To appeal for protection to a president ideologically staked and weaponized Islamophobia to justify and conduct state violence reveals the contradiction of seeking safety from institutions that have been architects of anti-Muslim violence.
The biggest lesson from this déjà vu moment? We must resist every one of Washington’s might-makes-right policies, and fight for an entirely different relationship between the US and the rest of the world.
From Venezuela to Yemen to Iran, the extrajudicial slaughter of civilians has been allowed to continue. What we are witnessing in the Caribbean and elsewhere today has been years in the making. Who will put a stop to it?
Sending people to another country didn't start with Donald Trump, but with George W. Bush in the War on Terror, called "extraordinary rendition." “Extraordinary” when it occurs outside of normal legal strictures, as with Abrego García today.
In fact, much (though admittedly, not all) of what we’re witnessing today might simply be considered an escalation of the dire turn that this country took after the attacks of September 11, 2001, nearly a quarter of a century ago.
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Just as the 9/11 attacks “did not speak for themselves,” neither did Hamas’s attacks on Israel. In remarks at a bilateral meeting with President Biden, however, Prime Minister Netanyahu strategically compared the Hamas attacks to the 9/11 ones.
There are still 30 detainees at Guantánamo. Sixteen of them have been deemed no longer threats to the United States and cleared for release, but arrangements have yet to be made to transfer them... Now there are tiny steps toward closure.
As those Canadian wildfires suggest, we’re now living on a new, not terribly recognizable, ever more perilous world in which not just this country but Planet Earth itself is in decline. Climate change is quickly becoming the climate emergency.
Guantanamo, a prison built for those detained in America's never-ending Global War on Terror, has been open for almost 21 years. Will America's forever prison finally close?
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