More Evidence Guantanamo Will Be Open Indefinitely
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/22-4
Kucinich, Ratner: We Should Be Standing Up and Screaming Over Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/22
Guantanamo Guards Denying Water to Hunger Strikers to Thwart Protest, say Lawyers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-4
President Obama, Don t Let the CIA Control the Torture Narrative
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/08-1
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Western Media Ignores Guantanamo Hunger Strike: George Galloway
By Press TV
''If this was happening in Russia, if people had disappeared into a legal black hole in Russia, and were facing indefinite, illegal incarceration without trial, without charge and without access of attorneys we d never hear the end of it. The western media would be full of it''.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34394.htm
US force feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers: Attorney says detainee ''skin and bones''
Eight of the acknowledged hunger strikers have refused meals for so long and lost so much weight that the military is force-feeding them liquid nutrients through a tube down their nose.
http://is.gd/tNLXJ8
Pentagon Requests $49 Million To Build New Guatanamo Prison
The proposed facility is an apparent replacement for Camp 7, which was constructed to hold 14 ''high-value'' detainees, including the self-described 9/11 attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who had been in CIA custody, but were handed over to the military in 2006.
http://is.gd/G3pUKy
Military Force Feeding Prisoners at US Gulag
'Men Live in Guantanamo Animal Cages, Will Never Get Trials'
By RT
The situation has alarmed Lt. Col Barry Wingard, a US military attorney who advocates for Guantanamo detainees.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34407.htm
A Short List Of American Political Prisoners
Removed from community because they seek justice for their people, some are branded with inappropriately long sentences and are often in solitary confinement to destroy their beliefs.
http://is.gd/AjpHxG
Force Feeding Prisoners Is Barbaric and Inhuman
28 Guantanamo Prisoners now on Hunger Strike; 3 in Hospital
By Ben Fox
More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defence lawyers expressed alarm about one of the most sustained protests at the base in several years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34416.htm
Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
By Finian Cunningham
Thanks to the suffering of prisoners at Guantanamo, the world is seeing some shocking home truths about the real nature of American government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34425.htm
Day 50 of Gitmo strike: Red Cross on alert, attorneys fear protest turning deadly
The US Military admitted that 31 Guantanamo inmates are refusing food, as the prison s biggest-in-years hunger strike enters its 50th day. The Red Cross is urgently sending delegates to Gitmo as the detainees' lawyers warn the strike may turn deadly.
http://rt.com/news/gitmo-strike-red-cross-913/
Striking Guantanamo Prisoners Say Water Denied
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay say they are being denied access to drinking water as a hunger strike grinds on and apparently grows at the U.S. base in Cuba.
http://is.gd/JEmGzB
The Fun-filled Ocean Resort at Guantánamo Bay
By Glenn Greenwald
A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34449.htm
Gitmo inmates claim being denied drinking water as White House breaks silence
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: ''The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,'' Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
http://is.gd/AXVsBw
Get Serious About Closing Guantanamo
By Thomas Wilner
The American people have been led to believe that the detainees are all too dangerous to release or transfer, and that we must keep them at Guantanamo to protect our security. That line may play well politically, but it is simply not true, and it is costing us dearly.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34451.htm
US hiding criminality at Guantanamo prison: Human rights attorney
''They have been held at Guantanamo Bay without charge, some of them for 10,11, even 12 years. This is clearly illegal, you cannot detain people without charges.''
http://is.gd/uAhPY5
In Guantanamo, Obama s Promise of Hope Has Transformed Into Hopelessness
Op-Ed
What we are really seeing in the hunger strikers in Guantanamo today are men who believe that there is no way out. Many believe that their only exit will be in a coffin.
http://is.gd/pxoPIy
Another Torture Lover in Obama s CIA
Video
John Brennan, Obama s CIA Director has a history of being directly involved in the CIA s torture program, and is known for being a huge drone supporter. Well, someone has to fill his old CIA position, and who better than another advocate of torture, right?
http://is.gd/N8njRm
Gitmo guards brutally clamp down on hunger strikers
Andy Worthington
Video
http://is.gd/MrYE33
Force Feeding Continues As Guantanamo Hunger Strike Grows
U.S. Says More Prisoners Join In Protest: Eleven hunger strikers are being force-fed to prevent them from losing enough weight to put their lives in danger.
http://is.gd/PwFo2Y
Guantanamo Hunger Striker, Attempted Suicide, Lawyer Says
A Guantanamo detainee who had been on a hunger strike for 43 days tried to kill himself in solitary confinement in March, his lawyer told The Huffington Post.
http://is.gd/QXvqvu
Human Rights Groups to Obama: Don t Let John Brennan Cover Up the Torture He Condoned
By Emptywheel
''Your administration has a responsibility to ensure that the Executive Branch response to the study is not driven by individuals who might be implicated in the CIA s use of torture.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34871.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Media blackout on indefinite detention
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/22829.html
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Defense Officials Downplay Growing Guantanamo Hunger Strike With Bush-Era Talking Points
Jason Leopold, Truthout: As the Guantanamo hunger strike enters its third month, government spokespeople tasked with responding to the media about the prisoners' decision to refuse meals have dug into their archives and cited, nearly word for word, statements used during the height of another hunger strike nearly a decade ago to downplay the seriousness of the issue.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15442-defense-officials-downplay-growing-guantanamo-hunger-strike-with-bush-era-talking-points
Top Pentagon Official Suggests Military Won t Bow to Gitmo Prisoners' Demands to End Hunger Strike
Jason Leopold, Truthout: A top Pentagon official s letter suggests military won t bow to Gitmo prisoners' demands to end hunger strike, stating prisoners' Korans are searched as a safety precaution.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15540-in-letter-top-pentagon-official-suggests-military-wont-bow-to-gitmo-prisoners-demands-to-end-hunger-strike
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On the hunger strikes at Guantanamo prison
CounterPunch
by Stephen Soldz and Bradley Olson
04/08/13
The situation that has sparked the hunger strike at Guantanamo induces both hopelessness and powerlessness. All of the detainees have been imprisoned for years, many having been there for over 10 years, with no indication of how long they will remain imprisoned or if they will ever be released. The vast majority has never been charged with a crime. Most have been cleared for release for several years, but they remain imprisoned in harsh circumstances due to a lack of political will among U.S. political leaders...
http://tinyurl.com/d3mvmm6
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Kucinich, Ratner: We Should Be Standing Up and Screaming Over Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/22
Guantanamo Guards Denying Water to Hunger Strikers to Thwart Protest, say Lawyers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/28-4
President Obama, Don t Let the CIA Control the Torture Narrative
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/08-1
--------
Western Media Ignores Guantanamo Hunger Strike: George Galloway
By Press TV
''If this was happening in Russia, if people had disappeared into a legal black hole in Russia, and were facing indefinite, illegal incarceration without trial, without charge and without access of attorneys we d never hear the end of it. The western media would be full of it''.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34394.htm
US force feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers: Attorney says detainee ''skin and bones''
Eight of the acknowledged hunger strikers have refused meals for so long and lost so much weight that the military is force-feeding them liquid nutrients through a tube down their nose.
http://is.gd/tNLXJ8
Pentagon Requests $49 Million To Build New Guatanamo Prison
The proposed facility is an apparent replacement for Camp 7, which was constructed to hold 14 ''high-value'' detainees, including the self-described 9/11 attack architect Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who had been in CIA custody, but were handed over to the military in 2006.
http://is.gd/G3pUKy
Military Force Feeding Prisoners at US Gulag
'Men Live in Guantanamo Animal Cages, Will Never Get Trials'
By RT
The situation has alarmed Lt. Col Barry Wingard, a US military attorney who advocates for Guantanamo detainees.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34407.htm
A Short List Of American Political Prisoners
Removed from community because they seek justice for their people, some are branded with inappropriately long sentences and are often in solitary confinement to destroy their beliefs.
http://is.gd/AjpHxG
Force Feeding Prisoners Is Barbaric and Inhuman
28 Guantanamo Prisoners now on Hunger Strike; 3 in Hospital
By Ben Fox
More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defence lawyers expressed alarm about one of the most sustained protests at the base in several years.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34416.htm
Guantanamo Exposes Reality of US Fascism
By Finian Cunningham
Thanks to the suffering of prisoners at Guantanamo, the world is seeing some shocking home truths about the real nature of American government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34425.htm
Day 50 of Gitmo strike: Red Cross on alert, attorneys fear protest turning deadly
The US Military admitted that 31 Guantanamo inmates are refusing food, as the prison s biggest-in-years hunger strike enters its 50th day. The Red Cross is urgently sending delegates to Gitmo as the detainees' lawyers warn the strike may turn deadly.
http://rt.com/news/gitmo-strike-red-cross-913/
Striking Guantanamo Prisoners Say Water Denied
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay say they are being denied access to drinking water as a hunger strike grinds on and apparently grows at the U.S. base in Cuba.
http://is.gd/JEmGzB
The Fun-filled Ocean Resort at Guantánamo Bay
By Glenn Greenwald
A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34449.htm
Gitmo inmates claim being denied drinking water as White House breaks silence
A group of human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion with a federal court in Washington, describing the alleged mistreatment: ''The reality is that these men are slowly withering away and we as a country need to take immediate action,'' Denver-based human rights lawyer Mari Newman said, according to AP.
http://is.gd/AXVsBw
Get Serious About Closing Guantanamo
By Thomas Wilner
The American people have been led to believe that the detainees are all too dangerous to release or transfer, and that we must keep them at Guantanamo to protect our security. That line may play well politically, but it is simply not true, and it is costing us dearly.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34451.htm
US hiding criminality at Guantanamo prison: Human rights attorney
''They have been held at Guantanamo Bay without charge, some of them for 10,11, even 12 years. This is clearly illegal, you cannot detain people without charges.''
http://is.gd/uAhPY5
In Guantanamo, Obama s Promise of Hope Has Transformed Into Hopelessness
Op-Ed
What we are really seeing in the hunger strikers in Guantanamo today are men who believe that there is no way out. Many believe that their only exit will be in a coffin.
http://is.gd/pxoPIy
Another Torture Lover in Obama s CIA
Video
John Brennan, Obama s CIA Director has a history of being directly involved in the CIA s torture program, and is known for being a huge drone supporter. Well, someone has to fill his old CIA position, and who better than another advocate of torture, right?
http://is.gd/N8njRm
Gitmo guards brutally clamp down on hunger strikers
Andy Worthington
Video
http://is.gd/MrYE33
Force Feeding Continues As Guantanamo Hunger Strike Grows
U.S. Says More Prisoners Join In Protest: Eleven hunger strikers are being force-fed to prevent them from losing enough weight to put their lives in danger.
http://is.gd/PwFo2Y
Guantanamo Hunger Striker, Attempted Suicide, Lawyer Says
A Guantanamo detainee who had been on a hunger strike for 43 days tried to kill himself in solitary confinement in March, his lawyer told The Huffington Post.
http://is.gd/QXvqvu
Human Rights Groups to Obama: Don t Let John Brennan Cover Up the Torture He Condoned
By Emptywheel
''Your administration has a responsibility to ensure that the Executive Branch response to the study is not driven by individuals who might be implicated in the CIA s use of torture.''
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34871.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Media blackout on indefinite detention
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/22829.html
--------
Defense Officials Downplay Growing Guantanamo Hunger Strike With Bush-Era Talking Points
Jason Leopold, Truthout: As the Guantanamo hunger strike enters its third month, government spokespeople tasked with responding to the media about the prisoners' decision to refuse meals have dug into their archives and cited, nearly word for word, statements used during the height of another hunger strike nearly a decade ago to downplay the seriousness of the issue.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15442-defense-officials-downplay-growing-guantanamo-hunger-strike-with-bush-era-talking-points
Top Pentagon Official Suggests Military Won t Bow to Gitmo Prisoners' Demands to End Hunger Strike
Jason Leopold, Truthout: A top Pentagon official s letter suggests military won t bow to Gitmo prisoners' demands to end hunger strike, stating prisoners' Korans are searched as a safety precaution.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15540-in-letter-top-pentagon-official-suggests-military-wont-bow-to-gitmo-prisoners-demands-to-end-hunger-strike
--------
On the hunger strikes at Guantanamo prison
CounterPunch
by Stephen Soldz and Bradley Olson
04/08/13
The situation that has sparked the hunger strike at Guantanamo induces both hopelessness and powerlessness. All of the detainees have been imprisoned for years, many having been there for over 10 years, with no indication of how long they will remain imprisoned or if they will ever be released. The vast majority has never been charged with a crime. Most have been cleared for release for several years, but they remain imprisoned in harsh circumstances due to a lack of political will among U.S. political leaders...
http://tinyurl.com/d3mvmm6
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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