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 »

[This is a slightly edited version of a talk I gave at a Fundraiser for Iraqi Orphans held on October 17, 2009 in Costa Mesa.]

I want to thank the organizers of this important event. [Sound of plane rumbling overhead]. When I fly out of and back into LA, I… Read full post »

"Wedding Party Anti-War Action at Grand Central Station, October 7, 2009.

(Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

More photos such as these from the Wall Street Journal here. 

By Dennis Loo 

October 6, 2009

consortiumnews.com 

Editor’s Note: At the… Read full post »

Bombs and troops?  Or righteous resistance? 

Stephanie Smith, Photo by Ben Garvin, NY Times 

Mad Cow Disease isn’t the only problem.

In the Sunday October 4, 2009 New York Times, a horror story about hazardous hamburger is told by Michael Moss in “Trail of E. Coli Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef.”… Read full post »

The United States Must Withdraw from Afghanistan 

By Kenneth J. Theisen

Thursday October 01, 2009 

Berkeley Daily Planet 

On Oct. 7, 2001 the United States. launched a war of terror against Afghanistan. U.S. leaders are still debating how best to achi… Read full post »

On Wednesday the Justice Department announced Obama's plans for continuing indefinite detentions of individuals deemed “dangerous” by the government. Note that this is a designation rather than an adjudicated fact because those who are being indefinitely detained in this way are… Read full post »

In the September 19, 2009 Washington Post we learn that the DOJ’s investigation of torture by US personnel will be even narrower than originally proposed by Eric Holder.

“The Justice Department's review of detainee abuse by the CIA will focus on a very small number of cases, inc… Read full post »

 By Debra Sweet (first posted at World Can't Wait)

Muntader al-Zaidi, who spent nine months in jail for hurling his shoes at President George W. Bush – and instantly became a hero to people throughout the world - was released from prison recently, and ad/… Read full post »