Archives for Best Web OpEds
June 2010
Wednesday, June 30:
Sheila Samples: Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama and the Economy: Is Hope All He's Got?
Sheila Samples: GOPers So Opposed To Wall Street Regulation That They Voted For Bailout Continuation (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Republicans: God approves of guns, rape
Sheila Samples: Christopher Bollyn: The Coming American Revolution
Rory OConnor: Independence Day and Independent Journalism
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: The Chinese Aren't Coming
Sheila Samples: Michael Steele's Thurgood Marshall Fail
Sheila Samples: No contest on whether to protect Israel or protect U.S. citizens
Tuesday, June 29:
Mac McKinney: Pepe Escobar: THE ROVING EYE Mistah McChrystal - he dead
Margaret Bassett: The San Francisco Peaks will Never be the Same
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Gulf Oil Spill: 'A Whale' Of A Skimmer Offers Up Its Services
Sheila Samples: The 30-Year War in Afghanistan
peggyn: Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet by Tom Burghardt (2 comments)
Tony Brian: The Hitting Stops Here!
Ned Lud: Live from Planet Norte by Joe Bageant
Curt Day: America's Konkordat
Monday, June 28:
Mac McKinney: MODERN PIRATE DEMANDS RESPIRATORS FOR FISHERMEN NOW!
Mac McKinney: FACING SOUTH: BP, BAYOUS AND BYWAYS: Dispatches from the Gulf Coast
Meryl Ann Butler: BP Spills Coffee
Sheila Samples: Glenn Beck to Hold Tea Party Rally on Anniversary of MLK Speech: How Conservatives Are Trying to Hijack Martin Luther Ki
Margaret Bassett: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US Supported Coup (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Third Depression
GLloyd Rowsey: How I Wish I Was Wrong, by Fidel Castro (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: House, Senate Democrats agree on pro-Wall Street bank "reform"
Sheila Samples: The burden of hypocrisy (2 comments)
Sunday, June 27:
Henry Pelifian: Wall Street Reform: Politicians Lie, Media Applauds, American Suffers by Dylan Ratigan
Peter Duveen: Explosive evidence at WTC cited by former CDI employee (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: The 36 Hours That Shook Washington
Saturday, June 26:
Aurora: Protester? or Terrorist? "Problems Remain" - Dennis Loo (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Hands Off Social Security: There Are Better Ways to Cut the National Debt
Sheila Samples: 15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect?
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Worse Than a Nightmare
Sheila Samples: Rela Mazali: A Call for Livable Futures
Kevin Gosztola: Activists Hash Out a Labor Platform at the US Social Forum (2 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: 15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect? By Sally Kohn
peggyn: British Trade Union Calls for Boycott by Jonny Paul
peggyn: Man Indicted for Using Right to Free Speech by Nat Hentoff (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Lobbying Firm Director Demands That WaPo Fire Blogger For Not Being "Unbiased Bystander'
Friday, June 25:
Sheila Samples: Philip Giraldi : Punishing Turkey (2 comments)
peggyn: Warning-Warning-Warning Toxic Gas Alert by Mark Sircus (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Dodd-Frank bank reform bill: A deeply flawed success (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: "Learned Helplessness." -- In Dire Straits, Americans Whimper Instead (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: How lessons in the dark arts of special ops led McChrystal to the edge
Sheila Samples: Why was General McChrystal fired?
Sheila Samples: Les Leopold: Why the Wall Street-BP Double Standard?
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: BP welcomes you to the apocalypse
Sheila Samples: BP Oil Spill: Israel's Revenge? (4 comments)
Dennis Kaiser: The Associated Press: Stymied by GOP, Democrats at loss on jobs agenda
Rob Kall: Commentary: Meet Joe Barton, R-Big Oil (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Do Republicans actually want America to fail? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Renminbi Runaround
Thursday, June 24:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Petraeus and the Myth of the Surge
Sheila Samples: Editorial - Serial Apologies, No Contrition
peggyn: Witnessing Against Torture: Why We Must Act by Kathy Kelly
peggyn: There is Something Very Wrong with the "Suicide" of William Kruse by Scott Creighton
peggyn: The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Ned Lud: Supreme Court ruling makes it a crime to work for peace and human rights
peggyn: Belgian Lawyers to Charge Barak and Livni for War Crimes by Danna Harman Tags
peggyn: Barriers, Borders, and Blockades: Policing Movement and Controlling Information by Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Sheila Samples: Max Blumenthal: Where Kindness Is A Crime
Sheila Samples: Jim Lobe: Right-Wing Israel Lobby Riding High in Election Run-Up (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The wound that Stanley McChrystal opened
peggyn: Murder with Malice Aforethought, or: Screw You--My Dick Is the Biggest! by Arthur Silber
peggyn: Termination Notice: McChrystal Sideshow Masks Murderous Reality by Chris Floyd
Sheila Samples: A Legal Cover for Torture? Did the CIA Conduct Medical Experiments on Detainees?
Wednesday, June 23:
Sheila Samples: McChrystal Survived Tillman Cover-Up And Detainee Abuse, But Not Rolling Stone's Profile
peggyn: Let the Truth Be Heard! by Anait Brutian
peggyn: Plundering the Planet by Felicity Arbuthnot
Robert Arend: Rick Ackerman: Has BP Summoned the Fires of Hell? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Don't Let the McChrystal Frenzy Obscure the Dirty Truth About Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Republicans Kill Jobs Bill
Sheila Samples: Harold Meyerson - Centrist and clueless
Odyseus_97: The Gulf crisis: beautiful planet versus deadly profit system
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: General Discharge
Dennis Kaiser: NASA Flight Director Confirms 9/11 Aircraft Speed As The "Elephant In The Room" (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Who Wins, Who Loses if Israel Ends Its Gaza Siege? (1 comments)
Tuesday, June 22:
Mac McKinney: Israel's History of Impunity (1 comments)
peggyn: Showdown in the Red Sea: U.S. Sends 11 Warships to Confront Iran (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: When Greatness Slips Away
Sheila Samples: Editorial - A Bruise on the First Amendment
Sheila Samples: Dan Rather: We Don't Know
Sheila Samples: Michael Hastings: The Runaway General
Dennis Kaiser: Supreme Court upholds terrorism support law | Reuters
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - A GOP chorus of Joe Bartons on the BP oil spill (1 comments)
Mac McKinney: The FARC side of the story - Colombia's Enduring Guerrilla Movement
Monday, June 21:
Sheila Samples: The Beltway revolving door between consulting and commentary
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Is BP Oil Spill Helping Obama on Afghanistan War?
Dennis Kaiser: What do BP and the Banks Have In Common? The Era of Corporate Anarchy (2 comments)
peggyn: The U.S. War Addiction: Funding Enemies to Maintain Trillion Dollar Racket by David DeGraw
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Budget Deficits - Spend Now, Save Later
Sunday, June 20:
Sheila Samples: First Signs of Strain in Kandahar Offensive
Scott Baker: My Father's Gift to Me By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Clean the Gulf, Clean House, Clean Their Clock (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Editorial - On Financial Reform, Congress Defends the Big Guys
Saturday, June 19:
Sheila Samples: Stuart Littlewood: What Sort of Christians become Zionists? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Colbert I. King - On Father's Day, hypocrites are all in the family
Sheila Samples: Rowley, McGovern and Ellsberg -- Statement on Wikileaks (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: US and EU impose extra sanctions on Iran (1 comments)
Friday, June 18:
Sheila Samples: Corporate atrocities against nature may ultimately destroy human civilization
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Al Franken Slams Supreme Court For Dismantling Legal Protections (VIDEO)
Sheila Samples: The meaning of strangulation
Sheila Samples: Where's oil expert Dick Cheney when we need him?
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Obama must keep to his Afghanistan deadline
Sheila Samples: Ignoring Maher Arar won't make his torture claims go away
M. Wizard: A Disaster for the Gulf Coast, A Disaster for Obama
Dennis Kaiser: BP Aware Of Cracks In Oil Well Two Months Before Explosion
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: That '30s Feeling (1 comments)
Thursday, June 17:
Don Smith: Democracy for the other 98% of us
Sheila Samples: Nick Turse: Kick Ass or Buy Gas?
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Gulf Oil Spill: Rig Owner's Avoidance Of U.S. Jurisdiction Angers House Panel
Sheila Samples: The 2010 Bush-Cheney Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Sheila Samples: Bill Berkowitz: Blockades, Bombs, and the Supernatural: An Evangelical Christian's Solution to Iran's Nuclear Program
Sheila Samples: At Home With Alvin Greene: Will the Carnival Act Get Serious?
Sheila Samples: Where's Dick Cheney on the BP oil spill?
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Democrats should show a little pride and purpose
Margaret Bassett: The Spill, The Scandal and the President
Wednesday, June 16:
Sheila Samples: How the U.S. Corporate Media Got the Israel Flotilla Catastrophe So Wrong
Linda Milazzo: Henry Siegman: Israel’s Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination
Sheila Samples: Israel-Palestine: The Missing Headlines: As Israel kills and maims, outrage is directed at Helen Thomas (1 comments)
peggyn: Gulf of Mexico Deja Vu from Brasscheck TV
Leon Thompson: FROM THE EDITORS NYT: "How Much Will BP Really Pay?"
M. Wizard: Time: Obama's Speech: Calling for Courage, but Showing Little (3 comments)
Sheila Samples: Neither commission nor inquiry
Sheila Samples: Editorial - No Price to Pay for Torture
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama and the BP Spill: A Command Gap?
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Rape and Spillage
peggyn: Drunken Democratic Congressman Attacks Cameraman? ICH
peggyn: Democratic Party Defends Israeli Attack by Stephen Zunes
peggyn: Pro-Israel PAC Contributions to 2010 Congressional Candidates
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Gulf Oil Spill: What Obama Is Overlooking
Tuesday, June 15:
Don Smith: The Retiree Advocate: On guard for Social Security!
Mac McKinney: Stéphane Hessel on the Gaza Flotilla: Global Citizens Must Respond Where Governments Have Failed
GLloyd Rowsey: The Regulation Crisis, by James Surowiecki (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Reagan Revolution Home To Roost -- In Charts
Sheila Samples: Jeremy Scahill: Is Blackwater's Erik Prince Moving to the United Arab Emirates? | The Nation
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Carly Fiorina and Sean Hannity: A Silly Episode
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Unfazed by Reality
Sheila Samples: Editorial - The Unemployed Held Hostage
Sheila Samples: The Anatolian Tiger: How the West Is Losing Turkey
Sheila Samples: Richard Cohen - Fighting the Viet Cong in Afghanistan
Dennis Kaiser: - Targeting Whistleblowers: Truth Telling Endangered-- : ICH - Information Clearing House (1 comments)
Dan Lion: OilTrap Doesn't Work (Thanks for playing, BP)
Monday, June 14:
Sheila Samples: The Mineral Miracle? Or a Massive Information Operation?
Sheila Samples: Jobs Bill: No Guarantee Congress Will Pass Must-Pass Legislation This Week
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Too close to another economic cliff
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Thurgood Marshall Speaks To Obama From Beyond The Grave
Sheila Samples: Legal authority? BP will (mostly) cave to White House demand for escrow account
Sheila Samples: We Don't Need a Cowboy for President
Sheila Samples: The BP disaster underscores government as the problem, not the solution (1 comments)
Juda S. Engelmayer: Gaza Flotilla Captain Tells of Planned Armed Provocation in Video Tape - Juda Engelmayer (9 comments)
Sheila Samples: Terrorists: The Case for Calling Them Nitwits
Sheila Samples: Jackson Diehl - A surge of problems in Afghanistan
peggyn: Israeli minister cancels trip to weapons fair in France after French activists threaten lawsuit by Saed Bannoura (1 comments)
Sunday, June 13:
Sheila Samples: Hands off WikiLeaks!
Sheila Samples: Starhawk: A Moral Path Toward Gaza (1 comments)
peggyn: Government Deploys Drones to Patrol US-Mexico Border by Mike Ludwig (5 comments)
peggyn: U.S. Denies Pushing for Gaza Flotilla Probe at UN by Natasha Mozgovaya (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: US counts cost of tough Afghan week
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Two Weddings, a Divorce and "Glee' (1 comments)
Saturday, June 12:
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Memo To Deficit Hawks: Here's $1 Trillion To Cut -- From The Pentagon
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: The Courage to Leave Afghanistan (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Reagan's Legacy of Deregulation Goes Haywire in the Gulf
Sheila Samples: 10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers
Don Smith: Facebook | Republicans Are Idiots And Arguing With Them Is A Waste Of Time! (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: A comment: Revisiting George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2010 (6 comments)
Friday, June 11:
Sheila Samples: Why Is Dick Cheney Silent on the Oil Spill? (9 comments)
Sheila Samples: ISRAEL'S GAZA BLOCKADE
Sheila Samples: David Corn: The Tea Party and GOP Establishment: Dance of Hypocrisy
Sheila Samples: Dawn Johnsen - Restoring leadership and integrity to the Office of Legal Counsel
peggyn: Could International Criminal Court Deploy U.S. as World Law Enforcer? by Glen Ford (5 comments)
Thursday, June 10:
Sheila Samples: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett: Obama's Charade on Iran Sanctions
M. Wizard: Are Elections for the Rich? Two Thirds of the Senate are Millionaires.
Mac McKinney: Eye-Witness, SF Film-Maker Lara Lee: What happened to Us is Happening in Gaza
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: We Must Respond to the Needs of the Gulf Coast
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Israel's 'self-defense' narrative falls apart
Sheila Samples: Reagan's Legacy of Deregulation Goes Haywire in the Gulf | BuzzFlash.org
Sheila Samples: First They Came for the Cranky White House Columnist: Helen Thomas Learns That Free Speech is a Myth
Margaret Bassett: Facebook Quitters: Why People Leave Facebook
Dennis Kaiser: IAEA turns its attention to Israel - Focus - Al Jazeera English (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Obama, Democrats abandon stimulus for austerity
Wednesday, June 9:
Margaret Bassett: I Come to Praise Helen Thomas, Not to Bury Her
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Is the Tea Party Losing Its Strength?
Margaret Bassett: 20-18_wnc.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) Hightower Audio
Josh Mitteldorf: SCOTUS Strikes Down Matching Funds Law (10 comments)
Sheila Samples: The Spill, The Scandal and the President
Sheila Samples: Pepe Escobar: The method in Israel's madness (1 comments)
Tuesday, June 8:
Dick Thomson: Jewish Ideology and World Peace (Gilad Atzmon)
Sheila Samples: Remember June 8th, 1967, We Remember USS Liberty (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Richard Cohen, WaPo: What Helen Thomas Missed
Sheila Samples: Vanden Heuvel: Isn't there some room for Helen Thomas?
Sheila Samples: Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater for Sale
Sheila Samples: Strange Times at Jerry Falwell's Liberty U
Odyseus_97: Huckabee piles on Thomas, even after demanding Palestinians leave
Monday, June 7:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama: An Incompetent Traitor?
M. Wizard: Noam Chomsky on Bill Clinton and the "Elite Imperial Mentality"
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: Behold our dark, magnificent horror
Sheila Samples: Kidnapped by Israel, forsaken by Britain
Sunday, June 6:
Sheila Samples: The Tacitus Principle: How Israel and its Apologists Defend the Indefensible (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Nicholas Kristof: A Cancer Scare, a Scar, a Silver Lining
Dan Lieberman: The Government deficit - Stopping Deflation or Initiating Inflation Alternative Insight
M. Wizard: Chomsky Warns Of Risk Of Fascism In America (2 comments)
B. Ross Ashley: An act of state terrorism | SocialistWorker.org
M. Wizard: Government Impotence and Corporate Rule
M. Wizard: Ralph Nader: Planning for Disaster
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Don't Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even
Saturday, June 5:
Sheila Samples: What happened to us is happening in Gaza
Eileen Fleming: Propaganda VS The Truth and Personal Encounters with Hamas
Margaret Bassett: How Israeli Propaganda Shaped U.S. Media Coverage of the Flotilla Attack
Margaret Bassett: The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal and the Flotilla Attack Was an Illegal Act of War
Sheila Samples: Is this the week Israel became a real political issue?
Sheila Samples: Doubts Grow Over Israel's Value as U.S. Ally
Friday, June 4:
Don Smith: Whacking the Old Folks | The Nation
Sheila Samples: What If We Drop Israel? (1 comments)
Barry Werner: The Turkish Government Global Arbiter of Ethnic Violence? by Victor Davis Hanson
Barry Werner: Flotillas and Falsehoods by Mona Charen (2 comments)
Mac McKinney: Lift the Siege of Gaza By Patrick J. Buchanan
Mac McKinney: Glenn Greenwald: How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage of the flotilla attack
Sheila Samples: Ruth Marcus: During oil spill crisis, do we need Obama to play Angry Daddy?
Margaret Bassett: Captured and Detained by Israel, an American Tells his Story
Margaret Bassett: Facebook Founder Sweats It Out - Dan Gillmor
Sheila Samples: Prosecuting Crimes Against the Earth
Thursday, June 3:
Sheila Samples: Jim Wallis: A Time for Moral Reckoning
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - David Souter vs. the Antonin Scalias
Ned Lud: Hugo de Garis and the Coming Artilect War
Barry Werner: Erdogan and the Decline of the Turks, By ROBERT L. POLLOCK (1 comments)
Dick Thomson: Does Obama have a conflict of interest with stopping the oil flow? (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Glenn Greenwald Clobbers Eliot Spitzer in Debate on the Gaza Flotilla
Wednesday, June 2:
Ned Lud: Turkey has announced they will send another flotilla to Gaza--escorted by the Turkish Navy (10 comments)
Dennis Kaiser: Despite Flotilla Attack, Joint U.S.-Israeli Military Efforts Continue (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama and BP's Oil Spill: No Help From the Pundits
Sheila Samples: Goldstone vindicated by flotilla attack as Israel faces another UN investigation
Sheila Samples: Who the hell does Israel think she is?
Sheila Samples: Does Israel rule the world?
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Treat Palestinians Like Jews (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Ruth Marcus - Intoxicated on fundraising
Tuesday, June 1:
Sheila Samples: Israel's 'friends' also to blame
GLloyd Rowsey: Fidel Talks About Empires and Drugs (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Ex-US Ambassador Among Those Seized by Israelis
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Our Epic Foolishness
Margaret Bassett: Israel: Full, Impartial Investigation of Flotilla Killings Essential
Sheila Samples: Why Israel will get away with it
Rob Kall: Was seizing the flotilla legal? (7 comments)
B. Ross Ashley: Web Exclusive: An Open Letter to the Israeli Jewish Public: Support the Gaza Flotilla! | Articles | Canadian Dimension