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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.
SHARE Friday, January 9, 2009 Bush, Aides, Rejected Anti-Torture Warnings
President Bush and his top aides received numerous warnings that their torture policies were war crimes, but ignored them. Here's Report that will be basis of Complaint submitted to the Obama Administration in near future.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 21, 2008 Time To Remove Hoover's Name From FBI Building
No president would fire J. Edgar Hoover and it seems none will expunge his name from the FBI building, either, unless, of course, it is really time for a change?
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, December 15, 2008 Obama Should Drop Plans For Afghan War Escalation
The more bombs the U.S. drops in Afghanistan, the more it is hated. And why destroy a country and kill thousands of civilians to get at a handful of terrorists, assuming bin Laden actually did mastermind the 9/11 strike, for which there is no definite proof. Better to send in the Peace Corps and spend the money on reconstruction, not destruction.
(8 comments) SHARE Friday, December 5, 2008 Why Those Pearl Harbor Conspiracy Theories Ain't So
Step back and look at the big picture of events in 1941 to understand why those conspiracy theories about Pearl Harbor just ain't so. Many attacks appear to be politically motivated, charging liberal president FDR with treason but remaining silent about General Douglas MacArthur, who, knowing of the attack on Pearl Harbor, did not order his air force into action!
(15 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 4, 2008 Slavery, American-Style, Must Be Abolished!
Millions of American workers are working two and three jobs and being paid so poorly they can't get ahead. President-elect Obama would do well to concentrate on helping them rise out of poverty. Lifting 50-million Americans out of poverty would solve a lot of problems on Wall Street and Detroit.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 30, 2008 Pentagon Recruiters Target Afro And Hispanic Kids
Not exactly flooded with determined citizens ready to fight to defend their country, the Pentagon has turned to strategically recruiting African-American and Hispanic kids to fight in its war of aggression.
SHARE Saturday, November 29, 2008 No Child Left Behind "Trojan Horse" For Pentagon Recruiters
No Child Left Behind was enacted early in the Bush administration and it gave military recruiters unprecedented access to the public school population. Did the Bush Gang know then they were going to make a war and had they decided to fill the ranks from the poor and minorities rather than reinstitute the draft? One wonders.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, November 28, 2008 Pentagon Recruits Kids Under 17, Violating UN Protocol
Hard-up Pentagon recruiters are actually propagandizing children as young as 13 to join the military, in violation of the Senate's 2002 ratification of a UN Protocol banning such conduct.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 22, 2008 Viet Nam, Iraq, And The Wires
Wire services need to be free of jingoist pressures to report the news accurately. If multinationals can tell their home governments to go to hell, the wires must do the same.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, November 17, 2008 Bush War Makes Life in Iraq "Unbearable"
Considering that the U.S. made the war that has ruined Iraq, why should the Iraqis be asked to pay the bill for any of the reconstruction?
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 15, 2008 Bush, Burma, & An Effective UN
The misery of the peoples of Burma and Iraq under the heel of tyrants have something in common.
SHARE Wednesday, November 12, 2008 How Iraq War Sucked Billions Out of Rhode Island Economy
Americans are waking up to how their investment in the war in Iraq---for which they get nothing back but coffins---could have been better spent, according to the National Priorities Project.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 8, 2008 U.S., Allies, Torture Kids in Iraqi Prisons
Bush occupying forces and their Iraqi allies have held more than 6,000 childrens captive, and some of them reportedly have been raped, tortured, and otherwise abused. It may take a generation to wash the American flag clean of the Bush-Cheney stains.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 6, 2008 President-elect Obama: Close Down Guantanamo!
If he is the humanitarian he appears to be, President-elect Obama will move early to close down Guantanamo prison.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 5, 2008 The Night America Wept For Joy
Obama's victory was long in coming and the challenge he faces may be as great as that faced by Lincoln on taking office. Obama has demonstrated he can bring America together but can he cleanse it of the crimes of the Bush regime?
(54 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Is George W. Bush Sane?
Verdict of history may be that President Bush not entirely sane.