A top US military official confirmed on Thursday that Guantanamo Bay is “prepared” to take in new VIP detainees, and is just waiting on the order to do so. President Trump last month signed an executive order reversing Obama’s 2009 directive to close down the infamous terrorist prison. According to a Military of Defense report, […]
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Israeli diplomat itemizes U.S. ‘injustices’ — from Guantanamo to drone strikes to Japanese internment
Israel has a “better” democracy than the American one, Israeli consul general Dani Dayan told an Israel advocacy group at Columbia University this week, and both countries commit “injustices.” The diplomat then reeled off four American examples. We [Israel] made our share of injustices. We still do. In a 100-year conflict, there is no country […]
Trump Just Signed an Executive Order to Keep Guantanamo Bay Open
January 31, 2018 By Jason Ditz President Trump has signed an executive order that is intended to reverse President Obama’s intentions to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Details are still emerging, but a leaked cable suggests this plan was in the offing for awhile. Trump has been clear time and again […]
Call To Global Action Against Illegal U.S. Occupation Of Guantanamo
Call To Global Action Against Illegal U.S. Occupation Of Guantanamo Above Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo/ Flickr Dear Advocates of Peace, Justice and Peoples’ Sovereignty: The Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases calls upon peace activists in the U.S. and around the world to organize actions, of whatever size and nature, on or around February […]
Solidarity From Central Cellblock To Guantanamo
Solidarity From Central Cellblock To Guantanamo On Thursday, January 11, the sixteenth anniversary of the opening of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was marked by a coalition of 15 human rights organizations gathered in Lafayette Park, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House in Washington, DC. An interfaith prayer service was […]
41 Hearts Beating In Guantanamo
41 Hearts Beating In Guantanamo Above photo: Witness Against Torture protestors march to the White House (Justin Norman) January 11, 2018 marked the 16th year that Guantanamo prison has exclusively imprisoned Muslim men, subjecting many of them to torture and arbitrary detention. About thirty people gathered in Washington D.C., convened by Witness Against Torture, (WAT), for a […]
President Trump Orders Guantanamo Bay To Prepare For ‘High Level’ Prisoners
President Trump has ordered Guantanamo Bay to prepare for incoming ‘high level’ prisoners, including American politicians, within the next few months. According to a Military of Defense report, Trump is preparing to transfer an unknown number of ‘VIP’ American detainees to the notorious prison in preparation for their trials before a US Military Tribunal. Reports […]
My Guantánamo Diary, Uncensored
Above Photo: From aclu.org Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us break through. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was released one year ago from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, after 14 years without charge or trial. This week, the best-selling memoir […]
I Am In Guantánamo Bay. US Gov Is Starving Me
Above Photo: ‘They have stopped feeding us before but this time feels different.’ Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images Google is blocking our site. Please use the social media sharing buttons (upper left) to share this on your social media and help us breakthrough. I haven’t had food in my stomach for 23 days. The 20 September was […]
Trump Administration Wants To Begin Refilling Guantanamo
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo) Trump Administration officials, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, are suggesting that President Trump’s campaign promise to start refilling the detention center at Guantanamo Bay could begin soon, with […]
Big Oil’s “Long Twilight”
Print Friendly Above Photo: From priceofoil.org All eyes this morning will be on the half-yearly OPEC meeting in Vienna. Although pundits are not expecting a production freeze, the oil price is creeping towards $50, up 80 per cent since its slump of $30 in January. As the press pack hunt the OPEC oilmen round Vienna searching for […]
Reserve Deputy Sentenced To Four Years For Fatal Eric Harris Shooting
A former Oklahoma pay to play deputy has been sentenced to four years in prison for the fatal April 2, 2015 shooting of Eric Harris in Tulsa. Reserve Deputy Robert Bates, 74, was assisting other officers who were trying to take Harris into custody after he had fled during a sting operation. Police said Harris, […]
In A Rhino, Everything
Print Friendly Above Photo: Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P/Flickr Creative Commons I don’t cry very often. But this week I cried twice. For the rhinos. It breaks my heart that they’re going extinct. In order to make myself feel better, I try to intellectualize this. It’s totally irrational, I say to myself, to be sad for the […]
Inside Saudi Arabia’s Luxurious Prison for Terrorists
Ben Hubbard The “guests” are issued key cards for their rooms, receive three catered meals per day and sleep in luxury suites outfitted with big-screen TVs, king-size beds and shiny wallpaper. They call it the Family House, and it feels like a boutique hotel, if you can overlook the lack of windows, the towering walls […]
Scholars Say ‘Lost City Of Giants’ Biggest Discovery In Recent History
The discovery of the “Lost City of Giants” in Ecuador has been hailed as one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century by researchers in Ecuador. The mainstream media have been completely silent on the findings of megalithic structures that experts claim were home to giant race of beings years ago. Ewao.com reports: A Legend that […]
Two Palestinians executed by Israeli police in Jerusalem
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli police executed on Wednesday morning two Palestinian youths near Damascus Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem. Conformed and credible sources spoke to Days of Palestine that the Israeli occupation police chased the two Palestinians, who were in a blue private car, and shot them, using live […]
Two Palestinians executed by Israeli police in Jerusalem
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli police executed on Wednesday morning two Palestinian youths near Damascus Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem. Conformed and credible sources spoke to Days of Palestine that the Israeli occupation police chased the two Palestinians, who were in a blue private car, and shot them, using live […]
Two Palestinians executed by Israeli police in Jerusalem
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli police executed on Wednesday morning two Palestinian youths near Damascus Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem. Conformed and credible sources spoke to Days of Palestine that the Israeli occupation police chased the two Palestinians, who were in a blue private car, and shot them, using live […]
Two Palestinians executed by Israeli police in Jerusalem
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli police executed on Wednesday morning two Palestinian youths near Damascus Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem. Conformed and credible sources spoke to Days of Palestine that the Israeli occupation police chased the two Palestinians, who were in a blue private car, and shot them, using live […]
Two Palestinians executed by Israeli police in Jerusalem
Days of Palestine, Jerusalem -Israeli police executed on Wednesday morning two Palestinian youths near Damascus Gate of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Palestinian city of Jerusalem. Conformed and credible sources spoke to Days of Palestine that the Israeli occupation police chased the two Palestinians, who were in a blue private car, and shot them, using live […]