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'Defense' Spending Exceeds All State Outlays
Thursday, 24 December 2009, 11:45 am | Sherwood Ross
The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans. More >>
Obama’s Afghanistan Woes Recall LBJ’s In Viet Nam
Friday, 11 December 2009, 2:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Obama faces some of the same issues today over how to proceed in Afghanistan that President Johnson faced in 1965 when he escalated the war in Viet Nam. More >>
Federal Law Shields Jailers From Legal Claims
Wednesday, 9 December 2009, 3:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
Law professors Margo Schlanger of Washington University, St. Louis, and Giovanna Shay of Yale indict the federal Prison Litigation Reform Act(PLRA) of 1996 for “undermining the rule of law in America’s prisons” by “preventing inmates from raising legitimate ... More >>
Obama Never Considered Diplomacy In Afghanistan
Monday, 30 November 2009, 11:07 am | Sherwood Ross
After initially injecting 21,000 troops into Afghanistan allegedly to stave off imminent defeat, President Obama Tuesday will tell war-weary Americans why he seeks 35,000 more. If he gets them, the U.S. force there will exceed 100,000. Washington has been ... More >>
U.S. Needs To Strengthen Animal Protection Laws
Monday, 23 November 2009, 9:53 am | Sherwood Ross
American law “does nothing to genuinely protect animals, nor does it recognize their true value and special place in our homes and within our families,” two animal rights authorities say. More >>
Will We Ever Stop The Killings?
Monday, 16 November 2009, 11:18 am | Sherwood Ross
Every time the young stick-up man tugged at my companion’s purse with his left hand, she would pull back, causing the muzzle of the pistol he held in his right hand to swing back and forth. Its line of fire each time was directed across my chest ... More >>
US Pressing Security For Pakistani Nuclear Weapons
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 1:31 pm | Sherwood Ross
Washington has been negotiating secret and “highly sensitive understandings” to “provide added security for the Pakistani arsenal in case of a crisis,” investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports. More >>
Chomsky: Obama Continues Bush Policy
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 1:31 pm | Sherwood Ross
Political activist Noam Chomsky says that although President Obama views the Iraq invasion merely as “a mistake” or “strategic blunder,” it is, in fact, a “major crime” designed to enable America to control the Middle East oil reserves. More >>
Chomsky Receives Highest Pentagon Honor
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 10:10 am | Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon has paid anti-war activist Noam Chomsky the highest honor any totalitarian entity can bestow upon an author: they’ve banned his book “Interventions” at Guantanamo Bay prison. They won’t say precisely why they “honored” Chomsky, ... More >>
Pakistan Death Toll From Drone Attacks Under Obama
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 11:28 am | Sherwood Ross
Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency(C.I.A.) drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, “innocent bystanders, including children,” according ... More >>
Election Fraud Raises Odds Against US "Success"
Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:24 am | Sherwood Ross
The fraudulent Afghan election of last August 20th has delayed the possibility of a new regime taking over promptly to replace the corrupt rule of the discredited, U.S. hand-picked President Hamid Karzai. More >>
Obama’s Nobel Prize Statement At Odds With Reality
Monday, 12 October 2009, 1:02 pm | Sherwood Ross
Can President Obama be serious when he says he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize as “an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people of all nations”? More >>
Pentagon Taking Over U.S. Foreign Policy
Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:47 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon has virtually replaced the State Department in making U.S. foreign policy, The Nation magazine charges. “Quietly, gradually---and inevitably, given the weight of its colossal budget and imperial writ---the Pentagon has all but eclipsed the ... More >>
What Can Individuals Do To Oppose Warfare State?
Monday, 21 September 2009, 1:37 pm | Sherwood Ross
Americans who voted for peace last November but are getting only more war are becoming increasingly disillusioned. The majority of Americans, polls show, would slash the military budget by over 30 percent yet President Obama has increased it by four percent. ... More >>
2 GOP-Appointed Judges Shame America
Monday, 14 September 2009, 3:04 pm | Sherwood Ross
The federal Appeals Court decision to toss a lawsuit claiming contractors tortured detainees in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is what you’d expect from a tyranny. More >>
Will Obama See Afghanistan's Daughters as his own?
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:39 pm | Sherwood Ross
The war in Afghanistan today hangs like some cloud of poison gas over Washington that won’t blow away. It sickens everything as it spreads. It continues to suck precious tax dollars out of the Treasury, money this country cannot afford to squander, ... More >>
Rise Of Mercenary Armies Menace World
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:50 am | Sherwood Ross
The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars. More >>
New Era Dawning For Animal Rights
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:02 am | Sherwood Ross
A new and more humane era may be dawning for animals as recognition spreads that, like human beings, they are sentient creatures who experience joy and feel pain and are entitled to legal protection. More >>
Bush & Cheney Prosecution Could Prevent Crimes
Friday, 28 August 2009, 11:38 am | Sherwood Ross
Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same. “The battle to impose criminal responsibility upon them (Bush, Cheney, etc.) is not for today alone but to safeguard a vast future,” ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Congress Shirks Its Responsibility
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 11:09 am | Sherwood Ross
On occasion, critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have questioned, with good reason, whether the American war in Afghanistan has been carried far beyond what Congress authorized. This raises a fundamental question that has bedeviled the country ... More >>
