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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.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 29, 2010 Plight of Black Poor Worsens
It's the same old same old for the nation's black poor. The same today as in 1990; the same in 1990 as it was in 1960. The U.S. government would rather wage criminal wars overseas than rehab the ghettos or retrain its unemployed or rehouse its slum dwellers or better educate its poor children. Where's the civil rights movement?
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 17, 2011 Korean War Coverage Was Distorted and Suppressed
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.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 18, 2010 Pentagon Robot Culture Ominous Development
In addition to its 10,000 at-the-ready nuclear weapons, its trillion dollar wars of aggression, its growing germ warfare capabilities,its wars of aggression, its militarization of space, and its 1,800 bases around the world, the Pentagon's rapid development of robotic warfare is forbidding and ominous.
(15 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 26, 2012 Only Ron Paul Warns Of Emerging Fascist State
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.