at Bath University on US Cinema and Politics in 2007. He also holds a Masters degree from Birmingham University and currently lectures in the Drama, Theatre, Film, and Television department of Bristol University. Reel Power is the first book to examine the internal workings of contemporary Hollywood as a politicised industry as well as scores of films across all genres. No matter what the progressive impulses of some celebrities and artists, Alford shows how they are part of a system that is hard-wired to encourage American global supremacy and frequently the use of state violence.

Matthew Alford completed his doctorate at Bath University on US Cinema and Politics in 2007. He also holds a Masters degree from Birmingham University and currently lectures in the Drama, Theatre, Film, and Television department of Bristol University. Reel Power is the first book to examine the internal workings of contemporary Hollywood as a politicised industry as well as scores of films across all genres. No matter what the progressive impulses of some celebrities and artists, Alford shows how they are part of a system that is hard-wired to encourage American global supremacy and frequently the use of state violence.