Zero Dark Thirty represents the CIA’s view of the world: an eleven- year illegitimate, unjust, immoral “war of terror” on Muslims as revenge for 9/11. WHAT HAPPENED on 9/11/01 in New York City…
Journalist Expert on U.S. Prison in Guantanamo Speaks on 11th Anniversary of Illegal Prison
For Immediate Release January 10, 2013 Andy Worthington has spent the last seven years researching and writing about Guantánamo, and the men held there. Based in London, he is the author of…
Torture is Wrong
by Debra Sweet Things are starting to break open in protest against the film Zero Dark Thirty which opens nationally Friday on the anniversary of Guantanamo. Amnesty International projected the message TORTURE…
Drone Protests This Weekend
by Debra Sweet Ironies of living in the post-Bush world: 1. The only CIA operative connected to waterboarding and torture during the Bush regime to be jailed, John Kiriakou, will go to…
Eleven Years of Guantánamo: Andy Worthington Visits the US to Campaign for the Prison’s Closure
by Andy Worthington It’s over 24 hours since I arrived in the US, with the support of Witness Against Torture, World Can’t Wait and Close Guantánamo, for a series of events to…
Zero Dark Thirty, or How a People Lose Their Humanity
by Annie Day I was shaking as I walked out of Zero Dark Thirty, the new film about the CIA’s 10-year search for Osama bin Laden. Shaking and queasy. Wanting to hear…
“We Might Be Going To Jail, But We Still Will Not Be Complicit With Our Government’s War Crimes”
From the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars Join us as we walk from Hancock Airfield to the Onondaga County Jail on January 11th beginning at 12…
Drones Kill Kids: Protesting in Hawaii Obama’s Drone Program
by Ann Wright As President Barack Obama spent his last day, January 5, in Hawaii, representatives from Hawaii Peace and Justice and World Can’t Wait protested his assassin drone program and lack…
ZERO DARK THIRTY – Movie Justification of Torture Protested Yesterday
by the SF Bay World Can’t Wait Chapter Emeryville, CA, Friday January 4: At an AMC multiplex where Zero Dark Thirty opened in the Bay Area, World Can’t Wait and other activists…
GOP and Feinstein join to fulfill Obama’s demand for renewed warrantless eavesdropping
…Obama successfully relied on Senate Republicans… along with a dozen of the most militaristic Democrats to ensure that he can continue to eavesdrop on Americans without any warrants, transparency or real oversight….