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Michael Gillespie is a contributing editor at The Independent Monitor, the national newspaper of Arab Americans. He writes regularly for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. A 1999 graduate of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Iowa State University where he was inducted a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the national honor society of journalism and mass communications, he has previously worked in radio as a reporter at WUOT-fm, the University of Tennesee at Knoxville NPR affiliate station and as project director for community radio station WDVX-fm. His reportage has been broadcast internationally by Swiss Radio International. He co-founded the Knoxville (TN) Writers Guild in 1993, served as Executive Director of the Tennessee Writers Alliance (1995), and as vice-chair and chair of the Ames (IA) Interfaith Council (2003-2006).
Thursday, January 20, 2011 Big Media, Big Politics, and Violence in America (1 comments)
Socially destabilizing violent entertainment programming and vitriolic political rhetoric mean big profits for criminally irresponsible Big Media corporations.
Saturday, December 25, 2010 The Road to Recovery: Heeding Eisenhower's Warning (8 comments)
This article explores the rise of what President Dwight David Eisenhower referred to as the "military-industrial complex" and the effects of "a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions" on American life and culture.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 War Alarm: Waking Up from Reagan's Nightmare (4 comments)
The Roosevelt administration's wartime economic policies were astonishingly successful, but today they are widely disparaged as interference in the "free market." The USA has not decisively won a major military confiict since 1945.
