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...pictures from inside Guantanamo Bay's detention facilities...
There's been a lot of news about fighting pirates on the high seas in the past couple of weeks. Today comes a reminder that efforts to fight piracy online continues as well. A court in Stockholm on Friday found the four men behind The Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest free file-sharing sites, guilty of breaching copyright law for allowing its users to illegally access music, movies and TV shows online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million...
During the president’s first 100 days in office we have witnessed a steady stream of campaign promises undergoing a transition to political reality. In January, Obama fulfilled a promise to reexamine the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp—and has since ordered the facility to be closed within the year. The latest example, though, came this week, when the president announced that he would be fully tackling the issue of immigration reform as early as next month. Critics were quick to point out that the president might be biting off more than he can chew by adding...
...early 1960s were marked by a number of subversive, top-secret U.S. attempts to topple the Cuban government. The Bay of Pigs - the CIA's botched attempt to overthrow Castro by training Cuban exiles for a ground attack - was followed by Operation Mongoose: a years-long series of increasingly far-fetched attempts on Castro's life. Between 1961 and 1963 there were at least five plots to kill, maim or humiliate the Cuban leader using everything from exploding seashells to shoes dusted with chemicals to make his beard fall out. The Get Smart-like plans never worked, and Castro...
...photos from inside Guantánamo Bay...