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53 min ago | Salon

Obama's drone speech will probably be maddening

Today, Barack Obama will give a speech about drones. And about other stuff, like closing Guantanamo , but primarily about drones.

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5 hrs ago | Truthdig

A Call to Action

Actor James Cromwell delivered this speech after receiving the Justice in the Arts Award from Death Penalty Focus at its dinner May 16 in Beverly Hills.

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9 hrs ago | Indymedia.ie

LONDON - Catholic Workers join solidarity with Guantanamo hunger...

Last week, we made our way to the book launch of Dirty Wars - the world is a battlefield" by former New York Catholic Worker now celebrated investigatory journalist Jeremy Scahill http://dirtywars.org/jeremy-scahill Jeremy gave an excellent speech naming Guantanamo as the most visible point of a massive iceberg of a U.S. policy of torture and ... (more)

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Wed May 22, 2013

Bloomberg

U.S. Has Killed Four U.S. Citizens in Drone Strikes

U.S. drone strikes have killed four American citizens in counterterrorism operations overseas since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said today, the Obama administration's first public acknowledgment of those killings.

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TheBlaze.com

Pentagon Wants $450 Million to Maintain and Upgrade Guantanamo (But...

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million to maintain and upgrade the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama says he wants to close.

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Aurora Era-Banner

Anonymous threat shuts down internet in Guantanamo

The US military has blocked Internet service at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba following online hacking threats from the group, Anonymous.

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Tue May 21, 2013

Inter Press Service

Q&A: Guantanamo 'Has No Right to Exist'

Robert Stefanicki interviews RAMZI KASSEM, associate professor of law at the City University of New York and a lawyer who defends prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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NewsOn6 Tulsa

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

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War Is A Crime

The Reason for Hunger Strikes-from Northern Ireland to Guantanamo

I'm in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament.

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Balloon Juice

Guantanamo: "Bearing Witness"

Perhaps a meal was not the ideal setting to talk about something as unappetizing as a hunger strike.

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Sun May 19, 2013

The Day

Erosion of rights should not surprise

It's hard not to laugh at the indignation over the Justice Department's seizure of telephone records of the Associated Press and its journalists.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Star999.com

Rally marks 100 days of Guantanamo hunger strike

Demonstrators rally in New York marking 100 days that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been on hunger strike.

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Fri May 17, 2013

The Skanner

VIDEO: Guantanamo: Costing $150 Million a Year and Untold Damage to U.S. Reputation

And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.

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San Francisco Bay View

100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay

Reportedly over 130 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have entered the 100th day of the hunger strike protesting their infinite detention.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Stars and Stripes

Guantanamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed

Guantanamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Inter Press Service

Q&A: "To Propel Change, You Have to Be in Their Faces"

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Wilson has been protesting outside the White House gates for over two weeks now.

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War Is A Crime

100 Day Guantanamo Hunger Strike Press Conference at National Press Club Thursday, May 16, 10am

CODEPINK will be hosting a press conference in the Zenger Room at the National Press Club.

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CNN

Gitmo detainees hurl insults, excrement

For the 160-plus inmates at the U.S. prison camp here, each sunrise brings a new day that most would rather starve than endure.

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Tue May 14, 2013

The Guardian

Guantanamo strikers threatened with body cavity searches, lawyer says

Clive Stafford Smith said US guards insist on a body search before any detainee can contact their lawyer.

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The Miami Herald

Medical alert in Guantanamo amid hunger strike

A U.S. military spokesman says medics at the Guantanamo Bay prison were called to a cell amid a long-running hunger strike at the U.S. base in Cuba.

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