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4 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Hunger strike at Guantanamo enters 100th day

The prisoners at the United States concentration camp at Guantanamo have decided to fight hard to maintain public awareness internationally of this deep dark chapter in American history.

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8 hrs ago | Salon

Gitmo hunger strike reaches 100th day

Detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Friday reached the 100th day of a hunger strike that began in February and has grown to include more than 100 inmates.

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12 hrs ago | Star999.com

Rally marks 100 days of Guantanamo hunger strike

Demonstrators rally in New York marking 100 days that prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been on hunger strike.

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16 hrs ago | The New Zealand Herald

Riz Ahmed's conflict of love and politics

Actor Riz Ahmed turned stalker for the chance to play opposite Kiefer Sutherland in a new political thriller, writes Helen Barlow.

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Fri May 17, 2013

The Skanner

VIDEO: Guantanamo: Costing $150 Million a Year and Untold Damage to U.S. Reputation

And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.

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Indy Media

Wrexham: Solidarity with Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

Today, 17 May, is the 100th day of the current GuantA namo hunger strike, with most of the 166 remaining prisoners now refusing food, including British resident Shaker Aamer.

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Irish Republican News

Force feeding in Guantanamo Bay

Last Sunday was the 32nd anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands.

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War Is A Crime

Ensure That The NY Times Close Guantanamo Ad Gets Published

We must, must put our strong message of support before the world in the "newspaper of record" next week.

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Common Dreams

Happening Now: Gitmo Activists Mark 100th Day of Hunger Strike With Media 'Storm'

Hacker vigilante group Anonymous is marking the day with a "twitterstorm," implementing social media to bring greater awareness to the human rights violations going on at Guantanamo, particularly the indefinite detention of prisoners, many of whom have for years been cleared for release.

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San Francisco Bay View

100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay

Reportedly over 130 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have entered the 100th day of the hunger strike protesting their infinite detention.

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Russia Taday

OpGTMO: Zero hour to Anonymous global anti-Gitmo action nears

The hacktivist collective Anonymous is set to launch 'Operation Guantanamo' to mark 100 days of the Gitmo hunger strike with a series of "twitterstorms, email bombs and fax bombs." The three day campaign, which kicks off on Friday, is intended to "Raise Awareness in social media of the human rights violations going on at Guantanamo, the indefinite ... (more)

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NEWS.com.au

Jihad rules - how to survive holy war

THE first Australian charged under anti-terrorist laws has issued a how-to list on Facebook for how young men can engage in holy war without getting killed or ending up in Guantanamo Bay.

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Townhall

Michelle Malkin: Obama's Emptiest Benghazi Talking Point

On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to "bring to justice" the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya.

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Thu May 16, 2013

War Is A Crime

If We Don't Speak Out Now, When Will We?

John Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Junot Diaz, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Eve Ensler, Dave Eggers, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Haggis, Bianca Jagger, Ariel Dorfman, Erica Jong, Michael Moore, Ron Kovic, Moby, Tom Morello, Mark Ruffalo, Nancy Kricorian, James Schamus, Carl Dix, Oliver Stone, Cindy Sheehan, and Cornel West, joined by attorneys for the ... (more)

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Stars and Stripes

Guantanamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed

Guantanamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

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Common Dreams

Torture Me In the Old Way: Gitmo Hunger Strike Enters 100th Day As CNN Worries - About the Guards

Enduring ailments ranging from dizziness to kidney problems to "aching heart," up to 130 detainees at Guantanamo enter their 100th day of a hunger strike Friday, with at least 30 being force-fed, five in critical condition, many facing irreversible health risks and several charging they are now threatened with body searches if they seek to contact ... (more)

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Lincoln Daily News

Recent leak cases and First Amendment battles

In the early 1970s, the Justice Department went to court to prevent further publication in The New York Times of portions of a top-secret study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, which was packed with damaging details about America's conduct of the Vietnam War.

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Russia Taday

Gitmo prison must be closed down ASAP - Russian human rights envoy

Moscow has expressed concern over Guantanamo and the fate of a Russian inmate held there.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Russia Taday

'Worse than death row': Gitmo hunger strike reaches Day 100 amidst mounting intl pressure

As the Guantanamo hunger strike enters its 100th day, the number of voices, both in the US and around the world, to close the facility are growing stronger and louder.

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CNN

Gitmo detainees hurl insults, excrement

For the 160-plus inmates at the U.S. prison camp here, each sunrise brings a new day that most would rather starve than endure.

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