Hollywood at War
An unrepentant whitewash of murder and occupation, American Sniper shouldn’t be up for any Oscars tonight.
Stephen Maher is assistant professor of economics at SUNY Cortland and coeditor of the Socialist Register. He is the coauthor of The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J. P. Morgan to BlackRock with Scott Aquanno and author of Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power.
An unrepentant whitewash of murder and occupation, American Sniper shouldn’t be up for any Oscars tonight.
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