Guantanamo

Refugee riches, sleepwalk war and File 17 + this day in history w/SS Exodus and our song of the day by BADBADNOTGOOD on your Morning Monarchy for July 11, 2016.

Brexit boogie, looting art and policing protests + this day in history w/Blair resigns and our song of the day by DJ Shadow on your Morning Monarchy for June 27, 2016.

In late May and early June, Chicago group Voices for Creative Nonviolence held a 150-mile walk against indefinite detention, solitary confinement, and the racist U.S. prison system. For two weeks, a group of 20 justice seekers walked across the state of Illinois from east to west, interacting with hundreds of passers-by, carrying placards to give a momentary reminder to thousands of motorists, and holding public face-to-face discussions at churches and libraries.

RT | June 13, 2016 Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been locked up in Gitmo without charge for 14 years, but the US government “has no evidence” against him, his attorney told RT. Tortured and beaten, both ordeals exposed in his memoir from behind bars, Slahi is now hoping for release. On June 2, Slahi appeared […]

RT | June 12, 2016 The US government isn’t providing any evidence to confirm reengagement of former Guantanamo detainees in terrorist activities. They give numbers they allege are accurate but provide no facts, said Andy Worthington of the Close Guantanamo group. The US government’s greatest fears about releasing Guantanamo Bay prisoners are that inmates might re-emerge […]

Yahdih Ould Slahi holds up a photo of his brother Mohamedou in a May 2016 video by American Civil Liberties Union © acluvideos / YouTube RT | May 24, 2016 US authorities detained, interrogated and sent back a German citizen flying in to campaign for the release of his brother – author of the best-selling […]

By Derrick Broze | Activist Post | May 21, 2016 In another setback for the death penalty trial of the five men accused of aiding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, two defense lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed say the U.S. government secretly destroyed relevant evidence. On May 11, defense lawyers for the accused […]

Professor Jolie, good warring Vietnam and leaving Gitmo + this day in history w/Bonnie and Clyde and our song of the day by Parker Millsap on your Morning Monarchy for May 23, 2016.

Wednesday night the House passed the 2017 Defense Authorization Act 277-147, most Democrats voting against it, although most of the Blue Dogs and New Dems voted with the GOP for passage, despite a paragraph that got added in the dead of night by Oklahoma City wing-nut Steve Russell that allows federal contractors to fire employees for being gay.

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