Truthdig - Tag - Guantanamo Bay Detainees

	<a href='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a9cd87eb&cb=171008865' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.truthdig.com/banners/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=1&cb=171008865&n=a9cd87eb' border='0' alt='' /></a>	May 25, 2013
		Text Size

Trending: chris hedges economy elizabeth warren politics robert scheer

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

A Cooler Century? Wait and See
By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout

Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech
By Bill Blum

New York City’s Summers May Heat Up
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Taking Gay Hypocrites to Task Over Bradley Manning

Are You Ready to Kiss Frogs Goodbye?

British Terror Attack Suspect Had Watched Friend Cut to Pieces

Corporate Tax Cheats by the Numbers

‘Children Are Dying’

Gay Boys Free to Join Still-Bigoted Scouts

Ai Weiwei’s New Music Video Is Not About Profanity

‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama Ends the War on Terror

Why Is the IRS Involved in Politics in the First Place?

Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour
By Nomi Prins

A Call to Action
By James Cromwell

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington

By David Sirota
$10.17

Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents

By Tom Kemper
$18.76

Jr. Ringer T-Shirt

$20

Tag: Guantanamo Bay Detainees

AP/Brennan Linsley, File

It’s Time to Support Guantanamo Detainees

By Timothy Murphy —

Last Friday marked the 100th day of the detainees’ hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I am not a Guantanamo detainee, but I too began a water-only hunger fast.

Posted on May 22, 2013 READ MORE

AP/Ricardo Mazalan

Obama Says Guantanamo Prison ‘Hurts Us’

The president failed the first time he promised to close America’s island gulag, but heading into the fourth month of a hunger strike by prisoners there, Obama renewed his commitment Tuesday to shuttering the facility.

Posted on Apr 30, 2013 READ MORE

AP photo / Charles Dharapak

Obama Defends Gitmo’s Closure, Cheney Rebukes It

President Obama spoke on Thursday to clean up the “mess” that Guantanamo Bay has become and stood firmly by his decision to close the detention center. The speech came after the Senate voted 90-6 to block $80 million for shutting down Gitmo. Meanwhile, across town, former Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech harshly criticizing Obama’s actions and defending the anti-terrorism policies of the Bush administration.

Posted on May 21, 2009 READ MORE | 19 COMMENTS

AP photo / Mary Altaffer

Democrats Block Funds to Close Gitmo

On Tuesday, even before the Republicans had the chance to do it, Senate Democrats blocked $80 million allocated for the closure of Guantanamo Bay in a supplemental war bill approved last week. The decision comes as a blow to President Obama, whose plan to shut the base by next January had given him major popularity points. Despite this new funding cut, plans to close the base will move forward.

Posted on May 19, 2009 READ MORE | 25 COMMENTS

View the most popular tags overall?

Web site development by Hop Studios