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Clinton Foundation payola funds State Department approval of arms shipments to repressive governments. While presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was America’s top diplomat the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation. According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia,...

Media Bias: There's palpable dismay at outlets such as MSNBC and Salon that the Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized young men from Chechnya and not angry white males from the vast right-wing conspiracy. Shortly after Monday's tragedy in Boston, David Sirota of Salon Magazine penned a piece titled "Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American." His hopes were dashed when the suspects turned out to be Muslim brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose family origins are in Chechnya, the rebellious Russian region that is a breeding ground for terrorists. In 2002, about 40 armed Chechen separatists took...

Here is a good analysis from Heresy Today: A European Bulletin of Hidden News and Dissident Views: Chechen refugees from the war torn region of the Caucasus, one in receipt of an Ivy League scholarship to MIT. Somewhere in the United States, David "let's hope the Boston bomber is white and not Muslim" Sirota's head, over at Salon, has just gone into meltdown. The perpetrators of the Boston bombing, and the subsequent attacks against law enforcement, were actually successfully identified to the FBI by the double amputee victim, shown in the most striking photograph from Monday's attack. The most useful...

As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being. This has been most obvious in the context of recent mass shootings. In those awful episodes, a religious or ethnic...

Watergate Judge John J. Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the special prosecutor information from a probation report in which one of the burglars said he was acting under orders from top Nixon administration officials, according to once-secret documents released Friday by the National Archives. One newly public transcript of an in-chambers meeting between Sirica, the U.S. District Court judge in charge of the case, and then-Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in July 1973 shows the judge revealed secret probation reports indicating that E. Howard Hunt had cited orders from...

So what if the markets tank? Pushing the "proressive" agenda is the paramount goal. That's the advice Cenk Uygur and his left-wing guest David Sirota have for President Obama. On a day when awful job growth numbers stirred fears of a double-dip recession, Uygur and Sirota still scolded Obama for suggesting that he had to be cautious in his public statements because of the possible impact on markets and the world at large. Egged on by Uygur, Sirota said Obama should push his agenda "almost regardless" of the consequences. View video here.

David Frum credits Gatewaypundit for exposing Van Jones I see, Van Jones just simply made a mistake a long time ago... The problem is the political terrorist who are pointing out Van Jones past... David Sirota is an absolute complete jack*ssDavid Sirota: "And what I think is going on here is that the White House is listening to the right-wing's political terrorists - people like Glenn Beck, people like conservative activists, who have targeted Van Jones because Van Jones is an African-American with progressive movement background working on behalf of social justice." Frum: "David Sirota does his own cause an...

If you don't see eye-to-eye on an issue with your ideological counterparts - rather than debate the issue, you can go on national TV and call them derogatory names like liberal talking head David Sirota has done. Earlier on CNN's Sept. 7 "American Morning", as NewsBusters' Noel Sheppard pointed out, Sirota called Fox News host Glenn Beck a "right-wing political terrorist" and added that Van Jones was "a national hero." But this time he set his sights on Florida Republican chairman Jim Greer and "people like Jim Greer" who were concerned about President Barack Obama speaking to school children in...

If you believe Huffington Post contributor David Sirota there are only two types of people in the world, those who agree with everything President Obama says and does, and those who are racist. Sirota is a "racer" someone who uses race as the political excuse for just about everything, and takes it to an extent which goes beyond any sense of reality. Other famous racers are Janine Garafolo, who said that the people participating in the April Tea Parties were doing so because they objected to a African American President, and embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel who blames protests against Obamacare...

Columnist and former Clinton Adviser David Sirota and David Frum debate Van Jones' resignation as on CNN's "American Morning." Sirota is mostly critical of the Obama Administration, but saves his harshest words for Glenn Beck. SIROTA: "They're basically putting Van Jones out to pasture because of something that Van Jones said was a mistake," Sirota said. "And what I think is going on here is that the White House is listening to the right-wing's political terrorists, people like Glenn Beck... because Van Jones is an African-American with progressive movement background..." FRUM: "Denying the proof of 9/11 is not an intellectual...

David Sirota: "And what I think is going on here is that the White House is listening to the right-wing's political terrorists - people like Glenn Beck, people like conservative activists, who have targeted Van Jones because Van Jones is an African-American with progressive movement background working on behalf of social justice."

The liberal Center for American Progress (CAP) is off to a roaring start. Headed by John Podesta, President Clinton’s White House chief of staff, and funded by George Soros, the four-year-old think tank aspires to be nothing less than a ‘Heritage Foundation’ for America’s left. CAP sees itself as the intellectual ammunition depot for contemporary liberalism. As liberals become increasingly angry and their rhetoric becomes more and more strident and insulting, CAP, according to an NPR profile, aims “to reinvigorate political thinking and advocacy among Democrats.”...... Given its size and scope...CAP could well be providing personnel and ideas for a...