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ACLU Report Warns Public about “Private” Prisons
Monday, 14 November 2011, 5:37 pm | Sherwood Ross
The latest report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is not likely to inspire politicians to shut down our private prisons when prison operators are pouring millions of dollars into their campaign coffers. More >>
We Brought Fukushima Disaster On Ourselves, Murakami Asserts
Monday, 14 November 2011, 2:54 pm | Sherwood Ross
Terming Fukushima Japan's "second massive nuclear disaster," novelist Haruki Murakami said "this time no one dropped a bomb on us" but instead "we set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own ... More >>
10 Million American Families Sliding Toward Foreclosure
Monday, 14 November 2011, 1:50 pm | Sherwood Ross
Of the 55-million families with mortgages, 10.4-million of them “are sliding toward failure and foreclosure”---a tragedy that will depress the U.S. housing market for years to come, a result of too many houses for sale and too few buyers. More >>
Cuba Undergoing Silent Transition Toward Free Market Economy
Monday, 31 October 2011, 11:07 am | Sherwood Ross
Cuba is undergoing a “silent transition” from socialism to a mixed economy but the U.S. hasn’t responded with diplomatic initiatives, an authority on Latin American affairs writes. More >>
U.S. Can Demand Arbitration Over Alleged Iranian Plot
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 11:23 am | Sherwood Ross
“If the Obama administration truly believes it has credible evidence that Iran was behind this alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi diplomat on the streets of Washington D.C., then it must invoke the Protection of Diplomats Convention(PDC) ... More >>
New 9/11 Investigation May Be In the Offing
Monday, 10 October 2011, 5:06 pm | Sherwood Ross
Ten years have gone by since the terrible attacks on New York City and the Pentagon yet there is no closure on what happened on “9/11” and who was behind it. An initiative led by former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, a Democrat, will be on the Massachusetts ... More >>
Bush’s Actions in Middle East Typified Past American Policy
Monday, 10 October 2011, 3:44 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Bush’s “preventive war” strategy in the Middle East not only “comported with what most Americans believed to be desirable at the time” but followed a bipartisan American tradition in such actions, historian Melvyn Leffler writes in the current ... More >>
Obama Double-Crosses the Environmentalists
Monday, 3 October 2011, 2:45 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Obama’s betrayal of the environmental protection movement could cause him to lose his activist base and ruin his bid for re-election next year. That’s the editorial opinion of “The Nation” magazine in its October 3rd issue and there’s ... More >>
College Textbooks "Obscenely Overpriced" and Inaccurate
Monday, 3 October 2011, 11:34 am | Sherwood Ross
College history students today are required to buy “obscenely overpriced” textbooks that are “a vapid stew of half-truths and hilarious factual errors dumbed down to whatever reading level is desired,” the dean of a new history college says. More >>
Assassinations of Al Qaeda Leaders Keep Americans in Dark
Monday, 3 October 2011, 9:37 am | Sherwood Ross
It is hardly surprising that President Obama ordered the assassinations of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki since the last thing he wants is to bring any leader of al-Qaeda to trial. If the U.S. wanted bin Laden to have his day in court it might ... More >>
Obama’s Re-Election Chances May Be Fading, and So What?
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 3:05 pm | Sherwood Ross
Unless President Obama breathes life into a massive New Deal-type jobs and reconstruction effort that is visible, that can be seen by, and that helps, millions, and unless he does it now, and not in some vague Tomorrow, his chances for re-election, will ... More >>
Why America Needs to Dismantle Its "Security" Apparatus
Monday, 19 September 2011, 1:42 pm | Sherwood Ross
The best way for America to become more secure may well be to dismantle its vast security apparatus. This means eliminating the Department of Homeland Security, closing down our 800 military bases on foreign soil, and slashing armaments spending by the ... More >>
Americans Ignore Ike’s Warning At Their Peril
Monday, 19 September 2011, 1:34 pm | Sherwood Ross
David Eisenhower, grandson of the president who warned Americans of a “military-industrial complex(MIC) 50 years ago, says in an essay this month that that coalition today “retains significant influence...” Yes, indeedy! In fact, when the Pentagon gets ... More >>
Pentagon Budget Cuts Said To Be “Illusory”
Friday, 16 September 2011, 3:59 pm | Sherwood Ross
The $178 billion in cuts the Pentagon has proposed in its own budget “are largely illusory,” according to a report in the September 5th issue of “Bloomberg Business Week”(BBW) magazine. More >>
Was President Bush Complicit In 9/11?
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, 5:32 pm | Sherwood Ross
Was President George W. Bush complicit in the 9/11 attacks? That’s a question that will not go away on this 10th anniversary of those terrible events. If many people continue to wonder about it, perhaps it’s because the Bush regime did not ... More >>
“I Want Another Adventure,” Retiring Judge Gertner Says
Monday, 12 September 2011, 11:55 am | Sherwood Ross
The federal judge who socked the FBI with a bill for damages totaling $101.7-million for railroading five men to prison where they spent 20 years for a murder they didn’t commit has retired from the bench and looking about for new challenges. “I have ... More >>
Pentagon allows Near Slavery Conditions for Foreign Workers
Friday, 2 September 2011, 11:52 am | Sherwood Ross
Many of the 70,000 “third country national”(TCN) service workers employed in Afghanistan and Iraq “recount having been robbed of wages, injured without compensation, subjected to sexual assault, and held in conditions resembling indentured servitude ... More >>
Obama Widening War in Somalia
Monday, 29 August 2011, 5:52 pm | Sherwood Ross
Led by the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) the U.S. is stepping up its war in Somalia, The Nation magazine reports. “The CIA presence in (the capital) Mogadishu is part of Washington’s intensifying counter-terrorism focus on Somalia, which includes ... More >>
Look Out, World, If Rick Perry Wins!
Tuesday, 16 August 2011, 4:06 pm | Sherwood Ross
The news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is seeking the Republican presidential nomination may well send a tremor through the Muslim world. That's because Perry, an evangelical Christian who would make a formidable candidate, appears to actually believe the ... More >>
Well-to-do Americans Getting More Benefits than the Poor
Monday, 8 August 2011, 1:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
All the Federal welfare checks, food stamps, and unemployment benefits don’t begin to add up to the more than $1-trillion in indirect tax breaks awarded annually to America’s middle- and upper-classes. More >>
