Watching the Shadows
Human Rights Watch: ban killer robots
Human Rights Watch finds use of fully autonomous weapons to be an affront to basic human rights that should be preemptively banned by international convention.
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Benghazigate and Internet freedom
The provocateur video that supposedly incited the Benghazi attack is at the center of a persistent news story—but we can't see it, because the Ninth Circuit ordered it suppressed.
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Panel calls for transfer of Yemeni Gitmo prisoner
The Defense Department's Periodic Review Secretariat recommended the release of Ali Ahmad Mohamed al-Razihi, a Yemeni prisoner currently held at Guantánamo Bay.
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Net neutrality and the extinction of journalism
The end of "net neutrality," now broached by the FCC, portends an "enclosure" of the Internet—and the marginalization of all perspectives not officially approved.
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Judge dismisses Yemen drone strike lawsuit
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone strikes that killed three US citizens in Yemen.
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Bin Laden son-in-law found guilty of conspiracy
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was found guilty of both conspiring to kill Americans and providing terrorists with material support.
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Uruguay agrees to take five Guantánamo prisoners
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica—himself a former political prisoner—announced that his country has agreed to take in five inmates from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
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US repatriates Algerian Guantánamo detainee
The US transfered Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha to Algeria, where he has been tried in absentia and convicted of belonging to a "terrorist organization."
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Gitmo detainee challenges force-feeding practices
Detainee Emad Abdullah Hassan filed a federal lawsuit challenging the force-feeding procedures he has been subjected to at the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
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Obama’s fifth year: a World War 4 Report scorecard
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
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Last Uighur prisoners released from Guantánamo
The US Department of Defense announced that the last three Uighur Muslim detainees were transferred to Slovakia from the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
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Lynne Stewart wins ‘compassionate release’
A federal judge granted the Bureau of Prisons' request for the compassionate release of Lynne Stewart, the imprisoned activist attorney now suffering from cancer.