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Newspaper Column- Texas Blast Exposes the New Normal for 05/17/2013If I told you that government officials possessed ironclad proof that an imminent threat to this nation had the capacity to create a 9/11's worth of injuries and deaths every year at an annual economic cost of a quarter trillion dollars, ask yourself: Would you say we should do something about it? I'm guessing you would. Out of a basic sense of pat […]
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Hollywood Glorifies Military at Taxpayers’ Expense
San Francisco Chronicle
Since the taxpayer-supported “Wings” won the first Academy Award in 1927, the U.S. government has worked closely with Hollywood to promote, glorify and celebrate the armed forces. In the 1980s, this partnership became a highly political Military-Entertainment Complex, which today grants and denies filmmakers access to military hardware on the basis of filmmakers’ ideology and message.
The result is that many pro-war films are supported by huge public subsidies that underwrite studios’ use of military planes, boats and hardware – as long as those studios promise to produce a film that Pentagon spinmeisters approve of. Antimilitarist filmmakers, by contrast, are often barred by the government from even photographing the same hardware.
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Television Appearances
MSNBC: Sirota on the GOP Opposition to Background Checks
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “Bashir Live” to discuss the Republican Party’s ongoing opposition to gun background checks. Watch the discussion here.
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NPR: Sirota on the State of the Union Speech
Sirota appeared on the national NPR show To the Point to discuss his recent reporting and how it relates to President Obama’s most recent State of the Union speech. Listen to the interview by clicking here.
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