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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
MSNBC: Sirota on the GOP Opposition to Background Checks
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “Bashir Live” to discuss the Republican Party’s ongoing opposition to gun background checks. Watch the discussion here.
MSNBC: Sirota on the Senate’s Gun Legislation
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” to discuss the Senate deal on gun legislation. Click here to watch the discussion.
Sirota appeared on CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell to discuss the new National Geographic Channel miniseries that is based, in part, on his book about the 1980s. Click here to watch the discussion.
ABC NIGHTLINE: Sirota on the 1980s
Sirota appeared on ABC’s “Nightline” to discuss the National Geographic Channel miniseries based on his book on the 1980s. Watch the discussion here.
CURRENT TV: Sirota on the GOP’s Fear of the NRA
Sirota appeared on Current TV’s “Say Anything with Joy Behar” to discuss the Republican Party’s fear of the National Rifle Association. Watch the discussion here.
MSNBC: Sirota on the Enduring Relevance of the 1980s
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “The Cycle” to discuss the new National Geographic miniseries based on his book about the 1980s. Watch the discussion here.
MSNBC: Sirota on Gun Control & Birth Control
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “Now with Alex Wagner” to discuss the Senate debate over gun control and a new court ruling on birth control. Watch the discussions here.
MSNBC: Sirota on Obama’s Colorado Trip
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s “Bashir Live” to discuss President Obama’s gun-control-themed visit to Colorado. Click here to watch the discussion.
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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 […]
- Texas Blast Exposes the New Normal for 05/17/2013
SALON.COM ARTICLES- America’s greatest threat: Unsafe work conditions May 17, 2013The Texas fertilizer plant explosion reveals that lax regulations are far more dangerous than any form of terrorism […]
- America’s greatest threat: Unsafe work conditions May 17, 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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