After 23 Years, Prisoners Remain In Guantanamo Without Charges - PopularResistance.Org
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January 11 marked the twenty-third anniversary of the opening of the US military prison on occupied land in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Clearing the FOG speaks with Andy Worthington, an investigative journalist and author of The Guantanamo Files. Worthington explains that the United States opened the prison in Guantanamo to avoid legal restrictions. He describes the connections between Guantanamo and the CIA 'black sites' where prisoners were tortured and who the men are that were recently released as well as who remains. There are calls for Joe Biden to release all of the men and end the scandal of the prison at Guantanamo Bay before he leaves office.
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    18·
    15 hours ago

    And I’ve been saying for 23 years that a country that allows that to happen cannot be called a democracy anymore.

    The fact that nobody - and I mean literally NO-FUCKING-BODY - even thinks about those men, their ruined lives and that of their families, and that there hasn’t been a demonstration every day about it for the past 23 years in the United States also says a lot about Americans too. And what it says is: as long as my belly is full, that’s all that matters.

    • geneva_convenience
      9·
      10 hours ago

      American Democracy works simply by ignoring all evidence of it not being a democracy and calling them exceptions instead of the rule.

      • Flocklesscrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        4 hours ago

        The U.S. government entered into approximately 374 treaties with Native American tribes between 1778 and 1871. Then broke pretty much every one.

        The history of this country is shameful.