For decades the Eurovision Song Contest has been a platform for projecting soft power and engaging in cultural warfare.  In... The post Subscriber Podcast #19 – The Politics of Eurovision first appeared on Spy Culture.

In 1974 former CIA officer Victor Marchetti and former State Department official John Marks published their book The CIA and... The post ClandesTime 140 – How the CIA Censored The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence first appeared on Spy Culture.

This week I review the most recent Star Wars film The Last Jedi and analyse its politics. I discuss its... The post ClandesTime 139 – The Politics of Star Wars first appeared on Spy Culture.

In this month’s subscriber-only podcast I take a look at three TV series which predicted or reinforced various aspects of... The post Subscriber Podcast #18 – How Pop Culture Predictively Programmed a Poisoning first appeared on Spy Culture.

On March 4th Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in the sleepy British city of Salisbury, by forces... The post ClandesTime Special – Conspiracy Theories: The Salisbury Poisoning first appeared on Spy Culture.

I am joined today by Robbie Martin and Pearse Redmond to talk about the 2008 9/11 conspiracy thriller The Reflecting... The post ClandesTime 138 – The Reflecting Pool first appeared on Spy Culture.

Russiagate has become both the gift that keeps on giving and the scandal that will not die. This week we...

In this special podcast just for Pearse’s patreon subscribers (also available to my subscribers) we discuss all things Cambridge Analytica,...

On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I talk about my new job and why it means I’ve been unable to produce...

From racism and sexism to the military-industrial complex, the politics both within the Marvel Cinematic Universe and surrounding it here...