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- Yes, We Can Walk and Chew Gum for 05/18/2012 May 18, 2012One of the most overused metaphors in a writer's arsenal is the one about "walking and chewing gum at the same time." As a hiker and Big League Chew enthusiast, I particularly hate this cliché. Nonetheless, I feel it is fitting right now because it so perfectly summarizes the argument being made by Republicans. They now insist that America can ...
Read Sirota's article here - Our Guns and Butter Economy for 05/11/2012 May 11, 2012With the economy still struggling and the debates over how to fix the problem more intense than ever, one word still evokes bipartisan consensus: exports. "I want us to sell stuff," said President Obama, summing up the bipartisan sentiment. That nebulous word "stuff" is significant. It asks us to see all exports as the same and to refrain ...
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- Yes, We Can Walk and Chew Gum for 05/18/2012 May 18, 2012
Huffington Posts
- 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
Weeds Star Kevin Nealon on Doing Marijuana Television
Sirota talked to former SNL cast member and current Weeds star Kevin Nealon about what it’s like doing marijuana television. Listen here:
Noam Chomsky On the Rise of the Tea Party
Sirota talked with famed author/activist Noam Chomsky, the man who the New York Times says is “arguably the most important intellectual alive.” Among other things, they discussed what the rise of the Tea Party really means. Listen to the interview here:
Q&A With Author George Saunders
George Saunders is one of the funniest and most incisive writers alive, which is why Sirota was so psyched to have a wide-ranging discussion with him. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
Raj Patel On The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel has been rumored to be the messiah. In an interview with Sirota, Patel denies the veracity of the charge and then goes on to outline the arguments he makes in his acclaimed new book The Value of Nothing. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
Eliot Spitzer Breaks Down the Financial Crisis
Former New York Attorney General and governor Eliot Spitzer talked to Sirota about the financial crisis and the role of the Fed. Listen to the AM760 interview here:
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- Yes, We Can Walk and Chew Gum for 05/18/2012One of the most overused metaphors in a writer's arsenal is the one about "walking and chewing gum at the same time." As a hiker and Big League Chew enthusiast, I particularly hate this cliché. Nonetheless, I feel it is fitting right now because it so perfectly summarizes the argument being made by Republicans. They now insist that America can ...
Read Sirota's article here
- Yes, We Can Walk and Chew Gum for 05/18/2012
SALON.COM ARTICLES
- Mitt’s favorite new dodge May 18, 2012Romney and the GOP insist the economy is more important than social issues. Why can't we address both? ...
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- Mitt’s favorite new dodge May 18, 2012
Other Articles
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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