Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
August 2005
Wednesday, August 31:
David Swanson: Yuppies and the Peace Movement (1 comments)
Kamala Sarup: Corruption Increases Terrorism
Jason Leopold: Global Warming and Widespread Blackouts Are Just as Deadly as Terrorism
Carol Wolman: Why work for impeachment?
Rob Kall: Hurricane Katrina-Bush (6 comments)
Randolph T. Holhut: WE NEED TO START TALKING SERIOUSLY ABOUT GETTING OUT OF IRAQ (4 comments)
Dave Zirin: Fade to Black- -the steep decline of the African-American in baseball
Tuesday, August 30:
Roger Morris Former NSC Staffer: The War for the Future_ It's Up to Us to Stop the Dying and the Lying (1 comments)
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: Twenty Things We Now Know Four Years After 9/11 (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: THE MOTHERS ARE COMING!
Carol Wolman: Suggested Strategy for Impeachment
David Swanson: Rally to End War at White House 9-15
Evelyn Pringle: Halliburton Contracts Illegal - But Bush Busts The Whistleblower
Monday, August 29:
Stephenson, Bret: School Gets an F
Thom Hartmann: George W. Bush's Noble Cause - 'Political Capital'
Ken Sanders: Earth to Dubya, Come In Dubya
Patricia Goldsmith: Media Extremists
Sunday, August 28:
Anthony Wade: Countering the Disinformation Talking Points for This Ignoble War
Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers: Bombs in the Basement
Al Feldstein 1955-1984 editor of Mad Magazine: WHY PRESIDENT BUSH WILL NEVER MEET WITH CINDY SHEEHAN ! !
William Fisher: NGO SUES OVER PROSTITUTION POLICY
Carol Wolman: Following the Prince of Peace
Jason Miller: What if America Found its Soul?
Saturday, August 27:
Mickey Z.: Did the U.S. government ever "support the troops"?
Danny Schechter: WHERE NEWS ABOUT THE NEWS IS IN THE NEWS (1 comments)
David Swanson: The Calm Before
Anthony Wade: The Decline of Civilization (3 comments)
Friday, August 26:
Rob Kall: Book Review: Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World
David Swanson: Cindy Meets the Media
Carol Wolman: Crisis approaching- stay alert!
RON JACOBS: Who Would Jesus Assassinate?
Thursday, August 25:
David Swanson: Blogging in the Crawford Heat
R. J. Kovic: President CNNMSNBCFOX (1 comments)
Mary Pitt: THE PRINCES OF PRIVILEGE (1 comments)
Richard A. McCartan: GEORGE BUSH’S SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
Phil Rockstroh: Listen Up, You Christo-Fascist Bullies -- You Apostles Of Perpetual Psychosis -- It's High Time Somebody Called You Out (4 comments)
Wednesday, August 24:
Bret Stephenson: Canaries in the Coal Mine: Using Metaphors to Understand Adolescence
Contributing Editor - TvNewsLIES.org: An Unlikely Conversation With The Cowards in Congress (1 comments)
Robert Parry: Explaining the Bush Cocoon (1 comments)
Lynne Glasner: Circumnavigating with Bush
John McDonald: Pat Robertson, Hugo Chavez and the Republicans (1 comments)
Daniel Patrick Welch: What our kids don’t know can hurt us:
Angie Pratt: I've Been Waiting For Some One To Stand Up (2 comments)
Carol Wolman, MD: Take a deep breath
Bob Fertik: An Open Letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Presidential Accountability and (1 comments)
Jeff Wilder: Pat Robertson. Guardian of Morality or Nutcase?
Tuesday, August 23:
Anthony Wade: Lunacy on the Right, Spineless on the Left, Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle with You (1 comments)
Randolph T. Holhut: WHY DO CONSERVATIVES HATE VETERANS AND GOLD STAR MOTHERS?
Swami Beyondananda: Do We Go for ABunDance or Stay Stuck in ScareCity?
David Sirota: David Sirota: Only One Thing Left to Conclude: The Media Want the War (1 comments)
Patricia Goldsmith: Government by Dirty Tricks (1 comments)
Robert Jensen: A Mercenary Society
Rob Kall: The RightWing Cesspool Overflows. A Pattern Begins to Emerge: The Dark Innards of The Political & Religous Right (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: SUDDENLY, THIS SUMMER...
Doug Ireland: BUSH CAVES IN TO ISLAMIST CONSTITUTION FOR IRAQ -- AND THE U.S. PRESS BLOWS THE STORY (2 comments)
Monday, August 22:
Greg Palast: ARMSTRONG BIKES WITH PRESIDENT OVER SHEEHAN GRAVE
Jason Leopold: President Bush Knows the True Reasons He Started A War in Iraq, But He's Not Going to Tell
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey: Rep. Lynn Woolsey Announces Hearings on Exit Strategy
Cindy Sheehan: Mother Cindy Sheehan: Hypocrites and Liars (2 comments)
Greg Moses: The Listening Tent and the Raw Talk Revival At Camp Casey Two (1 comments)
Sunday, August 21:
Rob Kall: Real Democrats Must Burn Down the DLC, To Keep It From Burning Them (1 comments)
David Sirota: Beltway Dems Regurgitate Right-Wing B.S. on Iraq; Grassroots Fights Back
Jason Miller: A Kansan's Contemplations
Stephen Crockett: Bush Helps Re-Build The FDR Coalition (1 comments)
David Swanson: Sheehan Breakthroughs, Unbridgeable Divides, and Taboos Unbroken
Carol Wolman: What is in Store for Bush?
Saturday, August 20:
Vickie Karp: HAVA and the Rush to Poor Judgment
Greg Moses: A Daytrip Without Cindy:
Lonna Gooden VanHorn: Two Days at Camp Casey
Gene C. Gerard: The Flag Should Not Infringe on the First Amendment
Carol Wolman: The Arrogant and the Humble (2 comments)
William Fisher: DIPLOMATIC ASSURANCES -- WORTHLESS
John McDonald: Cindy Sheehan and the Cab Ride From Hell (1 comments)
Doyle Doss: When Life Is (2 comments)
Danny Schechter: THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF GAZA: Many Questions, Few Answers.
Angie Pratt: Bush Must Withdraw Robert's Nomination
Dimitri Vassilaros: 'Study' is political fraud
Friday, August 19:
William Fisher: AIR FORCE ACADEMY (AGAIN)
Evelyn Pringle: August 24 DC Protest - Activists Against TeenScreen Will Attend
Patricia Foster: BUSH IN THE BRUSH BUT NOT OUT OF TOUCH
Rob Kall: Rubber-Stamp Republicans are Killing Our GIs (1 comments)
Thursday, August 18:
David Sirota: The pro-business case for Minimum Health Care Laws (1 comments)
Stephen Crockett: Finally Americans Get It!
Carol Wolman: Preaching Righteousness
Mary Pitt: REVELATIONS OF A REFORMED REPUBLICAN
Greg Moses: Cindy, the Peace Train, and the Little Ditch that Could
Wednesday, August 17:
Jack Dalton: The Bush/Cheney and V.A.’s War Against Veterans
Robert Parry: Judge Roberts's Slap at Women
Carol Wolman: God of War, Prince of Peace (2 comments)
David Swanson: Bush Won't Answer Cindy, But Has to Answer Congress
Allen Snyder: Originalists Cherry-Pick When Interpreting Constitution
Randolph T. Holhut: A MOTHER'S GRIEF AND A PRESIDENT'S ARROGANCE
TERRI K. KIONKA: LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT (WO)MAN
forwarded email joke: Bush on A Stamp
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: A Cancerous Tumor in the Body Politic -- Time for Surgery
Tuesday, August 16:
Cathryn Sykes: A Small Town In Texas
Steven A. Hass: URGING DEMOCRATS TO "BRING IT ON" IN MIDTERM ELECTIONS
Stephen Crockett: America: Under Siege By The Oil Industry
Rob Kall: Trashing Crosses, Desperately Sliming Cindy and waking up Red America With a kilodeath Alarm Clock (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: A Prayer for Cindy (1 comments)
Monday, August 15:
David Swanson: The Problem With Howard Dean (2 comments)
Thom Hartmann: Jefferson Would Have Stood With Cindy Sheehan (1 comments)
Greg Moses: Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford: A People's History of Aug. 11, Part Three
Gene C. Gerard: President Bush Must Address Outsourcing
Richard McCartan: The Roberts Hearing and the Death Penalty
Carol Wolman: King and Subject
Sunday, August 14:
Danny Schechter: WHATS THE BEST WAY TO "SUPPORT THE TROOPS"?
Tony Zurlo: Reflections from Camp Casey
Carol Wolman: What's so special about the US?
Gerald Rellick: "Whole World Hate Bush"
Jason Miller: Redemption Within Reach for the American Empire
R. J. Kovic: Vacation, Uninterrupted
Greg Moses: Tomorrow's History Today:
Saturday, August 13:
Jack Dalton: “It’s about time we got you guys off welfare”
Mickey Z.: Helen Keller: Not Blind to War Crimes
Bret Stephenson: The Illusion of Controlling Teens
Mary Shaw: Homeland insecurity
Rob Kall: What if the Democrats Continue to Fail and America Falls? (3 comments)
Evelyn Pringle: August 24 DC Protest - Vaccine-Autism Activists Join In
Friday, August 12:
Nicholas Chavasse: George Bush’s Midas touch…with one of his gloved hands on the trigger of the War Economy, where is Dwight Eisenhower whe
Jack Dalton: A Message From Conscientious Objector Sgt Kevin Benderman—American Hero (1 comments)
George Henson: Cindy Sheehan and the Madres de La Plaza de Mayo (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: An Open Letter to Christians (1 comments)
Lilian Friedberg: Cindy Sheehan: The Human Face of A Nation at War (1 comments)
Greg Moses: A Crawford Peace House Morning
Thursday, August 11:
Evelyn Pringle: August 24 DC Protest Against the FDA- What's Everybody Mad About? (3 comments)
David Swanson: Measuring the Cindy Web Phenomenon
Jack Hughes: Fighting for the American way of life: Can freedom survive when democracy fails? (1 comments)
David Sirota: Big Surprise -- Corporate America Salivates Over Roberts
Robert Parry: 'Braveheart,' Edward I & George W. Bush
Rob Kall: A Worldwide Disaster for Women is in the Offing (1 comments)
Ralph Nader: Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas (1 comments)
Mary Pitt: WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR
Wednesday, August 10:
William Fisher: LOOKING BACK AT LBJ
Anthony Wade: The Proverbial Truth About George W. Bush and Cindy Sheehan (6 comments)
Sheila Samples: It All Started at the Pig Farm...
Randolph T. Holhut: RECOVERING THE TRUE STORY OF THE ATOMIC BOMB
Tuesday, August 9:
Greg Moses: Cindy Sheehan Draws Tears of Support in Crawford (2 comments)
Harvey Wasserman: Orphan Nagasaki
Lora Sharnoff: The Rise and Fall of Bush’s Boy in Japan; Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro
Jason Leopold: Cheney + Pakistan = Iran
Monday, August 8:
Steven A. Hass: MAINSTREAM MEDIA PLAYS SECOND FIDDLE
Evelyn Pringle: SSRI Protest - Activists Fed Up With FDA
Ivan Eland: The Failed “War on Terror”
R. J. Kovic: The Administration’s Hidden Teenage Graveyard
Monica Benderman: Is Being a Conscientious Objector Criminal?
Phil Rockstroh: The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, Jesus, and the Death Genes (1 comments)
Mary Pitt: ROBERTSON DECLARES FATWAH ON SCOTUS
Stephen Crockett: We Won Then Lost In Iraq
Sunday, August 7:
R. J. Kovic: Throwing Caution to a Very Ill Wind
William Fisher: A WIN FOR SCIENCE!
Robert Parry: Will Ferrell & ACT's Failed Logic
David Sirota: Local Forces Demand Pelosi Hold CAFTA Sellouts Accountable
Richard A. McCartan: Reducing Preventable Deaths: Where should the focus be?
James J. Kroeger: The Republican Nemesis; Democrats and Progressives Need to Develop Political Emotional Intelligence (1 comments)
Jason Miller: George Bush Knows Why They Hate Us
Saturday, August 6:
Robert Parry: Will Ferrell & ACT's Failed Logic (2 comments)
Bret Stephenson: From Responsibility to Irresponsibility (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: The "I" Words (2 comments)
Anthony Wade: The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With (4 comments)
Friday, August 5:
Stephen Crockett: The Purpose of Elections in America (1 comments)
Jason Leopold: Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
Jane Stillwater: Poking sticks at the tiger: Why Muslim-baiting is NOT a good idea
Angie Pratt: 20 New Republican Ideas
David Swanson: Solomon's Unspinning of War
Carol Wolman: Fixing the Intelligence and Facts
Rob Kall: Democrats Climbing Out of the Playpen, Newly Born as Political Beings Called Candidates (1 comments)
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Did the GOP steal another Ohio Election?
Thursday, August 4:
David Swanson: Novak's History of Anger Management Issues
Allen Snyder: LDD: Logic Deficit Disorder Epidemic Among Regressive Right
Rob Kall: Rob Kall; Blocking Regional Free Internet is a Right Wing Political Strategy
Karen Kilroy: Iraq War Death in Ohio Video
David Swanson: Breaking: In 2006 Washington D.C. to Have No Representation in Congress
Stephen Crockett: Karl Rove Scandal and the Big Picture (1 comments)
Wednesday, August 3:
Gene C. Gerard: Consumer Confidence Decline Surprises Only the Bush Administration
David Swanson: On Washington Post's Defense of Judith Miller
Randolph T. Holhut: LIPSTICK ON A PIG
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: U.S. Leaving Iraq? -- It's Still the Politics, Stupid
Stephen Crockett: Bush: Ruining The American Dream
Tuesday, August 2:
Stephen Crockett: American Workers Betrayed By Congress (1 comments)
Stephen Crockett: Breaking Monopoly Power
Monday, August 1:
Paul Rogat Loeb: SPEAKING TRUTH TO ROBERTS
William Fisher: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN NORTH CAROLINA (1 comments)
Rob Kall: Rob Kall; Maybe- Diversity Will be Good For Unions (1 comments)