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Bush Prosecution Driven By "Revenge" - Ross Baker
Thursday, 29 January 2009, 12:06 pm | Sherwood Ross
Those Seeking Bush Prosecution Driven By “Revenge” More >>
Notes From The American Lunatic Asylum
Monday, 26 January 2009, 9:24 am | Sherwood Ross
If America ever is going to stop making aggressive war, Americans will first have to get into contact with reality That’s because U.S. administrations for the past century have periodically frightened the public out of their collective wits. And ... More >>
Obama Should Drop Plans To Escalate Afghan War
Tuesday, 16 December 2008, 1:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
Obama Should Drop Plans To Escalate Afghan War; Send In Peace Corps Instead By Sherwood Ross More >>
Slavery, American Style, Must Go!
Friday, 5 December 2008, 1:45 pm | Sherwood Ross
Who says there are no slaves in America? The greatest domestic issue facing President-elect Obama is not the bailout of the bankers and insurers but the task of lifting tens of millions of hard-working American wage-slaves out of dire poverty. These are the ... More >>
Pentagon Recruiters Targeting Minority Kids
Tuesday, 2 December 2008, 9:30 am | Sherwood Ross
If African-Americans are overrepresented in the armed forces it is likely because of the military’s practice of “strategically targeting low-income youth and students of color,” the ACLU has found. More >>
Benefits Short-Change Families Of Veterans
Monday, 24 November 2008, 10:48 am | Sherwood Ross
Pentagon death and disability payments for service personnel are far lower than private sector payouts for like causes, a Nobel Prize-winning economist says. More >>
Bush Aggression Makes Life In Iraq “Unbearable”
Tuesday, 18 November 2008, 10:23 am | Sherwood Ross
President Bush’s attack on Iraq has made daily life there “unbearable” for most people, two prominent American financial authorities write. More >>
Iraq War took Billions Out of Rhode Is. Economy
Thursday, 13 November 2008, 12:15 pm | Sherwood Ross
APART FROM the tragic human cost, Americans are wising up to the fact it’s not just Iraq that’s suffering economically from this war. More >>
U.S. and Allies Tortured Kids In Iraq Prisons
Sunday, 9 November 2008, 5:48 pm | Sherwood Ross
Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the U.S. has detained hundreds of juveniles---some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. At times the number is said to have exceeded ... More >>
President-Elect Obama: Close Down Guantanamo!
Friday, 7 November 2008, 11:32 pm | Sherwood Ross
If Barack Obama is the humanitarian he appears to be, one of his first acts as president surely will be to shut down Guantanamo Bay prison and release its long-suffering inmates---nearly all of whom have spent years there without being charged with a ... More >>
Will Obama Cleanse America?
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 1:20 pm | Sherwood Ross
November 4, 2008, will be remembered as the night Americans cried for joy. It was not only the hundred thousand partisan Chicagoans gathered in Grant Park that were moved to rapture. Good people across the nation wept with gratitude that America ... More >>
Republicans Defecting To Obama In Early Miami Vote
Friday, 24 October 2008, 12:18 pm | Sherwood Ross
One-third of a small sample of registered Republicans that voted early in Miami today(Oct. 23) said they voted for Barack Obama for president, according to an exit poll made by this reporter. More >>
South’s Pro-War History Major Factor In Iraq War
Friday, 17 October 2008, 10:50 am | Sherwood Ross
The South is far more inclined to war than the rest of America and its politicians played a major role involving the U.S. in Iraq, a noted legal authority says. More >>
On Ayers, Colson, and G. Gordon Liddy
Thursday, 9 October 2008, 1:26 pm | Sherwood Ross
The desperation of the McCain camp over its sagging fortunes is nowhere better revealed than in its ridiculous attacks on Barack Obama for sitting on the same board of a Chicago philanthropy with William Ayers, a onetime bad boy in the Weather Underground. More >>
McCain Said To Have Concealed Facts About POWs
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 1:18 pm | Sherwood Ross
Senator John McCain, whose rise to the highest levels in politics is literally built on his POW experience in Vietnam, has “worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t ... More >>
Recommendations From Bush Prosecution Conference
Friday, 19 September 2008, 2:09 pm | Sherwood Ross
ANDOVER , MASS. (Special) -- Twenty recommendations made at a conference on prosecuting President George Bush for war crimes are under consideration for action, according to conference convener Lawrence Velvel, a prominent law school dean. More >>
CIA’s Overthrow of Iran in 53 Reaps Bitter Harvest
Sunday, 14 September 2008, 6:41 pm | Sherwood Ross
Iranians’ hatred of America dates back to the CIA’s violent 1953 overthrow of democratic Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh’s government in order to arrange sweetheart contracts for western oil companies, author Stephen Kinzer writes in “Overthrow: ... More >>
Prevent Future Massacres By Curbing Bullying
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 10:14 am | Sherwood Ross
Society could reduce the number of senseless killings on campuses and in workplaces and shopping malls if it paid closer attention to aggrieved individuals, many of whom were the targets of prior bullying, a prominent psychologist says. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Is America Fascist?
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 4:22 pm | Sherwood Ross
If it hasn’t gone the way of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, it’s sure teetering on the brink. America is a nation in deepening crisis, a nation whose leaders repeatedly plunge their citizens into, and make them pay for, serial wars ... More >>
How The US Reversed Its Policy On Civilian Bombing
Monday, 4 August 2008, 4:21 pm | Sherwood Ross
When Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded. This slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned in the United States and Great Britain. More >>
