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Newspaper Column- Texas Blast Exposes the New Normal for 05/17/2013 May 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 […]
- The Military's 40-Year Experiment for 05/10/2013 May 10, 2013Few probably recall the name Dwight Elliott Stone. But even if that name has faded from the national memory, the man remains historically significant. That's because on June 30, 1973, the 24-year-old plumber's apprentice became the last American forced into the armed services before the military draft expired. Though next month's 40-year anniv […]
- Texas Blast Exposes the New Normal for 05/17/2013 May 17, 2013
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. […]
- 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. […]
- Budget Showdown Aims To Quietly Exempt Pentagon and Focus All Cuts on Social Programs April 7, 2011
Despite Wikipedia Rumors, Sinbad is not Dead
Despite Wikipedia rumors to the contrary, comedian/actor/entertainer Sinbad is not dead. In fact, he was in studio with David Sirota on AM760 to talk about Hollywood, race relations and the 1980s. Listen here:
Q&A with Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter
In light of the ongoing debate over health care, Sirota interviewed Wendell Potter, one of the most famous insurance industry whistleblowers in American history. Listen here:
Are Kids Suffering from NurtureShock?
Sirota talked to Ashley Merryman, co-author of the bestselling book NurtureShock. They discussed Merryman’s recent Newsweek article examining new data about kids and creativity. Listen to the interview here:
Alan Richman Wonders If You Really "Eat No Evil"
Sirota talked to GQ food writer Alan Richman about his latest piece entitled “Eat No Evil” in which Richman attempts to eat ethically – and finds himself in a labyrinth of contradiction. Listen to the AM760 discussion here:
Q&A with New York Times columnist Frank Rich
Sirota talked to New York Times Sunday columnist Frank Rich about the rise of the Tea Party and the aftermath of the Tucson shooting. Listen here:
The Daily Show’s Senior Military Correspondent
Rob Riggle was both The Daily Show’s senior military correspondent and a Marine reservist. During an in-studio AM760 interview, Sirota talked to the comedian about what it was like to “cover” the Pentagon for the acclaimed comedy show while simultaneously serving in the armed forces. Listen to the discussion here:
Howard Dean On Democrats’ Future
Following the “shellacking” of Democrats in the 2010 elections, Sirota talked to former presidential candidate and Vermont governor Howard Dean. Listen to the discussion here:
In an hour-long AM760 interview, Sirota talked to Dr. Vincent Harding, a close friend and adviser to the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Harding, who is now runs the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology, was the man who helped write Dr. King’s most controversial oration – the Riverside Church speech of 1967. Listen to the interview here:
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Sirota has been an award-winning drive-time radio host at Denver Clear Channel affiliates since 2009. This site includes a selection of his best interviews. He also periodically guest hosts nationally syndicated radio shows and appears frequently as a guest on national radio programs.Sirota Television
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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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