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// multimedia journalist interested in drone warfare, civilian harm, Guantanamo, and accountability // photography on IG
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I spent months speaking with Sabri al-Qurashi, who has suffered from the US “war on terror” for two decades. He’s an innocent Yemeni man who was thrown in #Guantánamo and then dumped in Kazakhstan. His life there is excruciating. Story is here ⬇️
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Sabri al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status in Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantánamo Release
No rights”: Former Guantánamo detainee Sabri al-Qurashi was released in 2014, but his hosts in Kazakhstan are denying him any semblance of normal life.
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"Together with his students at the Center for Policy and Research at Seton Hall University law school, Denbeaux compiled Zubaydah’s images and words into a new report. The Guardian is posting the report, American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo, for the… Show more
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Unless the post-9/11 forever prison is permanently shuttered, it’s only a matter of time before one of Biden’s successors takes up Trump’s unrealized call to fill it back up with “some bad dudes," writes
@attackerman
thenation.com
Emptying Guantánamo Is Not the Same as Closing Guantánamo
Unless the post-9/11 forever prison is permanently shuttered, it’s only a matter of time before one of Biden’s successors takes up Trump’s unrealized call to fill it back up with “some bad dudes.”
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Katharine Houreld
@khoureld
“I’ve never seen someone just shoot kids like this,” said
@SheenAlSharif
sadly. “But this is what we expect in the future...The next phase is going to be irrational, absurd violence. I don’t think this will be livable for anyone."
washingtonpost.com
Fourth cease-fire falters in Khartoum as people struggle to flee Sudan
Taking advantage of the tentative cease-fire, Britain has announced that air force planes will start evacuating its citizens from the capital, Khartoum.
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Nick Turse
@nickturse
Hey, we invaded your country, super-charged sectarian violence, fostered a terror group in our prisons that almost took over, intervened again, and left you with an ongoing threat of assassinations, kidnappings and intimidation. BUT... there's this. So let's call it square.
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Samantha Power
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Great to hear from Basma & Jad about the new friends they’re making in Iraq through Ahlan Simsim—a @USAID & @SesameWorkshop early learning activity that promotes inclusion, respect, and understanding by showing children from all different backgrounds coming together.
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Nick Turse
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If the information is outdated and it getting out is not "of great consequence," then why is it classified? Why do I need to wait years to get older information that's redacted beyond any use? Why can't the American people know the truth about foreign policy and military ops?
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Shortly before an arrest was made in connection with the classified documents leak, Pres. Biden broke his silence, with the president saying that the information that was leaked is outdated. @marykbruce reports. trib.al/aH8S2Yc
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🦀 Jon Schwarz 🦀
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Benjamin Ferencz was the last surviving member of the prosecution team at Nuremberg. The NY Times published a 2,000-word obituary for him that somehow left out the fact he believed George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes for the invasion of Iraq.
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Obituaries for Nuremberg Prosecutor Erase His Beliefs About the U.S.
The Nuremberg prosecutor repeatedly said George W. Bush and his administration should be tried for the Iraq War.
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Jonathan Gilligan
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The
@nytimes
finds that Bitcoin miners in the US get 85% of their energy from fossil fuels and emit as much CO2 as 3.5 million cars. They also raise the price of electricity for homes in the area (5% in Texas), by increasing demand.
nytimes.com
The Real-World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin
Bitcoin mines cash in on electricity — by devouring it, selling it, even turning it off — and they cause immense pollution. In many cases, the public pays a price.
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It’s a quiet Easter Sunday in NYC and the
@NYPDnews
is hard at work harassing a peacefully sleeping man, out of everyone’s way, from the subway on a near-freezing spring night. Sickening to watch. Enforcing a cruel, inhumane policy. “following orders.” This is public safely?
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Marwa Fatafta مروة فطافطة
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The
@nytimes
missed a fundamental piece in their reporting. Muslims stay all night in places of worship during Ramadan, and do not “barricade” themselves inside. Ignorance and obfuscation of facts, very much on brand 🤝
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The Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, to detain scores of Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside. This prompted rocket fire from Gaza, to which Israel responded with strikes on Gaza military sites.nyti.ms/3ZQpH8k
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Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge.
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me...
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