Wednesday, January 09, 2013

War

Experts claim Obama is downsizing the military in favor of drones and death squads. On the plus side, this should be less expensive and less deadly. On the minus side, the secretive nature transfers power from Congress and the people to the president.

Claim that in order to obtain financing and Pentagon support, Kathryn Bigelow advocated torture in the film Zero Dark Thirty.
"This also sets a dangerous precedent: we can be sure, with the "propaganda amendment" of the 2013 NDAA, just signed into law by the president, that the future will hold much more overt corruption of Hollywood and the rest of US pop culture. This amendment legalizes something that has been illegal for decades: the direct funding of pro-government or pro-military messaging in media, without disclosure, aimed at American citizens. "
As if pop culture wasn't pro-war enough already. Wolf really slams Bigelow here.

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