A Promise Broken: Obama and Guantánamo Bay

Guantánamo Bay detention facility was created under George Bush’s Presidency in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001.  Described as ‘a place where normal legal rules’ do not apply, it quickly became infamous for harsh and extreme conditions of detention.  Interrogators practiced a variety of torture techniques on prisoners…

Full version here. Published in the Irish Anarchist Reivew [Issue 3]  May 2011.