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Every three months I appeal for financial support to help me to continue the full-time work I began exactly four years ago, when I started researching and writing about the stories of the prisoners held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and first realized the scale of the injustice [...]

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Sometime in the last few days — here, actually — I reached another milestone in my long journey to expose the truth about Guantánamo and the “War on Terror”: that Bush and co. were not only war criminals, but largely incompetent as well, managing to hold only around 1 in 20 [...]

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Back in March, I published a four-part list identifying all 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002, as “the culmination of a three-year project to record the stories of all the prisoners held at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.” Now updated (as my [...]

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It’s that time of the year again — three months since my last quarterly fundraising appeal. For some readers, this may be a terrible time of year to put out a request for financial assistance, but if you can help out at all it would be much appreciated. US readers — [...]

I was delighted to hear, via my colleague Jason Leopold (Truthout, The Public Record), that Technorati, one of the leading analysts of the blogosphere, has recently revamped its appraisals of the blogging community, introducing Top 100 lists, and that this site, Andy Worthington, now features in the Top 100 World Politics Blogs (as I write, [...]

I never dreamed, when I began blogging full-time two years and four months ago, as an offshoot of my book The Guantánamo Files, that the Internet offered such extraordinary opportunities for independent journalists to focus on particular issues and to get their voices heard, or that I would end up with a million-word archive chronicling [...]

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As the Obama administration’s muddled mission to clear up the toxic inheritance of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush continues, and fearmongers of both parties — led by Cheney himself — continue to spread lies and misinformation about the men held at Guantánamo and in other “War on Terror” prisons, the [...]

Happy birthday to me! It’s exactly two years since, after putting the manuscript for my book The Guantánamo Files to bed, and wandering around in a post-book completion daze for two weeks, I was galvanized into blogging action by the death at Guantánamo of a Saudi prisoner, Abdul Rahman al-Amri (I marked the second anniversary [...]

My apologies, to those who receive updates on new articles via my RSS feed, or anyone else who tried to get through to my site between around 10pm GMT on Wednesday evening, and 11.30 am GMT on Thursday morning. The site was down, due to a technical problem that has now been resolved.
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In an attempt to reflect what visitors to my site are reading, the following is a list of the most popular articles based on site traffic in the last three months. I hope that it provides new readers with some help in navigating the 300+ original articles on the site, which cover most aspects of [...]