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Student Gets Brucella During Bioweapons Experiment
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 11:33 am | Sherwood Ross
Texas A&M University failed to report in a timely manner to Federal authorities that a biology student was stricken with the dangerous brucella pathogen in its College Station laboratory for bioweapons agent research on February 9th of 2006. The university ... More >>
Rape Of Iraqi Women Byproduct Of Militarism
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 3:42 pm | Sherwood Ross
Those who seek to discourage young men from enlisting in the military might want to remind them that, in addition to possibly getting killed, they are even more likely to be forced to endure long periods without getting laid. More >>
Bush Spreads Guantanamo Gangrene Around World
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:41 am | Sherwood Ross
Jumah Al Dossari has been rotting in Guatanamo for five years now without ever having been charged of an offense. The prisoner believes “he has been condemned to live forever on an island where there is no law,” his lawyer says, adding, “He may ... More >>
Pentagon Cheats Iraqi Veterans Out Of Medical Care
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:27 pm | Sherwood Ross
Over the past six years, some 22,500 soldiers have been discharged on grounds of “personality disorder” --- a condition that can be alleged to have existed prior to their tour of duty --- thus absolving the Pentagon of its obligation to provide ... More >>
Bush’s Crimes in Baghdad Have Parallel in US, UK
Monday, 12 March 2007, 9:16 am | Sherwood Ross
What’s left of what passes for law in America is eroding rapidly. The latest scandal in Totalitarianville is the admission by Robert S. Mueller III March 9th his FBI had improperly used the Patriot Act to spy on individuals and businesses. More >>
Unlike Hitler, Bush Gives Appearance Of Sanity
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 6:30 pm | Sherwood Ross
"I believe in the universality of freedom," George Bush told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington recently, "and I believe that this country, this grand country of ours, has an obligation to help people realize the blessings ... More >>
Bush Praised Walter Reed Hosp. 4 Yrs Ago In Visit
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:33 pm | Sherwood Ross
Yesterday (March 1), Walter Reed hospital director Major General George Weightman got canned. Army Secretary Francis Harvey said he lost "trust and confidence" in his ability to make improvements. Yet Weightman may be only a human sacrifice to ... More >>
U.S. Has Arrested More Than 500 Iranians In Iraq
Monday, 5 March 2007, 1:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Cold War between the U.S. and Iran is heating up. U.S. military and special-operations teams "have escalated their activities in Iran to gather intelligence" and reportedly "have also crossed the border in pursuit of Iranian operatives from Iraq," according ... More >>
Army Told Fox TV "24" Promotes Use Of Torture
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 9:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
After interrogators began torturing Iraqi prisoners using methods they saw on Fox TV's popular "24", Army's Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan warned the producers "24" is negatively impacting the training and performance of American troops. More >>
Bush's Threats Against Iran Pushing Up Oil Prices
Friday, 23 February 2007, 9:43 am | Sherwood Ross
President Bush's tough talk with Iran, like his rhetoric prior to invading Iraq, is racheting up oil prices around the world and picking the pockets of American motorists. More >>
The Hardware King Himself Blasts Quds Force
Thursday, 22 February 2007, 1:42 pm | Sherwood Ross
Even if he's not lying this time, President Bush's outrage over Iran's Quds Force supplying armor-piercing weapons to Iraq's "insurgents" rings hollow coming from the world's Number One Merchant of Death. More >>
Bush Can't Spin Way Out Of Hellish Iraq
Monday, 12 February 2007, 7:59 am | Sherwood Ross
President Bush blaming the press for exaggerating conditions in Iraq is like the Devil accusing Dante of defamation for writing "The Inferno." More >>
Sherwood Ross: New Fort Detrick "Biodefense" Lab.
Sunday, 11 February 2007, 9:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
Although no foreign power has threatened a bioterror attack against America, since 9/11 the Bush administration has allocated a stunning $43-billion to "defend" against one. Critics are now saying, however, Bush's newest "biodefense" initiative is both ... More >>
Americans May Have To March On Washington
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | Sherwood Ross
Even though Democrats rolled up a 7-million vote victory margin Nov. 7th in protest of the war in Iraq, President Bush's intransigent response January 10th was to call for the escalation of U.S. troops rather than for their withdrawal. Senator Christopher ... More >>
Can Hugo Chavez Beat The Devil?
Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:56 am | Sherwood Ross
After Venezuela's Hugo Chavez told the United Nations he could smell the sulphur in the chamber where President Bush spoke the previous day, some angry Bostonians wanted to pull down the big CITGO neon sign in Kenmore Square, since CITGO oil is ... More >>
Sun, Wind & Tidal Power Obviate Nuke Plant Need
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 11:41 am | Sherwood Ross
Although the nuclear power lobby claims "we need all energy options," there is no need for the atomic choice when so many safe, renewable, alternatives are becoming economically feasible. More >>
Companies Refusing To Reveal Biotech Research
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 12:42 am | Sherwood Ross
Some 113 university, government, hospital and corporate laboratories engaged in research often with potential to be used for germ warfare have refused to disclose their operations to the public as required by Federal rules, a nonprofit watchdog agency has charged. More >>
Nuclear Power Not Clean, Green or Safe
Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 10:44 am | Sherwood Ross
In all the annals of spin, few statements are as misleading as Vice President Cheney's that the nuclear industry operates "efficiently, safely, and with no discharge of greenhouse gases or emissions," or President Bush's claim America's 103 nuclear plants ... More >>
Who Says The Devil Has To Live Underground?
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
Former President Jimmy Carter says by “rejecting or evading almost all nuclear arms control agreements negotiated during the past 50 years, the United States has now become the prime culprit in global nuclear proliferation.” More >>
Developing Illegal Offensive Use Bioterror Weapons
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 4:22 pm | Sherwood Ross
In violation of the U.S. Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2-billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic ... More >>
