Daily Archives: February 25, 2022

2022-02-25: News Headlines

Staff (2022-02-25). Presidente Díaz-Canel califica de provechosa visita de gobierno a Guantánamo. cubadebate.cu El presidente cubano, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, dirige este viernes la reunión resumen de la visita gubernamental realizada a la provincia de Guantánamo. En su cuenta de Twitter, publicó que "ha sido muy provechosa nuestra visita a #Guantánamo, tierra de gente noble y trabajadora. Gracias por el cariño y la confianza en que saldremos adelante".

Vijay Prashad (2022-02-24). Those Who Violated the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo Are Free, While the Man who Helped Expose Their Crimes Languishes in Prison. dissidentvoice.org Ahmed Rabbani (Pakistan), Untitled (Grape Arbor), 2016. Rabbani endured 545 days of torture at the hands of the CIA before he was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004. He has been in the prison without charge since then. Twenty years ago, on 11 January 2002, the United States government brought its first 'detainees' abducted during the …

Matt Sedlar (2022-02-24). The UK Wanted to Extradite Assange to the US from the Start. cepr.net The Intercept See article on original site The UK High Court ruling that Julian Assange should be extradited to face trial in the United States — a decision that Amnesty International has called a "travesty of justice" — came as no surprise to me. It's what the UK government always wanted. I know because the …

Kevin Gosztola (2022-02-24). The Inevitability Of Russia's Attack On Ukraine. thedissenter.org [EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't typically use this space to weigh in on US foreign policy without connecting it somehow to whistleblowers, but as the establishment news media limits acceptable views to a very narrow spectrum of reactions, I felt the need to weigh in on Russia's attack on Ukraine.] | *** | Wrong does not really cover it. I was naive. Naively, I convinced myself that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not launch a massive military offensive against all parts of Ukraine. | I allowed myself to believe that the extent of an attack would be limited to seizing territory contested between Ukraine and the bre…

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