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By: ¿Sabe realmente Obama, le preocupa acaso, quién sigue en Guantánamo? | Amauta

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:51:15 +0000

[...] alguna con la reciente aparición de una rama de al-Qaida en el Yemen, en la que al parecer había implicados un puñado de ex prisioneros saudíes (no yemeníes), cuya liberación en 2006 y en 2007 fue [...]

By: Gonzalo Gato Villegas » Blog Archive » ¿Sabe realmente Obama, le preocupa acaso, quién sigue en Guantánamo?

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:16 +0000

By: Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantánamo? « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:48:22 +0000

[...] eight years had — or would have — any connection to a recent al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen, which apparently involved a handful of Saudi ex-prisoners (not Yemenis), whose release in 2006 and 2007 had, moreover, been [...]

By: Happy 8th Birthday Gitmo: an interview with watchdog Andy Worthington « Pluto Press – Independent Progressive Publishing

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:35:01 +0000

[...] had engaged in terrorist activities. You wrote a number of articles about these topics (see here, here and here, and also discussed them on Democracy Now! on Friday, and I was hoping in this interview [...]

By: The Liberty Voice » Web-Only Content » “On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Yemen, Lies, Hysteria and the False Recidivism Report”

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:45:36 +0000

[...] Christmas), Guantánamo and Yemen: Obama Capitulates to Critics and Suspends Prisoner Transfers, Yemenis in Guantánamo are Victims of Hysteria and Guantánamo Recidivism: Mainstream Media Parrot Pentagon Propaganda (Again) — but was [...]

By: On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo, Yemen, Lies, Hysteria and the False Recidivism Report « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:33:22 +0000

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:01:13 +0000

Some great comments there. I’d only add that keeping citizens in a state of fear makes them forget to look at what the government is doing to indulge its desire for control, undoing safeguards against tyranny that took hundreds of years to fight for, and to note that I’m not entirely convinced that Obama is doing “exactly what he planned to do.” He’s no peacemonger, that’s for sure, but many of his actions are dictated by cowardice, and a refusal to stand up to rightwing critics (and some critics in his own party). It’s the typical spinelessness of Democrats, and it’s depressing that the only people prepared to stand up for principles are John Brennan (at the weekend, just before Obama caved in) and White House counsel Greg Craig, who got sidelined for “pragmatic” reasons after doing his utmost to dismantle and repudiate the Bush-era crimes:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/01/07/guantanamo-and-yemen-obama-capitulates-to-critics-and-suspends-prisoner-transfers/
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/12/01/guantanamo-idealists-leave-obamas-sinking-ship/

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:55:10 +0000

And Jill replied to jlocke123:

jlocket,

Exactly. Obama is succumbing to nothing. He is doing exactly what he planned to do. The sooner progressives and liberals will admit to this, the more quickly we can gather the necessary numbers to resist such injustice. We need, large scale, peaceful protests such as a general strike. These types of articles obscure the fact that Obama has agency. He isn’t a victim, he’s the president. If he wanted to do something differently, he would fight to do it.

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:54:03 +0000

abuelo also wrote:

Great piece by Andy Worthington, ace chronicler of gitmo detainees stories.
The practice of rounding up and imprisoning great masses of innocent civilians and holding them forever without charges or rights of any kind is as puzzling as it is infuriating. All the people involved in doing this talk such astounding flights of tortured logic and unreasoning. And what is it for anyway? Yeah i spose it helps alarm the public, keep them scared, but who really needs a still more frightened citizenry? Plus nobody but a very select few people have any idea this is going on — I mean the greater gulag — all the prisons, known and secret, all the renditions — what is all this really for? It’s been going on since like days after the bombs first dropped on Afghanistan. And it has always been completely insane.

Please visit Andy on the web, and cageprisoners.com

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:52:37 +0000

Progressive101 wrote:

Article brings up a good point. Too bad MSM doesn’t make the connection and report on it.