Superhero Rundown

Michael Bay, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Hollywood: What do they have in common? The Military-Industrial Complex and it’s terrible.

Also 50th episode of Superhero Rundown!

Bibliography:
“Transformers: 10 Ways Michael Bay’s Movies Strayed From Original Canon” by Shayrya Thapa
“The Military, Industrial, Financial and Data (MIFD) Complex” by Mike O’Sullivan
“The (Im)Proper Meshing of the Corporate Media and the Military-Industrial Complex” by Helen Johnson
“The Biden Era Is Witnessing a Return of the Military-Industrial Complex” by Branko Marcetic
“Trump, Ike and the Myth of the Military-Industrial Complex” by Hal Brands
“Transformers Without Robots is Just Insanely High-Budget Military Porn” by Anonymous
“Enlisting An Audience: How Hollywood Peddles Propaganda” by Amos Barshad
“Hollywood and the Pentagon” A Relationship of Mutual Exploitation by Jamie Tarabay
“American Exceptionalism Revisited: The Military-Industrial Complex, Racial Tension, and the Underdeveloped Welfare State” by Gregory Hooks and Brian McQueen
“Dream Machines” by Joshua Clover
“Eisenhower’s Paradoxical Relationship with the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’” by Dolores E. Janiewski
“Manufacturing Insecurity: How Militarism Endangers America” by William Pfaff
“The Military-Industrial Complex” by Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.
“The Origins of the Permanent War Economy” by Thomas K Duncan and Christopher J. Coyne
“The US Military-Industrial Complex is Circumstantially Unethical” by Edmund F. Byrne