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New Pentagon War Manual Reduces Us to "Level of Nazis"
Saturday, 15 August 2015, 11:54 am | Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon's new Law of War Manual(LOWM) sanctioning nuclear attacks and the killing of civilians, "reads like it was written by Hitler's Ministry of War," says international law authority Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois at Champaign. More >>
The Water Crisis Upon Us
Saturday, 8 August 2015, 10:49 am | Sherwood Ross
From Brazil to India and from California to Detroit, taps are running dry, as the water crisis spreads around the planet. More >>
Obama Responsible For Many "Charleston's" in Middle East
Sunday, 21 June 2015, 11:29 am | Sherwood Ross
President Obama was, of course, right to denounce the massacre in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and to call for an end to such violence. More >>
Netanyahu Playing "Hide and Cheat"?
Saturday, 9 May 2015, 10:39 am | Sherwood Ross
The estimable McClatchy News Service says President Obama "scored a decisive win" by negotiating an agreement that "will prevent Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon" and termed it "a personal triumph for the President." More >>
Genocide against Iraq Killed 3.3 Million
Thursday, 11 September 2014, 9:28 am | Sherwood Ross
U.S.-U.K. Genocide against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million, Including 750,000 Children By Sherwood Ross 11 September 2014 More >>
Obama drone campaign "Verges On Genocide".
Friday, 14 February 2014, 11:40 am | Sherwood Ross
President Obama's drone attacks on Middle Eastern nations are not just lawless war crimes. As the "murderous drone campaign is both widespread and systematic it thus qualifies as a crime against humanity that verges on genocide," the distinguished ... More >>
Six JFK shooters, three tied to CIA excluding Oswald
Monday, 30 December 2013, 12:05 pm | Sherwood Ross
SIX JFK SHOOTERS, THREE TIED TO CIA, NAMED–Oswald not among them Six shooters who participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including three with ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), were named by a prominent critic ... More >>
Three of Six Shooters of JFK Had Ties to CIA | Sherwood Ross
Saturday, 28 December 2013, 8:16 am | Sherwood Ross
Six shooters who participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including three with ties to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), were named by a prominent critic of the Warren Commission Report (WCR). Remarkably, Lee Harvey ... More >>
Bush Copied Hitler's Propaganda Technique
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 3:45 pm | Sherwood Ross
The "preventive war" propaganda used by President Bush to justify his attack on Iraq in 2003 copied that used by Hitler when he invaded Russia in 1941. Starting a preventive war was a foundation of the "Bush Doctrine." More >>
Hospital Price-Gouging Widespread: N.Y. Times
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 11:46 am | Sherwood Ross
Quick, will somebody, anybody, please nominate The New York Times for a Pulitzer for yesterday's (Dec. 3) story "As Hospital Prices Soar, a Single Stitch Tops $500"! This is an expose about hospital profit-taking that has long deserved front page ... More >>
Does Obama Want to Stay in Afghanistan to Harvest Its Opium?
Friday, 29 November 2013, 4:03 pm | Sherwood Ross
Is the real reason President Obama would like to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan until 2024 to allow the CIA to cash in on its $50 billion annual opium crop? When the Taliban ruled Pakistan, if nothing else, it suppressed the opium trade. More >>
10 Reasons The 9/11 Report is Properly Classified as Fiction
Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 4:28 pm | Sherwood Ross
Key points in the government's version of 9/11 events do not stand up to scientific scrutiny, according to McKnight Professor Emeritus, Dr. Jim Fetzer, a distinguished philosopher of science, who has more than 20 books on scientific reasoning, artificial ... More >>
NSA Spying Undermines Obama's Call for Foreign Business
Friday, 1 November 2013, 11:59 am | Sherwood Ross
When America's prestige abroad is in the gutter over National Security Agency's eavesdropping on world leaders, President Obama incongruously is urging foreign companies to do business here in the United States. Could his timing be worse? More >>
Tale of Obama Killing "One Big Lie": Hersh
Monday, 21 October 2013, 3:30 pm | Sherwood Ross
If Seymour Hersh says in a forthcoming book the tale of the death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of U.S. SEALS is "one big lie" and "not one word of it is true," President Obama will be hard pressed to avoid impeachment. More >>
UK's Guardian Bids To Become World's First Global Paper
Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 2:51 pm | Sherwood Ross
If Americans complain they aren't getting the true story about foreign affairs, they're very likely right. By choosing to ignore, say, reporting about the carnage the U.S. has wrought, and the wreckage it has left, across the globe, the American print and ... More >>
Why Obama May Stand Up To Netanyahu When They Discuss Iran
Monday, 30 September 2013, 12:34 pm | Sherwood Ross
Let’s hope President Obama defends his opening with Iran from the inevitable assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they meet Monday. They appear certain to clash over Obama’s historic good will phone call last Friday to Iran’s new ... More >>
Israeli Response to Rouhani Betrays Its Own Intransigence
Wednesday, 25 September 2013, 12:44 pm | Sherwood Ross
Israel’s mean-spirited response to Iran’s olive branch actually illuminates its own aggressive posture. Along comes Hassan Rouhani, the new Iranian president, and instead of applauding his initiatives to meet with President Obama and resolve outstanding ... More >>
An Historic Drought Ravaging Southwest
Monday, 19 August 2013, 12:23 pm | Sherwood Ross
A severe drought in the Southwestern U.S. is devastating crops and farm communities---sending a warning about climate change, Sasha Abramsky reports in a prescient article published in the August 5-12 issue of The Nation. More >>
Bradley Manning “Apologizes”
Friday, 16 August 2013, 4:57 pm | Sherwood Ross
Perhaps the most stunning aspect of the Bradley Manning trial was his apology yesterday to the court that, “I am sorry that my actions hurt people... (and) the United States” when, in fact, there is no proof they did either More >>
U.S., Russia, China, All Torture Prisoners
Monday, 12 August 2013, 10:53 am | Sherwood Ross
The three most powerful nations all operate prison systems that are places of sadism, sickness, and madness unfit for human habitation, much less human reformation. More >>
