Tue. 04/26 - When the CIA Funded an Animal Farm Cartoon
How the CIA funded that 1954 animated adaptation of Animal Farm as part of their anti-communist propaganda campaign. Plus, the woman who found out she’d been missing a chunk of her brain for most of her life without realizing. And why more and more...
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Show Notes
How the CIA funded that 1954 animated adaptation of Animal Farm as part of their anti-communist propaganda campaign. Plus, the woman who found out she’d been missing a chunk of her brain for most of her life without realizing. And why more and more rivers are being granted legal personhood.
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Links:
- The cartoon that came in from the cold (The Guardian, 2003)
- How the CIA Played Dirty Tricks With Culture (NY Times, 2000)
- All Propaganda is Dangerous, but Some are More Dangerous than Others: George Orwell and the Use of Literature as Propaganda (JSTOR)
- Keeping It All in the (Nuclear) Family: Big Brother, Auntie BBC, Uncle Sam and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (Frames Cinema Journal)
- She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn't Matter (Wired)
- This woman is living without a cerebellum. How is that possible? (Vox)
- This Canadian river is now legally a person. It's not the only one. (National Geographic)
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