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Biography


Sherwood Ross is an award-winning reporter. He served in the U.S Air Force where he contributed to his base newspaper.

He later worked for The Miami Herald and Chicago Daily News. He contributed a weekly column on working for a major wire service.

He is also an editorial and book publicist. He currently resides in Florida.

Time Running Out For Obama To Free Gitmo Hunger Strikers

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Next May 17th will mark the 100th day more than 100 of Guantanamo’s 166 remaining prisoners will have refused food.

May 13th, 2013 | Posted in Americas,Editor,World | Read More »

Drone Strikes Fueling Anti-U.S. Hatred As Fear Spreads In Middle East

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U.S. drone strikes are creating cadres of anti-American fighters, furious over the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians.

May 8th, 2013 | Posted in Editor,Middle East,World | Read More »

Obama’s Ties to CIA May Explain His Totalitarian Views

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In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky said he never expected much of President Obama, adding, ”The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don’t seem easy to explain.”

May 3rd, 2013 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editor,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Woman Artist Creates Quilt US Flag After Son Enlist in Marine Corps

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An evocative, quilt depiction of an embattled American flag by a California woman artist has been added to the permanent collection of The National Quilt Museum(NQM) in Paducah, Ky. The title is “And Our Flag Was Still There!”

March 17th, 2013 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Poem for MLK Day

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Rise up! Rise up, Americans!
Too long have you delayed!
While imperial-minded presidents
Their cruel wars have made.

January 20th, 2013 | Posted in Living | Read More »

Many U.S. My Lai-Type Massacres in Vietnam Covered Up by Pentagon, Reporter Charges

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Massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in Vietnam were not rare aberrations but everyday occurrences, an authoritative new book on the subject charges.

January 14th, 2013 | Posted in Editor,History,Vietnam War | Read More »

U.S. Failure To Act Swiftly on GW Imperils the U.S. And The World

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America’s failure to get serious about GW recalls the story of the German bureaucrats who, as the Soviet tanks rolled into Berlin in April, 1945, were busy working on Hitler’s paperclip requirements for the third quarter of the year. If they had only looked out their window they would have known the Third Reich was kaput.

January 5th, 2013 | Posted in Editor,Of Interest | Read More »

Pentagon Held Secret Meeting With Nuclear Industry 2003

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U.S. corporations that reap billions from making nuclear weapons have “a direct voice” as to “their use and deployment,” a distinguished political scientist warns.

December 25th, 2012 | Posted in Corruption,Editor,Politics | Read More »

Ending Massacres At Home and Abroad

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We are a nation that is not only starts wars around the world but which is at war with itself. That’s a generality.

December 17th, 2012 | Posted in Editor,Politics | Read More »

POEM: The Empire Claims Its Own

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Here’s a deep poem written by U.S. Veteran Sherwood Ross

December 14th, 2012 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »

More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes

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More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges.

December 12th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

General Petraeus Punished For Making Love, Not War

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While the media may have covered the disastrous affair of CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer Paula Broadwell in detail, it overlooked his successful effort to further militarize the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA.) “Petraeus …leaves behind an agency that has strayed from intelligence to paramilitary activities,” reports Jeremy Scahill in The Nation.

December 9th, 2012 | Posted in Editor,Politics | Read More »

POEM: Made in USA

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From the national insane asylum
From the factories of death
Come the instruments of destruction
To rob the living of their breath.

December 4th, 2012 | Posted in Living | Read More »

U.S. – U.K. Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012

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Approximately 3.3 million Iraqis, including 750,000 children, were “exterminated” by economic sanctions and/or illegal wars conducted by the U.S. and Great Britain between 1990 and 2012, an eminent international legal authority says.

December 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Britain United Kingdom,Editor,Middle East,World | Read More »

POEM: The Radioactive Desert

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Veterans poem by Sherwood Ross

November 29th, 2012 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »

Veterans Day Poem: Pray For Me Father

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A Veterans Day Poem

November 11th, 2012 | Posted in Living,Of Interest | Read More »

The CIA, the KKK and the USA

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By assigning covert action roles to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it is as if the White House and Congress had legitimized the Ku Klux Klan to operate globally.

October 10th, 2012 | Posted in Editor,Politics | Read More »

NATO Undermining The UN and Should Be Abolished – Former Assistant UN Secretary-General Halliday Says

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NATO is a “dangerous” instrument of American aggression that is undermining the United Nations and “must be abolished,” a former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN says.

October 7th, 2012 | Posted in Editor,Politics | Read More »

GOP VP Candidate Ryan Pleaded for Obamacare

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When it came to opening a new health center in his own congressional district, Republican Paul Ryan—yes, the same one who is denouncing Obamacare around the country—wrote to the Federal department of Health and Human Services begging for bucks.

September 26th, 2012 | Posted in Editor,Politics | Read More »

NATO Expansion Held Threat To World Peace

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is undertaking a dangerous and provocative global expansion that threatens the peace of the world, a distinguished Canadian geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya writes in a new book.

September 10th, 2012 | Posted in World | Read More »

U.S. Policies Contributed to Poverty in Latin America

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The United States has worked across Latin America to enrich private clients at the expense of the pauperized masses, Professor of Sociology Emeritus James Petras of Binghamton University, N.Y., charges.

August 27th, 2012 | Posted in Americas,World | Read More »

U.S. Favorite al-Maliki Persecuting His Enemies

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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s “harassment and persecution of anyone deemed a threat to himself or his party has dramatically reduced freedom throughout Iraq,” a noted journalist reports.

July 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Hate Crimes Againts U.S. Muslims Are On The Rise, Magazine Says

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Muslims may make up fewer than one percent of the U.S. population but they were nearly 13 percent of victims of religious-based hate crimes in 2010, “The Nation” magazine reports (July 2nd).

July 2nd, 2012 | Posted in Americas,Editor,Middle East,World | Read More »

Former High U.S.Defense Official Warns Against Attacking Iran

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“A unilateral preventive attack” on Iran by the United States would be viewed by many countries “as a breach of international law,” a former high American Defense Department official has warned his country.

June 30th, 2012 | Posted in Iran,World | Read More »

Predictions in Chalmers Johnson

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Few books of our time are proving to be as prophetic as Chalmers Johnson’s “The Sorrows of Empire,” published in 2004 by Henry Holt & Co. Its description of the impact of the Pentagon’s war machine on our civil liberties and economy today appears largely to be right on the mark.

June 19th, 2012 | Posted in Book Reviews,Living | Read More »

Guantanamo’s Goon Squads Still Torturing Under Obama

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Despite President Obama’s pledge to end torture, the brutalization of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo prison continues under his regime.

June 17th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

U.S. Today Display Typical Fascist Characteristics

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“If there’s any nation in the world that is well on the way to meriting the admittedly vague label of ‘fascist,’ surely it is the United States,” political journalist Alexander Cockburn asserts.

May 25th, 2012 | Posted in Living | Read More »

Why An Ex-Marine Turns Pacifist

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It’s been a long journey for Russell Brown, 65, from the days when he fought with the Fourth Marines in Viet Nam, to becoming one of the “Hancock 33” protesters against drone warfare.

May 21st, 2012 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »

Polls or No, Obama Could Crush Romney

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If President Obama keeps drubbing Republican challenger Mitt Romney as he has this month, pollsters calling the election a toss-up may be in for a November surprise.

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Civil Liberties and Freedom,Corruption,Editor,Foreign Relations,Government,Legislation,Politics | Read More »

Drone Attacks: The Latest Aspect of Growing US “Shadow Warfare”

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Although President Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser says caution is exercised when making drone attacks, official U.S. announcements often state that suspects are killed.

May 6th, 2012 | Posted in Politics | Read More »

 

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