A number of human rights issues converge on Friday January 11, 2013. In Washington DC and many other cities around the country, including the Twin Cities, people will don orange “Gitmo” jumpsuits and black hoods to protest the 11th year anniversary-travesty of...
Gitmo Actually Was a Prison Camp Before
Historian Jonathan M. Hansen has a unique and wonderfully written piece today in the New York Times about Guantánamo -- the base itself, not the terror-war prison camp. In it, he reminds us of the century-long imperialist project just a puddle-jumper ride from Miami,...
Obama Should Veto NDAA to Save the Republic
The political, military industrial, corporate class in Washington DC continues to re-make our constitutional republic into a powerful, unaccountable military empire. On Thursday, the US Senate voted 93 to 7 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for...
Group Calls for Annulment of the APA’s Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics & National Security (PENS) Report
From Boiling Frogs: Leading scholars and human rights groups from a range of fields -- including psychology, medicine, law, military, and intelligence -- have joined together in spearheading a broad-based effort to annul and delegitimize the American Psychological...
The Maintainence Costs of Gitmo
We've done a good amount here at Antiwar on Guantanamo, the torture, and the legal black hole that has kept people there without charge or trial for years on end. Not to mention the lies and corruption that came with it. But here's Amnesty International, as if we...
Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted
Breaking: Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo's Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison. From WitnessTorture.org: On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against...
Guantanamo ‘Suicides’ on Fox
Click play to see the heroic anti-torture human rights lawyer, Columbia law professor and Harper's magazine journalist The Other Scott Horton (no relation) discuss the case of "The Guantanamo 'Suicides'" on Freedom Watch with Andrew Napolitano The Guantanamo...
Former Guantanamo Guard Meets Prisoners
Former Guantanamo guard Specialist Brandon Neely meets prisoners Shafiq Rasul and Ruhal Ahmed via internet on the BBC's Newsnight. Part 1 Part 2 (Hat tip to Anders K of Youtube's Antiwar Radio channel.)
Andy Worthington in NYC, DC, SF for Gitmo Movie
Tireless Guantánamo chronicler Andy Worthington will be on our side of the Pond over the next couple of weeks promoting his new movie, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo, based on his research. Here in New York, I'll be attending his talk at (surprisingly...
