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Torture in Iraq: The controversial disclosure by Wikileaks of US military information on alleged torture in Iraq gave rise to several impassioned speeches in Wednesday's debate ahead of today's vote. The resolution calls for a transatlantic inquiry, saying that Parliament, "although aware that the leaking of classified military documents runs the risk of bringing military personnel in danger, is highly concerned over the recent serious allegations that torture has been condoned in Iraq". It "calls for this issue to be raised in the context of the EU-US summit with a view to an independent transatlantic inquiry".
Press Release, European Parliament
2. What We Learned from WikiLeaks
As an intelligence officer with access to secret reports, Bradley Manning knew well what happened to detainees in Iraqi custody. They were commonly tortured. American or other coalition soldiers threatened Iraqi prisoners with the torture or execution that would befall them if they were turned over to their Iraqi compatriots. [Verbatim army report details electricity applied to genitals and feet, sodomy by water bottle and beatings all over the body et al]. Julian Assange, the nomadic cyber rebel who leads WikiLeaks, was not himself a cog in the machine, but he was of like mind with Manning in regard to individual responsibility. Assange is not in prison—on the contrary, this tall, white-haired, disciplined, well-spoken and somehow unearthly information guerrilla shows up regularly on television, where he performs with a kind of high-minded, cool scrappiness. But his organization has been cloudily but menacingly designated a "threat to the U.S. Army" in a classified Army document (also published by WikiLeaks), and he is a man on the run, moving from nation to nation in search of safety from possible legal jeopardy. Perhaps here in the United States, when the country has found its moral bearings again, there will be recognition of the integrity and bravery of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. For now, the war- and torture-system rolls on, and it's all found to be "nothing new."
Jonathan Schell, The Nation
3. Our British Parliament Is Rotten To The Core
Nothing has changed since the expenses scandal
The culture of deception became a perfectly normal instrument of government under New Labour. One of the worst cases was Tony Blair’s notorious dossier of September 2002 which made the case for the Iraq War. Had this document been an offer-for-sale prospectus, Blair’s fatal tendency to convert speculation into incontrovertible fact would have invited the attention of the fraud squad. The toleration of deceit carried on for years after the Iraq invasion, reaching its culmination with last year’s expenses scandal, when this newspaper disclosed the appalling truth that the House of Commons itself was engaged in a gigantic conspiracy to steal from the British taxpayer. The scale of the fraud was so audacious that our leading politicians had no choice but to acknowledge that something had gone horribly wrong. Lying and cheating are still regarded as acceptable conduct by the British Political Class. Our MPs continue to regard themselves as so mehow beyond the basic morality that applies to their fellow citizens. I used to believe that this arrogant and dishonest approach to politics was peculiar to New Labour. Now it looks like common practice for all parties. While Prime Minister David Cameron [ConDem government] travels the globe making grand bargains with world leaders, the stench of deceit and corruption is once again beginning to fill the Tory benches.
Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
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4. State Of Utah USA Sues GlaxoSmithKline Over Avandia Drug
SALT LAKE CITY -- The state of Utah is suing GlaxoSmithKline on allegations the company misleadingly marketed its drug Avandia as a wonder drug for Type 2 diabetes. Assistant Attorney General Robert Morton tells KSL-TV the state doesn't believe the company's claim that it has science to back it up. Some studies have tied Avandia to a higher risk of heart problems. In September, European regulators ordered Avandia off the market, while U.S. regulators restricted which patients could get it. Utah’s lawsuit says the company defrauded the state Medicaid program of $7.8 million, which is what it has spent on Avandia.GlaxoSmithKline did not return a phone call from KSL-TV seeking comment.
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