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8/31/23 Andy Worthington: Some Good News from Guantanamo Bay

by Scott Horton | Sep 2, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Andy Worthington is back to discuss what’s happening down at Guantanamo Bay. This time there is a positive development. A judge has ruled that statements gathered from the so-called “Clean Team” interrogations of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri cannot be...

1/13/23 Andy Worthington: The US is Still Running an Illegal Prison at Guantanamo Bay

by Scott Horton | Jan 15, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Andy Worthington returns to talk about the 35 men who remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as we pass the 21st anniversary of the prison. Of those 35 men, 20 have already been cleared for release, yet they remain in custody with no release date....

1/13/22 Andy Worthington on the Twenty Years of Abuse at Guantanamo Bay

by Scott Horton | Jan 15, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott is joined by Andy Worthington, author of Guantanamo Files to discuss the status of the prison two decades after it opened. Worthington explains who remains detained at the prison, where detainees stand regarding trials and the developments that have happened...

10/2/20 Andy Worthington on His Assange Extradition Hearing Testimony

by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Andy Worthington about his testimony in Julian Assange's extradition hearing. Worthington reminds us how important the revelations in Chelsea Manning's Guantanamo Files leak were, stressing just how much harm has been done to the dozens of men held,...

3/22/17 Andy Worthington on keeping up the fight to close Guantanamo

by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses former Obama administration Guantanamo envoy Paul Lewis's call on Donald Trump to close Guantanamo instead of adding new prisoners; and why existing federal prisons and courts are more than capable of...

Paul Lewis, Former Envoy for Guantánamo Closure Under Obama, Urges Donald Trump to Close Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington | Mar 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On closing Guantánamo, Paul Lewis, the former Special Envoy for Guantánamo Detention Closure at the Department of Defense under President Obama, recently had an article published on Lawfare, in which he explained why Guantánamo must be closed. We’re cross-posting the...

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Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!

It has been thirty years since the website Antiwar.com was launched. A defiant reaction to the Clinton administrations interventions in the Balkans during the 1990s. Founded by the late Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris, the site went on to become a platform of...

Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X: I nearly missed my flight this...

Trump Debuts the Next US Navy Ship Disaster

POTUS revealed the latest US naval ship catastrophe, the Mango Emperor-class battleship. Apparently he and his staff did not get the memorandum from 8 December 1941. The US Navy has not built a successful hull since the Arleigh Burke (early 90s) and has had huge...

The Bloody Weekend: Netanyahu’s Blame Game, Americans Killed, and the Fuentes Backlash

The weekend should have been quiet. Instead, a Hanukkah celebration on a Sydney beach turned into a massacre, a Muslim bystander tackled a shooter, and within hours the tragedy was weaponized. We dig into what happened, why the early “false flag” whispers took hold,...

Christmas Hiatus

The Chasing Ghosts and WarNotes podcasts are on Christmas vacation, next episode will be published on Monday, 5 January 2026. See you next year. Stay strapped for Christmas...

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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...