by: Tom Engelhardt . Yes, Stanley McChrystal is the general from the dark side (and proud of it). So the recent sacking of Afghan commander General David McKiernan after less than a…
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Does Cheney Make Obama Look Good?
By David Swanson Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison. But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly…
The Truth They Don’t Want YOU to Know
Obama Censors Photos of U.S. Torture On Wednesday, May 13, Barack Obama reversed his previously announced position, and said that he would move to block the release of some 2000 photos documenting…
What Israeli Democracy Looks Like
Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don’t go hand in hand. – Lyle Rogers and Chuck "The Hawk" Clarke, Ishtar (1987) by Nima Shirazi Last Tuesday, prominent Israeli…
Granting Immunity Makes Obama Complicit
By Michael Ratner Yes, it is good that President Obama ordered the release of four more of the torture memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush…
Obama Protecting Bush from Spain?
By David Swanson The official story is that Spain has decided not to prosecute Bush’s torture lawyers. Yet the known facts suggest something else entirely. 1-We know that the prosecutor who…
The Collapse of “The Movement”; the Resistance and the Revolutionary Movement We Need
This thought provoking article, which we encourage all our readers to study, think about, pass around, and discuss, first appeared on the website of Revolution newspaper. Part I. Introduction A grievous,…
Science under Attack in Texas
World Can’t Wait received the following letter from Defend Science Letter to Defend Science Signatories Two important decisions have just been announced in Texas, one a court case and the…
In Warrantless Wiretapping Case, Obama DOJ’s New Arguments Are Worse Than Bush’s
Commentary by Tim Jones We had hoped this would go differently. Last week, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless…
The Rotten Orchard
This article originally appeared on Wide Asleep in America, the blog of “Lord Baltimore” On March 19th, two months after the 22-day devastation of Gaza and the slaughtering of over 1,400 Palestinians,…