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.:Middle East Online ::Algeria : Mideast’s next revolt if soccer is barometer :.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=58854

Algeria: Mideast’s next revolt if soccer is barometer

there is increasingly little doubt that soccer is signaling popular discontent could again spill into streets of Algiers, other major cities.

James Dorsey, le spécialiste de la sociologie du foot arabe, verrait bien l’Algérie dans l’oeil du prochain syclone, à en croire le bruit des stades.

Tempête sur le Premier Amendement
http://www.dedefensa.org/article-temp_te_sur_le_premier_amendement_16_05_2013.html

• Une tempête secoue Washington, un scandale secoue l’administration Obama. • Une tempête de plus, un scandale de plus, dans ce que le Guardian désigne déjà comme “une des pires semaines qu’ait connues l’administration Obama”. •Il s’agit du scandale des listes d’appel téléphoniques des journalistes d’Associated Press obtenues par le FBI, qui mène une enquête avec ses énormes sabots. • Levée de boucliers unanime : le sacro-saint Premier Amendement de la Constitution est menacé ! • Il n’y a pas que de la narrative (...)

L’Art en Question | ARTPOL | Scoop.it
http://www.scoop.it/t/artpol/p/4001700341/l-art-en-question?hash=0ae698db-7c50-48e4-9059-1fb217acfe28

« L’Art en Question est une web-série documentaire de 10 épisodes de 12 min en moyenne née de la volonté de cultiver un regard plus interrogateur et plus démocratique sur les oeuvres d’art... » ...

#art #éducation #culture #démocratie #pédagogie #société

Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/world/dirty-wars-filthy-hands-5-unsavory-ways-america-conducts-its-global-war-te

America’s allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations.

The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has a long history of this sort of activity. And most importantly, it’s the latest reminder of how America’s global “war on terror” has been forged through backroom deals, cold hard cash and the fostering of corruption.

From Yemen to Afghanistan to Somalia, America has prosecuted its perpetual war the usual way U.S. foreign policy is conducted: partnerships with unsavory leaders who are corrupt and commit abuses. ...

Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail ? | Index on Censorship
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again

The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports

(Le journaliste yéménite Abdallah Shayi’ a été arrêté au Yémen en Août 2010 sur ordre étasunien, sous prétexte qu’il avait interviewé un militant d’AQ, en réalité parce qu’il rapportait les victimes civiles des frappes de drones.)

Seven months after the al-Majala bombing and following his criticism of both the Yemeni and US Governments, Shaye was abducted by Political Security Organisation [PSO] gunmen. Beaten and threatened before being released, in response Shaye went back on television. A month later, in August 2010, his house was raided by Yemen’s elite US-trained and funded Counter Terrorism troops. Shaye was once again beaten and tortured, according to the Yemeni human rights organisation HOOD, during 34 days in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer or family members.

How Many Wars Is the US Fighting Today?
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/peps.2013.19.issue-1/peps-2013-0011/peps-2013-0011.xml

Most people in the US and around the world, when asked the question in mid to late 2011, “How many wars is the US fighting today?” would answer “one” or “two”: Iraq and Afghanistan. The first has now ended and the second is in the process of winding down. The US still has some 70,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan, with withdrawal scheduled by end-2014. And, while the US has officially withdrawn its forces from Iraq, it maintains thousands of private contractors and State Department personnel in the country and, in addition, has expanded its troop presence just across the border in Kuwait.

In addition to these two large-scale conflicts the US is also fighting a number of unannounced and undeclared “wars”. These unannounced wars are fought mainly with air power and increasingly with drones rather than ground troops. If we define war to include conflicts where the US is launching extensive military incursions, including drone attacks, but that are not officially “declared,” then the US is directly involved in at least three wars – in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia – in addition to Iraq and Afghanistan. These unannounced wars follow in the tradition of many previous covert US military incursions, such as in Chile, Cuba, and Nicaragua. The difference is that advanced military technology now enables the US to fight such wars in a different way, which is far less transparent, and to sustain operations over several years.

In this paper, we first briefly outline the global scale of US military involvement today, outside of Iraq and Afghanistan. Second, we examine how the emergence of robotic warfare is enabling the US to become involved in more conflicts worldwide. Third, we look at some of the implications of this relatively new technology, and its effect on US power. Finally, we offer some preliminary conclusions.

Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti,Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to long-established bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.1 Some of these are vast, such as the Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, the forward headquarters of the United States Central Command, which has recently been expanded to accommodate up to 10,000 troops and 120 aircraft.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) is active in 20 countries across the Middle Eastern region, and is actively ramping-up military training, counterterrorism programs, logistical support, and funding to the military in various nations. At this point, the US has some kind of military presence in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, U.A.E., Uzbekistan, and Yemen.

Via Kevin Gosztola http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/06/the-united-states-is-fighting-how-many-wars

Les arrestations de jeunes responsables de jet de Molotovs semblent se multiplier récemment

http://gitm.kcorp.net/index.php?id=647115

The Peninsula - 08 May, 2013

Bahraini security forces have arrested four people suspected of attacking a police checkpoint with petrol bombs south of Manama at the weekend, the interior ministry said.

“Four of the terrorists who attacked police checkpoint on Sunday evening with petrol bombs have been arrested,” the ministry said late Monday.

It said the attack took place in the district of Jari Al Sheikh, south of the capital, adding the identity of others suspected of being involved was being probed.

The alleged attack came amid frequent clashes between security forces and protesters in villages inhabited by the Shia majority of the kingdom ruled by the Al Khalifa dynasty.

Outsourcing Lethality - By Micah Zenko | Foreign Policy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/07/outsourcing_lethality?page=full

En matière de (non-)respect des vies civiles, le problème de l’administration Obama n’est pas seulement son refus de clarifier les critères qui guident ses frappes de #drones, mais aussi son emploi de l’"#outsourcing",

Quand il y a un doigt étranger sur ​​la gâchette , Washington reste-t-il le responsable lorsque des innocents meurent ?

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… si vous êtes préoccupés par les politiques d’assassinat ciblé de l’administration Obama, ne négligez pas les attaques similaires menées par les alliés et les partenaires qui reçoivent de l’argent, des armes ou des renseignements américains.

Lorsque les États-Unis fournissent à d’autres États ou à des acteurs non-étatiques des capacités qui permettent des opérations meurtrières - sans lesquelles elles ne pourraient avoir lieu - ils sont les premiers responsables du résultat. Quelle que soit la réforme sur les frappes de drones qu’offrirait la Maison Blanche, ou les audiences supplémentaires du Congrès qui pourraient être tenues, elles doivent prendre en compte le rôle troublant de l’Amérique dans les assassinats ciblés des états-client. Songez à certains des exemples récents les plus flagrants que les États-Unis ont directement encouragés :

Somalie . À partir de 2002, un petit nombre d’agents de la CIA et de forces du Commandement des opérations spéciales (JSOC) met en place un groupe de travail qui a tenté de capturer ou de tuer environ 20 agents de la cellule d’Al-Qaïda en Afrique de l’Est. La stratégie pour atteindre cet objectif à court terme a été le "recours à des « partenaires de liaison non-traditionnels » (c.-à-d., des chefs de milice), comme un câble diplomatique divulgué de l’ambassade américaine à Nairobi, au Kenya, l’a décrit plus tard. Pour son incomparable histoire des opérations antiterroristes américaines, « Dirty Wars : The World Is a Battlefield », Jeremy Scahill a interviewé un de ces partenaires de liaison, le chef de guerre Mohamed Afrah Qanyare. Comme l’écrit Scahill, en échange de 100.000 $ à 150.000 $ par mois offerts par ses contacts de la CIA, « Qanyare et ses camarades se sont engagés dans une campagne tous azimuts de meurtre et de capture contre n’importe qui - Somaliens ou étrangers - qu’ils soupçonnaient d’êtreun partisan du n’importe quel mouvement islamique. » Une source du renseignement a dit plus tard au journaliste Sean Naylor que les seigneurs de la guerre ont aidé la CIA à capturer peut-être « sept ou huit » figures d’Al-Qaïda en Somalie.

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#terrorisme

Chomsky: The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day | Alternet
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/chomsky-boston-bombings-gave-americans-taste-terrorism-us-inflicts-abroad-

It’s rare for privileged Westerners to see, graphically, what many others experience daily - for example, in a remote village in Yemen...

...

There is a long and highly instructive history showing the willingness of state authorities to risk the fate of their populations, sometimes severely, for the sake of their policy objectives, not least the most powerful state in the world. We ignore it at our peril.

#terrorisme

US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantánamo, lawyer says- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/02/us-drone-strikes-guantanamo

The lawyer who first drew up White House policy on lethal drone strikes has accused the Obama administration of overusing them because of its reluctance to capture prisoners that would otherwise have to be sent to Guantánamo Bay.

John Bellinger, who was responsible for drafting the legal framework for targeted drone killings while working for George W Bush after 9/11, said he believed their use had increased since because President Obama was unwilling to deal with the consequences of jailing suspected al-Qaida members.

“This government has decided that instead of detaining members of al-Qaida [at Guantánamo] they are going to kill them,” he told a conference at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top CIA official | MadCow Morning News
http://www.madcowprod.com/2013/04/26/boston-bombers-uncle-married-daughter-of-top-cia-official

The uncle of the two suspected Boston bombers in last week’s attack, Ruslan Tsarni, was married to the daughter of former top CIA official Graham Fuller

The discovery that Uncle Ruslan Tsarni had spy connections that go far deeper than had been previously known is ironic, especially since the mainstrean media’s focus yesterday was on a feverish search to find who might have recruited the Tsarnaev brothers.

Yémen : le vieux Sanaa se délabre dans l’indifférence des autorités

La vieille ville de Sanaa, ensemble architectural unique inscrit en 1986 au patrimoine mondial, subit les assauts du temps et les changements introduits par les hommes dans une indifférence générale des autorités qui commence à inquiéter l’UNESCO.
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Édifiée à 2.200 m d’altitude, Sanaa est habitée depuis plus de 2.500 ans. Aux VIIe et VIIIe siècles, elle était devenue un important centre de propagation de l’islam, selon l’UNESCO.

Le patrimoine religieux et politique de la capitale du Yémen se retrouve dans ses 106 mosquées, ses 12 bains turcs, ses 6.500 maisons qui datent toutes d’avant le XIe siècle : des maisons à étages ou en pisé.
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Les autorités yéménites, prises par la crise politique qui agite le pays, ne semblent pas en mesure de le faire de l’aveu même des responsables locaux de la conservation.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9syrW1cyJKpl1ymBsychNZ-Ut_w?docId=CNG.088df107892577d56f5203fe2dfbc89

#patrimoine #Yémen #Unesco #Sanaa

Découverte d’une vaste réserve de pétrole au Yémen qui ferait trembler l’Arabie Saoudite

Oil has become the new object of dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, after news reports and Yemeni sources recently revealed that Yemen enjoyed the largest oil well in the world, and that a small part of this well extended to Saudi Arabia at a depth of 1,800 meters. They indicated that while Riyadh boasts 34% of the global oil reserves, the discovery of these oil wells in Yemen will allow it to have an extra 34% in reserves, which would give Yemen an upper hand whose future consequences is feared by Saudi Arabia. Indeed, the oil wells on top of which Yemen is sitting are mainly located in vital areas, such as the one situated between Jawf, Ma’reb and the Rub’ al-Khali [Empty Quarter] Desert.

Al Masri Al Yum
http://today.almasryalyoum.com/article2.aspx?ArticleID=379533

Inside America’s Dirty Wars
http://www.thenation.com/article/173980/inside-americas-dirty-wars?page=full

While the battle over leaks concerning the operation—as well as the various contradictory stories on how bin Laden was killed—raged in the media, the White House was deeply immersed in planning more lethal operations against so-called “High Value Targets.” Chief among these was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen of Yemeni descent born in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

#JSOC #exécutions #guerre

My Village Was Attacked By US Drones in Yemen- http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/yemen-village-drone-attack-wessab.html

We used to think that drone strikes were a localized problem, with villages far from the Yemeni capital being spared. This is no longer the case. It seems no part of Yemen is safe from US drones. In an area like Wessab, there is nothing easier than capturing a man like al-Radmi. Two police officers would have been more than capable of arresting him.

(...)

....was it really necessary to conduct an operation that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, while two soldiers could have captured the target? (...)

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If al-Radmi was a target, an arrest would have been simple. He was not some elusive figure, hiding far from the reach of the central authority. He lived a few hours from Sanaa and less than a kilometer away from government headquarters. Apparently, he was in the company of a government official at the time of the strike, having come from an area where they solved social problems together. Rather, what the drones have done is terrifying a village with thousands of the most modern people in Yemen.

At such times, it is tempting to conclude that the US has no interest in a measured response to terrorism. It is difficult not to think it doesn’t matter to them whether they terrorize (and radicalize) entire populations as they check another name off their “kill list.” It is also unclear what my own government’s role in this slaying was — whether Yemeni officials knew in advance and stood by silently or whether they were racing to share responsibility for the killing to cover for the US. Both are problematic.

Drones have a tremendous psychological effect on those living in their shadows. Villagers say drones hovered over Wessab for three days before they struck. The ominous buzz of the drones terrorizes communities. Where will they strike? Will I be next? These are the questions youngsters now grow up asking.

The “collateral damage” of drones cannot just be measured in corpses. Drones are traumatizing a generation and further alienating Yemenis from any cooperation with the West, or even with the Yemeni central government.
Today, the vast majority of Yemenis do not support AQAP. Enough senseless killings, though I very much doubt that this will change. I also fear it is not a good idea for me to go back to the village, as in the past the villagers have associated me with the US as someone who believes in the American values and moved out of the village via generous American scholarships.

Whoever pressed that button thousands of miles away killed my longstanding counterterrorism efforts. All the US public diplomacy of me being America’s informal ambassador to an area that US officials cannot even locate on a map are now lost in this wreckage. Worse still, they made al-Radmi look like a hero.

The US continues to play with fire in Yemen by being inconsiderate and ineffective in its counterterrorism policies. With such behavior as its headline, it digs a grave for people like al-Radmi and more graves for any future peace in Yemen and the American values.

As the US continues to hold workshops to educate Yemenis in the capital on the rule of law — through its right hand USAID — it is killing them outside the law through its left hand, the drones strikes.

State Dept. Releases 2012 Human Rights Country Reports | Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED)
http://pomed.org/blog/2013/04/state-dept-releases-2012-human-rights-country-reports.html

Obama won’t send witness to Senate to explain legality of drone war - NY Daily News | NewsCred SmartWire
http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/490842869e980317385895d3b4a787e8/obama-wont-send-witness-to-senate-to-explain-legality-of-drone-wa

C. Dixon Osburne, director of the law and security program at Human Rights First, ..., said the administration’s decision not to send a witness to the hearing ran counter to Obama’s transparency pledge.

“The president made pretty clear in the State of the Union (speech) that the administration owed Congress and the public more transparency about its drone operations. Sending a witness to the hearing would be a good step in that direction. Not sending a witness keeps the targeted killing program cloaked in secrecy,” he said.

#oblabla

The Boston Marathon and U.S. Drone Attacks: a Tale of Two Terrorisms http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/the-boston-marathon-and-u-s-drone-attacks-a-tale-of-two-te

The changing face of Saudi Arabia

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9983771/Frank-Gardner-the-changing-face-of-Saudi-Arabia.html

Mexicans Develop #Drones for Peace
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/mexicans-develop-drones-for-peace

Mexican engineers have begun to work on developing unmanned aerial vehicles for scientific and commercial uses.

Pas question de paix dans le papier mais quelques projections économiques :

The study, published in March by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), an industry group, estimates that between 2015 and 2017, the economic impact of drone integration will be greater than 13 billion dollars and could reach 82 billion by 2025, in terms of revenues earned by manufacturers and suppliers from the sale of new products as well as “the taxes and monies that flow into communities and support the local businesses.”

#propagande_dronesque

Tunisie/ Syrie. Résumé: Entre 6 et 10.000 Tunisiens auraient rejoint les rangs des combattants anti-Assad. Les recrutements se feraient par le truchement des mosquées et d’organisations caritatives. Leurs familles, qui n’apprennent qu’a posteriori le départ de l’un des leurs, recevraient jusqu’à 4000 dollars par combattant. Les autorités tunisiennes estiment qu’elles n’ont pas le droit d’empêcher un jeune de partir combattre en Syrie.

INTER PRESS SERVICE
News Agency

Tunisia Now Exporting “Jihadis”
By Giuliana Sgrena
Friday, April 12, 2013

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/04/tunisia-now-exporting-jihadis

TUNIS, Apr 6 2013 (IPS) –
“Tunisian families have begun to dread knocks on their doors, or late-night phone calls, fearing that the messenger will bear the news that their son has been smuggled out of the country to join the “jihad” in Syria. Families here told IPS that they have no way of contacting their sons once they leave — whether by choice or coercion they will never know — for the warring nation nearly 3,000 miles away. At most, family members receive an inaudible telephone call from Libya, where the soon-to-be militants are trained, the muffled voice on the other end of the line saying a quiet and final goodbye.

(…) There are no reliable data on exactly when young Tunisian men began rushing to join the Free Syrian Army, currently engaged in a battle to depose Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, but experts and civil society activists are agreed on one thing: the number is increasing. On Mar. 29, local sources reported that between 6,000 and 10,000 men have left the country, while the Algerian press say the number could be closer to 12,000.

(…) The election of the moderate Islamist party Ennahda in October 2011 further raised hopes that the country would stay on track towards a more inclusive future. But beneath the moderate veneer, a strong ultra-conservative undercurrent remained, steered by Salafist-controlled mosques – like Fath, Ennassr, Ettadhamen, and the great mosque of Ben Arous located on the outskirts of Tunis – that are now serving as headquarters for the smuggling of fighters.

(…) Charity organisations like Karama wa Horrya, Arrahma, Horrya wa Insaf, which provide basic humanitarian assistance to the poor, also play a role in this network that gathers able-bodied Tunisians, transports them to Libya and then, after a brief stop in Turkey, sends them onwards to the frontlines of the Syrian war such as the north-western border with Lebanon, and the city of Aleppo. Young fighters’ first point of contact in Syria is with the Jabhat al Nusra (meaning the ‘Support Front for the People of Syria’), considered the most aggressively militant arm of the FSA. (…)”

#Jabhat_al_Nusra #Tunisia #Syria #Free_Syrian_Army #jihad #jihadi #Fath #Ennassr #Ettadhamen #Ben_Arous #Karama_wa_Horrya #Ennahda #Arrahma #Horrya_wa_Insaf

La stratégie furtive de Barack Obama : une novation majeure
►http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20130408trib000758151/la-strategie-furtive-de-barack-obama-une-novation-majeure-.html

Depuis environ cinq ans nous assistons à un processus inverse totalement discret mais d’importance majeure : sans aucune annonce les États-Unis ont mis en œuvre une stratégie de destruction ponctuelle et anonyme des capacités d’action de leurs adversaires, qu’ils soient ou non étatiques, fondée sur trois composantes : les forces spéciales, les drones armés, les cyberattaques. Cette stratégie a été initiée dans les dernières années de l’Administration Bush et considérablement développée sous la présidence de Barack Obama qui se l’est en quelque sorte appropriée.

Oublié, le rêve des Yéménites de jamais se rapprocher du CCEAG:

Saudi Arabia is building a 1,800 km border fence to bolster security at its frontier with Yemen. Once completed, the fence will run from the Red Sea coast to the borders with Oman and is meant to secure the troubled area between the two countries.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/10/Saudi-Arabia-continues-strengthening-border-security-with-Yemen.h

Saudi Arabia is building a giant border fence to seal off its troubled frontier with Yemen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22086231

La stratégie furtive de Barack Obama : une novation majeure
►http://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/20130408trib000758151/la-strategie-furtive-de-barack-obama-une-novation-majeure-.html

Par le très peu rigoureux Jean-Louis Gergorin :

Ces principes sont mis en œuvre selon une procédure rigoureuse, évidemment classée secrète...