Ddjango's Blog – July 2009 Archive (2)

Physicians at Guantanamo violate medical ethics: study

(AFP) – July 24, 2009



WASHINGTON — The use of physicians at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay has forced medical professionals to violate their ethics codes, according to findings published Thursday in the UK journal Lancet.



The roles that medical professionals have been called on to play at the controversial detention facility "has damaged the integrity…

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Somewhere, somehow, during the past few months, we passed a final "point of no return".



If there truly was hope in the certain prospect of regime change, from the Bush/Neocon travesty to the Obama/Neoprogressive administration, it lay in the promise of confession, reconciliation, and redemption. It lay in the chance that the new presidency and a changed Congress would fully repudiate the self-destructive sins of at least two thirds of a century of dishonor, disinformation,… Continue