Op-Ed: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spotlights Obama’s Cruelty

Op-Ed: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spotlights Obama’s Cruelty

May 12, 2013 2:30 pm
By Sherwood Ross May 17th will mark the 100th day more than 100 of Guantanamo’s 166 remaining prisoners will have refused food. Their determined hunger strike may be generating...

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

by Sherwood Ross Massacres of civilians by U.S. forces in Vietnam were not rare aberrations but everyday occurrences, an authoritative new book on the subject charges. Worse, the massacres were a result of  deliberate Pentagon policies handed down from the very top, often to build false “body count” figures that could lead an officer to [...]

Op-Ed: Iran’s Best Response To Israeli or U.S. Attack Is One Urged by Gandhi

by Sherwood Ross If Iran militarily resists  an American/Israeli attack, it may well suffer the same tragic fate as Viet Nam, which lost some 2 million civilians to U.S. deprivations  Not only does the U.S. possess some of the most fiendish weapons ever devised, such as nuclear-tipped artillery shells, napalm, white phosphorus bombs, and shrapnel bomblets [...]

Op-Ed: More Than 30 Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Boyle Says

by Sherwood Ross   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. U.S. officials involved in an “ongoing criminal [...]

Op-Ed: General Petraeus Punished for Making Love, Not War

by Sherwood Ross 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. [...]

Op-Ed: US-UK Genocide Against Iraq 1990-2012 Killed 3.3 Million-Including 750K Children

By Sherwood Ross 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. The slaughter fits the classic definition of Genocide Convention Article II of, “Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life [...]

Op-Ed: NATO Undermining the UN and Should be Abolished Says Fomrer Asst. UN Secretary-General Halliday

By Sherwood Ross 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. “The danger to global equilibrium is a growing NATO being expanded further by American and British ambitions into a monster military force of world proportions, way [...]