Marklar's Blog Posts Tagged 'guantanamo' (9)

The Obama GITMO myth

New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp

By Glenn Greenwald

July 23, 2012 "Salon" -- Most of the 168 detainees at…

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Added by Marklar on July 23, 2012 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

DoD Report Reveals Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others "Chemically Restrained"

By Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold, Truthout |…

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Added by Marklar on July 12, 2012 at 1:45am — 1 Comment

Murders at Guantánamo: Harper's Scott Horton Exposes Truth about 2006 'Suicides'

Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org

by Andy Worthington

It's hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper's Magazine (available on the web here), but let's try this: The three "suicides" at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 19, 2010 at 10:31pm — No Comments

Talking Blues: Gitmo Gets Harsher Under "Progressive" Rule

Empire Burlesque

Written by Chris Floyd

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Talk is cheap; actions speak volumes. And it seems Barack Obama is compiling quite a volume for himself at America's flagship concentration camp in Guantanamo Bay. As Andrew Wander reports,… Continue

Added by Marklar on November 12, 2009 at 10:37am — 1 Comment

Hell and Dr. James - When Gitmo and Abu Ghraib Come Home

Counterpunch

October 26, 2009

By BILL QUIGLEY and DEBORAH POPOWSKI

The Louisiana Board that licenses psychologists is facing a growing legal fight over torture and medical care at the infamous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.

In 2003, Louisiana psychologist and retired colonel Larry James watched behind a one-way mirror in a U.S. prison camp while… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 26, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails Join Campaign To Close Guantanamo Bay

Thu, 22 Oct 2009

The list of musicians is very impressive. Many of them are in the Rock&Roll hall of fame in Cleveland. Unfortunately this list and the artists’ music is associated with one of the blackest marks in American history- the torturing of prisoners at Guantanamo.

Their songs are played at ear bleeding high volume to prisoners there. Many of the artists, who have supported progressive causes throughout their… Continue

Added by Marklar on October 24, 2009 at 2:32pm — 1 Comment

Naomi Wolfe - “Obama has the right to lock any US citizen up forever without trial”

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Added by Marklar on July 15, 2009 at 2:00am — No Comments

Glenn Greenwald: The Obama Justice System

by Glenn Greenwald

Salon.com

Spencer Ackerman yesterday attended a Senate hearing at which the DOD's General Counsel, Jeh Johnson, testified. As Ackerman highlighted, Johnson actually said that even for those detainees to whom the Obama administration deigns to give a real trial in a real court, the President has the power to continue to imprison them indefinitely even if they are… Continue

Added by Marklar on July 9, 2009 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

Britain's MI5 Colluded with CIA on Guantanamo Torture and Penis Slicing

LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- A former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, terrorism detainee says memos from the spy agency MI-5 prove Britain colluded with CIA captors who were torturing him.

British resident Binyam Mohamed, who returned home last month after his release from nearly seven years of imprisonment at the U.S. prison camp in Cuba and other locales, cited MI-5 memos purporting to show how British officials orchestrated his questioning while… Continue

Added by Marklar on March 10, 2009 at 1:53am — 1 Comment