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3 weeks ago | 
juancole.com | Karen Greenberg |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com) – In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared.
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2 months ago | 
fpif.org | Karen Greenberg |John Feffer
Originally published in TomDispatch.
Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Robert Jensen |Phil Pasquini |Karen Greenberg
Bad ideas do not necessarily die; they retire to museums of failure and folly, awaiting to be revived by the next proponent who should know better. The Iron Dome shield vision of US President Donald Trump, intended to intercept and destroy incoming missiles and other malicious aerial objects, seems much like a previous dotty one advanced by President Ronald Reagan, known rather blandly as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Karen Greenberg |John Rachel |Bharat Dogra
This July the US Postal Service (USPS) will celebrate its 250th anniversary making it older than the country. Once again it is facing a call for privatization, this time from President Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE. Love it or hate it, the USPS has become a regular part of Americans’ everyday lives six days a week making its daily rounds delivering wanted and unwanted mail to practically every person in the country.
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2 months ago | 
juancole.com | Karen Greenberg |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Four years ago, I published Subtle Tools, a book on the erosion of American democratic norms in the face of what came to be known as the Global War on Terror.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
juancole.com | Karen Greenberg |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the “mastermind” of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
original.antiwar.com | Karen Greenberg |Tom Engelhardt
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the “mastermind” of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Karen Greenberg |Phil Pasquini |Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra
On January 10th, one day before the 23rd anniversary of its opening, a much-anticipated hearing was set to take place at the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility on the island of Cuba. After nearly 17 years of pretrial litigation, the prosecution of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the “mastermind” of the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, seemed poised to achieve its ever-elusive goal of bringing his case to a conclusion.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Binoy Kampmark |Karen Greenberg |Bharat Dogra
As the Biden administration ends in little over a week, the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Naval Base, which the president promised to close during his campaign four years ago, now has the fewest number of detainees since it opened in 2002. But it is still not closed. The decrease in detainees reflects the largest release of prisoners to date that took place earlier this week when 11 Yemeni men held for two decades and never charged were transferred to Oman.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Karen Greenberg |Phil Pasquini |Ramzy Baroud
On January 6, the Pentagon announced that it had “resettled” 11 Yemeni men to Oman after detaining them over two decades without charge at the US naval facility of Guantánamo Bay. Notice of this repatriation was given back on September 15, 2023 to Congress by Secretary of Defense Austin. Their removal from a facility made notorious in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States brings the number of those still detained at Guantánamo to 15.
