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Sirota is the morning drive-time host on KKZN-AM760 in Colorado. His show runs weekdays from 7am-10am MT. Find his radio show's website, including podcasts and live streaming, at www.am760.net.

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Writings

Articles by David Sirota:

"Centrists" Running the Asylum
(Creators Syndicate)

This Summer's Trilogy of Truth
(Creators Syndicate)

Countering Race with Class
(Creators Syndicate)

An Anti-Clinton for VP
(Creators Syndicate)

The Populist Uprising
(Creators Syndicate)

The Lamont Lesson
(Creators Syndicate)

Drilling for Defeat?
(New York Times)

A Different Kind of Democracy
(Creators Syndicate)

Toward a New Washington Consensus
(Creators Syndicate)

Acknowledging the Race Chasm
(Creators Syndicate)

The Plague of Potomac Fever
(Creators Syndicate)

Matthews vs. McNulty
(Creators Syndicate)

The Ludlow Legacy, Part II: Colorado
(Creators Syndicate)

The Ludlow Legacy, Part I: Colombia
(Creators Syndicate)

Confessions of an Economic Hitman
(Creators Syndicate)

Presidential Politics & the Race Chasm
(The Oregonian)

The Race Chasm and '08
(Denver Post)

The Clinton Firewall & the Race Chasm
(In These Times)

Is Wright Right About Racism?
(Creators Syndicate)

The Upside of Nationalism
(In These Times)

New Crisis, Old Isms
(Creators Syndicate)

Remembering What Nixon Learned
(Creators Syndicate)

Hope In the Time of NAFTA
(Creators Syndicate)

The New Permament Campaign
(Creators Syndicate)

A Trade Transformation
(Creators Syndicate)

The Candidate of the Permanent Will
(Creators Syndicate)

It's Also the Congress, Stupid
(In These Times)

The Democrats' Class War
(Creators Syndicate)

Rocky Mountain Realities
(Creators Syndicate)

The Stimulus Swindle
(Creators Syndicate)

Digging In the Right Place
(Creators Syndicte)

Stay Classy, Mike Huckabee
(Creators Syndicate)

The Path to a National Popular Vote
(Creators Syndicate)

Fear, Loathing & the Crisis of Confidence
(Creators Syndicate)

When Barbarians Take Hostages
(Creators Syndicate)

The Last Row of the Plane
(Creators Syndicate)

Conservative, Or Just Plain Corrupt?
(Creators Syndicate)

Was Ross Perot Right?
(Creators Syndicate)

The Immigration Con Artists
(Creators Syndicate)

The Huey Longs of Iowa
(Creators Syndicate)

Halloween & The Lead Monster
(Creators Syndicate)

Captive-Industry Populism
(Creators Syndicate)

The Invisible Culture of Corruption
(Creators Syndicate)

Confronting the Hollow Men
(Creators Syndicate)

Immoral, Not Inept
(Creators Syndicate)

Tyranny of the Tiny Minority
(Creators Syndicate)

Over the Dead Bodies...Again
(Creators Syndicate)

The Lesson of the DMV
(Creators Syndicate)

Get Busy Living, Or Get Busy Dying
(The Nation)

New Ways of Thinking On Election Reform
(The Oregonian)

When the Class War Goes Local
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Welcome to the Republican Asylum
(Radar Magazine)

Obama Struggles to Find His Line
(Radar Magazine)

Chicken Soup for the Outsourced Soul
(Radar Magazine)

Windows Into Populism's Rise
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Protesting & Legislating to End the War
(Baltimore Sun)

Pro-Union Hillary Harbors Labor Foes
(Radar Magazine)

The Marriage of Hypocrisy & Corruption
(Denver Post)

Democracy Haters
(In These Times)

Fast Track Hurts Montana Farmers, Workers
(Billings Gazette)

'Good Cop, Bad Cop' Needed
(San Francisco Chronicle)

What They Said, And When They Said It
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Flattening the Great Education Myth
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Embracing Populism
(In These Times)

A Majority Leader, Not a Follower
(Baltimore Sun)

Pinstriped Populist
(New York Times)

Learning from Lamont
(In These Times)

The War on Workers
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Big Money vs. Grassroots
(Washington Spectator)

Where Economics Meets Religious Fundamentalism
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Addressing America's Health Care Taboo
(Washington Examiner)

Who Must Really Answer for 9/11?
(Washington Examiner)

Legislating Under the Influence
(In These Times)

Who's Lieberman Represent? Not You.
(Hartford Courant)

Trivializing Corruption
(PBS Now)

Find Your True Center
(Washington Post)

Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
(The Nation)

Money Plus Secrecy Equals Trouble
(Baltimore Sun)

The Hostile Takeover of American Democracy
(Chicago Sun-Times)

Rick Santorum's Hostile Takeover
(Philadelphia Daily News)

Fighting the Hostile Takeover
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Supply-and-Demand Solutions
(San Francisco Chronicle)

The Seinfeld Strategy
(In These Times)

A Primary Concern
(In These Times)

Undermining the Ownership Society
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Workers On the Slag Heap of History
(Philadelphia Daily News)

The New Battle for States' Rights
(Tom Paine)

Fusion's Third-Party Path to the Center
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Free-Trading Away America's Security
(San Francisco Chronicle)

The Battle for the States
(In These Times)

It's Time for a Windfall Profits Tax
(Costco Connection)

Newt's New Con
(The Nation)

The Corruption Eruption Continues
(Washington Spectator)

A Health Care Solution
(Baltimore Sun)

Don't Ask, Don't Tell - Just Do It
(Washington Spectator)

On the Verge of Political Reform
(San Francisco Chronicle)

Why Not Get Warrants?
(Memphis Flyer)

Will the Dems Step Up In the New Year?
(In These Times)

This Is The Race
(In These Times)

Partisan War Syndrome
(In These Times)

Divvying Up Ohio
(American Prospect)

Hurricanes Rain on Bush's Tax Cut Parade
(In These Times)

The Deafening & Dangerous Silence on Taxes
(San Francisco Chronicle)

The Resurgence of Movement Politics
(The Nation)

Watergate's Lost Legacy
(American Prospect)

Fear, Loathing & the GOP
(In These Times)

Sending a Message on Trade
(Alternet)

Conversions on the Road to Reality
(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Edwards' Own Trade Spotlight
(Charlotte Observer)

Debunking Centrism
(The Nation)

Green + Red = Blue
(In These Times)

The Democrats' Da Vinci Code
(American Prospect)

Top Billings
(Washington Monthly)

Vote for Bush or Die
(The Nation)

You Call This a Democracy?
(In These Times)

Debate School
(American Prospect)

The Greed Factor
(American Prospect)

Tricky Dick
(American Prospect)

Late, Great Middle Class
(Los Angeles Times)

Follow the Money
(Washington Monthly)

The Big Squeeze
(American Prospect)

They Knew
(In These Times)

When Left is Right
(In These Times)

These Dogs Don't Hunt
(American Prospect)

When Ignorance Isn't Bliss
(In These Times)

The $700 Million Question
(American Prospect)

Being Dick Cheney
(In These Times)

It's the Stupidity, Stupid
(In These Times)

The Fox of War
(Salon.com)

Clarke's Vindication
(Salon.com)

Bad Rerun, Worse Consequences
(Popmatters)

On Second Thought
(Ft. Worth Weekly)

Married Gay Martians on Steroids
(Popmatters)

The Failure of Populism?
(TomPaine.com)

G. Walker Bush, Texas Ranger
(Popmatters)

Will America Follow?
(Popmatters)

Bring On the Truth
(Popmatters)

The Motives of Intimigate
(Popmatters)

Profit America
(Popmatters)

The CEO-In-Chief
(Popmatters)

No Question, the Media Is Right
(Popmatters)

Use Trade as a Tool
(Baltimore Sun)


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Chicken Soup for the Outsourced Soul

By David Sirota
Radar Magazine - April 1, 2007 (Permalink)

Is Tom Friedman the Stuart Smalley of outsourcing? According to the Wall Street Journal [sub. req.], his most recent book, The World Is Flat, is thought of as a self-help bible by bosses looking to ship jobs to Bangalore.

In a passage buried in its recent front-page profile, the paper notes that a top Wall Street executive told Princeton economist Alan Blinder that in the book Friedman “found anecdotes about competition to U.S. workers in walks of life I didn’t know about.”

Friedman has all but admitted he doesn’t really care much about his work becoming the favorite weapon of today’s Gordon Gekkos. Quite the contrary, Friedman has seemed willing to shift his position for a paycheck or, say, a house in Aspen. Last year, he bragged to NBC’s Tim Russert that he wrote a column championing a job-killing trade pact even though “I didn’t even know what was in it.”

Then again, why should Friedman care about any of this? Especially when, as the Washingtonian reported, you live in “a palatial 11,400-square-foot house, now valued at $9.3 million, on a 7-and-a half-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club,” you “married into one of the 100 richest families in the country,” and life seems good enough, nice enough, and gosh darn it, people like you.

The Uprising

The Uprising Hostile Takeover

David Sirota is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Hostile Takeover (2006) and The Uprising (2008). Order Hostile Takeover at its official website here. Order The Uprising at its official website here.

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South High School, 7pm MST - Prager vs. Sirota Debate: David Sirota will debate conservative radio host Dennis Prager at a public forum in Denver on September 22nd. Details are here.

10/4/08, 6pm MST - Western Colorado Congress Annual Meeting: Sirota will keynote the annual meeting of the Western Colorado Congress at the Montrose Pavilion in Montrose, CO. Details here.


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Sirota has published stand-alone articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian, The Hartford Courant, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Nation, The Washington Monthly, In These Times and The American Prospect. His weekly, nationally syndicated newspaper column appears in publications with a combined daily readership of 1.6 million. Here is a list of publications that run his column weekly and/or regularly:

The Aiken Standard
Alternet
The Billings Gazette
The Cookeville Herald-Citizen
Credo Action
The Daily Iberian
The Denver Post
The Everett Herald
The Ft. Collins Coloradoan
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
The Grand Haven Tribune
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
The Green Valley News & Sun
The Idaho Post Register
The Idaho Statesman
In These Times
The Jackson Hole Daily News
The Lancaster Eagle Gazette
The Lewiston Sun-Journal
The McAllen Monitor
The Ocala Star-Banner
The Panama City News Herald
The Pawtucket Times
The Progressive Populist
The San Francisco Chronicle
The Seattle Times
The Statesville Record & Landmark
The Sterling Journal-Advocate
The Troy Record
TruthDig
The Vail Daily
The Woonsocket Call


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