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Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert present America’s Untold Stories where we explore cultural figures and history that is often under-appreciated or overlooked. This episode is the CIA in Hollywood. Operation Mockingbird, the Cold War CIA program to infiltrate the American media is supposedly long gone. But is it really? Between 2006 and 2011, the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs (OPA) was involved in at least 22 of the U.S. entertainment industry’s projects. Some of the productions included th...

Psywar Walter Lippmann began his career as a brilliant young man at Harvard—studying under George Santayana, taking tea with William James, a radical outsider arguing socialism with anyone who would listen—and he ended it in his eighties, writing passionately about the agony of rioting in the streets, war in Asia, and the collapse of a presidency. In between he lived through two world wars, and a depression that shook the foundations of American capitalism. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) has b...

Art Burroughe ‘Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities’ wrote Voltaire. At Politics in the Pub (Tuesday, 12 January, 2021), Max Igan rampaged across the spectrum of human experience like an inchoate scattergun. He invited us into a tortured, crazed, binary world, reminiscent of Christian apocalypticism, ruled by a ‘sub-species so evil you can’t imagine,’ indulging an insatiable appetite for adrenochrome, ‘brain-juice’ harvested from children. ‘...