David Sirota on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/3382/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-13T07:14:19+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Where Are the Real Deficit Hawks? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091112_where_are_the_real_deficit_hawks/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091112_where_are_the_real_deficit_hawks/ afghanistan, budget, congress, conservatives, david sirota, deficit, government, health, health care, house, iraq, military, pentagon, politics, sirota, war, white house, Save $110 billion, or spend $6.3 trillion? In recent months, tea party protesters and Congress’ so-called fiscal conservatives chose the latter.

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]]> 2009-11-13T07:14:19+00:00 We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_we_are_what_we_trade_and_how_we_trade_it/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_we_are_what_we_trade_and_how_we_trade_it/ david sirota, economy, free trade, government, health, house, law, media, money, nafta, trade, war, The rules governing what we buy and sell are now playing such a decisive role in almost every major policy that we ignore them at our peril.

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]]> 2009-11-06T06:15:33+00:00 TARP on Steroids http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091029_tarp_on_steroids/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091029_tarp_on_steroids/ 911, bailout, banks, bush, campaign, congress, david sirota, democracy, democrats, finance, government, greed, house, law, obama, republicans, tarp,

The former financial executives inside the Obama administration have labeled their bill the “Financial Stability Improvement Act,” but it’s more like the 9/11 of bailouts.

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]]> 2009-10-30T05:19:09+00:00 A Tale of Two Supermen—and Their Drugs http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091022_a_tale_of_two_supermen/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091022_a_tale_of_two_supermen/ alcohol, book, david sirota, drugs, health, hypocrisy, lance armstrong, law, marijuana, politics, sports, We can look to two superjocks—Lance Armstrong and Michael Phelps—for the key lesson about our absurd drug policy.

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]]> 2009-10-23T06:04:41+00:00 When Did Olympia Snowe Become Queen of America? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091015_when_did_olympia_snowe_become_queen_of_america/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091015_when_did_olympia_snowe_become_queen_of_america/ congress, democrats, election, health, health care, iraq, obama, olympia snowe, politics, republicans, senate, Olympia Snowe

Democrats are willing to do anything to win over this unaccomplished backbencher whose vote they don’t even need.

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]]> 2009-10-16T07:59:48+00:00 Night of the Living Deadbeats http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091008_night_of_the_living_deadbeats/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091008_night_of_the_living_deadbeats/ banks, economy, government, greed, horror, money, obama, sirota, wall street, zombies, Zombies have made a pop culture comeback. It might have something to do with all the undead banks and the bankers whose careers live on after the economic apocalypse they caused.

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]]> 2009-10-09T05:51:47+00:00 Who’s in Charge: Obama, Congress or the Military? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091001_whos_in_charge_obama_congress_or_the_military/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091001_whos_in_charge_obama_congress_or_the_military/ afghanistan, bush, congress, democracy, government, house, iraq, mccain, media, military, obama, politics, republicans, sirota, war, white house, The Washington Establishment clearly believes elected officials should defer to the military, no matter what that pesky Constitution says.

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]]> 2009-10-02T07:39:51+00:00 Let Blue Dogs Face the Music http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090924_let_blue_dogs_face_the_music/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090924_let_blue_dogs_face_the_music/ campaign, congress, democracy, democrats, election, health care, history, hypocrisy, obama, politics, primaries, senate,

The president is protecting the very Democrats who are tanking his agenda by saving them from having to face tough primaries.

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]]> 2009-09-25T08:22:03+00:00 Selective Deficit Disorder http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090917_selective_deficit_disorder/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090917_selective_deficit_disorder/ blanche lincoln, bush, congress, conservatives, democrats, health, obama, politics, republicans, sirota, white house, When President Bush vastly expanded the deficit with his massive tax cuts for the wealthy, where were the conservative organizations that recently marched on Washington?

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]]> 2009-09-18T05:00:50+00:00 We’ve Seen This Trigger Before http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_weve_seen_this_trigger_before/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090910_weve_seen_this_trigger_before/ bush, canada, clinton, congress, drugs, health, health care, history, house, law, medicine, obama, politics, public option, speech, trigger, The “trigger mechanism” is gaining momentum after President Obama’s speech to Congress. Once again, lawmakers turn to legislative subterfuge to kill popular common-sense reform.

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