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While only one acknowledged war criminal died this week, Henry Kissinger impacted Americans to a rather minor extent compared to the consequences of the career of the most recent dead Republican. Ignore 99% of her decisions, opinions, & any...
by JTP42
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 12:54 PM PST
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Vice put together an in-depth documentary exploring DeSantis' time at Guantanamo Bay — but Showtime suddenly shelved the documentary one day after DeSantis declared for president, according to The Daily Beast. Before Showtime pulled the piece, a...
by DanGriffin
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 07:20 AM PDT
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hoping to win the presidency by positioning himself as Donald Trump without the feral, off-putting personality. Or any personality, really. Does a subtly pained facial expression brought on by six days without a bowel...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 11:37 AM PDT
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PBSNewshour host Geoff Bennett makes several unfounded claims about the guilt of the remaining "detainees" at Gitmo which is biased against the detainees. The UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ni Aolain skillfully pares those biasedly framed questions...
by Kenneth DeBacker
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on Wed Jun 28, 2023 at 05:51 PM PDT
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U.S. officials returned two Pakistani brothers to their home country Thursday after holding them two decades without charges at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani were the latest detainees to be released from U.S. custody as...
by MTmofo
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on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 11:39 PM PST
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D.C. jail’s ‘hellacious conditions’ unbearable for J6 prisoners, who believe Gitmo is a better place The 40 or so insurrectionists being held in the Washington, D.C., jail while awaiting trial—having proven their susceptibility to conspiracy theories and disinformation by engaging in criminal behavior at the Jan. 6 Capitol siege—not only have become...
by David Neiwert
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on Tue Oct 04, 2022 at 12:41 PM PDT
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So by now you all know who Trump endorsed U.S. Senate candidate and Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R. AZ) is, right? He’s this doofus: When he’s not peddling Trump’s Big Lie and trying to push bull shit election audits, he’s spouting some other crazy...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Tue Nov 02, 2021 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Some like to remember September 11th, 2001 and the period that followed it as a time when we all came together as Americans, united against the forces of evil. I’m sorry, but my memories are not as rosy. Here is how I remember how Americans responded...
by Perlinator
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on Sat Sep 11, 2021 at 01:49 AM PDT
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Come to Gitmo , it's your new home away from home . The warm tropical air will soothe your aches and pains . It's like America but not exactly , the same rules don’t apply so you will not be bothered with them . You might be asking yourself if you can...
by indycam
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on Sun Jan 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM PST
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The U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay has been used since the 9/11 attacks to hold those who would harm the U.S. While many of those who have been held at Guantanamo Bay detention center (Gitmo) have been released, there are still some detained...
by DaveInDayton
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on Tue Dec 15, 2020 at 06:03 PM PST
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"What I am is a great builder. I build great things and become successful, and everybody talks about them." - Donald Trump In 1985, tRUMP built his tRUMP Tower in New York on the backs of cheap labour and deals with the mafia. It was his entrance...
by List maker NOT List taker
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on Fri Sep 11, 2020 at 04:53 PM PDT
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Either you agree that people have basic, inalienable rights, that everyone deserves a fair trial, that there are laws that protect these rights in a liberal democracy or you don't. I'm never going to be the Prom King around here (nor anywhere else),...
by BelgianBastard
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on Tue May 12, 2020 at 06:43 PM PDT
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Emily Goldman is a human rights lawyer and the founder of Educators 4 Migrant Justice , an organization fighting to get pension funds to divest from organizations involved with abusive migrant ...
by durrati
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on Sun Jun 30, 2019 at 03:21 PM PDT
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The Trump administration has considered jailing migrant children at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the New York Times reports, in a proposal that apparently “has not gained traction, perhaps because of the optics of housing young people adjacent to terrorism...
by Gabe Ortiz
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on Tue Apr 23, 2019 at 09:00 AM PDT
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This shouldn't really have to be said, but here it is anyway: The United States of America is not, in fact, run by a shadow network of thousands of human-trafficking pedophiles who sexually torture children before eating them as they worship Satan....
by Rogueplanet
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on Fri Apr 05, 2019 at 01:30 PM PDT
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With all the fear-mongering of people fleeing the violence of Central America (mostly women and children, but yes, some men) - the so-called “caravan” — what if we treated these migrants the way we have in the past?
Guantanamo Bay has been used for...
by imobannon
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 09:33 PM PDT
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I have said many times that Citrus County has some fine people residing here BUT we also are loaded with racism. Ron Desantis...famous for his monkey comment has made too much of a pattern of racism to be ignored.
The get together was back in...
by Vetwife
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 08:53 AM PDT
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Warning dear readers that I’ve been sick and I’m plumb wore out, so this diary will be briefer and more lightly sourced than it should be; I just want to put a placemark in my 16-year research into our nation’s post-9/11 treatment of detainees, and...
by MsSpentyouth
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on Wed May 09, 2018 at 01:12 PM PDT
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By now, most Americans know not to take former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at his word. The Fox News regular and failed GOP presidential candidate, after all, is on his third religion and his third wife. (Callista Bisek, currently Mrs. Gingrich...
by Jon Perr
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on Thu Apr 12, 2018 at 11:37 AM PDT
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The United States continues to torture detainees — some of them imprisoned for the better part of two decades without any charge or trial — in its military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the top United Nations torture official warned on Wednesday.
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by Brett Wilkins
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on Wed Dec 13, 2017 at 11:52 AM PST
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