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Friday, March 17, 2006

Shocker - Barbour & Ashcroft Sell Out

In today's corruption news, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) uses his office to go to bat for his old client, while former Attorney General John Ashcroft sets up a lobbying shop to sell of his government expertise to the highest bidder.

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Hostile Takeover is the average citizen's guide to decoding corrupt politicians' lies, myths and half-truths. The book is due in bookstores April/May 2006 - but you can advance order it at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Powell's Bookstore today. You can click here to download a printable backgrounder on the book - or head to the book's official site at www.fightthetakeover.com

To find out more about me, download my official biography. A shorter version is this: I am the co-chairperson of the Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN) - a position I took after finishing a stint as a fellow at the Center for American Progress. I am also a Senior Editor at the In These Times magazine, and a writer for Working Assets, and a twice-a-week guest on the Al Franken Show. I have just completed a book for Random House's Crown Publishers entitled "Hostile Takeover" - it will be released Spring 2006. I also write a bi-weekly section for the Nation Magazine called Permanent Minority vs. Towards the Majority. For more on what I do, see this Newsweek profile about me, or scroll down towards the bottom of this page for a full list of my published work. Feel free to email me at david@davidsirota.com with any thoughts/criticism. Note: this online publication represents my personal views, and not the official views of the organizations I work with.

Markos Moulitsas Zúniga and Jerome Armstrong have a new book coming out that really challenges the political Establishment. I've read an advance copy and its a great read. Go pick up a copy over at Working Assets today.

I am co-chairing the new Progressive Legislative Action Network (PLAN), an organization dedicated to passing progressive legislation in all 50 of America's state capitals. PLAN held its formal kickoff on August 16, 2005 with more than 120 state legislators from 40 states. Read this article about PLAN and how progressives are going to start taking the fight to the states.

In 2006, progressives have a chance to help elect two of the most accomplished progressive leaders to the U.S. Senate - Ohio's Democratic Congressman Sherrod Brown and Vermonts Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders. These two leaders have been fighting the progressive fight in the trenches for years - even when it wasn't glamorous or glitzy. We need to reward them with our support - and finally put two of the people's champions into the Senate. As a disclaimer, I don't work for either of these candidates - my support is all about putting progressives in positions of power. The opportunities to elevate such great progressive champions to such powerful positions is so rare in politics - and in 2006 we have a chance to help two of our own. Donate to Sherrod and Bernie's campaigns today.

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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 - And Dangerous - Silence On Taxes
(San Francisco Chronicle)
The Resurgence of Movement Politics
(The Nation)
Watergate's Lost Legacy
(American Prospect)
Fear, Loathing and 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
(The 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)
Trade as a Tool
(Baltimore Sun)
Clarke's Vindication
(Salon)
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)

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