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David Sirota is a full-time political journalist, best-selling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver, Colorado. He blogs for Working Assets and the Denver Post's PoliticsWest website. He is a Senior Editor at In These Times magazine, which in 2006 received the Utne Independent Press Award for political coverage. His 2006 book, Hostile Takeover, was a New York Times bestseller, and is now out in paperback. He has been a guest on, among others, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and NPR. His writing, which draws on his extensive experience as a progressive political strategist, has appeared in, among others, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Baltimore Sun, the Nation magazine, the Washington Monthly and the American Prospect. Sirota was a twice-a-week guest on the Al Franken Show. He currently serves in a volunteer capacity as the co-chairperson of the Progressive States Network - a 501c3 nonpartisan organization.

In the years before becoming a full-time writer, Sirota worked as the press secretary for Vermont Independent Congressman Bernard Sanders, the chief spokesman for Democrats on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, the Director of Strategic Communications for the Center for American Progress, a campaign consultant for Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and a media strategist for Connecticut Senate candidate Ned Lamont. He also previously contributed writing to the website of the California Democratic Party. For more on Sirota, see these profiles of him in Newsweek or the Rocky Mountain News. Feel free to email him at lists [at] davidsirota.com Note: this online publication represents Sirota's personal views, and not the official views of the organizations he works with.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Health Held Hostage
(3 comments) Today's New York Times features a scary full page ad. The bold type headline, over large photos of Reverends Falwell and Robertson and James Dobson, reads: "Meet America's Most Influential Stem Cell Scientists." The ad is sponsored by DEFCON--a new and valuable online grassroots movement designed to combat the religious right 's threat to American democracy.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Senate panel endorses Hayden as CIA director
(3 comments) The 15-member committee, which Republicans control by a single vote, approved Hayden's nomination 12-3 (only three of the panel's seven Democrats voting against him) after an hour-long closed-door discussion.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Pentagon urges China to explain military buildup
(3 comments) China's military buildup has altered Asia-Pacific power balances and could pose threats to other forces, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, in an annual report that repeated U.S. calls for Beijing to explain its actions.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Molly Ivins: GOP outsources 'war on terror' to wage a war on 'foreigners'
(3 comments) Last week, Bush toured a portion of the U.S.-Mexico Border maybe doing a little measuring for the $3.2-million-a-mile fence the Senate recently approved, which I guarantee will be really helpful. NOT! Are they insane? ..."Show me a 50-foot wall, and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder."

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
U.S. is proposing European shield for Iran missiles
(3 comments) ...even though the US has not had a successful flight intercept test for four years. NEOCONS GONE PLAIN STUPID!!

Sunday, August 21, 2005
Jim Lobe: Iraq "Tipping Point"?
(3 comments) Has the US public lost so much confidence in the George W. Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war that its current strategy -- to the extent one actually exists -- is unsustainable?

Sunday, August 21, 2005
Robert Fisk: Theme Park Death
(3 comments) Fisk reports happenings in Iraq that sound like the beginning of a Taliban State of Oppression like the one created in Afghanistan, but on a much more massive scale-- courtesy of George Bush, the Republican members of Congress and the spine impaired supporters of the DLC.

Monday, August 8, 2005
President Bush Ditches Mother Of Slain Soldier
(3 comments) "What noble cause did my son die for?" Cindy Sheehan asks, since we know that the original excuses Bush gave are untrue.

Monday, August 8, 2005
Hurricane season will only get worse-forecaster
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Monday, August 8, 2005
Japan faces new political landscape
(3 comments) In Japan, the Post Office has been a key piece of machinery keeping the Liberal Democratic Party in power, with one short break, for the past 50 years.

Monday, August 8, 2005
The Next Chinese Threat
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Monday, August 8, 2005
ABC anchor Peter Jennings dies of Lung Cancer
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