Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
September 2005
Friday, September 30:
Douglas Drenkow: *Save Grassroots Democracy: Save Community Access TV!
David Sirota: Republicans Tell America What They Think Is "Necessary" and "Unnecessary"
Carol Wolman and Robert Mendelson: Jeremiah's Law
Thursday, September 29:
Danny Schechter: MEDIA COVERAGE DISAPPEARING IN THE IRAQ WAR 'ENDGAME'
David Swanson: The Relevance of Marching (2 comments)
Mike Whitney: Brownie’s Comic Opera (1 comments)
David Swanson: Chomsky's New Book
John Michael Kelley: Why The Democratic Party Will Continue to Lose Unless We Take It Away From the Current Leadership (2 comments)
Greg Moses: Bennett's Book of Cracker Virtues
Wednesday, September 28:
Ed Garvey: Dems Must Do What's Right, Not What's Safe
Carol Wolman: The Buck Stops with Us (1 comments)
Rob Kall: Michael Brown__the Right Wing Republican Poster Boy
thepen: THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARING TOLL-FREE PHONE NUMBER TO STOP JOHN ROBERTS (1 comments)
Lynn Landes: Do Feds Secretly Control The States' Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)?
Randolph T. Holhut: THE MYTH OF COMPETENCE IN THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE (1 comments)
Richard Neville: WASHINGTON, WARPORN AND WILD WILD WEATHER
Mike Whitney: Apartheid-justice in America; Krugal vs. Padilla
Tuesday, September 27:
Rob Kall: The actual Video of Ben Marble telling Cheney to Go F*ck Himself and Marbles New Song Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney (3 comments)
Rev. Dr. Robin Meyers: What Are Moral Values? (2 comments)
Dave Zirin: The Speech Everyone Is Talking About;: Etan Thomas Electrifies Anti-War Washington (1 comments)
Dickelle Fonda: Where was the Democratic leadership during the March on Washington??? (1 comments)
Eric Herter: Iraq War Veterans Presence in D.C. Unreported
Bernard Weiner: "Suppose...": Arguments for an Impeachment Resolution (1 comments)
Angelique van Engelen: Indian Decision To Vote In Favor Of Iran Referral To UN Security Council Might Have Wide Implications
Jason Leopold: Bill Frist, the Former 2008 GOP Presidential Candidate
Jordan Flaherty: Fighting for New Orleans
Rob Kall: *The Tree of Liberty is Wilting (4 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: D.C. Peace Rally Provides Nuggets to Help Carry On Against the Bush Regime
Monday, September 26:
Bob Fitrakis: Speaking Truth to Power in Washington, DC
Mike Whitney: The impending Cakewalk in Iran by Mike Whitney (2 comments)
Jason Miller: Peaceful Assault on the Epicenter of Evil
Patricia Goldsmith: Tipping Point/Point of No Return (2 comments)
Douglas Drenkow: GOP Jackals Descend on the South
thepen: THE MILLION PHONE MARCH TO STOP JOHN ROBERTS (SUPREME COURT)
Sunday, September 25:
Rob Kall: *We Want Krugman Back. We Need Him
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Not Reassured Yet
Mike Whitney: Farewell to the Democratic Party (6 comments)
Gene C. Gerard: Health Insurance for Immigrants Only
Saturday, September 24:
William Rivers Pitt: Screw the Black Bloc Cretins who Mar the DC March with Mindless Violence
Mick Youther: The Masters of Disasters
Mike Whitney: Basra; another milestone in the war on terror
Friday, September 23:
Paul Rogat Loeb: 911 IN NEW ORLEANS
Andrew Bard Schmookler: An Argument That Has No Clothes (1 comments)
Charles Shaw: A Less Fashionable War
Don Williams: Rita and Katrina have ideologues spinning
Howard Karger: On the Ground-- What Really Happened in Houston (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: All shook up
Siegfried Othmer: A Reflection on our Times
Mike Whitney: The Inevitable War with Iran (1 comments)
Thursday, September 22:
Rob Kall: Get to Know Ben Marble, an Interview with the Guy Who Told Dick Cheney to Go Fuc* Himself. (4 comments)
Greg Moses: A Movement Gathers Power on the Sorrow Plateau
Carol Wolman: Reaping the Whirlwind
Mick Youther: The Blame Game
David Sirota: Protecting Tax Cuts, GOP Proposes Cuts to Military Health Care & Schools
Dave Zirin: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
Douglas Drenkow: The GOP Drowning in Their Own Hypocrisy
Wednesday, September 21:
Carol Wolman: The sickness of Americans
Jordan Flaherty: Back Inside New Orleans
Douglas Drenkow: A Most Unusual Job Application
Jason Leopold: The GOP’s Fiscal Policies Turned a Natural Disaster into a Man-Made Catastrophe
Danny Schechter: TIME TO ALSO MARCH ON THE MEDIA? (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: No Exit; descending into hell with George W. Bush
Randolph T. Holhut: THE FAITH-BASED ECONOMY IS ABOUT TO MEET REALITY (1 comments)
David Sirota: On Roberts, Who Is More Pathetic: The Media, or the Democrats? (1 comments)
Rob Kall: *With Bush and Republicans Weakening, It’s Time To Reject Roberts and Weak, Centrist Democrats (4 comments)
William Fisher: THE FOX AT THE HENHOUSE
Nikki Finke: They Shoot News Anchors, Don’t They?
Ernest Partridge: Who Lost New Orleans?
Tuesday, September 20:
William Fisher: WHO SHOULD PAY FOR KATRINA?
Patricia Goldsmith: The Enemy Within
Vincent L. Guarisco: _House Republicans continue to say: "Trust" thy Bush?
Ken Sanders: _Pandora's Box
Mike Whitney: Who's Blowing up Iraq? (1 comments)
TV NewsLies: Why Is George W. Bush Above The Law (1 comments)
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Carter/Baker Report can't face how the GOP stole America's 2004 election & is rigging 2008 (1 comments)
Katherine Brengle: Big Brother (3 comments)
Monday, September 19:
Mike Whitney: Let them Die or Let them go
Sunday, September 18:
Anthony Wade: Bill O’Reilly and the Consequences of not Understanding Poverty (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Emotions after Katrina
Gene C. Gerard: Poverty Increases as Incomes Decline
Saturday, September 17:
Mick Youther: An open letter to the Republicans in the House of Representatives: (1 comments)
Thomas Smith: Will our good sense ever overcome our gullibility?
Jason Miller: LIAR, LIAR
Mike Whitney: Hurricane Hugo at the U.N. (2 comments)
Amanda Lang: Benedict Rove Reporting For Duty (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Who is a Christian?
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers: America Is Bankrupt (1 comments)
Rob Kall: Republicans’ Biggest Lies (6 comments)
GARY LEUPP: Managing Perceptions of Presidential Ignorance
Friday, September 16:
Jordan Flaherty: Disasters; Hurricanes FEMA and Povertina Devastated New Orleans
William Fisher: MR. BUSH’S LEGACY: MORE THAN DUCT TAPE NEEDED
Mike Whitney: The Second American Revolution (3 comments)
John M. Kelley: A Christian Nation? Jefferson Didn't Want One
David Sirota: The deafening - and dangerous - silence on taxes (1 comments)
Thursday, September 15:
Cathryn Sykes: Creationism: Asking the Obvious Questions (2 comments)
William Fisher: Senate's Kabuki Dance With Roberts
Carol Wolman: *Was Katrina an act of God?
Mike Whitney: Tal Afar; crackdown in the Sunni Heartland
David Sirota: *New Poll Shows Americans Want Troops Brought Home;
Rob Kall: Bush Can't Even Pee Without A Handler's Permission (2 comments)
Mary Shaw: *700 Women
Wednesday, September 14:
thepen: WE CAN STOP ROBERTS AND THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT (2 comments)
Dickelle Fonda: The Story is About More Than Cindy
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: GOP Heavies Work the "O.J. Dodge" (Satire)
Mike Whitney: John Roberts' role in the Guantanamo Hunger-strike
Lynn Landes: Who are the 75,000 body bags for? (1 comments)
joke from email: Joke: What is George Bush's reaction to Roe vs. Wade?
Randolph T. Holhut: IT'S TIME TO REACQUAINT CONSERVATIVES WITH THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF GOVERNANCE
Carol Wolman: Katrina and Karma
Tuesday, September 13:
Rob Kall: God to Bush and Right Wing “Religious” Extremists (2 comments)
Robert Parry: Colin Powell Being Colin Powell (1 comments)
Monday, September 12:
Phil Rockstroh: Levees Made of Lies: Rage, Grief, and the Chimera of the American Dream
Nzingha Tyehemba: The Real Looters (4 comments)
David Sirota: GOP Using Katrina to Justify Unrelated Right-Wing Agenda
Steve Backus: Changed Your Mind About War? Maybe You Can Return it at Wal-Mart Customer Service
Ted Morgan: After Katrina: Has the Bubble Burst? (1 comments)
Walter M. Brasch: 'Unacceptable': The Federal Response to Katrina
Norma Sherry: If It Were Up to Me
DOUG THOMPSON: A Very, Very Good Idea___“Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney (1 comments)
Bill Fletcher, Jr.: So, What Was So Controversial About Kanye West’s Remarks?
Robert Jensen: Our grief is not special:
Carol Wolman: Authority
Sunday, September 11:
Richard A. McCartan: Rehnquist's Legacy
Harvey Wasserman: Bush the war flop
Evelyn Pringle: Iraqis To Bush - Where Did All Our Money Go?
Rob Kall: Rob Kall: "IT" Is Happening Here!! (1 comments)
Thom Hartmann: An OpEdNews 2002 classic-- by Thom Hartmann: When Democracy Failed -- The Warnings of History (3 comments)
Patricia Goldsmith: On 9/11 We Need Zero Tolerance for Bush’s Right Wing Ways
Jason Miller: New Orleans Unmasks "Apartheid, American Style"
Saturday, September 10:
Gene C. Gerard: As in World War II, the President Should Limit Oil Profits
Mike Whitney: Jose Padilla and The Death of Personal Liberty
William Fisher: TODAY, PADILLA. TOMORROW, WHO?
Carol Wolman: The Bush is Known by its Fruit
Jackson Thoreau: Donate to help Ben Marble, the physician who lost his home in Katrina and told off Cheney (2 comments)
Anthony Wade: Cronyism Kills (2 comments)
Jason Leopld: FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Votes During Presidential
Friday, September 9:
Stephen Crockett: The Power of the Internet “Movement” News (1 comments)
thepen: TELL CONGRESS TO DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE FIRING OF FEMA DIRECTOR MICHAEL BROWN (1 comments)
Rob Kall: And You Wonder Why The Police Were Shot At in New Orleans (2 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons (10 comments)
Carol Wolman: Impediments to impeachment
William Fisher: THE PRICE OF SECRECY (6 comments)
Angie Pratt: You Want Constructive Criticism? OK Here Are a Few. (3 comments)
Richard Neville: Fire on the Swamp
David Swanson: The Popularity of Peace and Presidents
Thursday, September 8:
Sheila Samples: BUSH -- THE MAN WITH A SNAFU PLAN
Rob Kall: Is the DLC's Pick to Run Against Santorum Really the People's First Pick
James Boyne: The Coming FEMA $2000 Debit Card Debacle
John Chuckman: Lessons From Hell
Thom Hartmann: You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government (4 comments)
Carol Wolman: Is Bush the messiah?
Jackson Thoreau: Timeline shows the depths of callousness Bush & Co. displayed after Katrina hit (1 comments)
Wednesday, September 7:
Peter G. Cohen: Peace Organizing for Clout
Walter Brasch: George W. Bush—By the Numbers
Ken Sanders: Making the Case for Willful Neglect
Stephen Crockett: Republicans Blaming Hurricane Victims
Mary Shaw: Fire and Water
David Swanson: Congressional Hearing Next Thursday on Ending War
Evelyn Pringle: Top War Profiteer Doug Feith Retires Wealthy
Edith Fletcher: Stuff Happens (1 comments)
Rob Kall: Levee Drowning The Supreme Court—Shameful Again (3 comments)
Carol Wolman: Woe unto you!
Tuesday, September 6:
Ernest Partridge: Randville, Rawlsburg and New Orleans
Manuel Valenzuela: Bush and Third World America
Jason Leopld: Seems like More People Died than Prospered Under Pres Bush’s Leadership
Randolph T. Holhut: HOW THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LET NEW ORLEANS DIE
Angie Pratt: I'm Sorry, This Isn't a Job For President Bush (1 comments)
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: To Those Who Voted for Bush: Do You Get It Now? (7 comments)
David Swanson: Pass Resolution of Inquiry into Bush Lies This Week
Evelyn Pringle: Come One Come All - Welcome To The Paxil Protest
John M. Kelley: Kristina Reveals the Raw Brutality of Neo Con Free Market Capitalism (1 comments)
Patricia Goldsmith: THE GREEN ZONE
James Boyne: Bush's Poll at 46%. How Can This Be?
Monday, September 5:
David Swanson: Anti-War Events Building to September 24th
Steven Leser: Katrina Shows Failure of Republican Philosophy on a Grand Scale (1 comments)
Paul Craig Roberts: The Vicious Downward Cycle of the American Economy
Butler, Meryl Ann: The Silencing of Jazz City – Domestic Policy in Action
Chuck Pennacchio: Katrina, the Government, and the Lessons of Leadership (1 comments)
Jim Donovan: Bush Fiddles While America Burns
Carol Wolman: God to Bush: You blew it
Mary Shaw: When the American Dream Becomes a Nightmare
Angie Pratt: An Open Letter to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Conner (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Ezekiel 38: 8 O wicked one, you will surely die
Sunday, September 4:
Anthony Wade: This is The Republican Party Vision for America (3 comments)
Rob Kall: Do Not Ignite. Fire The Bush Time Bomb
Diana Zuckerman: NO PLAN B
Rob Kall: Why Nero burned Rome, How Bush Will Let the Vultures Descend Upon New Orleans (1 comments)
Harvey Wasserman: All Supreme Court appointments must be postponed
Saturday, September 3:
R. J. Kovic: 2 Moms and a War
Carol Wolman: Community to Community
Jason Leopold: State Marriage Took Precedence Over State of Louisiana
James Boyne: Bush: "This Is Your President Speaking" (2 comments)
William Fisher: FROM THE IRAQI FRONT
Margie Burns: One Way to Help the Hurricane Relief: with Bottled Water (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: When Playing Politics is the Truth that Must Be Told (3 comments)
Edith Fletcher: A Connections Award
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Ohio Governor's ethics violations expose money trail to stolen 2004 election
Jason Miller: Delusions Under Siege
Sherry, Norma: Katrina's Wrath, America's Shame
Rob Kall: How Republican Philosophy and Bush Policy Killed Victims of the New Orleans Levee Flood (6 comments)
Friday, September 2:
Dave Zirin: The Superdome: Monument to a Rotten System
Stephen Crockett: Killing Americans By Health Care Policy
Amanda Lang, PhD: Left-Behind (1 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: Trying to heal the Red-Blue divide
David Swanson: Missing the Forest for the Uprooted Floating Trees
Michael Moore: Michael Moore: Dear Mr. Bush:
Greg Palast: BUSH STRAFES NEW ORLEANS. WHERE IS OUR HUEY LONG?
Rob Kall: Bush Apologist/ Alibi Provider Head of Army Corps of Engineers, Fired Haliburton Whistle-Blower
Angie Pratt: One of Many Bad Decisions
Stephen Crockett: Crime As A Political Tactic
thepen: Bring the National Guard HOME Now (1 comments)
Rob Kall: New Orleans Horrors Turn Some News “Entertainers” Into Reporters
Dickelle Fonda: Cindy’s Fight Has Just Begun
Evelyn Pringle: FDA Knew Dangers Of Thimerosal-Vaccines For 60 Years (4 comments)
Emily Horswill: George Washington wanted A DEPARTMENT OF PEACE (1 comments)
Thursday, September 1:
Constance Lavender: Descent into Third World Status? (4 comments)
Amanda Lang, PhD: THE STORY OF THE HURRICANE COWBOY WHO FIDDLED WHILE NEW ORLEANS DROWNED (1 comments)
Rob Kall: We Get Letters: Shut Up, they Say. This isn't the Time to Talk Politics (3 comments)
Brian Azcona: Hurricane Katrina: A natural disaster or a failure of governance?
Angie Pratt: Move Over Cindy
Rob Kall: FEMA Stands Down. Chaos Reigns City Out of Control
Rob Kall: Bush: Zero Tolerance of Law Breaking= Zero Compassion, Zero Understanding (4 comments)
Carol Wolman: Judgment Day
Gerard, Gene C.: "Fighting Insurgents or Fighting Hurricane Katrina?"
James Boyne: "Send Cash", President Bush Proclaims (2 comments)