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Noteworthy Op-Eds of 2008

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A compilation of op-eds pulled from the progressive news site Common Dreams so that Americans can look back on the year that was 2008.

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January

Ira Chernus’ “Re-Create ’68?” 

Gareth Porter’s “The Surge and American Military Triumphalism” 

Charles Lewis’ and Mark Reading-Smith’s “False Pretenses: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War” 

Robert Scheer’s “Who Will Take on the Banks?” 

James Ridgeway’s and Jean Casella’s “Don’t Even Think About It: Enter the Thought Police” 

February

Saree Makdisi’s “The Strangulation of Gaza” 

Chris Hedges’ “The War Against Tolerance” 

Howard Zinn’s “Election Madness” 

Danny Schechter’s “The Crash That’s Coming: More Bubbles Are Turning ‘There Will Be Blood’ From Fiction to Prophecy” 

March

John Nichols’ “Crisis in Gaza? Not for Obama or Clinton” 

Glenn Greenwald’s “House Democratic Leadership: Not Just Complicit but Also Self-Destructive” 

Nir Rosen’s “The Myth of the Surge

Amy Goodman’s “Winter Soldier Marches Again

April

Michael T. Klare’s “The End of the World As We Know it And the Rise of the New Energy World Order” 

Glenn Greenwald’s “Major Revelation: US Media Deceitfully Disseminates Government Propaganda” 

Chris Hedges’ “The Left Has Lost Its Nerve and Its Direction” 

Nick Turse’s “The Real Matrix

May

Bill Moyers’ “Beware the Simplifiers” 

Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder” 

Naomi Klein’s “China’s All-Seeing Eye” 

Ron Kovic’s “Stopping the War Machine: Military Recruiters Must Be Confronted” 

David Sirota’s “The Lamont Lesson” 

June

Bill Moyers’ “We Just Might Rekindle the Patriot’s Dream” 

Chris Hedges’ “The Iran Trap

Gore Vidal’s “Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment” 

Naomi Klein’s “Obama’s Chicago Boys” 

Amy Goodman’s “Funny Man in an Unfunny World

July

Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” 

Joseph Galloway’s “How Dare They Rip the Fourth Amendment?” 

Glenn Greenwald’s “The AT&T Convention in Denver” 

Matthew Rothschild’s “ACLU Highlights Risk of Fusion Centers” 

August

Ann Wright’s “Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?” 

Scott Ritter’s “Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Dave Lindorff’s “This War Report Has Been Approved By Your Government

Amy Goodman’s “Don’t Cage Dissent” 

September

Marjorie Cohn’s “Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at the RNC” 

Paul Rogat Loeb’s “Pit Bull Palin” 

James Buchan’s “The Great Crash of 2008” 

Dave Korten’s “Main Street Before Wall Street” 

David Sirota’s “Top 5 Reasons to Vote Against Wall Street’s $700Billion Bailout

October

Dennis Kucinich’s “We Had Alternatives” 

Chris Hedges’ “America’s Political Cannibalism” 

Philippe Sands’ “The Torture Time Bomb” 

Greg Palast’s and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft” 

November

Jeff Cohen’s “Studs Terkel: He’ll Never Be Silenced” 

Mark Morford’s “Yes We Did” 

Naomi Klein’s “Real Change Depends on Stopping the Bailout Profiteers” 

Howard Zinn’s “Obama’s Historic Victory” 

Jeremy Scahill’s “This is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites, and Neocons to Watch in Obama’s White House” 

Andrea Becker’s “The Slow Death of Gaza” 

December

Yifat Susskind’s “From Mumbai to Washington: Now Is the Time to Renounce the War on Terror” 

Peter Dreier’s “Chicago Factory Sit-In: A Symbol of What’s Wrong and What’s Needed” 

Sami Ramadani’s “The Shoes We Longed For” 

Dave Lindorff’s “Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can Be Above the Law

Chris Hedges’ “Why I Am a Socialist” 

 

Kevin Gosztola is a writer and curator of Firedoglake's blog The Dissenter, a blog covering civil liberties in the age of technology. He is an editor for OpEdNews.com and a former intern and videographer for The Nation Magazine.And, he's the (more...)
 

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