From Elaine Brower, World Can't Wait Steering Committee Member and mother of a US Marine. 

I want to start an open dialogue about what is happening in Haiti.  I am deeply disturbed by the reports I have been hearing.  I thought, maybe naively, that by now things would have gotten… Read full post »

And now the verdict from the Department of Justice's "ethics-watchdog unit" Office of Professional Responsibility: John Yoo and Jay Bybee's authorizing torture (and additionally, the subsequent and expectable murder of over a hundred detainees), were not professional misconduct, but merely… Read full post »

"Out of every dollar spent on U.S. "aid" to Haiti, 33 cents go to the U.S. military, while only 9 cents pay for food and another 9 pay for food transportation... The $379 million that the U.S. is spending on Haiti is less than the cost of one day spent on the Iraq and… Read full post »

The Supreme Court has done something that exceeds what Frankenstein did: taken an entity that is not alive, and given it the rights and powers of a person. And now these monsters shall roam the land, pretending to be human, terrorizing the citizenry.  

The Supreme Court’s la… Read full post »

I want to call attention to an aspect of a story that no one so far, to my knowledge, has pointed out.

Cass Sustein, close friend to Obama and Head of his Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, proposed a year ago along with his co-author, fellow Harvard Law Professor… Read full post »

The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago.[2] If nothing happens, it will be harder still to say this is necessary. - Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, War Studies Program Chair, Royal Military College in Kingston,… Read full post »

We want to be able to search everything, so we could see if Mohammed Atta ever got a parking ticket in Roselle. You can’t connect the dots if you can’t see them. -- Richard Kelly, New Jersey Regional Operations Intelligence Center’s Director

[E]ach day [the NSA] collects four t… Read full post »

Brit Hume: Tiger should become a Christian and he’ll be forgiven.

Makes me think of a bunch of other people that Christianity did wonders for:

Rev. Jim Baker

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart

Sen. Larry Craig

Rev. Ted Haggart

Rev. Earl Paulk

David Vitter… Read full post »

On December 29, 2009 the New York Times plugged torture lawyer John Yoo’s book Crisis and Command in a friendly interview by Deborah Solomon. Solomon begins by describing his book as “an eloquent, fact-laden history.” I think of the interview as an aid to those who try to lose weigh/… Read full post »

The Nigerian student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, with the explosive underwear, on the Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, is one of this week’s - and probably for a number of weeks’ - big story.

There are a number of different ways of approaching this story.

I just want to… Read full post »

Obama accepting his Nobel Peace Prize: "Evil does exist in the world." 

A Manichean view: Light in a battle with darkness. We're the good guys, they're the bad guys.

No wonder the neocons are praising Obama's speech. The wonder here, as Glenn Greenwald correctly notes, is that liberals are… Read full post »

I hope that I am wrong.

Just idle speculation, but based on reasonable conjecture:

There may very well be many more heels to drop, so to speak, in this scandal enveloping the world's best golfer, like a heavy fog descending upon the British Open links, and not just more mistresses… Read full post »

To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler to receive the Peace Prize

And sling drones and missiles at innocents,

Or to take arms against a sea of Taliban

And by opposing them multiply them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a… Read full post »

Updated: Press Release from Michael Haas at the end. 

I'm posting three very important stories here.

(For more stories and photos/videos, see Emma Kaplan's,  Jill McLaughlin's and Lina Thorne's blogs.) 

First, an email from the woman, Coleen Rowley, ex-FBI agent, who famously… Read full post »

George W. Bush could have delivered every single word, every single phrase, every phony and deluded claim, from the mouth of the current president at West Point last night.

For a sense of the outrage and seriousness of those who are opposing this "change," including growing numbers of people now wakin… Read full post »

Media Alert

November 30, 2009

The World Can’t Wait worldcantwait.net

Contact: Elaine Brower 917.520.0767 / 866.973.4463

wcwpressteam@gmail.com

Anti-War Protests Tuesday & Wednesday as President Obama Announces More Troops to Afghanistan Occupation

Anticipating P… Read full post »

New York Times photo from UCLA 

 Over the last several days, the battle in California has escalated over the “budget crisis” and the massive cuts, layoffs, and fee increases in the university system - the largest university system in the world. At UCLA, over a… Read full post »

Attorney General Eric Holder, on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 in testimony before the US Senate:

“At the end of the day, it was clear to me that the venue in which we are most likely to obtain justice for the American people is in federal court. By bringing prosecutions in… Read full post »

On Meet the Press the Sunday after 9/11, Vice-President Cheney famously stated:

“We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done… Read full post »

Note: As those of us know who have been watching with increasing alarm the repressive, inflamed, violent, and fascistic atmosphere that was whipped up during the unlawful tenure of Bush in the White House, and that has escalated since Obama's taking the presidency, emanating from the/… Read full post »

In a breaking story that only CNN in US media appears to be carrying at this point, but numerous other foreign news services such as BBC are carrying: an Italian court has found twenty-two Americans guilty of kidnapping and torture of a cleric. 

CBC News today, November 4, 2009, is/… Read full post »

A powerful and moving story from Consortium News that everyone should read, told by the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, who, upon learning of the torture being carried out there on behalf of the CIA, felt impelled to speak out. As a result, his career was ruined.

As Max Weber, the exper/… Read full post »