Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
August 2018
Friday, August 31:
Where is the fan? And is there something to hit it with? (3 comments)
John McCain-a low bar for heroism (1 comments)
Provocations Have A History Of Escalating Into War; Can War Be Avoided and the Planet Saved?
Integrative vs. Control Culture - An Overview (2 comments)
Sex, Sin, and Abortion Rights (18 comments)
Daily Inspiration — Let me remind you who you really are (3 comments)
Is America truly exceptional, can it be called the wealthiest country in the world? (12 comments)
It's the Corruption, Stupid (2 comments)
It's Time for Catholics to Employ the Shock Doctrine: Set Up Alternative Storefront Churches Everywhere (8 comments)
Thursday, August 30:
Rocky Road for the Corporate Duopoly if Blacks Back Bernie in 2020 (32 comments)
Daily Inspiration — A Long Legacy
Emergency-like conditions prevail in India
Permanent War and Poverty. Acting on Behalf of Washington, the UN is Undermining the Restoration of Syria's Economy (20 comments)
How the Department of Homeland Security Created a Deceptive Tale of Russia Hacking US Voter Sites (30 comments)
Wednesday, August 29:
50th Anniversary of the End of Annual Police Raid on Gay Communities on Fire Island (1 comments)
"Broken Promises": Is Ukrainians' Criticism of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Fair?
Reich Recommends Re-set to 'Nullify' Trump and all his works and all his pomps! (11 comments)
HERE COMES THE JUDGE! Aspartame and Obesity (Judge William Orick Dismisses Vital Suit) (5 comments)
Andrew Gillum (Bernie-backed) Wins Florida Gov Nomination, vs Trump-endorsed Ron DeSantis, by Charles Chamberlain (2 comments)
Banished to the Cornfield (1 comments)
Fifteen Ways the Democrats Can Lose the November Elections (15 comments)
Tuesday, August 28:
The Cell Phone and the Virgin (2018): A Montreal Odyssey (4 comments)
Republican Hypocrisy Nurtured Mollie Tibbetts' Killer (10 comments)
Trump's 'new trade deal' with Mexico isn't new: It's NAFTA wedded to the TPP
Anti-Semitism and the Well-Planned Destruction of Britain's Jeremy Corbyn (2 comments)
What Is An Obedient Citizen's Role In The Devastation Of The Middle East? (10 comments)
How Can a Charter School Operate Without a Legitimate Governing Board? (1 comments)
What's The Matter With Black People, part too? Or alternately, what is the matter with the elites? (23 comments)
The DNC Superdelegate Rule Change Is Not Enough (19 comments)
Democrats Move Back Toward Trusting the People (18 comments)
"Trainwreck" Trump on OEN - What's Our Destination? (11 comments)
A Servant's Tale (2 comments)
Monday, August 27:
The Capital of Suffering: Reflections on the Exploitation of Misery (1 comments)
Raymond Mori, 83, Two Purple Hearts, Losing his Timeshare Battle (3 comments)
"What if?" - A Children's Story by Dr. Goose (13 comments)
Daily Inspiration — It was 90 years ago today... (12 comments)
There Is No Limit To Presstitute Hypocrisy
Trump Can't Have A Dog (28 comments)
The visceral hatred of Trump, it's become surreal (7 comments)
America: A Bridge Over Trumped Troubled Waters (7 comments)
Dead 'Yemeni Kids? Murdering Children By the Millions For Money and Power Is An American Way of Life (5 comments)
Victory in Superdelegates Fight Means: Grassroots Can Win (3 comments)
Tomgram: Judith Coburn, Can We Be Forgotten Anymore?
Senator John McCain served his country with honor; Trump said, "nope, not me!" (91 comments)
Sunday, August 26:
Be Careful What You Ask For: Wasting Time with Manafort, Cohen, and Russiagate (18 comments)
Thomas Farrell: What Did Pope Francis Know About Cardinal McCarrick -- And When Did He Know It? (2 comments)
2018 Peace Prize Awarded to David Swanson (2 comments)
Have an Active Kellogg-Briand Day
When John McCain Got it Right and Wrong on Race (2 comments)
Time for Dems to Kick the Corporate Money Addiction (1 comments)
Tweets on the passing of John McCain (4 comments)
The Real Crisis For The United States (10 comments)
SALT Shakeup: So Much for "Their Fair Share" (4 comments)
Trump Colors The Flag Wrong, Reveals His True Stripes (19 comments)
This is Our Time (7 comments)
Saturday, August 25:
Daily Inspiration — Mankind Ready to Fledge (1 comments)
Opportunity for a dog whistle from the old left and old right. (5 comments)
Internet Censorship: Today, Alex Jones– tomorrow, YOU (13 comments)
Not Enough to Impeach Trump -- Entire Presidency Should Be Annulled (55 comments)
Friday, August 24:
Weisselberg Immunity Could Explode the Entire Hive of Trump Crime (2 comments)
Biochemically Quashing Roundup's Carcinogenicity~Stephanie Seneff, MIT Genius~~Tulsi Gabbard Weighs in Against Roundup (14 comments)
Framing Our Climate March Messages to Persuade: September 2018 (1 comments)
Debunked: 100 Years of War Lies (13 comments)
Thomas Farrell: James Carroll's Critique of Roman Catholicism's Ethic of Sex (1 comments)
Environment and lung health are vital for sustainable societies
What Should the Radical Democratic Left Be For and Against?
The Charter School Industry Puts Bigotry Front and Center
A Perfect Storm over Washington; Trump will be forced to resign (83 comments)
Thursday, August 23:
Russiagate's Mueller Fails Badly with Charges Against Manafort (4 comments)
Tribes Fight Final Permitting, Due in August, for the Rosemont Copper Mine
The Seven Social ISMS and the Seven Social SINS that Prevent Socialism (8 comments)
The Brennan- Rosenstein- Mueller--Comey-Presstitute Witch Hun
Poop and Hell (58 comments)
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Trumping Trump?
Wednesday, August 22:
Survival Shouldn't Be This Hard (11 comments)
Get Ready for Massive Economic Turmoil if America Goes Tyrannical (3 comments)
Is Low Inflation the Path to Sustained Real Wage Growth?
No Hiroshima. No Bhopal. No Lessons Learned.
Flushing Your Money Down the Toilet
The Company Trump Keeps (3 comments)
The Rohingya Crisis: Is Myanmar the New Syria (6 comments)
How much do we really know about the universe? (2 comments)
Pelosi Must Put Impeachment on the Table & Trump Appointees Must Be Voided (88 comments)
Tuesday, August 21:
Western Civilization Is Now A Caricature of Absurdity; "Front hole"
Disasters Made Worse by Warming and Crumbling Infrastructure -- ASCE U.S. Report (1 comments)
The open wounds of history fifty years ago--Part two
Military Parade Cancelled, How Does Peace Movement Build On This Victory? (1 comments)
Let's Make the Whole World Happy For the First Time (1 comments)
Socialism for the Rich (2 comments)
To All Who Care About Humanity: STOP Trying to Win a "Patriotism" Contest with Donald Trump!
Charity sans Clarity (1 comments)
Military Lending Oversight Weakened - Air Force First Sergeant John Kim's Story (3 comments)
What's The Matter With Black People? (8 comments)
From 'Fiddler on the Roof' to Netanyahu's Israel. How Did We Get from A to B? (2 comments)
Genocide of the Greek Nation - PaulCraigRoberts.org
When Mueller is through, what will we have? (1 comments)
Monday, August 20:
Of Ants and Asskicking (11 comments)
An Antidote to the Poison in our National Narrative?
A Failure of Leadership in the Second Largest School District
William Astore, Make Sports, Not War
1953 CIA led coup in Iran, "an act of international banditry" (2 comments)
This Just in: Both U.S. Government & Catholic Church Confirmed as Crime Syndicates (20 comments)
Social Media Sites Censoring shows User Distrust (17 comments)
Saturday, August 18:
John Dean to White House staffers: 'Get out!'
Donald Trump Is a Dangerous Demagogue. It's Time for a Crusading Press to Fight Back. (2 comments)
"Hippie Commie Fags" and "Commie Pinko Fags"
The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter: (2 comments)
No Independence for EU and Other Countries without the U.S., Donald Trump Says
Omarosa Manigault Newman, Public Servant (1 comments)
How to Beat a Manipulator (1 comments)
Three Antiwar Congress Members (2 comments)
Daiy Inspiration — Our Most Articulate Peace Advocate (1 comments)
Friday, August 17:
Trump Strikes Back at 'Ringleader' Brennan (7 comments)
Another White House Revelation (2 comments)
What's Wrong With The News These Days? A Fake President Throwing A Lot Of Vitriol Around, Targeting The Media (14 comments)
New Haven Overdoses: It's Time for Indictments
Will the Economy Determine the Midterms?
Genitalia as Social Constructs (3 comments)
Thursday, August 16:
Trump Parade Canceled -- Peace Parade Goes Forward (4 comments)
Mainstream media hypocrisy on display: Press Freedom for me Censorship for You (18 comments)
Whistleblower Retaliation - Kelly Miller's Story (13 comments)
Is Trump Bringing Fascism, Or Removing the Liberal Facade From It? (1 comments)
Those that Fear the Green Movement, Democracy, and World Government (11 comments)
The albatross wrapped around America's neck (6 comments)
In Place of Being a Nuclear Bully
Wednesday, August 15:
Hindus first lose lives; and then the narrative
Democrats Gather in Chicago: Elite Party or Party of the People? (2 comments)
A Writer's Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul (2 comments)
Murphy's Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors (1 comments)
Going Fundamental Eludes Congressional Progressives
Tuesday, August 14:
Quislings and Deplorables (1 comments)
More Proof of Human Fingerprint in Global Warming -- If Nero Sang, Trump Tweets as America Burns (4 comments)
Tomgram: William Hartung, Gunrunning USA
Crazed American war-makers (2 comments)
Beyond The DNC Indictments -Leaks, Hacks, and Treason (4 comments)
Beinart's detention at airport is said to signal new Israeli policy re American Jewish dissenters
"I Survived Because . . ." (1 comments)
Can We Trust Wikipedia and Its Medical Skepticism? (2 comments)
"You want to put that face (Harriet Tubman) on the twenty-dollar bill?"
"The Post-Trump Presidency: Who, What, When, Where, and Why" (9 comments)
Trump's Media Assisted Grift v Mothers Like Susan Bro and Aretha Franklin (1 comments)
Sunday School for Buddhist Socialism (1 comments)
The United States of Monopoly Rule
Will Trump Be Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Federal Election Law? (6 comments)
Monday, August 13:
Yemeni Children Matter (2 comments)
How Trump's War on Regulation is Trickle-Down Economics (2 comments)
Anti-Union Measure in Missouri Loses by Massive Margin (1 comments)
Millennial Conflicts of Interest: The Vote-Fixing Triumvirate of SOS'S
Former Iranian Ambassador: Trump's Re-imposed Sanctions Against Iran Are an Act of Warfare
How Fake News Launched the Persecution of Jews for Two Thousand Years (2 comments)
Cheers to Omarosa for Coming in Out of Trump Cold (1 comments)
Our Opponents' Actions Show We're Winning
10 Steps To Finding Common Ground (1 comments)
The Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments
Donald Trump, the silent majority and the world order (2 comments)
The 1500-lb Gorilla Mueller is Hiding (1 comments)
Henry Ford Would Fire CEO Jim Hackett (1 comments)
Sunday, August 12:
NATO's misfired weaponry or airstrikes on the Baltic countries (1 comments)
The Saudi Problem: Wildly Erratic, and Savagely Lashing out from Yemen to Qatar to . . . Canada? (3 comments)
From the Presidential Nursery that is the Iowa "Wing Ding"; Thank You, Media, You are Doing it Again!! (14 comments)
What If There Were No Official Narratives?
The individual and the reality machine (2 comments)
Canada vs. the Rule of Law (1 comments)
To Hell With U.S. Jobs, Let's Get Iran! (1 comments)
Trump And The Art Of The No Deal (3 comments)
Brazil's Battles against Bayer/Monsanto: 83 percent of breast milk samples were found to contain glyphosate (9 comments)
A Plan that Restores Democracy to the Second Largest School District
Saturday, August 11:
Giants: The Global Power Elite (8 comments)
Lost in Space... (6 comments)
What was the main thing that USA failed to learn after WWII and is costing us so dearly to this very day? (6 comments)
Silly Parents, We'll Tell You What to Look For
How the propaganda against RSS falls flat on its face (3 comments)
A President for All the People (4 comments)
A New U.S. Constitution Subservient to the Earth Constitution
Fact Checking the Fact Checker on Medicare for All (6 comments)
Measures of Heat in Tuesday's Primaries
The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism (5 comments)
The CIA's Double Standard Revisited
Senator Richard Burr: a Longtime Fan of Torture (2 comments)
Let’s Stop Talking about Global Warming (11 comments)
Friday, August 10:
End of Monsanto/Bayer is Coming, Thanks to Jury's $289 million Award to Roundup/Cancer Victim, Dewayne Johnson (35 comments)
Rahul-Kejriwal saga: What Lutyens Media didn't tell you (1 comments)
Would Corporate Democrats Rather Lose Than Include Progressives? (5 comments)
The U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen (1 comments)
NATO Doesn't Want To Protect Baltics (2 comments)
Citizens Along the Texas-Mexico Border Help Refugees (1 comments)
Freedom Flotilla Demands Immediate Release Of Humanitarian Cargo
Manafort, Gates, Cohen and Trump's rat-infested campaign (1 comments)
The knife in Iran's back: Trump opens door to chaos (7 comments)
Trump Supporters Worth Talking to (34 comments)
Why is California Burning? (9 comments)
A Mirror — America’s First Gilded Age (3 comments)
Daily Inspiration — Open Letter to my Brothers and Sisters in the Holy Land (1 comments)
Thursday, August 9:
Who violated international law on the high seas (1 comments)
Is There Enough of America Left To Be Saved?
"The Right Of Return" -- To Where? (1 comments)
Rashida Tlalib Is Running for Congress on a Mission to Expand Civil-Rights Protections (1 comments)
Here's How Corporate Interests Control What You Hear -- and Work to Undermine Democracy
Not Safe to Be Black at Smith College (5 comments)
When Twitter Decides Who Speaks (8 comments)
Dictatorship of the "Free" Market (1 comments)
Spare us your history lessons, Dalai Lama (3 comments)
An open memo to Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted re: 12th District special congressional election (1 comments)
Mahmoud Abbas: Stop Exploiting Ahed Tamimi for Personal Gain (1 comments)
What Do Veterans for Peace Stand For? NOT New Definitions of Torture and Psychologists Who Support it! (2 comments)
Keep Pelosi and Lose the House In November--Again (5 comments)
Wednesday, August 8:
Would the LAST Honest Republican Please Stand Up!! (17 comments)
Trump's Talk of Isolating Iran Speaks More to US Global Isolation (2 comments)
VIPS Plead for Humanitarian Asylum for Julian Assange (3 comments)
Pilger Excoriates Media on Assange Silence
Giving Trump Carte Blanche for War (1 comments)
Democrats: A Big Bunch of Latte-Sipping Chickens!!! (1 comments)
I Didn't Join Facebook to "Feel Safe" (4 comments)
"If the EU Sticks to Its Guns, the Only Victim of Washington's Sanctions Will be Americans"
Why we all must reject Kavanaugh - and it's not just about Roe v Wade (2 comments)
Shameful Survival Strategy: Short-Sightedness Surging Self-Destruction (1 comments)
The Need for Brotherhood (1 comments)
Best National Government in North America: Mexico
We Helped Immigrants (2 comments)
Should Al Qaeda Be Made the 51st State?
That Time Trump's Iran Advisor Threatened To Murder An Official's Children To Start The Iraq War (5 comments)
The Mueller Probe: Just the Beginning
Critically important for Mueller to present "a" report by Sept. 1 (5 comments)
Tuesday, August 7:
New Nation, New Constitution Now (18 comments)
New Scorecard Shows Only 12 House Democrats Have Fully Embraced Game-Changing Progressive Agenda (4 comments)
NYT Falls Victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome in Warning of Clouds for the Economy
Trump, Racism, and the Republican Party (1 comments)
Manafort's alleged Corruption is How America Works, not Deviance
Sanctions, war on the horizon with Iran
Answering "What Should I Do?" Is Easier When You Know The Roles Of Social Movements
Where Trump Sees Foreign Danger (6 comments)
The Murder of Markeis McGlockton and the Epidemic of White Supremacist Assaults on Black People Sweeping America (18 comments)
Aspartame, Suicide and Depression (8 comments)
Did Trump Break the Law by Ordering Sessions to End the Mueller Probe?
Monday, August 6:
Russiagate Cover for Real Scandal (11 comments)
Why is Indian media losing sleep over Justice KM Joseph (1 comments)
California's Cash Cow Prison System and the Money-Sucking Death Penalty that fixes nothing. (28 comments)
The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (20 comments)
Mystery of the underpaid American worker: Economists 'Puzzled'' Why Workers Can't Get Paid More in a 'Boom' Economy (1 comments)
Food Theft as a Form of Cultural Genocide
Meet Ahed Tamimi, 17-Year-Old West Bank Activist Jailed for 8 Months for Slapping Israeli Soldier (1 comments)
Tomgram: Nick Turse, A Grim Inheritance (1 comments)
The Right Way to Talk About Impeaching Donald Trump (1 comments)
Donald Trump Jr. is already under the bus -- and Trump senior just keeps driving (1 comments)
The Rich Get Richer... (1 comments)
Senate passes $38 billion to Israel -- next step House of Representatives (1 comments)
What is true? How can we know? (163 comments)
The Triumph of Socialism: Is My Family Squabble Like Yours? (13 comments)
Sunday, August 5:
Shri Thanedar Isn't Progressive
Trump's border policies undermine our democracy (2 comments)
Russia Is Our Friend (8 comments)
Apple's Value Tops $Trillion: Why It's Bad (10 comments)
Why nobody is allowed to criticize Sonia Gandhi (1 comments)
Is This What Democracy Looks Like in the Country's Second Largest School District?
State Rep. Who Doesn't Like Committee Work Needs to Support Quiet Fireworks Legislation (1 comments)
The Notorious RBG (4 comments)
School Daze and the Recovery of Humanity (1 comments)
Did Alleged Russian Spy Maria Butina Cause a Leadership Shake-up at the NRA? (1 comments)
Democrats Who Smear WikiLeaks Are Assisting Trump's War On The Press (9 comments)
Marching For Peace: From Helmand To Hiroshima (2 comments)
Andre Vltchek: "Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism" (9 comments)
Saturday, August 4:
USS Liberty Survivor Joe Meadors Witnesses Israeli Violence Against Gaza Freedom Flotilla (9 comments)
Fake or Real and the Vaccine Scare (6 comments)
Can America Ever Cure Its Obsession With Wealth? (4 comments)
Here's a Constitutional Amendment We Need Now (1 comments)
Who Directed the Course of the CIA? Which now directs the U.S. government... (3 comments)
The Organic Food Industry Thrives On Regulation (2 comments)
Jared Kushner Tries to Strip Refugee Status, Aid from Millions of Displaced Palestinians
Q Who? (13 comments)
Americans Live In A World Of Lies
Capitalism Killed Our Climate Momentum, Not "Human Nature" (26 comments)
TAD? TFS? Whatever ... I've got it
Friday, August 3:
The Deep State-Dream State Connection
The Biblical Basis For Israel's Jewish Nation-State Law (7 comments)
The Only Existential Threat To Russia Is Neoliberal Economics
Existence of civil society is under threat (1 comments)
Three Reasons Why "Fire and Fury" Won't Work With Iran (12 comments)
Where's the 'democratic socialist' challenge to militarism?: Senate Dems, with Few Exceptions, are a Gang of War-Mongers (11 comments)
The Trump Administration Thinks that Pay-by-the-Mile Auto Insurance Would Save Tens of Thousands in Traffic Accidents (1 comments)
Pandering to Deficit Hawks Is a Losing Strategy (1 comments)
Who the Hell Are We? (5 comments)
The Roadblock To Common Sense Pension Reform
Obstruction of justice bombshell will explode before midterms (3 comments)
Helping or Liberating? (1 comments)
South Africa Is On The Road To Barbarism and So Is the Rest of the West
Not "fake news", but too narrow in scope, needing greater depth (14 comments)
Financial parasitism and the American oligarchy (7 comments)
Papers, Please: Unfortunately, Trump Isn't Much Ahead of His Time (2 comments)
Ugly American Anti-Immigrant Offensive Continues to Ramp Up
What Could We Fix If We Weren't Trump Fixated? (5 comments)
An Allegory for Our Time (104 comments)
Thursday, August 2:
Socialism, even democratic socialism, is quite different from progressivism (21 comments)
Empire in Decline, Really? The American War Machine Continues to Grow (1 comments)
Of Course, Medicare For All Would Increase Federal Spending... (4 comments)
A Common Enemy: Why Israel is Embracing Fascism in Europe
Swamp Infrastructure Construction Kinetics (1 comments)
Big green dollar signs dance in their eyes (2 comments)
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, The Disrupter-in-Chief
Erdogan And The EU Are On A Collision Course In The Balkans (1 comments)
George Will, the Koch brothers and conservatives in crisis (3 comments)
Trump's Grand Strategy from Quebec to Singapore
"Achtung, Baby!" (2 comments)
Wednesday, August 1:
The Two Kinds of Trump Lies (3 comments)
In Shielding US from Legal Obligations, Kavanaugh Conflates International Law with Foreign Laws (2 comments)
Virginia State Senator in Rare Support by Politician for Assange (3 comments)
Remember the pandemic that was going to wipe out humanity? We're still here. (1 comments)
Trump Threatens Iran to Distract From Russia Criticism and Appease Israel (1 comments)
Yemen: The Damning Silence of Liberals Leaves a Legacy of Shame (9 comments)
Assam's NRC: All you need to know and which media doesn't tell you (1 comments)
'Trump 2020' banners produced in China, despite campaign's vociferous denials, yet proven by Reuters, CNN, USA Today (18 comments)
VIPS to Trump: Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC (5 comments)