There’s no other place in the world where the U.S. military forcefully occupies foreign land on an open-ended basis, against the wishes of its host nation.

What Obama did not mention is the serious risk that the phenomenon of Guantánamo will spread, that future administrations will try to introduce preventive detention on national security grounds within the United States.

There’s no reason to automatically exalt uniformed fighters as heroes. But a humane society will surely seek understanding and care for any person who survives the killing fields of a war zone.

Returning Guantanamo Bay to Cuba will begin to right more than a century of wrongs that the U.S. government has perpetrated there.

"This is a historic stand by this nurse, who recognized the basic humanity of the detainees and the inhumanity of what he was being asked to do."

When it comes to bringing terrorists to justice in a courtroom, we seem to get bored. There is a vague sense that the term “bringing to justice” only has to do with drones.

Ann Wright Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/12/20-5 I hope the first African-American United State President has seen the movie “12 Years A Slave.” It’s the story of Solomon Northup, a born-free, educated African-American carpenter and musician who lived in Saratoga, New York. In 1841, during a trip to Washington, DC, Northup was...

Out of 779 detainees, only seven have been convicted and sentenced. The US must end this costly disgrace.