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Tale of Mutual Jealousy And Respect
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 11:02 am | Sherwood Ross
Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics and Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers , two pro basketball rivals who rank among the highest scorers ever, developed over the course of their careers a solid friendship based on mutual respect that trumped their ... More >>
How Minorities, Poor, Are Kept Out of Law School
Friday, 18 February 2011, 2:30 pm | Sherwood Ross
If law school enrollment today is made up largely of the white and the wealthy, it is because the American Bar Association, the chief accreditor of the nation’s law schools, has designed the rules that produce this outcome. It’s not that minorities ... More >>
CIA & Pentagon Knew Interrogation Methods Were “Torture”
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 2:43 pm | Sherwood Ross
The CIA and Pentagon used “enhanced interrogation techniques”(EIT) on Middle East prisoners knowing they were illegal and considered to be torture by the United Nations, according to an article published in the January issue of the American magazine ... More >>
Nations Should Consider Responding Non-Violently
Saturday, 12 February 2011, 7:46 pm | Sherwood Ross
People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. In response to the menace of the U.S. military-industrial complex, non-violent soul force needs to be considered ... More >>
College Athletes Suffer Most From Today's Commercialism
Friday, 4 February 2011, 11:32 am | Sherwood Ross
Was there ever a “Golden Age” of intercollegiate sports? Many Americans believe that before the era of Big Time Football, pro baseball and NBA Basketball, going back to the mid-Nineteenth Century, there was a time when collegians competed only ... More >>
AARP's “the Magazine” Plays Softball in the Bush League
Monday, 17 January 2011, 10:34 am | Sherwood Ross
In what must rank as one of the most incredible magazine interviews ever published, AARP's “The Magazine,” circulation 24-million, devotes its January/February cover to a propaganda makeover in behalf of ex-president George W. Bush. More >>
Greens Defending Assange While GOP And Dems Do Nothing
Friday, 10 December 2010, 1:17 pm | Sherwood Ross
The sell-out by rank-and-file Democrats in Congress that will allow the Bush tax exemptions for the wealthy to continue, as President Obama wishes, is indicative of the utter abandonment of the liberal ethos that characterized Democratic office ... More >>
Assange is Headed for Prosecution For Publishing the Truth
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 10:30 am | Sherwood Ross
Maybe because he's from Australia, a U.S. satrap on the far rim of the American Empire, that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange doesn't know that Washington does not allow anyone to steal information unless it orders them to do so. Attorney General Eric ... More >>
Why Poverty Spreads Across America
Monday, 29 November 2010, 3:21 pm | Sherwood Ross
Pockets of poverty, like the sores of some malignant disease, are spreading across America, as its states and cities go broke and bankrupt. “Camden, New Jersey, stands as a warning of what huge pockets of America could turn into,” The /Nation/ magazine ... More >>
Why Poverty Spreads Across America
Sunday, 28 November 2010, 12:20 pm | Sherwood Ross
Pockets of poverty, like the sores of some malignant disease, are spreading across America, as its states and cities go broke and bankrupt. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Women's Basketball Comes of Age
Friday, 26 November 2010, 11:37 am | Sherwood Ross
When Rutgers basketball star Epiphany Prince skipped her 2009 senior year to play professionally in Europe, her defection made headlines. The New York /Daily News/pointed out she became “the first American woman to leave school early and play professionally ... More >>
Philosophy That Haunts the Memory of Pearl Harbour
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 2:08 pm | Sherwood Ross
When Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th , 1941, he was only following the misguided philosophy of an American commodore (admiral) who lived a century earlier. This is not to excuse the crime of the day President ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: On the Amazing Strides of American Women
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 9:55 am | Sherwood Ross
That we take the concept of full equality for women today for granted shows how far women have progressed when only 50 years ago they constituted America's largest untapped human resource; when only 6% of all doctors, 3% of all lawyers, and fewer than 1% ... More >>
Pushing Back the Date to Exit Afghanistan
Monday, 22 November 2010, 2:21 pm | Sherwood Ross
The disclosure by McClatchy News Service Nov. 9th that President Barack Obama is “walking away” from his pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan in July, 2011, comes as no surprise. The Pentagon's tactics seem hardly designed ... More >>
Non-Violent Response Urged to Oppose U.S. Aggression
Saturday, 20 November 2010, 10:16 am | Sherwood Ross
People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Iraqis---hundreds of thousands dead and a nation in ruins. More >>
Sherwood Ross: Cervical Cancer Can Be Prevented
Friday, 19 November 2010, 10:25 am | Sherwood Ross
While one of the singular achievements of American medicine in recent years has been to reduce the largely preventable incidence of cervical cancer, 13,000 women nevertheless will come down with it this year mainly because they have not had a Pap smear to ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Global Warming Coming on Rapidly
Thursday, 18 November 2010, 12:15 pm | Sherwood Ross
“*By overwhelming consensus, the scientific community agrees that climate change is real. Greenhouse gases have increased markedly as a result of human activities and now far exceed pre-industrial values.”* More >>
Affirmative Action Brought Willie Mays to Giants
Saturday, 13 November 2010, 2:09 pm | Sherwood Ross
Willie Mays, thought by many baseball writers to be the greatest player who ever wore spikes, was passed up by three major league clubs due to outright racial prejudice or to quota systems that limited them to just one Negro star. Perhaps there is no ... More >>
Young Lawyers Enter Profession to help Underdogs
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 3:36 pm | Sherwood Ross
While the public may generally believe lawyers have chosen their profession “for the money,” in fact many pick law as a career from a burning desire to help the underdog. “Just like Superman and Batman they come to the rescue of people in great ... More >>
U.S., Iraqi Regime Bust Labor Unions In Iraq
Monday, 18 October 2010, 4:54 pm | Sherwood Ross
It is only in comic books and Hollywood movies that America's superheroes exist to defend the underdog. In practice, the armies of America have fanned out around the globe to show they are the willing servants of the corporate overdog. As Noam ... More >>
