The Guantánamo Blog

Author of the book--Selling Guantanamo: Exploding the Propaganda Surrounding America's Most Notorious Prison. Read the interview here....

This is probably old news to those of you who follow Guantanamo news but last week the U.S. released two men to Algeria. For these two men i...

The "commander" of Gitmo- the now notoriously perverse Col. Bogdan- the man responsible for the current conditions and policies at...

The Guantanamo Testimonials Project out of U.C. Davis is probably one of the most comprehensive sources here in the U.S. regarding all thin...

You can read the story here and keep this fact in mind--- that Nelson Mandela was on the U.S.lists of terrorist-- when this same governmen...

A lot going on right now but I hope to catch up on things here on Monday. Meanwhile---

The first of the periodic review board (PRB) hearings took place last week. The title is misleading in that it suggests that these reviews o...

From Truthout : "One of the remaining hunger-strikers, Moath al-Alwi, a Yemeni national who has been in Guantanamo since 2002, is one o...

In keeping with our transparent government the reviews of the men who are not cleared for release will be conducted in secret. My remaining...

The anniversary of the first men being held at the gulag is January 11th. In 2014 that will be the 12th anniversary and the articles are sta...

As Moe Davis points out in this article "Twelve years ago, on 13 November 2001, President George W Bush signed an order authorizing th...

An explanation of the guided tour given to journalists and politicians at Guantanamo. I would just point out that the photo's that the j...

For those of you who need a primer about the early days of guantanamo this is a good overview by the BBC.

"Two recent stories about Guantánamo from two of the country's most respected news organizations highlight just how little attentio...