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Documenting “Detainee Treatment [sic for ‘Torture’]”

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“‘The report of the blue ribbon Task Force on Detainee Treatment[sic for ‘torture’] is the most comprehensive, bipartisan investigation into the detention and treatment [sic for ‘torture’] of suspected terrorists yet published. The report’s first ‘finding’ states, ‘U.S. forces, in many instances, used interrogation techniques on detainees that constitute torture. American personnel conducted an even larger number of interrogations that involved ‘cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.’ Both categories of actions violate U.S. laws and international treaties. Such conduct was directly counter to values of the Constitution and our nation.’ And remember, these are people who like Leviathan!”

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135919.html

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Two Algerians repatriated from Guantanamo: Pentagon

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“Two long-held Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been returned to their homeland, the first such transfer since US President Barack Obama renewed his pledge to close the controversial jail.  The Pentagon announced Thursday that Nabil Said Hadjarab, 34, and Mutia Sadiq Ahmad Sayyab, 36, were handed over to the government of Algeria, completing a process outlined last month by the United States.  The US-run prison in Cuba, set up in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, still holds 164 detainees more than four years after Obama took office and first vowed to shut it down.”

http://news.yahoo.com/two-algerians-repatriated-guantanamo-pentagon-113836807.html

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British prisoner: ‘People are dying’ in Guantanamo Bay from systemic torture

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“Aamer has never been charged or faced trial.  Moreover he was cleared for release by the Bush administration in June 2007, a decision that was re-affirmed three years later. The British government has lobbied Washington on his behalf, stating on Sunday: ‘we want him released and returned to the UK as a matter of urgency’. The UK Foreign Office said it continued to monitor Aamer’s condition but stressed any decision to release him remained in the hands of the US government.  In the meantime, the father of three continues to languish in a cell. He has never seen his youngest son, Faris, born while Aamer was in captivity, now living with family in London.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/14/british-prisoner-describes-hunger-strikes-people-are-dying-in-guantanamo-bay/

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Gitmo inmate who was deemed no threat on hunger strikes and force feedings

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“‘Two times a day they tie me to a chair in my cell. My arms, legs and head are strapped down. I never know when they will come. Sometimes they come during the night, as late as 11 pm, when I’m sleeping. There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren’t enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the force-feedings… They are feeding people around the clock just to keep up. ‘ Like most of the striking inmates, he has never been charged with a crime or put on trial, and is not viewed as a threat to US national security.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/15/gitmo-inmate-who-was-deemed-no-threat-describes-cycle-of-hunger-strikes-and-force-feedings/

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Guantanamo Gulag and the Human Rights Lie

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“The US military running the Guantanamo Bay prison have cracked down hard on the dozens of prisoners who have, in desperation, engaged in secret hunger strikes so that they may die in peace making their point about the American gulag without being force-fed by US authorities. Of the 166 who remain in indefinite detention, without charge or trial, 86 have been ‘cleared for release.’ But they will not be released. They will most likely be held until they die. Many have likely already gone insane, as they were captured with no evidence, given no trials, tortured, and forced to live in a tropical Siberia. Yet the US has the gall to hector and lecture [other countries] about ‘human rights.'”

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135546.html

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Fidel Castro denies Cuba refused Edward Snowden asylum

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“Castro, in the same article, praised Snowden, who disclosed the existence of secret US government surveillance programs used to scoop phone and Internet data on a vast scale. ‘I admire how brave and just Snowden’s declarations were, which in my opinion provided a service to the world by revealing the disgustingly dishonest politics of the powerful empire that lies and deceives the world,’ Castro wrote. ‘It is absolutely clear that the United States will always try to put pressure on Cuba as it does with the UN or any public or private institution in the world, that is one of the characteristics of that country’s government and it would not be possible to expect anything else.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/fidel-castro-denies-cuba-refused-edward-snowden-asylum/

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Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Promotes Peace More Than Obama

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“Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is [convicted] of providing an enormous stash of classified government documents to WikiLeaks for publication, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize more than President Barack Obama, according to former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. ‘While President Obama was starting and expanding unconstitutional wars overseas, Bradley Manning, whose actions have caused exactly zero deaths, was shining light on the truth behind these wars,’ the former Republican presidential contender told U.S. News. ‘It’s clear which individual has done more to promote peace.’ Manning was nominated for the award in 2011, 2012 and again earlier this year. Obama won the award in 2009.”

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/12/ron-paul-bradley-manning-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-more-than-barack-obama

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Guantanamo Bay Authorities Ban Solzhenitsyn’s ‘The Gulag Archipelago’

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“The legal team for Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has been detained in Guantanamo without charge or trial for 11 years, attempted to deliver a copy of The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn during a recent visit.  Of course, this isn’t the first time that ‘The Gulag Archipelago’ has had problems with the authorities: when it was completed in 1968, it had to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm so that it could be published in the West.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130822/09182124281/guantanamo-bay-authorities-ban-solzhenitsyns-gulag-archipelago.shtml

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The Pervasive Evil of Communism and the Moral Bankruptcy of Apologists

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“At a normal conference, my remarks may have resonated, but I freely admit that I was completely overshadowed by the presentation of Shin Dong-Hyuk, who is the only person to have successfully escaped from the North Korean gulag. Nothing in my life will ever compare to the horror of living under communism. It’s not nearly as powerful as today’s first-person presentation, but the video will give you some sense of the utter barbarity of the North Korean government.  Perhaps now you understand why I get so upset when people in the west glorify communist thugs such as Che Guevara, or use the Soviet hammer and sickle as a cutesy marketing gimmick.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/the-pervasive-evil-of-communism-and-the-moral-bankruptcy-of-communist-apologists/

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Arbitrary enforcement, secrecy, self-interest, and the loss of government legitimacy

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“The drug war and the national security scandals have overlapped in so many ways, not the least of which is a growing sense of the erosion of the very foundation of legitimacy of government. There are laws you must follow, but we’re not going to tell you what they are, or our interpretation of what they mean, but you must follow them anyway, and we’re going to gag you so you can’t talk about these laws you must follow, and if you try to take it to court, we’re going to invoke national security and say that the courts can’t be allowed to discuss it, plus since it’s secret it doesn’t exist anyway.”

http://www.drugwarrant.com/2013/08/arbitrary-enforcement-secrecy-self-interest-and-the-loss-of-government-legitimacy/

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