Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
May 2017
Wednesday, May 31:
Vivisection Cruelty Persists (5 comments)
To avoid straining ties with Iran: Pakistan may quit command of Saudi-led Muslim military alliance
CNN Flimflams Audience with Tenuous Allegations of Plagiarism (1 comments)
Talk About Poverty - Taking the Long View
Red Nose Day Gives Black Eye to Walgreens and NBC (1 comments)
Free Speech: Ted Wheeler is the Enemy He Invokes (1 comments)
A Tale of Two Shots (3 comments)
Our Apologies to Europeans (33 comments)
Terror in Britain: what did the Prime Minister know? (4 comments)
John Kiriakou: A Fair Trial for Julian Assange (2 comments)
Raising Our Voices All Together: What Else Can We Do? (4 comments)
Tuesday, May 30:
Americans escape from reality (3 comments)
Impeachment advocates beware--Trump Holds a Trump Card: The Power to Pardon (6 comments)
Haunted by the Ghosts of War (2 comments)
Third Parties' Only Hope: A New Anti-Duopoly Occupy (24 comments)
America's Embrace of Willful Ignorance (21 comments)
Kushner's Back-Channel Multiple Tragedies (16 comments)
Trumpism and the Ruling Class: Will the U.S. Ever Recover? (2 comments)
No Laughing Matter: The Manchester Bomber is the Spawn of Hillary and Barack's Excellent Libyan Adventure (21 comments)
Trump's 'Just Politics' Defense (1 comments)
The Washington Post's Renewed Attack on Whistlblowers (1 comments)
What Did John Brennan and Anonymous Sources Really Say? (1 comments)
Tomgram: Danny Sjursen, Beating the War Drums... Again
Little Big Man Into the Whirlwind
How the Establishment Gave Us Trump (3 comments)
The Torah vs. Jared Kushner (3 comments)
Russia Calls House Bill an "Act of War." Will the Senate Block H.R. 1644? (6 comments)
Monday, May 29:
Talk Nation Radio: Charlotte Dennett on Origins of U.S. Obsession with Middle East (2 comments)
The Meaning of Assange's Persecution (8 comments)
Redeeming the Warrior Path (1 comments)
Mike Pence Is Toast: Anonymous Letter To WaPo Shows The Role Of Eric Prince In Trump-Russia (119 comments)
Chris Hedges: The Artist as Prophet - Truthdig (4 comments)
Nepal: danger of Neo-feudalization of republic (2 comments)
"I Can Only Speak for Myself -- and the Russians!" (5 comments)
Bird Dogging (36 comments)
Every GI Who Invaded Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Was a Criminal By International Law & US Army's Own Law (5 comments)
Sunday, May 28:
'Getting Trump' with the New McCarthyism (37 comments)
Elite Media Need to Recognize Assaults on Reporters as a Pattern--and a Threat (3 comments)
We Must Be Brave Enough to Admit the War on Terror Simply Not Working (56 comments)
Thousands March Saying "NO to NATO" and "Make Peace Great Again" (3 comments)
Reality and its Enemies - An Analysis (4 comments)
The War on Drugs is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, North Carolina Edition (3 comments)
Saturday, May 27:
Two shot in Hebron as Israeli forces clash with protesters during general strike
The Conman-In-Chief and His Unshakable Fans (25 comments)
Making America Meaner (6 comments)
Europe May Finally Rethink NATO Costs (6 comments)
Memorial DAZE! (4 comments)
The tragic history of Kurds is the history of Caucasian people! (5 comments)
The Seth Rich Murder Redux: Fox News vs OEN vs the parents of Seth Rich (68 comments)
Where Are All Of the Heroes & Patriots? (27 comments)
President John Kennedy's Idea to Protect Elections From the 1% Can Work (79 comments)
Is Trump a fool or a Wily Coyote? (5 comments)
Friday, May 26:
Palmyra Update: Major restorations ready to launch as global partners await security
The Sacred Space of Lovers (Third in the Series, "A Better Human Story") (2 comments)
Montana Shows Democrats Still Clueless on How to Beat Trump (3 comments)
Why Trumpcare is Giving Senate Republicans...
Of Budgets and Beatitudes: The Pope Meets the Donald (2 comments)
Using Lunch to Punish the Poor (3 comments)
The True Soul of Deep America? (7 comments)
Capitalism, American style; a failing system, no longer a model for the world (21 comments)
Please Don't Read About the Seth Rich Murder (154 comments)
Thursday, May 25:
Trump's Budget Is Immoral (10 comments)
Who created the Deep State and why is he mythologized as a Peacemaker? (16 comments)
We're Dealing With a New Type of War Lie (9 comments)
Where to now, "...in a world I never made"? (6 comments)
This Memorial Day, Remember the Victims of Democide (2 comments)
That Word "Allegedly"... (6 comments)
Salman Abedi: The Man Behind the Attack (17 comments)
Rosenstein and Mueller: the Regime Change Tag-Team (3 comments)
'Disgrace' for Pakistan, thanks to a leader and a lawyer
Why Were the Saudi Streets So Quiet?
Rebecca Gordon, Those Who Do Not Remember History...
Will Greg Gianforte's Violence Help Him? (24 comments)
Trump's Cruel and Deviant Budget
May 29, 2017: Peaceably Assemble for Truth: JFK to 9/11 + "The JFK Button" (4 comments)
Wednesday, May 24:
Beware the supporter scorned: Upstate New York Trump Voters Hit Hard in President's Proposed 2018 Budget (9 comments)
Unclear language and conceptual confusion obscure the abortion controversy (7 comments)
Children, Schools, Tech and Regulation (3 comments)
The Left/Right Challenge to the Failed "War on Drugs" (2 comments)
Washington Post and New York Times urge pullback on calls for Trump impeachment (5 comments)
Boosting the backlash against Trump (1 comments)
After Comey: How To Be a Patriotic Insider (1 comments)
The Trump Budget: cuts to the poor fund tax cuts for the rich: neoliberalism on steroids (17 comments)
SCOTUS: Patent Trolls' Loss is a Win for Honest Commerce
Tuesday, May 23:
U.S. Human Rights Groups Recommend Bombing Victims Move Underground, Develop Militias (1 comments)
Thomas Farrell: Kleinian Theory and Trump Voters (2 comments)
Terror in Manchester (8 comments)
Mattea Kramer, Hit Him Where It Hurts
Talk Nation Radio: Francis Boyle on How to Impeach Trump (3 comments)
Trump calls for $1.7 trillion in social cuts (7 comments)
The Killing of Richard W. Collins, III (5 comments)
Melania Trump's frown, freeze-up, & hand-slap: She despises Donald Trump (7 comments)
Monday, May 22:
While "Doing Time Like a Spy," I Saw the Real War on Drugs (4 comments)
Jeff Sessions, Eric Holder and Mass Black Incarceration -- Revisited and Revised
How the Russia Spin Got So Much Torque (11 comments)
Trump's speech in Saudi Arabia, stunning in its flight from reality (10 comments)
Why Net Neutrality is Your Friend (6 comments)
The book that uncovered 'wealthfare' (4 comments)
Turkey's Erdogan Dream to Re-Build Ottoman Empire is Dead! (1 comments)
Germany and the EU's Continuing War Against the Greek People (1 comments)
The Long Memory Home: the end of Neoliberalism (17 comments)
Sunday, May 21:
The Death of the Republic (33 comments)
Police Violence, Closed Doors Hearings in Israeli Protest Against Corrupt AG (Videos)
Parliamentary Riffraff (2 comments)
Chelsea Manning Is Free--but Whistleblowers Still Face Prison
If China Can Fund Infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We (22 comments)
Paul Ryan tries to deflect on leak that implicates him in a Russia cover-up (4 comments)
Jeff Sessions, Jesus Christ and Reefer Madness (6 comments)
Not Remembering the USS Liberty (17 comments)
Macron: An American Trojan horse in the Elysee Palace (1 comments)
Tales from the Flyin' Trumpeze (2 comments)
Public Shaming (186 comments)
All Catholics Should See "The Keepers": It Will Scare the Hell Out of You (Sunday Homily) (12 comments)
Saturday, May 20:
Why does Europe Follow a Trumped-up America? (2 comments)
Trump's Saudi Trip Should Not Be to Clinch Arms Deal But to End Yemen War (4 comments)
The Gaping Holes of Russia-gate (4 comments)
Getting Assange: The Untold Story (41 comments)
Preet Bharara's Russian Money Laundering Case Abruptly Settled, Raising Eyebrows (10 comments)
Cleaning up the air we breathe
Friday, May 19:
Trump on Kremlin Payroll: GOP stampedes to escape (21 comments)
OpEdNews author, Maurice Webster, 90, author of series on Machiavelli, passed on this morning (11 comments)
This War is A Go-Go or: I Am Donald J. Trump, Billionaire. (1 comments)
Interesting News from Tulsi Gabbard (8 comments)
Trump says Treason is legal "if the President does it" (6 comments)
How Change Happens: 18 Acts of Resistance (4 comments)
Escaping the Iron Cage of Hopelessness (3 comments)
EDF and Trump (1 comments)
Cop Walks Free in Terence Crutcher Shooting
For Democrats, Resistance Trumps Ideas (2 comments)
Chelsea Manning Is a Free Woman: Her Heroism Has Expanded Beyond Her Initial Whistleblowing (4 comments)
Did Trump Commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors? (10 comments)
Roger Ailes: No One Did More to Debase US Politics (3 comments)
Roger Ailes Didn't Invent Hate. He Was Just the Distributor? (19 comments)
Donald Trump and the Politics of Whine (3 comments)
Neurology Study Reveals What We Already Know: People of Color Get Worse Healthcare (1 comments)
Climate Change is Happening Faster (4 comments)
"Whew!! Dad's home." (a satire of the appointment of the Special Counsel Mueller) (12 comments)
Sycophants, cowards and Steve Bannon (1 comments)
The 21st Century presented America with exciting new opportunities; what in the world happened? (10 comments)
Preparing for Trump's Coup (2 comments)
Thursday, May 18:
"Climate of Hope" Offers Cities, Businesses and Citizens as Drivers of Climate Action (3 comments)
A Message for the American Psychiatric and Psychological Associations About Donald Trump's Mental Health (51 comments)
Billionaires Lay Siege to State Governments (4 comments)
10 Reasons Trump Should Not Strengthen U.S.-Saudi Ties (1 comments)
Love Vs. Pornography, Revolution vs. Passivity (5 comments)
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, The Human Price of Trump's Wars
Michigan Democratic Party Won't Approve Animal Caucus (2 comments)
Fast and Furious: Now They're Really Gunning for Trump (9 comments)
LEAKED: Text of Trump's Peaceful Islam Speech (4 comments)
Ship's Sinking, Rats Are Looking For Escape Ropes (54 comments)
Wednesday, May 17:
A Review of "Being In Time: The Post-Political Manifesto" by Gilad Atzmon (1 comments)
Mr. President, where's that infrastructure plan? (3 comments)
*Hit Hits The Fan Open Thread (45 comments)
I Ask Again, do you Want Pence? (2 comments)
China's New Silk Road $1.4 Trillion. U.S. Cuts Education Funding (1 comments)
What Progressives Should Demand From the FBI (2 comments)
How Israeli schools help sabotage peace prospects (2 comments)
On Nakba 69, Israel Kills a Palestinian Fisherman
Tom Perriello is Virginia's Best Hope (1 comments)
Tuesday, May 16:
The Trump in Comey's China Shop (3 comments)
America's Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows (13 comments)
Chasing red squirrels in DC: Dems Doom 2018 Chances by Labeling Trump a Russky Puppet, not Just Another Sleazy Plutocrat (18 comments)
Why You Should Visit Russia (11 comments)
To defeat Trump, Make Puerto Rico a State (11 comments)
Seth Rich, the DNC, and WikiLeaks: The Plot Thickens (68 comments)
Neo-McCarthyism writ large over the American political landscape
Part III: Why we Fight: the self-fulfilling prophecy of Human Belligerence (4 comments)
Why Should We Trust the Scientists? (13 comments)
ICJ rejects urgent verdict on India's appeal to stay execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav
Trump and Pence: Birds of a Feather or Epic Cockfight? Are you ready for President Pence? (16 comments)
Monday, May 15:
Protesters Take Net Neutrality Issue To FCC Chair's Home (2 comments)
Are Five Stooges Better than the Three Stooges?
Becoming Sane (21 comments)
American/Russian Vladimir Posner on the State of Journalism (2 comments)
What I Saw When I Visited a Russian School (3 comments)
The Religious Right Is Not Dead - But It Can Be (25 comments)
The Politics of Retribution: Charters Spend Millions Avoiding Accountability
Strong Man Leadership or National Disgrace? (12 comments)
GOP plots to oust Trump/Democrats plot to keep him in power: the Politics of the Absurd (8 comments)
Full Employment and How to Get It (1 comments)
Mobilizaton Without Method Is Meaningless (41 comments)
The Exponential Growth of Insecurity
The End of Trump (3 comments)
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease (29 comments)
Global Hackers & the Russians Have Made Hand-Counted Paper Ballots an Issue of Urgent National Security (14 comments)
The Globalization of Misery (2 comments)
Legalizing Democracy: The Right to Vote vs. Corporate Rights (2 comments)
Sunday, May 14:
Questioning Underlying Conduct and the Unnecessary Lie: Tapes (1 comments)
Racists Love Russia? (1 comments)
A Russian Journalist's Perspective (2 comments)
Avoiding Anoither War in North Korea (4 comments)
The 'Soft Coup' of Russia-gate (19 comments)
Which Way to the Battlefield? (21 comments)
Regeneration: Rules for Revolutionaries (5 comments)
Krugman: Yes, Republicans Are Perfectly Willing To Betray This Country. (7 comments)
Chelsea Manning Will Finally Get A First Chance At Life (5 comments)
Trump is a Crook; House Should Start Impeachment Probe (2 comments)
Are There 22 Patriotic House Republicans?
Part II: Why we Fight: the self-fulfilling prophecy of human Belligerence
Inside the Syrian War and its Legal Ramifications (Excerpt 3)
Impeachment Won't Oust Trump and Pence. Here's What Will (61 comments)
Saturday, May 13:
A Russian Entrepreneur's Perspective (1 comments)
Part I: Why we Fight: the self-fulfilling prophecy of Human Belligerence (18 comments)
Donald Trump Is a Dictator in Training (2 comments)
A USA Digital Dirty Nuke Exploded, Hitting 150 Nations (22 comments)
The Losing Warfare State (2 comments)
Trump Picks the Al Capone of Vote-Rigging to Investigate Federal Voter Fraud (2 comments)
Things Russians Can Teach Americans (6 comments)
Inside the Syrian War and its Legal Ramifications (Excerpt 2)
Friday, May 12:
The Usurper versus Direct Democracy (10 comments)
Progressives: Russia must not cloud the suffering of working class America (VIDEO) (3 comments)
With the walls closing in on him, his presidency unraveling, Trump hits the panic button and "fires" away (15 comments)
"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend. . . !" (2 comments)
Syrian War and its Legal Ramifications (Excerpt 1)
The Russian Revolution, Stalin's Crimes and the Day the U.S. and Red Armies Met Up at Elbe (2 comments)
The U.S. Behavior That Concerns Russia (7 comments)
Love from Russians (1 comments)
Thursday, May 11:
WikiLeaks, Keeper of Secrets (60 comments)
A Story of Service and War (19 comments)
How Many More Fathers Must Die? (4 comments)
The US Postal Service is Dying. Let it. (22 comments)
DeVos Richly Deserved Every Boo She Got
The Comey Non-Crisis (17 comments)
We Need An Elected Attorney General Who Has the Power to Appoint the Director of the FBI (3 comments)
Israeli Supreme Court Justice Uri Shoham fakes an arrest warrant on whistle-blower Shuki Mishol
State of Georgia Web Site Promotes Kemp Campaign Page
A Trump Supporter Developes a Bad Case of "Trumpenitus" (2 comments)
Wednesday, May 10:
Victory Day & The Thwarted Quest to See Lenin's Tomb (1 comments)
Will Trump's Firing Comey Lead to President Pelosi? (69 comments)
What is the Biggest and Oldest Lie in our History? (19 comments)
Impeach Trump for Right Reasons (18 comments)
US Values, Moral Accommodation and Remembering Vietnam (2 comments)
Comey, "You're Fired!" (3 comments)
Curtains for Comey: Rocketing Through the Looking-Glass With the Troller-in-Chief (10 comments)
FBIgate: in firing Comey is Trump following in the footsteps of Nixon cover-up? (25 comments)
Congress Should Just Say No to Trump's Afghanistan Surge (2 comments)
Ah, what Cadet Trump could have learned (2 comments)
Tuesday, May 9:
Talk Nation Radio: Hyun Lee on Prospects for Peace in Korea (1 comments)
Obscured American: Katy the Bartender and Nursing Student (1 comments)
An Open Letter to Rachel Maddow (27 comments)
Monday, May 8:
A Party to 'End All Parties'... Literally! (5 comments)
Do we need Chicago Boys? (4 comments)
Bringing TB out of the shadows
Bill Maher & the Corporate Democrats Need to Stop Scapegoating the Grassroots Resistance (5 comments)
The universal lesson of East Timor (1 comments)
Chris Hedges: Going to the Daytime Emmys (3 comments)
Greetings from Moscow (11 comments)
The Monster Behind The "Trump-Mask" is The Deep State (44 comments)
Sunday, May 7:
From Aleppo Park to Ramlet el Baida Beach for the Summer (2 comments)
Thank You for Your $3 Trillion "Service" (7 comments)
Dealing With A Serial Liar (55 comments)
Mayoral Candidate Runs on Platform of Reparations for Blacks (3 comments)
How "the Good" Emerges Out of Evolution (Second in the Series, "A Better Human Story") (3 comments)
Study Shows School Vouchers Hurt Students -- But Trump and DeVos Couldn't Care Less (1 comments)
Thousands in U.S. send messages of friendship to Russians (3 comments)
The Politics of Narcissism in the age of Trump: the End of History? (8 comments)
Saturday, May 6:
Republicans' Vicious and Immoral Health Care Bill Is Just Part of a Sinister Long Game (12 comments)
The Moral Travesty of Trumpcare (1 comments)
The Story of 'O' (7 comments)
The Un-American No-HealthCare Act (2 comments)
Framing the Debate: Economic Injustice (2 comments)
International Community Seeks Diplomatic Solution to Syria, USA Absent (5 comments)
The Deep State Elected President in Latest Coup (15 comments)
Friday, May 5:
Testing Republican Values (1 comments)
Democrats if you want our support this is what we want (41 comments)
An Umbrella Narrative--and Party--for the Progressive Resistance (26 comments)
House Republican's Health Care Bill: If It Walks Like a Duck (4 comments)
Hillary Did Not Lose Because She Was a Lousy Candidate (25 comments)
Massive, relentless attacks on the U.S. media; a precursor to a totalitarian state? (30 comments)
How the United States Ultimately Talks with Its "Enemies" --Now Its Time to Dialogue with North Korea (3 comments)
Honeymoon of the Generals in the Age of Trump (2 comments)
It's Time to Take Both Parties Down. (54 comments)
Explaining Trump's Base Support (4 comments)
What Does It Mean To Be Responsible In The World? (Meditation on a Mop) (4 comments)
Thursday, May 4:
Neo-Nazi network in German Army Exposed
Keeping workforce healthy is also a smart business strategy
A California fix from out of old Massachusetts? (1 comments)
'Butcher of Kabul' returns to Kabul in an Afghan peace deal (3 comments)
Death Panels, Trump's Ego And Republican Hypocrisy (1 comments)
The Scandal Isn't Post-Presidential Speaking Fees, It's Political Pensions (2 comments)
FBI Director Hints At Arresting Assange If He Weren't In Ecuador Embassy (13 comments)
Killer Drones in the Empire State (3 comments)
Trump should keep college debt pledge (2 comments)
Intuitive Medicine (6 comments)
Despite Trump, there's a better World A-Coming (5 comments)
Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don't Fall for the NSA's Latest Ploy
The Non Factor: A Talking Points Memo (1 comments)
Gustave Mahler's Declaration of Love in the Adagietto Movement in his Fifth Symphony (5 comments)
FBI's Comey: lies and more lies.... (32 comments)
Wednesday, May 3:
Trump Deletes Arafat From Accord Signing (1 comments)
Thomas Riggins: Turbulence Theory: Part Five of Reactive Mismeasures -- The New Yorker and the "New" Cold-War Propaganda (3 comments)
Mr Sibal, you ain't fooling anyone! (1 comments)
Picking up the Cold War pieces: Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan
Progressive Democrats- A Case of Political Acne?
Unilever's Unsustainable Sustainability (1 comments)
Trump's hero Andrew Jackson: slave owner/trader and genocidal maniac (21 comments)
San Francisco Democrats tell Pelosi to Oppose Syria War (1 comments)
Trump's Banksters and the Rollback of Dodd-Frank
It's About Bringing Your Congress Back Home, Citizens! (1 comments)
American Democracy: A Dead Man Walking
Tuesday, May 2:
On Decency (1 comments)
Trump Confusion; 12 Years (in) a Grave (1 comments)
Trump's Triumphant First 100 Days (for the Ruling Class)" (2 comments)
Bulgarian Weapons Ratline to Syrian Islamists (1 comments)
Talk Nation Radio: John Washington: We Need a Whistle-Blower in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (1 comments)
Is It War or a Theater of the Absurd (3 comments)
Marching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science (12 comments)
What Trump Needs to Know About Libel (10 comments)
What Sanders and Warren Got Right and Wrong About Obama's Speaking Fees (2 comments)
Now, Do You See Why We Must Make Billionaires Illegal? (21 comments)
Monday, May 1:
Part 4 -- The Final Stage of the Machiavellian Elites' Takeover of America (9 comments)
Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation (2 comments)
Yes, Obama's $400,000 Speech is a Problem (3 comments)
Trump and Le Pen fire Nazis from their regimes at same time: friendly fascism buries the bones. (19 comments)
A dystopia in real time (1 comments)
Non-Voters Win (Again) (11 comments)
The Destructive Illusion of Certainty (4 comments)
Reign of Idiots (10 comments)
No Nazi's in 2017 Kiev? Ukraine Thinks You are a Moron or a Fascist (6 comments)
Trump's deportation priorities aim at creating fear
Trump and Le Pen: birds of a feather, the rise of friendly fascism (25 comments)
Moving Past 100 Days: The Lies Continue (2 comments)
Dealing With A Serial Killer (50 comments)