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Owners Face Tough Choices: Concerning Their Pets
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 4:09 pm | Sherwood Ross
*As more Americans share their beds with their dogs, they are becoming less willing to accept the verdict of the veterinarian who says, “I've done all I can” when pets become terminally ill. There are owners “so caught up in their animal's pain, ... More >>
Threatening Iran With Nuclear War is "Criminal"
Monday, 11 October 2010, 3:20 pm | Sherwood Ross
The U.S. today is threatening to attack Iran “under the completely bogus pretext” that it might have a nuclear weapon, a distinguished American international legal authority says. When Obama administration officials, like those of the Bush regime ... More >>
Loss of Liberal Base & Youth Could Cost Democrats
Tuesday, 7 September 2010, 7:19 pm | Sherwood Ross
By turning off much of his party's key liberal support, President Obama has jeopardized the re-election chances even of some Democratic incumbents whose seats had been considered safe. If the liberal base stays home in November, the Obama program's lifespan will ... More >>
Obama and His Family Tied to CIA for Years
Friday, 3 September 2010, 10:59 am | Sherwood Ross
President Obama---as well as his mother, father, step-father and grandmother---all were connected to the Central Intelligence Agency---possibly explaining why the President praises the “Agency” and declines to prosecute its officials for their crimes. More >>
Raising A Child With Asperger’s Syndrome
Sunday, 22 August 2010, 7:56 pm | Sherwood Ross
To many women, being the wife of an All-Star major league pitcher may seem like a dream existence. Behind her celebrity husband’s glamorous network TV appearances on the diamond and the sports page headlines, though, a baseball wife must grapple ... More >>
College Football Deprives Athletes of an Education
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 10:36 am | Sherwood Ross
The transformation of varsity college football programs into unabashed commercial ventures has come at the academic expense of their players, only about half of whom are graduating. Indeed, pressures on the varsity team performers in today’s Big ... More >>
The “Watchdog” That Didn’t Bark Or Bite
Saturday, 7 August 2010, 2:57 pm | Sherwood Ross
Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the greatest Wall Street swindle ever was that despite repeated warnings from many different sources the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) over a period of 16 years refused to conduct a diligent probe into ... More >>
Book Suggests Torture by U.S. Was Widespread
Saturday, 31 July 2010, 12:26 pm | Sherwood Ross
Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor ... More >>
End Middle East Wars To Spur Economy
Friday, 30 July 2010, 2:04 pm | Sherwood Ross
The solution to our fiscal crisis, The Nation magazine editorializes, is to “end the wars, allow the tax cuts to expire and restore robust growth.” That’s because nearly the entire deficit this year and those projected at least for the short term ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Boxing Great Sugar Ray Robinson
Monday, 26 July 2010, 1:23 pm | Sherwood Ross
Sugar Ray Robinson, ranked by the Associated Press as the greatest boxer of the 20th Century, also exhibited a caring and compassionate nature that matched his talent. According to a new biography, Robinson would whisper to an opponent he was clobbering, ... More >>
The CIA: Beyond Redemption & Should be Terminated
Monday, 26 July 2010, 1:08 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of ... More >>
Pentagon's Robot Warfare: An Ominous Development
Monday, 19 July 2010, 3:06 pm | Sherwood Ross
The Pentagon is rapidly improving its ability to fight wars with robots. This capability is “bringing about the most profound transformation of warfare since the advent of the atom bomb,” says Scientific American , and raises “a host of ethical and ... More >>
What Tea Party Activists Owe Liberals
Friday, 16 July 2010, 6:16 pm | Sherwood Ross
Tea Party activists may put up as many billboards as they like accusing President Obama of “socialism” and comparing him to Hitler but the fact is the only people Obama successfully bailed out so far are the big bankers and, as economist Dean Baker ... More >>
U.S. Doctors Approved Torture And Denied Medicine
Monday, 5 July 2010, 2:01 pm | Sherwood Ross
American doctors in the Middle East routinely approved the torture of captured suspects and denied them critical medications such as insulin, sometimes with lethal consequences, according to a documented report published in the “Utne Reader.” More >>
Sherwood Ross: Cowardice, American Style
Friday, 2 July 2010, 1:20 pm | Sherwood Ross
Too little has been written about the cowardice of CIA and Pentagon torturers and even less about the stoic courage of their victims. Irrespective of what they might have done, there can be no question that those suffering illegal and criminal tortures ... More >>
USA: Acronym for United States of Assassinations?
Monday, 7 June 2010, 6:15 pm | Sherwood Ross
What the United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings would like is for countries that employ surprise drone attacks to first prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects. The investigator, Philip Alston, issued ... More >>
Soviet Archives Provide Insight Into Stalin’s Mind
Monday, 7 June 2010, 3:37 pm | Sherwood Ross
Historians today are only coming to understand the complex and sophisticated individual that was Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia for nearly thirty years until his death in 1953. Much of the information shedding light on the character of the dictator ... More >>
Plight of Black Poor Continues to Worsen
Monday, 31 May 2010, 10:59 am | Sherwood Ross
“The conditions now, in my view, are unquestionably worse in the inner cities,” attorney and civil rights stalwart David Ginsburg told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . “Education is worse. Housing is worse. Unemployment is worse. We now have a drug ... More >>
Sherwood Ross: Pentagon Contractor Profits Rise
Monday, 24 May 2010, 12:53 pm | Sherwood Ross
The fighting in Afghanistan this week has resulted in the deaths of Canadian Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, of Oakville, Ontario, and U.S. Colonel John McHugh, 46, of W. Caldwell, New Jersey. It also claimed the lives of Lieutenant Colonels Paul Bartz, 43, of Waterloo, ... More >>
Priority given to bioweapons research
Tuesday, 4 May 2010, 5:45 pm | Sherwood Ross
The priorities of the National Institutes of Health(NIH) in the area of bacteriology have been “catastrophically re-ordered” by emphasizing bioweapons research over non-bioweapons research, a prominent authority states. More >>
