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The We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour began today in Cleveland! Thanks to your donations, Liz & Anthony are in several schools in Cleveland and Columbus this week. Report and photos at wearenotyoursoldiers.org. The tour team is actively scheduling schools now for April/May, and next fall. Contact the tour at (347) 385-2195 or email. Thursday April 1. No fooling... 10pm EST/7pm PST. Call in to discuss the We Are Not Your Soldiers tour, make suggestions, learn more. Email here for instructions. In the last month, the number of sustaining donors paying the monthly bills of World Can't Wait has almost doubled... but we're not there yet. This newsletter is not free, for example. It's the main way people hear from World Can't Wait, and costs $400 per month to send to tens of thousands. You can help by becoming a monthly sustainer, and making a recurring donation. Overnight, secretly, President Obama went to Afghanistan. His mission was to twist the arm of Hamid Karzai, the hand-picked Afghan leader. He wasn't actually re-elected, but has Washington's massive backing, for the moment. Karzai is being urged to get tough with the heroin smugglers who populate his government, because they embarass the U.S. Even Fox News reported yesterday that both Karzai's vice presidents are warlords reputed to have killed thousands; hence they are not popular with the people, and Karzai's influence is limited to where US firepower backs him. The New York Times reports this morning that Obama talked to Karzai about "continuing to make progress" on the "rule of law" in Afghanistan. I'm sure the 800+ detainees who are being held by the U.S. at Bagram Prison find that ironic, coming from the president who argues in US court that they can't be allowed habeas corpus rights. There's more on developments in the war and our protests against those wars today in my blog: The Bush regime carried out the destruction of civil society in Iraq. The electrical, educational, sewage, water, and security systems. In the process 1.2 million, displaced more than 4 million, tortured unknown numbers directly in detention, and made the country unlivable. The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war amounted to a war crime on its face, of aggressive war. Should we stop talking about that? Much of this country thinks the war is a) over or b) ending because Obama is withdrawing troops, even though private contractors are still pouring in for a permanent US military occupation. Foreign policy is gone from the headlines... Highlights of last weekend's protests Photos Stephanie Tang of World Can't Wait: Obama's War is Killing the Afghan People, not Saving Them in San Francisco (video) Washington DC March 20: Read AP report. AP video. The Nightmare Will End When We Wake Up! from Iraq war resister & Afghan war veteran Matthis Chiroux Friday March 19, 150 of us disrupted and protested John Yoo at the University of VA: See David Swanson's report: John Yoo: A President Can Nuke the United States

See these and more on worldcantwait.net Cindy Sheehan: Peace Outlaws Craig Considine: 'Suspected Militants' "Why does it seem these daysthat every bomb dropped and every missile strike kills 'suspected militants?' It is either a great coincidence that the targets are real militants or governments, like the US and Pakistan, are applying the label to try to cover up killing innocent civilians..." Andy Worthington: Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney's Torture and Lies Ken Theisen: Obama: "Seriously Considering" Legalization of Permanent Prison Without Trial (a.k.a. "Indefinite Incarceration") Debra Sweet: Fordham University: Prettifying C.I.A. Clandestine Operations

Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait P.S. Watch an interesting piece on Democracy Now this morning: As the President renews his commitment to expand the American military presence in Afghanistan, we turn to a man he is sometimes compared to: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A new special on PBS from TV host and author Tavis Smiley delves into this comparison and looks at a speech that has a particular resonance today with the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Dr. King's famous antiwar speech of April 4, 1967 titled "Beyond Vietnam." Tonight at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, C-SPAN2 will air 'We Count! The Black Agenda is the American Agenda,' the gathering of black leadership he recently hosted in Chicago. On Wednesday night, PBS will air Tavis Smiley's special, featuring Cornel West, "MLK: A Call to Conscience."

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