Archives for Best Web OpEds
December 2009
Thursday, December 31:
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Chinese New Year (1 comments)
Darren Wolfe: YouTube - Ron Paul on Terrorism
Sheila Samples: Remembering Iraq's refugees
Sheila Samples: Ted Rall: Since 9/11, We've Embraced Our Inner Coward
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Dick Cheney's lies about President Obama
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The decade when the U.S. lost its way
Sheila Samples: Congressional Dems Finally Defend White House Against Crazy GOP Attacks
Sheila Samples: A Ripple of Hope from the Past
Darren Wolfe: Mortgage resets worrying more people
Wednesday, December 30:
Darren Wolfe: Health Care Nullification: Things have just gotten underway
Ann Garrison: Political repression in Rwanda, as August 2010 elections approach
Robert Arend: Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank: David Reilly (1 comments)
Darren Wolfe: Our Emperors and Their Empire (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: Welcome to Orwell's world by John Pilger
Sheila Samples: John Pilger: Welcome to Orwell's world 2010
Sheila Samples: Why Obama Must Keep Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo
Margaret Bassett: As Facebook Thrives, Does Privacy Have to Fade?
Sheila Samples: GOP Pants-Wetting Over Obama's Sensible Counter-Terrorism Strategy
Sheila Samples: America the Traumatized: How 13 Events of the Decade Made Us the PTSD Nation
Margaret Bassett: Top Republican Myths About the Crotch Bomber Affair
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: The Global War on Stealth Underwear
Margaret Bassett: Cause and Effect in the "Terror War"
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: A Less Than Honest Policy
Tuesday, December 29:
Darren Wolfe: John Cassidy Fails in His Critique of Markets - Robert P. Murphy
Joan Brunwasser: Robert Reich: 2009: Wall Street bounced back, Main Street got shafted (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: String of Investment Bubbles Marked 2000-09
Margaret Bassett: Well Wars (Water)
Sheila Samples: Obama takes 'war on terror' to Yemen (3 comments)
Richmond Shreve: 5 Myths About a President's First Year
Sheila Samples: David Corn: The GOP's Ugly 2010 Campaign: Pushing the Obacalypse (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: New Year's Resolution: Don't Apologize for Democrats
Sheila Samples: New Airline Security Measures Are 'Blind Overreaction'
Sheila Samples: Just How Racist Is the Tea Party Movement?
Sheila Samples: Announcing the 2009 P.U.-Litzer Prizes
Daniel Geery: Emails Matter More Than Earth! (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Five Notable Bills from '09
Darren Wolfe: Abandoning the Interventionist Temptation in Afghanistan | by Doug Bandow
Scott Baker: A Less Than Honest Policy By BOB HERBERT, NY Times
Monday, December 28:
Sheila Samples: Farouk Abdulmutallab
Darren Wolfe: The War Democrats by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
Sheila Samples: Department of Homeland Security Issues Terrorist ID Cards
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Big Zero (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: A Song for Humanity: Peace at Christmastime by Tina Micula
Sunday, December 27:
Better World Order: Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery
Sheila Samples: No sense in relying on feudal capitalism
Sheila Samples: Something's Not Right Here
Saturday, December 26:
Mac McKinney: Kiilu Nyasha on Reactionary Counterrevolution in the United States (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Good benefit gone bad
Sheila Samples: Fareed Zakaria: Don't Forget America's Other War
Mac McKinney: Mumia Abu-Jamal on Healthcare VS Wealthcare
Margaret Bassett: Anniversary of TVA Coal Ash Spill as Forgotten as the Disaster Itself
Sheila Samples: David Ignatius - The quiet wisdom of apolitical Adm. Mike Mullen (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: 2000-2009: America's Lost Decade
Friday, December 25:
Mac McKinney: Confronting Stereotypes: Palestinians' Long History of Nonviolent Resistance
Sheila Samples: ACORN Broke No Laws - Dems Still Threw Them Under the Bus
Sheila Samples: Christmas 1914 (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Tidings of Comfort
Sheila Samples: Peace deserves a chance, not excuses of "just war'
Mac McKinney: Eric Margolis: Mr. 10%: Our Man in Islamabad
Thursday, December 24:
Sheila Samples: Gaza Freedom March: The Siege Has to End
Sheila Samples: To All Those Who Live Under Conflict Or Fear
Darren Wolfe: What the Government Isn't Telling You About the New Healthcare Bill
Darren Wolfe: Ron Paul: Foreign Policy Ignored (video)
Margaret Bassett: Who Are The Four Afghan Detainees Released From Guantanamo?
Joan Brunwasser: New York Times Editorial: The Election Sabotage Commission
Kevin Gosztola: A Patient's View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift | CommonDreams.org
Margaret Bassett: The NYT's View of "Journalistic Objectivity"
Wednesday, December 23:
Robert Arend: Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen, by Yasha Levine
Sheila Samples: Obama's Af-Pak War is Not Just Deadly and Counterproductive: It's Illegal
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Demonizing Dean Won't Absolve This Health Care Sham
Darren Wolfe: Iran Sanctions Are a Precursor to War | by Ron Paul (1 comments)
Tuesday, December 22:
Sheila Samples: Ridiculous "Study" Supposedly Finds Widespread Anti-Semitism on Progressive Websites
Robert Arend: Kevin Conner: How Wall Street Bought Barney Frank (1 comments)
Daniel Geery: Christmas Kills!
Sheila Samples: James Howard Kunstler: Blue Christmas (3 comments)
Grant Lawrence: Was Illinois Governor Blagojevich brought down for Taking on the Banks?
Sheila Samples: Roger Cohen: In Defense of America
Monday, December 21:
Sheila Samples: Zionist Power in American Politics (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Cruise missile attacks in Yemen (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?
Sheila Samples: The Iranian Incursion in Context
Margaret Bassett: Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?
Bernard Schaer: The Toll -" 12/20/09 -" War, What Is It Good For? Uniting Congress, That's What | by Dave McGill
Ernest Canning: Progressives of America - Unite! by Ernest A. Canning
Margaret Bassett: America's Greediest: The 2009 Top Ten
Joan Brunwasser: Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: A Dangerous Dysfunction
Sunday, December 20:
Margaret Bassett: Show Us the E-Mail
Sheila Samples: U.S. turbulence buffets Pakistan: Corruption and anti-American fury unravels troubled country
GLloyd Rowsey: Senate Speech Heralds a New Social Movement, by Flowers and Coates
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Tiger Woods, Person of the Year
M. Wizard: At Least Frank Rich Sees the "Tiger" in Obama
Sheila Samples: Eliot Spitzer, Frank Partnoy, William Black: Show Us the E-Mail
Margaret Bassett: Health Care's Lobbying Army
Saturday, December 19:
Sheila Samples: US-Pakistani Spy Relations Just Short of Open War
Sheila Samples: Gail Collins: The New Perils of Pauline
Sheila Samples: The murderous face of Obama's surge (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Lobby Within
Daniel Geery: Change We Can Believe In! But Desparately Need to Work On...
M. Wizard: Howard Dean: Health-Care Bill Wouldn't Bring Real Reform (2 comments)
Don Smith: Greenwald: The underlying divisions in the healthcare debate
Sheila Samples: Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
Margaret Bassett: Once the 'Change' Candidate, Obama Now a Changed Man
Friday, December 18:
Grant Lawrence: Radio Buffoon Rush Limbaugh Calls for War on Iran, Hopes You Will Be Crazy Enough to Listen
Sheila Samples: No-Fault Espionage by Philip Giraldi
Sheila Samples: Kristol Clear: The Source of America's Wars
Margaret Bassett: Time to End the Neocon Con Game
Grant Lawrence: Senator Al Franken Shuts Down Healthcare Reform Killer Lieberman--Thankfully!!!
Sheila Samples: PAUL KRUGMAN: Pass the Bill (3 comments)
Thursday, December 17:
Sheila Samples: Time to End the Neocon Con Game
Sheila Samples: Rightwing Fringe Welcome at Conservative Confab, Gay Republicans Not So Much
Sheila Samples: Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
Sheila Samples: Jane Mayer: Ten Unsolved Mysteries in the "War on Terror"
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Democrats can't blame Bush for their troubles
M. Wizard: Obama, Palin, Copenhagen: The End Of Drinkable Water?
Wednesday, December 16:
Sheila Samples: Israel's Leaders on the Run
PrMaine: Robert Cramer
Sheila Samples: Maureen Dowd: Doubts About Certitude
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Wall Street's Fat Cats Are Still in Charge
Sheila Samples: William Pfaff: U.S. Contemplates More of the Scarcely Believable in "Af-Pak'
M. Wizard: Naomi Klein: The Copenhagen Process Is Out Of Control (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Joe Lieberman - The Million-Dollar Man
Sheila Samples: Thomas Frank: Newsrooms Don't Need More Conservatives
Margaret Bassett: How Banks Fleece the Unemployed
Margaret Bassett: Welcome to Gitmo North
Tuesday, December 15:
Sheila Samples: Unbearable Lightness of Obama
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson: Palin's own 'Climate-gate'
Margaret Bassett: Harkin Considers Raising Bill to End Filibuster
Margaret Bassett: China's Changing Views on Race - Room for Debate Blog
Margaret Bassett: Rating Change: Retirement Gives Edge to GOP - TN
Margaret Bassett: War and Public Opinion - Glenn Greenwald
Margaret Bassett: How Easy it Is to Reinforce People's Conspiracy Paranoia
Sheila Samples: By political definition the US is now fascist, not a constitutional republic
Sheila Samples: Secret Reports, Secret Budgets, Secret Operations, Secret Courts "
Monday, December 14:
Sheila Samples: 2009 in Review: The Year of Obama
Sheila Samples: Bill Kristol: Obama's Nobel Speech "Most Bush-Like ... of His Presidency," Lays Groundwork to Attack Iran
Leon Thompson: SPECIAL REPORT: With Wind Energy, Opportunity for Corruption
Sheila Samples: PAUL KRUGMAN: Disaster and Denial
Sheila Samples: Can Obama Face the 'Unspeakable'?
Darren Wolfe: Point/Counterpoint: Capitol Hill hopefuls respond to Obama on jobs
Margaret Bassett: With Obama's Strategy, Afghanistan Looks Like Another Vietnam
Margaret Bassett: Honduran Elections Exposed As Fraud
Margaret Bassett: The 9 Surges of Obama's War |
Margaret Bassett: Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?
Sheila Samples: George McGovern -- With Obama's strategy, Afghanistan looks like another Vietnam (2 comments)
Sunday, December 13:
Sheila Samples: Quixote, the Usurper, and the Prophet from Nowhere (A Political Allegory)
Sheila Samples: FRANK RICH: Hollywood's Brilliant Coda to America's Dark Year
Sheila Samples: Is 2010 Anything Like 1994?
Sheila Samples: Maureen Dowd: A Game That's Not So Great
Saturday, December 12:
Sheila Samples: Best medical system in the world must be in the caves of Afghanistan
Steven Leser: AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty BY SETH BORENSTEIN, RAPHAEL SATTER and MALCOLM RITTER, Associated Press Wri
Sheila Samples: Op-Ed Columnist - Going Naked in Kabul - NYTimes.com
Herstory: Time for the RCMP to own up to its errors THE DAILY NEWS
Margaret Bassett: D.C. Sanctions 'Moral Hazards'
Sheila Samples: Bill Moyers: We Have a Nobel Peace President Who Won't Ban Land Mines | Politics (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: No Exit
Margaret Bassett: Cornering the Market on Comedy
Margaret Bassett: The Strange Consensus on Obama's Nobel Address
Margaret Bassett: Land Mines
Friday, December 11:
Herstory: How many marijuana plants make a grow-op? Vancouver police speak out by Josh Wingrove
Sheila Samples: The Obama Effect: The Demise of the Democratic Party and a Gift to the Country
Margaret Bassett: Senate Passes Compromised Health Care Reform -- Will Progressive Dems Support the Final Bill? (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top
Margaret Bassett: America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think
Sheila Samples: How Close Are Blackwater and the CIA?
Margaret Bassett: Our Murderers in the Sky
Margaret Bassett: Supporting the ACLU
M. Wizard: Is America in Decline? The Charts Don't Lie ...
R. Francis Rubio: Allvoices.com - Do You Remember 09/11/2001? (3 comments)
Bernard Schaer: Obama's Peace Prize Has Lost its Luster | by Dave McGill
Margaret Bassett: Unlikely Support: GOP Loved Obama's Nobel Speech (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Nobel Peace Prize - Juan Cole
Sheila Samples: Does Obama's Road to Re-Election Run Through Kabul?
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson: War and peace
Sheila Samples: Matt Taibbi: Obama's Big Sellout (7 comments)
Sheila Samples: Chomsky Says Israel, 'US Military Base'
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Bernanke's Unfinished Mission
Thursday, December 10:
Sheila Samples: US terrorizes Iran: threatens nuclear war over "wipe Israel off map" "nuclear program" lies
Sheila Samples: Ted Rall: War, More War Or Morer War
M. Wizard: NY Magazine: "Whatever Happened to Barack Obama?"
Eileen Fleming: President Obama's Nobel Speech, Just Wars and just Stop It!
Sheila Samples: Philip Giraldi: No-sama bin Laden
Sheila Samples: Matthew Yglesias: War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
Sheila Samples: William Blum: Yeswecanistan
Sheila Samples: Frank Schaeffer: An Open Letter From Jesus to 'Christian' America
Sheila Samples: Gail Collins: The Joys of Political Sex
Joan Brunwasser: Building Peace Without Obama's Interference
Wednesday, December 9:
Sheila Samples: Tiger Woods and the psychology of spiteful glee
Sheila Samples: Ha'aretz says U.S. officials face 'pro-Israel' background check
Sheila Samples: Normalising the Crime of the Century
Joan Brunwasser: s The Gang of Ten’s “Solutionâ€: This is What Happens When You Give Five People Too Much Power– Part 1
Josh Mitteldorf: Financial "Reform" Bill is a Trojan Horse by Wm Greider (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Obama Fails To Move The Needle With His Jobs Speech
Joan Brunwasser: Don Siegelman on Upcoming Supreme Court Decision
PrMaine: The Courage of Our Contradictions (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Unless Congress Acts, 3.2 Million Will Lose Unemployment Benefits in Early 2010
Tuesday, December 8:
Herstory: Holy grail of data-sifting proves elusive By Peter Rowe
Grant Lawrence: A Tribute to John Lennon; 'He Too Belongs to the Ages'
Sheila Samples: What Leaving Honduras Hanging Says About Obama
Mac McKinney: Petition to Revoke the Nobel Peace Prize from Barack Obama
Margaret Bassett: Gates Dissembles on Afghan History (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: A Federal Agency Tries to Hold on to What it's Built
Margaret Bassett: -American Jobs Plan - Econnomic Policy Institute
Barry Werner: The double double standard by Gil Troy
Kenny: The Devil and Mr. Obama by Joe Bageant
Camillo "Mac" Bica: Revitalizing the Anti War Movement Camillo "Mac" Bica
boomerang: CASPER REPORT #2, DECEMBER 7, 2009
Ernest Canning: Beyond Afghanistan by Ernest A. Canning
Herstory: CPJ's 2009 prison census: Freelance journalists under fire
Margaret Bassett: Human Rights, Except for Children (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Meet Stewart Resnick, Corporate Farming Billionaire and One-Man Environmental Wrecking Crew
Margaret Bassett: Digital Dollars: Why the Marketing and Ad Industry Are Afraid of New Regulatory Watchdogs
Margaret Bassett: Are Liberals Pathetic? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: A New Report Questions "Suicides" at Guantanamo
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: A Fearful Price
Monday, December 7:
Gustav Wynn: Call For Hannity's Termination After Crowd Scene Editing (4 comments)
Bernard Schaer: the contrarian – The Truth About Pearl Harbor | by Dave McGill
Sheila Samples: Robert Kuttner: A Tale of Two Obamas (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Patrick Cockburn: US surge will only prolong Afghan war
Sheila Samples: Climate Change: How Come U.S. Newspapers Don't Like This Issue?: Michael Wolff
Sheila Samples: Hillary Mann Leverett, Flynt Leverett: Iran Is No Existential Threat
Joel S. Hirschhorn: Hungry for Reform by Joel S. Hirschhorn
Daniel Geery: Perpetrators of "no climate change"
Margaret Bassett: As Climate Meeting Starts, a Revival of Skepticism
Sheila Samples: Obama's Afghan Exit Strategy? Don't Bet On It
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: An Affordable Truth (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama Steals Bush's Speechwriters
Sunday, December 6:
Sheila Samples: Preaching peace, flexing muscle: America's 'surge' may only expand, intensify and prolong the Afghan conflict
Sheila Samples: 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
Herstory: Drug prevention programs ineffective, report says By: Jackie Wong
Sheila Samples: Garrison Keillor: Putting Christmas spirit to the test
Sheila Samples: Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death for "Walking Toward Them'
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Where is bin Laden? Secretary Gates Says No Intel in 'Years'
Margaret Bassett: Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich -- Why welfare Reform has Failed
Bernard Schaer: the contrarian – The GOP Finally Gets One Right, But Don't Believe It | Dave McGill
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Obama's Logic Is No Match for Afghanistan (2 comments)
Saturday, December 5:
Grant Lawrence: Why Did Blackwater's Erik Prince Reveal Himself as a CIA Agent? Was it Graymailing?
Sheila Samples: Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests
Darren Wolfe: The Government's War on Main Street | by Jake Towne (1 comments)
Darren Wolfe: Science or Nonscience? - Clifford F. Thies
Sheila Samples: Five Reasons Corporate Media Coverage is Pro-War
Sheila Samples: Is Erik Prince 'Graymailing' the US Government? (4 comments)
Daniel Geery: Betting on Copenhagen
Margaret Bassett: Memo to Congress: Desperate Times Call for Faster Measures (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests
Darren Wolfe: The Great and Powerful Climate Oz
Robert Arend: Labor's Legacy: by Mike Dolan
Friday, December 4:
Sheila Samples: Max Blumenthal: Gutsy progressive congressman Alan Grayson leads a double life (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Some Jobs Taxpayers Don't Need to Buy
Darren Wolfe: Meet the Commanded-in-Chief by Tom Engelhardt
Herstory: How Google Can Help Newspapers By ERIC SCHMIDT
Sheila Samples: PAUL KRUGMAN: Reform or Else (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: The Mourning After:President’s speech struck a new milestone for Washingtonian denial
Margaret Bassett: America's Regression - Torture
Ann Garrison: Condolences, Sincerely, President Barack Obama
Margaret Bassett: Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game
Margaret Bassett: Progressive Leaders Pan Obama's Decision for More War in Afghanistan -- 10 Reactions
Thursday, December 3:
Margaret Bassett: Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down
Sheila Samples: 'There hasn't been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan'
Sheila Samples: Gary Wills -- Afghanistan: The Betrayal
Sheila Samples: Nicholas Kristof: Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama
Sheila Samples: Neglected Warriors
Sheila Samples: We Jim Wallis: Needed a New Approach in Afghanistan — and This Isn't It
Sheila Samples: Eric Prince: Tycoon, Contractor, Soldier, Spy
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Obama's Goldilocks strategy on Afghanistan
Darren Wolfe: Drug-Makers Paying Off Competitors To Keep Cheap Generics Off Market
Joan Brunwasser: America Without a Middle Class
Wednesday, December 2:
Mikhail Lyubansky: "Keep your #blackthoughts to yourself: The Privilege of Twitter (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: As Obama Sends More Troops, Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Here We Go Again (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Obama's Misguided War Speech Shouldn't Be the Last Word on Afghanistan
Tuesday, December 1:
Herstory: Honda promises to change the world with U3-X, the first ‘mechtronic' unicycle by The Times
Joan Brunwasser: Are Siegelman's days of freedom numbered? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Jo
Sheila Samples: Roosevelt Understood the Power of a Public Option
Ann Garrison: More food for Obama's wars: troops, oil, natural gas, pipelines, and $$$. . . by Ann Garrison
Leon Thompson: EDITORIAL: President Roosevelt Understood the Power of a Public Option
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Where's That Endgame He Promised Us?
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: A Tragic Mistake
Sheila Samples: A "Necessary War" - for a Gas Pipeline: It's Obama's War Now (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Richard Cohen - A right to say 'I do'
Margaret Bassett: No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes