Hollywood’s ‘Captain Marvel’ Blockbuster Is Blatant US Military Propaganda

Grayzone’s Ben Norton looks at the sizable role the Pentagon played in the production of the hit Hollywood film Captain Marvel, and how the blockbuster film is being used spread recruitment propaganda.

Ben Norton
By Ben Norton
Captain Marvel | Air Force

Grayzone -- The superhero blockbuster Captain Marvel is a perfect case study for how the United States military uses Hollywood to spread propaganda. The US military is at the center of the plot of Captain Marvel. The film’s protagonist, Carol Danvers, is a former US Air Force pilot who becomes a superhero after absorbing the powers of an

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US Army Documents Reveal Massive Support for ‘Long Road Home’ Miniseries, Possible Fraud at Military’s Entertainment Liaison Office

The US Army provided such extensive support for National Geographic’s drama, The Long Road Home, that the series likely could not have been made without Pentagon approval.

Tom Secker
By Tom Secker
The Long Road Home

The National Geographic drama series, “The Long Road Home,” tells a version of the story of the battle for Sadr City in 2004, a key moment in Iraq War, and newly-released emails and other documents from the United States Army detail the extensive military support for the TV series and how the Pentagon repeatedly bent its own rules on providing

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How War Propaganda in the Film Industry Really Works

There is no doubt the Department of Defense (a.k.a. the Pentagon) has encouraged the militarization of popular culture and is pro-actively seeking further influence in Hollywood.

Tom Secker
By Tom Secker
Saving Private Ryan | War Propaganda

As the co-authors of National Security Cinema, we have become known — rather inaccurately — for encouraging two major ideas: 1. That the government is really important in making movies more militaristic. 2. That Hollywood doesn’t produce dissenting films. While the first of these is somewhat true it is a simplification, the second is a

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Al Qaeda & Hollywood: The American Film Industry is Promoting War

An exclusive Grayzone investigative documentary rips the cover off of the most sophisticated and expensive campaign of humanitarian interventionist propaganda in modern history.

Grayzone Project
By Grayzone Project
al qaeda

For decades, Western governments, corporate media and Hollywood have engaged in a project of mass deception to manufacture consent for military interventions. Waged in the name of lofty ideals like freedom, human rights and democracy, US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya wound up bringing death, destruction and even the return of slavery to

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Here Are 410 Movies Made Under the Direct Influence and Supervision of the Pentagon

The average movie watcher might be in for a shock at what films are actually included, garnering the military industrial complex’s propaganda touch, like Earnest Saves Christmas, Karate Kid 2, The Silence of the Lambs, Twister, the Iron Man movies, and more recently Pitch Perfect 3.

ZeroHedge.com
By ZeroHedge.com
hollywood propaganda

A year ago we featured a detailed report by authors Tom Secker and Matthew Alford exposing just how vast the Pentagon and CIA programs for partnering with Hollywood actually are, based on some 4,000 new pages of formerly classified archived documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The report noted at the time that "These

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FBI Exercises Tight Control Over Media Portrayal In Hollywood

The FBI claims that it has much to offer entertainment producers and touts several items as services it may choose to provide: “guidance” on content about the FBI’s investigations, procedures, structure, and history.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
A sign for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in Washington, DC.

Journalist Jason Leopold obtained hundreds of documents through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that further reveal how the FBI relies upon movies and television to bolster its image. In a report for Buzzfeed, Leopold and Ariane Lange write, “Over the past five years, the FBI’s Hollywood-focused Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs

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