New York’s Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) protests that detainees are being deported to countries that practice torture. On July 2, two Algerians were transferred from Guantánamo to the custody of the Algerian government—the first Algerians transferred from Guantánamo to… Read moreGitmo deportees “disappeared” in Algeria
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who has admitted to being Osama bin Laden’s chauffeur in Afghanistan, went on trial at Guantánamo Bay July 21, in the first US war crimes trial since World War II. Hamdan pleaded not guilty to… Read moreAfghan interrogations ruled inadmissible in Gitmo tribunal
Panama’s Supreme Court has overturned a 2004 pardon of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles and three other right-wing Cubans—Pedro Crispin Remon Hernandez, Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, and Guillermo Novo Sampoll—charged with plotting to kill Fidel Castro at the 2000 Ibero-American summit…. Read morePanama expunges Posada pardon
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has released declassified portions of a June 20 decision that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur detained at Guantanamo Bay as an… Read moreUighur detainees faced Chinese torture methods at Gitmo
On June 23 the Mexican daily La Jornada reported that according to “judicial sources” the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has information that the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has maintained ties for at least three years with the… Read moreCuba: is CANF smuggling migrants?
It is pretty depressing that 29 years after Three Mile Island and 22 after Chernobyl, the nuclear industry has recouped its propaganda losses to the point that both candidates are obliged to pay lip service to the oxymoron of “safe… Read moreMcCain, Obama: both pro-nuke
From Physicians for Human Rights, June 18: Medical Evidence Supports Detainees’ Accounts of Torture in US Custody Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a landmark report documenting medical evidence of torture and ill-treatment inflicted on 11 men detained at… Read morePhysicians for Human Rights cite evidence of US “war crimes”
Wired reports June 19 reports from Marlborough, MA, where the US Air Force held a confab to promote its new Cyber Command, which is to go operational in 105 days. While the command’s mission is still “very much in question,”… Read moreWill Air Force Cyber Command quell or fuel conspiracy theories?
A statement from the Center for Constitutional Rights, June 12: Supreme Court: Guantánamo Detainees Have Constitutional Right to Habeas Corpus Washington, DC — In one of the most important human rights cases of the decade, the Supreme Court of the… Read moreHigh court upholds Gitmo detainees’ habeas corpus rights
Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, which filed more than a dozen lawsuits against the Clinton administration alleging cover-ups, brought suit in Miami district court against the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), accusing the cartel of price-fixing. “It’s now… Read moreJudicial Watch founder sues OPEC for price-fixing
On May 19 the Cuban government accused Michael Parmly, outgoing head of the US Interests Section in Havana, of supplying opponents of the government with money from Cuban American right-winger Santiago Alvarez Fernandez-Magrinat, who is currently serving a 46-month prison… Read moreCuba: dissidents funded by terrorist?
On May 21, as oil prices leaped to an unprecedented $133 a barrel, Big Oil’s biggest executives got grilled on the Senate floor. “Where is the corporate conscience?” Sen. Dick Durbin asked execs from ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP America, Shell Oil… Read moreOil execs play anti-Arab card to rape Alaska
