morality

In 1988, several years prior to the highly successful JAG TV show, DOD representatives met with writers and producers to...
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Alan Macleod recently got in touch for an article on the US Air Force’s new drone murder video game –...

Alan Macleod recently got in touch for an article on the US Air Force’s new drone murder video game –...
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The never-ending doublespeak over whether MI5 and MI6 officers emulate James Bond took a new twist recently, with an Army...

The never-ending doublespeak over whether MI5 and MI6 officers emulate James Bond took a new twist recently, with an Army...
The post General Says Real Spy World ‘Not Like James Bond’ as UK Court Rules It’s Exactly Like James Bond first appeared on Spy Culture.

The new Amazon series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is the first TV show to film at CIA headquarters for several years, in keeping with the Agency’s long-time support for adaptations of Clancy’s work. In this episode I review and analyse the series, including the inevitable references to 9/11, the hallmarks of CIA input on the script and the question of whether the series acts as revenge fantasy for Islamist terrorists.(Read more...)

Condor is a TV reboot of Three Days of the Condor, and centres around a CIA officer who goes on the run after he is framed for killing 11 of his colleagues. In this episode I examine whether Condor was CIA-sponsored, why the Agency might support a series that shows them planning massive crimes, and […](Read more...)

The military legal drama Rules of Engagement is perhaps the greatest modern example of racist, warmongering propaganda. Unsurprisingly, it benefited from full Pentagon support, in exchange for numerous script changes. The film was eerily prescient, foreshadowing two terrorist attacks in Yemen, and in some ways the entire post-9/11 war on terror. In this episode I […](Read more...)

The West’s claim to moral superiority and its assumption of the role of ‘world’s policeman’ are largely derived from a classical approach to liberalism. In short, the argument is that our societies are more liberal (and therefore superior), so we have the unique right to spread our values around the world by force and coercion. […](Read more...)

One of the growing markets in spy fiction is pop culture aimed at teenagers or ‘young adults’. The CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore depicts a junior wing of MI6, with the first novel in the series – The Recruit – depicting the recruitment, training and first mission of our protagonist, James Adams. This week I […](Read more...)