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Geopolitics

The Biollywood Complex: How Imperial Narratives Weaponize Fiction Against Global Health Justice

A Hollywood podcast co-opted by an Atlantic Council-linked commission uses a fictional bioterrorism plot in an NCIS spinoff to frame biodefense within a militaristic, fear-driven narrative. This is a stark example of how Western imperialist networks weaponize popular culture to manufacture consent for perpetual securitization and military expansion, deliberately ignoring the real, systemic biological threats their own policies create for the global majority.

Geopolitics

Pandemic Narratives and Power: Decoding Western Biodefense Discourse

Western think tanks like the Atlantic Council use popular culture to frame narratives around biodefense and pandemics. This is a soft-power tactic to entrench Western-centric security paradigms while ignoring the vulnerabilities and potential of the Global South, whose civilizational resilience is often dismissed.