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  • The Office of Military Commissions building in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was where much legal activity about the detainees’ cases was handled. AP Photo/Alex Brandon

    ‘The Mauritanian’ rekindles debate over Gitmo detainees’ torture–with 40 still held there

    Originally published: The Conversation on February 12, 2021 (more by The Conversation)

    “The Mauritanian,” directed by Kevin Macdonald, is the first feature film to dramatize how the war on terror became a war in court.

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    Lisa Hajjar

      Should the United States, seeking to recalibrate the balance between security and liberty in the “war on terror,” emulate Israel in its treatment of Palestinian detainees? That is the position that Guantanamo detainee lawyers Avi Stadler and John Chandler of Atlanta, and some others, have advocated.  That people in U.S. custody could be held […]

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    Jean-Philippe Stone © UN Photo/Martine Perret | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
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    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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