Sherwood Ross
Sherwood Ross is a Miami-based public relations consultant and writer who formerly worked for the Chicago Daily News and for more than a decade contributed weekly reports to several wire services.
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July 22, 2009
If President Obama wants to "squeeze billions of dollars from (healthcare) spending," as Associated Press reports(July 1), he could begin by administering a dose of fiscal reality to for-profit hospitals masquerading as charitable institutions.
Such hospitals are getting tax exemptions "beca...
July 22, 2009
Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the man who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, writes in an OpEd piece this morning (July 10th) in the Miami Herald, "This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible ...
July 22, 2009
Why are some members of Congress suddenly upset the CIA lied to them when the Agency has been guilty of innumerable crimes that are far worse?
Is Congress saying, "It´s okay to do what you´re doing, just don´t lie to us about it?" When accused of a crime in the newspapers,...
July 22, 2009
Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good faith on their lawyers´ advice because they told their lawyers what advice to give.
"Could Al Capone or ´Lucky´ Luciana receive immunity for acting in ...
January 13, 2009
If President-elect Barack Obama is reassuring the intelligence community "that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them," as AP´s Pamela Hess reported January 10th, his campaign slogan "change we can believe in" is headed for an early grave.
Obama´s remarks are a lit...
January 13, 2009
Rather than change "elitist" law school admission policies to give minorities a fair chance to enroll, the American Bar Assn.(ABA) instead imposes affirmative action that allows in many fewer minority students, two law school educational reformers say. They say if the ABA stopped insisting that law ...
January 13, 2009
President Bush and his aides repeatedly ignored warnings that their torture plans were illegal from high State Department officials as well as the nation´s top uniformed legal officers, the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, a new published report states.
"Th...
January 13, 2009
President-elect Obama should drop his plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan, a country that never attacked America, out of pity for a helpless civilian population that will only suffer increasing misery from an expanded fight against the Taliban and its allies. The U.S. would really do better to ...
January 13, 2009
As sentiment grows to prosecute Vice President Dick Cheney and other designers of the Bush torture policies, it may seem a trifling matter to be concerned over whose name adorns the FBI headquarters building in Washington.
Except that the name J. Edgar Hoover represents a malignant streak of crim...
January 13, 2009
A Report released December 11, 2008, by the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that top Bush officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, "bore major responsibility" for the abuses committed by U.S. interrogators in military detention centers, according to The New York Times.
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January 13, 2009
Despite seemingly incriminating wiretaps, nobody should be "utterly shocked" if Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is acquitted of charges he offered to sell his appointment to fill the Senate seat vacated by President-elect Obama, a prominent legal authority says.
Does a discussion of the selling of...
January 13, 2009
Two Federal judges have deliberately invoked secrecy statutes to conceal the Federal government´s illegal use of torture, a prominent legal authority says.
Named are judges Terence Boyle of the U.S. District Court of Eastern North Carolina, and T.S. Ellis III of the U.S. District Court of...
January 13, 2009
It is a sad and dangerous development when supposedly objective news media yield to national pressure to slant the news in favor of the government. This routinely happens in dictatorships at all times but it can happen in democracies as well, particularly in time of war. It was no surprise that, dur...
January 13, 2009
Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the U.S. has detained thousands of juveniles---some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. Some estimates put the number as high as 6,000.
While the criminal abuse of male...
January 13, 2009
President Bush´s attack on Iraq has made daily life there "unbearable" for most people, two prominent American business authorities write.
"Five years after the United States occupied Iraq with the stated goal of bringing democracy to its people, the war has essentially ruined the country&...
January 13, 2009
Seven law school deans ripped the principal law school accreditor American Bar Assocation(ABA) on a variety of charges, from opposing weekend law schools to imposing rules that suppress minority enrollment to blocking construction of inexpensive law schools.
At a time when law school tuitions at...
January 13, 2009
Pentagon death and disability payments for service personnel are far lower than private sector payouts for like reasons, a Nobel Prize-winning economist says.
The families of civilian workers killed in an environmental accident routinely collect millions of dollars in court settlements but the of...