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US May Have Drugged Detainees in Violation of Nuremberg Code

by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 22. Apr, 2008 in breaking news, human rights, torture and detention

The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick reports today that At least two dozen other former and current detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere say they were given drugs against their will or witnessed other inmates being drugged, based on interviews and court documents. Warrick’s WaPo article gives a vivid account from Adel al-Nusairi, one of the [...]

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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'

Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues

as recorded 6.15.39

L. Hughes/J.P. Johnson