by Andy Worthington What is the government doing? Last year, when Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with its contentious passages endorsing the mandatory military detention of terror suspects, there…
World Can’t Wait–Hawai’i Sponsors “Festival of Resistance” at UH Manoa
From World Can’t Wait, Hawai’i On September 12th World Can’t Wait-Hawai`i held its annual “Festival of Resistance” at the University of Hawai`i. The Festival has been held at the beginning of each…
Seeing Afghanistan Differently than the Occupiers See It
by Debra Sweet Plans by the U.S. to maintain a Special Forces occupation of Afghanistan until 2024 are being severely tested. But only press from other countries reports what the two main…
September 13: Blowing the Whistle Coast to Coast…
From Revolution Newspaper On Stop-and-Frisk… Racial Profiling, Police Brutality and Murder and the Pipeline to Mass Incarceration On September 13, in cities coast to coast, people blew the whistle on stop-and-frisk, racial…
Italy: Convictions of Former CIA Agents for Kidnapping, Rendition Upheld
by Kevin Gosztola The highest appeals court in Italy upheld verdicts against twenty-three Americans, all of whom are CIA agents except one. They were found guilty of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric known…
Protests Against Drones Spreading
By Joe Scarry | No Drones Network Protests against U.S. drone killing and drone surveillance are breaking out all over — there are events happening in state after state, and just about anyone who…
Three Things You Need to Know About the Background for Events in the Middle East and North Africa
From Revolution Newspaper Mass protests and attacks on U.S. embassies took place in more than 20 countries across the Middle East and North Africa last week, including in Egypt, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan,…
October 6, 7 & 8 No More Decades of War on the World
by Debra Sweet STOP U.S. Aggression and Continued War on the World! Not in Our Name! Obama expanded the U.S. war on the people of Afghanistan begun 11 years ago by the Bush regime,…
Another Guantánamo Prisoner Death Highlights Democrats’ Hypocrisy
With closing Guantánamo given up as a lost cause, Obama’s policy has moved onto assassination rather than detention by Glenn Greenwald A detainee at Guantánamo was found dead in his cell on…
Dead After 11 Years of Despair: A Prisoner Who Proved Gitmo Is Immoral
by Conor Friedersdorf If the unjust incarceration of Adnan Latif inspired in conservatives even a fraction of the concern that they had for Scooter Libby; if liberals felt for him a small…