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U.S. rights stance faces big test in Guantanamo case

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By Randall Mikkelsen 48 minutes ago
The tarnished U.S. human rights image faces a major test this week as the Supreme Court considers whether terrorism suspects held for years without charges at Guantanamo Bay are wrongly detained.

Andy Worthington: Cowboy Justice at Guantanamo: Judge Confirms Use of Secret Evidence in the Trial of Omar Khadr

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from Huff Po by Andy Worthington
Just days before lawyers will argue in the Supreme Court that the Guantánamo detainees have the right to challenge the basis of their detention, the latest news in the ongoing saga of Omar Khadr, the Canadian who was just 15-years-old when he was captured in Afghanistan after a firefight in [...]

Jordan’s Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA

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Foreign Terror Suspects Tell of Torture
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, December 1, 2007; A01
AMMAN, Jordan — Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Still powerful after all these years

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I was sick to my stomach. When it’s happening to you, it doesn’t feel heroic; it feels real scary. It feels like you are a deviant.
Professor Christina Maslach, UC-Berkeley, to psychologists
gathered in Toronto, Aug. 12, 1996

Halliburton wins concentration camp contract

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Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Mon, 05/08/2006 - 16:50.
We wish we were joking. What a shame nobody noticed this—the little note in the second section about the Halliburton contract (emphasis added) should have been front-page news in every paper in the country. Back on Feb. 23, Nat Perry of Consortium News wrote for AlterNet: