Guantánamo, evil and zany in pop culture.
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Taxi to reality
Australian New York based documentary producer Eva Orner, discussing her recently Oscar-nominated film Taxi to the Dark Side about the “war on terror” and torture: It’s really important that we’ve made a film basically suggesting that [the Administration] are a bunch of war criminals and that they should be accountable. What they’ve done is outrageous.…
The backside speaks the truth
“Fair Trial, My Arse.” The perfect place to display contempt for the legal procedures at Guantanamo Bay.
Beware the grey lady
The New York Times likes to think of itself as the finest newspaper in the world. Sometimes it produces essential stories, such as this recent piece about a death at Guantanamo Bay. Then, at other times, it becomes craven in the face of criticism.
From one massacre to another
Once a rogue state, always a rogue state: The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by bodies including the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency, determined in August 1974 that Israel had nuclear “weapons in being,” a “small number” of which it “produced and stockpiled.” Israel was also suspected of providing…
American tax-dollars well spent
And you thought Guantanamo Bay was just about illegal detention and torture? Think again (thanks to the essential Wikileaks site): The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The attacks, exposed this week in a report by the government transparency group Wikileaks, include deleting detainee ID…
Just another day at the office
The United States, a torturing nation (sanctioned by the White House.) Welcome to the world’s only superpower. It still astounds me how many in the mainstream media refuse to condemn the use of torture. Their silence is little better than complicity.
We break the law
Wikileaks, the essential site for uncovering the darkest secrets of the “war on terror”, has posted further information about the legal and moral blackhole that is Guanatanamo Bay. The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) from 2004 reveals: 1. Non-compliance with the Geneva Conventions remains official US Policy, according to leading Habeas Corpus lawyers from the Center…
The best of the worst
Guantanamo Bay, some facts: Number of books in the Guantánamo detention library: 5,143. Personal items provided to detainees upon departure: a Koran, a denim jacket, a white T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans, high-top sneakers, a gym bag of toiletries and a pillow and blanket for the flight home. Number of daily calories per detainee:…