Jeffrey S. Kaye, TruthOut.org. November 25, 2009. Mohammad Saleh al Hanashi was found dead inside a psych ward at Guantanamo. It was ruled a suicide. But disturbing evidence suggest the truth may be far uglier.
Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online AlterNet: PEEK. November 23, 2009. When it comes to some of the worst "war on terror" excesses of the Bush era, Obama's actions are deeply at odds with the image he cultivated during his campaign.
Maya Schenwar, TruthOut.org AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 16, 2009. Top Dems, including Governor Patrick Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin, have announced their support for the plan, calling it an economic boon for the area.
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: PEEK. November 16, 2009. Omar Khadr was captured at 15 and grew up in Gitmo. It's time to give him a fair shake at justice.
Agence France PresseNovember 13, 2009. The trial will be held not far from Ground Zero, once the site of the World Trade Center destroyed by two hijacked planes in the September 11 attacks.
Andy Worthington, CounterPunch. October 5, 2009. Like torture victims groomed for show trials throughout the centuries, Fouad al-Rabiah made up false stories under torture in the hopes of one day leaving Guantanamo.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. September 9, 2009. A Spanish newspaper reports that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against attorneys who implemented torture at Guantánamo.
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 24, 2009. Mohammed Jawad attempted suicide in December 2003 by repeatedly slamming his head against his cell wall.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. Four U.S. senators, including two Republicans, in a letter Thursday urged Barack Obama to ensure that September 11 terror suspects are tried in a special military court and not in civilian courts on U.S. soil.
Gary Younge, Comment Is Free AlterNet: PEEK. August 3, 2009. The "birthers" might be crazy, but so was Whitewater, which ended with impeachment, and the Swift Boaters, who helped torpedo John Kerry.
Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast. August 3, 2009. Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. July 30, 2009. In an exclusive interview, Feingold argues why his lone vote to oppose expanding the military by 30,000 soldiers was the right one.
Nahal Zamani, Blog of Rights. July 28, 2009. The harsh force-feeding of hunger strikers is a form of cruelty and mistreatment that continues to this day at Guantanamo.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. July 27, 2009. Calling the case "an outrage," U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle urged the lawyers to "let him out. Send him back to Afghanistan."
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. The use of physicians at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has forced medical professionals to violate their ethics codes, according to findings published in a medical journal.
Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. "We are going through every single detainee's records... to make a judgment about whether or not they should be tried [or] ... released," Biden told the BBC.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. July 13, 2009. Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld: "I am here today to offer a single, straightforward message: the military commission system is broken beyond repair."
Ari Melber, Huffington Post. July 8, 2009. Even George W. Bush, who so pushed the boundaries of executive power, never proposed a statutory scheme to hold people indefinitely.
Dafna Linzer, Peter Finn, ProPublica. June 30, 2009. Such an order embraces claims by George W. Bush that certain people can be held without trial for long periods under the laws of war.
