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- Will We Choose a Chinese Future? for 02/17/2012 February 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 ...
Read Sirota's article here - Embracing Enough' for 02/10/2012 February 10, 2012Of all the no-no's in contemporary America — and there are many — none has proven more taboo than the ancient doctrine of dayenu. Translated from the original Hebrew, the word roughly means "It would have been enough." The principle is that a certain amount of a finite resource should satisfy even the gluttons among us. I know, I know — to eve ...
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- Will We Choose a Chinese Future? for 02/17/2012 February 17, 2012
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- Budget Showdown Aims To Quietly Exempt Pentagon and Focus All Cuts on Social Programs April 7, 2011The unwritten and unspoken story of the budget showdown in Washington is the tale of both parties deliberately working to once again exempt the ever-growing Pentagon from America's larger deficit discussion. ...
Read Sirota's article here - How Your Taxpayer Dollars Subsidize Pro-War Movies and Block Anti-War Movies March 16, 2011Connections between the Pentagon and the entertainment industry, first intensified in the 1980s, continue to embed militarism in seemingly non-political products like video games and action movies. ...
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- Budget Showdown Aims To Quietly Exempt Pentagon and Focus All Cuts on Social Programs April 7, 2011
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.
Bob Saget on His Comedy Transformation
Actor/comedian Bob Saget appeared on Sirota’s AM760 radio show to talk about how he went from a guy who played wholesome family-friendly characters on TV to one of the most cutting-edge stand-up comics in showbiz. Listen to the interview here:
Rob Schneider On Progressive Politics
Actor/comedian Rob Schneider stopped by Sirota’s AM760 radio show to discuss movies, comedy and his progressive politics. Click here to listen to the AM760 interview.
Bobcat Goldthwait on Comedy
Famed comedian and director Bobcat Goldthwait talked to Sirota about the state of comedy and entertainment in America since the 1980s. Click here to listen to the AM760 interview.
Bill Moyers on Media & Democracy
Bill Moyers talked to Sirota about the state of media in America, and how declining standards are harming democracy. Moyers has a new book out based on his PBS television show. Listen to the AM760 interview here.
Morgan Spurlock on The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Sirota talked to Supersize Me star Morgan Spurlock about product placement, subliminal advertising and Spurlock’s new documentary called The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
Jo Koy on Comedy
Sirota talked to comedian Jo Koy about his new Comedy Central special and about growing up in Las Vegas. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
Larry Flynt on One Nation Under Sex
Sirota talked to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt about his new book One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
Sirota’s Radio Show
Sirota hosts the 7am-10am show on Colorado's KKZN-AM760. This site includes a selection of his best interviews. Find the live stream and the show's full podcast archive here.Sirota Television
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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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