“An illegal anniversary,” posted on Truthout, March 19, 2013.
“Anti-war slogan tells truth about U.S., Middle East,” Austin American-Statesman, March 17, 2013.
“Rationally Speaking, We Are All Apocalyptic Now,” posted on Truthout, February 8, 2013.
“Rape is all too normal,” Dallas Morning News, January 20, 2013.
“Torture is trivial: Compared to its other crimes, that is,” posted on Common Dreams, January 18, 2013.
“We all politicize history,” posted on Academe Blog, January 12, 2013.
“Living your life honestly,” posted on New Left Project, January 1, 2013.
“UT Motto Modification: What Starts Here ... Accelerates Destruction?” posted on Austin Post, November 15, 2012.
“A Habit That Can Destroy Lives,” co-authored with Gail Dines, New York Times Room for Debate, November 11, 2012.
“From Start to Finish: Why We Won and How We Are Losing,” posted on Al Jazeera English, September 29, 2012.
"Learning to Hate Longhorn Football," posted on Austin Post, August 28, 2012.
“Journalists Rock! Journalism Sucks!: Why media activists should love the players and hate the game,”Extra!, March 2012, pp. 14-15.
“The plow and the iPhone: Conservative fantasies about the miracles of the market,” posted on Al Jazeera English, January 26, 2012.
“9/11 lessons: Combatting ignorance, avoiding arrogance,” posted on Jadaliyya, September 11, 2011.
“Nature bats last: Notes on revolution and resistance, revelation and redemption,” posted on Truthout, August 8, 2011.
“The Power -- and Limits -- of Social Movements,” posted on Common Dreams and Energy Bulletin, July 12, 2011.
“The Anguish in the American Dream,” posted on Alternet, June 27, 2011.
“Consciousness rising, world fading,” posted on Common Dreams and Energy Bulletin, February 25, 2011. An edited version was posted as "Not a knight in shining armor, on MS Magazine blog, March 28, 2011.
“Beyond Race, Gender, and Class: Reclaiming the Radical Roots of Social Justice Movements,” Global Dialogue, Summer/Autumn 2010.
“Soils and souls: The promise of The Land,” posted on Texas Observer online, October 11, 2010.
“Struggling to be ‘fully alive’: Reports on coping with anguish for a world in collapse,” posted on Common Dreams and Energy Bulletin, July 8, 2010.
“The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse,” posted on Common Dreams and Culture Change, June 22, 2010.
“The soul seeker: A neuroscientist’s search for the human essence,” Texas Observer, May 28, 2010, pp. 17-20.
“The Collapse of Journalism/The Journalism of Collapse: New Storytelling and a New Story,” posted on OpEdNews.com, March 25, 2010.
“’Getting rid of hope and faith’: Abe Osheroff on the struggle for a better world,” posted on Common Dreams and Counterpunch, March 2, 2010.
“Is Obama a socialist? Reflections on the degradation of politics and the ecosystem,” posted on Counterpunch, September 25, 2009.
“Can journalism schools be relevant in a world on the brink?” posted on Common Dreams and Counterpunch, September 14, 2009.
“The Delusion Revolution: The future we have been dreaming of is not based on reality,”
Adbusters, July 15, 2009.
“Is America on the brink of a food crisis?” posted on Alternet, January 29, 2009.
“Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11,” posted on Monthly Review and Counterpunch, September 11, 2008.
“The delusion revolution: We’re on the road to extinction and in denial,” posted on Alternet, August 15, 2008.
“The prophetic challenge: ‘Few are guilty, but all are responsible,’” posted on TomPaine.com, August 6, 2008. Also appeared as "We should hold ourselves responsible for our government's crimes around the world," Austin American-Statesman, August 8, 2008.
"Pornography and the end of masculinity," with introduction by Don Hazen, posted on Alternet, September 22, 2007.
“It didn’t start with Iraq: A review of the film War Made Easy,” posted on ZNet, Monthly Review Zine, and MWC News, September 13, 2007.
“The Myth of the Neutral Professional,” Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education, 8:2 (Fall 2006).
"Saying goodbye to my ' Fargo' accent," posted on Dissident Voice and Atlantic Free Press, December 12, 2006. Also distributed as ZNet Commentary.
“Last Sunday: Digging in and digging deep,” posted on Counterpunch, ZNet, and Dissident Voice, November 27, 2006. Click here for a printable PDF file.
“A lost war?” The Hindu, December 19, 2004.
"The upside to losing Iraq? An empire falls," Austin American-Statesman, December 3, 2004, p. A-17. Also ran as "Defeat for an empire," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 8, 2004; and posted on Common Dreams.
"Symposium: Four more years," FrontPageMagazine.com, December 3, 2004.
"After the capture, war's hard truths remain," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Austin American-Statesman, December 16, 2003, p. A-15.
"Observe right to unionize by making it reality," co-authored with Pat Youngblood, Houston Chronicle, December 10, 2003, p. A-35; and Austin American-Statesman online.
"Some journalists allow themselves to be manipulated," Extra!, November/December 2003, pp. 12-13.
"Bob Woodward and the Bush at War hagiography," posted on Outlookindia, ZNet, Counterpunch and Common Dreams web site, December 9, 2002.
"President Bush plans an unprecedented shift of almost half of government jobs to outside contractors," Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 2002, p. C-6.
"World's policeman or bully?" Dallas Morning News, November 18, 2002, p. A-17.
"We can't just forget about dead Afghan civilians,"; co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Houston Chronicle , December 21, 2001. Also posted on Common Dreams web site .
"On seeking (and finding) a different avenue for expression," ICA News, December 2001, pp. 3-4.
"Reporters have to press harder about Afghanistan," co-authored with Rahul Mahajan, Newsday, November 14, 2001, p. A-50.
"US should use its leverage to aid Turkish hunger strikers," posted on Common Dreams News Center website, December 20, 2000.
Book Review -- Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis, Z Magazine, December 2000, pp. 58-60.
"Even now, we lie to ourselves about Vietnam," Austin American-Statesman , November 25, 2000, p. A-15; and St. Petersburg Times, December 3, 2000. Also posted on the Common Dreams News Center website.
"How to read a newspaper: Deconstructing the media machine," Texas Observer, December, 24, 1999, pp. 27-28.
"Corporate power is the central issue," Austin American-Statesman, December 10, 1999, p. A-15.
"Let ordinary folks shut down decision-makers' tent," (WTO meeting), Houston Chronicle , November 30, 1999, p. 27-A. A version also appeared in the San Antonio Express-News , December 2, 1999, p. 5-B.
"Fighting the power at UT," Texas Observer, November 20, 1998, pp.12-14.
"The etiquette of war: Impoliteness in the face of mass murder," posted on ZNet , November 1998.
"U.S. policy on Iraq: Might makes right," The Drummer (Ames, Iowa), November 1998, p. 10.