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Charges Madoff Trustee Concealing Financial Data
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 1:33 pm | Sherwood Ross
Court-appointed Trustee Irving Picard is "keeping all the relevant information" pertaining to the operations of convicted Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernie Madoff secret, says a legal authority who lost money invested with Madoff. More >>
US: Third Political Party Urgently Needed
Saturday, 1 May 2010, 11:50 am | Sherwood Ross
As both the Republican and Democratic political parties are locked into a national security state that is perpetually at war, Americans urgently need to create a third political party, a law school dean writes. More >>
Sherwood Ross: America, The Imperial
Monday, 26 April 2010, 11:16 am | Sherwood Ross
I write to you in my last hour In the last hour of the night The hour of fear before the light The hour of persecution and execution Of the headsman’s bloody institution Of prisoners dragged from their cells Hearts pounding, legs trembling Piss-soaked ... More >>
Personality Disorder Discharge Used to Cheat Vets
Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 11:49 am | Sherwood Ross
An army sergeant who had received 22 honors including a Combat Action Badge prior to being wounded in Iraq by a mortar shell was told he was faking his medical symptoms and subjected to abusive treatment until he agreed to a "personality disorder"(PD) ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Tourists Urged To Boycott Morocco
Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 1:28 pm | Sherwood Ross
Moroccan tourist officials may well boast of their luxury hotels designed to lure European and North American tourists but the regime of King Mohammed VI has much less to say about the hell-on-earth that is his prison system and of the torture ... More >>
28 Nations Helped U.S. To Detain “Suspects”
Thursday, 1 April 2010, 4:44 pm | Sherwood Ross
Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects arrested as part of the U.S. “War on Terror.” The complicit countries have kept suspects in prisons ranging from ... More >>
Incarceration for African-Americans 7 Times Higher
Wednesday, 3 March 2010, 1:35 pm | Sherwood Ross
Many factors contribute to the incarceration today of more blacks than whites even though blacks make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population. More >>
Cable News Outlets Not Revealing Corporate Ties
Monday, 1 March 2010, 3:30 pm | Sherwood Ross
Since 2007, at least 75 registered lobbyists, public relations represenatives and corporate officials have appeared on cable news broadcasts "with no disclosure of the corporate interests that paid them," The Nation magazine (March 1) reveals. More >>
Clinton: IRAN Headed For “Military Dictatorship"
Monday, 22 February 2010, 5:50 pm | Sherwood Ross
Well may Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warn students in Qatar that “Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.” She is, after all, an authority on the subject, representing a country where the Pentagon has long been ascendant. Her comment ... More >>
US Claims Right To Assassinate Americans Overseas
Monday, 15 February 2010, 10:54 am | Sherwood Ross
Aping the assassination tactics of Josef Stalin, the U.S. has created an illegal “hit list” of Americans abroad marked for murder. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told a House Intelligence Committee hearing February 3rd the U.S. may, ... More >>
Basketball humor: O’Bomber Faults NBA’s Arenas
Monday, 8 February 2010, 1:00 pm | Sherwood Ross
In a wide-ranging interview, President B. Rack O’Bomber today faulted Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas for bringing an unloaded pistol into his team’s locker room. More >>
US-Colombian Deal Accelerates "Dangerous Trend"
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 6:17 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Obama administration’s pact to use seven Colombian military bases accelerates “a dangerous trend in U.S. hemispheric policy,” an article in The Nation magazine warns. More >>
Can The White House Control The News?
Monday, 1 February 2010, 3:39 pm | Sherwood Ross
Now that one of every four Americans gets the news online, a communications authority wonders if the White House is still able to control the news. “The transformation of media has not only undermined the imperial institutions of the mainstream media; ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Time to Set Okinawa Free
Monday, 1 February 2010, 3:26 pm | Sherwood Ross
It’s way past time for the U.S. to get out of Okinawa—and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it. Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do today. Every liberty-loving ... More >>
Zinn Said “Largest Lie” Was “War On Terrorism”
Friday, 29 January 2010, 9:58 am | Sherwood Ross
The “largest lie,” wrote hisorian Howard Zinn who died yesterday at age 87, is that “everything the United States does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’” More >>
American Academics Disappointed With Obama
Monday, 25 January 2010, 3:25 pm | Sherwood Ross
Based on his first year in office, American academics are expressing disappointment in President Obama’s performance and believe he is headed toward a “mediocre” presidency. More >>
Panetta Turns Blind Eye To CIA Crimes
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 12:47 pm | Sherwood Ross
In a tribute to the seven CIA agents killed December 30th by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, Agency Director Leon Panetta wrote, "Our officers were engaged in an important mission in a dangerous part of the world." More >>
Obama Spreads War Flames To Engulf The Middle East
Monday, 18 January 2010, 7:38 pm | Sherwood Ross
As President Obama steps up the war that is inflaming ever wider sectors of the Middle East, USA continues its rapid slide toward Third World status. The two developments are not unrelated. Spending on war does not boost an economy as does domestic spending---and ... More >>
FOIA Request Filed For OPR Report On Bush's Lawyer
Friday, 8 January 2010, 10:38 am | Sherwood Ross
An organization today filed a request for the report from the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) regarding the conduct of President Bush's top lawyers who authored memos purporting to authorize torture and aggressive war. More >>
Fighting Back: Ridding America Of The Warmongers
Thursday, 31 December 2009, 2:26 pm | Sherwood Ross
Disgusted Americans who vote for politicians that talk peace yet, once elected, support wars, need to get active in between elections. Just voting every four years won’t hack it. More >>
