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	<title>USW Blog &#187; From David Sirota</title>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Making Everything in the U.S. from Bridges to Civil Rights Memorials: That&#8217;s a Huge Problem and China&#8217;s Not to Blame</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/09/10/chinas-making-everything-in-the-u-s-from-bridges-to-civil-rights-memorials-thats-a-huge-problem-and-chinas-not-to-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese invasion tells us the true problem is that America is no longer willing or able to invest in its own future.   Many economic Nostradamuses have long predicted that the epitaph on America&#8217;s tombstone will ultimately read, &#8220;Made In China.&#8221; But casual observers probably didn&#8217;t think the funeral procession would happen this fast. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting Kids’ Healthcare Will Make Deficits Bigger</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/06/05/cutting-kids%e2%80%99-healthcare-will-make-deficits-bigger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 12:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota In These Times senior editor and syndicated columnist In the name of curtailing deficits, politicians across the country are hacking away at programs that aim to make children healthier. In Congress, for example, House Republicans are spearheading a budget that eviscerates funding for food assistance and effectively defunds the wildly successful Children’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;free&#8221; trade trumps U.S. law: The WTO finds American requirements for tuna labels too restrictive. That&#8217;s just the beginning.</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/05/27/when-free-trade-trumps-u-s-law-the-wto-finds-american-requirements-for-tuna-labels-too-restrictive-thats-just-the-beginning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to "free" trade, Ralph Nader (among others) often makes a profound but taboo observation: "True free trade would take only one page for a trade agreement," he says before typically asking, "How come there are hundreds of pages and thousands of regulations" in these pacts?

The answer is that so-called free trade agreements (i.e., NAFTA, bilateral NAFTA replicas, the WTO regime, etc.) are free only of protections for human beings -- that is, free of provisions that preserve, say, labor rights, human rights and the environment. But those deals' "hundreds of pages" are chock-full of protectionist provisions for multinational companies -- provisions that, for example, allow foreign firms to sue governments for lost profits and empower international panels to unilaterally override a nation's domestic laws if those laws reduce corporate revenues.]]></description>
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		<title>The Submerged State</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/19/the-submerged-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist The Great Paradox &#8212; that is what future generations will likely call this era, and rightly so. Our childrens children will look back and see that just a few years after the deregulatory agenda of anti-government ideologues resulted in a horrific recession, American politics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiocracy by the Numbers: New Data Show Many Americans Have No Idea They Receive Government Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/18/idiocracy-by-the-numbers-new-data-show-many-americans-have-no-idea-they-receive-government-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist How aggressively stupid is America when it comes to our debates over taxes, budgets and the size of government? That&#8217;s been difficult to answer with any precision, beyond simply citing the Tea Partier who famously told his congressman to &#8220;keep your government hands off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Super Bowl of Socialism</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/02/15/the-super-bowl-of-socialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist The Super Bowl has become a true televisual non sequitur &#8212; a bizarre &#8220;Rocky&#8221;-style montage mashing together as many divergent strands of American culture as possible. This year&#8217;s blockbuster was no exception.There was former President George W. Bush sitting next to coach John Madden, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Mantra: For Me, but Not for Thee</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/27/gop-mantra-for-me-but-not-for-thee/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/27/gop-mantra-for-me-but-not-for-thee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist &#8220;For me, but not for thee&#8221; &#8212; this could be the motto of 21st-century elitists, or Republican politicians (which are more or less the same thing) and two stories this week show how that mantra works in practice. The first comes from ThinkProgress about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is America Too Corrupt to Keep Up?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/24/is-america-too-corrupt-to-keep-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/24/is-america-too-corrupt-to-keep-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist A sovereign nation investing its wealth in its domestic economy seems like a no-brainer, especially during a global recession. But in this crazy age of American politics, even that has become a controversial notion. This is the subtext of a dispute that simmered beneath [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silence Is Complicity &amp; Defensiveness Is Endorsement</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/10/silence-is-complicity-defensiveness-is-endorsement/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/10/silence-is-complicity-defensiveness-is-endorsement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist I&#8217;ve just finished up 3 hours of the most difficult radio I&#8217;ve ever had to do. The topic, of course, was the horrific shooting in Tucson, which has deeply affected me, as it has many others. As someone who had to flee the Capitol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Williams and the Triumph of American Dream Propaganda</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/07/ted-williams-and-the-triumph-of-american-dream-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/01/07/ted-williams-and-the-triumph-of-american-dream-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Sirota Political journalist, best-selling author and syndicated newspaper columnist Thanks to near-ubiquitous national media coverage, you probably know by now that Ted Williams was a homeless and jobless man who is now being offered fairly major media jobs because he had the random luck of becoming a YouTube sensation. This is certainly a [...]]]></description>
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