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Bringing War Criminals To Justice
Friday, 22 May 2009, 4:29 pm | Sherwood Ross
Bringing war criminals to justice can have a positive effect in unifying a nation, legitimizing its government, and keeping it on the right path, a legal scholar says. More >>
Obama Expands The American Warfare State
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 12:21 pm | Sherwood Ross
Although the U.S. is not in imminent danger of attack from any country, President Obama’s first budget further expands the Pentagon’s already dominant global operations. More >>
The Nation That Housed 425,000 Nazis In WWII
Tuesday, 12 May 2009, 11:48 am | Sherwood Ross
The mean-spirited attitude of Republican politicians over repatriating Guantanamo’s remaining 241 inmates in the U.S. reflects both their irrational fears and loss of moral compass. House GOP leaders have introduced a “Keep Terrorists Out of America ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: An Odd Coincidence
Monday, 27 April 2009, 1:41 pm | Sherwood Ross
If the Pentagon’s instructors didn't teach assassination at the School of the Americas(SOA) in Fort Benning, Ga., is it just coincidental that so many of its star pupils graduate to become mass murderers? More >>
Obama "Love Letter" To CIA Distorts Truth
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 11:46 am | Sherwood Ross
One can only wonder what prompted the incredible absurdities written by President Obama in his April 16th love letter to the employees of the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). It not only absolves CIA torturers from prosecution on the grounds that ... More >>
My Lunch With Drew
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 3:53 pm | Sherwood Ross
Now that Obama has been in the White House awhile, I asked my friend Drew, a lifelong GOP contributor, to lunch at a seafood restaurant near his K Street office to see how he was managing to get along. More >>
Space Race Hikes Risk Of Nuclear War
Wednesday, 1 April 2009, 12:16 pm | Sherwood Ross
An unchecked race to militarize space is underway that is “increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear war while shortening the time for sanity and diplomacy to come into play to halt crises,” an authority on space warfare says. More >>
US: Solitary Confinement Makes Thousands Psychotic
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 11:24 am | Sherwood Ross
The United States today is housing tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement, a form of numbing mental torture that drives about one-third of them psychotic, induces irrational anger in 90 percent, and ups the likelihood they will ... More >>
Why Doesn't Obama Make Iraq The 51st State?
Monday, 23 March 2009, 1:00 pm | Sherwood Ross
If President Obama plans to keep 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq indefinitely after 2010, why doesn’t he just annex Iraq as the 51st State now? Iraqis would have our solemn promise we will never again lay their country to waste and we would work out a deal ... More >>
More Than 20 Types Of War Crimes Against Children
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:53 pm | Sherwood Ross
Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush’s pursuit of the “war on terror” have not been impressed by recriminations over torture. Worse than torture are the murders of at least 50 ... More >>
Closing Guantanamo? What About Our Own Hellholes?
Monday, 23 March 2009, 12:45 pm | Sherwood Ross
From Florida to California, America’s dehumanizing prisons confront President Obama and our governors with a challenge every bit as daunting as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. More >>
Bush War Crimes Are Jeopardizing Public Health
Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 1:51 pm | Sherwood Ross
As commander-in-chief of the military, former President George W. Bush was responsible for U.S. attacks on hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, the mistreatment of their personnel and patients, and the denial of medical supplies to them and to the general ... More >>
“Where’s My Million Dollars?” Swindled Senior Asks
Monday, 16 March 2009, 1:51 pm | Sherwood Ross
When I entered my friend Jason’s house he was shouting into his telephone, “Where’s my million dollars?” There was a pause, after which Jason insisted, “I want you to pay me the million dollars you promised me!” His face was red and he was angry. More >>
Legal Authority Blasts Proposed
Monday, 2 March 2009, 12:58 pm | Sherwood Ross
The court-appointed Trustee overseeing the liquidation of swindler Bernard Madoff’s firm should certainly not “claw back” the monies received by Madoff’s innocent, unsuspecting investors who had no knowledge of the fraud, according to a Massachusetts ... More >>
Obama's Military Path in Afghanistan
Monday, 2 March 2009, 8:02 am | Sherwood Ross
“Because I will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens half a world away” is the reason President Obama gave for forging “a new and comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan…” Yet Americans, in their ... More >>
The CIA: Beyond Redemption & Should Be Terminate
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 1:59 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of ... More >>
Dozen Books For Americans That Tell It Like It Is
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 11:54 am | Sherwood Ross
If newspaper readership is plummeting, maybe it’s because readers are turning elsewhere to catch a glimpse of the causes behind the official story. Recognizing this, some book publishers courageously are using their printing presses to bring interpretive ... More >>
Families Of Cole Sailors Aren’t The Only Sufferers
Monday, 9 February 2009, 11:33 am | Sherwood Ross
Truer words were rarely spoken than those uttered by Retired Navy Comdr. Kirk Lippold, the defense advisor to Military Families United, when he said the relatives of the sailors killed and wounded in the attack on the destroyer U.S.S. Cole in Yemen have ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Time To Set Okinawa Free
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 7:30 pm | Sherwood Ross
It’s way past time for the U.S. to get the hell 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 ... More >>
Lack Of Data On Medical Outcomes Seen As Threat
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 6:20 pm | Sherwood Ross
Information about the quality and cost of medical care “is preeminently un available” not only to patients but even to doctors, specialists and insurers, so that all concerned parties literally are “flying blind,” a noted legal authority warns. More >>
