Two discussions about the similarities between the war on Migrants and the war on "terror."

First: From "Close Guantanamo" 

Radio: Discussing Trump’s “war on migrants”, CECOT and Guantánamo

Dear friends and supporters,

In our latest article, Radio: Discussing Trump’s “War on Migrants”, the Template Provided by Guantánamo and the Horrors of the CECOT Prison in El Salvador, we’re featuring a radio interview that our co-founder Andy Worthington undertook yesterday with Rebecca Myles for “Frontline Voices”, a show on WBAI in New York.

 

Saturday April 19, 2025

 It was the 250th anniversary of the start of the revolution that started this country of mine. Millions took to the streets to protest the trump administration but there was little media coverage. In chicago there was a rally and march 5 or 6 blocks long. The Chicago Tribuen didn't even mention it. It did make the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times.

Not sure if either of my democratic senators noticed. which brings me to the song-

The times cannot change fast enough---don't stand in the hallway don't block up the hall.

Torture confession thrown out by the military.

 [SORRY I AM STILL HAVING FORMATTING ISSUES!]

Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture

The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.

This article was gifted to me:

Ammar al-Baluchi at Guantánamo Bay in 2024 in an image provided by his lawyers. He is accused of sending money and providing other support to some of the hijackers who carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.

By Carol Rosenberg

Carol Rosenberg has been reporting from Guantánamo Bay since the prison opened in 2002.

April 11, 2025A military judge on Friday threw out the confession that a man accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks made to federal agents in 2007 at Guantánamo Bay, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation carried out by the C.I.A.The ruling by Col. Matthew N. McCall was the latest setback to prosecutors in their long-running quest to bring the death-penalty case to trial, despite the years the five defendants had spent in secret C.I.A. prisons.  Ammar al-Baluchi, 47, was so thoroughly psychologically conditioned through abuse and threats during his time at the agency’s overseas prisons, or black sites, from 2003 to 2006 that he involuntarily incriminated himself in 2007, the judge wrote in a 111-page decision.YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO READ THE WHOLE THING HERE.

musical interlude

 Sorry Phil- but it is just beginning.