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U.S. Shows Many Characteristics Of Global Bully
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 11:35 am | Sherwood Ross
We Americans like to think of our country as a democracy when, tragically, sadly, it has become a tyranny. Just because we enjoy the right to vote and speak freely does not mean we are not trampling the liberties of other nations. Webster’s New ... More >>
Iraqis Who Sweated Hussein Are Leaving Under Bush
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 11:35 am | Sherwood Ross
It’s not easy to create a situation where life is better under a dictatorship than in a democracy, but George Bush has succeeded in achieving the impossible by invading Iraq. More >>
Oil Seen As Reason For U.S. Middle East Invasions
Monday, 4 September 2006, 1:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
If you think President Bush’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are not about oil, read bestseller “The Sorrows of Empire” by Chalmers Johnson(Owl Books). More >>
US Officials Guilty Of Violating Anti-Torture Laws
Monday, 4 September 2006, 1:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
At least a score of high Bush Administration officials authorized, and hundreds of U.S. military and other government employees committed, crimes involving the torture of prisoners captured in the Middle East, published reports and legal documents indicate. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Big Tobbaco, Potheads & Poor Folks
Friday, 1 September 2006, 12:50 am | Sherwood Ross
Do the manufacturers of cigarettes go to jail for peddling their products, even though 440,000 Americans die each year from smoking them? More >>
Minorities Poor Shut Out Of High-Priced Law School
Monday, 28 August 2006, 11:36 am | Sherwood Ross
Poor and middle-income students are being shut out of the legal profession because they cannot afford to attend law schools whose tuition is kept high by costly expenditures mandated on them by the American Bar Association(ABA). More >>
Sherwood Ross: The United States of England
Monday, 28 August 2006, 12:55 am | Sherwood Ross
Why don’t we call America the United States of England? It may be a separate entity politically and geographically, but it truly carries forward the imperial spirit of the old British Empire. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Release Gitmo Prisoners Now
Friday, 25 August 2006, 10:28 pm | Sherwood Ross
Does it strike you as odd Defense Secretary Rumsfeld calls the 450 prisoners held in Guantanamo “the worst of the worst” but in four years has brought formal charges against only 10 of them? More >>
Sherwood Ross: Arbitrary Rule Comes To America
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:08 am | Sherwood Ross
Doug Thompson, the “Capitol Hill Blue” E-zine founder and a guy who has a knack for reporting events from inside the White House first, says he can’t board an airliner. He’s on a Federal “No Fly” terrorist “watch list.” Thompson recently ... More >>
What Might Tom Paine Have Said About George Bush?
Thursday, 24 August 2006, 11:02 am | Sherwood Ross
Peculiarly, a lot of what American patriot Tom Paine wrote in 1775 about the British Crown seems to apply to President Bush today. More >>
WMD, Blix & The Great American Projection Machine
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:14 am | Sherwood Ross
here is a disturbing new report out that accuses the United States of reigniting the nuclear arms race. It's from no less an authority than Sweden's Hans Blix, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and later the chief UN weapons ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Willie Sutton, Iraq & Joe Taxpayer
Wednesday, 23 August 2006, 11:12 am | Sherwood Ross
Asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” Given its rich supply of oil, Sutton would have understood the U.S./U.K. invasion of Iraq. More >>
Nuke Iran Idea Dropped At Insistence of Chiefs
Friday, 11 August 2006, 3:00 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney abandoned a plan to include “the possible use of a nuclear device” to destroy Iran’s uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz because of Pentagon opposition, investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has ... More >>
