War Crimes: Conditions of Palestinian Political Prisoners in 2010
by Friends of Humanity International
Friends of Humanity International releases detailed report about the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails in the last year 2010. The organization has also confirmed that this year was unusual to the Palestinian prisoners. More than 130 brutal and humiliating intrusions executed by the Israeli Prison service and forces against the Palestinians rooms and tents in many jails.
Meanwhile its following up to intrusive operations, the rightful band documentized big amount of hostilities and brutal inspections assaulted by the Israeli prison service units and special forces on the prisoners rooms and tents which can be accounted as follows:
- Launching tear-gas to suffocate prisoners.
- Beating prisoners using electronic sticks.
- Confiscating prisoners possessives and belongings.
- Isolating some prisoners in individual isolating cells.
- Executing random transferring to prisoners from a prison to others as happened to Hadareem jail prisoners in which Israeli prison service units intruded and oppressed prisoners then transfer them from section 3 to section 5.
- Moreover, Israeli prisons security units destroyed walls on rooms and shifted all prisoners to a lifeless section with even no basics of living. Israeli prison authorities alleged that they were looking for forbidden-smuggled mobiles.
The same brutal intrusion and suppression has been repeatedly executed against prisoners in Nafha jail, in which hundreds of long-terms and life imprisonments-sentences prisoners detained in. Thus, dozens of prison security units aggressively intruded the jail many times. They attacked and humiliate prisoners to the extent that the jail officer calls one prisoner's wife which waged a furious uprising among prisoners inside the jail.
Later, the prison administration has presented apology on this immoral behavior and promised to open an investigation to this accident.
Reemon Jail is another grief story. The chief of this prison is constantly humiliating and degrading prisoners throughout frequent mid-night inspections and suppression to prisoner rooms by which pushed prisoners to warn higher Jail authorities that a special escalation and procedures will be protested against this brutal chief if he continues his provocative and humiliating intrusions and hostilities against prisoners in Reemon jail.
Correspondingly, the organization confirmed registering many constant intrusions by the Israeli special forces to the Palestinian female prisoners' rooms for the sake of provocative frequent inspections and humiliations. This disgustingly occurs in front of a queue of Israeli soldiers in the time of inspection. Lately, the Israeli Prison service has escalated humiliating and provocating all Palestinians prisoners in all jails through adapting abrupt assault and intrusion to prisoners' rooms and confiscating their possessives and belongings by which made life of prisoners instable and incontinent.
Hence, regarding the usual techniques of inspections and suppression, the organization has published a precise description of jails intrusions and inspection that executed by special security forces called Mitsada or Nakhshoon. These special forces frequently intrudes and attack prisoners rooms and tents in path of inspecting or looking for forbidden materials or escape dug-tunnels. They aggressively and inhumanly intrude rooms and tie prisoners blocking them in a place then hold a very accurate inspection to everything in the rooms. They inspect electric-light bottoms, beds, clothes, WC even TV. They open it and make sure prisoners haven't hid anything inside it.
Accordingly, the organization has clarified that number of Palestinian prisoners in the Israeli jails reached 6600 prisoner in the last year as follows:
· 35 Palestinian female prisoners.
· 9 Palestinian legislative council members.
· 270 kids and children under 18 age in which international laws forbidden arresting them.
· % 79 of prisoners is already sentenced.
· 820 prisoners have been sentenced to life imprisonment or even duple or triple life imprisonments.
· 5 Palestinian female prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment.
· 307 prisoners arrested by the Israeli occupying forces before Oslo Agreement for Peace that was signed by Palestinian and Israeli parts in 1993. These prisoners are commonly called, old prisoners.
· 120 prisoners have eventually spent more than 20 years in the Israeli jails.
· 3 prisoners have spent more than 30 years in the Israeli jails, they are: Nael Al Barghouthy, Fakhri Al Barghouthy and Akram Mansour.
· More than 1000 prisoners are prevented to obtain the right of family visit in jails.
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Global, planetaria, omnisapiente y a veces tendenciosa o miope, no sé la necesidad que tenía la CNN de honrarse con la visita del señor Posada Carriles, al que entrevistó en un horario de alta audiencia.
Pero reconozco que de la vergüenza básica del asunto ha salido mucho de positivo.
Nos ha mostrado a un anciano airado que presume de un pasado que como poco se puede calificar del de un sanguinario mercenario profesional.
Un ser humano que al final de su vida airea urbi et orbi su eficaz colaboración con algunos de los órganos represivos más criminales de América Latina.
Y todo a cuenta de la CIA, su patrocinadora una y otra vez.
El señor Posada Carriles no ocultó su agradecimiento con la organización.
Incluso reafirmó su lealtad. Y se negó a dar muchos detalles de las misiones cumplidas. Algo conmovedor.
Pero siempre fiel, señaló que alguna vez tuvo chófer,sirvienta, "de todo". Es decir que gracias a sus andazas ha sido un hombre realizado con las pequeñas cosas importantes de la vida.
De lo del avión siniestrado de Cubana ahora, donde dije "digo" quise decir "Diego". No quiere ni oir hablar de eso. Él fue un soldado al servicio de sus amos. Para lo que quisieran mandar.
Flaco favor les hizo a los disidentes cubanos, los residentes en la isla, al aprovechar algunos de sus minutos de gloria para enviarles su saludo solidario. Hay afinidades que no son como para exhibirlas en sociedad.
En fin. Al señor Posada Carriles lo ha absuelto la peculiar justicia estadounidense, que prospera según el abogado que uno se pueda pagar.
Que duerma tranquilo. Nadie lo va a extraditar a Venezuela. Ni lo van a meter en una jaula en Cuba. No será fusilado.
Probablemente disfrute de los años de vida natural que le queden relatando batallitas, a lo 007, al personal miamense. Que gusto para el cuerpo.
Quién sabe y hasta hacen una película sobre su vida: "El mejor asesino de la CIA",
¿O no?.
Continued Prosecution of Manning Will Embarrass U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment by Kevin Zeese
Después de 9 meses de confinamiento solitario el soldado estadounidense Bradley Manning ha sido transferido a una prisión militar regular en espera del juicio. Según el analista Kevin Zeese, que forma parte de una red de apoyo a Manning, si el juicio es público, y todo indica que así debería ser, saldrán a la luz todos aquellos documentos presuntamente "filtrados" por el joven militar. Zeese no se ahorra calificativos para el gobierno de Obama, y no son precisamente elogiosos. El maltrato al soldado Manning, viene a decir,sobre el que se cierne el cargo de haber destapado documentos militares, puede volverse en contra suya.
The Obama administration finally did the right thing and is moving Manning from the abusive Quantico Marine Corps. Brig, but that is just the beginning of their problems with the prosecution of Bradley Manning. This is a trial that could rock U.S. foreign policy and undermine U.S. credibility around the world.
After months of pressure, the Obama administration is finally transferring PFC Bradley Manning to a military prison appropriately designed for pre-trial detention in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. While the transfer of Manning away from the abusive Quantico Marine Corps Brig may be a positive step, the U.S. government remains trapped in a Manning Quagmire. If they proceed their embarrassment will continue to grow as the truth about U.S. foreign policy is reviewed under a microscope.
The nine month-long abusive mistreatment of Manning in the brig at the Quantico Marine Corp. Base has put international attention on his case. The prosecution of Manning will result in the videos and documents he is accused of releasing being more closely examined. The war crimes and other misdeeds of military and foreign policy personnel will be highlighted to the world. People are already wondering why this young private has been so mistreated. What did he do to aggravate the Obama administration, U.S. military and foreign policy establishment?
At every stage of the prosecution: pretrial hearing, motion hearings and trial, there will be more focus on what he is accused of doing and that will inevitably lead to the documents and videos he allegedly leaked being more closely examined. This attention will not be kind to the U.S. military and State Department as the documents show consistent illegal and unethical behavior by the U.S. government; support for dictators, oligarchs and royalists who work against their people’s interests; as well as U.S. foreign policy and war being a vehicle for big business interests.
In addition to the content of the materials he is accused of leaking, the trial of Bradley Manning will be closely watched. People are already wondering whether a fair trial in the U.S. military is possible. If the Obama administration allowed nine months of abusive solitary confinement before trial how can they be expected to give Manning a fair trial? The media and people concerned about this case will be watching closely to see if he gets a fair, fully open, public trial.
Rule for Courts-Martial 806(b) states that military courts are presumptively open to the public. In a series of cases military courts have found the media has a right to attend preliminary hearings and trials in military courts. This is consistent with a long-line of U.S. Supreme Court decisions beginning with Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia, 448 U.S. 555 (1980) where the court recognized that public access to criminal proceedings is a critical component of a fair justice system that inspires public confidence and integrity. In 1987 the Court of Military Appeals wrote: [W]e believe that public confidence in matters of military justice would quickly erode if courts-martial were arbitrarily closed to the public.”
There is keen public interest in the case of Bradley Manning as he is accused of leaking documents that provide evidence that U.S. foreign policy is not what Americans have been told. The military has no basis for keeping the public from seeing all of Manning’s trial, but there was no basis for pre-trial mistreatment either. No doubt groups spearheaded by the Bradley Manning Support Network will be working to make sure the media and public has complete access to all hearings and documents related to Manning’s prosecution.
But, the focus will not be primarily on process but on content – what is Bradley Manning accused of leaking? And, that is a question the U.S. military and foreign policy establishment does not want Americans or people around the world to look at. It is not a pretty picture. Here are a few examples among many:
- That U.S. troops kill civilians without cause or concern and then cover it up (more examples of hiding civilian killings here, here and here) including killing reporters;
- The diplomatic cables also show that beyond the war fronts that Hillary Clinton has turned State Department Foreign Service officers into a nest of spies who violate laws to spy on diplomats all with marching orders drawn up by the CIA;
- The U.S. looks the other way when governments it puts in power torture;
- That Israel, with U.S. knowledge is preparing for a widespread war in the Middle East, keeping the Gaza economy at the brink of collapse and show widespread corruption at border checkpoints.
- The CIA is fighting an undeclared and unauthorized war in Pakistan with Blackwater mercenaries;
- The Collateral Murder video shows American soldiers in an Apache helicopter gunning down a group of innocent men, including two Reuters employees, a photojournalist and his driver, killing 16 and sending two children to the hospital. This one video describes multiple war crimes.
- Another document showed the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan, in which as many as 140 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a U.S. attack, a fact disputed by the U.S. military.
It will not only be the American people who become more aware that the United States is not the “good cop” of the world but people and governments around the world will also more clearly see it.
The U.S. is in a Bradley Manning quagmire that is going to undermine its reputation in the world unless they find a way out of this case quickly. President Obama still has an opportunity to do the right thing – acknowledge the reality of the history and current make-up of U.S. foreign policy and begin a discussion within government and among the people about radically altering the direction, strategies and tactics of the U.S. around the world. If he shows this kind of leadership a quagmire could turn into positive change for the United States and the world.
Kevin Zeese directs Come Home America and is on the steering committee of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
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Daños colaterales en Afganistan:2537 muertos
En enero la Fuerza de Asistencia a la Seguridad Internacional proporcionó a la revista científica "Science" datos militares internos sobre cifras de civiles muertos y heridos civiles en la guerra de Afganistan.
El balance es de 2537 muertos y 5594 heridos en los dos últimos años transcurridos.
La mayoría de las bajas se atribuyen, por expertos consultados por Science, a "ataques indiscriminados de los insurgentes, más que a las fuerzas regulares de ISAF".
Summary
In January, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) provided Science with the military's internal record of the death and injury of Afghan civilians, broken down by month, region, weaponry, and perpetrator.
By its reckoning, 2537 civilians were killed and 5594 were wounded over the past 2 years, with 12% of those casualties attributed to ISAF forces and the rest to insurgents.
In February, after learning that the military was releasing these data, both the United Nations and an Afghan human rights organization agreed to release versions of their own civilian casualty data to Science.
Science assembled a team of experts to analyze the released data sets.
They conclude that while the war has grown deadlier for Afghan civilians over the past 2 years, ISAF has become a safer fighting force.
The majority of deaths, and nearly all of the recent increase, are attributed to indiscriminate attacks by insurgents rather than ISAF soldiers.
All of these data, as well as other information never before released, are now freely available online. Taken together, they provide the clearest picture yet of the human cost of the war.
Fukushima Plan: Achieving Cold Shutdown Could Take 6 Months
by Eli Kintisch
Science publica en su último número un artículo de Eli Kintisch donde se da cuenta de un plan a desarrollar en medio año para enfriar los reactores en la planta de Fukushima. La solución pasa por el uso de nitrógeno líquido. Así se reduciría el empleo de agua. Basta leer con atención la breve nota técnica para aquilatar que lo ocurrido en Japón es mucho más grave y dificil de controlar que cualquier otra catastrofe relacionada con el uso pacífico de la energía nuclear.
Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. have outlined their plans for ending the saga of the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daichi power plant.
In the first 3 to 6 months, according to the plan, crews will try to cool the reactors to a stable point, aiming for “cold shutdown” with temperatures within the reactors below 100°C. Then engineers will inject nitrogen into the pressure vessel surrounding each reactor.
Using this inert gas should make it possible to minimize the use of water in the reactor vessel and reduce the risk of hydrogen explosions, which have already rocked three of the reactors.
But crews will aim to use water to cool the outer containment vessel. The second step will focus on stopping the leakage of radionuclides into the air, essentially by fixing the outer walls of the damaged reactors or replacing them with freestanding, cubic containment barriers.
There is no timetable for the government to ease restrictions on residents who live within the 20-kilometer-radius evacuation zone.
The Japanese effort “seems to be on track, but [there’s] a long way to go,” says Lake Barrett, who helped lead the cleanup effort for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 3 decades ago at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
He says a big challenge for the Japanese is to start recirculating water they’ve used to cool the reactors; they have already created 10 million gallons of radioactive water in a once-through process called “feed and bleed."
"They need to get those cores on recirculation and off of feed and bleed. It is drowning them with radioactive water,” Barrett says.
By the end of the shutdown effort at Three Mile Island, Lake says, U.S. engineers were left with far less radioactive water, about 600,000 gallons.
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El VI Congreso del PCC cubano terminó y a los cubanos de Cuba les queda ahora una compleja ruta, muy cuesta arriba, pero para la que por lo menos parecen tener una dirección clara y consensuada. Fidel, viejo pero sabio, les ha dejado barra libre: "que se cambie lo que sea".
La cobertura que ha recibido el evento partidista por parte de los medios europeos fue especialmente amplia. Con el esperado recochineo de algunas lumbreras del reportaje internacional. Era de esperar. Y lo han hecho, como de costumbre rematadamente mal.
Nadie publicó ni una entrevista a fondo con un delegado al Congreso. Ni detalles efímeros como por qué milagro divino han sobrevivido al bloqueo esos equinos preciosos que plagaron de mierda la senda por donde desfilaría más tarde la tropa. Nada. Cero patatero. Repatingados ante la tele con un buen aire acondicionado a toda máquina y atentos a CubaDebate.
Curiosamente, los más activos detractores del sistema cubano, (variopintos y mal llevados entre ellos ya que compiten por ganar representatividad ante las embajadas en la isla), ignoran lo improbable que es que un jefe de estado, en cualquier parte, haga una crítica tan descarnada a la gestión y resultados del gobierno como la que se marcó el presidente Raúl Castro.
Con muchas palabras vino a admitir que, "en 52 años no hemos sido capaces de consolidar un modelo económico viable que satisfaga las necesidades mínimas de la población". Y se quedó tan ancho. Lo que también significa una casi irracional esperanza de cambio. ¿O no?.
Quien visite la página de Granma Internacional podrá consultar un pequeño suelto en el que se leen los precios a los que la Isla caribeña deberá pagar artículos de alimentación básicos, leche en polvo, harina de soja, harina de trigo, debido a las adversas condiciones económicas vigentes.
La información no es casual. De lo que se ocupó el Congreso, exento de soflamas y encajes de consignas de otros momentos, fue de asuntos tan perentorios como de los medios energéticos para cocinar. Trató de la realidad cotidiana que enerva a los cubanos.
Fidel Castro, que deploró en sus "Reflexiones" no haber estado en la plaza, comentó su admiración por el lenguaje y la preparación de los participantes en el VI Congreso.
Pero, ¿tienen los jóvenes cubanos una disposición a la altura de los retos que se les plantean?. ¿o son meros espectadores de un desarrollo que, por muchos motivos les resulta ajeno?.
De las numerosas veces que he estado en Cuba, y por cierto no he ido a complacerme en las dificultades y penurias de los cubanos, he sacado en claro que hasta que no se cambie la estrucctura económica no cabe esperar mejoras. La nostalgia por el mito de la Revolución con mayúscula aún se conserva en muchos cubanos.
El panorama mundial es el peor posible para emprender una difícil remontada económica cualquiera que sea el modelo que siga Cuba.
Cuba se enfrenta a su hora cero en una economía globalizada en crisis. Con un oscuro panorama de guerras por el petróleo.Con las absurdas posiciones de Estados Unidos, que de cierto modo favorecen su causa. Poco tiene de que presumir el antes floreciente estado del bienestar capitalista.
Cuba, la Cuba de la victoria de Playa Girón, ya ha aguantado mucho. Remontó catástrofes naturales, huracanes que dejaron a otros países de la zona en la ruina. Y por encima de todo la desaparición de la URSS y sus subsidios millonarios de los que dependía una cierta bonanza. No es improbable que también salga a flote del actual reto.
El problema es cómo.
Libya's "Operation Odyssey Dawn": Kosovo Revisited
By William Bowles
No doubt much self-flagellation is currently taking place amongst the Western 'left', or at least it should be given their atrocious reading of the Libyan 'revolution'.
Right from the very beginning of 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' something just didn't smell right about the Libyan 'revolution'. From the outset this was no peaceful, civilian insurrection such as those taking place elsewhere in the region. In other words it started life as a civil war heavily disguised - with Western help - as a 'peoples' revolution', but one armed and dangerous.
"Diplomatic observers were shocked by the sweeping resolution passed by the Security Council, which allows "all necessary measures" to be used against Libya. The United Nations Charter strictly limits Chapter 7 military actions to threats to international peace and security, which Libya has never represented, but rules out interference in internal affairs of member states. The pretext cited in this case was the protection of defenseless civilians, but it is clear that the rebels constitute an armed military force in their own right. Since no state can be an aggressor on its own territory, the Security Council resolution stands in flagrant violation of the UN Charter. Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India abstained. The resolution contains an arms embargo against Libya which the US is already violating by arming the rebels through Egypt." -- Obama's Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Conned again
All the while many on the Western 'left' were waxing lyrical about the Libyan 'revolution' it was at the same time joining the imperial chorus calling for Western military intervention on 'humanitarian' grounds and all the while the Empire was plotting to get rid of another 'troublesome' puppet, partition Libya right down the middle, West and East, with the East (where most of the oil is located) led by the 'revolutionaries', mostly ex-Gaddafi hacks and CIA 'assets'. So much for the Western 'left's' understanding of the workings of the Empire.
SAS has been operating in Libya for weeks -- Daily Mirror, 21 March 2011
Actually, 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' as it is officially called, serves multiple functions:
1. It acts as yet another diversion/delusion from other more pressing events (timing is always critical);
2. It attempts to put the Empire on the 'side of the angels' following its embarrassment over its funding and (continued) support of a gaggle of murderous military dictatorships;
3. It gives the Empire yet another bridgehead in Africa;
4. And of course it guarantees the largest source of oil in Africa.
Job done.
Amongst those who abstained over Resolution 1973 were Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India. Aren't they embarrassed by their collective display of at the very least ignorance and at the most, indifference? Had Russia or China used their veto, this illegal invasion could at least have been delayed. Damn all politicians!
In the UK only thirteen MPs voted against the Libya operation after the invasion had already been launched! So much for democracy (what would have happened if by some miracle the Commons had voted it down? Could the British government unkill the people it has already murdered in Libya?).
The degree to which politicians use propaganda is illustrated by the following quote from a British MP, John Woodcock:
"Any path we choose is fraught with difficulty and innocent lives will be lost, but Colonel Gadaffi is likely to kill many thousands more civilians if we chose to pull out of enforcing a no-fly zone." -- 'Cumbrian MPs support UN action against Libyan forces', Northwest Evening Mail, 22 March 2011
More pre-emptive rationalization! On this basis anybody, anywhere is likely to be attacked based upon what they might do. It's outrageous that allegedly civilized people can agree (post-humously) to rain death and destruction down on the Libyan people based on nothing more than an opinion! It's based simply on the fact that the rebels faced defeat in Benghazi and the assumption that Gaddafi's forces would then go on the rampage raping and slaughtering the inhabitants of Benghazi.
So instead Gaddafi doing it, it's being done by the combined forces of the most powerful military machine on the planet that acts with impunity even excusing the inevitable 'collateral damage' based simply what he thinks the numbers of dead will be on either side! There speaks the voice of Empire, "Any path we choose" indeed spells it out, the God-given right to interfere anywhere they choose to.
It started life with well-placed atrocity rumours, created by ex-Gaddafi sidekicks that got the whole ball rolling. A classic Kosovo move: plant fake stories of ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Serbians (all the while arming the fascist Kosovo Liberation Army, who had been committing atrocities and funding their operations from the heroin trade), then send in NATO and bomb the shit out of the natives.
Isn't it about time that the Western 'left' stopped passing judgment on the workings of other countries (I suppose I should be thankful that's all it has) but words that essentially reflect the imperial mindset? The 'we know best' attitude, something I have come across all too often in my travels around the planet and one heavily imbued with racism, albeit of the patronizing kind (actually possibly the worst kind, the 'Robert Fisk' kind of liberal racism).
Fidel may be long in the tooth and very much out of the 'old school' way of thinking but he knows how the Empire operates, it's also very much 'old school' too.
"The NATO countries are drawing up a contingency plan taking as its model the flight exclusion zones established over the Balkans in the 1990s, in the event that the international community decides to impose an air embargo over Libya, diplomats said." -- 'NATO's Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya' By Fidel Castro, 4 March 2011
Note when Fidel wrote this, on 4 March, nearly three weeks ago, accurately predicting that the invasion was already a 'done deal'. But it needed a pretext, a 'Gulf of Benghazi' kinda thing, thus the video of a jet going down over Benghazi was offered as proof of Gaddafi's evil intentions. The problem was that is was a rebel jet, shot down no doubt by Gaddafi's forces.
As with everything else about the Libyan 'revolution' (I wish), nothing is what it appears to be, all is illusion faithfully peddled by a complicit MSM. Thus the chance for the Libyan people to really take charge of their own future has been aborted .
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