Archives for Best Web OpEds
May 2010
Monday, May 31:
Mac McKinney: Israeli Butchery at Sea
Sheila Samples: Alan Sabrosky: The Madness Of Arrogance: Israel's Attack On The Gaza Aid Flotilla
Sheila Samples: A Special Place in Hell / The Second Gaza War: Israel lost at sea
Margaret Bassett: Black Realities and Black Delusion in the Age of Obama
Sheila Samples: Gilad Atzmon - Israeli Butchery at Sea
Mac McKinney: Marwan Bishara: Israel Defending the Indefensible
Diane V. McLoughlin: Rock God McCartney Part Gulf Waters Jo Jo - by Diane V. McLoughlin
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Pain Caucus
Sunday, May 30:
Sheila Samples: Psychopaths United For Israel (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Obama's Katrina? Maybe Worse (2 comments)
Saturday, May 29:
Sheila Samples: David Ray Griffin: Building What? How SCADs Can Be Hidden in Plain Sight (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Rise of Rand Paul and the Mainstreaming of the Racist Right (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Red-Flag Market Gauges Recall '08 Crisis LevelsVideo
Sheila Dean: Let's Follow the Brits' Lead in Restoring Civil Liberties by Michael Tennant
Sheila Samples: Jim Lobe: Obama shakes pillars of US security
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: An Unnatural Disaster (1 comments)
Friday, May 28:
Sheila Dean: Edwin Black on BP multinational corporate oil crisis c/o Waking Up Orwell
Ann Garrison: Rwanda arrests Ingabire's American lawyer Peter Erlinder
Margaret Bassett: The Real Cost of Cheap Oil
Sheila Samples: Fishermen Hospitalized: BP Not Allowing Clean-Up Workers to Use Respirators
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Gulf oil spill offers a lesson in capitalism vs. socialism
Sheila Samples: Is Republican party working toward extinction?
Sheila Samples: In a Word, the Problem is "Debt"
Sheila Samples: Dilip Hiro: The American Century Is So Over
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Obama's Oil Spill Press Conference May Have Changed Perceptions -- But The Reality Remains The Same (2 comments)
Thursday, May 27:
Karen Fish: BP Indiana Refinery Poisoning Great Lakes to Death by Eartha Jane Melzer (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Neocon Vampires Sink Their Fangs Into the Tea Parties
Sheila Samples: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane
Sheila Samples: Commentary: Enough anger to go around over government irresponsibility
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: How Christian is Tea Party Libertarianism?
Sheila Samples: From Failed Bombings to Armed Jihadist Assaults
Sheila Samples: Katrina vanden Heuvel - A flawed strategy and a failed war in Afghanistan
Richmond Shreve: Will Dirty Politics Kill the Internet? | Save the Internet (1 comments)
Wednesday, May 26:
Mac McKinney: Take punitive action against BP now: Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (3 comments)
Odyseus_97: The Case for Socialism
peggyn: It's Called "War Porn" by Tanya Cariina Hsu
GLloyd Rowsey: Gareth Peirce Presents the Case Against Extradition
Sheila Samples: P.M. Carpenter: Obama's Unengulfing Politics: Absolutely Baffling
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Report: Fisherman Hired by BP Without Protection, Falling Sick
Sheila Samples: Before the Endgame: America's Fatal Flaws in Afghanistan
Josh Mitteldorf: What will Kagan do about the "Unitary Executive"? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Robert Fisk: Journalism and 'the words of power'
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it would be
Kevin Gosztola: Muslim-beating in the 'righteous' US
Richmond Shreve: Rand Paul's Principled Absurdity | The New Republic (1 comments)
M. Wizard: James Carville To Obama On Oil Spill: 'Get Down Here And Take Control... We're About To Die'
Sheila Samples: Mideast peace is a global issue, says Lebanon's prime minister
Tuesday, May 25:
Ernest Canning: Rand Paul Exposes Libertarian Blind Spots (1 comments)
Steven Leser: An article I wrote Four Years ago on the Dangers of Offshore Drilling
Sheila Samples: Is the Mean-Spirited, Ignorant, Tearful Glenn Beck Going to Have an Impact on America? (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: 6 Ways Rand Paul Is Like Sarah Palin
Monday, May 24:
B. Ross Ashley: In Canada once more, U.S. troops fleeing a war By Judy Keen, USA TODAY
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Rand Paul: Like Father, Like Son?
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Obama's War Supplemental: Recent Reports Strengthen The Case Against It
Sheila Samples: Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Mark Souder's downfall shows virtue knows no ideology
Margaret Bassett: Rep. Alan Grayson Introduces the "War Is Making You Poor" Act (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Foreign Policy Legacy of George W. Bush
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Obama Versus the Corporations (2 comments)
Sunday, May 23:
Don Smith: Support the Fair Elections Now Act
Sheila Samples: US should stop 'drunk-driver' Israel
Ned Lud: Obama's 10 failures: An oil spill or a man made volcanic vent of crude oil?
Billy Wharton: Guggenheim Line Shows That New Yorkers Want Art - Billy Wharton
Dennis Kaiser: Citizen or Not, the U.S. Census Counts Everyone
M. Wizard: Obama's Wrecking Crew?
Ned Lud: "Kill Them All, For God Will Know His Own"
Mac McKinney: Coca-Cola's Murderous Record of Anti-Union Activity in Colombia Exposed
Sheila Samples: Is Another Oil Spill Disaster Looming?
Sheila Samples: Palestinian nonviolence relies on global non-silence
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: The "Randslide' and Its Discontents
Saturday, May 22:
Georgianne Nienaber: Thoughts From the Gulf: "Don't Make Us Tragedy Porn" by Amanda Mueller (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Below the Radar: HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America's Public Housing
Mac McKinney: James Carville Takes On Obama On Oil Spill: He's 'Risking Everything' With 'Go Along With BP Strategy'
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: More Than Just an Oil Spill
Sheila Samples: Reform Without Punishment
Friday, May 21:
Don Smith: The War is Making You Poor: sign petition, by Alan Grayson (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Joe Conason: The roots of Rand Paul's civil rights resentment
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Rand Paul: An Anti-Government Conspiracy Theorist?
Eileen Fleming: What John Lennon might say to Sir Elton and a Call for 21st Century Artists Against Apartheid
Sheila Samples: Roger Cohen: America Moves the Goalposts
Sheila Samples: Commentary: Bloody alphabet soup
Sheila Samples: Editorial - Murky Waters
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Lost Decade Looming?
Thursday, May 20:
Sheila Samples: Joe Conason: Bush lied about his military service, and so did Reagan
Sheila Samples: Bill Berkowitz: The Newt of Gingrich Slogs On
Sheila Samples: Rage Machine -- Andrew Breitbart's empire of bluster
Wednesday, May 19:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Glenn Beck and Rep. Anthony Weiner: A Fight for the Gold (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: Keith Olbermann Interviews Robert Redford on Oil Spill: We Need Leadership and Transparency
Sheila Samples: Christopher Bollyn: Robert Oswain R.I.P. - NYPD Victim of Toxic WTC Smoke
Margaret Bassett: Ex-Wells Fargo CEO Still Mad about Bailout
Sheila Samples: John Hagee Said God Sent Hitler to Hunt the Jews. Now He Wants to Be the Comeback Kid. | The Smirking Chimp
Sheila Samples: 10 fictitious Tea Party beliefs (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Declaring war on the intellect - Israel and Noam Chomsky
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank: Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994
Margaret Bassett: Beat The Chip: Activists Face off with Facebook
Tuesday, May 18:
Rory OConnor: Media is a Plural
Cathy Garger: USA Enters Stiff International Competition for Next Chernobyl Explosion by Cathy Garger
Sherry Mann: BP and the "Little Eichmanns'
Margaret Bassett: How to Break Up the Banks, Stop Massive Bonuses, and Rein in Wall Street Greed
Margaret Bassett: U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages
Margaret Bassett: Lawmaker Blurs Line with Activists
Monday, May 17:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: 2010 Elections: Confused Voters Want Revenge and Results? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - GOP's Utah and Maine conventions show a party coming unglued
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The G.O.P. - Going to Extreme
Sunday, May 16:
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: A Heaven-Sent Rent Boy
Saturday, May 15:
Sheila Samples: Andy Borowitz: Next week's news
Friday, May 14:
M. Wizard: Seymour Hersh: Obama Being Dominated by the Military
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Are Democrats Screwed in 2010? (9 comments)
Sheila Samples: Jackson Diehl - Can Obama save his Afghanistan surge?
Bahija Reghai: Al Nakba: Expelled from home and native land but not from history, Bahija Réghaï
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: We're Not Greece (2 comments)
Thursday, May 13:
Daniel Geery: All You Need to Know About Glen Beck
Ned Lud: Prognosis 2012: Towards a New World Social Order by Richard K. Moore
Sheila Samples: Mister Obama's War hits a speed bump (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: AlterNet: America's Ten Most Corrupt Capitalists (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Billy Wharton: The Salazar Quotient
Wednesday, May 12:
Sheila Samples: Can U.S. succeed in Afghanistan and Pakistan? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Does Obama Have a Clear Plan for Afghanistan?
Sheila Samples: Kagan Under Obligation To Open Up
M. Wizard: Sarah Palin: American Law Should Be 'Based On The God Of The Bible And The Ten Commandments'
Billy Wharton: Albany's Furlough Legislation Punishes All New Yorkers - Billy Wharton
Tuesday, May 11:
Don Smith: Vatican Justice | Project Reason
Margaret Bassett: Black Sunday Won't Ever Happen Again
Margaret Bassett: Condi: The Queen of No Soul
Margaret Bassett: Impact on Coastal Residents Eyed
Sheila Samples: Europe, Nationalism and Shared Fate
Josh Mitteldorf: Trashing the Environment is a Rich Peoples' Game by George Monbiot
Sheila Samples: Condi: The Queen of No Soul
Sheila Samples: David Corn: What's Wrong With Big Government?
Sheila Samples: Israel's bleak future
Sheila Samples: Assassination of US Muslim Cleric is Illegal, Immoral and Unwise
Monday, May 10:
Margaret Bassett: The Liberal Case Against Kagan is Overstated
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Sex and Drugs and the Spill (1 comments)
Sunday, May 9:
Sheila Samples: Jonathan Turley: Happy Mother's Day From Glenn Beck
Margaret Bassett: Not All Say 'Amen' to National Prayer Day
Claras: The Tragic End of Metapolitefsi
Joan Brunwasser: If This Is Our Future (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: They Don't Report. You Don't Have to Decide
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Wall Street Reform: Obama the Ping-Pong Populist
Saturday, May 8:
Sheila Samples: Look Out, Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War
Sheila Samples: White House Should Stop Pandering to Wall Street
Sheila Samples: Passive Progressives Rely on Keyboards When They Should Seize the Agenda and Energetically Advocate and Make Change
Friday, May 7:
Sheila Samples: Arnaud De Borchgrave: Fiscal WMD
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: A Money Too Far (1 comments)
Thursday, May 6:
Sheila Samples: Karl Rove, Republican Party plot vast network to reclaim power
Sheila Samples: Philip Giraldi: A Timetable For War
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: Glenn Beck, Immigration, and Social Justice
Sheila Samples: Harold Meyerson - Deficit hawkery's harsh impact on education
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - Terrorists who want to buy guns have friends on Capitol Hill
Richmond Shreve: The Reverse Katrina | The New Republic (2 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Nicholas D Kristof: New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
Joan Brunwasser: Gail Collins: Congress, Up in Arms
Wednesday, May 5:
Don Smith: Ad to appear in NY Review of Books: Crimes Are Crimes - No Matter Who Does Them
Sheila Samples: David Corn: BP Oil Spill, NYC Terror Plot: Limbaugh & Co. Go Nuts
Sheila Samples: Whether Oil Slick or Financial Crisis, Those Who Cause Catastrophes Should Pay
Richmond Shreve: Beating The Street | The New Republic
Billy Wharton: Tased Phillies Fan Defends Baseball Ritual - Billy Wharton (6 comments)
Tuesday, May 4:
Sheila Samples: Richard Cohen - Newt Gingrich, provocateur in chief
Sheila Samples: Jackson Diehl: Obama's diplomacy, not fully engaged
Sheila Samples: How Does Sarah Palin Make Millions While Saying Some of the Dumbest Things Imaginable?
Carrie Watts: Redactions Revealed: The Six Secrets You Need to Know From the Obama Subpoena Request Source
Monday, May 3:
Sheila Samples: Is Gulf Oil Disaster Obama's Katrina? (Hint: No Flyovers This Time)
Sheila Samples: Dick Cheney and the Oil Spill
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - From Britain's conservatives, lessons for the GOP
Sheila Samples: What Rush Limbaugh Doesn't Understand About Liberals
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Oil Drilling, Disaster and Denial (3 comments)
Sunday, May 2:
Margaret Bassett: A Gang War Destroys Lives and Prods Peacemakers (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem (1 comments)
Saturday, May 1:
M. Wizard: 10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: I Was the Target of a Fox News Hoax