A detailed and unsettling description of how the U.S. facility keeps hunger-striking prisoners from starving to death.
Read this.
(Source: humanrightswatch)
A controversial anniversary: It was ten years ago to the day that the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba was turned into a prison facility, designed to house suspected terrorist detainees indefinitely, pending a process of oft-criticized military tribunals. For the Obama administration, this was an occasion they once hoped (and indeed promised) would not happen; the President’s first full day in office was marked with the signing of an order to close the facility within a year. Three years on, and the failure to fulfill this promise (as well as the absence of any earnest public explanation of it) does beg the question: was this truly a moral issue for the President, or simply a made-to-order, feel-good issue to stoke a liberal base? Check the link for a very thoughtful piece on the anniversary of Gitmo from The Atlantic’s Andrew Cohen. (photo by Paul J. Richards, AFP/Getty Images) source
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Today’s front page: Great to see the Washington Post doing this. It reminds us of an old friend of ours.
I’m thinking of purchasing some Casio watches and mailing them to tumblr users who wish to join my Tumbl-Qaeda crew (a select group of political extremists who just like Casio watches and don’t want to physically harm anyone but denounce fundamentalism/ extremism in all of it’s regressive/ oppressive forms while reducing complex problems to gifs.)
This could be the ~start of something new.~
Trendspotting.
Wikileaks: Former Gitmo detainee now key Libyan rebel figure: Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamuda bin Qumu spent nearly a year in Guantanamo on the belief he had ties to al-Qaeda. Now he’s a leader amongst Libyan rebels. source
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