More than 50,000 Cubans took to the streets in the southern city of Guant谩namo to reject United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 plan to use the Guant谩namo Bay Naval Base as a detention centre for deported migrants, reports Ben Radford.
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From preparing to send Latinx migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labelling Latin American cartels 鈥渢errorist organisations鈥, United States President Donald Trump is criminalising the region in order to subjugate it, writes Tamara Pearson.
In the face of police persecution, activists have been fighting for years to end the US military鈥檚 use of Shannon Airport, writes聽Vijay Prashad.听
Cuba will host a peace conference calling for the removal of United States military bases from foreign countries and for an end to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the global arms race. Ian Ellis-Jones reports.
According to a new UN Human Rights Council report, the worst human rights violations on Cuban soil take place at the hands of United States agents at the Guant谩namo Bay prison, reports Ian Ellis-Jones.
The first prisoners of the 鈥淲ar on Terror鈥 鈥 declared by US president George W Bush 鈥 began arriving at Guant谩namo Bay, Cuba, on January 11, 2002, writes Binoy Kampmark.
The world was again entering an era of 鈥渄ark capitalist and imperialist barbarism鈥 which acts against human dignity, the integrity of Mother Earth and the sovereignty of countries, Bolivian President Evo Morales told the United Nations General Assembly on September 21.
Morales, Bolivia鈥檚 first indigenous president, called for a 鈥渘ew world order鈥 that, rather than building walls, built a global citizenry where all people live together as a common family.
The United States was criticised for its human rights standards on May 12 after the country's compliance with international human rights standards were assessed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR).
The UN criticised the US for police violence, racial discrimination, torture, use of the death penalty, and Guantanamo Bay prison, among other issues.
In The Company Of Cowards: Bush, Howard & Injustice at Guantanamo
Michael Mori
Viking, 2014
292 pages, $29.99 (pb)
Murder At Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant鈥檚 Pursuit Of The Truth About Guantanamo Bay
Joseph Hickman
Simon & Schuster, 2015
245 pages, $29.99 (pb)
Major Michael Mori was a Republican-leaning, US military lawyer who 鈥渆mbraced the values I had been taught in scouts, sports, high school, college, law school and the Marines鈥 鈥 above all the ideal of fair play.
US bars UN torture investigator from jails and Guantanamo
The United Nations special investigator on the use of torture criticised the US on March 11 for stalling for over two years in granting the international human rights body access to inmates at Guantanamo Bay and other federal US prisons.
鈥淭he findings of guilty are set aside and dismissed and appellant鈥檚 sentence is vacated.鈥
With this statement on February 18 the United States Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), found David Hicks innocent of a previous guilty plea of providing military support to terrorism.
Speaking to 91自拍论坛 Weekly, Hicks said: 鈥淚 am not jumping up and down for joy. I am very tired by it all. Then there are the government鈥檚 and media鈥檚 attitude to it all. I am quite fed up with it all.鈥
Since the Obama administration arranged for the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the last US prisoner of war held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, there has been a firestorm of outrage from the right wings of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Bergdahl has been pilloried as a traitor. His father has been denounced as a Muslim. Senators called for him to be court-martialed and thrown into the military stockade.
What is Bergdahl鈥檚 crime? While deployed in Afghanistan, he became disillusioned with the war and said so in emails to his family.