By Andy Worthington Just when you think that there can be no more outrageous proposals from the current Lame Duck government, and that it’s down to a straight race between Barack Obama,…
Category: Andy Worthington
The Media’s Response to the Hamdan Trial: Due Process or Dictatorial Sideshow?
by Andy Worthington As the Olympics and the war in Georgia threaten to sweep all before them, the significance of the lenient sentence handed down by a military jury to Guantánamo prisoner…
Bin Laden Driver Salim Hamdan Gets Mixed Verdict in First Military Commission Trial
By Andy Worthington A military jury’s verdict on Wednesday in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II — that Yemeni Guantanamo prisoner Salim Hamdan is guilty of material support…
Guantanamo Nightmares
by Andy Worthington Some of us have known for years that the US administration’s basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the “War on Terror” has more to do with…
Diego Garcia – Another Link in a Global Ring of U.S. Torture Centers
By Andy Worthington This has been a bad week for the British government, in relation to two of the running sores of its foreign policy, both centred on the Overseas Territory of…
Artists Protest Use of Their Music As Torture
By Andy Worthington On BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, singer-songwriter David Gray spoke out against the use of music as torture by the US military. Gray’s chart-topping song Babylon, played repeatedly…
Betrayals, Backsliding and Boycotts
Betrayals, Backsliding and Boycotts: The Continuing Collapse of Guantanamo’s Military Commissions By Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington’s Blog. Guantánamo is in total disarray. Anyone who has kept half an eye on the proceedings…