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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
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
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.
CURRENT: Is Ron Paul More Electable Than Mitt Romney?
Sirota appeared on Current TV’s “The Young Turks” to discuss the 10-year anniversary of the opening of Gitmo, and to look at polling data on whether Ron Paul is a more electable GOP nominee than Mitt Romney. Watch the clip here.
RT: Traditional Media to Bully Bloggers?
Sirota appeared on RT’s “The Alyona Show” to look at whether big media organizations are trying to financially punish bloggers and independent journalists who criticize their content online. Watch the clip here:
CURRENT: Sirota on Marijuana Legalization & Ending the Drug War
Sirota appeared on Current TV’s “The Young Turks” to discuss new polling showing the majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana. Watch the discussion here.
CURRENT: Sirota on the Debut of “The Young Turks”
Sirota appeared on the Current TV debut of “The Young Turks” to talk about the state of the Republican presidential primary. Watch the clip here.
RT: Will the Media Destroy the Occupy Wall Street Movement?
Sirota appeared on RT to discuss the conservative media’s efforts to discredit the Occupy Wall Street protests. Watch the clip here:
MSNBC: Assessing the End of the Iraq War
Sirota appeared on MSNBC’s new weekend show “Up with Chris Hayes” to discuss the Arab Spring, the end of the Iraq War and the Obama administration’s foreign policy. Watch the clip here:
CNN: Is Ron Paul Being Ignored By the Media?
Sirota appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to discuss the presidential race and whether or not Republican candidate Ron Paul is being ignored by the media. Watch the clip here:
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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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