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- Will We Choose a Chinese Future? for 02/17/2012For the last two decades, we've heard many myths purporting to explain the loss of American manufacturing jobs. CEOs, for instance, typically say they've sent jobs overseas because they can't find skilled American workers. Conservative economists say the giant sucking sound is that of technology replacing obsolete workers. And conservative pol ...
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- Will We Choose a Chinese Future? for 02/17/2012
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- The real problem with honoring Whitney February 21, 2012If any single political figure in America is a flesh-and-blood personification of a Rorschach test, it is Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. In almost every way, he raises vexing questions which ultimately say more about us than they do about him.Is he, for instance, refreshingly authentic or just downright offensive? Is he regular-guy fat or too obe ...
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- The real problem with honoring Whitney February 21, 2012
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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
CURRENT: Can America Compete With China?
Sirota appeared on Current TV’s new show “The War Room” with former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to discuss his recent writing on whether Americans can compete with low-wage Chinese workers. Watch the discussion here.
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Jack Abramoff on His Crimes and Corruption
Sirota interviewed convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff about his new book “Capitol Punishment” and about the rampant corruption in Washington. Listen to the AM760 interview here.
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