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Obama Talks Afghan Drawdown; But What about Rest of World?
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 1:56 pm | Sherwood Ross
President Obama may claim he's got to go slow in drawing down U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan but what's his excuse for keeping open 268 U.S. bases in Germany? Is he expecting an attack by the Red Army? There are folks living well on those 268 ... More >>
Obama Not Likely To Call for Major Afghan Drawdown
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 5:29 pm | Sherwood Ross
Four cheers for the U.S. Conference of Mayors! It has just voted up a resolution calling on Washington to transfer $126-billion in annual spending from its Middle East wars to America's cities! This vote represents an historic, antiwar breakthrough, ... More >>
U.S. Conference of Mayors May Vote Monday vs. Wars
Monday, 20 June 2011, 5:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
Not that the White House will listen, but the U.S. Conference of Mayors tomorrow(Monday, June 20th) may actually conclude its proceedings in Baltimore with an historic vote affirming a resolution to spend at home the $125-billion now being lavished annually ... More >>
Secret Wars of CIA Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions of Dollars
Friday, 10 June 2011, 11:41 am | Sherwood Ross
It's been estimated the Iraq war, besides making that country pretty much unlivable, will flush $3 trillion in U.S. taxpayer dollars down the Pentagon drain. Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz, who made that cost estimate, wrote with co-author Linda ... More >>
Secret Wars of CIA Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions of Dollars
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 1:40 pm | Sherwood Ross
It's been estimated the Iraq war, besides making that country pretty much unlivable, will flush $3 trillion in U.S. taxpayer dollars down the Pentagon drain. Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz, who made that cost estimate, wrote with co-author Linda ... More >>
California Prisons Typify the Incarceration Society
Friday, 27 May 2011, 1:31 pm | Sherwood Ross
Monday's Supreme Court decision ordering California to reduce its overcrowded prisons by 30,000 inmates is as welcome as a ray of sunlight streaming through prison bars. State officials have known for decades of the horrific, if not criminal, neglect ... More >>
Ron Paul Would Defy Government If It Conflicted with Conscie
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 12:34 pm | Sherwood Ross
Oft-mentioned Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul of Texas says in a published interview that he would refuse to serve his country as a medical officer in the Middle East as he did during the Viet Nam war. More >>
Depression, Not Recession, Rocks U.S. Ghettos
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 2:06 pm | Sherwood Ross
In case you didn't know it, what's called a “recession” in White America is called a “depression” in Black America. During much of last year white unemployment held steady at around 8.8 percent. Down the block, though, it was about 12 per cent ... More >>
Americans' Ignorance Of Own History Cripples Foreign Policy
Friday, 20 May 2011, 12:10 pm | Sherwood Ross
Americans are so woefully ignorant of their own history that they cannot apply the lessons of the past to guide their foreign policy, the Dean of America's only college of history says. More >>
Many Lawyers Lack Practical Education
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 1:56 pm | Sherwood Ross
(Special) ---If your lawyer has let you down, if he or she has flubbed your case, it may be because most law schools never offer the practical courses lawyers’ need to succeed. More >>
Gitmo Proceedings Will Be “Stalinist Show Trials”
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 12:54 pm | Sherwood Ross
The future trials planned for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be “Stalinist show trials” as their preliminary proceedings “have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice,” a distinguished international law authority ... More >>
U.S. Government Looting Social Security To Wage Wars
Monday, 11 April 2011, 12:28 pm | Sherwood Ross
“As long as the $1.2-trillion annual budget for the military-security complex is off limits (to cutting), nothing can be done about the US budget deficit except to renege on obligations to the elderly, confiscate private assets or print enough money ... More >>
Cuts in Pentagon Spending Possible, Authorities Say
Monday, 11 April 2011, 12:25 pm | Sherwood Ross
Americans can begin to hope that the current recession, coupled with the politics of debt reduction in Washington, may yet result in cuts in that runaway Pentagon budget, The Nation magazine says in its April 11th issue. More >>
Behind Those March Unemployment Figures
Monday, 4 April 2011, 3:34 pm | Sherwood Ross
Although 230,000 new private sector jobs were added to the work force last month---pushing down the unemployment rate to 8.8%----nearly 14-million Americans remain jobless and millions more among the long-term unemployed have dropped out of the statistics ... More >>
U.S. Sets Up Special Prisons For Muslim/Arab Prisoners
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 3:51 pm | Sherwood Ross
If you think the U.S. Bureau of Prisons(BOP) couldn't possibly make its prisons more inhumane no matter how hard it tried, you are wrong. It has created CMUs, or Communications Management Units, where the “management” part consists of denying inmates virtually ... More >>
Should Law Schools Follow the Medical School Teaching Model?
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 12:12 pm | Sherwood Ross
The outstanding record compiled by the trial advocacy teams of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover(MSLAW) in recent years is directly attributable to the school's innovative teaching methods, the team's coaches believe. Otherwise, how explain the ... More >>
News of Korean War Suffering Was Distorted And Suppressed
Monday, 21 March 2011, 6:48 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Korean War, a.k.a. the “Unknown War,” was, in fact, headline news at the time it was being fought(1950-53). Given the Cold War hatreds of the combatants, though, a great deal of the reportage was propaganda, and much of what should have ... More >>
President Obama Bullies PFC Manning
Monday, 21 March 2011, 10:59 am | Sherwood Ross
“If there's one goal of this conference (on bullying),” President Obama told those gathered recently at the White House, “it's to dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It's not.” ... More >>
Warnings of Nuclear Plant Dangers Dismissed by Authorities
Tuesday, 15 March 2011, 11:25 am | Sherwood Ross
A radioactive plume escaping from a nuclear-powered generating plant...could “march across the countryside like the angel of death,” author Howard Morland warned in the October, 1979, issue of Harper's magazine. Given the earthquake-triggered calamities ... More >>
Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Soviets' under Stalin
Thursday, 10 March 2011, 10:40 am | Sherwood Ross
The United States of America is in the process of slowly and deliberately destroying a human being before the eyes of the world. All of President Obama's posturing about the conduct of dictator Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya will not expunge his ... More >>
