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Winners And Losers In The American Warfare State
Tuesday, 18 August 2009, 2:32 pm | Sherwood Ross
“On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the United States and its allies had accomplished. …I couldn’t understand what thousands of American ... More >>
Madoff Trustee Creates “Class War”
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 4:09 pm | Sherwood Ross
Even if court-appointed trustee Irving Picard should recover the $13.7 billion for which he is suing associates of jailed fraudster Bernard Madoff, the money may never get into the pockets of victimized small investors, a law school dean points out. More >>
Less Than Half Of Vets Suffering PTSD Seek Help
Friday, 7 August 2009, 4:32 pm | Sherwood Ross
Veterans returning from the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq are displaying many of the same post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms of troops that fought in Viet Nam, yet most do not seek treatment. More >>
Dr. King Would Reject Obama’s Wars
Monday, 3 August 2009, 9:50 am | Sherwood Ross
In his rousing speech to the NAACP, President Obama praised the civil rights leaders of the past whose sacrifices “began the journey that has led me” (to the White House). He neglected to mention, however, that the majority of those civil rights ... More >>
Bush, Cheney Told Lawyers to Give Criminal Advice
Friday, 17 July 2009, 11:35 am | Sherwood Ross
Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good faith on their lawyers’ advice because they told their lawyers what advice to give, a law school dean says. More >>
Congress Objects to CIA Lies But Not Torture?
Thursday, 16 July 2009, 4:33 pm | Sherwood Ross
Why are some members of Congress suddenly upset the CIA lied to them when the Agency has been guilty of innumerable crimes that are far worse? Is Congress saying, “It’s okay to do what you’re doing, just don’t lie to us about it?” When accused ... More >>
IRS Role In Madoff Scandal Bears Examination
Tuesday, 14 July 2009, 11:41 am | Sherwood Ross
The Internal Revenue Service(IRS) has collected “untold billions” of tax dollars from investors swindled by fraudster Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi based on “earnings” that never existed. More >>
Obama Lights Up Another One
Thursday, 9 July 2009, 11:37 am | Sherwood Ross
“We can only give you a couple of minutes with the President, so make your points quickly,” his aide said opening the door to the Oval Office, where I instantly felt the full force of the smile that has charmed the world. More >>
“Charitable” Hospitals Providing Little “Charity"
Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 9:45 am | Sherwood Ross
If President Obama wants to “squeeze billions of dollars from (healthcare) spending,” as Associated Press reports(July 1), he could begin by administering a dose of fiscal reality to for-profit hospitals masquerading as charitable institutions. More >>
Obama Has No Legal Authority To Escalate War
Monday, 6 July 2009, 9:08 am | Sherwood Ross
Obama Has No Legal Authority To Escalate Afghan War And Is Creating “Humanitarian Catastrophe” In Pakistan By Sherwood Ross More >>
Culture Of Secrecy Backfires Disastrously On US
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 1:33 pm | Sherwood Ross
The culture of secrecy in Government and Corporate America is a pattern “which deeply and often disastrously affects all of American life,” a law dean writes. Secrecy really “took off” after the Korean War “with the creation of the American ... More >>
Report: CIA Crucified Captive In Abu Ghraib Prison
Wednesday, 1 July 2009, 11:53 am | Sherwood Ross
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine. “A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation ... More >>
Germany, 1939; America, 2009; Perverted Science
Sunday, 28 June 2009, 4:03 pm | Sherwood Ross
It has become commonplace for Congress to ignore the public’s yearnings for peace and to support the Pentagon’s now habitual wars of aggression. Last November’s anti-war vote illustrates this disconnect between public opinion and public policy. ... More >>
CIA’s Panetta Won’t Penalize Torturers
Friday, 26 June 2009, 12:33 pm | Sherwood Ross
CIA Director Leon Panetta says he is not going to penalize agents who tortured prisoners if they “were doing their duty,” explaining, “If you have a President who exercises bad judgment, the C.I.A. pays the price.” More >>
"School of Americas" Generals Charged In Colombia
Tuesday, 9 June 2009, 1:43 pm | Sherwood Ross
Two Colombian generals, both of whom received training at the U.S. Army's "School of The Americas"(SOA) at Ft. Benning, Ga., have been accused by Colombian authorities of crimes involving narcotics and collaborating with criminal paramilitary groups, ... More >>
Nicaragua’s Revenge, Cuba, The OAS and Iraq
Friday, 5 June 2009, 12:59 pm | Sherwood Ross
Miami, Florida, June 4, 2009 --- It was three o’clock this morning when I was awakened from a beautiful dream by police knocking on the door of my apartment to come down to the parking garage and identify my vandalized car. Downstairs, they had the suspect ... More >>
Bush Said In 1999 That He Planned To Invade Iraq
Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 11:23 am | Sherwood Ross
Two years before the 9/11 attacks on America, George W. Bush told a Houston journalist if elected president, “I’m going to invade Iraq.” Bush made the comments about starting an aggressive war to veteran Houston Chronicle reporter Mickey Herskowitz, ... More >>
Is Obama Serious About Ending "War On Drugs"?
Monday, 1 June 2009, 2:38 pm | Sherwood Ross
Efforts by President Obama to put an end to the nation’s failed “War on Drugs” can’t come an hour too soon---if that’s his intent. From his actions, it’s hard to know. More >>
A new book by essayist Lawrence Velvel
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 1:39 pm | Sherwood Ross
A new book by essayist Lawrence Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, has won the 2009 gold medal in the essay/creative category of Independent Publisher, the voice of the independent publishing industry. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Obama Betrays The Liberals
Monday, 25 May 2009, 12:11 pm | Sherwood Ross
America’s liberals stand betrayed. Their new president, the one they sweated to elect----a brilliant, charismatic leader with a professional background in constitutional law---has transmogrified himself from the champion who denounced in his campaign ... More >>
