Archives for Best Web OpEds
May 2011
Tuesday, May 31:
Amy Davidson: The Sarah Palin Tour
Are your Children Safe at Synagogue by C.Rice and Wanda Gray (1 comments)
Strike Updates: Syria by C.Rice and Wanda Gray
Dead Horse: Wash. Examiner Pushing Old Health Care "Rationing" Myth
NY Times by JOE NOCERA: The Good Banker
Back to Helen Thomas, Lennon, Vanunu and Giving U.S. Some Truth
Monday, May 30:
Dumb Question of the Twenty-first Century: Is It Legal?
What Happens When Greece Defaults - Lilico
John Smith: REBELLION IN AMERICA: Incensed voters 'repudiate' Washington's leadership, By Bob Unruh
Paul Krugman: Against Learned Helplessness
Rep. Paul Ryan's Dubious Sales Pitch
Education Problems Way Deeper Than 'Good' or 'Bad' Teachers
Shocking Video: Americans Arrested Violently at the Jefferson Memorial -- for Dancing r|N | Alteet
Sunday, May 29:
Palin, Queen of Right-Wing Reaction
New Torture pics Banned by Obama by Chris Rice (1 comments)
Saturday, May 28:
David Corn: Palin's Latest: Signs of a 2012 Bid...Or Love of the Limelight?
Programmer admits under oath that computers rig elections and data - Youtube - 12 mins.
Congress's Reaction to Netanyahu (1 comments)
American fascism, terrorism, and bin Laden
Friday, May 27:
Five noes, many lies: Netanyahu's speech to Congress
Joe Conason: From Wisconsin to Florida, Strong Winds of Political Remorse
How Obama Enables Israel's Worst Impulses
Unfounded concerns over Pakistan nukes - Jamil
Obama, hands off our spring - Gharinoushi
Youtube - Judge Napolitano - Peaceful Republic or Police State - 5 mins.
Rae Abileah: Why did I disrupt?
Paul Krugman: Medicare and Mediscares
Thursday, May 26:
WI Big Money Blog: Swapping Clean Elections For Voter Suppression
How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
Fareed Zakaria: Where Netanyahu fails himself and Israel
Sarah Palin 2012 run: Recent moves fuel latest round of media speculation on a White House run
Dana Milbank: Paul Ryan gets a taste of his own shameless demagoguery
Abolish the Police (5 comments)
Wednesday, May 25:
"The only people Obama has prosecuted are the whistle-blowers" (3 comments)
Bin Laden's Gone. Can My Son Come Home?
Out of the Belly of AIPAC and Why I am too RED to be Pink!
The Emperor's clothes are still on, for now (while his heckler is roughed up, hospitalized)
Chilling Echoes From Sept. 11 - NYTimes.com
Tuesday, May 24:
David Sep: Reclaiming the Liberal Badge of Honor (1 comments)
John Smith: Disclosure and Deceit: Secrecy as the Manipulation of History, not its Concealment, by Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (1 comments)
NATO: The new Barbary Pirates, by Bob Fitrakis (1 comments)
Tariq Ali: Obama's War (1 comments)
Monday, May 23:
The Demise of Both the GOP and Tea Party Begins
John Smith: US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet
Larger Profits + Safety Shortcuts = Death, by David Macaray (1 comments)
Benjamin Netanyahu's Bizarre Response to Obama's Proposal for Negotiations With Palestinians
Tea Party Reject, Gerald Andersen
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Lessons for the media, the bishops and John Boehner
Reverend Jesse Jackson describes blockade of Cuba as obsolete
A Budget Without Core Purposes, Taxation Without Compassion - NYTimes editorial by Eduarto Porter
John Smith: Greece: Athens prepares army deployment in the capital, by Udo Ulfkotte
Budget Without a Purpose, Taxation Without Compassion
Paul Krugman: When Austerity Fails (1 comments)
Sunday, May 22:
Richard Falk: Israel and Palestine: Obama's flawed approach
Malign Neglect at the Supreme Court (1 comments)
Saturday, May 21:
Is The American Dream A Christian's Nightmare? by Curt Day
Sheila Dean: The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State, by Glen Greenwald (4 comments)
Honest Criticism Is Not Betrayal; It's Democratic by Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
Netanyahu's Ill-Advised White House Tantrum Over Obama's Mideast Speech
David Corn: Birtherism Is Dead. Long Live Otherism
Friday, May 20:
Paul Krugman: Making Things in America (1 comments)
World Wide Protests 2011 - PFB
Pepe Escobar: What Obama could not possibly say
Joe Conason: The Gingrich Style
Kevin Drum: Goodwin Liu and the Politics of Personal Pique
Rapture: Leaving for Heaven on Saturday - Edger
Paranoia is Good for You, by Wendy McElroy (1 comments)
Robert Fisk: Lots of rhetoric -- but very little help
Thursday, May 19:
Obama's Big Mideast Speech: Hits the Right Notes, Not a Whole Lot of Substance
Matt Taibbi: A New Wall Street Investigation: Is the Hammer Finally Coming Down? (1 comments)
Amy Goodman: Andrew Breitbart's 'electronic brownshirts'
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- The symbolic battle over the debt ceiling
The serious questions raised by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair (1 comments)
Wednesday, May 18:
Mark Morford: Hi! In three days you will all be dead (2 comments)
3 Fatal Flaws in Ayn Rand's Perverse 'Moral Philosophy'
Joanne Kloppenburg: Why recounts are a vital part of election process
Mike Whitney Global Research: IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Set Up For Breaking Free From Party Line?
Tuesday, May 17:
Jeremy Scahill: Erik Prince, You're No Indiana Jones (1 comments)
John Smith: The Fall of the U.S. Empire and the Breakup of the Geopolitical Matrix, by David Galland
The Real War Heroes, by William T. Hathaway (1 comments)
More misery as inflation soars - By Daily Mail
Seema Jilani: Haunted by the nightmare of Katrina
John Smith: For Our Top 400 Taxpayers, a Near-Record Year, by Sam Pizzigati (1 comments)
Two Pakistani Views on the Current Crisis in Post-Osama Assassination US-Pakistan Relations
Israel's border massacre and human rights hypocrisy
Monday, May 16:
E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Lincoln would weep at the GOP's 2012 field
Paul Krugman: Held Hostage Over the Debt Ceiling
Jane Mayer: Charges Against the N.S.A.'s Thomas Drake
Sunday, May 15:
Steve Benen: Boehner will give up hostage after receiving ransom
White House, Republicans use debt deadline to prepare historic cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
Richard Wolff: The great corporate tax swindle
Why Did Police Kill My Dad? (1 comments)
We Need More Cal State-Chico Alumni, by David Macaray (1 comments)
Saturday, May 14:
Ziyad Clot: Palestine Papers: Why I blew the whistle
Israel opens its gates to the world, shuts them to Palestinians
Inflation diet - same price, less product - by Chuck Jaffe at Marketwatch
IN FUKUSHIMA'S WAKE, by Alexander Cockburn (4 comments)
(How to) End the FED (for dummies) Pt. 3 of 3 by Christopher Rice and Wanda Gray
Time for Pakistan to divorce the US - Qadir
Friday, May 13:
The 236-year old eventful war history of US - The News
Keith Olbermann: Special Comment: Death of Bin Laden; Defense of Moore (1 comments)
The proof that Campbell and Blair did lie about the Iraq war - by Daily Mail (2 comments)
John Smith: MOVE 25th Bombing Anniversary
John Reed: A Wider War on Terror
Paul Krugman: Seniors, Guns and Money
Thursday, May 12:
Newt Gingrich Running For President: Welcome to the Freak Show
Globalists' Pakistan War Plan - Cartalucci (1 comments)
Boehner takes budget hypocrisy to a new low
The Unwisdom of Elites - NYTimes.com
Mr. Gingrich's Intolerant History
Dick Cheney, the President Will Take Your Apology Now (2 comments)
Challenge Obama from the Left (2 comments)
Wednesday, May 11:
Why aren't the powers that be tackling the jobs crisis?
Mark Morford: 8 awesome facts to make you go blind
Tuesday, May 10:
Civilised Expectations (A Meditation On The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden) - Trotter
Those Libyan "Freedom Fighters": The Fix is On
Timothy Egan: More Than a Résumé
Let’s treat Bentley, Siegelman the same
Monday, May 9:
Spy agencies and their failures in solving high profile murders - Shah
EJ Dionne: Rescuing Detroit: No news about government’s good news
Pine Ridge Reservation Disaster Area
Eliot Spitzer: Republican war against the weak
Russell Means Freedom, Russell Means
FAX to President Obama RE: Netanyahu and Peres Vis-a-Vis Vanunu Mordechai
John Smith: Bin Laden & The 911 Illusion: Part II: Deutsche Bank & Blackstone
Paul Krugman: The Unwisdom of Elites (6 comments)
Why one 16-year-old is sueing the US government over climate change (4 comments)
The Week in Editorial Cartoons - The Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Bush Administration (2 comments)
Paul Krugman: The Unwisdom of Elites
Sunday, May 8:
John Smith: The American Prison State
(How to) End the FED (for dummies) Pt. 2 of 3
Pakistan's long war has begun - Sharaf (2 comments)
Osama and the Ghosts of September 11: "Proof that Obama is Lying" (1 comments)
If you want the real truth, your best bet is the bookies - Lynch
Jack the Ripper or Mary Poppins: Reality of Victorian London - Rwoo5g
Noam Chomsky: My Reaction to Osama bin Laden's Death (5 comments)
Saturday, May 7:
Guest Post: A Fistful Of Dollars - Part Two | zero hedge
Bin Laden Back Story: Destroying the Monster We Created by Jim Ridgeway
President Obama on Death of Osama bin Laden (SPOOF) - PFB
Osama Uncertainty Akin to JFK/911 - billhare
Welcome to the Nest of the Snow Owl
The Return of "Drill, Baby, Drill"
The Economy Slows - NYTimes.com
John Smith: After US Invasion Afghanistan Now Produces 93% Of World's Opium
(How to) END the FED (for Dummies) Pt. 1 of 3
Friday, May 6:
Holder's Lame Victory - Ransom
Don't Worry about Medicare. Worry about Medicaid.
E.J. Dionne, Jr. -- Obama the bold? Now we know
What’s Behind The Obama Administration’s About Face Regarding Medical Marijuana? (2 comments)
Did the Polls Cause the G.O.P. to Back Off Medicare? (3 comments)
Paul Krugman: Fears and Failure
Thursday, May 5:
Mike Huckabee: Still Talking Crazy (2 comments)
Lucky Duckies Waddle Onto the WSJ News Pages
America's Killing Sprees Define Who We Are As A People - Smith
The Koch Brothers Are Buying Our Democracy!
Wednesday, May 4:
Mark Morford: Osama bin Laden saves America
Richard Clarke: Bin Laden's Dead. Al Qaeda's Not
Tuesday, May 3:
Did Obama organize the "Osama is Dead" celebration beforehand as a campaign rally? - Scrubone
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis - Kaufman
Story of Bin Laden's death looks like stage fairytale - PFB
A U.S. Constitution lesson for birthers
Monday, May 2:
Revolution in America - Micah White (1 comments)
Bin Laden's Rise and Fall: For America's Youth, the Story of Our Lives
Keith Olbermann: Bin Laden Dead -- And It Was Live-Tweeted (Updated)
David Corn: Obama's Trump-Thump: Laughter is the Best Weapon
Paul Krugman: Springtime for Bankers
John Smith: The Four Horsemen Behind The Oil Wars, by Dean Henderson
Time Magazine asked: Where is the Evidence Against bin Laden? (3 comments)
Bin Laden Said to be Buried at Sea
Sunday, May 1:
Mark Singer: Best Wishes, Donald
Why do Americans still dislike atheists? Washington Post (6 comments)
FDR: "Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." -