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People concerned with unjust war being waged in our name are, and should be, very concerned about the tense situation in Ukraine. Particularly when the Commander in Chief goes on about the "aspirations" of the people of Ukraine, and its territorial integrity, we have to take serious notice.  Say what? Concern for the "democratic aspirations" or the Iraqi people was the justification for destroying Iraq eleven years ago. But searching news reports won't get you to truth on this. Several articles below uncover the basic big-power interests through which the U.S. decides who at any point is "democratic," and therefore, to be controlled, and who is in a "strategic" area and therefore to be squashed. Trampling On Other Nations? The U.S. Empire Was Built On That (March 10, Revolution): “this crisis is driven by the ‘jockeying for position and geopolitical advantage by rival imperialist powers—with the potential to escalate into direct great-power confrontation.’ (See Ukraine: Not a ‘Democratic Uprising’ but a Clash Between Predators.) In all this, people in the United States are being systematically lied to and taught to identify—unthinkingly and uncritically—with the interests of the U.S. ruling class that sits atop a world of vicious exploitation, ferocious oppression, and environmental devastation.” The article's listing of US interventions draws on the paper, “A Century of U.S. Military Interventions: From Wounded Knee to Iraq,” by Zoltán Grossman, faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies, The Evergreen State College, a useful work of history. Bill Blum, an adviser to WarCriminalsWatch.org in his Anti-Empire Report of March 7, looks at the National Endowment for Democracy, “an agency created by the Reagan administration in 1983 to promote political action and psychological warfare against states not in love with US foreign policy, [and] is Washington’s foremost non-military tool for effecting regime change,” succeeding the CIA in doing some of this work, with 65 projects in the Ukraine. Different players, presidents, parties, yes, but the same scenario holds: the fact that Russia and other oppressive global powers are contending with the U.S. with their own drive to expand their piece of the action doesn’t diminish for a minute the fact that when it comes to “respecting the integrity of other countries,” nobody can touch the record of the U.S.A. No US/NATO intervention! The Iraq Project: Reuters: Iraqi Protesters hold a banner during a demonstration against the draft of the ''Al-Jafaari'' Personal Status Law during International Women's Day in Baghdad March 8, 2014. From January 29, 2014, Haifa Zangana’s presentation to the European Parliament in Brussels, “US War Crimes: The Continuing Deterioration of Women’s Rights in Iraq”: “The regression in women’s situation is devastating. I will focus on violence in the public sphere and how it became so prominent that women have been forced to give up hard earned rights, such as employment, freedom of movement, abolition of polygamy, and the right to education and health services, seeking instead, protection for themselves and their families. “The occupation of Iraq in 2003 left Iraqi women in a terrible state of regression on two interrelated levels. The first level is relevant to women as citizens in an environment that lacks guarantees and protection by a credible national criminal justice system embodying international standards. This subjects women as well as men to violations of their human rights. “The second level is to do with gender-related violence in public which is particularly relevant during occupation, war and armed conflict, often providing the context for sexual abuse, rape, and trafficking of women and girls.” Suggestions for best articles, films, books, art, music on how the U.S. destroyed Iraq can be emailed here. Spanish language content welcome. We'll post the results next week, and continue it as an on-going project. Resources for the Iraq Project continue to be collected here. War Criminals Not Welcome at Rutgers, Say Faculty Condoleeza Rice is to be given an honorary degree, and be the commencement speaker for 2014 at Rutgers University in New Jersey. However, not if the faculty gets its way. They passed a resolution calling for the invitation to give the commencement speech to be rescinded: “Condoleezza Rice... played a prominent role in (the Bush) administration’s effort to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction,” according to the resolution. And she “at the very least condoned the Bush administration’s policy of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ such as waterboarding,” it said. Rutgers President, Robert Barchi, says the University will not disinvite Rice, citing "free speech," and "academic freedom." Share this message: Thursday March 20 World Can't Wait Conversation March 19//20 is the anniversary of "Shock & Awe" on Iraq.  We'll be joined by Larry Everest, author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. As a writer for Revolution, Larry was in Iraq, reporting after the Persian Gulf War, and has written extensively since then about U.S. aggression towards Iraq. We are collecting questions now, so that we can make the most use of our one hour conference call. Send your comments, questions, or a particular area you'd like to explore in the conversation. Register for dial-in details. World Can't Wait Calendar: Protest Henry Kissinger Thursday March 20: Chicago 5:30 pm Hyatt Regency Hotel 151 East Wacker Drive Co-sponsored by the 8th Day Center for Justice, Anti-War Committee - Chicago, Gay Liberation Network, Illinois Coalition Against Torture, International Socialist Organization, La Voz de los de Abajo, Neighbors for Peace, NW Indiana Vets for Peace, Third Coast Society, United States Palestinian Community Network, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, World Can't Wait – Chicago (list in formation). For more info or to endorse, email LGBTliberation@aol.com Facebook Event Drones & Dirty Wars: Prelude to Drone Days of Action 2014 Wednesday April 2 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Community Church 40 E. 35th Street, NYC & live webcast featuring:     Madiha Tahir, film maker, Wounds of Waziristan         An independent journalist reporting on conflict, culture and politics in Pakistan, she has followed     the U.S. drone attacks there for years.     Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights who specializes in international human rights litigation, seeking to hold government officials and orporations accountable for torture, extrajudicial killings, and war crimes abroad.     Carl Dix, Vietnam War resister & Revolutionary Communist Party.  A leader of protests against police brutality, stop-and-frisk, & founder, with Cornel West, of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network.     Sponsored by kNOwdrones & World Can't Wait, Action for Justice Committee / The Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist Unmanned, directed by Casey Cooper Johnson, is a 20 minute short feature film about a drone operator who comes to question his role. It's well written & acted, and very suitable for high school audiences. If you'd like a DVD for non-commercial use, please email us. Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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