Guantánamo

What the World Should Know

Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray

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In the months following its initial release, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and torture. Written by Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights President and co-consul on the case of Rasul v. Bush)and Ellen Ray (Institute for Media Analysis President), Guantanamo is the most authoritative documentation to date on President Bush's moves toward a network of detention centers--a system without accountability, which flouts U.S. and international law.

With a resource section that includes the Gonzales memo to President Bush and excerpts from the Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo provides strong evidence of Ratner explains how Gonzales and the Bush Administration are acting to radically alter America's historic commitment to civil and human rights, and why all Americans should resist what is being done in our name.

Gathered together for the first time, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know includes the governmental memoranda that led to the conditions at the Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and beyond.

Ratner and Ray give the definitive account of what led to the current conditions at Guantánamo and the importance of continuing to fight against the violations of U.S. and international law undertaken by the United States since 9-11. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the rule of law, liberty, democracy--and the right to dissent.

About the Authors

Michael Ratner is one of the principal counsel representing the Guantánamo prisoners in the Supreme Court. He is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City. He was a principal attorney in the successful effort to close the U.S. HIV camp for Haitians at Guantánamo in 1993. He lectures regularly on international human rights law in America’s leading law schools, including Yale and Columbia. To learn more about Mr. Ratner go to http://www.humanrightsnow.org/

Ellen Ray is President of the Institute for Media Analysis and the author and editor of numerous books and magazines on U.S. intelligence and international politics, most recently Covert Action: The Root of Terrorism, published by Ocean Press.

Guantánamo is part of the "Politics of the Living" series, a collection of hard-hitting works by major writers exposing the global governmental and corporate assault on life.

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Books:
Ratner and Ray Guantánamo: What the World Should Know(2004 Chelsea Green Publishing Company)
Ratner et al. America's Disappeared: Secret Imprisonment, Detainees, and the "War on Terror" (2004 Seven Stories)
Ratner et al, Against War with Iraq (Open Media 2003)
Ratner and Brody, The Pinochet Papers: The Case of Augusto Pinochet in Spain and Britain (Kluwer 2000)
Ratner and Smith, Che Guevara and the FBI (Ocean Press 1998)
Stephens and Ratner, International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts(Transnational Publishers Inc. 1996)
Articles:
Lobel and Ratner, Bypassing the Security Council: Ambiguous Authorizations to Use Force, Cease Fires, and the Iraqi Inspection Regime, 93 AJIL124 (January 1999)
Ratner, How We Closed the Guantanamo HIV Camp: The Intersection of Politics and Litigation, 11 Harv. Hum. Rts. J.187 (1998).
Freedom at Risk; It's a Free Country: Secrecy, Censorship, and Repression in the 1980s (1988 Temple University Press, Edited by Richard O. Curry)
Lost Liberties: Ashcroft and the Assault on Personal Freedom (2003 The New Press Edited by Cynthia Brown)

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About CCR
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.

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