Debra Sweet | March 31, 2021 World Can’t Wait received this appeal from Iranian, American & international advocates for justice.I am asking you to sign & help. As the appeal says: In…
Xenophobia and Racism: They’re in the Republican Party’s DNA
Steven Jonas | March 29, 2021 Steve Jonas has provided us with a brief background to the Republican Party’s history of xenophobia and racism. At the recent House of Representatives hearing on…
Anti-Asian Violence at Imperialist Scale
Debra Sweet | March 25, 2021 The spike in physical and verbal attacks on Asian American Pacific Islanders in the U.S. is horrific, unacceptable and predictable. Think, for example, that Asians were…
SURVIVORS OF THE MY LAI MASSACRE
Mike Hastie, Army Medic Vietnam | March 17, 2021 It is Sunday night, around 9:00 PM on March 14, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. In two days, it will be the 53rd Anniversary…
Obama said he’d close Guantánamo — these activists are pushing Biden to finish the job
Jeremy Varon | March 17, 2021 {jathumbnailoff} This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. What should have been an end to the Guantánamo saga in 2012, was only the beginning of…
Meet the Veterans in We Are Not Your Soldiers
Debra Sweet | February 19, 2021 {jathumbnailoff} UPDATE: You can watch the recoded panel discussion here: You are invited to an on-line panel discussion with the presenters who go into classrooms…
Yemenis Aren’t Starving. They are BEING starved.
Debra Sweet | February 12, 2021 In a welcome development, Biden has announced US plans to re-enter the Iran nuclear agreement, reversing Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement negotiated under Obama. He also…
‘The Mauritanian’ rekindles debate over Gitmo detainees’ torture – with 40 still held there
Lisa Hajjar | February 12, 2021 {jathumbnailoff} Click here to read the orginal post on theconversation.com “The Mauritanian,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is the first feature film to dramatize how the war on terror became a…
Trump, Trumpism, and 21st Century Fascism
Dr. Steven Jonas | February 4, 2021 This article was submitted by long-time World Can’t Wait supporter and prolific writer Dr. Steven Jonas. You can read more of his articles on BuzzFlash…
Will Guantanamo stay the forever prison?
Debra Sweet | February 2, 2021 Is the torture colony established by the U.S. in 2002 a forever prison? Three U.S. presidents said: “Yes, these are the worst of the worst;” “No…