Guantanamo Bay

Tropical Storm Sandy Could Make Life Miserable For South Florida Tomorrow

There's no need to raid Publix for water, hurricane shutters, vodka and "Golden Girls" DVDs just yet, but you might as well prepare yourself for a miserable end of the week thanks to Tropical Storm Sandy.The strengthening storm is set to become a Cat 1 hurricane before walloping Jamaica later today, ... More >>

Osama's Translator, Locked Up in Gitmo, Says LeBron James Is a "Very Bad Man"

Most of the world has moved on from LeBron James' decision to leave Cleveland and play for the Miami Heat, but at least one man is still mad about it. The lawyer for Muhammad Rahim, an Al-Qaeda member who served as a translator for Osama bin Laden and who is currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, h ... More >>

Reader mail: Go medieval on unprosecuted criminal bankers

Herman Cain's Top Spokesman Once Accused Female Miami Herald Reporter of Sexual Harassment

​Colorful characters involved in the Republican primary are about as common as minor scandals over at The Miami Herald, so it only makes sense that somehow those two worlds would collide.Remember back in 2009 when a Navy spokesman at Guantanamo Bay accused veteran Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg o ... More >>

Sleepy Miami Commissioners Pass Budget Deal at 3 a.m., Don't Really Know What's Inside

​Faced with a massive $62 million gap in city finances, angry unions and an increasingly hostile commission, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado did what any good leader would do: He kept commissioners up so late they didn't know what they were voting on.It worked! Just after 3:30 this morning, they voted ... More >>

Describe and Illuminate

Casey Anthony Verdict Justifies Guantanamo Bay Tribunals Claims Republican Leader Mitch McConnell

​Who knew the Casey Anthony verdict would have implications on the United States' interpretation of the Geneva Conventions? According to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the failure of a Florida jury to convict Anthony proves the need to try terrorist suspects at military tribunals outsid ... More >>

Decorated Iraq War Veteran Elisha Dawkins Sits in Miami Jail for Lying on Passport Application

Dawkins was a photographer in the Army, shooting photos like this one.​Elisha L. Dawkins was born in the Bahamas but immigrated to Miami as an infant. He was brought up believing he was an American citizen and after high school enlisted in the Army, where he served what he thought was his country ... More >>

Casablanca Hotel Caught Trapping Miami Beach Cats, At Least Eight Euthanized

casablancamiamibeach.blogspot.comA cat trap behind the Casablanca Hotel on Collins Ave. in Miami Beach​Since when did Miami become the Guantánamo Bay Prison of the animal kingdom? First there were puppy mills in Liberty City, then outrage over questionable conditions at Miami-Dade Animal Services ... More >>

New Times Cleans Up in Green Eyeshades

​Miami New Times cleaned up in the nondaily division of the 60th Annual Green Eyeshade Awards, which determine the best work in 11 Southeastern States. Former staff writer Natalie O'Neill took a first place in investigative reporting for "Piece of Mind," a probe of suicides and other problems at t ... More >>

Omar Khadr's Trial Back Under Way at Gitmo, At Least Until A Plea Deal Works Out

Last January, we brought you the story of Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee and only Westerner held in Guantanamo Bay.​The Canadian-born Khadr was only 15 when U.S. troops shot and detained him in 2002 on an Afghan battlefield. Khadr later confessed to throwing a grenade that killed one medic ... More >>

Miami Free Times: Dancing, Guantananmo Talk, Show and Tell, and Siren & Sealions

Whether you got whacked in the head with a pillow this weekend or saw Sir Paul McCartney rock an arena, we're guessing you still don't want to spend a lot of dough this week. Monday: Miami's gonna make you sweat again. Temperatures are back in 80s so if you have today off, hit the beach. Tuesday: Ch ... More >>

Marco Rubio Loves Waterboarding and Is Satan Because of It

​Does Marco Rubio love torture? The Washington Post's Dana Milbank sure seems to think so.During Rubio's CPAC speech yesterday, the crowd of conservative activists couldn't get enough of shouting, "Marco! Marco! Marco!" "That Marco cheer always worries me because I'm always afraid t ... More >>

News Roundup: Al Groh Reportedly Heading to Georgia Tech Instead

A Miami Shores man trapped in the wreckage of the collapsed UN building in Haiti was finally freed after 40 hours. [Herald]Wounded Americans in Haiti are being taken to Gitmo. [Herald]3 Lynn University students believed to had been found in Haiti are actually still unaccounted for. [CBS4]Miami-Dade ... More >>

Spineless U.S. Congress Kills Latest Hopes to Close Gitmo

Back in February, I visited the Guantanamo Bay prison camp during President Obama's inauguration. At the time, it sure seemed like I was witnessing the last days of a ugly chapter in American history. ​Obama's first act as president was an order to close the place. The head of the detention center ... More >>

Gitmo Spokesman Cries Sexual Harassment, Tries to Bar Herald Reporter

Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon is a 41-year-old career military officer. He is the chief spokesman for the most controversial outpost on the planet, the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base. via Wikimedia Commons​And, if you're to believe a letter he sent to the Miami Herald last week, veteran Miami Herald repor ... More >>

Feline-Lovin' Sadists

Miamians prove there's more than one way to skin a cat killer.

Guantanamo Bay Becomes a Video Game

Sorry to be so GitMo heavy today, but ehgads there is a Guantanamo Bay video game in development. Yeah, we thought the idea of escaping from GitMo was and idea best reserved for fiction, and apparently we were right.  T-Enterprises, the British software company developing the game, says Ren ... More >>

Obama's First 100 Days and Barely Any Action on HIV/AIDS

Wednesday will mark the culmination of President Obama's first 100 days in office, and he's done a lot: passed a massive stimulus package, ordered the closure of Gitmo, made a momentous change in travel policy to Cuba, had some pirates shot, and got a dog named Bo. Though, one area where he's moved ... More >>

MIA Customs Officials Keep Us Safe From Teddy Bear Threat

via Flavouz's flickrTheir eyes were watching eyes. U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Miami International Airport noticed that the glass eyes on a shipment of teddy bears from China were poorly secured, and could be a choking hazard to small children. They sent the bears off for further test ... More >>

Chuck Rules, Bill Bites

Today Bill Cooke at Random Pixels took a shot at New Times and editorial jefe Chuck Strouse. He wrote: I used to love Miami New Times. When I lived in Coconut Grove I knew where the paper was delivered on Wednesday and usually snagged a copy by early afternoon. Since editor Jim Mullin's departure a ... More >>

One Lawyer's Fight to Change Guantanamo Bay -- At the Expense of His Career

Maj. Tom Fleener was enjoying a quiet life as an assistant public defender in Wyoming when he was thrust into the greatest legal conundrum of our times.Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsFleener, an Army Reservist, became more and more outraged as he read about the military commissions set up in Guantanamo B ... More >>

'I Was Cooperating with Evil': A Former Gitmo Prosecutor Sounds off About a Corrupt Process

Two years ago, when Darrel Vandeveld flew to Guantánamo Bay to work as a prosecutor, no one else believed more in the detention camps and all they stood for in the War on Terror.Courtesy Wikimedia Commons"I was totally gung ho," Vandeveld tells Riptide. "I was convinced that we actually had the 'wo ... More >>

News Roundup

Oh, look, an update from our old friends the sex offenders under the bridge. It's nice to hear from them every once in a while. [NBC6]It is going to get really, really cold this weekend. [CBS4]Fidel Castro wants Obama to give back Guantánamo Bay. [NBC6]Some dumb kid accidentally shot his friend in ... More >>

End of an Era

A new show at CiFo looks back at Bush's reign — and the mess he left.

News Roundup

State Farm, the State's largest private property insurer, will stop insuring property in Florida. [NY Times]This seems to be a major thing, but Gov. Charlie Crist is just saying things like, "I don't really care." [Naked Politics]But, that's ok, he was too busy vetoing budget cuts today. Schools get ... More >>

Florida Congressman Wants to Move Gitmo to Alcatraz

Now that it's official -- Obama is closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and we've all given ourselves a hearty slap on the back, the tough questions are really starting to rear their ugly heads: What do we do with the 245 guys left in Gitmo? Especially the truly dangerous ones, who we ... More >>

News Roundup

Fidel Castro suggests in a column he might not be following international affairs in four years. Maybe because he'll be dead? [CBS4]Anyway, here he is with the President of Argentina. His first new picture in some time. [Herald]The South Beach Comedy Festival may not be selling as many tickets this ... More >>

News Roundup

President Obama found time to call up Gitmo and say, "Yo, can we just chill for a minute?" and all proceedings were instantly frozen. [Herald]Police finally caught this horrible baby-punching would-be car thief. [NBC6]Here are all sorts of pictures from the inaugural balls. Do we like Michelle's dre ... More >>

President Obama halts Guantanamo trials

In his inaugural speech yesterday, Barack Obama declared that "we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals"- a statement Riptide felt spoke directly to the future of Guantanamo Bay, a place where due process and human rights laws have been kicked aside in the name of extinguishin ... More >>

Boogie Down Barack

Riptide offers to DJ Obama's inaugural ball.

The Confederate Flag Has Us Thinking About Secession

Sometimes I forget that technically Florida is a southern state, with Confederate heritage and all. It seems like the closer you get to the southern beaches the less and less red the necks are. This is probably because all of Hick-America would much rather spend their money on diamond-encrusted truc ... More >>

Cheney Still Hearts Gitmo; the Senate Does Not Heart Cheney

You've got to give Tricky Dick some credit. The man sticks to his guns (even when they're clearly shooting someone in the face).Amid the Bushie farewell tour over the past week, Cheney has time and again stuck up for his administration's use of, ahem, "questionable" tactics in treating prisoners at ... More >>

News Roundup

Riptide had a lovely Thanksgiving. Short Order cooked an amazing turbaconducken, Crossfade lead us in musical prayer, and step-sibling Nude Celebrity Death SUV brought tons of bargain bin wine, which it proceeded to chug relentlessly. Anyway, we are back today in a somewhat tryptophan impaired effor ... More >>

Spicoli Brokers Obama-Castro Gitmo Hookup?

No, that headline is not just a hallucination brought on by the tryptophan-induced haze you've been stumbling around in since stuffing that turducken down your gullet yesterday.It's just, quite simply, the strangest post-Thanksgiving news on the planet. Somehow or another, Sean Penn, the liberal wun ... More >>

Let's Go to Prison

Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.

Weekly News Wrap

Before YouTube, There Was This

Explore the parameters of propaganda at the Wolf

What Is It Good For?

The awful reality of war hits the Wolf

A Bit Sketchy

Casa Bacardi presents illustrations of history

Letters from the Issue of August 10, 2006

"The victims will never get justice"

Grandmasters in Guayaberas

Little Havana's chess connection vies for the national crown

Goodbye to All That

A new wave of Latin cinema says so long to the Left

The Catalyst

Marleine Bastien -- activist, social worker, songwriter, mother -- is helping to lead the resurgence of South Florida's Haitian political agenda

Letters

Birth of a Misinterpretation

A Haitian refugee is denied asylum after honestly answering a question about his wife's protracted pregnancy

Perilous Journey

For more than two decades Miami's Haitian Refugee Center was a beacon of hope and a force for justice. Today its director, Guy Victor, is struggling just to keep it afloat.

Swelter 24

Come-on in My Kitchen

Lard Corps

Local black leaders are wondering why the U.S. Justice Department called them together to chew the fat about Guantanamo