Articles by Andy Worthington
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The Horrors of AI-driven Military Targeting from Gaza to Iran
Andy Worthington | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2026
18 May 2026 – Since 7 Oct 2023, when Israel began carpet-bombing the Gaza Strip on a scale so grotesque that it can only realistically be compared to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all sense of proportionality in warfare has been eviscerated…
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Andy Worthington, Close Guantánamo Campaign – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Holding President Obama to his promise to release the 48 cleared-for-release detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
As of 4 Jan 2016, 12:25 p.m. GMT:
1321 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes since the promise on May 23, 2013.
A Huge Hunger Strike at Guantánamo
Andy Worthington – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2013
When is a hunger strike not a hunger strike? Apparently, when the government says it doesn’t exist. Despair is entirely appropriate at Guantánamo for the 166 men still held, because, although 86 of them were cleared for release at least three years ago and some were cleared for release under President Bush, between 2004 and 2007, they are still held because of Congressional obstruction.
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Andy Worthington - Truthout,
5 Feb 2010
On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first-ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan for the last eight years. An annotated version of the list is available here. For those who fear that there are hundreds of prisoners in Bagram who have been held […]
→ read full articleWHEN IS A CHILD NOT A CHILD?
Andy Worthington,
21 Oct 2008
When is a child not a child? Apparently, when he is Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old Canadian who was shot in the back after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar has been in U.S. custody ever since, first at a prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and for the last six years in Guantánamo. […]
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