de Guantanamo

• Detention and Torture in Guantanamo

Mercenaries, however, are unlawful combatants if they do not act at the behest of a recognized government.\n Somewhere in the interface between this nation's domestic and foreign affairs since September 11, 2001, a little piece of land on a small island a few hundred miles away in the Caribbean-Guantanamo-emerged as a symbol of the Bush administration's drive to chisel away at our historic laws and statutes, to rebalance this country's tripartite system of governing, and to commit military aggression against populations abroad.

• Social Justice
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 4, October 2006

• Resisting Guantánamo: Rights at the Brink of Dehumanization

[...] it enlarges the time frame for action and result, decentering the transformative "rights moment" - the landmark case, the smoking gun document, the game-changing revelation - and instead commits the lawyer to a long-term oppositional stance, and a set of daily practices of objection and contravention.347 Second, the resistance frame contextualizes the individual client representation within the larger structures and operations of power, rejecting an atomistic view of lawyering or a diffuse engagement with the state and opting instead for direct confrontation with state violence. The hunger strike is a profound and necessary assertion of the self - messy, unabstracted, and inescapably human. Because Guantánamo places the prisoners on the razor's edge of bare life, such direct res...

• Northwestern University Law Review
• Vol. 103 Nbr. 4, October 2009

• Hard Talk Forum: Should the U.S. Government Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility?

Under recent Supreme Court decisions, and the Military Commissions Act passed by Congress in 2006, detainees have a right to judicial review both of their classification as enemy combatants and of any criminal sentence passed against them. [...] despite their illegitimate methods of warfare, the Guantanamo detainees have received more due process rights than even soldiers of sovereign states merit under the Geneva Conventions. The detainee can be held only if the board concludes that he is an enemy combatant by a preponderance of the evidence, and this decision is subject to review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

• Americas Quarterly
• Vol. 2 Nbr. 1, January 2008

• Guantanamo Bay Hits 10-Year Mark

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Suleiman al-Nahdi waits with dozens of other prisoners in a seemingly permanent state of limbo five years after he was cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay. I wonder if the U.S. government wants to keep us here forever," the 37-year-old al-Nahdi wrote in a recent letter to his lawyers.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• January 11, 2012

• The Truth Is, Guantanamo Is a World Unto Itself

Gitmo USA, almost as big as Buffalo, is a real Nowhere Land. Not really in the United States, not really in Cuba, Naval Station Guantanamo Bay stands alone: a law unto itself.

• Buffalo News
• October 18, 2011

• Guantanamo Shows How Orwell's Vision Became Reality

PARIS - "The purpose of Newspeak," George Orwell, wrote in his novel "1984," "was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc" - Orwell's name for the ruling regime in "1984" - "but to make all other modes of thought impossible." The purpose of Newspeak was to replace what we now call Standard English so that language no longer possesses the vocabulary in which to express forbidden thoughts. Orwell's was not entirely a fantasy, as we know from the prevalence of politically anesthetized and "corrected" language in American and British speech today, particularly in academic circles and government. Take, for example, official and newspaper reports during recent days on the classified military documents dealing with the Gu...

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• May 02, 2011

• Guantanamo Helped Nab Bin Laden: ; but Had Al-Qaeda Monitored Wikileaks,; He Might Be Alive

OSAMA bin Laden's death at the hands of U.S. special operations forces is a major success in our country's war against al-Qaeda. As a result of the Central Intelligence Agency's interrogation program and the intelligence gained from detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a major fraction of al-Qaeda's senior leadership has been captured or killed since 2001.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 24, 2011

• Guantánamo Bay: Change We Can't Believe In

According to a New York Times article in June 2010, the Obama administration was suspending efforts to close down the U.S. Naval base detention camp at Guantánamo Bay due to fierce political opposition. [...] despite promises to close down the detention camp, President Obama has never committed himself to returning Guantánamo to the Cuban government. [...] the president's previous attempts at improving relations with Cuba, such as allowing unlimited remittances and giving Cuban-Americans unrestricted travel rights to the island, have proven to be relatively modest.

• Washington Report on the Hemisphere
• November 24, 2010

• From Guantanamo to Nuremberg and back: an analysis of conspiracy to commit war crimes under international humanitarian law.

INTRODUCTION Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, legal scholars and practitioners have engaged in a lively and evolving discussion ab...

• Georgetown Journal of International Law
• Vol. 41 Nbr. 3, March 2010

• Guantanamo Trials to Restart

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 08, 2011