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.
Bush has his thumb on the Democratic Party's most divisive issue.
Posted on Nov 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Americans envision enormous progress in the months ahead, and Democrats will have no one to blame for failure but themselves.
Posted on Nov 7, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The final stretch of the Presidential race has become an ideological proxy war between Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt.
Posted on Oct 31, 2008, Source: AlterNet
That's the question, as he slams Obama for his plan to lower taxes on the middle class and raise them on the super-rich.
Posted on Oct 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The ritzy elitist GOP senator from Oregon is the latest to find himself behind in the polls to a populist Democratic challenger.
Posted on Oct 20, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Is Paulson looking to socialize risk and privatize gain? The answer could be the difference between economic disaster and recovery.
Posted on Oct 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
We now face market forces uninhibited by democratic governance. The bailout is an aggressive attempt to trade democracy for autocracy.
Posted on Oct 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The scheme would force taxpayers to absorb the pain, while Wall Street execs reap the gain.
Posted on Sep 29, 2008, Source: Blog for Our Future
Lawmakers are pushing kleptocratic socialism -- a system where the objective is theft.
Posted on Sep 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Obama is eschewing the populism that could undermine the royalist Right and fix the economy. And the GOP is filling the resulting void.
Posted on Sep 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet
As the RNC revealed, jingoism, partisanship, and Bible-thumping social conservatism seem to have priority over 'country' in the conservative mindset.
Posted on Sep 12, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Corporate honchos and bought-off lawmakers are trying to kill a proposal that makes it easier to join a union.
Posted on Sep 5, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
This year's Democratic convention may have helped forge a new progressive movement.
Posted on Aug 29, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Yet the media fixate on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, neglecting local elections and issue-based organizing.
Posted on Aug 22, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Bayh doesn't have a single significant accomplishment to his name -- a miraculous achievement, even by Washington's do-nothing standards.
Posted on Aug 15, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
From energy policy to health care reform, the West is where America's political future will be forged.
Posted on Aug 8, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Many filmic treatments of Washington present a more hard-edged political reality than most of today's so-called journalism.
Posted on Aug 1, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
When labor rights are protected, wages go up. It's time to make union-membership a civil right.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
If Obama counters the GOP's race-baiting by promoting working-class interests and a fairer trade agenda, he will win the White House.
Posted on Jul 24, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Washington's pundits and politicians have waged an ongoing propaganda campaign to pass off crazy, fringe politics as reasonable and mainstream.
Posted on Jul 18, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Across America, local culture has been supplanted by fast food and sub-par Will Smith movies. No wonder people don't care about hometown issues.
Posted on Jul 11, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Three books tackle issues rarely explored by the media: McCain's flip-flopping, America's political divide and the real story behind globalization.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
If the anti-war movement can't find a way to hold Dem politicians accountable, then don't expect anything more than the status quo.
Posted on Jun 5, 2008, Source: Crown Publishing
Democrats face an anti-war uprising -- one that is beginning to act like a mature movement in putting its agenda before party.
Posted on May 30, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Company shareholders should use their economic leverage to force corporations to adopt environmentally friendly practices.
Posted on May 23, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
When will U.S. politicians recognize that NAFTA is bad for everyone?
Posted on May 16, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
The pervasive racism that taints our political discourse will persist until we recognize and reject it.
Posted on May 9, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Washington has been debilitated by a horrible disease -- one that inhibits emotions like compassion and integrity.
Posted on May 2, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
The media elite pretend there are not two Americas but only one: theirs.
Posted on Apr 24, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
The government's policy toward unions is marked by the same political cowardice and worker repression that brought on the Ludlow Massacre.
Posted on Apr 18, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
"I'll admit it: I used to admire John McCain."
Posted on Apr 4, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Once again, the Fed is using a crisis to enrich corporate interests.
Posted on Mar 21, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Conservatives are ignoring history's teachings and resurrecting Nixon's failed strategy of going after working people.
Posted on Mar 14, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
This epoch of globalization has become an era of media-driven insouciance.
Posted on Mar 7, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Shrewdly, Barack Obama is promising to transform trade policies so that they do not encourage outsourcing.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
The media and political establishments keep floating the idea of Michael Bloomberg's candidacy, showing just how much change frightens the status quo.
Posted on Feb 16, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
The Democrats' timidity on economic justice may end up guaranteeing no real 'change' at all.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
As the candidates look to the West, a series of myths have developed about Western politics.
Posted on Feb 1, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
Leading figures of both parties seem eager to help limit the debate over "stimulus" and make the final package a corporate goodie bag.
Posted on Jan 25, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
There is a simple fix for our ailing healthcare system, and it has the right-wing in a panic.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008, Source: Creators Syndicate
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