One thing the Pentagon love to do is ‘showcase’ absurdly costly technologies to the public. This military product placement helps...

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Should the government be allowed to seize people’s property because they think it was bought with the profits from crime? ...

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Life is like this sometimes: you wait ages for a movie to take corporate personhood and turn it into the...

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Reality Winner was an NSA contractor who leaked a single document to The Intercept, and received a five year prison...

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The Department of Justice’s office of public affairs is the nation’s hub for information on true crime. In this episode...

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Amazon have finally pulled the plug on Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, going out with a smudged inkblot of a final...

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The Mafia. Hollywood starlets. Foreign leaders. Fake sex tapes. Illegal surveillance. Watergate. The CIA. And Howard Hughes. Robert Maheu’s life...

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You know how it goes: you wait years for a movie that reframes the war in Afghanistan as a Saving...

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Did Joe Colombo approve the script for The Godfather? Was Dorothy Hunt murdered by the CIA as part of the...

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1996’s Independence Day is corny, schlocky, nationalistic and pro-nuclear weapons. So how did it end up being rejected by the...

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