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Losing An Information War Against Muslim Jihadists
Friday, 15 December 2006, 10:39 am | Sherwood Ross
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The Army and Marine Corps tomorrow (Dec. 15th) will release a new counterinsurgency field manual that notes how insurgents use the media “to magnify the effects of their actions” and which suggests ways to defeat those efforts. More >>
What the U.S. Really Learned From World War II
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 2:40 pm | Sherwood Ross
Another December 7th has come and gone and Americans once again are reminded how their alleged lack of military preparedness almost led to their defeat by the Japanese and Germans. More >>
The New Crime Of Refusing To Shake GW Bush’s Hand
Wednesday, 6 December 2006, 4:11 pm | Sherwood Ross
Columnist George Will has found senator-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) guilty of “careless and absurd assertions,” for writing the wealth gap between rich and poor is “the least debated issue” in American politics. But if you think, (and I don’t) what ... More >>
Critical Thinking By Voters Burst Neocon Bubble
Friday, 1 December 2006, 3:50 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Democrats got their 7-million vote victory majority November 7th and regained control of Congress in good part from educated voters who think for themselves. More >>
Armenians Could Haunt Turkey’s Chances To Join EU
Tuesday, 28 November 2006, 5:09 pm | Sherwood Ross
Turkey’s bid to join the European Union could suffer by its refusal to admit the genocide of its Armenian Christian population nearly a century ago. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Hanging Hussein Without Fair Trial
Monday, 27 November 2006, 6:07 pm | Sherwood Ross
Hanging deposed dictator Saddam Hussein after a seriously flawed trial, one in which he was denied due process, could provoke an apocalyptic firestorm by his followers. More >>
Bush's Reason To Back Israel’s Attack On Lebanon
Tuesday, 21 November 2006, 4:24 pm | Sherwood Ross
Condoleeza Rice shocked the world when she rejected calls for an immediate cease-fire after Israel invaded Lebanon. But her stalling may have been to give Israel the time it needed to wind up its bombing campaign against Hezbollah. More >>
Revoking The Visa Of Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan
Monday, 13 November 2006, 1:13 pm | Sherwood Ross
Revoking the visa of Swiss-Egyptian scholar Tariq Ramadan is emblematic of President Bush’s efforts to chill intellectual freedom and deny Americans their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. More >>
Thoreau, Unjust Wars, Voting, and Impeachment
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 11:44 am | Sherwood Ross
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s warning the War on Terror promises to be a long, drawn-out struggle akin to the Cold War comes from an eminent authority on war-making and must be taken with the utmost seriousness. More >>
Ross: Why Bunny Greenhouse Sits In A Corner
Monday, 30 October 2006, 11:51 am | Sherwood Ross
Bunnatine Greenhouse sits in a cubicle in a far corner of an office in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers(USACE) headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C., where, she says, “I am treated like a non-person.” Months crawl by yet her immediate supervisor ... More >>
Bush Giving Up On Reconstructing Iraq
Thursday, 26 October 2006, 12:30 am | Sherwood Ross
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Four months after U.S. forces rolled into Baghdad, President George Bush declared his goal would be nothing less than to convert Iraq’s infrastructure into “the best in the region” ---yet U.S. contractors today are readying to depart ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Fear of Tyranny Sweeping America
Tuesday, 17 October 2006, 2:51 pm | Sherwood Ross
Fear for their own personal security, so typical of a nation whose leaders are grasping for absolute power, has begun to grip broad segments of the American people. More >>
Israel Starves Palestinians Into Submission
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 11:18 am | Sherwood Ross
Many Americans haven’t the foggiest idea about why their country is reviled and attacked by Muslim militants. They won’t get it from President Bush, either, who has floated the absurd canard al Qaeda attacked New York and Washington on 9/11 because ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: World Slum Population To Double
Tuesday, 10 October 2006, 1:15 pm | Sherwood Ross
The world’s exploding slum population is expected to double to two billion souls within a generation --- a festering sore that traces back to the British Empire as well as to the post-World War II policies of the International Monetary Fund and ... More >>
Blueprint For American Withdrawal From Iraq
Friday, 29 September 2006, 10:31 am | Sherwood Ross
American and British troops in Iraq could be replaced over a phased, six-month period starting next January by a force of 15,000 men drawn from Arab or Muslim countries and paid for by the United States, former Democratic presidential nominee George ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: George Bush vs. Gospel of Matthew
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:22 am | Sherwood Ross
According to the gospel of Matthew, it came to pass that Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, “ Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought against you? ” for even in those days of rudimentary justice a man had the right to hear the charges of his ... More >>
TFAs, The Food Industry’s “Trojan Horse”
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:15 am | Sherwood Ross
If you’re thinking about a useful holiday gift for a teenager, for $6.99 you can give the invaluable “Trans Fats: the Hidden Killer in Our Food,”(Pocket Books) by Judith Shaw, whose no-holds-barred introduction begins, “This is the story of ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Quitting Iraq With Honor Impossible
Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:25 pm | Sherwood Ross
WASHINGTON, D.C. --- All America, including much of its military, is talking about how to “get out” of Iraq, and the sooner the better, as the daily killings soar and the fighting becomes increasingly vicious. There’s no talk now of the Pentagon ... More >>
How USA Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 12:31 am | Sherwood Ross
When Adolph Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, the slaughter of civilians was broadly condemned in Great Britain and the United States. Winston Churchill, England's wartime Prime Minister, wrote in "The Gathering ... More >>
FBI Agents - US Using Wrong Interrogation Methods
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:07 am | Sherwood Ross
FBI agents responsible for getting a confidant of Osama Bin Laden to betray Al Qaeda's innermost secrets say the Bush administration's rough interrogation tactics employed against other captives since 9/11 are the wrong approach. More >>
