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Of the 90 opinion pieces on the subject of ICE that were published in papers across the US from June 28 to July 18, 85 were explicitly against abolishing ICE, while only five were supportive.
OpEd News has published an open letter from attorney Dana Jill Simpson (8/20/09) to “Mr. Murdoch and all the editors at the Wall Street Journal,” in which she expresses her wish to “thank you from the very bottom of my heart for running Karl Rove’s delusional article, ‘Closing In on Rove,’ on August 20, 2009″: […]
David Swanson (OpEd News, 7/22/09) has “another name for ‘what’s called a single-payer system’”–namely: “healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They just aren’t Americans.” Of Barack Obama’s July 22 news conference “mention of single-payer in passing, as something that would be better than anything else, […]
Addressing Bush-era Department of Justice investigations, David Swanson (6/26/09) is asking OpEd News readers the provocative question, “Did you know the United States has in recent years prosecuted hundreds of people for political reasons?” This is a crime, or rather a crime wave, that has thus far been addressed primarily by ignoring it. You can […]
It is quite telling that, even considering how in Ed Schultz’s May 7 MSNBC interview of Physician for a National Health Program Margaret Flowers and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, he “slaps a gratuitous insult on the heroines of Code Pink” and “says he’s against protesting and “getting arrested” as a rule but thinks it’s OK if […]
In the latest installment of a Columbia Journalism Review series on “special interest groups… at Obama’s table” and “how the media are covering them,” Trudy Lieberman (CJR.org, 3/6/09) reports that Saul Friedman, who writes a popular column called Gray Matters for Newsday, has been almost alone in writing about what he has called a “blackout” […]
