Category Archives: Guantanamo Bay

Haunting photos from inside Camp X-Ray

Posted on January 12, 2014 by understandingempire

Photos from Camp X-Ray, the shortly-lived detention center at Guantanamo Bay that housed “the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.” Only it didn’t… But what’s remarkable about these pictures is how the earth is consuming … Continue reading →

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Where is Guantanamo Bay?

Posted on July 25, 2013 by understandingempire

With all the recent attention focused on detainees’ hunger strikes, it is important to ask where is the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay?  On a map it’s easy enough to locate: the southeast tip of Cuba. But it’s also … Continue reading →

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Will drone strikes become Obama’s Guantanamo?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by understandingempire

An opinion piece from today’s Washington Post. The killing of the U.S.-born al-Qaeda cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki on Friday along with another U.S. citizen and two other al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen is likely to fuel the international controversy over the legality and wisdom … Continue reading →

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