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What I Learned about Torture and the Law at Guantánamo
Jul 28 2022
By Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against TortureI made my first trip to Guantánamo in July 2010 after years of researching the fight against US torture during the “war on terror.” At the time, Guantánamo’s well-deserved description as a “legal black hole” felt pe
The Chilling Truth: Post-9/11 Wars Have Displaced 37 Million People
Sep 11 2020
by David Vine, author of The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State.This week, in recognition of the nineteenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the twentieth consecutive year of U.S. war, a team of students