Archives for Best Web OpEds
December 2007
Monday, December 31:
Laudyms: Homeland Chicanery- video
Steven Leser: Obama Fund Raising Info at Sourcewatch
Margaret Bassett: Dennis Kucinich: A peace-seeking idealist to the core
PrMaine: Interview of Elizabeth Kucinich
usxp: Bringing Leonard Peltier to Iowa and New Hampshire
Dan Lion: RON PAUL IN 2008? JUST SAY "NO" TO "DR. NO" (4 comments)
Mixter: Benazir Bhutto said Osama bin Laden was murdered (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: McGovern Still on the Antiwar Path -- talks about Hillary (1 comments)
usxp: LAKOTA: A Free People, A Free Nation! (2 comments)
Laudyms: Changing our direction - William S. Cohen and Sam Nunn (3 comments)
Sunday, December 30:
Sheila Samples: Did Bush Watch the Torture Tapes? (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Craig Roberts: We all are prisoners now
Saturday, December 29:
Sheila Samples: A winning Democratic presidential team (3 comments)
Christopher Wright: Ray McGovern: Creeping Fascism (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Man Will Walk 500 Miles To Impeach Bush and Cheney (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Creeping Fascism: From Nazi Germany to Post 9/11 America
Christopher Wright: Alexander Cockburn: Options in America
Sheila Samples: Anglo-American Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan
Kathlyn Stone: Dissident Voice : Socialism Is the Only Way (Malcolm Martin) (22 comments)
Laudyms: The Cost Of Bush: $32 Trillion (3 comments)
Friday, December 28:
Sheila Samples: Behind the Edwards Surge: Right Message at the Right Time
Sheila Samples: The Imperial Presidency: The '08 Candidates Weigh In
Rady Ananda: And The "Show" Goes On...
Jim Freeman: DAVID IGNATIUS ON BENAZIR BHUTTO
Sheila Samples: Will 'The Washington Post' Cease to Exist as a Newspaper? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
Sheila Samples: Michael Isikoff -- Challenging Cheney
Sheila Samples: The FCC's Holiday Gift to Big Media
Sheila Samples: Will Bush Provoke Iran? (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: FINANCIAL SENSE -- EXIT 2007: DENIALS & TONTARIA
Thursday, December 27:
Joan Brunwasser: NYT Editorial: Protection for Endangered Whistle-Blowers
Laudyms: Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons (2 comments)
Laudyms: Judicial Watch: List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2007 | Judicial Watch (2 comments)
Laudyms: We Are All Prisoners Now- Paul Craig Roberts (3 comments)
alan1111: COCKROACHES+THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN = THE US SENATE
PrMaine: Paul Krugman on Unions (1 comments)
Norla Antinoro: Profit Motive: What's Wrong with American Health Care?by Kathleen Bushman (2 comments)
Norla Antinoro: Issues not Personalities by Norla Antinoro
Russ Wellen: Top 10 Myths About Iraq
Sheila Samples: Judicial Imperialism (6 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady
Wednesday, December 26:
Sheila Samples: Krugman: Progressives, To Arms!
Sheila Samples: The Freedom to Starve: Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul (4 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2007
Russ Wellen: The Dark Side of Ron Paul (10 comments)
Russ Wellen: Republicans Can't Snake-Handle Evangelicals Any Longer
Tuesday, December 25:
Timothy V. Gatto: I Need to Know Just One Thing / John Edwards '08 Blog
Sheila Samples: Sheehan: What's on our Holiday Table (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Karon: Notes on the Post-Bush Mideast
Sheila Samples: With Bush in their pocket, the Carlyle Group buys the "Birth Certificate of Democracy" -the Magna Carta (2 comments)
Timothy V. Gatto: Think 9/11 Was the First Conspiracy by the Government? Think Again (6 comments)
Len Hart: Oscar Peterson's Dream of Peace and Equality
Monday, December 24:
Sheila Samples: Krugman: State of the Unions (3 comments)
usxp: Republicans For Hillary: Why the Republicans are running losers
Russ Wellen: Moyers: What Did the Mitchell Report Teach Us? (1 comments)
Russ Wellen: Wheee! Waterboarding a Pipeline to Hell
Sunday, December 23:
Laudyms: THE NEW DAWN OF SOLAR (3 comments)
Laudyms: In Distrust of Movements by Wendell Berry (2 comments)
Barbara Peterson: Christmas? I will not comply! (4 comments)
Saturday, December 22:
Sheila Samples: Joe Wilson Rips Obama, Ignites Debate Over Candidates' Experience (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Nightmare Before Christmas
Sheila Samples: Shock and Tasers in New Orleans
Sheila Samples: Lawyers Stepping Up (4 comments)
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: WaPo on Huckabee's Exclusionary Ad
Sheila Samples: Gitmo and the Supreme Court: What Happened? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Kristol, Krauthammer Are Out of Time (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Whitney: The Butcher's Apron (1 comments)
Laudyms: War is the 'terrorism' of the rich
usxp: Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse Break Away From US - Putin Threatens Support (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: "Shock Doctrine" Applied to Autistic and Retarded Kids
Barbara Peterson: "Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic
Rob Kall: War on Iraq: Pelosi Says She Miscalculated GOP Determination on Iraq
Len Hart: Supreme Court: Big Corporations Can Take Your Home
Friday, December 21:
Sheila Samples: Cheney Justice?
Sheila Samples: FCC's Kevin Martin Plays Santa to the Chicago Tribune Company and Corporate Media (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: 'Christian Nation' Leaves Cancer Patients to Die
Sheila Samples: Vanity Fair: A Tale of Two Giulianis
Sheila Samples: Santa Delivers 37,000+ Copies of Constitution to Bush
Sheila Samples: Pelosi Says She Miscalculated GOP Determination on Iraq (1 comments)
Barbara Peterson: Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement
Steven Leser: Krugman at NY Times shows how Libertarianism is a failed policy vis-a-vis Housing and Lending Bubble
Timothy V. Gatto: We Need A Defender of American Liberty / John Edwards '08 Blog
Margaret Bassett: CQ Politics | New Handshake, Same Grip
Russ Wellen: Iraq Was a Lose-Lose (and Lose Again) Proposition
Thursday, December 20:
Margaret Bassett: ASA Issues Human Rights Declaration for People with ASD
Sheila Samples: Gore Vidal on the Democratic Debate Debacle
Joan Brunwasser: Is a Presidential Coup Under Way? (1 comments)
Timothy V. Gatto: Why Are Ron Paul Videos On a Liberal/Progressive Blog? (16 comments)
Barbara Peterson: A young blonde Icelandic woman's recent experience visiting the US (4 comments)
JohnPeebles: Perils of Fundamentalism; Spending, Debt, and the Middle Class
Laudyms: Fatwa against the dollar? : December 2007 : Ambrose Evans-Pritchard : Business : Telegraph Blogs
Laudyms: FOX ATTACKS! Edwards and Obama
Philip Knab: Lou Dobbs Swears E.T. Is Not An Illegal Alien (2 comments)
Russ Wellen: Blockbuster Three-Part Series Dissects Hillary Point by Policy Point
Margaret Bassett: Bush, Clinton, Bush, & now Clinton?
Wednesday, December 19:
Sheila Samples: Chertoff Concealed Role in Tape Destruction (1 comments)
Norla Antinoro: What a Progressive Is Not by John Nerikaat (1 comments)
Norla Antinoro: The Crucible of Paranoia by Hunter Gray
Norla Antinoro: It is the Time by Norla Antinoro
Norla Antinoro: Winter Solstice 2007: The sunrise of 1945 by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
Len Hart: With Bush in their pocket, the Carlyle Group buys the "Birth Certificate of Democracy" --the Magna Carta (5 comments)
Russ Wellen: Reid's Once-Chilly Relationship with Bush Now in Deep Freeze
Russ Wellen: Newspapers Cartoonists Have a Field Day with Steroid Scandal
Sheila Samples: Vanity Fair: Big Brother Inc.
Sheila Samples: Blank Check for Afghanistan Passes, Iraq Funds to Come
Tuesday, December 18:
Sheila Samples: Bush Claims ‘We Have Fabulous Health Care’ Compared To ‘Other Systems Around The World’
Laudyms: A Year for Failure: Regulatory Policy News in 2007
Rady Ananda: Democracy Now: Harvey Wasserman on New Ohio Voting Report: "The 2004 Election Was Stolen... Finally We Have Irrefutable (2 comments)
Barbara Peterson: FCC Votes for Monopoly
Russ Wellen: High-Ranking Defector Key to Iran NIE
Barbara Peterson: Expose by Pharmaceutical Company Whistle-Blower?
Russ Wellen: Government Watchdog's Top 10 Ethics Scandals
M. Davis: AlterNet: Where Anti-Immigrant Zealots Like Lou Dobbs Get Their \'Facts\' (4 comments)
Margaret Bassett: John Dean hopeful on ACLU civil suit re CIA tapes
Monday, December 17:
Sheila Samples: Gonzales Stripped of His "Lawyer of the Year" Title (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Kissinger's foggy lens on Iran
Sheila Samples: A public health system defeated at the hands of ideology
Sheila Samples: Alan Greenspan: The Boy in the Bubble (2 comments)
Rob Kall: Arriana Huffington: Huckabee: The GOP's Cynical Use of Religion Has Come Home to Roost
usxp: Judge "Urged" Not To Ask About CIA Tapes
Laudyms: Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead
Mike Kuykendall: Iraq Casualty Update (2 comments)
Rob Kall: Pelosi and Reid continue to defy America (2 comments)
Sunday, December 16:
Steven Leser: After the Money's Gone - Paul Krugman on the Housing Bubble/Crash
W. Christopher Epler (Bill): Estulin: Elitists Consider Assassinating Ron Paul
Barbara Peterson: Global Banks Embrace Islam (4 comments)
Barbara Peterson: Experimental Weather Modification Coming To Your Neighborhood, Soon (2 comments)
Laudyms: Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken
Margaret Bassett: Help Oppose Telecom Amnesty | Chris Dodd for President
Joan Brunwasser: EVEREST: Ohio's Voting System Report
Margaret Bassett: Join Wexler\'s Call for Cheney Hearings
Russ Wellen: Israeli Minister Jumps on Bush's WWIII Band Wagon
Russ Wellen: As if Hawkish Wing of Party Were the Only Democrats Who Cared About Security
Saturday, December 15:
Sheila Samples: Scott Horton: The President’s Coming-Out Party
Sheila Samples: The Court That May Not Be Heard
Friday, December 14:
Sheila Samples: Doug Thompson: Turds always rise to the surface (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Robert Parry: Mobile Labs to Target Iraqis for Death (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Wexler: A CASE FOR HEARINGS (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne -- Plan B For Pelosi And Reid
Hans Bennett: Reverend Pinkney's Fight Against Racism, Gangsterism and Land Stealing
Russ Wellen: Is Senator Mitchell the Reincarnation of Joe McCarthy?
Thursday, December 13:
Laudyms: Since Gulf War 1 - 73,846 US Troops Dead, 1,620,906 Disabled (5 comments)
James Brett: Faith and Politics
Gregg Gordon: What's Really Happened During the Surge?
William Cormier: Dissent in America to be relabeled "Homegrown Terrorism" (6 comments)
Laudyms: Subprime becomes prime time lawsuits?
Wednesday, December 12:
Sheila Samples: New Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science
Sheila Samples: Scheer: Waterboarding Our Democracy (1 comments)
Barbara Peterson: Westernised Women Being Killed in Basra
Mike Germain: Tortured history: How today's torturers are also yesterdays.
Russ Wellen: Maureen Dowd: Dumbest Guy Gives Dumbest Speech (3 comments)
Tuesday, December 11:
Sheila Samples: Decoupling dies as half the globe hits crunch
Sheila Samples: Froomkin: Did Torture Work? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: MORTGAGE MELTDOWN - the real story is fraud
Mixter: Ah, yes... Our transparent democracy
Laudyms: Will Liberty Succumb to Federalist Society Ideology?
Pamela Drew: Blueprint for the Disintegration of America
Sheila Samples: AWOL Military Justice
Sheila Samples: Turley: Bad Is Hardly the Word For Destruction of CIA Tapes: Call It Criminal
Mike Kuykendall: Obama's Attacks on Edwards Backfire
Laudyms: Presidents aren't bound by their own Executive Orders
Daniel Geery: Everything You Need To Know*
Laudyms: Iran invasion cancelled by Bilderberger? audio
Joan Brunwasser: Mitt's Notes on Religion: A parody
Barbara Peterson: Dishonest Political Tampering with the Science on Global Warming
Joan Brunwasser: Eight Questions Reporters Should Ask Huckabee
Russ Wellen: A Housing Bailout Might Be a Boon, But Bush's Is a Bust
Russ Wellen: Torture Does Not Become. . .
Joan Brunwasser: The Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008 (3 comments)
Gregg Gordon: 97 year old granny saves your spiritual life... in real time
Monday, December 10:
Sheila Samples: CIA Tapegate Just Doesn't Add Up (1 comments)
James Brett: Camping with Nancy
Russ Wellen: The CIA's Gift to Conspiracy Theorists (21 comments)
Sunday, December 9:
Laudyms: An Alleged "Two Party System"
Laudyms: Why is Bush determined to attack Iran? -Paul Craig Roberts (6 comments)
Abraham007: Message to Impeachment Critics: It is Necessary Now!
Abraham007: What is the Overall Impact of the Valerie Plame Outing? (2 comments)
Daniel Geery: Bought your gifts yet? (4 comments)
Karen Fish: Iran and China to Sign Major Oil Deal Today
Joan Brunwasser: Romney and Huckabee's religious intolerance
Laudyms: A Talmudic Precedent for a Just Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Russ Wellen: The Congressman Who Went from Freedom Fries to Limiting the President's War Powers
Russ Wellen: Honoring the Man Who Saved the World (1 comments)
Saturday, December 8:
Sheila Samples: Neocons Devastated by Iran Intel Bombshell, But Don't Count Them Out Yet (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Suskind: WH Efforts To Pin Full Blame On Rodriguez For Destruction Of Tapes ‘Hard To Believe’
Sheila Samples: Joe Klein Thinks Destroying Evidence, Covering Up War Crimes is "Candor"
Sheila Samples: Wall Street's Bad Boys and Their Washington Enablers
Sheila Samples: Herbert: Spies Like You and Me
Laudyms: Losing and Restoring the Republic (1 comments)
Better World Order: Don't Blame Blacks for the Crisis of Capital (2 comments)
Laudyms: China's Valley of Tears -- In These Times
Laudyms: Blackwater's Bu$ine$$ (1 comments)
Len Hart: The Right Wing Threat of Theocracy (1 comments)
Friday, December 7:
Sheila Samples: Rockefeller, Harman: We Kinda Sorta Knew About CIA's Torture Tapes (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: ABC Nabs Latest Media Player From Bush Team, Matthew Dowd
Sheila Samples: W'S DISASTROUS MORTGAGE 'FIX'
Sheila Samples: Wash. Post and NY Times ignored Hadley's claim and denial that Bush was told to "stand down" upon learning of Iran intel
Sheila Samples: Calling on Congress to Stop a War
Mike Germain: College students vote where they study? What a revolutionairy idea. Or not.
Barbara Peterson: Remember What Happened Here
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: What's Really Wrong with the MSM?
Jim Freeman: On Wall Street, Mortgaged Principles
Sheila Samples: Sullivan: This Is A Banana Republic
Sheila Samples: Cheney: ‘I’d Have To Go Back And Do A Lot Of Research’ To See If Rove Is Right About War Vote (1 comments)
Thursday, December 6:
Better World Order: New bill wastes cash, breeds due suspicion
Sheila Samples: Bush continues threats against Iran
Mike Kuykendall: President Bush Lied About Iran's Nukes
Better World Order: Iran Intelligence Report: More Psychological Warfare?
Rob Kall: Is Huckabee Democrats' Biggest Nightmare?
Russ Wellen: Has Reality TV Finally Gone Too Far?
Mark E. Smith: San Francisco Bay View - House of Reps votes 404-6 to pass the bill that legalizes COINTELPRO
Russ Wellen: The CIA "War" on Bush: The New Neocon Ploy (1 comments)
Russ Wellen: China Poised to Stand up to US over Iran
Wednesday, December 5:
Sheila Samples: America, Land of 371 Billionaires and 3.5 Million Homeless
Sheila Samples: Waxman, Mukasey and Ten Million Missing Emails
Sheila Samples: She's the most powerful black woman in the world. Why can't I stand the sight of her? (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Doug Thompson: The eyes of a madman
Sheila Samples: Froomkin: A Pattern of Deception
Joan Brunwasser: Venezuela is not Florida
Laudyms: "We Must Fight the Net": Knowledge Driven Revolution
Laudyms: Homeland Security For Sale
Elaine Brower: Fighting Terror With Terror
Norla Antinoro: Anniversaries and New Directions by Norla Antinoro
Norla Antinoro: The Closed Society in America by Hunter Gray
Norla Antinoro: Taking the Gloves Off by Michael Cavlan
Norla Antinoro: How a Cohesive Progressive Movement Can Change the World By Sakin
Norla Antinoro: Ballast: How you keep others afloat by Bryan Zepp Jamieson
Tuesday, December 4:
Sheila Samples: McGovern: A Miracle: Honest Intel on Iran Nukes (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Juan Cole: Why Bush's troop surge won't save Iraq
Sheila Samples: Annapolis & "The Surge": Spinning a Legacy
Sheila Samples: Our Troops Must Leave Iraq (1 comments)
Dan Lieberman: The Making of Israel
ladybroadoak: Why we must stop the SPP!
Mixter: Intelligence contradicts Bush! (1 comments)
James Brett: ESPN Monday Night Football (2 comments)
Mike Kuykendall: NIE Report Clearly Proves Iran Warmongering
Russ Wellen: Forget Rudy's Trysts, Focus on His Dealings with Qatar (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bush: Gimme More Iraq War $$, Or I'll Starve Domestic Anti-Terror Programs (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Wolfowitz -- An Old Face Resurfaces
Monday, December 3:
Sheila Samples: Human Rights Crusader Michael Ratner: We'll Keep Going After Bush and Cheney When They Leave Office
Sheila Samples: President, Congress Ready to Begin the Next Round
Sheila Samples: Corn: Rove Misled Rose on CIA Leak Case, and the White House Is Still Stonewalling
Sheila Samples: The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
Sheila Samples: Daniel Ellsberg Talks About the Shadow Government and the Need to Let the Sunshine In
Joan Brunwasser: Stephen Heller: Felonious Punk No More
Russ Wellen: Five Myths About the Bomb (and Us)
Russ Wellen: When a Deterrent Becomes a Threat (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: James Petras: CIA Venezuela Destabilization Memo Surfaces
Sunday, December 2:
Sheila Samples: Ignoring his flawed 2006 forecast, Wallace allowed Rove to predict GOP "gains in the Congress" in 2008
Sheila Samples: LA Times: CNN: Corrupt News Network
Sheila Samples: All eyes - and ears - are on shock jock Don Imus
Sheila Samples: Peace? Sure, I’ll See What I Can Do
Timothy V. Gatto: Ron Paul And The War Crime Tribunals (2 comments)
Laudyms: Kennedy's warning (1 comments)
Mark E. Smith: Postcards from the Revolution: OPERATION "PLIERS"
Saturday, December 1:
Sheila Samples: Rice Planted Question With "Friendly Journalist" To "Erase" Pre-Iraq War Legacy
Sheila Samples: Herbert: Rambo and the G.O.P.
Sheila Samples: US War Vets to Speak Publicly About War Crimes
Rob Kall: Mike Huckabee Says God is Pushing His Poll Numbers Up (2 comments)
Barbara Peterson: Israeli Says Elusive Biblical Wall Found
Sheila Samples: The Other Story the Times Overlooked (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Card Rejects Rove’s Claim That Congress Pushed Bush To War: "His Mouth Gets Ahead Of His Brain"