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Medical Hypocrite Oath: harm's optional if there's money in it
(Caption courtesy of One Click)
U.S. Department of Defense doctors and psychologists whose duty was to care for inmates at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concealed evidence of intentional harm and torture, said a study on Tuesday. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS Medicine, come in the wake of a host of secret U.S. documents released by Wikileaks, shedding light on conditions in the U.S. military prison in Cuba. The authors call into question whether military doctors, who like their civilian colleagues generally adhere to the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, should have done more when confronted with potential of abuse or torture. The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reports of alleged complicity by CIA doctors and psychologists and DoD behavioral consultants, described by the U.S. government as "non-clinical" experts who were present during the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, have alr eady come to light.
AFP, The Montreal Gazette
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* WikiLeaks Releases Gitmo Files
Information Release, WikiLeaks
* New York Times, NPR Collde with US Government on Gitmo Files Coverage
kgosztola, WL Central
* Will WikiLeaks vs. NYT, The Guardian & Daniel Domscheit-Berg Drama Overshadow Contents of Gitmo Files?
kgosztola, WL Central
* WikiLeaks: Guantanamo Bay terrorist secrets revealed
Christopher Hope, Robert Winnett, Holly Watt & Heidi Blake, Daily Telegraph
2. Lawyers summoned as UK ConDem government extends Libya war nobody wants
Defence Secretary Liam Fox taking sides in a civil war:
bombs away, bring in the troops!
(Caption courtesy of One Click)
The United Nations resolution under which Britain and Nato allies have intervened in Libya does not allow the training of rebel forces or helping them to plan military missions against Muammar Gaddafi's forces, according to government lawyers in London. In echoes of the controversy surrounding the legal justification for the Iraq invasion presented by the Blair administration, senior British military officers have privately stated that they would like clarification on the standing of their forces under international law as pressure grows for greater involvement of UK forces. With the conflict appearing to have reached an impasse on the ground David Cameron has told MPs that he was considering arming the revolutionaries. One Click Note: And just how much is the ConDem government spending on the Libya war that may be illegal whilst people lose their jobs hand over fist, the poorest and disabled are shunned as their charities are dismantled, Legal Aid destroyed, higher education becomes the banquet for the privileged and on and on and on? The only consolation is that if this aggressive profligacy with taxpayers' money continues, it should serve to unseat the ConDem government nicely. This consolation is deeply marred however by memories of Labour's war in Iraq and the regime's Animal Farm assault on civil liberties in all their guises et al. No wonder much of the electorate is so disenchanted with politicians that it wants no more of their greedy little trotters in the citizen's till, no matter what colour their logo may be.
Kim Sengupta, The Independent
Related Links:
* Libya and the gift of war and racism
John Pilger, Stop the War Coalition
* NATO weapons uranium poisons civilian population
Conn Hallinan, Foreign policy and focus, Berkeley, Press TV
3. Is Big Pharma set to corner the American medical marijuana market?
So how are pharmaceutical companies looking to succeed where medical marijuana dispensaries are failing in getting marijuana recognized by the FDA without any federal agencies breathing down their necks? One answer could be in the clout the industry holds in Washington. The pharmaceutical industry is far and away the biggest spender on federal lobbying. Between 1998 and 2010, Big Pharma spent more than $2 billion sending lobbyists to the capital to fight for industry-friendly legislation and regulations. This is over half a billion more than the amount spent in the same period by pharmaceuticals’ closest competitor, the insurance industry, and nearly twice what oil and gas companies spent. The medical marijuana lobby, less than six months old and consisting almost entirely of Steve Fox (backed by NCIA director Aaron Smith and a handful of dispensary owners and enthusiasts), could never compete. All this puts the surging federal clampdown on medical marijuana in a new light. As nationwide support for medical marijuana reaches record levels, it may just be the pharmaceutical industry that rides that wave of support to huge profits.
Kyle Daly, The Washington Independent
4. Survey: State of health of unvaccinated children
So far we have 8300 entries. The most participants came from the US, followed by Great Britain, Canada and Australia. Our objective is still to get at least 10000 participants. The results are very interesting so far. E.g. hayfever which is a very common disease nowadays have less than 2.5% of the unvaccinated children, the same applies for asthma with only 2.3%. If you know somebody who is unvaccinated please let them know of the survey and forward the link to them. The results will hopefully be presented within the next two months.
Andreas Bachmair, Vaccine Survey
5. In WikiLeaks' Growth, Some Control Is Lost
WikiLeaks, the Web site responsible for publicizing millions of state secrets in the last year, has tried to pick its media partners carefully. But the site has become such a large player in journalism that some of its secrets are no longer its own to control. WikiLeaks' latest release -- files related to the detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba -- took place Sunday in partnership with eight news organizations in the United States and other countries. The Guardian and the New York Times [shut out by WikiLeaks this time for appalling behaviour], scrabbled for the information independently. This resulted in a mad scramble to be first online with secrets that would never have leaked so quickly if WikiLeaks had not possessed the documents to begin with. For journalism, it was a recalibration of the traditional relationships among competitors and sources. And for WikiLeaks, it was a lesson in how hard it is to steer news coverage rather than be buffe ted by it.
Brian Stelter & Noam Cohen, The New York Times
Related Links:
* Despite PayPal Cutoff, WikiLeaks Had Biggest Fundraising Month After Cablegate
Andy Greenberg, Forbes
* God bless WikiLeaks
Asad Durrani, The Express Tribune
* FBI serves Grand Jury subpoena likely relating to WikiLeaks
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
6. Please write to Bradley Manning and he might write back
Army Regulation 190-47 denies any visitation to Army prisoners, but we may send Bradley Manning letters and he MAY CHOOSE TO CORRESPOND.
Break out your snail mail techniques guys... Send letters to Bradley Manning here: Bradley Manning 89289, 830 Sabalu Road, Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027, USA. Letters will be rejected if they contain any of the following: -Solicitations for gambling/lottery, business or pen pal correspondence. -Blackmail, threats or indecent subject matter -Plans or plots for escape -Codes.
Jonathan Toth, Toth's Blah Blah Blog
Related Links:
* WISE Up for Bradley Manning. Call-out for solidarity
IndyMedia UK
* Obama hurt fair trial chances: Manning backers
AFP
7. MP uses privilege to name woman council tried to gag
A Liberal Democrat MP yesterday used Parliamentary privilege to name a woman he said a council tried to jail for speaking in Westminster. John Hemming, who previously used privilege to name former Royal Bank of Scotland Sir Fred Goodwin as the subject of a High Court super-injunction, has spoken out again about the use of injunctions, censorship and creeping privacy laws. Hemming told MPs: "Vicky Haigh, who is a horse trainer and previously a jockey, was the subject of an attempt by Doncaster Council to imprison her for speaking at a meeting in Parliament."
PA Mediapoint, Press Gazette
Related Links:
* A mother is threatened with imprisonment for talking to her MP
Christopher Booker, Daily Telegraph
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