As we drive through the Indiana cornfields on our way toward Indianapolis, I wonder whether this is the subsidized corn that floods the Mexican market, undercutting campesinos and pushing them al norte. …
Summary of Arkansas Visit, July 23-26
The third week of the tour, the World Can’t Wait bus stops in Arkansas, a politically scattered state with an overarching powerful theocratic and Republican presence. The bus should even have a…
CIA targeted `more than 10′ in Italy for kidnap, agent says
Chicago Tribune, 7/31/06 Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda, a…
New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay
The Independent, 7/30 The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban…
Audit Finds U.S. Hid Cost of Iraq Projects
NY Times, 7/30 The State Department agency in charge of $1.4 billion in reconstruction money in Iraq used an accounting shell game to hide ballooning cost overruns on its projects there and…
Voices Speaking Out
Why I Signed the Call: Camilo Mejia, Conscientious Objector Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate playwright Juan Torres, Gold Star Family Member Naomi Wallace, playwright Poems: Eve Ensler – Fire His Ass Martin Espada …
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME BUS TOUR COMES TO COLUMBUS, OH
For Immediate Release July 28th, 2006 DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME BUS TOUR COMES TO COLUMBUS,OH CONFRONTS THEOCRACY, STOLEN ELECTIONS, GOVERNMENTSPYING, AND MORE. www.worldcantwait.org Press contact: World Can’t Wait Cleveland, 216-633-6200, cleveland@worldcantwait.org…
WCW Press Coverage in Eureka Springs
The Lovely County Citizen (Eureka Springs’ newspaper) has publish an account of our visit to the town as well as the Summer Bus Tour. [read more]
Interview with Eureka Springs Teacher
World Can’t Wait visited Eureka Springs to set up a “Truth Museum”; a visual presentation that explained the basic principles of evolution and defending against the attacks on science and scientific thinking. …
Day 4: Little Rock, AK
Today, an “untraditional marriage” was held on the steps of City Hall in protest of the state’s defining of marriage as between a man and a woman. In the presence of several…