{"id":38075,"date":"2021-09-16T14:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38075"},"modified":"2021-09-16T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:07:38","slug":"conflicts-of-interest-the-pentagon-used-movies-media-the-nfl-to-sell-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/16\/conflicts-of-interest-the-pentagon-used-movies-media-the-nfl-to-sell-war\/","title":{"rendered":"<I>Conflicts of Interest<\/I>: The Pentagon Used Movies, Media, &#038; the NFL to Sell War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #162, Scott Spaulding \u2013 an Iraq and Afghan combat vet who hosts the \u2018Why I\u2019m Antiwar\u2019 podcast \u2013 returns to the show to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Scott explains how American culture was infected with bloodlust by the Pentagon\u2019s post-9\/11 PR campaign, while the State Department partnered with Hollywood, the NFL and marketing firms to ensure uncritical support for the War on Terror. The propaganda continues to be very successful in enriching the elites while shielding them from all accountability.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXsiX0NOIXbKLd8kNPbKjjQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/kyle\/coi-162-the-pentagon-used-movies-media-the-nfl-to-sell-war\/\">audio only.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f7h0cYNaw-0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On COI #162, Scott Spaulding \u2013 an Iraq and Afghan combat vet who hosts the \u2018Why I\u2019m Antiwar\u2019 podcast \u2013 returns to the show to discuss the villains of the Afghan War. Scott explains how American culture was infected with bloodlust by the Pentagon\u2019s post-9\/11 PR campaign, while the State Department partnered with Hollywood, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38080,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38075\/revisions\/38080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38075"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}