Author Archives: Larry Chin

‘Black Hawk Down’—Hollywood drags bloody corpse of truth across movie screens

True to its post-9/11 government-sanctioned role as US war propaganda headquarters, Hollywood has released “Black Hawk Down,” a fictionalized account of the tragic 1993 US raid in Somalia. The Pentagon assisted with the production, pleased for an opportunity to “set the record straight.” The film is a lie that compounds the original lie that was the operation itself. Continue reading