"That which you do not resist and mobilize to stop you will learn – or be forced – to accept.”
To the Anti-War Movement in the United States:
Barack Obama is sending a surge of 20,000 troops to Afghanistan.
An antiwar movement that does not move immediately to oppose the Obama doctrine of shifting the central front of the war on terror to Afghanistan, no longer deserves to be called an anti-war movement.read more...
The World Can’t Wait organizes people living in the United States to repudiate and stop the fascist direction initiated by the Bush Regime, including: the murderous, unjust and illegitimate occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan; the global “war of terror” of torture, rendition and spying; and the culture of bigotry, intolerance and greed. This direction cannot and will not be reversed by leaders who tell us to seek common ground with fascists, religious fanatics, and empire. It can only be possible by the people building a community of resistance - an independent mass movement of people - acting in the interests of humanity to stop, and demand prosecution, of these crimes.
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Follows Successful London Debut; More Showings Set for California, Virginia
By Andy Worthington
The launch of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” at the Cochrane Theatre in London was a great success. The documentary was extremely well received, with numerous members of the audience explaining afterwards that it spelled out “man’s inhumanity to man” in the context of the “War on Terror” with clarity and eloquence.
Amongst the comments I’ve received is an email thanking me for an “excellent event” and an “important film” that was “very informative and very moving,” and another stating: “The film was brilliantly powerful — both understated and shocking.
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.
"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."
videos of Craig Murray interviews on US sponsored torture
The U.S. government had a set back regarding its various illegal actions in the war of terror it has conducted since 9/11. On November 3, 2009, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced that five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million settlement from the United States government in a case which challenged post-9/11 racial profiling, illegal detention, and abuse of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men.
Yasser Ebrahim, one of the men held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York after the massive post-9/11 sweeps and now living in Egypt, said: “We were deprived of our rights and abused simply because of our religion and the color of our skin. After seven long years, I am relieved to be able to try to rebuild my life. I know that I and others are still affected by what happened and that communities in the U.S. continue to feel the fallout. I sincerely hope this will never happen again.” But such illegal government actions could easily occur again unless those responsible for them are held accountable.
In a breaking story that only CNN in US media appears to be carrying at this point, but numerous other foreign news services such as BBC are carrying: an Italian court has found twenty-two Americans guilty of kidnapping and torture of a cleric.
CBC News today, November 4, 2009, is running the AP wire service report, which reads in part:
“State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said …the Obama administration was ‘disappointed about the verdicts.’
On November 2, 2009, the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in a 7-4 decision dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s law suit against various U.S. officials for their illegal role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year. Arar is a victim of the U.S. government’s kidnapping and torture program known as extraordinary rendition. He is now also a victim of “American Justice.”
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