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Israeli Crackdown On Palestinian Civilians
Sunday, 23 September 2007, 11:47 pm | Sherwood Ross
Israel once again appears determined to alienate world opinion by threatening to cut the supplies of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip while, in the words of Human Rights Watch, "increasing its restrictions on the movement of goods and people ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Another Bush-Cheney Fabrication?
Monday, 17 September 2007, 8:37 pm | Sherwood Ross
In the most massive racial profiling since Japanese-Americans were herded into detention camps in World War II, the Bush administration after 9/11 required 80,000 Arab and Muslim foreign nationals living here to be photographed, fingerprinted and subjected ... More >>
Darfur, Iraq, Conflicts Show Need To Strengthen UN
Friday, 7 September 2007, 11:10 am | Sherwood Ross
The latest UN response to the Darfur province genocide may be way too little as well as way too late despite the personal visit Monday of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to Sudan. More >>
Bush Restricts Travel Of More Than 100k Americans
Tuesday, 4 September 2007, 10:41 am | Sherwood Ross
The freedom to travel of more than 100,000 Americans placed on "watch" and "no fly" lists is being restricted by the Bush-Cheney regime. More >>
Interrogators Pose As “Lawyers” To get Information
Sunday, 19 August 2007, 6:38 pm | Sherwood Ross
Military interrogators posing as “lawyers” are attempting to trick Guantanamo prisoners into providing them with information, “The Catholic Worker” (TCW) reports. More >>
Iraqi Civilians Terrorized In Midnight Searches
Sunday, 29 July 2007, 5:57 pm | Sherwood Ross
If polls show Iraqis overwhelmingly want the U.S. out, it may be because the civilian population is being terrorized in their homes, subjected to dragnet arrests, wrongfully imprisoned, run down on the highways, shot at the checkpoints, and demeaned as hajis ... More >>
Pledge To Reduce Afghan Poppy Crop Just Pipedream
Monday, 9 July 2007, 9:13 pm | Sherwood Ross
Karzai, Bush, Pledges To Reduce Afghan Poppy Crop Turns Out To Be Just One More Pipedream More >>
Bush & Putin Fault Each Other But Blind To Selves
Wednesday, 4 July 2007, 9:42 am | Sherwood Ross
(July 1, 2007) -- How can Presidents Bush and Putin be expected to see each other's viewpoints when they are blind to the fact they are guilty of the very faults of which they accuse each other? More >>
A Republican In Disguise?
Friday, 29 June 2007, 1:42 pm | Sherwood Ross
When it’s virtually impossible to tell “anti-war” Democrats apart from pro-war Republicans, does it matter if Democratic Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico is a Republican at heart? Probably not. Yet, that may be the case. More >>
Corps Aren’t Disclosing Biological Warfare Work
Friday, 22 June 2007, 11:16 am | Sherwood Ross
According to the Sunshine Project, a nonprofit arms control watchdog operating out of Austin, Texas, among corporations holding back information about their activities are: More >>
You Become Your Primary Health Care Provider
Wednesday, 20 June 2007, 9:43 am | Sherwood Ross
Drug companies these days are advertising heavily on TV to get you to buy their remedies for high blood pressure. And why not as 60-million Americans reportedly suffer from it? More >>
Typifies Bush Administration Policies
Monday, 18 June 2007, 1:25 pm | Sherwood Ross
Laura Schultz, a former plutonium worker at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant who was stricken with cervical and kidney cancer told The New York Times she was “stunned” by the decision of a federal advisory panel to deny her and thousands ... More >>
Bush "Preventive War" Doctrine Glaring ME Failure
Monday, 11 June 2007, 2:14 pm | Sherwood Ross
Comics have said everything George Bush knows about foreign policy he learned at the International House of Pancakes. That's not quite true. Somewhere, he internalized the motto of heavyweight boxer Tony Galento: "T'row foist!" Just as Galento took ... More >>
39 "Disappeared" Found In Bush Kidnapping Ring
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 12:55 am | Sherwood Ross
Let's face it: we've got a president in the White House who is running an international kidnapping ring. Six human rights groups(HRG) today (June 6) named for the first time 39 more kidnap (they call them 'disappeared') victims of the Bush administration. More >>
How Bush Backers Stole 2004 Election
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 3:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Bush carried Ohio, Iowa, and New Mexico in 2004 because vast numbers of ballots cast by minorities for John Kerry in those states were never counted, an investigative reporter says. More >>
Say 78,000 Iraqis Killed By Coalition Air Strikes
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 3:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
An estimated 78,000 Iraqis were killed by U.S. and Coalition air strikes from the start of the war through June of last year, an article in " The Nation " magazine says. More >>
S. Ross: Bush Actions Recall History's Tyrants
Monday, 14 May 2007, 12:43 am | Sherwood Ross
As public sentiment begins to build for impeachment, it might be illuminating to examine the many ways President Bush operates in a manner reminiscent of history's tyrants. Here are 10 areas that come readily to mind. More >>
So-Called "Liberal" Answers His Death Threats
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 10:11 am | Sherwood Ross
According to my fan mail, it appears Sean Hannity criticized my essay on the Blacksburg massacre picked up on several blogs and his listeners somehow got my e-mail address. I have long wondered who Hannity's fans are, and at last I had the chance to find ... More >>
Pakistan Army Suffered 700 Killed Against Taliban
Monday, 23 April 2007, 8:42 pm | Sherwood Ross
Pakistan’s army suffered losses of 700 killed in its unsuccessful effort to push Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan out of their tribal sanctuaries in Pakistan, an Islamabad-based journalist reports. That defeat may explain Islamabad’s ... More >>
VTech As A Glimpse Of What America Means In Iraq
Thursday, 19 April 2007, 10:34 am | Sherwood Ross
At the memorial ceremony for those slain at Virginia Tech, President Bush said today he did not know what the victims had done to deserve their fate. How this nation wept as one when thirty innocent Americans perished and twenty more were wounded! ... More >>
