Results for Guantanamo Bay
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Who Will Save the Guantanamo 92?
Originally Posted: 04/30/2013 - 4:23pm | Type: Blog -
The Guantanamo prisoners began hunger striking on Feb. 6 after guards confiscated their Korans to examine them for contraband. ... Fueling the strike is the men’s loss of hope of ever leaving Guantanamo alive, ...
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Closing the Loop on Khalid Sheikh Mohammad?
Originally Posted: 02/26/2013 - 12:52pm | Type: Blog -
The excuse of national security is being used to eliminate a basic foundation of democracy: transparency. If evidence used to convict a person is secret, if the accused cannot openly challenge the charges bein ...
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‘Bradley We Hardly Knew Ye:' 1,000 Days of Detention
Originally Posted: 02/23/2013 - 7:03pm | Type: Blog -
On Saturday, Feb. 23, Bradley Manning marks his 1,000th day in prison without a trial. Manning, the 23 year-old Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks while stationed in ...
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War and Peace and the President
Originally Posted: 05/04/2012 - 2:43pm | Type: Blog -
Yale Professor David Bromwich analyses President Obama's foreign policy for The Huffington Post. Yale Professor David Bromwich analyses President Obama's foreign pol ...
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Guantanamo: When Will It Get Foreclosed?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:51pm | Type: Blog -
Please keep in your prayers those who are fasting and praying at the U.S. capitol between January 11 to 21, keeping vigil for the closing of the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo. As an opening to their prayer vi ...
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One More Reason to Oppose Torture
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog -
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/20detain.html?th&emc=th">Abu Zubaydah was submitted to waterboarding at least 83 times</a>. Abu Zu ...
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Your Ballots at Work: 'Waterboarding is Torture'
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:17am | Type: Blog -
This kind of feels close to an exercise in I-told-you-so, but for all the folks who assert that voting is a hopelessly corrupted exercise in irredeemable empire, consider as an indicator the testim ...
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Obama's Promise to Close Guantanamo and the Value of Your Vote
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog -
President-elect Barack Obama, in his first interview since being elected, promised to close Guantanamo Bay. President-elect Barack Obama, in his first interview since being electe ...
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History Won't Wash Away Torture's Shame
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 7:51am | Type: Blog -
According to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331.html?hpid=topnews">a recent article in <em>The Washington Post</em></a>, ...
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The Great Experiment and the Great Commandment
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/summer-sundays"></a></p> Tomorrow is Bastille Day. We Americans don't take much notice of th ...
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Taking Names: Witness Against Torture Gets Personal
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Blog -
<p>What does it mean to be a Christian in these times? The works of mercy knock on our door. The hungry, the naked, the sick, and the prisoner demand our compassion -- but more, they demand our action.&l ...
