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Swanson -- Dismantle the House of Dynamite

Dismantle the House of Dynamite Leave a Comment   /  October 24, 2025 Kathryn Bigelow once worked with the CIA to make a movie widely  criticized for  dishonestly  promoting torture  and glorifying killing ( Zero Dark Thirty ). (She has also explicitly  advocated for  war making.) Now she has made a movie highlighting the danger of nuclear apocalypse ( A House of Dynamite ). I know which film I would prefer for you to see. It’s on Netflix. Netflix has a show called  The Diplomat  that supports false flag attacks, destructive fossil fuel extraction, government secrecy, the F-35, NATO, and nuclear weapons. It’s very much in the tradition of  The West Wing . Good well-meaning folks work super hard to make the world a better place, which just naturally includes killing people and risking omnicide. A House of Dynamite  is only somewhat in the same tradition. The people it shows us working in the White House, Pentagon, and various mi...

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