This is a talk Debra Sweet gave in Madison, Wisconsin in late May at the Veterans for Peace Memorial Day Commemoration: I am so glad to be here in Madison, and to…
Polish Senator’s Startling New Allegations About CIA Torture Prison in Poland
By Andy Worthington In the long quest for accountability for those who ordered, authorized or were complicit in the Bush administration’s torture program, every avenue has been shut down within the US…
Defending Political Prisoners and Fighting Repression
Filmed at the People’s Summit held in Chicago against the NATO Summit, Debra Sweet joined Michael Thurman of the Bradley Manning Support Network and lawyer Michael Deutsch to talk about political repression:…
NATO & Afghanistan: What’s Wrong With the “Good War?”
As NATO leaders met in Chicago to plan ongoing war and US occupation of Afghanistan through 2024, this panel at the People’s Summit looked more deeply into the nature of this completely…
Re-Imagining a Culture of Resistance Against War on Iran
Video from the People’s Summit workshop in Chicago (organized against the NATO Summit). Featuring Debra Sweet, Director of World Can’t Wait with Ali Abdi and Sheida Jafari from Havaar in a discussion of…
Supporting Bradley Manning at Pride
From the NYC Chapter: On Sunday at the Heritage Pride Parade a contingent of Vets for Peace, World Can’t Wait, Grannies, members of Whistleblowers Theater and others marched with banners, signs and whistles…
White House Strategy for Africa Revealed: Intensified Militarization and War on Terror
by Glen Ford President Obama, that imperialist son-of-a…um, Kenyan, last week unveiled what he described as a “new” U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa. The White House report does not once mention AFRICOM,…
The Long Roots of the NYPD Spying Program
by Ramzi Kassem On February 8, 2006, the imam at a Bronx mosque advised congregants to boycott Danish products in response to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper….
Obama’s Killer Drones
by Marjorie Cohn and Jeanne Mirer The Bush administration detained and tortured suspected militants; the Obama administration assassinates them. Both practices not only visit more hatred upon the United States; they are…