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How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012

March 3, 2012
How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012

        How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012   Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, February 29, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three [...]

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Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo

January 13, 2012
Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo

Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo By Spencer Ackerman Email Author Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban after 10 years of war in Afghanistan is hard enough. But the stalemated politics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility risk effectively killing the negotiations before they [...]

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The shame of Guantanamo Bay All branches of the US government must act to end one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

January 11, 2012
The shame of Guantanamo Bay   All branches of the US government must act to end one of the most shameful episodes in American history.

Only 6 Guantanamo prisoners have been tried before a military commission [ACLU] New York, New York - This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first prisoner arriving at Guantanamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in US history. Guantanamo has been a catastrophic failure on every front. It has long been past the time [...]

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Ex-Commander of Guantanamo Prison: ‘Close It’ After Ten Years, Disparate Voices Call for Guantanamo Closure

January 7, 2012
Ex-Commander of Guantanamo Prison: ‘Close It’  After Ten Years, Disparate Voices Call for Guantanamo Closure

        (John Moore / Getty Images)The Daily Beast carried this headlinetoday: Ex-Commander of Guantanamo Prison: ‘Close It’ After Ten Years, Disparate Voices Call for Guantanamo Closure Next week, January 11, will mark ten years since the US government opened the prison facility in Guantanamo Bay on the island nation of Cuba.  As this solemn [...]

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‘Obama Just Didn’t Have the Balls to Follow With the Right Thing’

January 3, 2012
‘Obama Just Didn’t Have the Balls to Follow With the Right Thing’

    ‘Obama Just Didn’t Have the Balls to Follow With the Right Thing’ By RT January 02, 2012 “RT” –  One of the first promises made by President Obama when he first came to power back in 2008 was to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Four years later it is still operational. [...]

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Fascism always begins at home

December 31, 2011
Fascism always begins at home

      Perhaps the saying that fascism always begins at home is not so far fetched. But it is a little late to look at one aspect and then declare that this is the beginning. Unfortunately for the highly propagandized US population there has been a slow creep toward a fascist nation occurring for [...]

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New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules

December 28, 2011
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further  Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules

      New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules by John Glaser, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication [...]

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Latest Gitmo suicide

June 30, 2011
Latest Gitmo suicide

Latest Guantánamo prison camp suicide was ‘indefinite detainee’ Sign up for email newsletters now! Never miss a McClatchy story Register Log in Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Add us to your iPhone or G1 MORE ON THIS STORY Story | Pentagon names new Guantanamo war crimes prosecutor Story | Another former Guantanamo detainee named [...]

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Ceci n’est pas une guerre When is this not a war?

June 28, 2011
Ceci n’est pas une guerre When is this not a war?

Ceci n’est pas une guerre Chase Madar 24 June 2011 Tags: law | libya If anyone should have been able to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy, it was Harold Hongju Koh. The dean of Yale Law School and a prominent critic of Bush-Cheney lawlessness, his reputation was clinched by a chorus of [...]

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What a surprise . Obama says he would repeat the assassination that he hopes will get him re-elected.

May 22, 2011
What a surprise . Obama says he would repeat the assassination that he hopes will get him re-elected.

Barack Obama says he would repeat Pakistan raid Barack Obama says he respects Pakistani sovereignty but would go after another ‘very high-value target’ if found to be there Share98 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 May 2011 10.03 BST Article history Andrew Marr interviewed Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Photograph: [...]

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Turning to Dictatorship, is this the US future?

May 17, 2011
Turning to Dictatorship, is this the US future?

Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF   Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]

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The great oil race

May 17, 2011
The great oil race

One day everyone or at least those left alive and still able to think and speak will thank Assange whoever and whatever he was,is and will be. For the elites the hegemons the imperialists and the capitalists the truth has to be guarded against. Elaborate systems of lies, deceit and murder must be put in place [...]

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Carney Knowledge

May 17, 2011
Carney Knowledge

Carney knowledge used to be a crime but these days it seem to be the best way of avoiding a discussion by using it to say they were right now what is your question? Even to a child in a school yard that is not an accepted way of talking but in the US anything [...]

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May 16, 2011

    Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]

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International Law and assassinating Bin Laden

May 16, 2011
International Law and assassinating Bin Laden

This is an article from Der Spiegel about the Bin Laden assassination. After all the rumour and innuendo dies down what we can expect is that the US will continue to lie about what really happened for what can only be reasons of world domination. However, by simply going into a foreign country and assassinating someone like Israel their close cohorts [...]

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There was also the line in the movie about rounding up twice the usual suspects

May 16, 2011
There was also the line in the movie about rounding up twice the usual suspects

Round Up the Usual Suspects … and Shoot Them By DOUGLAS LUMMIS The issue is not whether bin Laden was a very bad man (I suppose he was) or for that matter whether Barack Obama is also a very bad man (looking worse all the time), but what happens to the law when states violate [...]

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US at war

May 15, 2011
US at war

This is part one of a story about the US and war. It forms part of Volume 1 of the autobiography of Mark Twain It makes interesting reading,  George Ikners  ikners.com Click to Print This Page [page 403]Monday, March 12, 1906     Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros—Men, women and children—In a [...]

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Latest from Libya and the Great Australian Crawl

May 14, 2011
Latest from Libya and the Great Australian Crawl

Have knees will crawl the US and Mining magnates a specialty   If you believe the official line the US did not see 911 coming and somehow have managed to blunder their way along playing the good guys against the forces of darkness. Yet they would have everyone believe their CIA possesses intelligence beyond the [...]

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Why should Obama ask Congress that’s not the way the imperial project works, like it or leave it rules.

May 14, 2011
Why should Obama ask Congress that’s not the way the imperial project works, like it or leave it rules.

Obama Confirms Libya War to Continue – But Will He Ever Ask Congress? With No Authorization Sought, Officials Mull Ways to Skirt Legal Requirements by Jason Ditz, May 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a White House meeting today with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen,President Obama confirmed that the US [...]

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The Afghan war without end a David Swanson article

May 14, 2011
The Afghan war without end a David Swanson article

Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history   General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]

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A dubious immortality. People will never forget you when they hate you so much. The Tony Blair crimes we will always remember. Here in Australia we fell for the lot and became partners in the criminal enterprise

May 13, 2011
A dubious immortality. People will never forget you when they hate you so much. The Tony Blair crimes we will always remember. Here in Australia we fell for the lot and became partners in the criminal enterprise

Defense Intelligence Staff chief blows British cover for Iraq War Submitted by NicolasDavies on Fri, 2011-05-13 01:13 Iraq Paul Pillar, a senior CIA analyst who worked on the 25-page “summary of intelligence” presented to Congress in 2002, later told PBS, “The purpose was to strengthen the case for going to war…I regret having had a [...]

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May 13, 2011

The totally cold hearted and bloodthirsty imperial project can perhaps even if for some ulterior reason produce something like a good result. For those of you who think that worse is better try looking at those affected and think about grabbing even the most meagre of forced concessions with  open arms. No doubt anyone allowed [...]

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Kill first then take information, is that the real mission?

May 12, 2011
Kill first then take information, is that the real mission?

Kill the Men, Take the Thumb Drives Was the Bin Laden raid a manhunt or an intelligence grab? By William SaletanPosted Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 8:46 AM ET How important was intelligence-gathering to the Bin Laden raid?One after another, elements of the U.S. account of Osama Bin Laden‘s death have unraveled. First it was [...]

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Is this a new age of ‘enlightened war’ or just the continued push for hegemony?

May 12, 2011
Is this a new age of ‘enlightened war’ or just the continued push for hegemony?

Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth.  I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden.  They and their special ops [...]

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Afghanistan the war will never stop

May 12, 2011
Afghanistan the war will never stop

Afghanistan: war without end? The Guardian Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary Robert Gates upon his [...]

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No sanitizing torture

May 9, 2011
No sanitizing torture

THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY NEWS DESK Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. « The Sounds of 9/11 Main What a Week: Mostly Osama, and Some Other Stuff » MAY 5, 2011 PRAGMATIC TORTURE Posted by David K. Shipler Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with [...]

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The economy

May 8, 2011
The economy

Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]

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Chomsky- a brief matter

May 8, 2011
Chomsky- a brief matter

An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]

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Scrambled Media eats Obama crumble

May 8, 2011
Scrambled Media eats Obama crumble

While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]

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The aftermath of the Bin Laden killing

May 6, 2011
The aftermath of the Bin Laden killing

Even the administration in the US including those elements who organised and carried out the killing accept  that this action is hardly the end of Al Qaeda, the euphoria among the population could well be displaced by further concerted actions from the group. What seems to come from the ever changing reports of what happened [...]

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At the end of the day

May 3, 2011
At the end of the day

At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]

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Guantanamo also used for minors. The war on terror knows no bounds when it is the real terrorist conducting the war

April 29, 2011
Guantanamo also used for minors. The war on terror knows no bounds when it is the real terrorist conducting the war

Leaked Files Detail Gitmo’s History of Child Prisoners Over 60 Detainees Were Under 18 When Captured by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Guantanamo Bay’s detention center hasn’t just been home to aging militants, like 89 year old Mohammed Sadiq, who was described in his 2002 assessment as suffering [...]

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Gitmo Informer

April 27, 2011
Gitmo Informer

    Leaked files: Gitmo inmate informed on 123 others 1 Comment and 3 Reactions|Tweet|Share|Print|Email|More ** FILE ** An inmate of Camp X-Ray is escorted by two guards while other inmates are seen in their cells at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2002. By Associated Press 9:47 a.m., Tuesday, April [...]

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Guantanamo doctors ignored torture

April 27, 2011
Guantanamo doctors ignored torture

    Study: Gitmo Doctors Ignored Signs of Torture Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee [...]

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Guantanamo files on all detainees

April 26, 2011
Guantanamo files on all detainees

                                        The Guardian has a very extensive site with a huge amount of information on all Gitmo detainees. You can got to the interactive site at  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-guantanamo-bay This is a very majot source of information Guantánamo [...]

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Guantanamo: Tragedy beyond belief

April 26, 2011
Guantanamo: Tragedy beyond belief

                                          The United States released dozens of so-called “high-risk” detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military [...]

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