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Newspaper Column- Permanent Washington's Backlash to Edward Snowden for 06/14/2013Whether in celebrity culture or in our Facebook-mediated interactions, we live in the age of the human being as a public brand. So there's nothing surprising about the reaction to this week's disclosures about the National Security Agency's unprecedented surveillance program. In our cult-of-personality society, that reaction has been predictab […]
- Permanent Washington's Backlash to Edward Snowden for 06/14/2013
SALON.COM ARTICLES- R.I.P. Michael Hastings June 19, 2013Fearless journalist, dead at 33, was a humble truth-teller who challenged power […]
- R.I.P. Michael Hastings June 19, 2013
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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
CNN: Sirota on Revelations About the NSA’s Mass Surveillance
Sirota appeared with President Obama’s pollster Cornell Belcher on CNN to discuss recent revelations that the National Security Administration is engaging in an unprecedented mass surveillance operation. Watch the clip 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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