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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 […]

Please support my work! 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. For those […]

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 […]

Since publishing the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners who have been held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (available in four parts — Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4), I have received some wonderful feedback, but I have also been asked to consider the contributions made by other […]

I’ve just published the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which is available in four parts. Click on the following links for Part 1 (ISNs 002 to 200), Part 2 (ISNs 201 to 496), Part 3 (ISNs 497 to 732) and Part 4 (ISNs 743 […]

The following is a list of the top 30 articles on my website in 2008, based on an analysis of site traffic. For new visitors, I hope it provides a useful starting point for navigating the 300+ articles on the site, which comprehensively cover events at Guantánamo over the last 18 months. I have also […]

Another busy month, as the architects of America’s moral collapse (primarily Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff David Addington, but also the figurehead of the seven-year Torture Nation, President George W. Bush) were swept from power by Barack Obama, a non-WASP, non-Halliburton candidate promising change. As a result, the closure of Guantánamo […]

In a busy last month before Barack Obama’s stunning victory (in spite of competition from a collapsing economy and the election campaign itself), these are the Top 20 Articles based on site traffic in October, covering the most important stories relating to Guantánamo during this period. As usual, this analysis does not take into account […]