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U.S. May Have Played Role In Jamaica‘s 2010 Massacre
Sunday, 29 January 2012, 1:18 pm | Sherwood Ross
To what extent, if any, did the U.S. Department of Homeland Security(DHS) participate in the slaughter of scores of Kingston, Jamaica’s, Tivoli Gardens residents on May 24th, 2010? More >>
Western Oil Firms Big Winners in Iraq
Wednesday, 18 January 2012, 3:37 pm | Sherwood Ross
Western oil producers have emerged as the big winners of the Iraq war. “Prior to the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq US and other western oil companies were all but completely shut out of Iraq’s oil market,” industry analyst Antonia Juhasz ... More >>
CIA Spy Conviction Gives Iran Chance to Boost Relations
Thursday, 12 January 2012, 5:54 pm | Sherwood Ross
Iran has a creative opportunity to slow the cycle of deteriorating relations with the U.S. by reconsidering the death sentence of a former Marine it just convicted as a CIA spy. More >>
Americans Ignored NDAA Precedents At Their Peril
Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 6:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
“I believe,” warned James Madison in a speech to the Virginia Convention on June 16, 1788, “there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden ... More >>
U.S. Obligated to Arbitrate Dispute with Iran
Sunday, 8 January 2012, 3:24 pm | Sherwood Ross
It may come as a surprise to Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum but the U.S. is obligated under international law to the peaceful resolution of its grievance against Iran. More >>
“Game Over” For Planet If Xl Oil Pipeline Is Built
Friday, 6 January 2012, 10:17 am | Sherwood Ross
One of America’s foremost climate scientists says that if the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is built to tap the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, the impact on the Earth’s climate will be devastating. More >>
America's Welfare "Reform" Laws Deepening Poverty
Friday, 30 December 2011, 3:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
The tougher welfare laws instituted by President Bill Clinton with great fanfare have only worked to keep the poor poverty-stricken longer, a former welfare mother who knows the story from the inside, contends. More >>
Advocates of war with Iran take heavy media hits
Tuesday, 27 December 2011, 3:32 pm | Sherwood Ross
Advocates of a hot war with Iran have just taken some heavy hits from a Harvard professor of international relations and two prominent journalists. More >>
Sound Precaution To Ban Gas “Fracking”
Sunday, 25 December 2011, 10:13 pm | Sherwood Ross
ExxonMobil Chairman/CEO Rex Tillerson sounded very confident when he told a congressional hearing last year that extracting natural gas by the “hydraulically fractured” process has not led to even one “reported case of a freshwater aquifer having ever ... More >>
An open letter of apology to President Obama
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 11:43 am | Sherwood Ross
Dear DEAR President Obama, Now that you have signed the National Defense Appropriation Act into law giving yourself the power to arrest and imprison any American indefinitely, I want to tell you how very very very very sorry I am for all those nasty things ... More >>
U.S. Held “Losing The Battle” Against IEDs In Afghanistan
Wednesday, 21 December 2011, 11:31 am | Sherwood Ross
Even though it has spent at least $60 billion to destroy them, the Pentagon is losing the battle to combat the Improvised Explosive Devices(IEDs), which have accounted for two out of every three U.S. casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Pentagon Pressure and Delayed Obama Apology
Monday, 19 December 2011, 10:25 am | Sherwood Ross
Reportedly, under pressure from the Pentagon, President Obama “hesitated for more than a week” before he phoned Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari “to provide a qualified apology” for the November 26th killings by U.S. aircraft and artillery ... More >>
Human Activity Driving Extremes of Weather
Sunday, 11 December 2011, 12:34 pm | Sherwood Ross
“Human activity has driven not just global warming but also increases in some extreme weather and climate events around the world,” the American magazine, “Science,” reports in its Nov 25th issue. “It is likely that” human influences have raised ... More >>
Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill Of Rights
Friday, 9 December 2011, 5:16 pm | Sherwood Ross
The grim face of totalitarianism is emerging in the National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA) now before Congress. This bill is the last mile post on America’s sad, well-traveled road to the butcher shop of dictatorship. More >>
25m U.S Unemployed/Underemployed Making No Effective Protest
Monday, 28 November 2011, 10:40 am | Sherwood Ross
Although America’s 25 million unemployed and underemployed could be a powerful force for social change, they aren’t combining in any effective way to protest, an eminent business authority writes. More >>
Israeli Intransigence on Palestine Isolating Israel and U.S.
Friday, 25 November 2011, 2:25 pm | Sherwood Ross
The U.S. and Israel “now looked trapped together, weakened and dangerously isolated” during the Arab Spring over Israel’s intransigence on statehood for Palestine, an article in The New Yorker magazine observes. More >>
Veterans Praise Care at Miami VA Hospital
Monday, 21 November 2011, 2:24 pm | Sherwood Ross
Veterans treated at the Miami VA hospital rate their care as outstanding, a survey by this reporter finds. Although the sampling was small, when asked to grade the hospital on a scale of one to ten, the combined ranking was 9.2. More >>
Cutting Navy Defense Budget Can Begin With Officer Ratings
Monday, 21 November 2011, 2:17 pm | Sherwood Ross
There’s been much talk about how to cut the military budget. Here are some suggestions from a retired U.S. Navy captain who is now Dean of the new American College of History and Legal Studies, in Salem, New Hampshire. More >>
Few Guantanamo Prisoners Ever Get Their Day in Court
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 1:40 pm | Sherwood Ross
Far from issuing the executive order he promised to shut down the prison at Guantanamo, President Obama is keeping virtually all of its prisoners confined in limbo without trials. More >>
Ahmadinejad Hinting at Non-Violent Reply if Israel Attacks?
Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:49 pm | Sherwood Ross
If Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinces his cabinet to okay an attack Iran’s nuclear sites, Israel may suffer a diplomatic disaster. Never mind that Netanyahu’s own top military and intelligence advisers are said to oppose the scheme. Never mind ... More >>
