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Archives for Best Web OpEds
July 2010
Saturday, July 31:
Diane V. McLoughlin: Choices: Universal Health Care Versus Universal Destruction (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Juan Cole: The Closing of the Zionist Mind
Sheila Samples: The looting of Iraq Nearly $9 billion in Iraqi funds disappeared
Margaret Bassett: Why No Campus Protest over Berkeley-BP Connection? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: A Persian message for Obama
Sheila Samples: Matt Taibbi: The Tea Party is Perverted and Irrelevant
Kevin Gosztola: Daniel Ellsberg's WikiLeaks Wish List
Kevin Gosztola: From globalisation to migration by Mark Levine
Kevin Gosztola: Wikileaks interview: 'We are changing the game' - The Local
Kevin Gosztola: Curbing Your Enthusiasm by Paul Krugman
Kevin Gosztola: The "Liberal" Media Strikes Back? Spotlighting the Right's Incompetence Behind the "JournoList" Non-Scandal
Sheila Samples: Is Israel a liability for the US?
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Prepping for 2012, Newt Gingrich Dusts Off His Old Playbook
Friday, July 30:
Sheila Samples: Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of Evil' (VIDEO) (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Real Aim of Israel's Bomb Iran Campaign
Amy Lee Coy: Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't work for everyone -- and that's OK by Amy Lee Coy (1 comments)
Dennis Kaiser: Obama seeks to expand arms exports by trimming approval process | McClatchy (1 comments)
Dennis Kaiser: Rheehire the Teachers, Rheetire the Chancellor | CommonDreams.org (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Four More Years Of War -- Just For Starters
Sheila Samples: It's no secret what Pakistan's been doing with the Taliban
Sheila Samples: Breaking a Promise on Surveillance (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Can Dudley Move BP Beyond its Past? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Curbing Your Enthusiasm
Thursday, July 29:
Sheila Samples: Why aren't conservatives blasting military industry welfare? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dems Take on Supreme Court's Giant Sell-Out of Our Democracy to Corporations
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - In American politics, stupidity is the name of the game
Margaret Bassett: he Mighty Rise of the Food Revolution
Robert Arend: Michael Lind: Are the American people obsolete?
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama, Wikileaks and Afghanistan: The Grand Fudge
Wednesday, July 28:
Sheila Samples: US Grows Isolated on Aggressive War
Sheila Samples: Is Obama Cooking the Intelligence on Iran as Bush Did with Iraq?
Sheila Samples: Mainstream Media Helps BP Pretend There's No Oil (2 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Open letter to Markos Moulitsas: Why is election fraud taboo on Kos?
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Thank God for the Whistle-Blowers
Sheila Samples: Harold Meyerson - The job machine grinds to a halt
Sheila Samples: Eliot Spitzer: Two Crises Wasted
Lance Ciepiela: Why 'Israelis' Danced on 911 (8 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Campaign 2010: Why Democrats Think They Can Hold the House (2 comments)
Tuesday, July 27:
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Long-Term Economic Pain for American Families
Sheila Samples: 14 Shocking Facts That Prove the Criminal Justice System Is Racist
Sheila Samples: Sherrod, Breitbart and the conservative outrage machine
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Ground Truth from Afghanistan
Dennis Kaiser: Ministers hand Big Brother powers to EU police | Mail Online
Ned Lud: The Breakup of the United States by Michael S. Rozeff (1 comments)
Monday, July 26:
Mac McKinney: The Forgotten American (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: James Fallows: On the AfPak / Wikileaks Documents
Billy Wharton: Understanding the State: New and Old - Billy Wharton
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Enough right-wing propaganda
Kevin Gosztola: Saturday News Hangover Radio Show - July 24th
Kevin Gosztola: The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak by Glenn Greenwald (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: WikiLeaks May Have Just Changed the Media, Too - Science and Tech - The Atlantic (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Who Cooked the Planet?
Sunday, July 25:
Sheila Samples: Franken: 'If Republicans Take Over Congress, They'll Implement A Truly Dangerous Agenda' (VIDEO)
Sheila Samples: Are the Teachers Unions and the Democrats Headed for Divorce Court?
Sheila Samples: Running on Bullshit
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank: Massey Energy's Blankenship: No shame, but plenty of blame
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: There's a Battle Outside and It Is Still Ragin'
Saturday, July 24:
Sheila Samples: Right-Wingers Gather in Las Vegas for Online Organizing Conference
Sheila Samples: BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle
Margaret Bassett: The One Question Congress Needs to Ask Bernanke
Sheila Samples: "Grassroots" Rove-linked group funded almost entirely by billionaires
Friday, July 23:
Sheila Samples: Obama administration takes page from Bush playbook
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Palin's Shocking Admission: Not Tough Enough to Be President
Margaret Bassett: James Webb: Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege (1 comments)
Aurora: Fidel Castro Warns on the Dangers of a Third World War (5 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: The Other Tragedy, by Fidel Castro Ruz (5 comments)
B. Ross Ashley: Security operation or political theatre? - thestar.com
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Addicted to Bush (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: The Essential, Undistractable Tom Engelhardt
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Obama needs to stand up to 'reverse racism' ploy
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: The Grinches Who Stole Summer
Thursday, July 22:
Michael Bonanno: Why Socialism by Albert Einstein (4 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: How Amazon Kills Books and Makes Us Stupid
Joan Brunwasser: Online Voting: All That Glitters Is Not Gold (Unless You're a Vendor) (2 comments)
Wednesday, July 21:
Aurora: Jesse Jackson: Let's give Congress our marching orders (2 comments)
Jeffrey Toney: The Dreaded P-Word? By John McWhorter
Kevin Gosztola: How Obama and the Dems Can Get Us Out of the Huge Economic Hole We're in by Robert L. Borosage (1 comments)
Ned Lud: American War vs. Real War by Nick Turse and Tom Engelhardt
Tuesday, July 20:
Joan Brunwasser: John Zogby and Nate Silver: 2000-2008 True Vote vs. Recorded Vote Rankings
Joan Brunwasser: Ostroy Report: Here's the Campaign Speech Obama Should Be Giving to Help Democrats
Joan Brunwasser: BOB HERBERT - We’re Not Ready on Nuclear Power (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Elizabeth Warren Could Head CFPB Without Senate Confirmation
Kevin Gosztola: "Saturday News Hangover" CMN News Radio Show (July 17th) (1 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Israeli right embracing one-state? by Ali Abunimah
Kevin Gosztola: Commentary: War on Drugs and the racial caste system by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Scott Baker: Why were resources expunged from neo-classical economics? (1 comments)
Monday, July 19:
Aurora: WAR DRUMS: Chomsky on IRAN and USA+Israel (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Robert Kuttner: The Warren Drama: Another Missed Opportunity?
Jeffrey Toney: Palin Compares Herself To Shakespeare, Asks Muslims To 'Refudiate' Mosque by Geoffrey Dunn (1 comments)
Billy Wharton: US Financial Reform Bill Misses the Mark - Billy Wharton
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - What is Obamaism? President must do better in explaining his policies
Sheila Samples: Are We Replaying Iraq"In Iran? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Sarah Palin leads the GOP presidential pack for 2012 (5 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: James Howard Kunstler Asks, What If Matthew Simmons is Right About the Gulf?
Henry Pelifian: How does President Bush lie? by Cy Bolton (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Ross Douthat: The Roots Of White Anxiety
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Pundit Delusion
Sunday, July 18:
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu admits on video he deceived US to destroy Oslo accord
Steven Leser: Sarah Palin compares herself to Shakespeare! (1 comments)
Jeffrey Toney: Amid 'e-media,' books retain their allure by Jeffrey H. Toney
Sheila Dean: The Future of Liberaltarianism? Where Libertarians Belong by Allen McDuffee
Sheila Samples: Obama still McCain campaign nemesis
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: The Good News About Mel Gibson
Linda Milazzo: Blessed Are the Peacemakers... But Not In America (3 comments)
Saturday, July 17:
Sheila Samples: A Keynesian Recipe for the Global Crisis
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank: The tea party makes trouble with a capital T
Sheila Samples: Killer drones: Where's the accountability? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Gail Collins: Let's Repeal 2010
Sheila Samples: Charles M. Blow: Dog Days of Obama
Sheila Samples: "DEFECTORS" AND THE UNFOLDING INTELLIGENCE FAILURE ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM - The Race for Iran
Friday, July 16:
Mac McKinney: G-20 Arrests a "Dry Run" -- Sinn Fein Veteran
Joan Brunwasser: Tell the U.S. Senate: Pass Comprehensive Climate and Energy Legislation Now (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Daniel C. Maguire: Why I Am a Jew
Sheila Samples: Tricky Bibi
Sheila Samples: Majority Leader Harry Reid offers a realistic energy bill
Sheila Samples: Froma Harrop: Democrats Can Avoid Rout -- It's Up to The:m
Sheila Samples: George Lakoff: Conservatism's Death Gusher
M. Wizard: "Learning from Iran" by Ralph Nader
Josh Mitteldorf: What Is Obama Protecting at the CIA? (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: The great Dick Cheney empathy test
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - It's time for Democrats to give up the funk
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Redo That Voodoo
Thursday, July 15:
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Carbs vs. Fats: McDougall Critiques Weil
Sheila Dean: ACTION ALERT: Will you be assimilated in NSTIC? by Jim Babka
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: Controversy in Wisconsin
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Sarah Palin in 2012: Don't Bet on Her -- Either Way
Sheila Samples: America's Loud Desperation
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - What the NAACP is really asking on racism within the Tea Party
Ned Lud: Welcome to Hell:
Zeeva International: DemocracyForAmerica.com - Blog - The Power of the PEOPLE: Kick...
Wednesday, July 14:
Don Smith: Chris Hedges: Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
Margaret Bassett: GUEST OPINION: GOP Failing to Help Those Who Need it
Sheila Samples: Wall Street Is Laundering Drug Money And Getting Away With It - SpeakEasy
Sheila Samples: Robert Creamer: Dirty Little Secrets the Republicans Don't Want You to Know
Sheila Samples: Kathleen Parker - Sarah Palin, from pit bull to mama grizzly
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: Mel Gibson's 10 tips for sexist monsters
Sheila Samples: It's Unanimous! GOP Says No To Unemployment Benefits, Yes To Tax Cuts For The Rich
Sheila Samples: James Ridgeway: Meet the Real Death Panels
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: There's Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons
Rob Kall: Cops could face death in post-Katrina shootings (4 comments)
Rob Kall: Where is the anti-capitalist ideology?
Tuesday, July 13:
Don Smith: Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now | The Nation (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Keep in Mind, Republicans Fare Worse Than Obama in Discouraging New Poll (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama's triumphs are also his weaknesses: Health care, stimulus, financial reform
Jeffrey Toney: Connecting the Dots for Better Medicine by Jeffrey H. Toney and Sonal Singh
Aurora: Coalition Against War Spending Joined by Independent Greens: David Swanson
Sheila Samples: Richard Cohen - Afghanistan: Barack Obama's war and Michael Steele's truth
Kevin Gosztola: Profiling 5 Key Right-Wing Mouthpieces Who Spread Paranoia and Hatred to Extremists on the Fringe | Tea Party and the Ri
Sheila Samples: Why Are the Right's Supposedly "Pro-Women" Groups Ignoring the Vitter Scandal?
Sheila Samples: Former Bush Administration Official Heads Up Latest Astroturf Group Pushing For Attack on Iran
Monday, July 12:
Sheila Samples: Stuart Littlewood: Has Obamageddon signed the world's death warrant? (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: James Abourezk: The Unchallenged Power of the Israel Lobby
Sheila Samples: Unemployed deserve support not vilification
Sheila Samples: Robert Kuttner: Question for the Tea Party: Why the Free Ride for Republicans Protecting Bankers?
Sheila Samples: WHO WILL BE BLAMED FOR A U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Arianna Huffington vs. PolitiFact . . . and Liz Cheney Escapes
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The left needs a right brain
Dennis Kaiser: BP Spill: Why America Is Addicted to Oil - The Daily Beast
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Feckless Fed
Sheila Samples: Gideon Levy: A peace crime
Sunday, July 11:
Sheila Samples: The People Behind "Keep Israel Safe' and "Stop Iran Now'
Sheila Samples: Stirrings of a New Push for Military Option on Iran
Kevin Gosztola: Deepwater Horizon spill is still wreaking havoc but that's not news | Media | The Observer
Kevin Gosztola: When Journalists Are Attacked, We're All Wounded -- In These Times
Sheila Samples: John McCain ditches his liberal past and turns hard right
Saturday, July 10:
peggyn: The Unholy Alliance: Monsanto, Dupont & Obama by OCA
morris herman: YouTube - US Muslims being forced into exile - video
Sheila Samples: Editorial - After the Flotilla (2 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Frank Schaeffer: "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for Israel and the USA
Kevin Gosztola: The European right is capitalising on a crisis
Kevin Gosztola: Octavia Nasr's firing and what The Liberal Media allows - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Kevin Gosztola: The Israeli stranglehold on CNN | Intifada Palestine
Kevin Gosztola: The death of activism | Clancy Sigal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Kevin Gosztola: Progressives and Obama Pt 2- The Real News
Dennis Kaiser: US denies visa to Colombian journalist to attend Harvard program - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama's "jobs program": Poverty wages and mass unemployment
Friday, July 9:
Sheila Samples: Jeff Gates: The Adoration of Bibi Netanyahu
M. Wizard: Are We Becoming a Nation of "Haters"?
Sheila Samples: Christian Nationalist Pseudo-Scholar Tapped For 'Beck U' History Prof
Sheila Samples: Joe Conason: Show Us the Money
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: Thank you very much, British Petrol
Sheila Dean: Beat The Chip: BLIZZARD OF DISSENT...to opt out of online identity mandates
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Pity the Poor C.E.O.'s
Thursday, July 8:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Michael Steele: Right About Obama and the Afghanistan War?
Mac McKinney: PETITION: Tell Obama to Demand that BP Give Workers Respirators
Cathy Garger: Hope and the Un-Holy Nuclear Trinity by Cathy Garger (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Geithner and Summers: Candidates for the McChrystal Treatment
Sheila Samples: Nicholas Kristof: In Israel, the Noble Vs. the Ugly
Sheila Samples: Disaster Messaging by the Democrats: It Could be Fatal to America's Future
B. Ross Ashley: Toronto's geography played a role in G20 mayhem | rabble.ca
Sheila Samples: ME, GENERAL PETRAEUS & THE ISRAEL LOBBY (4 comments)
Scott Baker: The Real Tea Party Begins Here! - Public Banking for ALL Americans
Wednesday, July 7:
Billy Wharton: As Mercury Soars, Con Ed Takes a Hit - Billy Wharton
Sheila Samples: Blair 'exaggerated' Iran support for al-Qaida, says former ambassador
Kevin Gosztola: Is it About Independence, Or Explosions? | Iraq Veterans Against the War (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Sen. McCain: I will not support Kagan (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Shades of Hope for Uranium's Forgotten Victims
Joan Brunwasser: Six Ways to Reassemble America's Democracy (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Your momma sucks iPad
Sheila Samples: Sarah Palin For GOP National Chair? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Time to Put the Deficit Commission Out of Our Misery
Kevin Gosztola: Bibi Back at the White House By Jeff Gates (2 comments)
Tuesday, July 6:
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - The unemployment emergency
Sheila Samples: Stephen M. Walt: One Soldier's Story
Ned Lud: Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
Aurora: It's not just BP's oil in the Gulf that threatens world's oceans.
Aurora: Change? Green Jobs Advocate Faces Prison for Dropping Banner while BP and Massey Go Free?
Monday, July 5:
Sheila Dean: Three Tactics to Save Afghanistan : Ann Marlowe WSJ (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: On Fourth of July, Let Iraq Go
peggyn: California Notified of Gulf Evacuation Plans by Wayne Madsen Report
Sheila Samples: US questions its unwavering support for Israel (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Robert Kuttner: My Private Obama
peggyn: Shocking Betrayal of Trust by Brasscheck TV (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - A judicial change to believe in
Don Smith: Happy Interdependence Day!
Kevin Gosztola: Video: 'Changing consumers into activists is a tough task' | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Kevin Gosztola: Under the Radar: The Bi-Partisan Scheme to Gut Social Security (2 comments)
Ned Lud: Don't kid yourself, it's a Police State by Garry Reed (17 comments)
Ritt Goldstein: Police abuse: Will a 'torture' verdict be the beginning of the end? by Ritt Goldstein
Elias F. Harb: Managed News: Inside The US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire - by Prof. Peter Phillips and Prof. Micky Huff
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Punishing the Unemployed (3 comments)
Sunday, July 4:
Ginger McClemons: YouTube - Deadly Gases Leaking from BP Oil Spill & How It's Being Used Against Us PT 6 of 9
peggyn: First Amendment Suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as Spill Cover-up Goes Orwellian by Mike Adams (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Why Did It Take a Rock Magazine to Report the Military's Total Disaster in Afghanistan?
Margaret Bassett: The Unknown Afghan Body Count
Kevin Gosztola: The New Media Landscape Includes Streets Strewn with Broken Glass by Isaac Oommen
Dennis Kaiser: Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?-|-Opinion Maker (1 comments)
Aurora: Lt Col Barry Wingard: The Erosion of Individual Liberties; When Justice & Politics Become One (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: A Timetable for Withdrawal in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: A Timetable for Withdrawal in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Fourth of July 1776, 1964, 2010
Saturday, July 3:
Billy Wharton: Potato Salad Organizers on the Fourth - Billy Wharton
Sheila Samples: FLOTILLA Cover-up: The New York Times Accused
peggyn: Stranger Than Fiction: TX Rep. Louis Gohmert Warns of Terrorist Babies by KOLD News
GLloyd Rowsey: U.S. Sanctions Strike at the Heart of Iran, says Obama
Mac McKinney: Booming 101: Long-time Oil Industry Employee Exposes BP Booming Scam
peggyn: Dangerous Crossroads in World History: Obama's New Iran Sanctions: An Act of War by Shamus Cooke (1 comments)
M. Wizard: Clinton: Activists Being Crushed By 'Steel Vise' Around The World
peggyn: BUSTED! Israel is Raping Gaza of Palestinian Gas Reserves by Willy Loman
Sheila Samples: 50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Financial crisis? No, it's just ants
Sheila Samples: Daniel Gross: Why high unemployment is terrible for the economy
Friday, July 2:
Sheila Samples: Congress, Fight Harder For The Unemployed
Sheila Samples: Ranking the most influential Republicans
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: It's Time to End This War
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Gulf Oil Spill: The Plight of the Sea Turtles
Sheila Samples: Petraeus emails show general scheming with journalist to get out pro-Israel storyline
peggyn: Who Really Controls BP? from Brasscheck TV
Sheila Samples: Thurgood Marshall Jr. - Putting my father, Thurgood Marshall, on trial
Dennis Kaiser: Fed Made Taxpayers Unwitting Junk-Bond Buyers - Bloomberg
Kevin Gosztola: "Debating" the Elena Kagan Nomination by Anthony DiMaggio
peggyn: The Next BP Oil Disaster by Brasscheck TV
Billy Wharton: BP: The Case for Public Ownership - Billy Wharton (1 comments)
Aurora: Truthout: The Upcoming Nuclear Peril - Worse than BP Disaster (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Myths of Austerity
Thursday, July 1:
Sheila Samples: John Mearsheimer : Sinking Ship
Sheila Samples: Justin Raimondo: Are the Russians Really Coming?
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Have Obama and the Democrats forgotten how to fight?
Linda Milazzo: NYTimes' Nicholas Kristof Calls Israeli Occupation "Morally Repugnant": Two Sides of the Barbed Wire Fence (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Outside View: 9 reasons U.S. is losing in Afghanistan
Dennis Kaiser: Kucinich: We Are Losing Our Nation to Lies About the Necessity of War
Aurora: Amy Goodman: We Can't Afford War