Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Legal scholar Marjorie Cohn deconstructs President Barack Obama's Thursday speech on drone strikes and continuing indefinite detention and torture at Guantanamo, highlighting the many questions that remain unanswered.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16570-guantanamo-drone-strikes-and-the-non-war-terror-war-obama-speaks
How the US Dirty Wars Killed Women and Children in a Yemeni Village
Jeremy Scahill, Nation Books: Jeremy Scahill?s book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield draws on a plethora of sources who provided him with details of the dirty wars that began with Cheney and Rumsfeld, but have expanded under the Obama administration.
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/16551-jeremy-scahill-recounts-how-the-us-dirty-wars-killed-women-and-children-in-a-yemeni-village
Dirty Wars Institutionalized Despite Obama Promises
Sarah Jaffe, Truthout: Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, author of the new book Dirty Wars, reports on the darkest secrets of American foreign policy. He sits down to talk with Sarah Jaffe in this interview on drone warfare, journalism and how anti-communist policy became anti-terrorist.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16627-scahill-expanded-executive-cia-and-pentagon-powers-institutionalize-dirty-wars-despite-obama-promises
Naming Our Nameless War: How Many Years Will It Be?
Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch: America has been a "nation at war" for ten years battling terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and now quite possibly in Iran. However, hidden beneath the rhetoric of abstraction, the reality is that not only can we not truly name our war, we also cannot name our enemy.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16625-naming-our-nameless-war-how-many-years-will-it-be
The Imperialist and Racist Origins of the Guantanamo Penal Colony
Adam Hudson, Truthout: The roots of the US acquisition of its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where military commissions will be held this month for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have major implications for the prison and the entire global war on terror.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16924-the-imperialist-and-racist-origins-of-the-guantnamo-penal-colony
Indefinite Inattention; the Obama Approach to Guantanamo
Bryan K. Bullock, Truthout: The author examines the evidence for President Obama ever having been serious about seeing justice done at Guantanamo. An end to indefinite detention seems never to have been part of the plan.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16942-indefinite-inattention-the-obama-approach-to-guantanamo
US Cold War Ally in the Docks at Guantanamo for USS Cole Bombing
Adam Hudson, Truthout: The backstory of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspected mastermind of the USS Cole bombing in 2000 whose military commission pretrial hearings were recently held at Guantanamo Bay, is intertwined with that of US foreign policy during and after the cold war.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17024-us-cold-war-ally-in-the-docks-at-guantanamo-for-uss-cole-bombing
Guantanamo Prisoner Al-Nashiri s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: This attorney s analysis of the legal issues raised by the Al-Nashiri pretrial hearings in Guantanamo last week concludes that the new, improved military commissions can still put someone to death after a trial that affords a reduced level of due process.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17058-guantanamo-prisoner-al-nashiris-case-demonstrates-unfairness-of-military-commissions
Pretrial Hearings of 5 Suspects in 9/11 Face Challenge of Torture-Obtained Evidence
Adam Hudson, Truthout: Pretrial hearings for five alleged terrorists behind 9/11 are ongoing, but evidence of their guilt may be compromised if reports that much was obtained by various torture techniques are to be believed.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17125-who-is-who-in-guantanamo-terrorist-trial
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Obama says there is "no justification" for not closing Guantanamo, yet Shaker Aamer is still waiting for justice
http://tinyurl.com/qchxynh
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Does New 'Drone Rulebook' Show Obama 'Overstated' Reform?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/24-8
In Drone Speech, Obama Gets Slippery on Killing US Citizens
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/24-0
'Not Good Enough': Rights Groups Respond to Obama's Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/24
Medea Benjamin: Why I Spoke Out at Obama s Foreign Policy Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/24-10
Medea Benjamin Interview After Protesting Obama s Speech
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/24
US Dirty Wars Around the Globe
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/06/03
House Votes to Maintain 'Indefinite Detention' at Gitmo
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/14-2
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From Yemen to Pakistan to Laos
Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret U.S. Dirty Wars
Video
Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky discuss Scahill s groundbreaking new book, ''Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35114.htm
US Gulag: Guantanamo Hunger Strike Continues, 36 Being Force Fed
On the eve of Obama s address, there were 103 prisoners on hunger strike, with 31 being force-fed by military authorities and one in hospital. Since then, not a single prisoner has stopped their strike, and now 36 of the detainees are being force-fed to keep them alive, with five of them being hospitalised.
http://is.gd/i3wgZO
Gitmo staff treat detainees 'worse than animals': prisoner s lawyer
The hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay camp are being subjected to freezing temperatures in their cells and made to choose between shower and sleep, ''punished and treated like animals,'' a lawyer for a Gitmo detainee told RT.
http://is.gd/Zb6dpu
Republicans Block Shutdown of Guantanamo Prison
The Republican majority of the U.S. House of Representatives reinforced its pressure on the government today by presenting a bill that blocks shutting down the naval base in Guantanamo.
http://is.gd/g1yz8q
Sen. Jim Inhofe says closing Guantanamo lets the terrorists win
The conservative senator warned that terrorists ''would spread violent extremism from within our borders'' if the the current push to close the controversial prison was successful.
http://is.gd/ksdae1
Shaker Aamer: My Fight for Justice in Guantánamo
By Shaker Aamer
Killing innocent people for an idea, whether on London s streets or from the skies of Pakistan, is always wrong.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35280.htm
Report from Yemen: What You Are Teaching Us is the Law of the Jungle'
By Pam Bailey
Awda and her family traveled seven hours to Sana'a to see her father for the first time via video link. But she went home disappointed. Her hunger-striking father was so weak he was unable to talk.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35279.htm
Indefinite Detention Of Americans Survives House Vote
By Michael McAuliff
Supporters of detention argue that the nation needs to be able to arrest and jail suspected terrorists without trial, including Americans on U.S. soil, for as long as there is a war on terror.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35289.htm
US Gulag: Inside Guantánamo s Force-Feeding Regime
By Abby Haglage
A close examination of the actual practice itself reveals that the writhing, miserable reality of it is virtually undeniable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35376.htm
The Writhing, Miserable Reality of Force Feeding at Guantánamo Bay
By Kent Sepkowitz
Hunger strikers at Guantánamo Bay will have tubes shoved up their noses, down their throats, and into their stomachs. It s grisly, excruciating, and ethically dubious.
http://is.gd/ix4ApN
Amerian Gulag: US steps up efforts to break Guantánamo hunger strike
Increasingly brutal tactics are being used in an attempt to break the hunger strike by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, according to fresh testimony from the last British resident still held in the camp.
http://is.gd/tCj44Z
From Information Clearing House
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Dirty Wars and Self-Indulgence
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