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.
If you don't live in a "battleground" like Florida or Ohio whose statewide vote is perpetually up for grabs, you are ignored.
Posted on Dec 28, 2007, Source: Creators Syndicate
The 'paranoid style' in American politics is grounded in a profound disconnect between ordinary Americans and the political class.
Posted on Dec 21, 2007, Source: Creators Syndicate
Brutes like billionaire equity guru Henry Kravis haven't amassed such treasure by playing nice.
Posted on Dec 14, 2007, Source: Creators Syndicate
Investor deals protect foreign capital at the price of sovereignty.
Posted on Dec 5, 2007, Source: Campaign for America's Future
The issue of illegal immigration is a con job to draw attention away from the corporate profiteers who are buying influence in Washington.
Posted on Nov 24, 2007, Source: Creators Syndicate
They don't call it the "silly season" for nothing: Hillary will vote for more of the same failed trade model she opposes; Obama attacks Clinton for supporting the same deal he does.
Posted on Nov 15, 2007, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Beltway Democrats are too often a part of the problem.
Posted on Oct 3, 2007, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Mike Huckabee has a populist economic message that may be shunned by the Money Party in Washington, but likely has an appeal among rank-and-file working-class Republican voters.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007, Source: Working Assets
Democrats who were sent to Congress in the tide-turning election of 2006 are selling out the economic populism that got them elected in the first place.
Posted on Jul 18, 2007, Source: In These Times
In the lead up to and wake of Bill Moyers' much-anticipated mega-dunk on the Washington press corps this week, we are seeing the ugliest side of Beltway culture -- sophistry and damage control.
Posted on Apr 27, 2007, Source: WorkingForChange.com
From calling opposition to the Iraq war a 'fringe' position, to endorsing sham environmentalism, to defending the low taxation of billionaires,
The New York Times and the political establishment aren't in sync with the majority of Americans.
Posted on Mar 5, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
How can we expect the media and politicians to be a watchdog if its leading analysts and news framers face no public sanctions when they disrespect the truth or give credence to fringe ideologies?
Posted on Jan 20, 2007, Source: San Francisco Chronicle
It will be interesting to watch D.C.'s chickenhawk pundit class lecture a Marine veteran and Vietnam war hero about why we should not prevent a military escalation that troops on the ground say they don't want.
Posted on Jan 4, 2007, Source: WorkingForChange.com
A list of the Democrats who are going to lead the fight for health care, fair trade and labor issues in the New Congress and the Democrats who will fight them.
Posted on Dec 4, 2006, Source: AlterNet
D.C.'s "culture of corruption" has very little to do with lobbyist gifts and everything to do with the Big Money bribery that is today's campaign finance system.
Posted on Nov 23, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
Voters in Connecticut in the end went for Joe Lieberman. But Ned Lamont's insurgent anti-war campaign was a step forward for progressive forces building for the future.
Posted on Nov 13, 2006, Source: In These Times
The Dems have gotten used to kicking their party base in the face, and the situation is ready to explode. No matter what happens Tuesday, progressives are sure to shake things up in 2007.
Posted on Nov 6, 2006, Source: In These Times
Republicans are brazenly calling for indefinite deployments of huge troop forces in Iraq -- if only the press would come out and report it that way.
Posted on Aug 28, 2006, Source: WorkingForChange.com
Ned Lamont's crushing defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut Senate primary shows that voters are hungry for change -- but Lieberman still fights for politics as usual.
Posted on Aug 9, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Republicans running for re-election believe the American public will swallow another batch of lies and distortions about 9/11 -- but this time, Democrats are pushing back.
Posted on Jul 28, 2006, Source: AlterNet
In an excerpt from his book 'Hostile Takeover,' Sirota reveals how the same politicians who preach about the 'culture of life' are too addicted to health industry cash to care about people who can't afford to see a doctor.
Posted on May 22, 2006, Source: In These Times
The Democrats' policy of doing nothing as the Republican Party keeps tripping over itself is a recipe for continued political failure and irrelevance.
Posted on Oct 19, 2005, Source: In These Times
Washington is nothing more than a bordello -- where politicians are the prostitutes, lobbyists are the customers, and the door spins faster as the two switch places.
Posted on Oct 14, 2005, Source: Huffington Post
The Katrina catastrophe proves that conservatives' tax-cut zealotry has left America vulnerable to disaster.
Posted on Oct 4, 2005, Source: In These Times
The revelation of Deep Throat is a reminder of the moribund state of investigative journalism; ironically, it's the career path of Watergate hero Bob Woodward that provides the parallel.
Posted on Jun 2, 2005, Source: The American Prospect
In considering Rob Portman's nomination to the position of trade representative, the Senate will have a unique opportunity to seriously analyze where America's trade policy has gone wrong.
Posted on Mar 23, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The Democratic Leadership Council's addiction to contributions from Philip Morris, Texaco, and Merck is proof enough that its "centrism" is really a naked corporate agenda.
Posted on Dec 17, 2004, Source: The Nation
Encrypted within the 2004 election map is the Democrats' road map to political divinity. It is time for the party's centrists to make way for the economic populists who racked up wins on Nov. 2.
Posted on Dec 9, 2004, Source: The American Prospect
The vice president desperately wants to hide his embarrassing national security record.
Posted on Sep 9, 2004, Source: The American Prospect
A new, grisly milestone in Iraq: 1,000 American soldiers dead.
Posted on Sep 8, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
John Kerry understood before most in Washington the important links between illegal banking and terrorism.
Posted on Aug 19, 2004, Source: Washington Monthly
Misleader-in-chief George Bush is blaming 'intelligence failure' for hyping the threat posed by Iraq. But the evidence shows that the president is lying once again.
Posted on Aug 5, 2004, Source: In These Times
Cheney hasn't been telling the truth about his involvement in giving sweetheart deals in Iraq to his former employer, Halliburton.
Posted on Jun 16, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
Straight from the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up file, the five congressional votes that everyone in America should know about.
Posted on Jun 15, 2004, Source: In These Times
The most prominent theory behind CIA Director George Tenet's resignation is that he's the designated fall guy for pre-9/11 intelligence failures.
Posted on Jun 4, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
Chaos rules in Iraq as the head of the Iraqi Governing Council is assassinated and reports about accountability for the Abu Ghraib scandal continue to surface.
Posted on May 17, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) -- created to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election debacle -- is discussing electronic voting this week. Unfortunately, it's broke and will have to "abandon or delay much of its intended mission."
Posted on May 6, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
The administration's deep belief that it has the right to act as it pleases was in full evidence at the opening of the Supreme Court hearing concerning Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force.
Posted on Apr 28, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
Here's a point-by-point analysis of the errors, evasions and omissions in Condoleezza Rice's testimony in front of the 9/11 commission.
Posted on Apr 8, 2004, Source: Center for American Progress
The smear campaign against Richard Clarke reveals the Bush administration's anxiety over the 9/11 Commission's probe.
Posted on Mar 29, 2004, Source: The Progress Report
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