By Marjorie Cohn From Truthout | Original Article Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange leaves Southwark Crown Court in a security van on May 1, 2019, in London, England. Three weeks of testimony in…
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10/7/20 Trump’s Endless Wars
By Nicolas J.S. Davies and Medea Benjamin From The Progressive | Original Article In the aftermath of the attacks on 9/11, the Bush Administration invaded Iraq and tortured prisoners of war and…
9/21/20 Release WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange, say current and former world leaders
By Rachel Elbaum and Michele Neubert From NBC News | Original Article Signatories of an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson included the president of Argentina and two former presidents of…
9/21/20 The Restaurant at Guantánamo Bay
By Tim Wild From Bon Appetit | Original Article The food was bland, sparse, sometimes nonexistent. But five years in Guantánamo Bay drove chef Ahmed Errachidi to create the most vital meals…
9/10/20 A Court Just Slammed the Guantánamo Gate Shut
By Linda Greenhouse From The New York Times | Original Article Does the public care about the 40 remaining inmates with no obvious end to their imprisonment? Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times…
9/10/20 U.N. report calls for alleged war crimes in Yemen to be referred to International Criminal Court
By Missy Ryan From The Washington Post | Original Article A new United Nations report detailing atrocities in Yemen’s civil war calls on the U.N. Security Council to refer alleged actions by…
8/17/20 The Absurd and Dangerous Fantasy That Donald Trump Is Not a War Monger
By Raymond Lotta From Revcom.us | Original Article It is truly amazing how some progressives and self-described radicals pull the wool over their own eyes when it comes to Donald Trump’s foreign policy….
8/13/20 Teaching Torture: The Death and Legacy of Dan Mitrione
By Brett Wilkins From Counterpunch | Original Article In the pre-dawn darkness of Monday, August 10, 1970, Dan Mitrione’s bullet-ridden body was discovered in the back seat of a stolen Buick convertible…
7/30/20 Can the International Criminal Court Hold the Trump Administration in Contempt?
By Uzay Yasar Aysev From Just Security | Original Article On June 11, President Donald Trump issued an executive order (E.O.) authorizing the imposition of sanctions in the form of visa/travel restrictions and asset…
7/10/20 ‘Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death’: 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left
By Asadullah Haroon From CommonDreams | Original Article I am prepared to die, if it comes to it. I look ahead, and all I see is suffering. But what is the point of…
7/7/20 IACHR Condemns Guantánamo Abuses in First “War on Terror” Decision
By Lisa Reinsberg From Just Security | Original Article On May 27, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a long-awaited decision in which it held the United States internationally responsible…
6/30/20 Trump’s Record on Foreign Policy: Lost Wars, New Conflicts, and Broken Promises
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies From Jacobin | Original Article Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has…
6/10/20 The Story of Prisoner No. 760
By Susanne Koelbl From Spiegel International | Original Article Wrongly Detained at Guantanamo for 14 Years: Mohamedou Slahi was wrongfully imprisoned in Guantanamo for more than 14 years. Now Hollywood wants to…
6/1/20 Pompeo Reups Threats to ICC Over US, Israel War Crimes Probes, Showing White House ‘Determined to Prevent’ Accountability
By Andrea Germanos From Common Dreams | Original Article “You’ll see in the coming days a series of announcements not just from the State Department, from all across the United States government,…
6/1/20 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issues HISTORIC decision on former Guantánamo detainee’s case
From The Center for Constitutional Rights Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to the Guantánamo Bay detention center, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued…