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Jul 2022
1h 27m

Wag the Dog (1997) w/ Ben Norton

SINA RAHMANI (@URORIENTALIST)
About this episode

*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.*

The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today.

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