The Guantánamo Blog

  ... Fingers crossed. As Candace always says, hope dies last. But I’m seriously hoping that Joe Biden, the President with the temerity to a...

 The organization CAGE has launched a new website and gathered seven survivors together to tell their stories-- link below. (Sorry about the...

 I would think multi-tasking would be something Biden would be good at but he does seem to have some problems getting multiple high priority...

 You can celebrate this anniversary by attending one of several events with Witness Against Torture -- most are virtual: Stalwarts from Mai...

 Today marks 20 years of Guantanamo. Twenty years of holding men and boys without charge and without trial. Twenty years of lawlessness. So ...

  Guantanamo Panel Approves Transfer of First High-Value Detainee On Monday, a Somali man who has been held at Guantánamo Bay as a high-valu...

 And with this I end my musical interlude on this one year anniversary of the attempted coup.

 

 

  Note scrawled across his guitar-- "this machine kills fascists"

 

 (still working on that last one.....)

 

 The Talking Dog is his usual optimistic self: It’s the end of a year that began with the sitting President of the United States staging a m...

Many years ago I wrote a piece for Huffington reflecting on my representation of men at Gitmo. Shepard takes this to a whole new level.  Wha...