Click to enlarge By Curt Wechsler, editor of FireJohnYoo.net I’ve got to confess… when I connected to World Can’t Wait in 2006, some prisoners at Guantanamo had been tortured for four years….
In Memoriam: Gore Vidal
Our friend Gore Vidal died last evening at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 86. He was a prolific writer, a fierce and sarcastic critic of what he saw…
More Subpoenas & Grand-juries, Portland OR
World Can’t Wait, along with 160 organizations, has signed on to protest the raids and subpoenas last week and the sitting grand jury in Portland, all part of a wave of political…
Abd Al-Rahim Al-Nashiri: The Torture Victim the US Is Desperate to Gag
By Andy Worthington The millionaire Saudi businessman accused of being the brains behind the terrorist attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen in 2000, in which 17 US soldiers died,…
Robert Fisk: Syrian War of Lies and Hypocrisy
By Robert Fisk | August 1, 2012 Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and…
Take Patriarchy By Storm, Aug 4 – 14th, NYC
By Sunsara Taylor If you hate the way that women are not only raped but then blamed and shamed for being raped… If your blood boils at the knowledge of millions of…
World Can’t Wait Condemns Theft & Trashing of ANSWER LA Office
Sometime late Monday night July 23 or in the early hours of Tuesday July 24, 2012 ANSWER Coalition’s Los Angeles office was broken into and thoroughly ransacked. All ten of their computers,…
Oakland CA Obama Protest
By San Francisco Bay Area World Can’t Wait Chapter Monday, July 23, 2012, as Obama came to the Bay Area for multiple campaign fundraising appearances, a large protest crowd was in the…
Bagram: Still a Black Hole for Foreign Prisoners
By Andy Worthington Back in March 2009, three foreign prisoners seized in other countries and rendered to the main US prison in Afghanistan, at Bagram airbase, where they had been held for…
Lawyers for Bagram detainees seek habeas like at Guantánamo
U.S. soldiers stand outside cells in this 2010 file photo at "Parwan Detention Facility" in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Musadeq Sadeq By Michael Doyle WASHINGTON — Prisoners held without…