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While protesting in Times Square Saturday, we listened amid the noise to Obama’s speech of mostly stick, and a little carrot. Some of the protesters took his “largesse” at offering Congress the chance to endorse his plan to attack Syria (the carrot) as a concession by Obama. They say we should seize the moment and “let Congress know” how many people are against this strike and potential regional war. Congress knows, as they read the public opinion polls too, and there could be an actual political fight in Congress over Obama’s plan, leading to a political damage for his agenda. But, as John Kerry, the former anti-war veteran turned Secretary of ruling class warmongering said, “We don’t contemplate that the Congress is going to vote no,” Kerry said, but he stressed the president had the right to take action “no matter what Congress does.” That was the stick of Obama’s message, backed up by his assertion that as Commander in Chief, his military is ready today, tomorrow, or in the near future to strike. Read more... With Speaker Boehner backing the attack, and more right-wing Republicans, and "liberal" Democrats like Keith Ellison supporting Obama's proposed war crime, we call on everyone to join in mass protest. Many protests are set for around the U.S. in the next week. September 7: Washington, DC September 4San Francisco Seattle September 5Chicago September 6Chicago Tucson September 7Rochester Seattle NYC September 8Washington, DC Los Angeles September 12Washington, DC Also, check iacenter.org, answercoalition.org and interoccupy.net for other lists of emergency protests to stop an attack on Syria. Flier for distribution: Determined Political Protest Needed NOW (In Spanish) World Can’t Wait is posting key articles on the U.S. intervention against Syria. Also see: Dennis Loo: O-bomb-a Syria Larry Everest Lies to Justify an Immoral War Share this message: Join the World Can't Wait Discussion Call Thursday September 5th 10pm EDT/7 pm PDT We will be talking about Syria, Obama, Congress, and the protests against a likely U.S. strike. REGISTER for Dial-In Info. OBOMBA: In 2009 this image was really controversial. We've been sold out for awhile. The message referred to targeted killing in Pakistan. Now we could add Yemen, Somalia, Libya... and Syria? Two Prisoners Finally Released from Guantanamo Two Algerian men, who have waited six years after being "cleared" to leave, are finally home in Algeria. Reprieve reported last week: “Guantanamo detainee and Reprieve client Nabil Hadjarab, who was cleared for release in 2007, was last night released and transferred to Algeria along with a second man. “Reprieve hopes that this positive step marks the beginning of further releases from the prison. 164 men remain in Guantanamo, over half of whom have been cleared for release. According to official figures, 36 men are still on hunger strike and 32 are being force-fed, a practice denounced by the World Medical Association as amounting to torture.” Read more... GTMO Clock: 100 Days Since Obama Promised to Release Prisoners from Guantanamo, Just Two Men Freed. Andy Worthington reports. Hemisphere Project: It's not only the NSA. The New York Times reported Monday: “For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls — parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly disputed collection of phone call logs. ” Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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