Tag: Gitmo
Holding the line on torture
Here’s a disclaimer of sorts: ever since I witnessed the effects of U.S. torture policy firsthand in Central America in the 1980s, I’ve had a deep personal interest in American torture practices.
A children’s Gitmo on the border
It's time to do what we have failed to do for so long now: push back hard on the truly un-American policies.
U.S. Escalates Battle to Keep Guantánamo Force-Feeding Tapes Hidden
A federal judge had given the government until Friday to release footage in which a Syrian detainee was force-fed. The government has now appealed.
Send Obama to Gitmo
President Obama has said he’s like to visit Cuba before leaving office. Wouldn’t it be grand if he visited Caimanera to make an announcement that the prison would be closed and the lovely Cuban seaport would finally be returned to its rightful owners?
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What’s certain about results of the presidential election
While we don't know who the next president will be, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen.
How a 20th-century family planning agenda fueled the climate crisis
Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.
Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump: The three great threats to world peace and stability; all...
With the election on the horizon, America stands at a crossroads that will determine its fate going into the future.
New nuclear push latches on to climate change as reason for nuclear power
“The dirty secret is that nuclear power makes a substantial contribution to global warming. Nuclear power is actually a chain of highly energy-intense industrial processes.”
UN warns Gaza’s economic recovery could take 350 years under Israeli blockade
The UN warns that, should the blockade remain in place, GDP per capita will continue “to decline continuously and precipitously,” placing Gaza’s future in severe jeopardy.