Novice user trying to develop a medical charting system for my son's illness and I'm struggling - too many learning curves.
I select two fields, select "Insert Chart", select "Pie", select "3d", resize chart and click outside and the chart deselects to a very small size. I have no idea how to fix it. Searching the forum hasn't yet yielded a solution. Thanks for any help.
If you start with a new document, enter some dummy data and create a 3D pie chart, do you see the same problem? If so, please post that document. To upload a document, click Post Reply and look for the Upload Attachment tab just below the box where you type a response.
If you can upload the original document, that would be very helpful but I assume it has a lot of confidential information that should not be posted on a public forum.
Thanks FJCC - Open Office is acting up. Opening a new spreadsheet, I find the new window only appears as a thin bar at the left of my screen. When I click to drag it into the screen, it ghosts. The mini window of it shows up on my menu bar but when I hover over it, I get the "god rays" over my desktop background screen - with the thin bar on the left side of the screen. This happened the first time this morning - I uninstalled OO, reinstalled and it cleared up, but now it's back.
I'll keep trying to create the dummy spreadsheet, set it up and see if I can recreate the chart snag.
1st attempt. Let me know if it needs more data.
Also, I tried changing chart types - bar and column don't act the same way - they remain the same size as the "chart edit" selection window.
Additionally, I opened the file I uploaded and it only opened in read only mode.
Always download the attached documents first, and then try to open them. The directly opened attachments of the WEB sites and E-mails will be opened as read only.
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The chart is certainly strange. I notice that the data range includes negative numbers, which don't really make sense for a pie chart. In any case, if I double click on the chart to get it into edit mode and then right click on a white area of the chart frame, I can select Position and Size. I see negative positions for x and y, which don't make sense because they are measured from the upper left corner, and the Width and Height are tiny, 0.01 cm. I reset the width and height to 16 cm and 9 cm (about 6 in by 3.5 in) and then the plot was fine.
When I double click>right click>position and size - the numbers seem right - 6.29 x 3.45 or thereabouts. But deselecting the chart still results in a tiny image. Negative numbers are being used so I have a visual reference for his water balance - intake is blue, output is red and so I want a visual tip if he's low on water versus output. It's virtually life and death for his sodium to rise or fall too fast and water balance is everything. Not sure if that made sense - I haven't thought of a more stable yet visual way of tracking this important data set.
I did discover that changing the chart type to bar or column does not produce this glitch.
I added a column for category labels, using column L, and that caused the chart to expand to a reasonable size. To do that, I double clicked on the chart then right clicked and selected Data Ranges. On the Data Ranges tab, I expanded the range to include column L. You can see this in the attached file. I also included a column chart, which explicitly shows which numbers are positive and negative. Personally, I find that a better way to plot such data but you should certainly use whatever works best for you.
Adding Column L to my chart seems to have had the same effect. And thanks for the file - it helped. Before I call this solved, I'll add the column to each day/sheet and see if the fix propagates. I have so much data to enter and track, I'm in nosebleed territory as to how to optimize it for either quick reference or into something someone else can use (his doctors). Any pointers in that direction would be greatly appreciated as well.
FJCC wrote: I also included a column chart, which explicitly shows which numbers are positive and negative. Personally, I find that a better way to plot such data but you should certainly use whatever works best for you.
I don't see the bar chart (well column chart in spreadsheet terms) but I did a quick conversion of the pie chart to the column chart and it seems to give a much better picture of what I would assume the numbers mean. Unless I am completely misunderstanding the nature of the data, the pie chart is completely meaningless nonsense.
Spreadsheet programs allow one to plot negative numbers but conceptually the chart is nonsense. It has no meaning.
1. We are lucky they do not allow division by zero!
/ by zero'd be a whole nother mess. Conceptually, the pie chart allows me to visually track if he's matched input with output. The pie reaches equal parts when in=out. With bars/columns, I have to quantify the visual difference mentally, if that makes sense. Data includes volume of water he's taken in, volume he's voided and any carry-over from the night before - sometimes he's slightly ahead, sometimes behind. His sodium level is critically dependent on keeping those volumes in balance otherwise his sodium climbs/falls and his brain function degrades alarmingly. Happens quickly and the effects are distressing to say the least. I'm a visual learner so the charts can hold volumes of critical data at a glance. Do you know of a way to populate line charts with data across several sheets? I tried, but the data didn't appear in the line chart on sheet 1. I've got sheets for each day of the week with 20 or so rows and data across 9 columns. It's a lot of tracking and it would help to be able to observe trends.
thanks again for your help - it means a lot.
makxl5 wrote: I'm struggling - too many learning curves.
May I suggest you read some of them especially the several Tutorials about charts and Chapter 3 - Creating Charts and Graphs in the Calc Guide.
Ah, I see what you are doing now. It makes sense but violates the concept of a pie-chart. I seldom use Calc to make charts or graphs so I cannot suggest how to use data series from different sheets but I am sure someone here can help. I agree with the visual learning. It is so much easier to understand when it is a chart or graph.
I would suggest that the line chart might be a better bet;, perhaps, you do not want to graph the amounts of input or output so much as you want to graph the difference?
Perhaps a simple equation by date would give you some useful information?
Water intake + water retained - water voided = Result ?
But, as FJCC says, "You should certainly use whatever works best for you".
Thank you John_Ha for the links and how to participate - being new here. I have a lot to learn.
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Thanks for that jrk - Bar Charting the difference over days would help. I'm trying to figure out how to extract data from each of 7 sheets to appear on progressive sheets - a running total - and a bar chart would work. If I can get data from the previous sheets. The pie chart only works to show me, during the day, when he approaches a zero balance - and it doesn't work very well, at that.
Do you know how to pull data from previous sheets so it appears on the day's working sheet? Or if there's a better way?
And thanks again - it really helps.
As I said in my earlier post, I don't use Calc to graph/chart much. At the moment I have no idea how to get data from seven sheets though it should not all that difficult for a Calc expert. ANYONE?
Would you be able to upload a sample Calc file for us to have a look at? We might be able to suggest some different approaches that might make life easier for you. But we really would need the seven sheets.
We need a file that gives us the layout of the various sheets in the spreadsheet. We don't need the actual data, so if you want to just toss in some nonsense numbers, it should be fine.
Remember the forum only accepts uploads of 128K or less. If your sample file is larger than that, the best idea is to post it to a file hosting service such as Dropbox or MediaFire and post a download link here.
The green columns at the right hold lists of the medication he takes and when.
The Pie Charts - though being a work in progress, are still developing so they're not consistent. To be honest, I can read the tutorials, figure out how to build/use charts - but it's data management wizards I need help from. Organizing this into something my son can use (me first, though) is crucial to his ongoing recovery. But it has to be intuitive, consistent across the pages and comprehensive. 3 things I'm still sucking at. I wish I could set up alarms (rates/levels too high/low), room for detailed notes (tracking symptoms across hours/days/weeks, changes to meds/dosing times and things I can't even think of right now.
The hospitals and clinics are even actually overwhelmed. His illness overlaps into 6 or 7 distinct clinical areas - but here at home, we don't have the luxury of referring out. I get help online from a couple of his clinics but I have to have the information compiled or we have to travel 150 miles just to walk in the clinic door.
Sorry for the wall of text - knowing I have my eye on the ball has become hard to be sure of with so many things to watch at once - especially when they become fluid during a metabolic or neurologic crises like elevated sodium causes neurologic symptoms I need to watch for, etc. And don't get me started on the massive changes in diet necessary - most food has immense amounts of sodium and sugar and we have to read every single nutrient list on every single food and somehow make the information readily available so we don't have to look it all up every time.
"Nuther wall of text - sorry guys and gals, really tired at the moment. Hope the upload helps and thank all of you following the thread and especially those who've posted. Finally, John Ha, my sincere apologies. My disrespect says nothing about your desire to help and I'm sorry. Also, thank you for the links - I will use them all.
If you should need to, it is possible to edit your posts via the edit button at the top right of the post.
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I have download the file and have had a preliminary look at it. From my point of view, I think it can probably be improved but that does not mean that you would like it.
Anyway, I'll give it some thought—I am hopeful that some Calc gurus will also have some suggestions. Playing around with the data layout and reports that you want may take some time.
Best wishes for you and your son. Things sound very stressful for both of you.
Thank you for the links John. I have found a medic-alert necklace USB Thumbdrive which now has a summary and some details loaded onto it. I began to use AOO for Android and ran into some data loss events which put me back onto the PC until I sort them out. I believe it's called AndrOpen. Of course, using the above database, the app can only be as good as the database but data loss (newly re-opened file contained none of the previously entered data) scared me off of it for now. I was teaching my son to use it and his memory and cognitive function deficits made the data loss twice the issue it otherwise would have been.
My goal is to build a daily tracking system he can use on his phone that is optimized for his needs. A tablet might be better - the AOO app on phone is a little harder to navigate so the db setup has to be clean and as thoroughly optimized as I can make it.
I'll look more deeply into the patient-tracking databases found in the links. I looked a few months ago but all I found were applications for use in clinics and not for patients. I'm sure this wheel has already been invented - it's just the communities we've been a part of the last year have all found my son's cancer to be rare in both the tumor itself and the myriad systemic effects on his body and personality. As a result, they're often like deer in the headlights - both disconcerting and hard to even think of all the questions needing answers.
Again, John, I apologize for an offensive post. I will not do that again.
And thank you for your graceful reply - you are a gentleman.
I pointed to the software because, in principle, it is better to use a well written program than to develop anything significant yourself. For example, it is an essential principle that a piece of data should be stored once, and only once, because if it is stored more than once it is virtually inevitable that the two values will get out of step. Similarly data should be protected from accidental change.
1. Create a database into which the data is poured.
2. Create reports which analyse the data stored in the database.
Note how a program designed in this way completely separates the data from the reports. There is no way in which a report can corrupt or accidentally change the data. It is difficult to achieve that in a spreadsheet.
I have made some drastic changes in your data layout based on the idea that daily changes over a period of time may be of more importance than the single daily measurments—I think my approach can give you both as needed with some more fiddling. I have renamed many of the headings (variables in my lingo) for my convenience while tinkering with the spreadsheet. A return to the original names makes sense in terms of decent documentation.
The first thing you will likely notice is that I have transposed the data so that we have the various mesurements in colums and I am putting all the data in one sheet. This avoids having to deal with multiple sheets which are not really needed. However, it does make it more difficult to eyeball a day's treatment.
My basic idea at the moment is to have all the data on the **Data** sheet and carry out any charting or other summary work on **Analysis** sheet. At the moment my not-very-sophisticated approach to charting a bar chart involves manually copying the values for the date and deficit from **Data** to **Analysis** and charting the data. The chart currently look a bit strange as I only input 3 days worth of data into my spreadsheet.
This approach makes it easy to chart changes over longer times.
I, also have a number of questions and observations about the formatting of the spreadsheet but I once get thorough whinging and moaning about spreadsheets I'll send you a PM about some of my questions and suggestions.
Searching ggl for a home-use product is problematic in that after weeding out the ads, there are pages of products for use in hospitals and clinics. I believe I'm looking for Analytics, Scheduling, Event Logging, Reporting and Cross-Referencing. Being a little clearer on just what modules I need helps narrow down the search though at first blush, there doesn't seem to be much available for non-professional home nursing. I imagine the cost of these proprietary packages might keep us out of that market as well. But I have to find them before I'll know.
I am immensely grateful to you for this last post. Essentially starting from scratch isn't so bad if I'm actually getting back into familiar territory. You gave me a much better place to start from so again, my thanks.
AOO's Base is pretty crude but, if you do decide to use it, see the LibreOffice Base Handbook (259 pages) and the LO Student's Book (71pages) as well as the AOO Database wiki.
If you have build data bases then junk Calc! A decent data base is 100 times better for this type of project.
In any case, I am shipping my (hopefully redundant) comments on the spreadsheet via a PM.


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Published September 28, 2016 by mandileighbean
Round of applause, please; I'm actually posting weekly! Granted this is the first time it has happened, but it's all about the baby steps, right? It's all about doing the work.
So without further self-aggrandizing glory, or further do, here's this week's writing prompt. I'd like to thank Cristina Hartmann who wrote a beautiful, poignant article on her deaf experience. Her willingness to be so honest and so personal helped me through writer's block and taught me to be open-minded through validating the idea that there is a common human experience no matter the extenuating circumstances.
WEEKLY WRITING PROMPT #29: A deaf woman undergoes a surgical procedure that enables her to hear for the first time.
The surgery had been an absolute success, one worthy of being documented in some elite medical journal that was never actually read but given a prestigious place on a bookshelf of some pretentious professional. But Monica had no idea that she was a medical marvel; not yet, anyway. She was still floating somewhere in the dark ether of anesthesia, blissfully unaware of the momentous, tragic changes in her life that had occurred while she was sleeping peacefully.
Monica had been born deaf, an innocent victim of her mother's sins. Monica's mom had been a pretty heavy drug user in the very beginning of her pregnancy and though her daughter had been the reason she finally got clean, it was too little too late. The damage was done and in her youngest years, Monica was constantly shushed so that the toddler wouldn't make noise at inappropriate times. How was Monica to know she was even making sounds, let alone when she was being shushed? The kid couldn't hear, couldn't hear a damn thing, and so Monica struggled to learn American Sign Language. Doing so allowed Monica to meet many, many different people and in her important, formative years, she signed with adults, and that early exposure to maturity and a cynic sort of wisdom only vaguely hidden behind smiles that didn't quite meet the eyes (because she was still a child after all) indelibly shaped Monica's personality. She had always been an old soul – polite, conservative and comfortable even in the strange solitude that came with being unable to hear.
Being comfortable wasn't always synonymous with being complacent, so when Monica had been referred to the Cochlear Implant Center, she continued on that journey to meet with an audiologist, and when her medical history had been sufficiently reviewed and all the necessary medical tests had been conducted, Monica willingly moved on to the last phase, which involved a psychiatric evaluation. In the end, all had been golden and she was approved for cochlear implant surgery.
Monica remembered her hands twitching nervously as the surgeon explained the procedure. She thought it was nice he wanted her to be informed, but Monica was letting most of it simply fall away. She was too nervous to concern herself with the details of the surgery because it wasn't the impending incision that troubled her; it was the aftermath. She had been relieved to discover that she would still be unable to hear like a hearing person, and that the implant could be turned off so that Monica could effectively be deaf again. The thing Monica hated most about being deaf was that it was not her choice; taking a wide view of the thing, Monica supposed you could say it had been her mother's choice, but unwittingly so. Either way, Monica liked the idea that being able to hear was her choice, very much her choice. If she longed for the familiar soothing and peaceful silence she had lived in for so long, Monica could go there any time she liked. That thought had calmed her enough to go ahead with the procedure.
Surprisingly, the surgery was no big deal; Monica learned that the majority of patients go home the same day, and that the surgery only lasted between two to three hours. After minimal hair shaving and a small incision (the aerated bone behind her ear had to be removed so the device could be implanted), she'd go home and remove the dressings the next day, standing in front of her bathroom mirror, breathing deeply and listening hard for anything, anything at all.
What a change it would be; good or bad, it would certainly be different.
So as far as anyone was concerned, Monica should have been on her way home. But her shit luck reared its ugly head once more, and there had been a minor complication. The procedure had caused facial nerve stimulation, and they wanted to keep Monica longer (overnight) for observation, to make sure the damage wasn't permanent. The surgeon would tell her, with an overly enthusiastic smile and tone to let her know her optimism should not in any way shape or form be deterred, when she woke from the anesthesia but even that was taking longer than it should. A surgeon couldn't be expected to wait around all day, could he? Certainly not; time to wait around was not a luxury in the business of saving lives.
Monica was therefore all alone when she began to stir. Well, all alone if one discounted her roommate, which it seemed most people did. He was a young man essentially being kept comfortable until he inevitably kicked the bucket. The car accident had ravaged his insides; so much vital stuff had been bruised and was bleeding and it was just a God awful mess. The next of kin had been alerted, but there wasn't enough time (was there ever) and that poor young man was going to die alone and he was going to do so in a matter of moments.
"I'm so scared," he breathed. It took a lot, to make noise, to push enough air through his throat to vibrate his vocal chords. It was a lot of work, a lot of effort, but it had to be done. Everyone deserves to have a final say, and he was going to have him, goddammit.
Monica's eyes shot open. She heard it; she heard it. It startled her awake, the husky voice wracked with pain and despair, but it was the only voice she had ever heard. She was hearing. She was smiling and tears were freely pouring. She hadn't processed what the voice said exactly, but for now, it was enough that it had been audible.
"It's not fair," the voice croaked. "I didn't do anything wrong, man. I was wearing my seatbelt. I was sober." There was a deep, shuddering breath. "How can there be nothing that they can do? How can this be it?" The voice broke near the end, cracked into a million desperate shards that had nowhere to land, nothing to shatter against.
The voice asked questions Monica was unable to answer, not only because she didn't know how to intellectually, but because she didn't know how to physically. She had years of speech therapy to go before she'd be able to effectively communicate without using her hands. Any sound she attempted now would be unsettling at best, impossible for the man suffering beside her to discern. Her smile had faded, had done so quickly, and something akin to indescribable sorrow had contorted her features to something decidedly less than beautiful.
"It's karma," the man said. He waited a moment, for an absolution perhaps. Maybe he was waiting for a kind soul to argue otherwise, but there was nothing. "It has to be karma," he continued. "I knew she was drunk but she was smiling and laughing and I never heard no." There was sharp intake of breath. "I swear to God, she never told me no. She never asked me to stop. I was young and…" his voice trailed off. Monica didn't think he would speak again, and she was okay with that. She didn't like playing priest in this warped confessional. How could the first voice she ever heard belong to a dying man, a dying man that felt the need to confess the worst thing he'd ever done? If he wanted to talk about what was unfair, Monica was game.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," he sobbed. "I don't want to die."
Monica shut her eyes tight, letting the tears roll freely. What else could she do?
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by Daniel Kovalik (reproduced by kind permission of the author)
When I studied law at Columbia in the early 1990s, I had the fortune of studying under Louis Henkin, probably the world's most famous human rights theoretician. Upon his passing in 2010, Elisa Massimino at Human Rights First stated in Professor Henkin's New York Times obituary that he "literally and figuratively wrote the book on human rights" and that "[i]t is no exaggeration to say that no American was more instrumental in the development of human rights law than Lou."
Professor Henkin, rest his soul, while a human rights legend, was not always good on the question of war and peace. I know this from my own experience when I had a vigorous debate with him during and continuing after class about the jailing of anti-war protestors, including Eugene V. Debs, during World War I. In short, Professor Henkin, agreeing with Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, believed that these protestors were properly jailed because their activities, though peaceful, constituted a "clear and present danger" to the security of the nation during war time. I strongly disagreed.
That Professor Henkin would side with the state against these war protestors is indicative of the entire problem with the field of human rights which is at best neutral or indifferent to war, if not supportive of it as an instrument of defending human rights. This, of course, is a huge blind spot. In the case of World War I, for example, had the protestors been successful in stopping the war, untold millions would have been saved from the murderous cruelty of a conflict for which, to this day, few can adequately even explain the reasons. And yet, this does not seem to present a moral dilemma for today's human rights advocates. (I will note, on the plus side, that Professor Henkin did become increasingly uneasy with the Vietnam War as that conflict unfolded, and specifically with the President's increasing usurpation of Congress's war authority).
In the end, it was not from Professor Henkin, but from other, dissident intellectuals who I learned the most about human rights and international law. The list of these intellectuals, none of whom actually practice human rights in their day job, includes Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Jean Bricmont and Diana Johnstone. And of course, I have read a lot of what they have to say on this subject on these very pages of CounterPunch.
And, what all of these individuals have emphasized time and time again is that international law, as first codified in the aftermath of World War II in such instruments as the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Charter, was created for the primary purpose of preserving and maintaining peace by outlawing aggressive war. And, why is this so? Because the nations which had just gone through the most destructive war in human history, with its attendant crimes of genocide and the holocaust, realized full well that those crimes were made possible by the paramount crime of war itself. As Jean Bricmont, then, in his wonderful book Humanitarian Imperialism, explains, the first crime for which the Nazis "were condemned at Nuremberg was initiating a war of aggression, which, according to the 1945 Nuremberg Charter, 'is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes is that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.'"
In other words, the logic of the very founders of international law, including international human rights law, was that, to preserve human rights, the primary task of nations is to ensure peace and to prevent war which inevitably leads to the massive violation of human rights. As Noam Chomsky has noted for years, quite notably in his 1971 Yale Law Review article entitled, "The Rule of Force in International Affairs," 80 Yale L.J. 1456, one of the very first substantive norms established by the UN Charter is prohibition against aggressive war. Such a norm is contained, as Chomsky relates, in Article 2(4) which provides that all UN members "shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force…" And, contrary to the position of the new humanitarian interventionists, Article 2(7) of the Charter specifically states that "[nothing in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state…"
Sadly, as Chomsky noted even back in 1971, these norms, the paramount ones of the entire UN system, have sadly been read out of international law. And, they have been read out by, among others, such chief human rights groups as Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW). As Jean Bricmont, citing international law scholar Michael Mandel, explains in Humanitarian Imperialism, while AI and HRW urged all "beligerents" (without distinguishing between the attackers and the attacked) at the outset of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq to respect the rules of war, neither group said a word about the illegality of the war itself. As Bricmont quite correctly stated, "[t]hese organizations are in the position of those who recommend that rapists use condoms," ignoring the fact that once the intervention they failed to oppose "takes place on a large scale, human rights and the Geneva Conventions are massively violated."
This brings us to the present time. Just last week, Amnesty International issued a long statement in opposition to an article I penned for Counterpunch on "Libya and the West's Human Rights hypocrisy." AI, in its counter-blog, entitled, "A Critic Gets it Wrong on Amnesty International and Libya" (see here), AI claims that I was wrong in stating that it had supported the NATO intervention in Libya. AI, affirming the critiques of Bricmont and Mandel, claims in this blog, that "Amnesty International generally takes no position on the use of armed force or on military interventions in armed conflict, other than to demand that all parties respect international human rights and humanitarian law." AI then goes on to try to clarify that, in advance of the NATO intervention in Libya, AI, in a February 23, 2011, release, merely called on the Security Council to take immediate measures against Libya and Gaddafi, including [but not limited to] freezing the assets of Gaddafi and his senior military advisers, and investigating the possibility of a referral to the International Criminal Court.
In its blog contra my article, AI claims that it called for such action based upon Gaddafi's verbal "threat to 'cleanse Libya house by house'" to end the resistance. While this is true, this is not the whole truth. Thus, in AI's February 23, 2011 release, it also based this call upon "persistent reports of mercenaries being brought in from African countries by the Libyan leader to violently suppress the protests against him." And, as we learned from our own Patrick Cockburn in an Independent article from June 24, 2011, entitled, "Amnesty questions claim that Gaddafi ordered rape as a weapon of war," Amnesty ended up debunking the reports (though well after NATO's attack against Libya had begun) that Gaddafi was bringing in foreign mercenaries to fight.
As Cockburn, citing Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response adviser for Amnesty International, explains:
"Rebels have repeatedly charged that mercenary troops from Central and West Africa have been used against them. The Amnesty investigation found there was no evidence for this.
"Those shown to journalists as foreign mercenaries were later quietly released," says Ms Rovera. "Most were sub-Saharan migrants working in Libya without documents."
In other words, AI, on Feburary 23, 2011, was calling for Security Council action against Libya based upon reports about foreign mercenaries which it would later conclude were false, and upon verbal threats Gaddafi had made — very weak bases indeed for Security Council action.
And what about the calls for such action themselves? As we all know, the Security Council did act, authorizing a NATO attack upon Libya which began on March 19, 2011. The ordering of such an attack was a possible and indeed likely action which the Security Council would take, especially given that countries like the U.S. and France were aggressively pushing for such action at the time. And, AI full well knew this, and its calls for Security Council action worked in tandem with the efforts of the U.S. and France to obtain authorization for such an intervention.
In other words, AI, based at least in part on false reports, was pushing for Security Council action which it knew could, and most likely would, result in the authorization of force against Libya. And indeed, AI's other call for possible referral of sitting Libyan officials to the International Criminal Court was tantamount to a call for armed intervention, including regime change, because only such intervention could bring about the hauling of sitting government officials to The Hague. AI's current professions of neutrality on the issue of intervention notwithstanding, it can truly be stated that AI supported the intervention that took place in March of 2011 as an objective matter.
And sadly, this objective support was based in part on false reports of foreign, black mercenaries being brought into Libya. These false reports of mercenaries, in addition to feeding the calls for intervention, had another terrible effect – they helped lead to the massive reprisals against black Libyans and foreign guest workers during the conflict in Libya and continuing after the time that Gaddafi was toppled. The most notable of such reprisals was the utter destruction of the town of Tawarga, a town largely populated by black Libyans, by anti-Gaddafi rebels. To its great discredit, AI, in its rush to push for Security Council intervention, spread the very false reports which fueled such acts of vengeance.
And, what about AI's response to crimes committed by NATO's intervention in and bombing of Libya? AI, in its response to my article, cites its criticism of NATO as evidence of its even-handedness in responding to the conduct of all sides of the Libyan conflict. Specifically, AI cites the following criticism it made as such evidence:
Although NATO appears to have made significant efforts to minimize the risk of causing civilian casualties, scores of Libyan civilians were killed and many more injured. Amnesty International is concerned that no information has been made available to the families of civilians killed and those injured in NATO strikes about any investigations which may have been carried out into the incidents which resulted in death and injury.
Of course, this mere criticism demonstrates AI's utter lack of even-handedness. First of all, in order to please its NATO patron, AI obviously felt compelled to lead its criticism with a compliment – patting NATO on the back for allegedly trying to "minimize the risk of causing civilian casualties," as if aerial bombardment of major cities can ever constitute the minimization of such risks.
Then, AI complains that "no information has been made available" to the families of civilians killed or injured "about any investigations which may have been carried out into the incidents which resulted in death and injury." What "investigations" is AI referring to here? Clearly, AI is complaining that NATO, left to police itself, has not shared the results of its own investigations into its own crimes.
The truth is that AI, which called for Security Council and possible ICC action against Libya as NATO was sharpening its knives to invade, has not called for a body outside NATO (e.g. the ICC) to investigate and possibly prosecute NATO officials for their crimes. What is good for the goose then, is not good for the gander in AI's view. Of course, the ICC does not exist to prosecute those from the paler, Western countries. No, the ICC (which the U.S. is not even a signatory to and is therefore exempt from) is, in practice, for the darker races of the poorer countries; for those from Africa, Asia, and from time to time, the lesser Slavic nations. And, therein lies the problem inherent in the entire international human rights system of which AI is an integral part.
As we learn from Diana Johnstone in a CounterPunch article entitled, "How Amnesty International Became the Servant of U.S. Warmongering Foreign Policy," AI's journey to becoming an appendage of the U.S. and NATO recently became complete with its appointment of Suzanne Nossel as the new Director of Amnesty International USA. Diana Johnstone explains that Suzanne Nossel openly advocated, and indeed coined the term, "soft power" projection by the U.S. when she served in her last job as Assistant Secretary for International Organizations at none other than the U.S. State Department. And, as Jean Bricmont notes in Humanitarian Intervention, and as Ms. Nossel herself and AI fully understand, "soft power" only works because it has the very real threat of "hard power" (including economic sanctions and military intervention) behind it. AI has sadly forgotten that the wielding of such power by the rich countries to bully the weak is forbidden by the UN Charter which prohibits both the actual use and threat of force. It is those prohibitions which must be enforced first and foremost to truly protect human rights.
What's more, as Diana Johnstone further explained in her CounterPunch article, Suzanne Nossel, just before being hired by AI, played a direct role while at the U.S. State Department in ginning up the pretexts for the NATO intervention in Libya. Ms. Johnstone explains that, "As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, Ms. Nossel played a role in drafting the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Libya. That resolution, based on exaggeratedly alarmist reports, served to justify the UN resolution which led to the NATO bombing campaign that overthrew the Gaddafi regime." In other words, Ms. Nossel's role in pushing the NATO intervention was similar to that of AI's at the time, with both pushing exaggerated, and indeed false, claims to justify stepped up action against Libya.
AI's current attempts to distance itself from the very NATO intervention which AI and Ms. Nossel worked together to help bring about simply do not ring true. I would submit that it is time for AI to do some real soul-searching on the issue of whether it wants to serve the interests of human rights or to serve the interests of NATO and Western military intervention, for it truly cannot serve both masters.
The article above originally appeared on the pages of Counterpunch.
Daniel Kovalik is a labor and human rights lawyer living in Pittsburgh. He currently teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
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Otto Eberlein
Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve (entry, Jahrgang 38)
Born 15 Nov 1913 Pirmasens, Pfalz
Died 9 Jan 1945 (31) British Isles
1 Mar 1943 Oberleutnant zur See der Reserve
1 Sep 1941 War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords
1 Aug 1942 Minesweeper War Badge
9 May 1943 Iron Cross 2nd Class
U-1020 17 May 1944 9 Jan 1945 (+) 1 patrol (49 days)
Otto Eberlein joined the Kriegsmarine in 1938. From Aug to Nov 1941 he served in Harbour Defence Flotilla at Trondheim, Norway. He then served in patrol boats with the 59th VP-Flotilla until July 1943.
From July 1943 to Jan 1944 he went through basic U-boat training, and then from Feb to March 1944 took the U-boat Commander Course. In March he was sent to Baubelehrung (U-boat familiarization) until May when he took command of his U-1020 on the 17th.
On his first patrol his boat went missing and no explanation exists for its loss. His official date of death listed as 3 Jan 1945.
Busch, R & Röll, H-J. (1998). German U-boat commanders of World War II.
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1. U-1020 14 Nov 1944 Kiel 17 Nov 1944 Horten 4 days
2. U-1020 22 Nov 1944 Horten 9 Jan 1945 Sunk Patrol 1, 49 days