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Sherwood Ross worked as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and contributed a regular "Workplace" column for Reuters. He has contributed to national magazines and hosted a talk show on WOL, Washington, D.C. In the Sixties he was active as public relations director for a major civil rights organization.
Friday, May 25, 2012 U.S. Today Displays Typical Fascist Characteristics (10 comments)
Ever more authorities are arriving at the conclusion that the U.S. has become, or is becoming, fascist. Alexander Cockburn is one of the latest to say the U.S. "is well on the way" to meriting that label.
Friday, May 25, 2012 Say Pentagon Spending Is Crimping U.S. Job Creation
The idea that war is good for the economy is fallacious and here two professors of economy and research tell us why. If you wonder why libraries are closing early, schools are closing down, teachers are being laid off, and highway bridges are dropping into the drink, look no further than the military-industrial complex. It's eating your lunch, breakfast, and dinner.
Monday, May 21, 2012 Ex-Marine Turned Pacifist Now One of "Hancock 33" (2 comments)
Russell Brown has got a conscience. He kept quiet about what he saw when fighting in Viet Nam but now he feels compelled to speak out, and does so, pointing out the criminality of drone warfare.
Sunday, May 13, 2012 Polls or No, Obama Could Crush Romney
If they want peace, U.S. voters in November likely will have no place to go. If the past couple of weeks are any guide, Obama has the tools and the talent to crush Romney in November.
Sunday, May 6, 2012 Little Caution Used in U.S. Drone Assassinations, Authorities Say (2 comments)
Pentagon and CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, etc., are nothing if not terrorist attacks, reflecting the sort of indiscriminate killing employed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 U.S. Contingency Plans To Attack Iran Readied in 2005
Plans were drawn up in the Pentagon in the event of war with Iran that included an assault using both conventional and nuclear weapons. Professor Chossudovsky says if war breaks out the Pentagon may well employ these weapons.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Cut Off Aid To Israel If It Attacks Iran (3 comments)
A compelling case can be made for termination of all U.S. aid to Israel based on its treatment of Palestinians as well as its threats of war against Iran.
Saturday, April 14, 2012 Liberal Magazine Urges Obama To Quit Afghanistan Now (1 comments)
How is it that the U.S. disposed of three industrial powers in less than four years in World War Two but cannot defeat insurgent forces in predominantly rural Afghanistan in more than a decade? If you didn't know any better, you might suspect the war was designed to feed the military-industrial complex budgets, an activity at which it has succeeded admirably.
Friday, April 13, 2012 Pentagon Continuing Foreign Base Expansion (2 comments)
As it has 1,000 military bases on its own soil for defense, why does the U.S. need 1,100 bases abroad if not for the purpose of aggression? Nothing like this agglomeration of military power has ever been seen in human history---and its presence threatens to put an end to human history as well.
Saturday, March 31, 2012 On The National Outrage Over Trevon Martin Slaying (44 comments)
The outrage over the killing of Trevon Martin needs to be transformed into action to rectify four centuries of racial injustice that afflicts America to this very day, and which President Obama, like his predecessors, has chosen to ignore.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 A Little Unfinished Business in the Middle East (1 comments)
While the shortcomings of the U.S. economy appear to have absorbed the attention of our presidential candidates, not a word of remorse, much less concern, has been uttered by them about the damage inflicted on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Monday, March 19, 2012 Obama Has No Apologies For His Own Massacres (1 comments)
When President Obama signs off on a drone strike he assumes a personal responsibility for the outcome. Sgt. Robert Bales is imprisoned for his alleged role in the Kandahar massacre but President Obama has killed many more than 16---in fact, many hundreds----through his drone strikes.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Assange: Pentagon Attempts To Quash Coverage With "Espionage" Charges (12 comments)
If the Pentagon has its way, reporters will only be allowed to write up handouts from its press office.It will be bringing espionage charges against any reporter who obtains classified information. That will be a real problem for the media as the Pentagon likes to label everything "classified." If Thomas Paine is looking down from up high he's probably covering his eyes.
Sunday, March 11, 2012 U.S. Is An Empire In Decline, Yet Military Budget Grows, Magazine Says (4 comments)
While municipalities and state governments everywhere lay off public servants, the so-called "defense" budget that in reality subsidizes U.S. wars of aggression abroad continues to grow.
Sunday, March 11, 2012 Israel's Urgent Existential Threat Is From Within (2 comments)
Although Israeli politicians point to Iran's alleged development of a nuclear weapon as an "existential threat," the urgent threat of this nature is from within, from right-wing elements, The New Yorker magazine reports.
Sunday, February 26, 2012 Only Ron Paul Warns Of Emerging Fascist State (15 comments)
Only Republican Congressman Ron Paul of all those running for the White House is touching on the paramount issue of our time, the emergence of fascism in America.
Sunday, February 19, 2012 CIA Drone Strikes Targeting Funerals, First Responders (7 comments)
It's hard to think of any way to instill greater anti-U.S. hatred in the Middle East than to attack the funerals of drone strike victims or to assassinate the first responders who rush to the rescue of the living. But that's what the CIA is doing and authorities say the practice constitutes war crimes.
Sunday, February 5, 2012 The New American Police State (2 comments)
There are few, if any, areas left of a citizen's life in which the Federal government cannot probe. There is no citizen in the nation upon which the government cannot spy, remove from his or her abode and incarcerate indefinitely or for life in military detention. This article provides just a glance at some of the many areas in which a despotic government seeks to control its citizens as well as dominate the world.
Saturday, January 28, 2012 U.S. May Have Played Role in Jamaica's 2010 Tivoli Massacre (1 comments)
Given the U.S. government's capacity for obfuscation and outright lying, Washington's denial of making "operational decisions" during the 2010 assault in Kingston, Jamaica, are suspect. There is no doubt, however, that the U.S. provided intelligence information for the assault that killed more than 70 civilians.
Monday, January 16, 2012 Oil Companies Big Winners in Iraq War (3 comments)
Life in Iraq may have changed for the worse for its people----little electricity, soaring unemployment, broken-down medical care, worsening poverty---but the Western oil companies that have taken over Iraq's oil fields are enjoying their best times ever.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Americans Ignored NDAA Precedents At Their Peril (8 comments)
The dark night of totalitarianism has been spreading across the American sky for years. Enactment of the NDAA is only the last nail needed to close the coffin. As the U.S. has gained power and expanded its military, it has weakened its laws at home and denied its citizens their basic rights.
Monday, January 9, 2012 Iran Has Chance To Reconsider Death Penalty of Convicted CIA Agent (3 comments)
Rather than execute a convicted American CIA spy, Iran has an opportunity to practice restorative justice in the case of Amir Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine translator of Iranian origin.
Saturday, January 7, 2012 U.S. & Iran Obligated To Resolve Dispute Legally (4 comments)
Attack Iran? Whoa! Whatever happened to those international treaties the U.S. signed pledging itself to arbitration to resolve disputes? If the U.S. ignores those laws what does it say about the validity of its case against Iran?
Thursday, January 5, 2012 "Game Over" For Planet if Keystone Pipeline Built (6 comments)
Lobbyists are at work on the Administration and Congress to approve the Keystone pipeline. A top climate authority says approval will mean "game over" for planet Earth. What are you doing about it?
Thursday, December 29, 2011 America's Welfare "Reform" Laws Are Perpetuating Poverty (2 comments)
President Bill Clinton's "Welfare Reform" laws may have won him political votes but it ensured that millions living in poverty would go on living that way.
Monday, December 26, 2011 Advocates of Hot War With Iran Take Some Media Hits (1 comments)
The Washington Post recently carried an article stating that Iranian women are being tread unfairly by a requirement to wear a head scarf when they ski. Maybe this will be the next rationalization to get at Iran's oil resource as US-UK and their allies have done in Iraq.
Saturday, December 24, 2011 Act Fast To Ban Gas Fracking Until Further Studies Are Made (2 comments)
Major oil companies are all over TV touting the benefits of natural gas extraction by tracking methods. This alone should make the public wary of what's involved.
Monday, December 19, 2011 U.S. Held Losing Battle Against IEDs in Afghanistan (2 comments)
High-tech U.S. responses against the improvised explosive devices have been costly and ineffective, and they are taking a heavy toll at present in Afghanistan. Several military experts say that low-tech solutions that could work are not being adopted.
Monday, December 19, 2011 Open Letter of Apology To President Barack Obama (5 comments)
Now that President Obama has signed into law an act that gives him dictatorial powers to arrest and imprison Americans indefinitely, I make haste to write this open letter of apology for all the nasty things I wrote about him in the past.
Saturday, December 10, 2011 Human Activity Driving Weather Extremes (2 comments)
Human activity is not only responsible for global warming but also for driving extreme weather events, scientific sources are saying. The Nov. 25th issue of "Science" magazine spells it out in careful language. Alternatively, you can always get your information on global warming from radio's "Oxycontin Kid," who thinks it's all hogwash.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 National Defense Authorization Act Will Destroy Bill of Rights (3 comments)
America is now reaching the end of the long, troubled road to totalitarianism. Passage of the National Defense Authorization bill, which seems likely, will invalidate the Bill of Rights and wrap the Statue of Liberty in barbed wire.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Drone Attacks, The French Revolution & President Obama (1 comments)
President Obama's increasing reliance on unmanned warplanes to assassinate his enemies may well cause historians to refer to him as an American Robespierre, a bloodthirty revolutionary with no regard for legal procedures.
Saturday, November 19, 2011 Vets Praise Care At Miami VA Hospital
As the national health care debate continues, you'd think Congress would talk to one group of consumers who are happy with their medical care delivery system. The vets at the Miami VA facility appear to be just such a group. Question: why can't the VA delivery system's approach be expanded to cover all?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Few Guantanamo Prisoners Ever Get Their Day In Court
If holding prisoners for five, six and seven years without charges, rendering them to countries far distant from their families, and torturing them is not terrorism, what is? Yet this has been the fate of hundreds of prisoners in Guantanamo and thousands of prisoners in the Middle East under American control.
Sunday, November 13, 2011 Is Iran's Ahmadinejad Hinting At Non-Violent Response to Israel? (3 comments)
Israel may be headed for diplomatic disaster if it attacks Iran's nuclear sites without UN approval. By contrast, a non-violent response by Iran would increase its stature in the eyes of the world. Israel's supporters would fade away, particularly if its attack spread fissionable material across Iran and the Middle East.
Saturday, November 12, 2011 Public Needs To Get Active To Shut Down Private Prisons (5 comments)
There is no better time than NOW to become active to shut down the private prison system, already holding more than 100,000 prisoners in custody and profiting for every day they spend behind bars. This means the private operators benefit the longer they keep prisoners in their cells. Taxpayers are learning that, far from reducing costs, private prisons are costlier to operate.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Nuclear Disaster Was of Our Own Making, Murakami Says (2 comments)
Japanese author Murakami candidly observes Japan brought its Fukushima nuclear disaster on itself, and he warns it will be repeated elsewhere. Nuclear radiation poses an existential threat to the human race as solar power and wind power do not. Accordingly, now's the time to act to put an end to nuclear-generated power and to replace that fuel with energy from wind, water, and sun.
Monday, November 7, 2011 10 Million American Families Sliding Toward Foreclosure (2 comments)
If the Obama White House can bail out the bankers, it can also act to bail out 10 million American families facing foreclosure.
Saturday, October 29, 2011 Cuba's "silent Transition" To Free Market Economy (1 comments)
If socialism and communism are such terrible economic systems, as U.S. politicians have long warned, why not allow them to fall of their own internal contradictions? Instead, the U.S. has repeatedly intervened to destabilize these regimes----as in Cuba. Now that Cuba is moving toward a free market economy, will the U.S. recognize it? Don't bet on it.
Monday, October 17, 2011 U.S. Can Demand Arbitration of Alleged Iranian Plot
Will the U.S. seek to arbitrate its case about Iran's alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington? Don't bet on it! More likely, it will act unilaterally, having "proved" its case in the headlines. The facts swirling around these latest charges reveal that it is Iran that is having its personnel assassinated.
Sunday, October 9, 2011 New 9/11 Probe Can't Come Soon Enough (12 comments)
Gravel needs 70,000 signatures to get his initiative for a new 9/11 report on the ballot. Given the millions of Americans who doubt the Bush commission's findings Gravel is likely to get 140,000 signatures.
Saturday, October 8, 2011 Bush Wars In Middle East Are In U.S. Tradition (2 comments)
Bush's invasions in the Middle East are part of long-standing American tradition, a distinguished historian from the University of Virginia writes. His article in "Foreign Affairs" might have mentioned the Mexican-American War as well.
Sunday, October 2, 2011 Obama Double Crosses The Environmentalists (6 comments)
Everywhere one looks, oil pipelines seem to be at the heart of today's wars and environmental disputes.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 Obama's Re-Election Chances Fading (1 comments)
The unfolding political campaign is all about the hardships facing America today. Little or no attention is being given to the fact we at home are suffering because of our overseas wars.
Sunday, September 18, 2011 For True Security, Dismantle The Security Apparatus (3 comments)
America's security does not derive from its Department of Homeland Security but from its formerly cherished ideals of liberty and justice, and the projection of those ideals globally.
Friday, September 16, 2011 IKE'S GRANDSON SAYS IKE MEANT THAT WARNING! (3 comments)
In a gentlemanly article, David Eisenhower, grandson of the general and president, says Dwight Eisenhower meant every word of his warning against the military-industrial complex. Well, the American people didn't listen and the moral and financial pickle they are in today is largely the outcome of their failure to pay attention when a decent human being puts them on notice as Ike did.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Pentagon Budget Cuts Held "Illusory"
Asking the Pentagon to cut its own budget is an exercise in wishful thinking. Just by dropping the F-35 fighter plane it could save Americans more than a half trillion dollars!
Sunday, September 11, 2011 Was President Bush Complicit in 9/11? (7 comments)
If former President George W. Bush was not complicit in the 9/11 attacks, there is ample evidence that some of the information about them was suppressed on his authority.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 "I Want Another Adventure," Retiring Judge Nancy Gertner Says (1 comments)
What will Judge Nancy Gertner do next? Those who have followed her career as a lawyer and judge expect the unconventional and likely will not be disappointed.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 SALVADORANS STRUGGLE AGAINST GOLD MINING COMPANY (1 comments)
In a face-off between farmers in El Salvador and a Canadian-based mining company bent on extracting area gold, several anti-mining activists have been killed and others threatened.
Thursday, September 1, 2011 Pentagon's New Slavery System Triggers Riots in Occupied States (8 comments)
Conveniently looking the other way, the Pentagon has allowed employment subcontractors to hire 70,000 support workers from Third World countries at substandard wages in conditions that resemble nothing so much as modern slavery.
Sunday, August 28, 2011 Obama Widens War In Somalia
President Obama, who as a candidate pledged to end the war in Iraq, but hasn't, instead is spreading the fighting across the Middle East, to include Pakistan, Libya, Sudan and Somalia. How he is expanding the Somalia war was described in the August 8th issue of The Nation magazine.
Friday, August 12, 2011 Outlook For Peace Dim Should Perry Get Elected (4 comments)
The announcement by Texas Gov. Rick Perry of his candidacy for President should be viewed as a threat to continue the interminable wars of American intervention in the Middle East, further blighting and destabilizing the region.
Saturday, August 6, 2011 Rich Get More In Tax Breaks Than Poor On Welfare (3 comments)
Oh, those greedy folks on welfare driving Cadillacs is part of the American myth. The reality is that the rich are scooping up far more in tax breaks than the welfare recipients. More in fact than all the people on food stamps as well. More, in fact, than all those folks collecting unemployment benefits.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Economist Warns of "Balanced Budget" Amendment (2 comments)
The U.S. needs a "pay as you go" approach to fiscal management, a noted economist says, warning of the "balanced budget" approach.
Saturday, July 30, 2011 The United Loony Bin of America (2 comments)
Has American gone mad? Not much has changed in the last 20 years except that Pentagon contractors have gotten fatter as wars become more numerous, foreign bases multiply, and the country, frankly, is now one big war machine.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 PRO FOOTBALL POISED TO GROW (1 comments)
After months of arduous deliberations, pro football managers and players seem poised for expansion, a prominent player rep says.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 Pentagon and Peace Corps Need To Switch Budgets (2 comments)
The military frequently attacks pacifists as "naive" when, in fact, it has failed so often, it is "naive" to expect it to succeed by force of arms.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Murdoch Operation Small Change Next to U.S.-UK Eavesdropping (4 comments)
What's all the clamor about ea vesdropping by The News of the World? Its opertion was small change compared to the eavesdropping the U.S. and its allies perform every day? And on a massive scale that Fleet Street never dreamed of!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 CIA Likely To Continue Criminal Ways Under Petraeus (1 comments)
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius writes that General Petraeus is a regular guy and may be just what the CIA needs to do its job---without questioning what the basic job of the Agency is.
Friday, June 24, 2011 Troops Obama Is Withdrawing Have Been Recently Replaced By Allies (2 comments)
Allied troop strength in Afghanistan has been steadily increasing so that Obama's cuts because the war is "receding" have already been replaced by surges of foreign troops---so the war may not be receding at all, but intensifying.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Obama Talks Afghan Drawdown, But No Words About 865 Foreign Bases (5 comments)
If Obama was serious about making withdrawals in Afghanistan, he'd reduce the number of the Pentagon's 865 bases it is using to dominate the world and where there are no threats and no fighting.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 Obama Not Likely To Call For Major Afghan Drawdown (1 comments)
Rather than break with the policies of President Bush, President Obama is continuing them, as his speech Wednesday on Afghanistan is liable to demonstrate. But opposition is growing to that war and the mayors of America are typical of the sentiments of their citizens.
Sunday, June 19, 2011 U.S. Conference of Mayors May Vote Monday Against Wars (2 comments)
U.S. Conference of Mayors' vote Monday on resolution to shift war spending to domestic purposes may prove to be an historic occasion and a turning point.
Sunday, June 5, 2011 Secret Wars of CIA Have Cost Taxpayers Billions (64 comments)
The gap between America's high-sounding pretensions of liberty and the reality of its imperial conduct continues to widen, with the CIA as a tool of the White House to spread terror abroad. El Salvador is but one example of a CIA assault that cost the U.S. taxpayers billions and cost Salvadorans 75,000 civilian lives.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 No "Shred of Evidence" Iran Developing Nukes, Ex-IAEA Director Tells Hersh (1 comments)
Although President Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have spoken as if Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, in fact the former head of the IAEA says there's not a shred of evidence to substantiate that. Mohamed ElBaradei's views are backed up by the last two Natioanl Intelligence Estimates which could find no conclusive evidence that Iran has made any effort in that direction since 2003.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 Has Ron Paul Gone CO? (5 comments)
Without saying the Bush-Obama regimes' wars are illegal, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas does say he wouldn't serve in them as he did in Viet Nam.
Sunday, May 22, 2011 Depression, Not Recession, Rocks U.S. Ghettos (3 comments)
While President Obama wages idiotic wars of aggression in the Middle East, hardly a mile from the White House, poverty is growing in Washington D.C.'s ghettos.
Saturday, May 21, 2011 Ignorance of the Past Cripples U.S. Foreign Policy (3 comments)
You would think those who made the war on Viet Nam would have considered the U.S. struggle to subdue the Philippines. You would think those who made the war in Afghanistan might have considered the U.S. war in Viet Nam. But American presidents routinely ignore the lessons of the past, a noted authority on our history says.
Friday, May 20, 2011 How Celtics Guard Chris Herren Battled Back From Addiction
There's too much pressure on young people today to excel at basketball, says Chris Herren, a former guard for the Boston Celtics, who battled back from drug addiction to help young people today.
Monday, May 2, 2011 If Obama Got Terrorist Bin Laden, Is George Bush Next?
If President Obama sought only justice in the killing of bin Laden, why is he not seeking justice by indicting former President Bush for starting two illegal wars? Why is he not seeking justice by bringing CIA and Pentagon torturers into the courtroom?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Obama "Compromise" With Republicans Is "Rotten Deal" For Most Americans (4 comments)
President Obama, the latest in a long line of imperial presidents, is allowing Americans to suffer from want and neglect while he spreads suffering around the world with his expanded Pentagon budgets and illegal new wars, wars launched without Congressional approval.
Sunday, April 24, 2011 Warning: Human's Devouring 40% of All Land and Sea Life (2 comments)
Human beings are rapidly destroying the planet, not only through wars and pollution but by literally devouring 40% of all land and sea life.
Thursday, April 21, 2011 Wealthy, Republicans, Declare War on Middle Class (6 comments)
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the lone independent in the U.S. Senate, tells it like it is when he says the wealthy and their Republican allies in Congress have declared war on the middle class.
Sunday, April 10, 2011 Cuts In Runaway Pentagon Spending Held Possible
Can the Pentagon's runaway spending spree ever be stopped? Can that $1 trillion dollar turkey ever be trimmed? A number of think tanks, conservative and liberal, say the time has come to take a harder look at how the war machine operates.
Saturday, April 9, 2011 U.S. Looting Social Security To Wage Wars (4 comments)
Far from being broke, the Social Security Fund is likely to produce surplus revenues of $31-trillion by 2085, a noted authority says. However, the American public needs to stop the Feds from looting SS to fund its wars and bailouts.
Friday, April 8, 2011 Air War Turns Middle East Against U.S. (1 comments)
Even before the attacks on Libya, the U.S. aerial warfare campaign in the Middle East had turned public opinion in the region against us. It is hard to think of any campaign that has so tarnished the image of a western power unless one goes back to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's use of poison gas against Ethiopian troops in the mid-1930s.
Sunday, April 3, 2011 Behind Those March Unemployment Figures
The improvement in the March unemployment rate is only one drop in an ocean of misery. We need to examine why unemployment rates are so high to begin with and to discuss real government intervention to deal with the issue. The private sector certainly has let the American worker down.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Denying Bradley Exercise Ploy To Weaken His Mind (1 comments)
Pentagon finds subtle way to torture PFC Bradley Manning by denying him the right to exercise---which, in time, will affect his mind as well as his body.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 U.S. Sets Up Punitive Prisons For Muslim/Arab Prisoners (3 comments)
As if it hadn't already earned the enmity of the Muslim world, the U.S. has set up two prisons where it is concentrating Arab/Muslim prisoners and denying them rights commonly extended to other prisoners. The Nation magazine in its March 28th edition calls this "Gitmo In The Heartland"
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Reforming Our Nation's Law Schools (1 comments)
How is it that a comparatively new law school that rejects American Bar Assn. policies keeps winning regional and national trophies for its trial advocacy teams? The answer may be, in part, that it is structured differently from most other law schools. Its instructors are largely adjunct professors who are judges and lawyers that teach in their own field of expertise.
Sunday, March 20, 2011 President Obama Bullying PFC Bradley Manning (11 comments)
President Obama Bullies PFC Bradley Manning While Convening an anti-bullying conference in the White House
Thursday, March 17, 2011 Korean War Coverage Was Distorted and Suppressed (2 comments)
Bruce Cumins, chair of the history department at the University of Chicago, has some fascinating insights into what happened when the U.S. engaged Korean and Chinese troops in a ground war in Asia. The principal victims, of course, were the Korean people, who lost 3-million dead, more than Japan lost in all of World War Two. American bombing accounted for many of the victims.
Monday, March 14, 2011 Warnings of Nuclear Plant Dangers Long Dismissed by Authorities (1 comments)
Thirty-two years ago, Howard Morland warned in an article in Harper's that a radioactive plume escaping from a nuclear-powered generating plant could "march across the countryside like the angel of death." This grim prediction, ignored at the time and since, may come to pass in Japan where nuclear plants were damaged by an earthquake.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Pentagon Torture of Manning Recalls Soviet Era Tactics Against Dissidents (4 comments)
President Obama's Pentagon is attempting to reduce PFC Bradley Manning to a vegetative state, in part using some techniques that Communist dictator Stalin employed against dissidents.
Monday, February 21, 2011 Obama Accelerates The Great American War Machine (1 comments)
President Obama is giving the Pentagon everything it wants in his just unveiled budget while slashing programs to help the poor and middle-class.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 CIA & Pentagon Knew Their Methods Were Torture (2 comments)
They called them enhanced interrogation techniques but the CIA and Pentagon knew when they used them that they constituted torture and were illegal.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Manning's Torture Commonplace In U.S. Prisons (2 comments)
Varieties of the isolation torture now being inflicted on Bradley Manning in the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., have long been used in U.S. prisons. By some estimates, 25,000 souls are currently being subjected to this nightmarish suffering, yet the public has done little or nothing to protest.
Monday, January 24, 2011 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES LOCKED IN STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE
Here's a very different view of American history, a view seen from the perspective of Lakota tribe member Tiokasin Ghosthorse, perhaps the world's leading advocate of the rights of indigenous people.
