by C. Clark Kissinger | April 22, 2013 At this writing, many thousands have signed an online petition to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons demanding a compassionate release for…
Does visible resistance against Guantanamo still matter?
by Jill McLaughlin | April 18, 2013 At this writing the Guantanamo hunger strike has surpassed 70 days. The situation there is ever more urgent after the Saturday April 13th assault on…
US Torture ‘Indisputable’
by Glenn Greenwald | April 18, 2013 It’s hardly news that the US instituted and for years maintained a systematic torture regime, but the success of the Obama administration in blocking all…
Hunger Striking at Guantanamo & the Abusive Use of Forced Feeding
by Kevin Gosztola | April 18, 2013 Guantánamo Bay prisoners have been on a hunger strike for over two months. Some of them have, in that period, been subject to forced feeding by…
Yes, It was Torture. Yes, It Needs to be Prosecuted
By Marcy Wheeler | April 16, 2013 The Constitution Project has released a major report on the government’s torture program. You can download the report here. The report is important and comprehensive,…
“Living Under Drones”
Posted April 17, 2013 This is the transcript of an interview that ran on The Michael Slate Show with James Cavallaro of Stanford University, who co-authored a study titled “Living Under Drones.”…
Gitmo is Killing Me
By Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel | April 14, 2013 “I will not eat until they restore my dignity.” One man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew,…
Statement on the Raid on Guantanamo
From the Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait | April 15, 2013 Guantanamo + Silence=Death Camp Sign this statement. World Can’t Wait strongly condemns the violence perpetrated on the detainees by Guantanamo military…
Assault, Lockdown on Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
By David Ferguson | April 13, 2013 U.S. soldiers reportedly raided communal cellblocks at Guantanamo Prison in Cuba and hustled hunger striking inmates at gunpoint into single, maximum security cells on Saturday….