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POPSOpium, Rape and the American Way
Truth from the women in Afghanistan: (read the whole article for the real story) "In eight years less than 2,000 Talib have been killed and more than 8,000 innocent civilians has been killed," she went on. "We believe that this is not war on terror. This is war on innocent civilians. Look at the massacres carried out by NATO forces in Afghanistan. Look what they did in May in the Farah province, where more than 150 civilians were killed, most of them women and children. They used white phosphorus and cluster bombs. There were 200 civilians on 9th of September killed in the Kunduz province, again most of them women and children. You can see the Web site of professor Marc Herold, this democratic man, to know better the war crimes in Afghanistan imposed on our people. The United States and NATO eight years ago occupied my country under the banner of woman's rights and democracy. But they have only pushed us from the frying pan into the fire. They put into power men who are photocopies o
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POPSIsraeli offensive causes birth defects in Gaza Medical experts had earlier predicted that the illegal use of the chemical weapons in the densley-populated area would cause a long-lasting tragedy and plauge the future generation. According to Gaza health officials and human rights groups, Israeli forces killed over 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 900 civilians, in the offensive. The revelation comes shortly after a UN Human Rights report accused Israel of deliberately violating international humanitarian law and using disproportionate force during its "Operation Cast Lead" against the people of Gaza at the beginning of the year. "The Israeli operations were carefully planned in all their phases as a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population," the fact-finding mission --led by former South African constitutional court judge, Richard Goldstone-- said.
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POPSWar in Gaza Was Out of Control Say Israeli Soldiers If you keep in mind how compact and densely populated Gaza is, it's hard to imagine things not getting out of control and why Israeli Defense Forces should not have launched their attacks. Those on both sides will learn, I hope, that violence, war is not the answer.
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POPSAfghan Girl Survives White Phosphorus Burns White phosphorus burns until it’s gone. And with burns over 40 to 45 percent of her body, few thought Razia would survive. But the scars are there for all too see and the hospital staff quietly worries that Razia may never have a normal life in Afghanistan, where women in the countryside are mostly defined by the marriage they enter.
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POPSBrutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama Since taking office, Obama has: 1. Reconstituted the Military Commissions. 2. Denied detainees Constitutional and Geneva Conventions protections. 3. Praised torturers and murderers as dedicated public servants and vowed to violate US law to protect them from prosecution. 4. Expanded Bush's State Secrets legal theory. 5. Continued illegally spying on Americans. 6. Continued to use USAPATRIOT Act powers and not called for repeal. 7. Retained Gates as Secretary of Defense despite his tainted record. 8. Promoted General MacChrystal to commander in Afghanistan despite his tainted record. 9. Continued contracts with abusive, fraudulent private contractors. 10. Concealed evidence of war crimes. 11. Increased illegal attacks on Pakistan. 12. Increased drone attacks, with a horrific civilian death and injury rate, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. 13. Not banned white phosphorus or cluster munitions. 14. Escalated the Afghan war. 15. Adopted Bush's Iraq war plan. 16. Threatene
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POPSSilent as the Grave: A Timely Demise on a Deely Rooted Evil A most inconvenient man. But as that great gulagist of yore, Josef Stalin, liked to say: "Remove the man, remove the problem." And now al-Fakheri has been removed. No one has anatomized this slouching beast with more depth, insight and painful clarity than Arthur Silber. Read the piece in full, (http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2009/05/against-prosecution-iii-obama-and.html) and let it inform your thinking as each new glimpse of our brutal reality filters through the searing white phosphorus smoke laid down by our elites.
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POPSUse of WP by Taliban on Western Forces reprehensible After using WP themselves, and supplying it to Israel to drop on Palestinians, now the US military are complaining about it being used against them. Right-wing news sources usually say stuff like: “White phosphorus is not banned by any treaty that the United States has signed.” That’s because the US doesn’t like to sign any international treaties that might get them in trouble. Like the International Criminal Court.
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POPSAngstrom Phosphorus- Www.healthshop101.com Phosphorus functions in the body: Necessary for the reproductive system, Essential for bone and brain, Vital for muscle tissue, Necessary for growth, Stimulates sexual function, Present in the white blood cells, Essential nerve nutrient.
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POPS* U.N. rights envoy sees grave Israeli war crimes 
A couple of other threads appeared this week due to revelations by an Israeli soldier(s) about cold blooded murder being done in the last Israeli invasion of Gaza. This clip, though, is about a U.N. human rights envoy asking for a U.N. investigation of war crimes in this most recent invasion. I'm glad to see that the issue of starving to death over a million and a half people to death in the Gaza Strip is no longer being ignored by international authorities. Israel, though, nor the USA accept the authority of the International Criminal Court set up by the United Nations. Plus, war crimes are mainly filed against those who lost the war, not the winners. Who knows if this will lead to any justice, stop the killings, invasions, ongoing seizing of Palestinian land, collective punishment, apartheid, etc. But at least the issue is not being so ignored. At the end of the day we need to keep electing better leaders because they are the ones with the power to make war or pe
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POPSBBC: "Who can probe Gaza war crimes claims?" The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the attacks. He has demanded "a thorough investigation into these incidents and the punishment of those who are responsible for these appalling acts." Mr Ban has also announced a UN inquiry into the "casualties and damage" at UN property during the conflict. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, say this is not enough. They want a comprehensive international investigation into all the alleged violations of international law during the conflict - by Israel, by Hamas and by other Palestinian armed groups. HRW says it has been in Gaza investigating a number of allegations.
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POPSAmnesty: "compelling evidence of war crimes and other serious violations of international human." Amnesty International researchers who visited both Gaza and southern Israel during the fighting and in its immediate aftermath, found compelling evidence of war crimes and other serious violations of international humanitarian law . This included direct attacks by Israeli forces on Palestinian civilians and civilian objects in Gaza, attacks which breached the prohibition on disproportionate attacks and the use of weapons, such as white phosphorus, which have indiscriminate effects when used in densely-populated civilian areas. In the same period, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups fired hundreds of indiscriminate rockets into civilian population centres in southern Israel. ... Amnesty press report Feb 10 2009
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POPSUN called to action against Israel Wow, this from a country that wants you to 'remember; the holocaust every second of the day... won't let you forget it and calls you a hater if you say anything against them or it.. Here they are forgetting what its like to be an imprisoned people like they are doing to the people of that country.. Amazing simply amazing and our Govt. condones this? This phosphorus is terrible stuff!
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POPSIsrael Now Admits it Used White Phosphorous in Gaza
Their denials always were incredible given the numerous eye witnesses, but Israel is finally admitting it used white phosphorous in civilian areas. The chain of evidence and denial went as follows: January 5 The Times reports that telltale smoke has appeared from areas of shelling. Israel denies using phosphorus January 8 The Times reports photographic evidence showing stockpiles of white phosphorus (WP) shells. Israel Defence Forces spokesman says: "This is what we call a quiet shell - it has no explosives and no white phosphorus" January 12 The Times reports that more than 50 phosphorus burns victims are taken into Nasser Hospital. An Israeli military spokesman "categorically" denies the use of white phosphorus January 15 Remnants of white phosphorus shells are found in western Gaza. The IDF refuses to comment on specific weaponry but insists ammunition is "within the scope of international law" January 16 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency headquarters are hi
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POPSNick Clegg (Parliament member): "We must stop arming Israel" the world's leaders must accept that their response to the election of Hamas has been a strategic failure. The removal of the EU presence on the Egypt border in response to Hamas's election, for example, has made it easier for the rockets being fired at Israel to get into Gaza in the first place.
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POPSIsrael Admits Troops May Have Used White Phosphorus Shells
The team ... visited the Shifa hospital, Gaza's main hospital, where they spoke to medical staff about the challenges of dealing with phosphorus burns and other injuries. The head of the burns unit told the team that at first, they had not known that they were dealing with injuries caused by white phosphorus. He described unusual orange burns which would become deeper with an offensive odour. After several hours smoke would start coming from the wound. "We had a child of three years with a head injury. After three hours we changed the dressing and saw smoke coming out of the wound. We opened the wound and brought out this wedge. We had not seen it before. Later on, some colleagues, doctors from Egypt and Norway, were able to enter Gaza and told us that this was white phosphorus," said the doctor "We noticed various things about this: the burn does not heal; the phosphorus may remain inside the body and goes on burning there, and the general condition of the patient deter
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POPSHRW: Illegal use White Phosphorus except Bunkers, Armour, Dumps. Not Civilians! Marc Garlasco has been on the northern border of Gaza for the past five days watching what he says are white phosphorus munitions exploding over a crowded refugee camp for Human Rights Watch. "The use of white phosphorus is banned as a weapon that causes 'unnecessary suffering,' " says Mark Ellis, director of the International Bar Association in London. "It isn't to be used in civilian areas, or indeed against people since it creates horrible damage to the human body, and unnecessarily so." Israel, which has been charged with using white phosphorus in Lebanon. ...CSMonitor
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