Stories by David Sirota
David Sirota is a best-selling author whose newest book, "The Uprising," was just released this month. He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network -- both nonpartisan organizations. His blog is at www.credoaction.com/sirota.
Dean's attacks on the Lieberman-gutted health insurance "reform" bill are creating the political space for the final version to be better and more progressive.
Posted on Dec 19, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The "Financial Stability Improvement Act" would let Geithner spend as much as he wants for as long as he wants, with no specific oversight.
Posted on Oct 29, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
We have a double standard -- promoting the recreational use of alcohol and banning the similar use of marijuana.
Posted on Oct 23, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Now all of American politics is focused on this unaccomplished backbencher and whether or not she will endorse the final bill.
Posted on Oct 17, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Call me a zombie pundit, but the concurrent rise of zombie pop and political cultures is no coincidence.
Posted on Oct 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The debate over Afghanistan sharpens that question about who "the deciders" should be -- elected officials or the military?
Posted on Oct 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Progressive groups are cheering on Obama, afraid to lose White House access. In the meantime, grassroots organizations are doing all the dirty work.
Posted on Sep 15, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Marketing war as a Playstation fantasy masks its inherent brutalities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted on Aug 29, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
The hope/despair tightrope, established in Hughes' films, is especially pertinent in today's political climate.
Posted on Aug 14, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Finally, there's no pretense. The ugliest traits of this despicable movement are there for all to behold.
Posted on Aug 10, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Let go of those American (pipe) dreams. This is corrupt, pathetic health care reality.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
The wealthiest 1-percent have deployed an army to destroy an initiative that would tax the super rich to help pay for health care.
Posted on Jul 25, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Many scholars and columnists celebrate China's gilded development. But what's beyond these capitalist pipe dreams?
Posted on Jul 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
For all the positive steps Obama's America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Taking steps to realistic health care reform begins at the state level.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
President Obama has reneged on many of his campaign promises. Why are we letting him get away with it?
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
How Political Elites Have Made Single Payer "Politically Impossible"
Posted on May 11, 2009, Source: Open Left
Pigs are supposed to be the smartest domestic animal. But they clearly have trouble when charged with managing capitalism.
Posted on May 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It all depends on how Democrats use him.
Posted on May 1, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Populism is becoming the dominant paradigm, and that has the Establishment frightened.
Posted on Apr 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Our entire way of life -- from our exploitative economy to our foreign policy -- is violent.
Posted on Apr 20, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Take a lesson from corporate America's newest surefire money-making strategy: graft.
Posted on Apr 11, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Some politicians are starting to acknowledge the tragic absurdity of the war on drugs. But we have a long way to go.
Posted on Apr 4, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
For the GOP to acknowledge the contradiction in their position would undermine the insurance industry that's filling their campaign coffers.
Posted on Mar 16, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
If we don't quickly wake up and turn things around, we will be left to mutter Col. Kurtz's despondent whisper: "The horror ... the horror."
Posted on Mar 9, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Obama put corporate raider Steve Rattner in charge of overseeing the auto industry and his "plan" seems to be to crush the autoworkers.
Posted on Mar 1, 2009, Source: Blog for Our Future
Obama's penchant for symbolism took him to a locale that indicates how rough our path will be as we scale our mammoth economic problems.
Posted on Feb 21, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
As the Phelps 'scandal' proves yet again, our narcotic of choice -- creating controversy where none exists -- packs a punch.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009, Source: Creators Syndicate
Every patriot should be concerned about the intensifying efforts to supplant democracy with something far more authoritarian: "American czarism."
Posted on Jan 24, 2009, Source: SFGate.com
Hope is winning smiles and poignant one-liners. Change is all the grinding work that comes with challenging power and enacting transformative laws.
Posted on Jan 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
For starters: The Treasury says it doesn't need the money.
Posted on Jan 14, 2009, Source: Open Left
Will we finally accept the public policy and lifestyle changes that the real world now requires? Or will "Viva Las Vegas" always be America's motto?
Posted on Dec 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The answer is yes ... now here's what to do about it.
Posted on Dec 18, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Our bipartisan political Establishment and sycophantic Punditburo have been wrong on the economy over and over again.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Obama aide Steve Hildebrand explicitly attacks "the left wing of the Democratic Party" with Fox News-style talking points.
Posted on Dec 9, 2008, Source: Open Left
In our nation, presidential pooches are front-page stories. Local democracy is, at best, filler surrounding classified ads and comic strips.
Posted on Dec 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Obama's 'grass-roots' movement revolves around him, not progressive issues.
Posted on Nov 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Obama's early list of names for his staff doesn't bode well for all the progressive policy promises Obama made during the campaign.
Posted on Nov 26, 2008, Source: Open Left
America is a decidedly center-left nation, especially on the issue of health care. Obama now has a budget imperative to reform it immediately.
Posted on Nov 25, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
The media are telling Obama to ditch the agenda he won on and appease electorally humiliated Republicans. This is the last thing he should do.
Posted on Nov 21, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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