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Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds November 2009 Saturday, November 28: Dan Fejes: Through the Looking Glass With the DOJ (1 comments) Grant Lawrence: War Crimes, Exploitation, Abuse, and Suffering Brought to You by the 'Big Lies' (1 comments) Chaz Valenza: A Simple Plan to Screw the Big Banking. Use Cash. (11 comments) Betsy L. Angert: Thanksgiving; Time with Family. No Thanks Friday, November 27: David Michael Green: How Dare You Clean Up Our Mess? (3 comments) Dave Berman: Book Review: "am I being kind" by Michael J. Chase Cindy Sheehan: You Get What you Vote For! (22 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: No JFK Moment for Obama on Afghanistan (2 comments) Bob Burnett: Why Can't Democrats Get a Backbone? (23 comments) Stephen Lendman: Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Denied Parole michael payne: President Obama prepares to “finish the job” and follow Lyndon Johnson into history (3 comments) MC Kean: *Health Care Reform and the making of Strange Bedfellows Arthur Shaw: Venezuelan revolutionaries in 2008 have given a dazzling performance Robert Davidson: Are Big Pharma and the PDUFA to Blame for Healthcare Mess? (5 comments) Susan Galleymore: A View from the Faultline (3 comments) Ari Bussel: A Rite of Passage Jay Janson: *34,000 Additional Troops Not Worth the Life of One Afghani Child (2 comments) Thursday, November 26: Michael Roberts: Generals Not Always Right (1 comments) Eric Walberg: Canada 's Guantanamo Joan Wile: THE BROKEN THREAD Jim Hightower: Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement Steve Clemons: Thankful that Obama Has Helped Make Dissent and Debate Patriotic and Safe Again (2 comments) Don Williams: Go ahead, hug that tree and give thanks (2 comments) Stan Stahl: Thanksgiving 2009 (1 comments) Joe Perez: Thanksgiving is the Gayest of Holidays (1 comments) Rob Kall: Afghanistan as Sports Event, Sexual Fantasy and Detour From the Hero's Journey (27 comments) Ralph Lopez: *Fire Insubordinate McChrystal Now! Civilian Government! (1 comments) Charles Brown: FDA, mercury not affected by Obama's 'change' (1 comments) Jeff Cohen: Get Ready for the Obama/GOP Alliance (8 comments) Mikhail Lyubansky: Thanksgiving's Many and Complicated Needs (2 comments) Wednesday, November 25: Thom Hartmann: 80 years ago today (3 comments) Steven Leser: Video of Steve Leser's debate with Stuart Varney on Fox News' Your World Regarding Cap & Trade and Climate gate (10 comments) Kathy Malloy: Sing Along: “Thank Heaven, for Little Girls . . .” Kevin Gosztola: TPM Writer Falsely Represents Single Payer Press Conference as Anti-Sanders Event (3 comments) Gene Cappa: *PUT Cheney/Bush On Trial For The 9/11 Attacks Elayne Clift: Women Scientists and the Nobel Prize Fred Cederholm: Thanksgiving ... it was a time of fellowship, remembrance, and gratitude... Lora Chamberlain: Stand Against This Surge In Afghanistan, WE CAN NOT AFFORD WAR NO MORE! (2 comments) Suzana Megles: A Presidential Turkey Pardoning Charles Foerster: U.S. Foreign Policy: Blinded by Self-Righteousness, Greed & Arrogance; Held Together with Stupidity (2 comments) Elayne Clift: On the Backs of Women: The Politics of Betrayal (1 comments) Bruce Cain: *Petition for the Immediate Re-Legalization of Marijuana (1 comments) James Brett: Jobs! Can They Not Hear and See? (7 comments) Mary Bell Lockhart: Debunking Conservative Talking Points on Health Care Sheila Dean: *Fusion center data consolidation effort failing, Texas seeks public input Noeline Clayfield: CLIMATEGATE & POTENTIAL RELEASE OF FREE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "A Hard Box to Think Outside Of" (13th in a series) Ted Newcomen: New Anti-Islamic Working Class Group Rattles British Government David Model: A Tax Increase for What? (2 comments) Allan Goldstein: I Could be Even More Thankful Harvey Wasserman: Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine Stephen Lendman: New Report Shows Ten States Face Fiscal Crisis (3 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Single Payer Advocates Address Deep Flaws in Democratic Health Bill (5 comments) Tuesday, November 24: Bina Shah: Patient Capital and Power earl ofari hutchinson: It's Official: Afghanistan Is Now Obama's Baby Russ Buchanan: How the Democrat Party Lost Its "ic" (11 comments) Ray McGovern: Obama: Profile in Courage, or Cave-In? (23 comments) Rabbi Michael Lerner: Obama's Declining Popularity (13 comments) Wayne Madsen: NSA eavesdropping more widespread than reported (4 comments) George Washington: Instead of Fixing the U.S. Economy or Creating Jobs for AMERICANS, Obama Will Spend The Money in Afghanistan and Iraq Dave Lindorff: UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion (11 comments) Josh Mitteldorf: Afghan War: Realities on the Ground Lawrence Velvel: Let Us Now Seek Competent Men. (2 comments) Janet Weil: *Barbara Lee Still Speaks for Me! (2 comments) Monday, November 23: Sheila Samples: God Has Left the Building... (6 comments) Patricia Mailloux: How to Win in the Game of Life Daniel Vojir: The Manhattan Declaration: The Christian Right Declares Global Warfare, Giving Africa The Gift Of ...Fear (2 comments) P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "Striking the Set Piece" (12th in a series) Franz J. T. Lee: Fifth or New International? Preliminary Food for Human Emancipation David Glenn Cox: What goes around comes around (1 comments) Siegfried Othmer: *Thoughts on Afghanistan (1 comments) Daily kos: The Real Irony of Psalms 109 (3 comments) Kathy Malloy: Bah, Humbug! (2 comments) Ron Fullwood: Allowing China a Dominant Role in Afghanistan's Future (1 comments) Rob Kall: China Buys Hummer Brand-- Further Evidence of a Shock Doctrine Assaulted America? (17 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better Way (9 comments) Paul Craig Roberts: A Trial That Will Convict Us All (34 comments) Stephen Lendman: Targeting Muslim Charities in America (3 comments) Roger C. S. Lin: Taiwan: Search for a Non-Chinese Identity (1 comments) Sunday, November 22: Mary MacElveen: NY State Assembly Member, Marc Alessi wins my Founding Fathers award Rodrigue Tremblary: A Real Revolution in the Making in the US Health Care Industry (1 comments) Richard Girard: The Social Element of Social Capitalism Kiilu Nyasha: America's Supermax Prisons Do Torture winston: Any involvement in Afghanistan is futile. Patrick J. O'Donoghue: After a visit to the Ana Soto Socialist farm in Venezuela, I say hell to the begrudgers! (1 comments) Thomas Farrell: *The Catholic Bishops' Views About Contraception and Abortion in the First Trimester Are Ridiculous (3 comments) Gustav Wynn: Is Sean Hannity's Political Talk Hampering Our Children's Critical Thinking? (14 comments) Nancy Tobi: Organized Crime Fighting (1 comments) Robert Parry: The Madness Returns Barbara Bellows-TerraNova: The Wrath of a One-Breasted Woman, Bereft of Advice (1 comments) Susan Galleymore: The Tea Party as Good Beginning (1 comments) Saberi Roy: Are the Terrorists Homeward Bound? (2 comments) Mary Shaw: What's Thanksgiving Really All About? (2 comments) Bryant Welch: Fort Hood: A Harbinger Of Things To Come? (6 comments) Jason Paz: The Anti-Death Squad; the Right to Live (1 comments) P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "Foreclosed Future" (part 11 of a series) PETA: Tormenting turkeys: Not in the holiday spirit shamus cooke: Obama's Fraudulent “Job Summit” Richard Clark: *New JFK assassination bombshells (16 comments) Jerry West: A Fish Story PETA: 4-H: Cruel to animals and kids Ann Garrison: Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry michael payne: China vs. U.S.: economic power vs. military might; which will prevail? (11 comments) ALONE: Germany's Sleeping PTSD Crisis (1 comments) Saturday, November 21: Emily Spence: Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions (2 comments) Daniel Tilson: Bad News For American Women Comes In Threes (4 comments) Grant Lawrence: Would Americans be Pro-Wars if They Had to Pay for Them with Higher Taxes? (11 comments) James Nimmo: Oklahoma Homo-Haters Trying Their Best for an Arrest Douglas A. Wallace: A RACKETEERNG INFLUENCED CORRUPT ORGANIZATION FRONTED BY A CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION UNDER (RICO) (1 comments) Liz Grover: *My Experience in Afghanistan & My Message to President Obama Alen Salerian: Betrayal by JFK's Four Trusted Men: McNamara, Bundy, Hilsman and Forrestal (1 comments) Ed Tubbs: The GOP's Limbo Rock and How ‘Low' Can We Go? (1 comments) Mark Sashine: Fasheism (3 comments) Rick Rozoff: Rumors Of Coups And War: U.S., NATO Target Latin America Jason Paz: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied (3 comments) Susan Galleymore: Melissa - Raped! -- For Band of Buddies War Series (3 comments) Ed Tubbs: Rosaries, Rostrums, and the God's Awful Truth James Brett: The End of an Era? Dan Fejes: The Long Climb Back (2 comments) George Washington: Is America Finally Starting to Stand Up To Wall Street? (2 comments) Friday, November 20: Ray McGovern: McChrystal to Obama: Fogh You; McChrystal Testing the Limits (15 comments) David Michael Green: A Show About Nothing: The Placeholder Presidency of Barack Obama (9 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Weak Public Option Myths That Liberals Believe (7 comments) David Swanson: IRAQ MASH Chaz Valenza: What the Economists Aren't Saying: Americans' Finances in Tatters, Bankruptcies to Skyrocket (6 comments) Jim Willie: Zinc Dimes, Tungsten Gold & Lost Respect (6 comments) Daniel Vojir: Will James David Manning Be Tried As A Martyr ... Or As An Idiot? (3 comments) James Brett: Reasons Not to Abandon Afghanistan Glenn Greenwald: The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat (3 comments) Abbas Sadeghian, Ph.D.: My Comrade is an Octopus;The case for the war in Afghanistan: (16 comments) Bob Burnett: Creating the Jobs America Needs (2 comments) Jordan Thornton: *A Bush in Obama's Clothing? UPDATE: Qom Site Clean Richard Mathis: Rogue en Vogue Muhammad Khurshid: Another Army Takeover Is Imminent In Pakistan (2 comments) Angola 3 News: The Arrest and Torture of Syed Hashmi --an interview with Jeanne Theoharis (4 comments) Stephen Lendman: Lynne Stewart: Heroic Human Rights Lawyer Jailed (5 comments) Thursday, November 19: Andreas Umland: Understanding the Orange Revolution: Ukraine's Democratization in the Russian Mirror Mick Youther: *Do You Know Afghanistan? Jim Hightower: Obscenely Rich Bankers Claim to Do God's Work -- They Can Go to Hell (8 comments) Grant Lawrence: President Obama: The Agonizer-in-Chief (7 comments) Richard Cummings: Going Rogue;A Missed Opportuity Richard Wise: If Health Reform Fails: Insurers' Double-0 “License to Kill” Michael Collins: HHS Task Force Mammogram Recs Slammed (11 comments) Stephen Lendman: Media Disseminated Myths about Obamacare Bob Patterson: Ambush Alert! (1 comments) Ronnie Manns: What's the Difference between a Rhino and a Dino? Saberi Roy: Obama's Visit to Asia - Taking Up Real Issues (3 comments) Noeline Clayfield: STOP MK ULTRA PROGRAMS NOW! Pam Rasmussen: One year later...and the doors to the world's largest prison are still sealed shut (1 comments) Frosty Wooldridge: Perfect storm approaching the United States while leaders snore and citizens sleep (11 comments) Wednesday, November 18: Dana Jill Simpson: Are Alabama Democrats being mislead into believing that Senator Shelby can block with a blue slip the appointment of an (1 comments) Kathy Malloy: Criminal Injustice (3 comments) George Washington: January 9th: National Citizens Day (5 comments) David Swanson: Why Can't We Do to DC What We Did to Seattle? (3 comments) Ralph Nader: Dear President Obama; Who Are You Getting Your Afganistan Advice From? (8 comments) Uri Avnery: Federation? Why Not? (3 comments) Jason Paz: Martin Luther King and Unjust Laws Today Jay Janson: *Hu Jintao Abides US Surveillance, Suspects in Prison, Torture, Rendition, Massacres (6 comments) Noeline Clayfield: *Accountability Suzana Megles: Is Corporal Punishment Always Bad? Brent Budowsky: 2010: A progressive strategy to win (2 comments) Saberi Roy: Obama's visit to Asia – Taking up Real Issues (2 comments) Rowan Wolf: Is the "Tea Party" Really An Appropriate Name? (3 comments) Press Release: J Street Responds to Sarah Palin's Comments on Settlements (18 comments) Rob Kall: Flashback from 2003: A Positive, Liberal Vision of The Future; 37 Ways Democrats Will Make the USA Better. (11 comments) Jim Fetzer: *THE DARTMOUTH JFK-PHOTO FIASCO (10 comments) Stephen Lendman: Universal Single-Payer Healthcare Coverage: An Economic Stimulus Plan (3 comments) Tuesday, November 17: Mary MacElveen: There are far more powerful women in our lives instead of Sarah Palin (4 comments) Frosty Wooldridge: Temporal blindness and overpopulation in America Kellia Ramares: *Open Letter to House Progressive Caucus (Except Kucinich & Massa) (4 comments) Arthur Shaw: Colombian dictatorship is a puppet that doesn't need strings David Glenn Cox: 2012, Agree to Agree (1 comments) Stephen Fox: World's largest aspartame maker Ajinomoto is trying to rename it AMINOSWEET! (7 comments) Richard Clark: *New evidence of the terrible social and personal costs of excessive income inequality (5 comments) Chris Hedges: The New State Solution (1 comments) Dahr Jamail: U.S. Army Underreporting Suicides, Says GI Advocacy Group (1 comments) Paul Rockwell: Welcome Home, Soldier. Now Shut Up John Nichols: Democrats to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan (2 comments) Robert Parry: The Ugly Truth about Jobs (10 comments) Mark Karlin: Harry Reid: Speak Wobbly and Carry No Stick (1 comments) Rob Kall: REAL Bottom-Up Job Creation Ideas (12 comments) David Swanson: They Should Get a Union (1 comments) Scott Baker: Dealing with Anti-Semitism from a Jewish Perspective (28 comments) Dan Fejes: On What Planet Does Barney Frank Spend Most of His Time? (3 comments) Rob Kall: Tell Congress to Go To Hell With their Current Health Reform (68 comments) Don Williams: *Say No to a New Nuclear Bomb Plant (3 comments) David Swanson: KSM and MSM (2 comments) Mary MacElveen: Based on a Politico.com article: I am sick of game-playing politicians Jesselyn Radack: Breaking Justice Dept. Corruption in Birkenfeld Case: U.S. Gave UBS Kingpin Immunity (4 comments) Harvey Wasserman: For Obama it's one (term) if by war, two if by peace (3 comments) Monday, November 16: Steve Elliott: Marijuana Decrim, Frank Chopp and the Case of the Missing Balls ALONE: Eminent Domain and America (6 comments) HPatricia Hynes: Mercenaries in the Marketplace of Violence Michael Fox: Going Vogue (3 comments) Samuel Lipari: *What if Health Care Reform is Defeated? (1 comments) Stephen Soldz: Psychiatrist warns of potential for violence among returning Marines (2 comments) Kathy Malloy: A Rogue with Lipstick (1 comments) Brasch: Rush to Judgment: Talk Radio's 'Truth Detector' Blows a Fuse--Again (13 comments) David Sirota: Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill (9 comments) George Washington: Can We Save America? (10 comments) Manfred Wolf: The President and the Talk-Show Host winston: What type of military strategy is needed in Afghanistan? (6 comments) Dave Lindorff: President Obama: Don't Lecture China on Censorship (5 comments) Grant Lawrence: Massive Die Offs, Eco System Collapse, Don't Worry About It (19 comments) Jay Janson: *Obama Will Speak Less of U.S. Leadership When He Gets to China James Raider: Show Trial Goes To New York Ray McGovern: Shining Light on Roots of Terrorism (17 comments) Stephen Lendman: The Struggle for Net Neutrality Martha Rose Crow: Imaginary Gold Bullion: How Deep Does the Plunder of the World's Resources Go? Angola 3 News: Confronting Human Rights Abuses in US Prisons --an interview with Bret Grote of HRC/Fed Up! (1 comments) michael payne: American exceptionalism: a delusional concept (3 comments) Fidel Castro: The Annexation of Colombia to the US (3 comments) Sunday, November 15: George Washington: "War ALWAYS Causes Recession" (2 comments) ALONE: DOES THE USA ARMY NOT KNOW THAT THE KOCH DOESN'T REALLY LIKE FOREIGNERS—AT ALL? Why is USA army moving from Heidelberg (5 comments) Joe Quinn: Reviving the War of Terror: Patsy framed in Secret Team psy-op to generate public support for wars (4 comments) Dahr Jamail: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan (3 comments) Patrick J. O'Donoghue: PSUV Congress approaches: Venezuela's Chavez opens far reaching, resonating debate Alen Salerian: November 1, 1963 (1 comments) Curt Day: Will America Have the Courage to Do ... Daniel Tilson: *Just Say No To Blue Dog Democrats (2 comments) cumhur özkaya: Friedrich Engels and David Beckham have became advertisement hero David Swanson: Asking Republicans for a Favor (9 comments) Eddie Scher: Poseidon Resources Hits Up Taxpayers for $1/2 Billion Ann Garrison: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Group on Rwanda Ann Garrison: TV doc on copper mining in D.R. Congo nominated for investigative reporting award Grant Lawrence: Silly Texas Gov. Rick Perry Pretends to Think Fascism is Socialism (8 comments) A. Scott Piraino: No World Order (4 comments) Anthony Lukashuk: The Turning of the Tide (1 comments) GERAL SOSBEE: University of Texas & FBI Unlawfully Seek a Way to Arrest this Target (1 comments) Cyril Mychalejko: Manufacturing a Terror Threat in Latin America Jerry West: The Propaganda of War (1 comments) Daniel Vojir: The Bestseller That Isn't: Going Rogue Hits Bestsellerdom With A Wimper! (2 comments) Brian Cooney: Militarism is Distorting and Bankrupting America Ed Tubbs: Afghanistan Troop Increase: The Costs not Calculated (1 comments) William Fisher: Obama's Dilemma: Prison Corruption a Symptom of How Sick We Are in Afghanistan (1 comments) Allan Goldstein: Nadal Hasan and the Vices and Virtues of Political Correctness. (3 comments) David Glenn Cox: No Ordinary Utensil (5 comments) GLloyd Rowsey: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SECRECY - a think-piece begun in 1975 (3 comments) Brock Novak: The Dictator Antidote - Low Oil Prices (aka "The 70/90 Protocol") (1 comments) Steve Best: Manifesto for Radical Abolitionism: Total Liberation By Any Means Necessary (1 comments) Jason Miller: Death Park Slaughterer: “We euthanized 312 deer in 3 nights"” (4 comments) Saturday, November 14: Tommy News: *We Must Stop The Gun Violence: The Way Forward (1 comments) Jason Paz: Our Health System is More Deadly Than Taliban (4 comments) Emily Spence: The Choice Ahead: Entrenched Fossil Fuel Dependence Or Climate Change Management (16 comments) Hargrove: Desperately Seeking White Female Heros (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: On Abortion, Hypocrisy Reigns Among Blue Dogs, Republicans and Christians (4 comments) George Washington: Would Our Government Really Start a War to Try to Stimulate the Economy? (7 comments) Judith Gordon: Healthcare and Campaign Finance Reform Rob Kall: Obama Keeps Shrinking Those "Little brain" White Male Penises (78 comments) Richard Harris Smith: State of Emergency: Why Bill Lockyer Should Be Governor of California (2 comments) David Model: The Chimerical Enemy of NATO in Afghanistan (3 comments) Richard Clark: *Why we must nationalize the Federal Reserve (17 comments) Mary Shaw: In Trying 9/11 Suspects, Holder Gets It Right and Wrong (8 comments) Judith Gordon: Will we ever get Campaign Finance Reform? (7 comments) Muhammad Khurshid: Friday Remains Worst For Peshawar, NWFP Capital (1 comments) Patrick J. O'Donoghue: VENEZUELA: Talking to Fundacomunal leader Luis Tona about popular power... Sheila Dean: The costs and burdens of governed identity Donald de Fano: Lou Dobbs: Mr. Republican (1 comments) Daniel Vojir: Islamophobia: An Irrational Rage Among People Who Can Barely Spell Islamophobia (3 comments) David Michael Green: Twenty Years From Now, You Will Lie To Your Children (2 comments) Gustav Wynn: Obama Nominates Monsanto Rep For Agricultural Trade Post (9 comments) Friday, November 13: Cindy Sheehan: President Obama DOES NOT Speak for Me! (14 comments) Bettye Johnson: *The Real Reason Behind Anti-Abortionism (8 comments) Eric Walberg: Russia-India-China: The Bush curse Mark Biskeborn: Mexico: Land of Dire Straits and Reaganomics Aetius Romulous: Give Iran "The Bomb" Richard Girard: Batting the Hornet's Nest (2 comments) George Washington: Defense Spending Creates Fewer Jobs Than Other Types of Spending Rick Rozoff: Fort Hood, Veterans Day And Defending America (2 comments) Thomas Farrell: *Bishop Tobin Is Un-American for Denouncing U.S. Rep. Kennedy (3 comments) James Nimmo: Feeling Like a Lost Raffle Ticket? (1 comments) Lawrence Velvel: The Recent Change In The Name Of Our Country. (2 comments) Peter Wedlund: US Congress and Middle East Conflict background n015e: *Sen. Tom Coburn, MD and the Hypocritical Oath (1 comments) Brent Budowsky: Ron Paul is right: Audit the Federal Reserve Bailout Money David Swanson: *Authoritative Rejection of Afghanistan War (9 comments) Mark W. Bradley: Finally, a Septicemic Blutwurst Worthy of the Congressional Sausage Factory laurie dobson: *Put Obama on Notice Against Afghanistan Escalation Nima Shirazi: GOLDSTONEWALLED! | US Congress Endorses Israeli War Crimes (6 comments) Rob Kall: Guantanamo Action: Holder to try 5 in NYC, White House Counsel Resigns (13 comments) Thomas Farrell: *Archbishop Burke: No Communion or Church Funeral for Pro-Choice Catholics Chris Herz: No responsible leader can afford to ignore the implosion of US democracy (1 comments) Sheila Dean: Dahr Jamail on censorship & supression of GI resisters Daniel Vojir: When Violent People Come Out Of The Woodwork (1 comments) Alen Salerian: A Peace Award for Robert McNamara Rafe Pilgrim: Is it Later than We Think for President Obama to Do the Right Thing? Ralph Lopez: *Bill Moyers Calls for Draft if Obama Escalates in Afghanistan (6 comments) Bernie Sanders: Health Care for All Americans (VIDEO) Bob Burnett: Get Tough, Obama (2 comments) Ed Tubbs: As morally cherry-picky as it wants to be (5 comments) Michael David Morrissey: Hello Vietnamistan, Goodbye Obama Hayesml47: A Party of the First Part? (1 comments) Stephen Lendman: Fort Hood Tragedy Sparks Islamophobic Response (1 comments) Jason Paz: Americans Should Take a Lesson from History (1 comments) Fred Cederholm: There's no such thing as a jobless recovery! Thursday, November 12: thepen: Delightful New "Medicare For All" Video And Fax Action Page, "I'm A Democrat, And I'm A Republican" Chris Floyd: Systemic Success: Blood Money and Black Gold in Iraq michael payne: Will President Obama Dig a Deeper Hole in the Graveyard of Empires? Chaz Valenza: Six Reasons to Screw Wall Street Now Doug Korthof: *San Diego's failure to treat sewage costs us money Jon Faulkner: Obama's Short And Unremarkable Presidency (4 comments) James Brett: The Illusions of Arrogance Paul Craig Roberts: Myths of Our Time (28 comments) Dave Lindorff: Health Care Reform: DOA (2 comments) David Swanson: Come Together Right Now jacklegsjumpingup: Uncle Sam Shazam Jason Paz: From Elitists to Grassroots They Get It Wrong (1 comments) Jason Paz: What if Sirhan Sirhan Had Missed? (9 comments) ALONE: THREE WALL STORIES, THREE NEWSPAPERS, THREE PHOTOS & THREE EDITORIALS Craig Harrington: America's Nuclear Ambition Jim Quinn: FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH (1 comments) Mark Karlin: Once Again, Jon Stewart, Decimates FOX's Credibility and Makes Hannity Confess (1 comments) Kent Welton: THE FED "INDEPENDENCE" SCAM David Swanson: *If the Congressional Progressive Caucus Were Progressive (4 comments) Rory OConnor: Media, Money & Sun Myung Moon Kevin Gosztola: Obama Should Consider Public Option When Deciding Future of Afghan War (1 comments) Michael Collins: How We Got to Zero: General Eikenberry's Hail Mary (8 comments) Wednesday, November 11: Rob Kall: Obama Rejects all Four Afghanistan Plans (26 comments) Ward Harkavy: Bear Stearns Fraud Verdict: E-mails As Proof of Guilt? That's So 20th Century Paul Craig Roberts: America's Dismal Future (16 comments) George Washington: Financial Reform Doesn't Need to be Complicated (3 comments) George Washington: Military Spending is INCREASING Unemployment and REDUCING Economic Growth Rowan Wolf: A True Gift for Veterans - Peace (1 comments) Steve Fournier: Fort Hood Mystery (12 comments) Ralph Nader: Health Ins. "Reform" Over: Dems Failing the People, Republicans Disgracing Selves (13 comments) Ed Tubbs: A Veterans Day Preamble (3 comments) Richmond Shreve: Honorable and Faithful Service (3 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Where Does Single-Payer Go From Here? (Part 1) Mickey Z.: More Militant Vegans, Less Ethical Butchers Dean Hartwell: Truth Hurts but Myths Ruin the USA Stephen Lendman: Suspected Hemorrhagic Pneumonia Outbreak Hits Ukraine (4 comments) Ann Garrison: Three Reasons to Support African Greens Tuesday, November 10: Tom Hayden: Why die for Karzai? (4 comments) Ellen Brown: MAKING WALL STREET PAY ITS FAIR SHARE (4 comments) Eugene Elander: And the Berlin Wall Came Tumbling Down! Ari Bussel: Tough Choices Muqtedar Khan: Major Test for Muslims and Americans (4 comments) Tommy News: *Urgent Action Alert: New York State Marriage Equality Vote Scheduled! Grant Lawrence: Nearly Half of Congress Millionaires While Only Earning 6 Figures (6 comments) Thomas Farrell: *Congress Should Pass Public Funding for Abortion in the First Trimester Thomas Farrell: *Speak Up for the Health Care Bill, President Obama! Paul Rogat Loeb: Eight Reasons the Democrats lost Virginia & New Jersey--and How to Recover (1 comments) Jason Paz: US Defensive Tactic: Lying about Enemy Nukes (1 comments) Aref Assaf: Please Do Not Call Me! Hamad S Alomar: Hillary, Religion, Mideast and Fort Hood Daniel Tilson: Baseball and Politics Rick Rozoff: Twenty Years After End Of The Cold War: Pentagon's Buildup In Latin America Jeff Mackler: Mumia Abu-Jamal faces new execution threat David Swanson: Our Debt to Italy Chris Floyd: Talking Blues: Gitmo Gets Harsher Under "Progressive" Rule Amy Fried: Liberals and the "W" Word (9 comments) Richard Wise: Women Take Charge: "The Lysistrata Solution" (11 comments) Robert Parry: Why Lieberman Blocks a Public Option (1 comments) Dave Lindorff: Obama's War and Remembrance Day (2 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Lieberman Gets Another Visit from the Grassroots for Single-Payer (Updated) (1 comments) Richard Girard: Social Capitalism (3 comments) Rob Kall: Top-down blowback; The GOP Discovers that the Grassroots Bites Back (35 comments) martinweiss: *A National Insanity (4 comments) Brasch: Legacies, Celebrities, and Media Skanks (4 comments) Ari Bussel: Blaming America - Planting Discord in Los Angeles (8 comments) Jan Kuenzl: The Empire Strikes Back- Internet Censorship in the Middle East (3 comments) Chris Hedges: Afghanistan's Sham Army (2 comments) Monday, November 9: Dennis Kaiser: Another Law Against People About to be Passed (4 comments) David Glenn Cox: The Weight of Visions (6 comments) Ann Garrison: San Francisco energy policy disconnects from San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (1 comments) Hargrove: Fort Hood Shooting: Was Nancy Pelosi Right? (17 comments) AlexH: Dump the Republicans; They are Destructive to America! (5 comments) Kathy Malloy: Let the Games Begin! (3 comments) Robert Parry: Blaming the 'Dithering' Obama (1 comments) sibel edmonds: In the Name of a General, his Son, a Spook & the Godmother of Neocons (1 comments) George Washington: Big Bankers Say They're Doing God's Work ... Are They Right? (12 comments) Holly Sklar: Change Wall Street Can Believe In Rob Kall: Guaranteed; Initial Senate Bill Will Not Have A Public Option (17 comments) Ed Tubbs: The Combat Experience: The Child and the Video Tape and the Horror. (8 comments) Olga Bonfiglio: 20th Anniversary of the Opening of the Berlin Wall Stephen Lendman: Paid Lying: What Passes for Major Media Journalism (6 comments) Calvin Sloan: Petrodollars Overlooked - an interview with Mahmoud El-Gamal (1 comments) michael payne: The U.S. gives yet another pass to Israel; but the world will not (9 comments) Nicholas Smith: Marriage Equality Vote On Tuesday- Contact NY Senators! Susan Galleymore: No surprise on the House's support of Ros-Lehtinen/Berman resolution (1 comments) Dana Gabriel: Passing on the Mantle of Deep North American Integration David Glenn Cox: The Great Disconnect (1 comments) shamus cooke: The Coming U.S. Budget Attack (4 comments) Brian Downing: Leaving Afghanistan (2 comments) Ed Tubbs: Time to call it what it is, and to demand it become what we were promised Jay Janson: *“A Federated State Like Switzerland is the ONLY Solution for Israel/Palestine” Yehudi Menuhin (1 comments) Sunday, November 8: George Washington: One Reason that the Stock Market is Rising While Unemployment is Soaring (10 comments) earl ofari hutchinson: The Senate, Not the House, is the Name of the Game on Health Care Reform (1 comments) Mark Sashine: Nuremberg Laws- USA Y2009 (7 comments) Dave Lindorff: In America, Selfishness and Lack of Solidarity Know No Bounds (6 comments) Lee Stranahan: Kucinich's Brave Health Vote Vs. Obama's Failed Promise (2 comments) Midge Potts: Why I Chose to be Arrested Demanding Senator Lieberman Stop Taking Insurance Industry Money (1 comments) Mary Shaw: Rendition Prosecuted Abroad While U.S. Courts Do Nothing (4 comments) Rob Kall: House Passes Weak Public Option Health Care Bill, Selling Out Women's Rights. Includes Democrats Who Voted Against Bill (54 comments) Dennis Kucinich: Kucinich: Why I Voted NO (22 comments) Ward Harkavy: Fort Hood's Killer Shrink: Was He One of the Army Docs Pressured to Misdiagnose PTSD in Soldiers? (5 comments) Saturday, November 7: Robert Parry: A Special Report -- The Crazy October Surprise Debunking (2 comments) Harold Hellickson: Political system earns a mulligan (2 comments) Richard Girard: Racing to the Bottom (3 comments) Abdus Sattar Ghazali: Fort Hood Mass Homicide: American Muslims react with grief & fear of backlash (4 comments) Kellia Ramares: The Dangers of Voting on Civil Rights (1 comments) Eileen Fleming: Hillary, Congress Bury Goldstone Report, Shirking Accountability for US Role in Gaza Raids (9 comments) David Swanson: How to End Wars (9 comments) George Faulkner: Republicans Issue Easy-To-Read Health Care Reform Bill (the “Pat the Insurance Companies Act”) Michael Collins: Foreign Contributions and the Supreme's Overdue Decision on Campaign Funding (1 comments) Jay Janson: *Veterans Day is for many: ‘Veterans Lied to and Ashamed Day' (3 comments) PETA: Leading Alzheimer's researcher: Animal experiments will not help humans (1 comments) Mariangela Pino Landau: TRUTH IS WHAT THE DARKNESS MOST FEARS - Facing Our Own Soul (1 comments) Jay Janson: *I Was One Reason Why They Build The Berlin Wall gone: From Corporate Seize to Shining Sleaze Lani Massey Brown: EACs Disappointing Election "Glitch" -- We can't fix the voting machines, so let's blame the ballots. Mary MacElveen: The Stony Brook University Hotel is: Jobs, Baby, Jobs Friday, November 6: James Brett: Talking Our Way Out of the Great Recession Dave Lindorff: Unemployment Up Dramatically! Stocks Rise! Huh? (2 comments) Dennis Kucinich: Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war? (24 comments) Daniel Vojir: Pray For Carrie Prejean! Frosty Wooldridge: About the Social Contract: Our society and the future Jim Quinn: THE NANNY STATE (2 comments) Mariangela Pino Landau: Truth is What the Darkness Most Fears - Answering The Call ASimpleEquation: Conservative's Blind Support of Our Troops, Adoration of Glenn Beck and Their Unintended Defense of the Big Lie (1 comments) Dr. Odeen Ishmael: Odeen Ishmael: South-South cooperation advanced by ASA Summit Elizabeth Woodworth: Trust: What Obama Needs Most Brian McAfee: Asian Natural Disasters-A Harbinger Of Things To Come? (2 comments) Rick Rozoff: Kosovo: Marking Ten Years Of Worldwide Wars Daniel Tilson: Bell Rings for Florida Voters (1 comments) Susan Galleymore: Ryan, Recruited! - Band of Buddies Series Roland Michel Tremblay: Humankind's future: social and political Utopia or Idiocracy? Elaine Brower: American Values: Upside Down or Just Twisted? (9 comments) Bev Harris: Tools to help examine Maine's controversial rollback of gay rights (2 comments) Douglas Drenkow: Election Lesson: It's right -- not Right -- to be Democrats. Lawrence Velvel: Memorandum of Objector, Lawrence R. Velvel, In Opposition to the Position of the Trustee and SIPC on Net Equity. William Fisher: Most Happy Fella! Bernie Sanders: Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Exist (11 comments) Bob Burnett: What if McCain Had Won? (11 comments) G J Lau: Republican Anarchists Continue Climate Obstruction (1 comments) Stephen Lendman: Honduran Accord Solidifies Coup E'Etat Rule (2 comments) Thomas Farrell: *Is the New York Times Anti-Catholic for Publishing Maureen Dowd's Criticisms of the Catholic Church? Thursday, November 5: Eugene Elander: A Tale of Two Dicks David Michael Green: Can You Hear Us Now? (1 comments) Paul Craig Roberts: The Evil Empire (27 comments) Mary MacElveen: In light of Fort Hood: Michelle Bachmann, shut the hell up! (4 comments) Press Release: The Single Payer Vote Today; From Congressmen Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers (7 comments) David Swanson: Between Hate Speech and Adoration Don Williams: On Obama's role in New Millennium Writings (1 comments) CODEPINK: Stop U.S. Meddling; support Afghan women at the table Kevin Gosztola: VIDEO of Healthcare Action in Lieberman's Office (3 comments) Richard Wise: GOP Health Reform: “The Insurance Industry Profit Enhancement Act” (2 comments) John Jonik: *Reject the CORPORATE OPTION for National Health Care (2 comments) Michael Fox: Tea Party vs. Two Party (3 comments) Wednesday, November 4: Bruce Dixon: If Democrats Don't Pass Health Insurance Reform This Year, What Do We Lose? And What Do We Gain? (1 comments) David Swanson: Weiner Amendment Vote on Friday Will Fail and Serve as a Cover for Removing Kucinich Amendment (2 comments) Kathy Malloy: Will a Landslide Bring You Down? (5 comments) William Rivers Pitt: Little Joe (1 comments) PETA: The land of the free? Tommy News: *Take Action: Civil Rights Marriage Equality Loss in Maine Needs a Nationwide Protest Response. Ivan Hentschel: Lieberstami michael payne: General McCrystal challenges the President's authority; who will prevail? (10 comments) Dean Hartwell: Democrats Must Take Sarah Palin Seriously (9 comments) Ken Scott: *Cure Congressional Corruption Act of 2009 (6 comments) Daniel Vojir: Heal Hitler! (1 comments) Daniel Vojir: Challenge To Birther, Obama Hater And Alleged "Reverend" James David Manning: Show Us YOUR Documents! (2 comments) Steve Beckow: *The Black Hats Must Go (1 comments) Bettye Johnson: The Forgotten Symbol Dan Brown Omitted From The Lost Symbol (3 comments) rob balsamo: *9/11: Speeds Reported For World Trade Center Attack Aircraft Analyzed (2 comments) Richard Clark: *The Trillion Dollar Bank Job Continues Under Our Noses (5 comments) Robert Parry: How Two Elections Changed America (1 comments) Karyn Strickler: *Carbon Cuts: 350 is Not Adequate (1 comments) kate loving shenk: So Much For A Representative Democracy Jason Paz: Book Review: How Aid Hurt Palestine by Anne Le More (5 comments) Frederick Alexander Meade: Is Obama “Playing the Game?” (1 comments) winston: Dithering! arn specter: The High Costs of Today's U.S. Defense Budget Anthony Wade: Mike Bloomberg Buys New York City – Thwarts the Will of the Voters Eileen Fleming: Parliament, Mordechai Vanunu, Kuttab, Congress and Goldstone Ann Garrison: *No Rule of Law in Rwanda Judy Swindler: *Lollygagging By Mitch McConnell Denies 200,000 Americans Unemployment Benefit Extension Arthur M. Howard-Scotoni: The Complification of Health Care (2 comments) Dave Lindorff: 2010 Looms: Democrats Crash and Burn in Virginia and New Jersey (7 comments) Dwayne Hunn: *Building New Armies Builds World Peace? William Fisher: And Where Was A.G. Ashcroft? A.W.O.L. (1 comments) Rob Kall: America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying (34 comments) Allan Goldstein: The Real Lesson of Tuesday's Election: DO Something Bill Hare: How About the Post 9/11 Deaths of Afghan Peasant Farmers Paul from Potomac: *Sellout On The Great Lakes (1 comments) Stephen Lendman: House Resolution Designates Venezuela a State Sponsor of Terrorism (2 comments) Hussain Abdul-Hussain: National Geographic vs. the Syrian regime Mary MacElveen: Why so many Democratic losses? (4 comments) robert dodge: *Rethinking Afghanistan - Alternatives to War (1 comments) Jim Miles: Reflections on Michael Moore's "Capitalism" (1 comments) Ed Tubbs: Dick Cheney and the Divorce Court Fabergé egg. (2 comments) Ed Tubbs: Prisoners of War: The Homeless in Seattle, and Savanna, and San Diego, and . . . (2 comments) Michael Fullerton: Swine Flu Madness Richard Clark: *Why on earth is Obama continuing the war in Afghanistan? (4 comments) Steven Leser: The Meaning of Election 2009 and Grading Obama's First Ten Months (13 comments) Tuesday, November 3: George Washington: Take the Power to Create Credit Away from the Giant Banks and Give It Back to the People Tommy News: *Historic Hate Crimes Legislation Becomes Law, President Obama's Remarks (1 comments) Kevin Gosztola: Sit-In at Pelosi's Office After Breaking Promise on Kucinich Amendment (3 comments) Chris Floyd: The Inhuman Stain: Saying Yes to State Terror (1 comments) Elaine Brower: Seven Activists Faced Trial in Philadelphia but Charges are DISMISSED! (4 comments) Ray McGovern: Heeding George Kennan's Wise Advice Kathleen Bushman: Joe and the Democrats (5 comments) Joel S. Hirschhorn: What Physicians Know (3 comments) Ann Wright: Congressman Brian Baird Challenges Congressional Leadership's David Glenn Cox: Rogue Nation Sherwood Ross: Tortured in far-off Countries: Obama Resuming G. W. Bush's "Extraordinary Renditions" (3 comments) David Model: Not Again has Become Not Another One: Genocide in Ethiopia Ann Garrison: *Broken bones and arrests at Rwandan Green Party convention Elayne Clift: Getting Away with Murder...and Rape Elayne Clift: Getting Away with Murder...and Rape (1 comments) shamus cooke: Proping Up a Broken Capitalism (1 comments) Ed Tubbs: Stay Out of the Red States, if You Want to be Healthy. (4 comments) Brent Budowsky: Voters Are Not Stupid! (3 comments) Ezili Danto: *Perlitz remains behind bars - HLLN says "No More Secrecy" (1 comments) Eric Walberg: NATO vs CSTO: The Fog of War (2 comments) michael payne: America Resembles a Ship Without a Rudder; or a Compass (1 comments) Gustav Wynn: Hannity and Limbaugh: The Sinful Downfall of Broadcasting in the USA (6 comments) Rory OConnor: Iraq & Afghan Wars: Just Give Me Some Truth Scott Baker: *A Progressive in Florida is running TODAY (3 comments) Midge Potts: *Insurance Reform Is A Joke! Joe Walsh: Healer Arrested for Leafleting Joe Walsh: Healer Arrested for Leafleting (1 comments) Monday, November 2: Chris Hedges: Opium, Rape and the American Way (9 comments) Miles Mogulescu: Calling Out the House Progressive Caucus: Are You Men and Women, or Are You Mice? (3 comments) Ward Harkavy: CIT Bankruptcy: Taxpayers Stiffed on Company's Bailout Billions While Execs Reap Bonuses (6 comments) Marcy Winograd: Big Pharma's Biologic Bonanza (2 comments) Kathy Malloy: Meet the New Boss?? (12 comments) Jon Faulkner: The Liars Reign Supreme As The Nation Withers (4 comments) Tom Engelhardt: Too Big to Fail? Afghanistan as a Bailout State Ellen Brown: Cut Wall Street Out! How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery (4 comments) Dave Lindorff: Country Joe, Kenny Rogers and Obama (3 comments) Robert Parry: Cheney and the Plame-Gate Cover-up Mark Sashine: Moronic Joe Evokes Uncle Joe Stalin (7 comments) Russ Buchanan: None Dare Call it Bribery: Is the Public Option America's Political Crucible? (13 comments) Scott Baker: *My Personal Offer to the Financial Robbers: Prepaid Banishment (2 comments) Kevin Gosztola: One Year On, Obama's "Yes We Can" is Now "Incremental Change We Can Believe In" (11 comments) William Fisher: Justice Delayed... (4 comments) David Swanson: Between Hate Speech and Adoration (3 comments) Stephen Lendman: FBI Kills Islamic Cleric, Arrests Followers, for Being Muslims at the Wrong Time in America (3 comments) Maidhc � Cathail: Israel's European Lobby (3 comments) robert braunstein: A Toast to Health Care Reform (and future sellouts) (2 comments) Tommy News: *TAKE ACTION: Get Voters out to the Polls and ROCK THE VOTE! Martin Carbone: *1 to 2 % Home Mortgages -- why not? (2 comments) Michael Collins: Failure by Design - The "Public" Option (7 comments) Sunday, November 1: Elayne Clift: Before You Buy Pink...Think (2 comments) Rob Kall: Blue Dogs' Fundraising Plummets (22 comments) Grant Lawrence: Solution to Poverty: Allow Rich Men More Wives (12 comments) Krishna Hari Pushkar: Asking for a Rethink on US Immigration Diplomacy Daniel Vojir: That Was The Week That Was: A Warren Uganda Guam Palin Bennny Kind Of Week Carola Von Hoffmannstahl: Atlantic Yards, Shadow Government, and Albany Frozen in Amber Daniel Tilson: *Florida Republican Party Rotting From Top Down Sheila Samples: Rack 'em and Screw 'em, Boys! (4 comments) Richard Wise: Lieberman on Health Reform: Disingenuous or Dishonest? (8 comments) Eugene Elander: Et tu, Joe? James Raider: The UN – A New World Power Through Climate Change Fears? (2 comments) W. Christopher Epler (Bill): More than any person in history, Obama trashed a chance to create a gloriously better world. (9 comments) Lani Massey Brown: Sequoia: Open Software Can't Count Votes & Elections Still Won't Work (17 comments) Rowan Wolf: Natural Gas - Not All It's Frakked Up To be (2 comments) David Swanson: The Two Percent Robustness Nemat Sadat: Why Post 9/11 Afghanistan is Berlin of the Cold War? (1 comments) The Project on Race in Political Communication: Teaching Tool: The Advantages and Limitations of a Race-Themed Political Cartoon Rob Kall: Accusing Election Fraud, Corruption, Karzai Opponent Withdraws From Election, Raising More Questions for USA (2 comments) Rob Kall: Photo Essay part 3: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience (2 comments) Rob Kall: Part 2: Photo Essay: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience (2 comments) Mary Shaw: Legislating Inequality: Last year in California, this year in Maine? (1 comments) Ed Tubbs: California, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage Laws and Getting Stoned Shariah Style. (25 comments)
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