Renewed focus is being turned to the nearly 200 individuals being held as suspected “enemy combatants” at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba with deteriorating conditions creating unrest at the prison and President Obama asserting that the facility “is not necessary to keep America safe.” The complicated history and uncertain future of the U.S. prison [...]
THE IMMIGRATION PUSH: “AT THIS MOMENT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S A GENUINE DESIRE TO GET THIS DONE SOON.“ Following the lead of a bipartisan group of senators that introduced legislation earlier in the day, President Obama on Tuesday delivered a public endorsement of the effort to achieve “comprehensive” immigration reform. The president spoke of [...]
APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! TO OBAMA FOR HELPING TO STRIP AWAY HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS OF GITMO DETAINEES. (Brasscheck TV) Cenk Uygur offers this satirical “applause” for the President for the role of the U.S. government in generating a federal court ruling that essentially removed the right of detainees to demand trials as an earlier Supreme Court ruling [...]
“PLEASE TORTURE ME IN THE OLD WAY.“ (UK Independent) This is the plaintive appeal of the last Briton imprisoned at Guantanamo, Shaker Aamer, as he is about to observe the 10th anniversary of his being held as a terrorism suspect without any formal charges being filed. His complaint is that his continued separation from his [...]
THE GREG MORTENSEN STORY: THREE CUPS OF AMERICAN IMPERIAL HUBRIS. Madeleine Bunting de-constructs what appears to be but one of a string of “disgraced” authors who wrote books claiming information of personal experiences that were actually fabrications. Mortensen was the American nurse who claimed to have been hurt on a mountain climb and restored to [...]
OPINION: THE RESPONSIBILITY OF TORTURE PROSECUTION (Guardian UK) fter years of promises, the Obama administration has announced that it will not be closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay any time soon. In fact, 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be tried their in a military tribunal, continuing the dark legacy of the Bush administration’s [...]
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