Articles by Sherwood Ross

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“No Shred of Evidence”, Iran Building Nukes, Ex Head of IAEA Says
Sherwood Ross – Global Research, 6 Jun 2011

Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient who spent 12 years at the IAEA, told investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, “I don’t believe Iran is a clear and present danger. All I see is the hype about the threat posed by Iran.”

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RENDITION AND THE “GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM”: 28 NATIONS HAVE SUPPORTED THE US IN THE DETENTION AND TORTURE OF “SUSPECTS”
Sherwood Ross – Global Research, 12 Apr 2010

Twenty-eight nations have cooperated with the U.S. to detain in their prisons, and sometimes to interrogate and torture, suspects arrested as part of the U.S. “War on Terror.”

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TIME TO SET OKINAWA FREE
Sherwood Ross – Global Research, 4 Feb 2010

It’s way past time for the U.S. to get out of Okinawa—and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it. Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do today. Every liberty-loving American ought to be shouting: “Okinawa for the Okinawans!” Right now, this Los […]

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NON-VIOLENT RESPONSE TO U.S. SPONSORED WARS OF AGGRESSION
Sherwood Ross, 3 Oct 2009

People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. The Vietnamese lost four million civilians and the Iraqis to date have lost more than one million civilians as a result of U.S. aggression. Such losses—mainly of unarmed women and children—are unacceptable, […]

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U.S. NEEDS TO LISTEN TO PRESIDENT ARIAS ON ITS ROLE IN LATIN AMERICA
Sherwood Ross, 13 Jul 2009

Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the person who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, writes in an OpEd piece July 10th in the Miami Herald, “This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk.” Arias never once mentions the role […]

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AMERICA’S CHILD SOLDIERS: US MILITARY RECRUITING CHILDREN TO SERVE IN THE ARMED FORCES
Sherwood Ross, 2 Dec 2008

In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon “regularly target(s) children under 17,” the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says. The Pentagon “heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they […]

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BURMA, IRAQ, AND THE NEED FOR AN EFFECTIVE UN
Sherwood Ross, 18 Nov 2008

Besides wrecking Iraq and killing a million people, President Bush’s illegal invasion has given a boost to military dictators around the world. “The idea, popular in the nineteen-nineties, that the world may intervene in countries whose governments show no regard for human life is now seen as reflecting Western arrogance,” writes George Packer in The […]

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SUPPRESSED HISTORY: HOW THE FILIPINO REVOLT PAVED THE WAY FOR VIETNAM AND IRAQ
Sherwood Ross, 25 Oct 2008

America’s wars of aggression against Viet Nam and Iraq might not have been waged if the U.S. government had not censored the true story of the widespread atrocities its troops committed in the Philippines at the end of the 19th Century. America’s invasion of the Philippines in 1898 in the Spanish-American War and the suppression […]

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