Le rapport d’Oxfam de 2015 l’avait prédit, c’est chose faite. Enfin ! Les 1% les plus riches détiennent plus de richesses que les 99% autres. De quoi sabrer le champagne, c’est historique ! Les pauvres, les sans dents, les gueux ont encore un peu plus la tête sous l’eau et l’auront ad vitam æternam, quelle belle nouvelle ! Le système […]
I recently had the pleasure of previewing The Secret Garden - an independently made spy thriller. The film is inspired by the short story The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges, but transplants the themes and existential quandaries of that story into a CIA Cold War setting. While some recent films contain sequences where the characters dwell on the moral and psychological torment of espionage, in The Secret Garden this is as much a part of the story as nuclear terrorism.
Tom Clancy was one of the best selling spy authors of all time, known not only for his technical accuracy - gleaned through extensive government contacts - but also for an uncanny ability to predict the future. Part of his FBI file was released in 2014 but in recent weeks another section has been made available.
On radio program Esoteric Hollywood, Jay Dyer and I discuss spy films and how they relate to real-world espionage in the ongoing Great Game. From depictions of KGB Directorate S in the current hit show The Americans to the shadowy backers of 1989’s silly propaganda bomb Red Scorpion, we delve into the lesser-known aspects of spy culture that reflect the realities of intelligence history.
Kingsman is perhaps the most intriguing film of the year - on the face of it a cartoonish action comedy set in the world of gentlemen spies, but underneath it is an ultra-violent, racist, eugenicist film of dubious sexual virtue. No government agencies were listed in the credits for the film but at least two were involved in the movie.
Prior to this year, I had listed the top 10 articles of each year that were written in that same year. But with my writing being relatively sparse this year, I am presenting the top 10 accessed articles in this year. 1) Joel Skousen’s critique of World Bank whistleblower Karen Hudes (2014) 2) I’m blowing […]
La Constitution est le texte fondateur qui organise les pouvoirs, mais surtout qui en détermine les limites. Certes, elle n’est pas parfaite, mais elle est surtout écrite par ceux, justement, qui devraient la craindre. Le gouvernement, sous le prétexte du risque terroriste et de la nécessité sécuritaire, contexte qu’il a lui-même engendré, souhaite modifier notre Constitution. Quel meilleur moment que […]
