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Gulag

Another subsidiary of Halliburton, famous for chiselling millions out of the ‘reconstruction’ of Iraq, has won the $30 million contract to help build a permanent prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Described as “the gulag of our times” by the head of Amnesty International, the prison has become notorious for allegations of torture and brutality. Ex-president Bill Clinton, among others, has called for Guantanamo to be closed but Dick Cheney still thinks that detainees are providing valuable information.

Of course, they can be always transported to Syria, Egypt or Uzbekistan in unmarked CIA planes to be tortured to death for more valuable information to help the ‘war on terror’. Both the US and the British governments use evidence obtained under torture, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.