Reflections On

Op-Ed: Hidden Influence-Peddling in Washington

Op-Ed: Hidden Influence-Peddling in Washington

May 20, 2013 6:00 pm
Mainstream media largely ignore how special interests get what they want in nation’s capital By Wendell Potter I was not among those who believed the Supreme...

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

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 global headlines but it has not moved President Obama to release this mainly Yemeni group of prisoners whose innocence is attested to by the fact that [...]

Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial

by Raymond Bonner Special to ProPublica For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas, first as a bearded district attorney asking the court for tough sentences, and for the last 10 years handing those kinds of sentences out as a judge. Earlier this month, his beard gone, his [...]

Op-Ed: Drone Strikes Fueling Anti-US Hatred as Fear Spreads in Middle East

by Sherwood Ross U.S. drone strikes are creating cadres of anti-American fighters, furious over the killing and wounding of thousands of civilians. Far from the drone attacks being “on a very tight leash,” as President Obama claimed, they have generated widespread terror across Muslim populations in the attack regions as they disrupt civilian lives and [...]

$ I Found the Missing Billions $ – For God’s Sake

by The Reverend Dr. Britt Minshall HEADLINE: Pastor Britt locates the stolen Afghan U.S. Aid. Actually it’s true. February 4, 2013: CSIS Program: “Afghanistan’s Reconstruction.” John F. Sopko, nine month Inspector General in Afghanistan overseeing the reconstruction funding for the country, found himself “appalled” at the corruption and waste. He reported to us that 38 [...]

Op-Ed: Obama’s Ties to CIA May Explain His Totalitarian Views

by Sherwood Ross 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.” Maybe the reasons for Obama’s transformation from a [...]

Sandra Day O’Connor Regrets

by David A. Love Twelve years after the controversial Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is having some second thoughts about the case. O’Connor told the Chicago Tribune about her buyer’s remorse over the 5-4 decision, which put the brakes on the Florida vote recount in the epic 2000 presidential election, in the contest between [...]