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Sherwood Ross: Obama Perceived As One Cool Dude
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 12:52 am | Sherwood Ross
Young voters see Obama as one cool dude, an attractive politician with charisma and star power. Obama's energy mirrors their energy. He literally sprints to the podium. They may not know it, but Obama's platform is not that far removed from Eisenhower's. More >>
Doubts Israeli Air Strike Hit Syrian Nuclear Plant
Monday, 4 February 2008, 3:44 pm | Sherwood Ross
Asked about the Israeli attack, Syrian Vice-President Faruq al-Shara told Hersh, "Israel bombed to restore its credibility, and their objective is for us to keep talking about it. And by answering your questions I serve that objective." More >>
Reader's Digest At Odds With Public Opinion
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:31 am | Sherwood Ross
In one of the more ludicrous distortions in the history of magazine publishing, The Reader's Digest(RD) article titled "World's Most Dangerous Leaders" by Dale Van Atta indicts three regional figures as "dangerous" but omits President Bush. More >>
Iraq Boycotts A Factor In U.S. Economic Downturn
Wednesday, 23 January 2008, 12:18 am | Sherwood Ross
One of the many contributing factors driving the U.S. economy's sharp downturn is the anger of foreign consumers boycotting American brands over the Iraq war. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Gitmo Prisoners Ruled "Non-Persons"
Tuesday, 15 January 2008, 10:31 am | Sherwood Ross
It's hard to believe, but the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., just ruled three Muslim British humanitarian workers and a religious pilgrim captured in Afghanistan and detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison, were non-persons! More >>
"The Great Debaters" A Courageous Film Undertaking
Monday, 31 December 2007, 9:43 am | Sherwood Ross
At a time when Hollywood producers are dipping for content into the gutters of gore, director Denzel Washington has created an electrifying message of nonviolent reform that once again lifts the motion picture art to the stars. More >>
Mukasey Betrays Fundamental Jewish Tenets
Thursday, 27 December 2007, 8:51 am | Sherwood Ross
Michael Mukasey's claim during his Senate confirmation hearing for Attorney-General that he did not know if waterboarding is torture is a betrayal of Judaism's fundamental tenets affirming "basic human values." More >>
Bush Respose to NIE Reveals No. 1 World Warmonger
Monday, 10 December 2007, 10:37 am | Sherwood Ross
So, just how much are the American people supposed to take? Here we've got a president who lied us into making war on Iraq and who, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate(NIE), is stubbornly trying to lie us into another war against Iran. More >>
Pentagon Poised To Resume Open Air Weapons Testing
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 10:51 am | Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969. Yet, the Pentagon's stated preparations make it appear it ... More >>
Fox TV Defines Itself
Monday, 3 December 2007, 1:53 pm | Sherwood Ross
Nothing betrays disturbed folks quicker than the words they call their enemies. Last November 8, Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly said in an on-air chat with Fox News analyst Laura Ingraham that the distinguished Miami Herald Latin authority Andres Oppenheimer was ... More >>
Carter: No Political Sympathy For Palestinians
Monday, 26 November 2007, 9:55 am | Sherwood Ross
Former President Jimmy Carter said in a published interview it is “almost inconceivable” for an American presidential candidate “to make the statements that I’ve made concerning the plight of the Palestinians or Israel withdrawing to its 1967 borders ... More >>
George Bush, Al Capone, and Wiseguy Government
Monday, 26 November 2007, 9:42 am | Sherwood Ross
It was in Chicago, that city made notorious by gangster Al Capone, where President Bush at an impromptu news conference in 2004 said if somebody in his crime family broke the law, “that person will be taken care of.” (Ha ha. Actually, Bush said ... More >>
Bush Has Challenged 1,000 Laws through “Loophole"
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 9:53 am | Sherwood Ross
By challenging more than 1,000 laws with some 150 signing statements, President Bush has turned those statements into an override-proof, line-item veto that could effectively end the ability of Congress to impose checks and balances on his presidency, says ... More >>
Radioactive Munitions Fired In Middle East
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 10:50 am | Sherwood Ross
Radioactive Ammunition Fired In The Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima And Nagasaki By Sherwood Ross More >>
Bush Hires Lawyers Opposed To Affirmative Action
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 9:49 am | Sherwood Ross
The Bush administration has politicized hiring of attorneys for the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department to come up with a staff that opposed affirmative action and had little interest in filing suits where discrimination laws had been ... More >>
Karen Hughes, "PR" and Perverted Science
Monday, 5 November 2007, 1:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
The reason Henry Ford succeeded brilliantly in obtaining positive publicity for his Ford Motor Co. is that he manufactured a quality product and, for many years, treated his employees with unrivaled generosity, deference, and respect. Perhaps only Ford's ... More >>
Sentiment Grows For Extended Middle East Presence
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 9:07 pm | Sherwood Ross
Warning: Sentiment Grows In Oil-Hungry U.S. For Extended Middle East Presence By Sherwood Ross More >>
NSA may be Reading your Computer
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 11:57 am | Sherwood Ross
Sooner or later, a country that spies on its neighbors will turn on its own people, violating their privacy, stealing their liberties. More >>
Many Americans Don’t Grasp Iraq War Is Illegal
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:19 am | Sherwood Ross
Mistakenly, many Americans still believe President Bush’s war on Iraq is justified because Congress supported it and funds it. More >>
How Powerful Is “Israeli Lobby” In The U.S?
Monday, 24 September 2007, 10:31 am | Sherwood Ross
How large a role does the “Israel Lobby” play in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East? Some answers may be contained in “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”(Farrar, Straus & Giroux), by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, reviewed in the Sept. 23 ... More >>
