CIA operatives went beyond 'legal advice'

April 18, 2014 1:05 PM |
While John Yoo's 'Torture Memos' have been revoked,

"the only case I know of where the Justice Department has ever withdrawn an opinion of the office of legal counsel and officially is no longer U.S. policy," says University of Notre Dame Law Professor Douglass Cassel,

truth bytes

April 16, 2014 1:18 PM |
Despite Senator Feinstein's best efforts to package the contents of her 6,600-page torture investigation to her liking, leaks will continue to frustrate attempts to re-write the history of Guantanamo.

Years of Living Dangerously

April 13, 2014 12:07 PM |
9-part Showtime documentary television series focusing on climate change premieres tonight, April 13, 2014

give the people you know a chance to act to stop the war on women

April 10, 2014 1:25 PM |
A nationwide counter-offensive against the attacks on women's lives -- a movement that is entirely unapologetic about abortion, and is waging uncompromising resistance against the enslavement and degradation of women -- has begun. 

"they couldn't kill him enough"

April 7, 2014 1:48 AM |

the futility of torture

Witness Against U.S. Drone Strikes

April 6, 2014 11:54 PM |

Noor Behram remembers why he started on his mission to photograph the scenes of drone attacks in Pakistan. The reason was 12 dead people -- an entire family extinguished in what was officially a U.S. attack on militants. 

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Unsubstantiated identification of "terrorists" not only denies age-old principles of presumptive innocence, it defies the ability to differentiate the "good" guys from the "bad." Investigative work by journalist Noor Behram and lawyers like Shahzad Akbar reveals the truth about the U.S. drone campaign: that far more civilians are being injured or killed than your government is prepared to admit.

Check out another representation of Noor's work here

President Obama has assigned himself the power of targeted assassination. It is up to us, people living in this country, acting together with people around the world, to stand up, tell the truth, and say no.


We can work to grow resistance at weekly (Wednesday) drone vigils initiated by CodePink,

5:30 - 6:30 pm

north-west corner of Market and Montgomery Streets

San Francisco

 

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World Can't Wait's "Reaper" drone wants to travel. Sign up to make it happen. Call us at 415-864-5153 or email sf@worldcantwait.net .

Then, mark your calendars for upcoming Occupy Beale Air Force Base events:


Good Friday with Kathy Kelly, world-renowned peace activist, 

April 18

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Main Gate

Beale Air Force Base

 

and Veterans United Against Drone Warfare and Militarism

April 28, 3:00 pm  &  April 29, 6:00 am

Protest at all three gates

Beale Air Force Base

Today is the fourth anniversary of Chelsea Manning's leak of the Collateral Murder video of footage from an Apache helicopter which shows trigger-happy soldiers killing twelve civilians.

April 5, 2014 1:31 PM |
Exhibit C of the Army report on "INVESTIG...


Manning, former US intelligence officer, also leaked massive troves of documents which include details about war crimes committed by US army personnel, such as the condoning of torture and killing of innocent civilians in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  Four years after the releases, not one of the people implicated of war crimes in those documents or in the Collateral Murder video has been prosecuted...
  

a slice of truth (maybe)

April 3, 2014 3:16 PM |
As a Senate committee moves to declassify a landmark report about the Central Intelligence Agency's descent into torture, among the only certainties is that the public won't see the vast majority of it...

A Drone's-Eye View of America

April 1, 2014 5:12 PM |
Tomas van Houtryve attached his camera to a small drone and travelled across America to photograph the very sorts of gatherings that have become habitual targets for foreign air strikes--weddings, funerals, groups of people praying or exercising. He also flew his camera over settings in which drones are used to less lethal effect, such as prisons, oil fields, industrial feedlots, and stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border. The images captured from the drone's perspective engage with the changing nature of war, privacy, and government transparency...

"Blue Sky Days" opens April 3rd at the VII Gallery New York, but find a preview, now, in the April issue of Harper's Magazine

End Drone Killing, Drone Surveillance and Global Militarization

March 29, 2014 9:42 PM |

SPRING DAYS OF ACTION - 2014

World Can't Wait repudiates President Obama's assassination program. We urge you to endorse the KNOW DRONES CALL and join with protests nationwide.

MONSTERS IN THE SKY video

What exactly is the interest of the leaders of the world's largest professional association of psychologists in blocking investigation into torture?

March 27, 2014 7:52 PM |
The question of whether American health professionals previously involved in military torture programs should be allowed to quietly and freely continue their careers came to a head recently when it was revealed that the American Psychological Association (APA) refused to pursue ethics charges against psychologist John Leso.

Saleh v. Bush

March 23, 2014 11:12 PM |
NOTE: court hearing has been "vacated," no new date set 
START DATE:

Thursday April 03
TIME:2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location Details:
U.S. Federal Courthouse 
450 Golden Gate Avenue 
San Francisco
Event Type:Court Date
In Saleh v. Bush, lead plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh alleges the Iraq War was a premeditated war against the Iraqi people, with the planning beginning in 1998. Support the efforts of Witness Iraq in bringing a lawsuit against key members of the Bush Administration: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell and Rice. 

Immediately following the hearing, Attorney Inder Comar will address the outcome of the hearing in a press conference. We would very much like your attendance at the hearing to forestall the government's "Motion to Dismiss."

If you are unable to attend CodePink promises to do their very best to livestream the pre-hearing rally and post-hearing press conference. 

Currently, the lawsuit is on the calendar, http://www.cand.uscourts.gov/CEO/cfd.aspx?7146 , but can be rescheduled. 

NOTE: we have no way of knowing how long the hearing will last, so please check the aforementioned website and anticipate a longer timeframe for this action.

http://witnessiraq.com/lawsuit-against-bush-administration/ 



"The system worked."

March 21, 2014 12:20 PM |

-- BRIG. GEN. JEFFREY A. SINCLAIR, who received a reprimand for, among other offenses, mistreating an Army captain who was his mistress, but will not serve any jail time and is allowed to remain in the military.

"Sunshine Week" looking dark

March 20, 2014 6:51 PM |
According to AP's analysis, last year "the government cited national security to withhold information a record 8,496 times -- a 57 percent increase over a year earlier and more than double Obama's first year."

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Among those facing prosecution by the Obama administration for leaking sensitive documents is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. / AP

This is the eleventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

March 19, 2014 12:01 AM |

Bombing, sanctions, occupation, destruction of a whole society

grappling with the world the "war on terror" has created

March 16, 2014 12:11 PM |
the United Nations reviews U.S. compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which requires signatories to respect individual rights to life, due process and fair trials

Stanford students protest war criminal General Petraeus

March 15, 2014 5:24 PM |

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"The war is supposedly over in Iraq and soon to finish in Afghanistan, but for Iraqis and Afghans, the war is far from over. General Petraeus must answer to those who continue to kill and be killed by the policies he introduced. He must be held accountable for violating international law. Allowing him to speak legitimizes his actions and makes us complicit in his crimes." 

-- Emma Wilde Botta and Cole Manley, c/o STATIC

"Remove Brennan, for starters"

March 14, 2014 11:42 PM |
"Given his false assurances to the Senate Intelligence Committee about CIA drone strikes, and his continuing failure to let the public finally know the facts about CIA torture, Brennan should resign or be removed from office so the Committee can examine and confirm new leadership." -- Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee

the Senate Torture Report will not be "completed" until Obama releases thousands of requested documents

March 13, 2014 4:35 PM |
nope-thumb-300x457-1982.pngIn contrast to public assertions that it supports the [Senate Intelligence] committee's work, the White House has ignored or rejected offers in multiple meetings and in letters to find ways for the committee to review the records, a McClatchy investigation has found...


Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/12/4884683/despite-vows-of-help-white-house.html#storylink=cpy

White House holds history hostage

Obama also said that claims that the CIA snooped in on computers used by the Senate Intelligence committee as it probed the agency's interrogations of George W. Bush era terror suspects had been properly handled by chief John Brennan.


"there will be no savior from the Democratic Party"

March 10, 2014 5:10 PM |

video from March 18, 2007: the FOURTH anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

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