We've seen corporations use "free trade" agreements to quietly camouflage their push for exploitable labor in broader arguments about globalization. What we haven't seen is corporate special interests openly push for U.S...
I appeared on PBS Now on Friday for a 20-minute one-on-one discussion about the 2009 election and President Obama's first year in office...
David Sirota Tho I support single-payer, I also think the House vote last nite is good. That said, Kucinich makes good points too http://bit.ly/4DoO70
David Sirota Tune into PBS Now TONIGHT - I discuss '09 elections & the right-left populism I reported on in my book, The Uprising. http://www.pbs.org/now
I write a lot about the importance of fair trade - specifically, about the significance of making sure our international economic laws do not encourage job outsourcing, labor abuse, environmental degradation and other bad behavior....
Straight out of the I Shit You Not File, here's Dick Armey in the upcoming New York Times magazine:What about the millions of Americans, I asked, who have insurance but find that the rising premiums and deductibles are eating away at any financial gains they might otherwise make...
David Sirota Objective proof that America is an Idiocracy: An idiot selling books to idiots (like the blind leading the blind, but worse) http://bit.ly/1z5fRE
To feed the chattering class's appetite for fact-free punditry and polemic, the Beltway press and the political activist class often manufactures elaborate rationales for fairly simple events...
David Sirota Will be on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show at 10m ET talking economy, then on Warren Olney's NPR show at 2pm ET talking '09 election. Tune in.
I appeared on CNN American Morning yesterday to discuss today's highest profile elections...
Over the last many years, I've gradually moved toward full vegetarianism to the point where there's only one meat-based foot I still semi-regularly consume - every few weeks, I have a bagel with whitefish salad on it (and I'm working on ending this last vestige of my meat eating)...
David Sirota Will be on CNN American Morning tomorrow (Monday) at 7:30am ET talking about Tuesday's elections and Obama's first year in office.
Many readers here likely remember September 29th, 2008. For a brief moment, the U.S. House extended a big middle finger at Wall Street - and then, quite predictably, the entire political, media and corporate Establishment went apeshit...
In one sense, these are confusing times. Wall Street has collapsed, but the government in Washington seems more interested in using the collapse as a rationale to give Wall Street gifts, than to fix the financial system...
This confounding moment in American history is raising a lot of important "why" questions for us all...
