Archives for OpEdNews Op Eds
January 2019
Thursday, January 31:
Starbuck's Howard Schultz proves Billionaires are parasites Their wealth is your work and worth
Marianne Williamson, Announces as Presidential Candidate with Best Positions So Far (22 comments)
Congress Finds its War Powers and Weaknesses
It's astounding how blatant US machinations are regarding Venezuela (3 comments)
Iowa's Unconstitutional Ag-Gag Law against Undercover Probes and Whistleblowers Tossed out by Federal Judge (3 comments)
Ted Millar: War With Venezuela Would Boost Media Ratings--As War Always Has
Apologia Cum Catholic (2 comments)
Howard Schultz, a "greenwasher" of tainted coffee beans (9 comments)
The Billionaires are Wrong; We can't afford anything but single payer health care
Jackson Thoreau: The political high road: Do we want more Obamas or more Trumps? (27 comments)
It is Time to Hold Saudi Arabia Accountable on Human Rights, Jailed Activists Need Our Help (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 30:
Slippery Slap (3 comments)
Springing the GOP Trap (3 comments)
Venezuela, and Canada's Duplicitous Criminality (4 comments)
Rahul Gandhi has shut the door on being next Prime Minister (1 comments)
NATO soldiers may face obesity (1 comments)
Drivers Blast Lyft/ Juno Lawsuits as Attack on Workers
The World to Come (55 comments)
The Global Plague of Nepotism: Political Monarchy Creation in Action (7 comments)
For trumped Upper Financial Echelon: We the People, are Expendable (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 29:
17 Articles of Impeachment for Trump, and 1 for Pence Too (21 comments)
Tomgram: Smithberger and Hartung, The Pentagon's Revolving Door Spins Faster (1 comments)
Benny Gantz and Israel's drive to become a modern-day Sparta (1 comments)
Venezuelan Coup Reveals Trump as a Deep State Punk (17 comments)
Thoughts from the Road; Another Profound Epistle by Beto O'Rourke (1 comments)
New Mexico's Senator Martin Heinrich Speaks Out Against Trump's Wall Against Mexico (1 comments)
Monday, January 28:
Hello, Anxiety! A Ted Talk by Jeanne Lemlin (1 comments)
Howard Schultz For President!!!?! (1 comments)
Granada Hills Charter High School and the Case for a Moratorium
Trump recognition of rival Venezuelan government sets a dangerous new precedent (12 comments)
A Big Balloon Of Hot Air and Ignorance: America's Biggest Crisis May Be Trump's Lack of Substance. Anybody Got A Pin? (7 comments)
Sunday, January 27:
Venezuela: None of Our Business (16 comments)
Ted Millar: The GOP Might Use The Shutdown To Justify 'Starving the Beast' (1 comments)
The American Militia and White Supremacy: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment (3 comments)
The Winners and Losers of the LAUSD Strike (1 comments)
Forum Perversion: Why Progressive Media Should BAN Climate-Troll Comments (30 comments)
Government shutdown to cause the suffering of the public is a violation of federal anti-terrorism law (17 comments)
Saturday, January 26:
Walkable, Bikeable Cities (2 comments)
Broken Eagle Wing: Mending Worldview (1 comments)
Friday, January 25:
Announcing Our Web of Inconvenient Truths: The Internet, Energy Use, Toxic Waste and Climate Change (1 comments)
Ukrainian Challenges for Patriarch Bartholomew
Ted Millar: Trump Hopes William Barr Keeps Him From Prison--As He Did For Bush
The Exceptional Nation Asserts Its Exceptionalism
The Donald's bedtime storybook: First stop, Venezuela, next stop Iran
Letter to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb: Aspartame May Be Contributing To The End Of Human Civilization (5 comments)
Mobilize And Defend Venezuela (4 comments)
A Campaign Finance Proposal: Let's Do Away with SOTU (8 comments)
Trump, living proof why America must adopt a presidential mental fitness evaluation (10 comments)
Top Ten Democratic Presidential Candidates (3 comments)
Palestinians in Israel face uncertain political future amid Joint List split
Thursday, January 24:
Oxfam Report and Davos -- Never the Twain Can Meet (1 comments)
US to build military bases in Lithuania (11 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Amnesia in Washington (1 comments)
Just another US-fomented coup this time in Venezuela (42 comments)
Trump Recognition of Rival Venezuelan Government Will Set Off a Diplomatic Avalanche (3 comments)
Wednesday, January 23:
Thoughts on the Shutdown (3 comments)
Navajos Speak out on the Cultural and Biochemical Dangers of Fracking around Chaco Canyon (4 comments)
College Coaches, Tuition and Homeless Students
Frankenstein Junior (19 comments)
Ottawa's Support of US-led War, Opposition to BDS: More Admissions and Canada's National Disgrace (8 comments)
Parkland and Covington: Two Schools, Two Causes, One Lesson (3 comments)
What if we applied NRA logic to the 4th Amendment? (5 comments)
Our counterfeit Social Security crisis (26 comments)
Ocasio-Cortez Rattles Pundits Across the Corporate Media Spectrum
From the barracks to the courtroom: US 'lawfare' in action (2 comments)
The Shutdown Government Is Busy Figuring Out New Ways to Recruit Soldiers (3 comments)
Tuesday, January 22:
The Neo-Catholic Sons of Brett Kavanaugh (27 comments)
Trump Effect: I was called the N-Word & Monkey by two callers to my show. Isn't it 2019? (4 comments)
Darth Trump's Push to Turn Space Into a War Zone
"Jihadists""--"-Documentary Looks at Islamic Terrorists
Traditional 2019 State of the Union address fraught with security dangers (2 comments)
King Damned US Wars Was Vilified in Media Shunned by Friends & Church & Murdered by Gov. Agencies (6 comments)
Monday, January 21:
The Democratic Party's moment of truth (12 comments)
Social uncertainty weakens Latvia
Small Baltic battalions for a big war
Donald Trump: the Bad and the Good (10 comments)
Ever heard of Huawei? (17 comments)
Martin Luther King Day and the Unspeakable (2 comments)
Who "Taught" Your LAUSD Student Last Week? (1 comments)
Freedom of the Press in the Age of JFK (4 comments)
Ted Millar: Saudi Lobbyists Used U.S. Veterans As Pawns In Trump Hotel Scam
Can it factually be proved that this world is an illusion? (12 comments)
The US War on Freedom of the Press (25 comments)
Great White Hope and MAGA v. Great White Shark: Deep Blue and Female (1 comments)
Israeli politics is being dragged into the grubby realm of reality TV
Ancient and Medieval Walls Only Worked if They Were Backed by Lethal Force. Is That Donald Trump's Plan? (1 comments)
A Trump Town Filtering A Know-Nothing's Racist Rhetoric Through Cluelessly Bigoted Kids (2 comments)
MLK and the FBI (2 comments)
Sunday, January 20:
Hair Trump or Herr Trump, Revisited (2 comments)
'State-of-the-art weaponry' turns out to be crickets
Beyond NATO: Time To Break The Silence, End NATO's Militarism (3 comments)
Saturday, January 19:
#MeToo! Believing Survivors and Exposing Freud's Assault on Truth (5 comments)
Dave's Razor (19 comments)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez = AOK (very much so!) (13 comments)
The National Security Agency Is A Criminal Organization
Friday, January 18:
Syria: In the History of Bad Excuses, This One's Top-Tier (13 comments)
Why India can't ignore Mamata Banerjee's West Bengal (1 comments)
US exit from NATO (3 comments)
Why a Deistic Revolution in Religion is Important (13 comments)
Just Another Pretty Face (3 comments)
Things Congress Could Do for Peace, From Easiest to Hardest (7 comments)
Thursday, January 17:
Shut down the war machine! : Saving America and the World by Slashing US Military Spending (30 comments)
"We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore" (14 comments)
Now More Than Ever, It's Clear the FBI Must Go (14 comments)
Democratic Media: For the People, By the People (6 comments)
Canadian soldiers' nightmare in Latvia (6 comments)
The Obscure and Unconscious Class (6 comments)
Two-Tracks; The Key to Single-Payer Success (14 comments)
Why Is Japan So Bitter About Unstoppable Rise Of China? (3 comments)
Daily Inspiration — Rosa Luxemburg (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 16:
Yes Nancy Pelosi can cancel Donald Trump's SOTU address (6 comments)
Julian Assange, Lord Carlile of Berriew, and the UK justice system (5 comments)
GOP House members reprimand racist Steve King--while silent on systemic child abuse by Border Patrol (7 comments)
Roberts Should Appeal to His Own Supreme Court on his Kavanaugh Complaints (1 comments)
Enlightenment How? (1 comments)
Kumbh Mela 2019 begins: English media couldn't care less (3 comments)
What is Objectionable (27 comments)
Another Message for Donald Trump from Former Mexican President Vicente Fox (5 comments)
Greens vs Democrats, the categorical vs hypothetical imperative (5 comments)
Tuesday, January 15:
Tomgram: Dahr Jamail, "We Can't Undo This" (1 comments)
The Khashoggi Torture and Execution and the New Attorney General (1 comments)
Are you now, or have you ever ...? (1 comments)
Kids First? (1 comments)
A Gentrified Little Town Goes to Pot (2 comments)
The timeless wisdom of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1 comments)
Ted Millar: New York City To Start Providing Single-Payer Healthcare (5 comments)
Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa
Top 10 Reasons Not to Love NATO
Monday, January 14:
Whatever Your Hands Find to Do
Compromise and Trump's Border Wall -- Why the Immigrants Keep Coming
Mainstream Media Bias on 2020 Democratic Race Already in High Gear
Ocasio-Cortez's Climate Genius Stroke: Her #GreenNewDeal Is the Most Serious Response to the Crisis Yet (5 comments)
Five Reasons I'm Excited About Tulsi Gabbard's Candidacy (17 comments)
Identity Politics = White Genocide
Amos Oz and the Real Israel (1 comments)
Zoo Fence for White Supremacists facing FBI and Americans Wise to Them (1 comments)
Shutdown Theater: Blame? Why Not Credit? (6 comments)
Global Conflict + IMF's Electronic Currency; What Kind Of Citizen? (6 comments)
"There is No Crisis at the Border" (1 comments)
Who's Running John Bolton to Start a war with Iran? He worried even Mad Dog Mattis (8 comments)
The "Private Governments" That Subjugate U.S. Workers (3 comments)
Sunday, January 13:
Behold America's Nightmare: Dreams of Fascism (1 comments)
A Charter-School Pawn (4 comments)
Guardian Reports More "Good News", Kids are Dying in Venezuela (8 comments)
Trump Foreign Policy in 2019: How will it Change the World? (1 comments)
Joe Biden, Crime Fighter From Hell (1 comments)
Like Gilligan's Island (19 comments)
A reckless, totally irresponsible president shuts down the most important elements of this government (5 comments)
All under Heaven, China's challenge to the Westphalian system (2 comments)
Saturday, January 12:
Is Bait and Switch a Signature Trump Move?
Harappa "couple": What does Indian Express mean by "aunt and her nephew"? (1 comments)
Declining Birth Rates: Are We in Danger of Running Out of People? (2 comments)
Extraplanetary Extravagance (3 comments)
Watch the 12th Vigil for Julian Assange Here
Hazards of Marijuana... Newly revealed by The New Yorker! (6 comments)
Court Uses Law's Absurdity to Allow Unfit Kavanaugh to Remain as Justice (2 comments)
Time For a Female President/VP Ticket (55 comments)
Here is the Progressive Agenda (13 comments)
What Are We Working For "At Eternity's Gate"?
Sing Mr. Songbird. Won't you sing me a song, You help to keep my problems away, You help to keep the devil away. (12 comments)
Gambling: Let People (Not the Government and not "the" People) Decide
Is Anyone Really Offended By That "F" Word? (4 comments)
Tax Dollars Can Buy Happiness (1 comments)
How Facebook Borrows From the NSA Playbook (1 comments)
Friday, January 11:
Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. Racist, Classist Climate Genocide (6 comments)
The American destiny (1 comments)
The Myth of the Mueller Report (13 comments)
If Trump Declares a National Emergency, He'll Be Breaking the Law (4 comments)
From EPA to TSA, Agencies Devoted to Nation's Health and Safety Are Going Unfunded During Shutdown (2 comments)
Pompeo's US Jingoism and Anti-Iran Warmongering Rejected by Mideast Public (1 comments)
Watch me debate "Former U.S. Army Psychological Warfare Officer Scott Bennett" on #Trump #Shutdown #NationalEmergency (3 comments)
Trump Declares Himself a National Emergency
Trump is using the government as a bargaining chip -- like a dictator would (1 comments)
Four Reasons the Corporate Media Refuses to Talk About Things That Matter
Thursday, January 10:
Americans Need a Congress that Represents Americans
Don't Be Afraid, Nancy; IMPEACH (18 comments)
When Bolsonaro and Netanyahu Are "Brothers": Why Brazil Should Shun the Israeli Model
Trump Absolutely Failed to Make a Case That His Border "Crisis" Is a National Emergency (10 comments)
Why China Tiptoed onto the Far Side of the Moon (3 comments)
New Bid to Destroy Alternative News Sources (7 comments)
NATO generals do not believe in good relations with Russia (1 comments)
I am a Syrian Living in Syria: "It Was Never a Revolution nor a Civil War. The Terrorists Are Sent by Your Government" A (13 comments)
Ted Millar: Here We Go Again: The Corporate Media Is Ready To Repeat 2016 (1 comments)
Shutdown Theater: Trump is Winning (23 comments)
An American Senator Writes of ISIS "Hellish Filth We've Recruited, Armed and Trained for 8 Years!" (5 comments)
Don't Major In Political Science (13 comments)
Wednesday, January 9:
The Reichstag Fire, the "Border Crisis" and the Establishment of Dictatorship (3 comments)
Bernie Sanders Responds to Trump's Border Wall Address, Debunking President's Lies About Immigration (1 comments)
Presidential crime unchallenged ensures presidential crime: House Must Hold Impeachment Hearings on Trump's Abuses (19 comments)
Where Do the LAUSD Board Members Stand?
The Democrats Must not Cave In (1 comments)
Corruption In The Balkans Is Impeding EU Membership (1 comments)
Surgical Totalitarianism (3 comments)
Corruption as an Evil (1 comments)
10 per cent quota: All you needed to know and your newspaper won't tell (1 comments)
Newly Declassified Documents Shed Light on Gina Haspel's Involvement at Guantanamo (3 comments)
Trump in the Oval Office - Endgame, Good Ol' Fund-raising Revival or Coup? (1 comments)
White "nationalist" Stephen Miller wrote the hate speech that Trump gave
Tuesday, January 8:
Seven Gates of Damascus and Concrete Walls of Kabul (1 comments)
About Refugees and Burma -- It's not Just the Rohingya
A Majority of Americans Do Not Believe the Official 9/11 Story
The New Congress Needs to Create a Green Planet at Peace (4 comments)
Rep. Rashida Tlaib: I Won't Apologize for My Comments About Trump -- I Still Want to Impeach Him (2 comments)
#BoycottTrumpPrimeTime Boycott Trump's Speech (5 comments)
Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty (8 comments)
Susan Boyle Back, Singing Wild Horses (4 comments)
America is Closed Over a Fence (6 comments)
The Myth of the Master Negotiator (22 comments)
A Look Back at Clapper's Jan. 2017 "Assessment" on Russia-gate (5 comments)
The Democrats Have Nowhere to Go but Left (6 comments)
Putin/Trump: A Tale of Two New Year Addresses (5 comments)
Provincial Taxonomy (1 comments)
Monday, January 7:
Chinese scholar offers insight into Beijing's strategic mindset (3 comments)
Wish Barkha Dutt had spoken to my "piddi" (1 comments)
Trump is the Real National Emergency (1 comments)
"Official" Washington, madness prevails (11 comments)
President Bolton overrules Feckless Trump Tweet on Syria Withdrawal (2 comments)
States Lead the Way on Retirement Policy (1 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, Living on a Quagmire Planet
Watch the 11th Online Vigil for Julian Assange
U.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom
Everything That is Wrong with Mainstream Feminism (13 comments)
MH17 investigation: why are there still so many unanswered questions? (2 comments)
Ted Millar: Senior Cabinet Officials Get a Raise While the Country Goes to Hell
Can the LAUSD Ensure Student Safety During a Strike? (1 comments)
Good Cop/Bad Cop: The US and Russia Show (2 comments)
The Authority of Science Has Been Undermined By Identity politics
American Democracy Seems Rigged Because It Is (1 comments)
The Election Circus Begins (10 comments)
The UN Must Totally Break from US Administrative Control (4 comments)
Sunday, January 6:
New Faces For 2020 (1 comments)
Emin Agalarov's remarks on Russia's victory over the United States in Syria (1 comments)
Reasons To Believe In Trump's Syria Withdrawal Are Vanishing (4 comments)
Transcript: When Clapper Was Asked Real Questions (3 comments)
Claiming a 'national emergency' to justify building a $5-billion wall: At Last! A Workable Reason to Impeach the MF (22 comments)
As Trump Orders US Out of Afghanistan, Notorious CIA-Backed Units Will Remain (2 comments)
Rashida Tlaib and Working Class Authenticity v. Trump's Plutocrat Pretense
Don't Speak, Memory: Resistance Apes Trump in Weaponizing Amnesia (11 comments)
New York Times Exposed for Sabotaging Bernie Sanders 2020; How and Why This is Happening (35 comments)
Converting the Fleet Quickly (6 comments)
A Preface (5 comments)
Is the FDA One of the USA's Biggest Killers? (21 comments)
Collapsing Universe (5 comments)
Virginia Congresswomen (and More) Refuse Pay During Shutdown (6 comments)
Saturday, January 5:
A Green New PayGo Shutdown (8 comments)
Why We Must Get Big Money Out of Politics (3 comments)
The Latest Job Report Is Another Fiction
Ted Millar: House Democrats Hit The Ground Running With HR 1: "For The People" Act (1 comments)
Where's the Line on State-Sponsored Censorship? (1 comments)
Death to the D.I.Y. Society (5 comments)
Veteran NBC News Reporter Resigns, Says Network "Could No Longer Keep Up With The World" (3 comments)
Requiem for a Free Press in the US: Where Did the Tradition of Journalists Speaking Truth to Power Go? (1 comments)
Attn. Faye D' Souza: for a lesser communal tweet, a star chef was sacked in Dubai (1 comments)
9/11: Finally the Truth Comes Out?
Friday, January 4:
Da Lat (2 comments)
This quote is paraphrased from recent M*A*S*H rerun, originally set in Korea, 1951-1952 BUT IT FITS IN 2019 (2 comments)
Something Really Bad Has To Happen? (5 comments)
Mitt Romney Folds, Announces Support For Wall
Democrats in Congress unveil ambitious plan to fix our election system (7 comments)
Beware Muslims, you're led astray like cattle by media (1 comments)
Loving Me Was Easier: A Parable for the Perplexed
When Guns Are Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Guns
Are We Fascist Yet? (9 comments)
Why I am Still a Cryptocurrency Enthusiast, 2019 Edition (3 comments)
Jimmy Dore: British Spy Found Inside Bernie Sanders Campaign, Operating in Iowa in 2016 (4 comments)
Republicans: stuck between a rock and a hard place, only one way out (3 comments)
Afghanistan in 2019: Fewer US Troops, More CIA Torture and Killings
What to Expect of House Democrats (8 comments)
2018: Ten Reasons to be Thankful
Clinton Crony Says Bernie Supporters Must Be Silenced For 2020 Primaries (10 comments)
Thursday, January 3:
NY Times Hit Piece on Bernie Sanders in Keeping With the Establishment's Leading News Organ (4 comments)
The GOP's Most Successful Scam Is About to Reboot Itself (3 comments)
Rashida Tlaib Calls for Taking Immediate Steps Toward Impeachment on Her First Day in Congress (18 comments)
Resolutions to Improve Debates on Economic Policy in 2019 (2 comments)
Why Are the NYT and CNN Stoking Gender Warfare on the Left?
Are You Serious ? Awards for 2018 (1 comments)
How Lutyens' Medi shielded Rahul Gandhi on his lies (1 comments)
2019: a difficult political year in Lithuania
Why election officials are pinning their hopes on different vote-verifying technologies
Bernie Sanders' Delegates Ready for Another Run
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?
The Demise of the West: Part II -- Western Elites Are Anti-Democratic
A Year's Worth Of Trump's Bubbly Bullshit: Welcome To The Biggest (and LONGEST) Hangover! (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 2:
2018: Another challenging & tough year for American Muslims
Saudi Arabia muscles Netflix over Minhaj Criticism of Khashoggi Murder
Fourth World Under Unprecedented Threat
Early Elections: Who Will Dethrone "the King of Israel"? (1 comments)
Federal Employees' Union Sues Trump Administration as 420,000 Work Without Pay During Shutdown
Government Shutdown Or Not, The Police State Will Continue To Flourish (1 comments)
Evangelicals: God Sent Trump to be King (1 comments)
You are Disposable (15 comments)
Lowering Class Size: If Not Now, When? (1 comments)
American "Trojan horse" in Poland and Baltic states (5 comments)
Why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will never be capable or can be entrusted in any pursuit of Happiness (119 comments)
Beware: Lessons Learned then Forgotten, Return with Bitter Instructions (1 comments)
Five Weeks After Guardian's Viral Assange/Manafort Scoop, No Evidence Has Emerged -- Just Stonewalling (5 comments)
The Demise of the West: Part I -- Do White People Have A Future?
Is the End of the Brutal War in Yemen Finally at Hand? (1 comments)
Tuesday, January 1:
Indian Express begins 2019 with Mrinal Pande's bigotry (1 comments)
A 2019 Lesson From Sarajevo For Jews And Muslims (8 comments)
US Military Apologizes For Posting Uncomfortably Honest Tweet (15 comments)
Trump's US in 2019: Is the Mideast "War on Terror" Paradigm Ending (2 comments)
Trump orders freeze in federal salaries as shutdown reaches 10 days (2 comments)
Local actions are building blocks for #GlobalGoals (1 comments)
Pre-Eminent Russia Specialist Dots the I's (24 comments)
Bernie Sanders Starts Mentioning the Military Budget (4 comments)
Bernie Sanders New Years Message (2 comments)
Giuliani Says Assange Should Not Be Prosecuted (7 comments)
The government "can't find" $20 trillion, while pension funds are tanking (1 comments)