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Dennis Broe
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Decoding network TV / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
DENNIS BROE points out that Apple is part of the corporate and state surveillance network which the new series Prime Target rails against
punching
TV Series review / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
DENNIS BROE appreciates the work of TV writer Steven Knight, and his systematic exposure of the debilitating effects of British capitalism
Best of TV
Best of 2024 / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
DENNIS BROE picks his highlights
DEFEATED: Kamala Harris holds up a phone as she phone banks
Features / 7 November 2024
7 November 2024
In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
Kamala and Donald
US election / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
DENNIS BROE takes issue with the US political Establishment's paranoid inability to look critically at itself and its deeds worldwide and the proclivity for shameless blame games
benchmarx
BenchMarx / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
DENNIS BROE reflects on how mainstream media has sealed the iron dome in its coverage of the war in Gaza
Jean-Luc Melenchon
Features / 12 July 2024
12 July 2024
The Melenchon-led NFP coalition now holds most Assembly seats, challenging the president’s anti-worker agenda — the far-right threat remains, but the path to progressive government is now open, writes DENNIS BROE
AI and entertainment: here come the machines, there go the j
Features / 8 May 2024
8 May 2024
After the recent writers' and actors' strikes, the bosses in film and TV are embracing the cost-cutting potential of AI even faster than before — barely acknowledging that what they will be cutting is livelihoods, writes DENNIS BROE
3 body
Opinion / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
DENNIS BROE unpicks the propaganda strategy that lies behind the Netflix blockbuster The 3 Body Problem
glazer
Opinion / 28 March 2024
28 March 2024
DENNIS BROE interprets the film director’s challenge and the zionist chorus in response to it 
the way
TV series review / 5 March 2024
5 March 2024
To depict workers in Port Talbot as passive, mediatised addicts does no service to reality, muses DENNIS BROE 
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a meeting wit
Features / 11 November 2023
11 November 2023
This weekend’s march in Paris ‘against anti-semitism’ is a divisive smokescreen to allow the president to pose as a unifying force, while pushing forward a new more restrictive immigration policy against Muslims, writes DENNIS BROE
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Features / 1 August 2023
1 August 2023
DENNIS BROE explains the detail in the strikers' case against Hollywood's bosses
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a photo wi
Features / 2 March 2023
2 March 2023
Turning on his old allies, the Ukrainian leader’s campaign against inequity has still not done enough to impress the EU assessors — but who are they to pass judgement, asks DENNIS BROE
NSC
Television / 13 November 2022
13 November 2022
Social realist TV helps escape the corporate streaming bubble
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Networks Watch / 8 November 2022
8 November 2022
Independent broadcast media confront the information blackout imposed on Western media. DENNIS BROE recommends those that caught his attention
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Networks Update / 11 May 2022
11 May 2022
Paradoxically sporadic, politically intelligent productions ameliorate the overall negative trends, writes DENNIS BROE
France election
Features / 21 April 2022
21 April 2022
The left needs to be aware that primary reason for the rise of the far right in France is Macron’s policies, argues DENNIS BROE
PLAYING THE ROLE: Zelensky in the comedy series Servant of t
Culture / 19 April 2022
19 April 2022
DENNIS BROE looks back over the strange story of the comic actor who played president of Ukraine, only to become president of Ukraine – and asks which of his many faces represents the real Mr Zelensky
Emmanuel Macron
Features / 8 April 2022
8 April 2022
This Sunday's presidential election will see a far-right breakthrough thanks to Macron's inability to deal with the chaos unleashed on the working class by the conflict in the East and sanctions against Russia, writes DENNIS BROE
colton
TV / 20 December 2021
20 December 2021
The first of two instalments offers a glimpse of the present streaming frenzy and who guards the cupboards with the skeletons
Broe
TV / 18 October 2021
18 October 2021
DENNIS BROE finds little to commend in the staple fare on offer
germinal
TV / 21 September 2021
21 September 2021
DENNIS BROE counsels ideological caution when committing to the next batch of ‘series’ visited on us by the predatory networks this autumn
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BOOKS / 3 August 2021
3 August 2021
How big business cornered the market following drug decriminalisation in the US is a classic example of capitalism at its most ruthless, says DENNIS BROE