"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.
World Can't Wait wants to know what you think about the Torture Memos released April 16, 2009, and the controversy over prosecution of those in the Bush administration responsible for torture.
Los Angeles, CAI am fed up with this war economy which has sunk this country into the depths of depression. Out of Iraq! Out of Afghanistan! Learn from the past and let's have an era of peace! Shame on Obama! Shame on the Democrats! Shame on anyone who supports war!
San Antonio TexasIt is important that we are a voice to counter US imperialism. Our foreign policy has, for too long, been the cause of much of the world's misery. It's time to end the capitalist, expansionist exploitation of other countries.
San Francisco, CA Continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is just going to make more Middle Eastern people hate America. If we really want to stop terrorism, we should start by ending our own imperialistic acts of terror that we perpetrate around the world under the guise of "spreading democracy."
On the news today of the death of Harold Pinter, the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, I remembered hearing his Nobel Laureate lecture/acceptance speech. I was in London in December, 2005 speaking at the annual Stop the War conference when Pinter delivered his speech - not in Oslo, as Pinter was very sick and could not travel, but in London via TV link.
I was amazed and thrilled that he chose to use the Nobel Prize platform and devote a huge portion of his speech to shining an international spotlight on the tragic effects of the past decades of US foreign policy and particularly, on George Bush and Tony Blair's decisions to invade and occupy Iraq, on Guantanamo and on torture.
Pinter's Laureate speech question, "Is Our Conscience Dead?" is most relevant today when three years after his acceptance speech, "Art, Truth and Politics," Bush, Cheney, Rice and other administration officials are either trying to rewrite history or, as in Cheney's case - purposefully revealing his role in specific criminal acts of torture and daring the American legal system and people to hold him accountable.
Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize winning playwright, died in London recently. Pinter became known (and notorious) throughout the English speaking world for his ability to “create dramatic poetry out of everyday speech.” The Guardian called his work “provocative, powerful, and influential”, and plays such as The Caretaker, The Homecoming, and Celebration have become part of the repertory of great theater.
Throughout his life, Pinter was engaged intensely in political life. His laureate speech when he won the Nobel Prize was a blistering condemnation of the Bush Regime, and that of Bush's partner in crime, British Prime Minster Tony Blair. Its words, reprinted below, remain as powerful, eloquent, and challenging as ever.
Harold Pinter signed the call for World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime. When he did so, he explained:
"The Bush Administration is the most dangerous force that has ever existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany because of the range and depth of its activities and intentions worldwide. I give my full support to the Call to Drive out the Bush Regime."
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