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Guantánamo’s most famous prisoner, Mohamedou Slahi, has been released after spending more than 14 years in the notorious detention center. Slahi, author of the 2015 bestselling book “Guantánamo Diary,” was returned to his native Mauritania on October 17. Slahi, 45, was detained in Mauritania at the behest of the United States in 2001, and transferred to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. He had fought with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in the early 1990s when the group was part of the anti-communist forces supported by the US government. He subsequently broke ties with the group, left Afghanistan, and worked for several years as an engineer in Germany, returning to Mauritania in 2001, according to the ACLU. During the period covering the over-14 years of his detention, Slahi was never charged with any crime. He was accused of helping recruit terrorists for the 9/11 attacks and of plotting an attack on the Los Angeles airport, allegations for which his lawyers say there is scan

Margaret Thatcher named worst prime minister in 100 years Margaret Thatcher has been named the worst Prime Minister of the last 100 years, closely beating fellow Conservative David Cameron in a new survey of leading historical writers. The Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) asked its members to give their views on the last 19 Prime Ministers, in a survey released to mark Theresa May’s 100th day in office on 22 October. Baroness Thatcher, who died in 2013, came first with 24% of the vote, closely followed by Mr Cameron (22%) and Neville Chamberlain (17%). Tony Blair took 11% to leave him in fourth spot, while Gordon Brown and Sir Edward Heath were tied for fifth place with 8%. [...] “ She destroyed too many good things in society, and created too many bad ones, then left a social and moral vacuum in which the selfishly rich and unimaginatively fortunate could too easily destroy still more of what they don't need and can't see th

Η Μάγκυ τα κατάφερε, πήρε και μια πρωτιά μετά θάνατον. Στη λίστα ήταν 19 πρωθυπουργοί της Βρετανίας των τελευταίων 100 χρόνων, δηλαδή, από το 1916. Και η Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ πήρε την πρώτη θέση: Ανακηρύχθηκε από την Ένωση Ιστορικών της Βρετανίας ως η χειρότερη πρωθυπουργός του αιώνα. Στη δεύτερη θέση -και δη, με μικρή διαφορά- φιγουράρει ο Ντέιβιντ Κάμερον, ενώ τέταρτος είναι ο Τόνι Μπλερ. Η Σιδηρά Κυρία έλαβε το 24% των ψήφων. Ο Κάμερον πήρε με 22%, ο Νέβιλ Τσάμπερλεϊν ήρθε τρίτος με 17% και τέταρτος ο Τόνι Μπλερ με 11%, με τον Γκόρντον Μπράουν να τον ακολουθεί στην επόμενη θέση. Βασικό κριτήριο των ιστορικών ήταν η θέση της Θάτσερ απέναντι στην κοινωνία. « Κατέστρεψε πάρα πολλά καλά στοιχεία στην κοινωνία και δημιούργησε πολλά άσχημα. Άφησε ένα κοινωνικό και ηθικό κενό στο οποίο οι πλούσιοι και οι πεζά τυχεροί μπορούσαν να καταστρέψουν ακόμη περισσότερα από εκείνα που δεν χρειάζονται και δεν έβλεπαν ότι τα έχουν ανάγκη όλοι οι άλλοι » δήλωσε

'We, the people, were standing up and leading the charge towards the kinds of policies that we actually deserve. It’s important for us to lead with the politics of courage. The politics of fear, unfortunately, has delivered everything we were afraid of.' globinfo freexchange After our call to independent media for a 'counter-debate' with the US third parties , the independent news network Democracy Now! made a first revolutionary step to break the US bipartisan debate monopoly. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! explains again the process, in this second presidential debate: “ We spend the rest of today’s show airing excerpts of the Donald Trump-Hillary Clinton debate and give Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein a chance to respond to the same questions posed to the major-party candidates. Again, Dr. Stein and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson were excluded from the debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on

WikiLeaks has activated “contingency plans” after its co-founder’s internet service was intentionally cut off by a state actor, the media organization said in a tweet. The internet is one of the few, if not only, available ways for Julian Assange, who has been locked up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for more than four years, to maintain contact with the outside world. [...] Clinton’s campaign has made unsubstantiated claims that WikiLeaks is working with the Russian government to help defeat the Democrat in favor of Trump. Last week the FBI reissued a statement saying it was working to “determine the accuracy, nature and scope” of cyber intrusions, but did not name any suspected perpetrators. [...] Earlier this month, it emerged that Hillary Clinton reportedly wanted to “drone” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when she was the US secretary of state. According to True Pundit, Clinton and the State Department were under pressure to