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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly – Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
Obama Vows to Seek Guantánamo Closure, But Immediate Action Could Prevent Hunger Strikers’ Deaths
President Obama has vowed a renewed push to shut down the military prison at Guantu00e1namo Bay more than four years after first pledging its closure.
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Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide.
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Another Government Is Necessary: The People Can Rule Better Than the Elites
On Earth Day, a new alternative government, the Green Shadow Cabinet, was announced. Its over 80 members are leaders in their fields, from medicine to art to activism, and …
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Life Under Lockdown at America’s Hunger-Striking Prison Camps
America's offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare.
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Empty Stomachs From Guantanamo to Palestine
Empty stomachs continue to deliver a number of stultifying blows to the institutions of injustice.
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Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Prisoners’ Own Words
Desperate prisoners refusing food at Guantanamo Bay since the beginning of February have vowed to ‘strike to death,’ according to lawyers' notes obtained by Truthout.
Gitmo Dilemma Remains a Monkey on the Back of US Democracy
With every year that passes, prisoners of the detention camp have grown more and more restless with the uncertainty of their status and treatment while in the prison.
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Nearly Half of Guantanamo Prisoners Now on Hunger Strike
The hunger strike figure rose by 14 prisoners overnight.
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Gitmo Trial Ethics Breaches Called Possible Obama Plan to Close Prison
Legal observer calls breaches ‘too many fiascos in too short an order to be the result of random chance.’