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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, November 2, 2007 Karen Hughes, "PR," and Perverted Science
Hughes resignation underscores Bush failure to put a good face on his failed Middle East policy. Even to imagine she or anyone else could achieve that indicates Bush is not in touch with reality.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 20, 2009 What Individuals Can Do To Oppose Warfare State
As more Americans realize they are not getting anywhere at the polls, they are considering other forms of protesting the warfare state. Here are some of them and some suggestions from the writer, who was involved in the civil rights movement in the Sixties.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 25, 2009 The Shame of Diego Garcia
Do the ends justify any means? Apparently they did when the Navy wanted to convert a sleepy island in the Indian Ocean into a formidable naval base, the kind from which it could launch wars.
SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2012 N.Y. Police Department Spying On Muslims From N.J. To Canada
The New York City Police Department like the FBI are devoting vast resources to hunting down alleged Muslim terrorists. And it looks very much as though the FBI may be framing some of those it has arrested and is dragging into court. At least one judge has said the FBI has literally manufactured the crime. Does this make you think the War on Terror is a phony?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, April 20, 2007 Pakistan Army Suffered 700 Killed Vs. Taliban
Vice President Dick Cheney keeps urging Islamabad to go after the Taliban who rule the border provinces along Afghanistan but Pakistan's military dictator knows if he does, he'll lose. The only way to bring lasting peace to the region is to have democratic elections, and the dictator is afraid to hold them. In short, Pakistan is on the brink. All this from The Nation magazine.
(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.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 10, 2012 U.S. Public Brainwashed To Hate Iran
The American public is so ignorant (and apathetic) concerning foreign policy that it lacks even the common sense to know when it is being dragged into a war of aggression.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 U.S. Could Avoid Wars Over Oil By Copying Brazil Model
Instead of overthrowing governments such as Iran or invading Iraq to get their oil, wouldn't it be easier to follow Brazil's successful model and run its cars on sugar?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 8, 2007 Bush Spreads Guantanamo Gangrene Globally
Bush expanding U.S. prisons around the world where captives are being psychologically and physically tortured with no recourse to lawyers or trials. Nothing better exemplifies the degenerate character of the president.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 2, 2007 HOW BUSH BACKERS CHEATED KERRY OUT OF WHITE HOUSE
In his new book, investigative reporter Greg Palast spells out the various ways Democrats were cheated out of their votes in 2004, and warns the GOP will try these tricks again in 2008.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 Catholic Church Crisis Could Have Been Avoided
Instead of attempting to conceal the assaults on children by priests,Catholic Church officials might have responded differently, putting the victims first and stopping child abuse cold.
SHARE Thursday, May 22, 2014 Police State America Spies Mostly on Americans
Americans who say they don't mind if the NSA snoops on their phone calls might reflect on the fact that NSA officials are part of a criminal organization out to control the world.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Sociologist Warns Developing Nations Against Foreign Investment
Accepting foreign investment allows multinational corporations to make decisions that would be better made by "the people," and opens a country up to sophisticated forms of financial plunder.
SHARE Saturday, March 29, 2008 Conservative Magazine Blasts Bush Oil Policy in Iraq War
The U.S. is importing nearly a billion dollars worth of oil into oil-rich Iraq every week. That's terrible news for American taxpayers but, maybe, not so awful for Halliburton.
(6 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 31, 2008 Is America Fascist?
With each passing day the Bush regime brings America closer to the totalitarian police state. It has established a number of key conditions prerequisite to any takeover. It needs to be repudiated and the President and Vice President need to be impeached.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, September 25, 2009 Non-Violent Responses To War Must Be Considered
What, oh what is to be done about the Pentagon war machine? Is the non-violent response the answer? Would it work in disputes between nations as it did in India and America?
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 23, 2016 Does CIA Project America's Highest Values?
On Thursday the Deputy Director of the CIA told an audience at NYU law school that The Agency's operations reflect America's "highest values." The very next day, April 22, 2016, a Washington State district judge, in a victory for the ACLU, upheld a law suit aimed at bringing to justice CIA torturers alleged to have frozen one man to death and inflicted terrible suffering on others.