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Defence for Children International calls for a UN investigation - Sexual assault of Palestinian children at the hands of Israeli soldiers
dci-pal.org
Israeli soldiers have always abused children
On 18 May 2010, Defence for Children International (DCI-Palestine) submitted 14 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for investigation. The submission relates to the sexual assault, or threat of sexual assault, of Palestinian children at the hands of Israeli soldiers, interogators and police between January 2009 and April 2010. The ages of the children range from 13 to 16 years.
DCI-Palestine is becoming increasingly alarmed at reports contained in sworn affidavits received from children that they are being subjected to sexual assault, or threat of sexual assault, in order to obtain confessions.
DCI-Palestine has reviewed 100 sworn affidavits collected from children in 2009, and in four percent of cases, children report being sexually assaulted, whilst in 12 percent of cases, the children report being threatened with sexual assault. The sexual assault and threats of sexual assault documented by DCI-Palestine include grabbing boys by the testicles until they confess and threatening boys as young as 13 years with rape unless they confess to throwing stones at Israeli settler vehicles in the occupied West Bank. DCI-Palestine suspects that these figures may understate the extent of the problem.
Ahmed Abu Ali - Guilty of Being Muslim at the Wrong Time in America
by Stephen Lendman
Writing on May 12 in Alternet.org, Mariam Abu Ali headlined, "My Brother Faces a Lifetime of Solitary Confinement on a Spurious Terror Conviction," saying:
He "spent the past five years in solitary confinement, under 23-hour lockdown, in a 7 x 12 cell," and overall has been treated horrifically "in a dungeon, over 20 meters beneath the ground."
An April article by this writer explained what they're like - http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/harmful-effects-of-prolonged-isolated.html. Material from it is repeated below.
Russia-America: Rediscovering realpolitik
Eric Walberg
As Russia returns to its logical, regional, strategic roots, the US under Obama is slowly waking up after its neocon nightmare...
The irony in current relations between Russia and America is that the US has been far more ideological, perversely so, in the past two decades than Soviet foreign policy ever was. Russia is now expanding its economic and political relations with its former comrades both in the “near abroad” and in the Middle East without any of the scheming subtexts of Washington’s manoeuvring in the recent past.
TALKING ABOUT ATHENS AND JERUSALEM IN ATHENS
BY GILAD ATZMON
On the eve of the Gaza Flotilla Mission. A talk given in Kyttaro Athens 19.5.10
There is often a noticeable discrepancy between what one claims to be and what one actually is.
Israel's Exclusion and Restriction of Goods to Gaza
by Stephen Lendman
After Hamas was overwhelmingly elected in January 2006, Israel, Washington and the West ended all outside aid, imposed an economic embargo and sanctions, and politically isolated the new government.
Stepped up repression followed, including regular IDF incursions, bombings, killings, targeted assassinations, arrests, property destruction, and Israeli-instigated internal conflict that left Fatah usurping authority in the West Bank, leaving Gaza alone under Hamas.
In June 2007, conditions worsened after Israel imposed its siege, medieval-like, according to some, for its harshness. Now, nearing its third anniversary, it's still in place, slowly suffocating and strangling 1.5 million people, trapped by closed borders, regular incursions and attacks, and shortages of everything needed to function and survive. A humanitarian crisis resulted and continues. The West and most regional states are culpable, complicit or indifferent to a real time catastrophe.
Animal-rights activist pleads guilty to violating a court order
from Jason Miller, kansascity.com
Jason Miller, in September at Shawnee Mission Park protesting the shooting
of deer to thin a population that park officials say is out of control. In his
hand: The severed head of a deer, which he left in a basket on the counter
of the park district’s headquarters. Photo by Jim Sullinger, The Star Image
Jason Miller, a Lenexa animal-rights activist, pleaded guilty today to violating a protection-from-stalking order and was placed on a year’s probation.
Miller organized several demonstrations against the efforts of the Johnson County Park and Recreation District to shoot more than 300 deer in Shawnee Mission Park.
Michael Meadors, the district’s director, filed a petition Oct. 30 for the protection order.
In that complaint, Meadors stated that Miller’s web site — BiteclubKC.com — advocated violence in certain circumstances to end the violence against animals.
How the War Depresses the U.S. Economy
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy
The cost of Bush's war on Iraq, left to Obama to 'finish' and clean up, passed the one trillion dollar mark some time ago but has yet to support or prove the old lie that 'wars are good for the economy'. Where is the evidence that the $Trillion$ spent murdering and torturing people in a nation that was, in fact, no threat to the United States, has created a single job on the home front? In fact, those $Trillion$ blown up in Iraq are lost forever --not having created a single new job.
Instead, manpower that might have been employed in productive industries was diverted to destructive and false causes. Instead of creating futures, we will be lucky to escape a tragic past!
The fact is, war is parasitic, destructive not of enemies but of the home front economy. Even if the U.S. should win militarily, the war is lost on the home front where it continues to be paid for by the subversive and depressive effect it has had upon productive industries and activities that provide real jobs, viable opportunities, exports!
The Truth about Immigration
by Mickey Z.
Everything negative you’ve heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off another nation’s resources doesn’t go far enough in explaining the gravity of this ongoing crisis. Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists.
If you don’t believe me, just ask any sweatshop worker in, say, Vietnam...
The perfidious colonizers I refer to, of course, are the insatiable transnational corporations setting up camp all across the Third World. Whether it be Nike, The Gap, Wal-Mart, or any other taxpayer-subsidized bloodsucker, these crafty illegal aliens can’t be stopped by constructing a mere wall. They travel with impunity...on the wings of government subvention and cunning, relentless propaganda. Thanks to decades of conditioning, even the victims of these soulless migrants will voluntarily pay for the right to wear a shirt bearing their corporate logo.
9/11 was a Metaphysical Catechism (Test)
By Robert Singer
The Story Behind the Story Behind the Story of how the World Trade Center I and II collapsed on September 11, 2001 is The Most Important issue in the History of the Universe.
I’ll get right to the point, I have read the books and watched the documentaries about September 11 for three years and the 9/11 official story:
Nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, crash airplanes into steel skyscrapers because they “hate our freedom to consume”. Inexplicably the jet fuel, which is basically kerosene that burns at about 400c, took on the qualities of an explosive demolition agent, vaporizing 70 tons of aircraft into a puff of smoke and causing 110-story buildings to collapse into a pile of rubble.
Is so stupid Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld expected you to believe the 9/11 Truth: A rogue element of the US government used controlled demolition to demolish the twin towers.
A jet fuel fire brought down two of the tallest buildings in the world: Improbable, to say the least.
Let me be clear, I agree the US government or some proxy did exploit the events of 9/11 (i.e. Building 7, the Pentagon and Flight 77). [1]
But NO ONE, especially Professor Steven “Cold Fusion” Jones has proven that 110 stories of steel and concrete collapsed into a pile of rubble from controlled demolition.
Washington - Industry Complicity Behind the Gulf Disaster
by Stephen Lendman
It's common practice in America. A government-Wall Street cabal caused the financial crisis and subsequent fallout. Now debated financial reform is a stealth scheme to let bankers self-regulate. Rogue Democrats rammed through health reform to ration care and enrich corporate providers. Defense, technology, and related firms profit hugely from permanent wars, and a regulatory-free Washington - energy industry alliance lies at the root of the Gulf disaster, by far America's greatest ever environmental calamity, worsening daily with no fail-safe, or perhaps any, way to stop it.
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