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.
