Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
November 2005
Wednesday, November 30:
Anthony Wade: Confusing Goals With Plans, Bush to America: DROP DEAD (1 comments)
Robert Parry: Bush in Iraq, Slouching Toward Genocide
Missy Comley Beattie: The Vatican’s New Rule: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Doug Thompson: Pentagon, intel pros tell Bush war cannot be won
David Sirota: A PLAN to Fight Against the Stealth War on Workers' Wages
Ryan O'Donnell: Parties should make direct election of president a priority
Rob Kall: Bush's Nothing New Reframing Trifecta; Is He Fighting Saddamists, Sodomists, or Doesn't it Matter (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Cheerleading at Annapolis (1 comments)
Randolph T. Holhut: CENSORSHIP WITH BOMBS
Ernest Partridge: Through a Glass, Darkly (2 comments)
William Fisher: FORUM FOR THE (DISTANT) FUTURE
Gene C. Gerard: Pharmacists Can’t Say No to Contraception
David Sirota: The Growing Problem of Defense Industry Profiteering
Tuesday, November 29:
Jane Stillwater: How to end the war on Iraq: Tax land instead of income! (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: *Softball Continues, Matthews Shills Again
Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers: Santa Baby, Please Make These Wishes Come True
Doris Colmes, MSW: Ridin’’ the Bus With Deborah (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Death squads, Devastation and the Corporate Media (1 comments)
Ted Bohne profanity warning: A Little Warmed Over Hypocrisy.
Missy Comley Beattie: Which Came First—the Dumbing Down of the Presidency or the Dumbing Down of the Electorate? (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: What would Jesus do? (1 comments)
Stephen Soldz: To heal or to patch? Military mental health workers in Iraq
Danny Schechter: WAR ON THE MEDIA: “Don’t Bomb Us”
Rob Kall: If Dems Win 2006 Elections, WIll Bush/Cheney Resign to Make Hastert President? (9 comments)
Monday, November 28:
Mick Youther: The Beginning of the End (2 comments)
Andy Ostroy: Is Bush Set to Do an About-Face on His Misguided "Stay the Course" Policy By Withdrawing Troops In Time For '06 Midterms (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: *King of Softball Strikes Again, Matthews Cements His Legacy as Administration Whore
Thomas L. Walsh: This President Can Bounce Back
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Metaphorical Bulletin! Stone Falls From Supreme Court Facade
Andrew Bard Schmookler: How Ruling Powers Distort Morality So That It Does Not Restrain Them (2 comments)
Jon Faulkner: The Enemy is Us (APOLOGIES TO POGO) (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Wielding Authority
Nick Turse: Bush's Burgeoning Body Count: Fallen Legion II
David Swanson: *A Congressman for Impeachment
Patricia Goldsmith: False Frames
Sunday, November 27:
Mike Whitney: Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress (2 comments)
Larry Scott: SECRETIVE VA LAUNCHES NEW PTSD REVIEW (1 comments)
Rob Kall: What makes a hero? (4 comments)
Carol Wolman: Be alert! (3 comments)
Saturday, November 26:
Mickey Z.: Steal This City
Bev Harris, Jim March, Kathleen Wynne: Turkey Day leftovers: No thanks for stuffing elections with machines (1 comments)
Evelyn Pringle: Pharma's Poisoned Generation (1 comments)
William Fisher: DANGEROUS DENIAL
Carol Wolman: Prophecy Today- The Unholy Trinity
Mark Sashine: Beware The Desperation USA Scenario
Mike Whitney: The Greatest Strategic Disaster in American History
Walter Brasch: The FEMA Scheme-a;
Friday, November 25:
Andy Ostroy: It's Thanksgiving Week, and Time to Thank President Bush For All He's Done For America (1 comments)
Jason Miller: Ongoing Quest for the Many Manifestations of Bigfoot
AmeriPundit: The Administration "re-wronging" History
Don Williams: A man not so good at running gets better at giving thanks
Mary Pitt: HOWARD DEAN'S FUND-RAISING WOES
Robert Parry: Dissing Fitzgerald & Prosecutorial Politics
Ray McGovern: Will the US Seize the Opening for Troop Withdrawal?
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: Ohio's Diebold Debacle: New machines call election results into question (1 comments)
Bruce S. Ticker: Israeli Shake-up Conforms with the Public Will
Thursday, November 24:
Mary Shaw: Celebrating Gluttony While Children Starve
Jim Bush: On This Thanksgiving
Susan Lenfestey: John Murtha: An Eagle Amid the Turkeys
Stephen Crockett: Not A Penny More (1 comments)
Wednesday, November 23:
Andy Ostroy: The Real Tragedy of Bush & Cheney's Iraq Lies: Americans Are Turned Off to Fighting Terrorism
Dave Lindorff: Troop Cuts After 12/15? What a Line of Bull! It's Stealth Escalation
Randolph T. Holhut: REPUBLICANS TRY YET AGAIN TO STEAL FROM THE POOR
Mike Whitney: Bush's Reckless attack on the Bill of Rights (1 comments)
Evelyn Pringle: Pharma To Republicans - Time To Pay Up Again
Rev. Bill McGinnis: Democratic Party Goals And Strategy For the 2006 Elections In the United States
Carol Wolman: The Handwriting on the Wall
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Taking for Granted: Thoughts on America as Thanksgiving Approaches
Greg Moses: Thanksgiving Delayed
Tuesday, November 22:
Bernard Weiner: Extreme Bush: The Good, Bad & Ugly
Douglas Drenkow: George Plays Dumb as Dick Plays Dirty. Welcome Back, Karl!
Anthony Wade: *The Party of Lies, Swift-Boating the Truth
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Deep Impact: How Americans Feel Living Under this Bush Presidency (1 comments)
Gil Magno: Call To Arms To All Artists
Gilbert Achcar and Stephen R. Shalom: On John Murtha's Position (1 comments)
Missy Comley Beattie: Bush: “God Bless the Christians in China”
Mr. Hu: “Pass the MSG”
Margaret Kimberley: Ohio Vote Theft, Now and Forever (1 comments)
Elwood Anderson: Reconciling Growth and the Income Gap
Carol Wolman: Does your pastor lie to you?
Rob Kall: Liberal and Redneck Joke
Monday, November 21:
Andy Ostroy: Bush & Cheney Look Tired, Old and Feeble. Their Leadership is Pathetic.
Joshua Frank: Rebel, Rebel
Rob Kall: Republican Policies and Evangelical Right Wing Extremists Are Closing 9 GM Plants (2 comments)
Stephen Crockett: When Talking Points Become Lies (1 comments)
Steven Leser: Is the Iraq War Shaping up as Another Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand? (2 comments)
Robert Jensen: Give Thanks No More; It’s Time for a National Day of Atonement (2 comments)
Mike Whitney: Hugo Chavez and the Crawford Madman (1 comments)
Sunday, November 20:
Doug Soderstrom, Ph.D: The Day America Died (1 comments)
Mary Shaw: The First Thanksgiving: Prelude to Genocide
David Swanson: *Friday Night Congress: What Was That?
Richard Neville: The Land That Said No
Jane Stillwater: After the fall: What will we do after Bush goes to jail?
Jason Miller: America's Corporatocracy Says "No MAS"
Larry Scott:: VETERANS TARGET OF THIRD-PARTY SLURS
Carol Wolman: Sheep and goats
Rob Kall: Withdrawal From Iraq Is the ONLY Way Our Soldiers Will NOT Have Died In Vain (2 comments)
Saturday, November 19:
Mick Youther: Justifying or Just-a-lying?
Greg Bates: Alito’s Waffling Character Charms Feinstein
John Kelley: What If George Met Jesus
Mike Whitney: Mugging Democrats on the House Floor (1 comments)
Andy Ostroy: Here's Why the Democrats Didn't "Win" Last Night (1 comments)
thepen: IF YOU WANT THE TROOPS HOME WE MUST SUPPORT "TROOPS HOME" CANDIDATES
William Fisher: NEW BROWNIES IN THE WINGS?
Constance Lavender: Congress's Budget is hypocritical, immoral, and irresponsible
Rob Kall: Right Wing Cowards Who Cut and Run (2 comments)
Michael Moore: Sorry, George, I'm In the Majority ...from Michael Moore (2 comments)
Missy Comley Beattie: George W. Bush: An Improvised Explosive Device Shattering Military Families
Friday, November 18:
Andy Ostroy: Sleazy GOP Attack Machine Kicks Into High Gear to Tear Down and Smear John Murtha (1 comments)
Rob Richie: Redistricting Reform: How Best to Tackle Ultra-Safe Districts (1 comments)
Dan Merica: Who Are They Trying to Kid? Most Everybody Knows Bush Lied.
Ticked Off Ted Bohne: There IS no plausible goal in Iraq but to get the US OUT! profanity warning
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Rulers Who Inhabit an Amoral World-- Part III: The Cloak of False Righteousness (1 comments)
Don Williams: Baker and Cheney: A Tale of Two Republicans
David Sirota: Rahm, Please Tell Us: How Many More Must Die for It to Be "The Right Time?" (1 comments)
Cindy Sheehan: Open Letter To George's Mama (3 comments)
Mike Whitney: Money for Napalm but not for Food Stamps
Dave Lindorff: Admit It: The US Has Been Defeated in Iraq (1 comments)
Tom Turnipseed: Dick Cheney: War Profiteer
Anthony Wade: Desperation on the Precipice of Disaster (1 comments)
Thursday, November 17:
Michael Karlin: The Relevance of Myth: Emerging Trends in Economics and Life
Mickey Z.: An Occupation Worth Applauding
Steven Hill: In Canada, regular folks are put to work on reforms
Missy Comley Beattie: Mercy Please. Murtha for President (1 comments)
John McDonald: Is Karl Rove the New Kevin Bacon?
Congressman John Murtha: War in Iraq (2 comments)
Don Monkerud: Better Working Conditions Lead to Better Economy
Sheila Samples: Bobcats in Brave, New World
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Rulers Who Inhabit an Amoral World-- Part II: When Loyalty Isn't a Moral Virtue
Doug Thompson: Bush's troubles mount as Republican defections increase
Dr. Robin Meyers: Rhetoric and Reality; an audacious double standard
Mary Pitt: The Economy Gap (1 comments)
John Kelley: Religio-Facism (1 comments)
Andy Ostroy: Christine Cegelis Got 44% Against Henry Hyde in '04; So Why is DCCC Head Rahm Emanuel Undermining Her '06 Campaign?
Wednesday, November 16:
John Laesch (D) congressional candidate running against Dennis Hastert: Time for Mr. Bush to stop blaming Intelligence Community for his failures.
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban (3 comments)
Missy Comley Beattie: Terrorists “R” Us
Rob Kall: *Desperate Bush Attack Dogs Accentuate the Right’s Descent (2 comments)
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Rulers Who Inhabit an Amoral World:
Part I: The Rejection of All Restraint (1 comments)
Douglas Drenkow: What Could Be More Moderate Than To Be Progressive?
Andy Ostroy: Can Rahm Emanuel Save the Democrats?
David Swanson: Cindy's Day in Court (1 comments)
Tuesday, November 15:
Evelyn Pringle: Bush Gang Swore Saddam Was Behind 9/11 In Lawsuit
Andy Ostroy: Lt. Bush Heads the GOP Hero-Wannabe Unit
Bernard Weiner: Solving the Media Puzzle: A Day in the Life
Randolph T. Holhut: CIVILIZED NATIONS SHOULDN'T TORTURE (UNLESS THEY'RE RUN BY REPUBLICANS) (1 comments)
Rev. Bill McGinnis: The Tragic Consequences Of Unregulated Free Trade
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Pat Robertson Blows ID's Cover: 'Intelligent Design' Isn't about Science But about Putting God into the Classroom
Steven Leser: Bush Again Channels Goering in Tirade against Iraq war detractors
Dave Lindorff: Not Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose--It's The Whole Ball of Wax
Roger Hickey and Jeff Cruz: A Simpler and Cheaper Prescription Drug Benefit
Greg Bates: Senators Snowe and Collins Must Work to Defeat Alito’s Supreme Court Nomination
Dave Zirin: P.O.'d about T.O.
Thom Hartmann: Losing Habeas Corpus - "A More Dangerous Engine of Arbitrary Government" (1 comments)
Monday, November 14:
Carol Wolman: Can we face reality? (2 comments)
Andrew Bard Schmookler: The Concept of Evil (1 comments)
Ken Swann: BUSH’D (2 comments)
Lonna Gooden VanHorn: Once Upon a Time in America (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: Corporate Media’s threat to Freedom
Danny Schechter: A TIME TO CHANGE: THE MEDIA DEBATES ITSELF
Stephen Crockett: *Leaks Can Be Good
Rob Kall: Is Bush China Competent? (2 comments)
Robert Jensen: Hope is for the Weak: The Challenge of a Broken World (1 comments)
Thomas C. Rockriver: The Dumb Stupid Animals Are Waking Up
Butler, Meryl Ann: Déjà vu, Hidden Documents and the Physics of 911
thepen: No Strict CONTORTIONIST For The Supreme Court
Patricia Goldsmith: The Magic Words
Sunday, November 13:
Andy Ostroy: Despite Bush's New Rhetoric, He and Cheney Lied About WMD
Larry Scott: VETERANS KNOW: IT'S BUYER! BEWARE! (1 comments)
Carol Wolman and Andy Johnson: What can you do to promote impeachment?
Elwood Anderson: The Roots of Rebellion
David Swanson: Bonifaz: A Candidate for the Rest of Us
William Fisher: ROSA PARKS: WHY ONE PERSON MATTERS
Mary Shaw: Santorum Calls the Kettle Black (1 comments)
Greg Moses: Nonviolence on Veterans Day?
Missy Comley Beattie: Answer to Bush’s Speech: It’s our Foreign Policy, Stupid (2 comments)
Rob Kall: Right Wing Cowards Killing Americans, Destroying Families (9 comments)
Ernest Partridge: The Bird Flu is Real -- And You're On Your Own (1 comments)
Saturday, November 12:
Dan Merica: Bush's Speech Only Reminds Us that His Lies Led to the Death of 2,000 GI's. (2 comments)
Mike Whitney: The Senate agrees to Imprisonment without Charges
John Kelley: The Ghosts of Viet Nam Haunt a President
William Fisher: THE NEXT JUDY MILLER? (1 comments)
Stephen Edward Seadler: Armistice Day 2 0 0 5 (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Keep Praying (1 comments)
Rob Kall: Dems Didn't Know What Bush Knew. (7 comments)
thepen: Senator Graham Pulls A FAST ONE To Abort Habeas Corpus
Friday, November 11:
Ticked Off Ted Bohne: For the First Time, the USA is On the Precipice of Failure
Andrew Bard Schmookler: An Open Letter to Senators John McCain, Howard Baker and Warren Rudman:
Mick Youther: TreasonGate--part II
Carol Wolman: Intelligent Design vs evolution (1 comments)
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster: How the NeoCons – and the Dems – sunk the Ship of State (2 comments)
Rev. Bill McGinnis: Bush Administration Dishonors All Veterans By Committing War Crimes In Iraq
Insitute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Chalabi Pushes Iran Card in Last Ditch Self-Promotion Offensive
Don Williams: Frist, Hastert go to bat for secret war, secret government
Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: "Chalabi the Liar" Dishonors American Troops As the Bush Admin Warmly Welcomes Him
Mike Whitney: Judith Miller's Farewell, what she should have said
Lonna Gooden VanHorn: Letter to an American Foot Soldier (2 comments)
John McDonald: Scanlon, Abramoff, Rove and The Republican Strategy; “Bring out the Whackos”
Rob Kall: Bush-Supporting Evangelicals; Abuse Victims? (1 comments)
Andy Ostroy: "Republican Light" Warner is the Democrats' New Great Hope (1 comments)
Ben Marble, M.D.: What Would Jesus Say to Pat Robertson? (1 comments)
David Swanson: *Politically Strategic Impeachment
Thursday, November 10:
Jason Miller: Our Mothers (and Thomas Paine) Warned Us about People like the Disciples of Strauss
Carol Wolman: The True Rapture
Stephen Crockett: State Power and Conservative Ideology (1 comments)
Lonna Gooden VanHorn: Smarter Than We Are
Mike Whitney: A Little Rioting, now and then, is a Good Thing (1 comments)
Wednesday, November 9:
David Sirota: The High Cost of Free Trade's Supposedly Low Prices
Carol Wolman: Turning the tables
Anthony Wade: *Lack of Class Warfare
Randolph T. Holhut: CHARITY IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR AN ACTIVIST GOVERNMENT
Gene C. Gerard: Any Soldier Will do For the Pentagon
John Walsh: Lies of the Neocons: From Leo Strauss to Scooter Libby
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Who Knows What Evil Lurks --Another Tale of the Liberal Resistance to Facing the Dark Side (1 comments)
Rev. Bill McGinnis: Bush's Candidate Loses Big In Virginia Elections
Greg Moses: Turning Back the Clocks One More Time
Tuesday, November 8:
Andy Ostroy: NJ/VA Voters Reject Bush in Electing Democrat Governors
David Swanson: Letter to Ahmed Chalabi
Danny Schechter: HOW TO CONFRONT THE MEDIA
Bernard Weiner: "Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down
David Swanson: DISHONORING THE DEAD AT THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
David Lindorff: 'What country was Bush talking about?
Monday, November 7:
David Sirota: Swift Boat Vets Are Back, This Time Targeting Sanders (1 comments)
Robert Parry: So Iraq Was About the Oil (1 comments)
Lynne Glasner: The Spy Is Out, the Fools Rush In
Stephen Crockett: Anti-Rural Republican Policies
thepen: Congress and the Culture of CRUELTY
David Swanson: The Bush-Cheney Ethics Refresher Course
Andrew Bard Schmookler: More on Going Beyond "Bring the Troops Home" (1 comments)
Sunday, November 6:
Jason Miller: El Pais de las Pesadillas
Mike Whitney: You’re doin’ a Heck of a Job, Dick Cheney (5 comments)
Gene C. Gerard: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 is Here Again (1 comments)
Anthony Wade: Rudy Giuliani, Whoring for the GOP
Mary Shaw: Bush's War on Veterans
Gary Vance: The Religious Right and the Democrats Stand at the Crossroads
Michael Leon: Evolution and Fear Mongering
Larry Scott: VETERANS' DAY OR ANOTHER MEMORIAL DAY?
Andy Ostroy: Bush's 35% Approval to Hurt GOP Tuesday and in '06 Midterms (1 comments)
Don Williams: One Year After Dubya's Re-selection, It's Even Worse Than Predicted
Rob Kall: As the Republicans are Tanking, Disown the Old Democratic Party Hack Pundits While We're at It (1 comments)
Saturday, November 5:
Evelyn Pringle: Bush-Cheney 2004 Campaign Slogan - Results Do Matter
Mick Youther: TreasonGate--part I
Paul Rogat Loeb: The Real Rosa Parks
Jim Prues: The Center of Truth (on finding "God") World 5.0
Douglas Drenkow: "I Will Swear to Uphold the Honor and Dignity of the Office to Which I Have Been Elected, So Help Me God."
Mike Whitney: Panicky Bush slinks away from Chavez (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Serving two masters
Ted bohne: A short burst on Bush's Alcoholism, including Dry drunk syndrome. (5 comments)
Rob Kall: The Bush Cult and the Koolaid. (3 comments)
Friday, November 4:
Mick Youther: TreasonGate--Whose side are they on
John Kelley: Watch That Pea
Rob Kall: South American Protests: Bush Is the Most Hated Man in the History of the World? (1 comments)
Doug Thompson: GOP Leaders to Bush: 'Your Presidency is Effectively Over' (1 comments)
Mike Whitney: The United States of Torture (1 comments)
Lynn Landes: Scrap the "Secret" Ballot - Return to Open Voting
Dave Zirin: Sheryl Swoopes: Out of the Closet--and Ignored
Andy Ostroy: The GOP on PlameGate: Deny, Rationalize, Change
Thursday, November 3:
Andrew Bard Schmookler: They Say that the Fish Rots from the Head Down
Mike Whitney: Drifting towards a Police State (1 comments)
Daryl W.: Twas the night before Fitzmas, and in the White House.... (1 comments)
Carol Wolman: Hope
Don Monkerud: Congress Protects Industry from Citizens
Andy Ostroy: David Brooks' Incredibly Misguided NY Times Op-ed (2 comments)
Rob Kall: *How Bad Can it Get When You Have Five Pro Business, Anti-Church-State-Separation Judges on the Supreme Court? (3 comments)
Richard Neville: WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?
Wednesday, November 2:
Virginia Braddock aka Lady Broadoak: Women and the Civil Disobedience Movement
Ted Bohne: What does it matter why he did it! Libby's Brain Fart
Doug Thompson: Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides (1 comments)
Michael Leon: Finkelstein Indicts Dershowitz/Dershowitz Returns Fire (1 comments)
Andy Ostroy: Why Reid's "Rule 21" Action is Huge for Democrats
Andrew Bard Schmookler: How Can They Not See It? (2 comments)
Wayne Madsen: Exposing Karl Rove
Carol Wolman: The Civil War in the US
Douglas Drenkow: I Am Pro-Choice AND Pro-Life
Randolph T. Holhut: IT'S TIME TO START TAKING THE THEOCRATS SERIOUSLY (1 comments)
Mickey Z.: Stealing Veteran's Day from the Militarists
Dan Merica: Lady Justice Is Not Blind in Bush's Supreme Court.
Joe Carpenter: We Don’t Need Them
John McDonald: Libby and Rove are the Least of Their Problems
Ken Swann: MORNING SANCTUARY
Rob Kall: *Dear Harry (2 comments)
Daniel Patrick Welch: Nothing to Lose
David Sirota: Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions
Ernest Partridge: An Illusion of Normality
Tuesday, November 1:
Bernard Weiner: Scooter Libby's Diary: Come And Get Me, Coppers!
David Swanson: *Talking Points on _House Resolution 505
David Sirota: Why Give Ground to Archconservatives & the Radical Right? (1 comments)
Edwin Anthony Dalecki, Jr.: The Real 'Slam Dunk' on Americans! (1 comments)
Tim Wise: Katrina, Conservative Myth-Making and the Media (2 comments)
Andrew Bard Schmookler: Going Beyond the 'Cindy Sheehan' Stage of Iraq Protest (1 comments)