Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
October 2005
Monday, October 31:
Lynne Glasner: Straight Lines and Revolving Door Circles
Robert Parry: Is Impeachment the Answer? (3 comments)
Douglas Drenkow: *The Nuclear Question: Are Women Chattel?
Michael Leon: TNR's Jason Zengerle Fronts for NeoCons
Mike Whitney: Carry on, Patrick Fitzgerald.
Mary Shaw: Teachers vs. Rock Stars
Sheldon Drobny: Fitzgerald Threw a Softball
Walter Brasch: Cheney's Refrain: 'I'm a Believer'
thepen: The Department of TORTURE
Patricia Goldsmith: Revolution
Sunday, October 30:
Stephen Crockett: A Growing Movement Against Corporate Excesses
R. J. Kovic: "Surreality" shows and deadly "Comedies"
Stephen Crockett: Democratic Talk Radio Urging Democrats to Help Cheney Select New Chief of Staff
Mike Whitney: Outing Valerie Plame put us all in Greater Danger
Gene C. Gerard: Bush's Kind of Guy
Larry Scott: DISABLED VETERANS TAKING "FRIENDLY FIRE"
Carol Wolman: "Elect" theology by Carol Wolman
Greg Moses: Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace
Saturday, October 29:
Rob Kall: Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Hungry for justice (1 comments)
Gerald Rellick: The Price of Incompetence (2 comments)
Angie Pratt: Aiding and Abetting
Rob Kall: Bush Meets Bush; Iran’s President learns by example
David Swanson: Writing in an Age of Terror (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: The First Card Falls, The Truth Remains Hidden (1 comments)
Friday, October 28:
Mick Youther: Frank Luntz: Homeland Propagandist (3 comments)
John Kelley: A New Mission for Americans
Bernard Weiner: Libby's Indictment: A Window Into the White House Cesspool
Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Blindness of the Liberals-- With a Case in Point (Tom Friedman) (2 comments)
Chuck Pennacchio: From Bush's Weakest Week to Dismantling His Strongest Link
Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr: Libby's best bet-- cut the deal' and squeal like a stuck Neo-Con pig? (1 comments)
Jackson Thoreau: Libby indictment names Rove - or 'Official A' - as confirming Plame's identity to Libby
Michael Leon: Fitz the Earnest One (1 comments)
Dr. Gerry Lower: Fairness and Equality in America-- Self-Evident or Not So Much?
Mike Whitney: Life after Rove
Gregory Elich: Fifty-one American Revolutions
Michael Hammerschlag: AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: HEY, HARKAVY!
Thursday, October 27:
Anthony Wade: The Politicization of Criminals
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings (1 comments)
David Michael Green: Al Gore, Unleashed (7 comments)
Dave Zirin: Dave Zirin's Sports For Progressives: How Baseball Strip-mines the Dominican Republic
Michael Leon: No Ballyhooing on New Supreme Court Nominee
Mike Whitney: Thinking the Unthinkable; opening up negotiations with the Iraqi Resistance
Carol Wolman: We the people vs. the traitors
Rob Kall: Miers Out-- Next Chess Move in the SCOTUS Nominee Game
Robert Parry: 'Plame-gate' & Myth of the Renegade Aide (2 comments)
Senator Barbara Boxer: Barbara Boxer's Statement on U.S. Military Death Toll in Iraq Reaching 2,000
Ted Bohne: Saddam Murder Trial-- A little "pot calling the kettle black?"
Peter G. Cohen: Can Democrats Renew Their Party?
Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Bushite regime shows a pattern common to evil rulers: that they destroy what they claim to love-- Part I
Jason Miller: Where is the Grand Inquisitor When You Need Him?
Wednesday, October 26:
Mickey Z.: "Silence is the greatest of all crimes" (2 comments)
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Signs of the Turning of the Tide
Dr. Gerry Lower: Who Pays the Bills for the Bush Administration? The "Good" Bad Guys or the "Bad" Good Guys?
Randolph T. Holhut: PETER GALBRAITH'S THREE-STATE REMEDY FOR AVOIDING CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ
Mike Whitney: Assassinations in Lebanon; Pipelines in Haifa
Andy Ostroy: Fantasies of an Honest Opponent Hinder Liberal Response to Republican Machine
Tuesday, October 25:
David Swanson: Why I'm Getting Arrested at the White House Today
Danny Schechter: Show The War, Tell The Truth Campaign
Bernard Weienr: Patrick Fitzgerald's Diary: Watching Them Flop, Squirm, Flip
Mary Pitt: Medicare Prescriptio Rip-Off
David Sirota: What Should Progressives Demand From Candidates - Sizzle or Substance? (1 comments)
Monday, October 24:
Andrew Bard Schmookler: To Deal With Opponents, Liberals Need not just Bridge-Building Tools, But Battle-Waging Tools as Well (2 comments)
Anthony Wade: Corruption-Lite and The Two Party System That Has Choked the Democracy out of this Country. (2 comments)
Carol Wolman: Indictment, then impeachment, then indictment
Mike Whitney: Après Rove le Déluge
Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: Bush STUPID stamped on Foreheads!"
David Sirota: Vermont GOP Senate Candidate Caught Lying Through His Teeth
Greg Moses: Criminalizing La Raza Cosmica
Paul Rogat Loeb: Hard Conversations About the Big Easy
Chuck Pennacchio: The Way For Democrats to Win Again (2 comments)
Brasch: A Scary Costume
Rob Kall: Right Wingers Getting Nervous as Miers' Role in Bush Corruption Unfolds (1 comments)
Dave Haigler: Love-Hate Over Gays
Patricia Goldsmith: Capitalism for Dummies (1 comments)
Tamara Knowles: STOP THE CLAPPING AND LOOK IN THE MIRROR: The Moral of the Plamegate Affair
Sunday, October 23:
Rob Kall: It’s hard to avoid the reach of Fox and It’s People
R. J. Kovic: Sergeant Benderman: Serving Time for Having a Conscience
Anthony Wade: In Pursuit of Ideology, The Truth Has Fallen (1 comments)
Larry Scott: "THEY'RE SENDING ME BACK TO HELL AGAIN"
Mike Whitney: Voting in Afghanistan; warlords, jihadis, and Iranian-agents
Stephen Crockett: Inequality: Lessons of 9-11 and New Orleans
Michael Leon: Peace Movement Brings Down Bush. It’s True, So Enjoy It (2 comments)
Saturday, October 22:
Cindy Sheehan: They Are Not Numbers
Carol Wolman: Time for repentance (1 comments)
thepen: THE COMING HURRICANE FITZGERALD... (2 comments)
Stephen Edward Seadler: WAR, PEACE AND ARMS CONTROL IN THE BRONZE AGE
Rob Kall: Are Progressives the New Moderates? (3 comments)
David Swanson: Outing WHIG
Friday, October 21:
Mick Youther: Troop Abuse
Ernest Partridge: While the Iron is Hot (1 comments)
Robert Jensen: Abe Osheroff: On the joys and risks of living authentically in the empire
DOUG THOMPSON: Death Watch at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Carol Wolman: it doesn't take a weatherman...
Thursday, October 20:
John Kelley: Insourcing:
Mike Whitney: Saddam’s Metamorphosis; genocidal maniac or folk-hero
Carol Wolman: Called to account
Rob Kall: Tough Liberals (2 comments)
Richard Neville: BETWEEN A HARD PLACE AND STEVIE NIX
Mike Whitney: Escorting Judy to the Gallows
Wednesday, October 19:
David Swanson: Say it Ain't So, Joe Wilson!
Dave Zirin: When Fists are Frozen: The Statue of Tommie Smith and John Carlos (1 comments)
Randolph T. Holhut: "MISS RUN AMOK" TAKES DOWN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Stephen Soldz: Avian flu excuses begin
David Sirota: What's the Difference Between a Liberal and a Progressive?
Ernest Partridge: The Illusion of Normality
Jane Stillwater: Write THIS on your Absentee Ballot: "Better, safer & more accurate than Diebold!"
Carol Wolman: Grace and sin in America
Larry Scott: KEEPING THE UNIFORMED UNINFORMED
Douglas Drenkow: Iraq, LNG, Credibility: As Plame Was Losing Her Cover, Cheney Was Losing His Power
Andrew Bard Schmookler: What America Needs Now--A Prophetic Social Movement That Speaks Moral Truth to Amoral Power
Steven A. Hass: BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO AMERICAN POLITICS
Tuesday, October 18:
Kirk Muse: Becoming a Warrior in the The “language war.” (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: The King of Softball and His Gang of Apologists
Bernard Weiner: "Good Night, and Good Luck" -- Joe McCarthy Rides Again
David Sirota: David Sirota: Partisan War Syndrome-- The left falls victim to a debilitating disease.
Andy Ostroy: Bush Critic Gets Fired
Robert Parry: When Journalists Join the Cover-ups
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Why can't the left face the Stolen Elections of 2004 & 2008?
Jason Miller: Surrender is not an Option
Monday, October 17:
Rabbi Michael Lerner: What Cindy Sheehan Said on Yom Kippur at Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in S.F. (4 comments)
Larry Scott: VETERANS' BENEFITS ARE NOT SAFE
Carol Wolman: Possessions and life
by Cindy Sheehan: Supporting Hillary (4 comments)
Patricia Goldsmith: Preventing a Fourth Reich (1 comments)
John Kelley: Its Official: The Red Queen is Programming the Sunday News Programs
Sunday, October 16:
Sheila Samples: GOOD AMERICANS -- DEMOCRACY'S GRAVEDIGGERS? (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Judy Miller’s Confession; wading through the rubbish for a grain of truth by Mike Whitney
Carol Wolman: People and Corporations
Stephen Crockett: Staying A Wrong Course
Saturday, October 15:
David Swanson: Peering Under the Plame Outing
Mick Youther: Where is the Justice?
Anthony Wade: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Descendants of Abraham
John Kelley: Wake Up and Live
Mike Whitney: The Iraqi Constitution; a cynical cover for partition
Gene C. Gerard: VA Seeks to Punish Iraq War Veterans (1 comments)
Friday, October 14:
Stephen Crockett: A Deep Look at Corruption Culture
Carol Wolman: The Most Secretive Administration
Mary Pitt: The Burning Question (1 comments)
Thursday, October 13:
Ted Bohne: So China Won’t Regulate it’s Textile Industry So US Can Compete? Get Used to it, America!!
Rob Kall: Let's Nail Dennis Hastert and Bury Bush, DeLay, Frist and Rove with New Tough Organizations
Jordan Flaherty: Crime and New Orleans
Andy Ostroy: --Restoring America's Greatness-- Our "Contract with America" (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Can Attacks on Oil Facilities lead to Peace?
Carol Wolman: Theological Blackmail (1 comments)
Abigail A. Fuller and Neil Wollman: Should the U.S. Withdraw? Let the Iraqi People Decide
thepen: POLLS DON'T IMPEACH PRESIDENTS; PEOPLE DO!
Douglas Drenkow: Another Crony?! It's Enough to Make You Sick. Or Dead.
Wednesday, October 12:
Rob Kall: Dear Iraq Troops, Vets and Their Families (1 comments)
Doug Dingus: Journalists and Bloggers, how are they different and can we trust them?
David Swanson: Note to Randi Rhodes (1 comments)
Gary Leupp: Connected at the Roots? Judith Miller, “Scooter” Libby, and the June Notes;
Allen Snyder: Regressive Fish Stinks From The Head Down (2 comments)
Rob Kall: A Note to You Bush-Supporters, You've Been Duped, Betrayed and Made a Fool Of.
Randolph T. Holhut: MORE DEADLY THAN 9/11: THE COMING FLU PANDEMIC
David Sirota: Dems' New Agenda: The Good, the OK, and the Ugly
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D, best-selling mythology expert: Re-creating the Deadly Flu Virus: as Chilling as Resurrecting Dracula
Frank Pitz: Being in America (1 comments)
Tuesday, October 11:
Bill Willers: Breaking the Bank: The Rightwing Road to America's Privatized Future
Andy Ostroy: More Buzz on Al Gore Running in '08
Bernard Weiner: Before the Plamegate Deluge: Honoring Our Journalistic Heroes
John D. Goldhammer: Dr. Bush and Mr. Hyde: The Fundamentalist Shadow of George W. Bush (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: PIOUS RULERS
Robert Jensen: Eulogy for America/Hope for Creation
David Sirota: Making the "Strong," "Tough," & "Macho" Case for Withdrawal
Monday, October 10:
John M. Kelley: Gay Marriage - The New Willy Horton
Cindy Sheehan: I Have Arrived; I Am Home
E. T. SIMON: Fiction, Fantasy, or Fear Mongering? (1 comments)
Andy Ostroy: Specter May Subpoena Dobson on Miers "Assurances"
Doug Thompson: The Ghost of Joe McCarthy (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: George Bush and the Four Horsemen
Rob Kall: A review of the Paul Krugman Monday October 10th article titled, “Will Bush Deliver?”
Patricia Goldsmith: History
Carol Wolman: A time for repentance
Sunday, October 9:
Larry Scott: CIO Power Grab at VA
Jane Stillwater: The Simpsons: Who will Homer & Marge vote for in 2006?
Jason Miller: We Can’t Let "It" Happen Here (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: When Torture becomes Policy
Rob Kall: A Note to You Bush-Supporting Suckers, You've Been Screwed (4 comments)
Saturday, October 8:
Anthony Wade: Invisible Ballots, Confirming Our Worst Fears About Democracy in Decline (2 comments)
Mike Whitney: Bunker-days with George Bush (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: The Valley of Decision by Carol Wolman
Mary Shaw: *Bush's Torture Scapegoat (1 comments)
Gene C. Gerard: Sex Education Programs Endanger Students and Violate the First Amendment
Friday, October 7:
Elizabeth Gibson: Carville: Dems need stronger narrative to win (1 comments)
Cindy Sheehan: From Despair to Hope
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Dodged a Bullet-- But the Gun’s Still There
Mike Whitney: Edging Towards Disaster with Iran
Carol Wolman: One world, one God, one justice
Al Gore: Remarks by former Vice President Al Gore at the We Media conference in New York (1 comments)
E. T. SIMON: Condoleezza Rice’s Blueprint for a Repressive State
Jordan Flaherty: Race, Relief and Reconstruction in New Orleans
Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: "Why is it?" "The Big Dipper and then the Rise of Threats!" (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: A HORRID REALITY... (1 comments)
Thursday, October 6:
Mick Youther: *Operation: Enduring Stupidity
Douglas Drenkow: *The Truth, The (Less Than) Whole Truth, & (Almost) Nothing But The Truth About Harriet Miers
Robert Parry: How Rotten Are These Guys?
Al gore: Al Gore: Our Media Has Been Hollowed Out (1 comments)
press release: Let PDA Know about Local Elected Progressives in Your Area
Mike Whitney: Martial Law; the one answer to every question
Carol Wolman: The Just and the Wicked
Wednesday, October 5:
Burton H. Wolfe: The Decline of the Daily Newspaper (1 comments)
John M. Kelley: Trojan Horses or Why the Unanimity of Both Parties On the Supreme Court Candidates Shows the Failure of our Political s
Randolph T. Holhut: TODAY'S GOP: HOME OF CRONY CAPITALISM AND CORRUPTION (1 comments)
Robert Jensen: Bush isn't a racist -- just one more privileged, soulless person (2 comments)
thepen: Bush nominates HAM sandwich for Supreme Court and Harry Reid bites
Carol Wolman: Why Americans should observe Ramadan (2 comments)
Douglas Drenkow: *Meet "Justice Miers": Love-Child of Bush in Bed with Top Dem
Tuesday, October 4:
Anthony Wade: The Brilliance Within the Stupidity of the Miers Nomination (2 comments)
Dave Zirin: Barry Bonds Laughs Last (1 comments)
CAROL WOLMAN, M.D: Is the President Nuts? (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Iraq-- a right rollicking cock-up
Carol Wolman: A Special Day- Addendum
Rob Kall: Taking Back the Congress with the Help of DeLay, Frist, Bush, Brown and Mier
Cindy Sheehan: *War-Hawk Republicans and Anti-War Democrats:
Carol Wolman: A special day
Jane Stillwater: Flight plan: Discovering that Social Security isn't the parachute I thought it was
Don Monkerud: The Crony Saga
Bob Fitrakis: Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
Dr. Ben "Go Fu*k Yourself Cheney" Marble: The Discrepancy Between Missing People and Confirmed Fatalities in Mississippi
Jason Miller: VIEWING TERRORISM THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS (1 comments)
Monday, October 3:
David Sirota: Miers Headed Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
Anthony Wade: Are you Kidding Me?
Mick Youther: Bush’s Noble Cause
Anthony Wade: What I Learned In Louisiana
Jane Stillwater: Gangs of DC: The Bush bureaucracy has invaded America's turf & what can we do?
Carol Wolman: Praying for George
Angie Pratt: If She Doesn't Answer the Questions Then The Vote is No (2 comments)
Rob Kall: *Immediately Oppose the Outrageous Nomination of Harriet Miers (5 comments)
Paul Bigioni: The Real Threat of Fascism (2 comments)
Patricia Goldsmith: Nazis (1 comments)
Sunday, October 2:
Burton H. Wolfe: What to Expect from John Roberts (1 comments)
Larry Scott: Dismantling the VA
Mike Whitney: The Occupation of New Orleans
David Swanson: *In Support of Weakness on National Security (1 comments)
Saturday, October 1:
Carol Wolman: "The harder they come... (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Why not Torture Judith Miller? (2 comments)
Gene C. Gerard: Soldiers Shouldn't Serve as Police Officers