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Free Trade and Globalization — Global Issues
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/38/free-trade-and-globalization

For globalism to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is.…The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist—McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.

— Thomas Friedman, What the World Needs Now, New York Times, March 28, 1999. Quoted from Backing Up Globalization with Military Might

C’est archi-connu mais on ne le citera jamais assez.

‘Syria Untold’: The Storytelling of the Syrian Revolution · Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/05/13/syria-untold-the-storytelling-of-the-syrian-revolution

More than two years into the Syrian uprising as the battle continues on the ground, a new outspoken and creative Syria has emerged after decades of isolation and silence. From strikes to sit-ins, from creative songs and banners to countless citizen demonstrations, daily resistance against tyranny carries on, largely uncovered by mainstream media.

For a few months, I have been working with a group of Syrian journalists, writers, programmers, and designers based in Syria and abroad on a digital media project focusing on telling the story of the Syrian revolution. We are now ready to launch Syria Untold.

Our project combines content aggregation from social media and information collected and shared by grassroots activists with original content created by our team. We have two versions, English and Arabic.

#Syrie #Untold

Zombie climate sceptic theories survive on TV...

According to a leaked email, Fox News journalists were ordered to cast doubt on #climate change: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/planet-oz/2013/may/17/zombie-climate-sceptic-theories-newspapers-tv #press #corruption

The Truth About #Reddit And That (Unnecessary) Apology | Simon Dumenco - Advertising Age
http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/truth-reddit-unnecessary-apology/241277

Reddit’s longtime tagline is “The front page of the internet,” but it could just as easily be “The crib sheet for weary bloggers who need to hit page-view quotas.”

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.

Rien que pour l’intro

While the mainstream media, seemingly comprising of accounting 101 rejects and completely unaware that “profit” is merely an ephemeral, intangible accounting concept, and that for true business model viability one has to look at actual cash generated (or in this case lost),

Why Would Anyone Celebrate the Death of Margaret Thatcher? Ask a Chilean | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/blog/173731/why-would-anyone-celebrate-death-margaret-thatcher-ask-chilean#

Why Would Anyone Celebrate the Death of Margaret Thatcher? Ask a Chilean

April 9, 2013

Never have I witnessed a gap between the mainstream media and the public quite like the last twenty-four hours since the death of Margaret Thatcher. While both the press and President Obama were uttering tearful remembrances, thousands took to the streets of the UK and beyond to celebrate. Immediately this drew strong condemnation of what were called “death parties,” described as “tasteless”, “horrible” and “beneath all human decency.” Yet if the same media praising Thatcher and appalled by the popular response would bother to ask one of the people celebrating, they might get a story that doesn’t fit into their narrative, which is probably why they aren’t asking at all.

#thatcher #royaume-uni

’They stole our dreams’: blogger reveals cost of reporting Mexico’s drug wars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/03/mexico-blog-del-narco-drug-wars

For three years it has chronicled Mexico’s drug war with graphic images and shocking stories that few others dare show, drawing millions of readers, acclaim, denunciations – and speculation about its author’s identity.

Blog del Narco, an internet sensation dubbed a “front-row seat” to Mexico’s agony over drugs, has become a must-read for authorities, drug gangs and ordinary people because it lays bare, day after day, the horrific violence censored by the mainstream media.

http://www.blogdelnarco.com

El 2 de marzo del 2010 comenzó la historia del Blog del Narco, decidimos hacer esto para informar lo que realmente estaba pasando en nuestro país, en nuestro querido México. Era entonces cuando la guerra contra el narco se desataba y en nuestro país se vivía una terrible inestabilidad, además de que las autoridades y los medios de comunicación tradicionales querían hacer creer que aquí no estaba pasando nada, cuando realmente estaba pasando todo.

#mexique #narco

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2013/mar/27/fundamentalist-schools-accelerated-christian-education

In an English test, students face the following multiple-choice question:
(29) Responsible citizens will vote for political candidates who
a. promise to provide good paying jobs for all those who are out of work
b. promise to cut back on both government services and spending and cut taxes
c. promise to raise taxes on “big business” and use the money to help the poor
d. promise to provide child-care services for all mothers who need to work
(The “correct” answer is b.)
A church history assessment contains these questions: (1) The four foes of the faith considered in this Pace are____________.
(Answer: “rationalism, materialism, evolutionism, and communism”.)
(2) The foe of the faith that takes in all the other three foes and is organised against the church is _______.
(Answer: “communism”.)
In economics, Keynesian ideas are wrong while Adam Smith’s are right. In geography, the prosperity of nations is clearly linked to the amount of Christian influence (“God blessed the United States, and it became the strongest and most prosperous nation on Earth”). In US history, it is taught that Jesus commanded us to make a profit; giving “handouts to citizens” was contrary to the intentions of America’s hallowed founding fathers; nontaxpayers should not vote; and it is wrong for governments to provide welfare for citizens. “Liberals” receive particular criticism.

Bon, je refais un article en partant de zéro, pour stocker les informations sur l’attaque par déni de service Spamhaus/Cloudflare de ce mois de mars, celle présentée comme la plus grande qu’ait jamais connu l’Internet.

Ds articles généralistes, par CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/27/spamhaus-attack.html et par le New York Times ►http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html et en français par le Figaro http://www.lefigaro.fr/hightech/2013/03/27/01007-20130327ARTFIG00712-une-cyberattaque-geante-perturbe-le-trafic-intern

Un article sérieux mais reprenant un peu trop ce que dit CloudFlare sans nuancer http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/spamhaus-ddos-grows-to-internet-threatening-size

L’article technique par CloudFlare : ►http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

Contrairement à ce que dit CloudFlare, rien de spectaculaire à l’AMS-IX : https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/statistics ou au DECIX : http://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics

Un bon article critique, expliquant qu’il y a une différence entre l’attaque (bien réelle) et la proclamation comme quoi l’Internet aurait été globalement affecté (ce que personne n’a constaté) : http://gizmodo.com/5992652 Un démenti (partiel) de cet article explique bien la différence entre « l’attaque a eu un impact » et « l’Internet est mort » : ►http://cluepon.net/ras/gizmodo

Un très bon article en français expliquant bien les détails
http://pro.clubic.com/it-business/securite-et-donnees/actualite-550362-spamhaus-ddos-cyberbunker.html En plus court et avec un bon dessin : http://www.lesinrocks.com/2013/03/29/actualite/cyberattaque-nucleaire-non-internet-ne-va-pas-seffondrer-11379197

Précédent article sur Seenthis : ►http://seenthis.net/messages/125474

Le danger des résolveurs DNS ouverts : http://www.bortzmeyer.org/5358.html et http://www.bortzmeyer.org/fermer-les-recursifs-ouverts.html

BCP 38, ou la nécessité d’epêcher l’usurpation d’adresses IP source : http://www.bortzmeyer.org/2827.html http://www.bortzmeyer.org/3704.html

DAVID CRONIN :
http://www.neurope.eu/article/truth-10-years-later-germany-helped-invasion-iraq

One or two days into the war, I found myself at a press conference given by Tony Blair. It was a salutary lesson about how the mainstream media is often supine towards the powerful. I had my hand raised for most of the event, seeking to ask Blair a question. Yet the prime minister would only deal with British reporters who he knew personally; there was a tacit understanding that none of them would give him a hard time. The thought of standing up and protesting at this quasi-censorship crossed my mind. To my regret, I didn’t have the guts to do so.

I am bolder and happier today than I was a decade ago. Around that time, I started to shed the illusions I had about my profession. Far too many journalists, I would later conclude, are little more than stenographers for an elite. Far too many of us kid ourselves into thinking that we are doing important work because we write down or record what “important” people tell us.

I was as guilty as anyone else. In 2003, I had a reasonably well-paid job with the weekly newspaper European Voice. This required me to feign something called objectivity. Eventually, I learned that objectivity is a synonym for intellectual cowardice. Journalists shouldn’t be trying to give equal weight to “both sides” in a story, especially if one of those sides is perpetrating a crime. We should be trying to expose what our political leaders are up to, not indulging them in the hope they might throw a scoop our way.

Lunch with the FT: Noam Chomsky - FT.com
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/afc74988-8c96-11e2-aed2-00144feabdc0.html

Some of Chomsky’s critics have accused him of going easy on the faults of autocrats so long as they are enemies of the US (...) “Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.” He argues that any criticisms about, say, Chávez, will invariably get into the mainstream media, whereas those he makes about the US will go unreported. This unfair treatment is the dissident’s lot, according to Chomsky. Intellectuals like to think of themselves as iconoclasts, he says. “But you take a look through history and it’s the exact opposite. The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.”

(...) Today he still concentrates his ire on the US on the grounds that it has the most power and he is an American citizen. This makes sense, I say, but doesn’t his position in another community, the anti-war left, mean he also has a duty to call out wrongdoing by its figureheads?

“Maybe some, small percentage should be concerned with that community. But nowhere near the [percentage concerned with the] responsibility for [American] state power and mass media.”

...

Professor Noam Chomsky will be delivering the 2013 Edward W Said London Lecture, programmed by AM Qattan Foundation/The Mosaic Rooms, on March 18 at 7pm; www.mosaicrooms.org

Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism | Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/02/06/temujin-doran-obey-film

Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism
by Maria Popova

“A populace that can no longer find the words to articulate what is happening to it is cut off from rational discourse.”

http://vimeo.com/59002146#

British filmmaker and illustrator Temujin Doran has previously delighted and stimulated us with his visual love letters to language and illustration, his opinionated meditations on democracy and the art of protest, and his poetic documentaries about a small Arctic town and a dying occupation. His latest film, made entirely out of footage found on the web, is based on the book The Death of the Liberal Class (public library; UK) by cultural critic and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and explores how the rise of the Corporate State precipitated everything from income inequality to environmental collapse to the mainstream media’s metamorphosis from a tool of public service into a weapon of private interest.

What really happened in Gaza 14-22 November 2012 by Owen Jones

On BBC’s Question Time on 22.11.12, journalist Owen Jones described the reality— largely ignored by the mainstream media — of Israel’s brutal attack on Gaza, 14-22 November 2012, that left close to 160 killed, over 30 of them children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NhUnsG4zpMI

Rogue State: Israeli Violations of U.N. Security Council Resolutions
by Jeremy R. Hammond
January 27, 2010

Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law.

Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, by Zionist terrorists.

Res. 89 (Nov. 17, 1950) – Requests that attention be given to the expulsion of “thousands of Palestine Arabs” and calls upon concerned governments to take no further action “involving the transfer of persons across international frontiers or armistice lines”, and notes that Israel announced that it would withdraw to the armistice lines.

Res. 93 (May 18, 1951) – Finds that Israeli airstrikes on Syria on April 5, 1951 constitutes “a violation of the cease-fire”, and decides that Arab civilians expelled from the demilitarized zone by Israel should be allowed to return.

Res. 100 (Oct. 27, 1953) – Notes that Israel had said it would stop work it started in the demilitarized zone on September 2, 1953.

Res. 101 (Nov. 24, 1953) – Finds Israel’s attack on Qibya, Jordan on October 14-15, 1953 to be a violation of the cease-fire and “Expresses the strongest censure of that action”.

Res. 106 (Mar. 29, 1955) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Egyptian forces in the Gaza Strip on February 28, 1955.

Res. 111 (Jan. 19, 1956) – Condemns Israel’s attack on Syria on December 11, 1955 as “a flagrant violation of the cease-fire” and armistice agreement.

Res. 119 (Oct. 31, 1956) – Considers that “a grave situation has been created” by the attack against Egypt by the forces of Britain, France, and Israel.

Res. 171 (Apr. 9, 1962) – Reaffirms resolution 111 and determines that Israel’s attack on Syria on March 16-17, 1962 “constitutes a flagrant violation of that resolution”.

Res. 228 (Nov. 25, 1966) – “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property resulting from the action” by Israel in the southern Hebron area on November 13, 1966, and “Censures Israel for this large-scale military action in violation of the United Nations Charter” and the armistice agreement between Israel and Jordan.

Res. 237 (Jun. 14, 1967) – Calls on Israel “to ensure the safety, welfare and security of the inhabitants where military operations have taken place” during the war launched by Israel on June 5, 1967 “and to facilitate the return of those inhabitants who have fled the areas since the outbreak of hostilities”.

Res. 242 (Nov. 22, 1967) – Emphasizes “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”, emphasizes that member states have a commitment to abide by the U.N. Charter, and calls for the “Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied” during the June 1967 war.

Res. 248 (Mar. 24, 1968) – Observes that the Israeli attack on Jordan “was of a large-scale and carefully planned nature”, “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property”, “Condemns the military action launched by Israel in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the cease-fire resolutions”, and “Calls upon Israel to desist from” further violations of resolution 237.

Res. 250 (Apr. 27, 1968) – Considers “that the holding of a military parade in Jerusalem will aggravate tensions in the area and have an adverse effect on a peaceful settlement of the problems in the area” and “Calls upon Israel to refrain from holding the military parade in Jerusalem which is contemplated” for May 2, 1968.

Res. 251 (May 2, 1968) – Recalls resolution 250 and “Deeply deplores the holding by Israel of the military parade in Jerusalem” on May 2, 1968 “in disregard of” resolution 250.

Res. 252 (May 21, 1968) – “Deplores the failure of Israel to comply with” General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254, considers Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem “invalid”, and calls upon Israel “to rescind all such measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any further action which tends to change the status of Jerusalem”.

Res. 256 (Aug. 16, 1968) – Recalls Israel’s “flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter” condemned in resolution 248, observes that further Israeli air attacks on Jordan “were of a large scale and carefully planned nature in violation of resolution 248”, “Deplores the loss of life and heavy damage to property”, and condemns Israel’s attacks.

Res. 259 (Sep. 27, 1968) – Expresses concern for “the safety, welfare and security” of the Palestinians “under military occupation by Israel”, deplores “the delay in the implementation of resolution 237 (1967) because of the conditions still being set by Israel for receiving a Special Representative of the Secretary-General”, and requests Israel to receive the Special Representative and facilitate his work.

Res. 262 (Dec. 31, 1968) – Observes “that the military action by the armed forces of Israel against the civil International Airport of Beirut was premeditated and of a large scale and carefully planned nature”, and condemns Israel for the attack.

Res.265 (Apr. 1, 1969) – Expresses “deep concern that the recent attacks on Jordanian villages and other populated areas were of a pre-planned nature, in violation of resolutions” 248 and 256, “Deplores the loss of civilian life and damage to property”, and “Condemns the recent premeditated air attacks launched by Israel on Jordanian villages and populated areas in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the cease-fire resolutions”.

Res. 267 (Jul. 3, 1969) – Recalls resolution 252 and General Assembly resolutions 2253 and 2254, notes that “since the adoption of the above-mentioned resolutions Israel has taken further measures tending to change the status of the City of Jerusalem”, reaffirms “the established principle that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”, “Deplores the failure of Israel to show any regard for the resolutions”, “Censures in the strongest terms all measures taken to change the status of the City of Jerusalem”, “Confirms that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel which purport to alter the status of Jerusalem, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, are invalid and cannot change that status”, and urgently calls on Israel to rescind the measures taken to annex Jerusalem.

Res. 270 (Aug. 26, 1969) – “Condemns the premeditated air attack by Israel on villages in southern Lebanon in violation of its obligations under the Charter and Security Council resolutions”.

Res. 271 (Sep. 15, 1969) – Expresses grief “at the extensive damage caused by arson to the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem” on August 21, 1969 “under the military occupation of Israel”, reaffirms “the established principle that acquisition of territory by military conquest is inadmissible”, “Determines that the execrable act of desecration and profanation of the Holy Al-Aqsa Mosque emphasizes the immediate necessity of Israel’s desisting from acting in violation” previous resolutions and rescinding measures to annex Jerusalem, calls on Israel “to observe the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and international law governing military occupation”, and condemns Israel’s failure to comply with previous resolutions.

Res. 279 (May 12, 1970) – “Demands the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory.”

Res. 280 (May 19, 1970) – Expresses conviction that “that the Israeli military attack against Lebanon was premeditated and of a large scale and carefully planned in nature”, recalls resolution 279 “demanding the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory”, deplores Israel’s violation of resolutions 262 and 270, “Condemns Israel for its premeditated military action in violation of its obligations under the Charter of the United Nations”, and “Deplores the loss of life and damage to property inflicted as a result” of Israeli violations of Security Council resolutions.

Res. 285 (Sep. 5, 1970) – “Demands the complete and immediate withdrawal of all Israeli armed forces from Lebanese territory.”
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Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at JeremyRHammond.com. His new book, “Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis”, is now available at Amazon.com. Read more articles by Jeremy R. Hammond.
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Il fallait entendre la délectation de Bruno Duvic lisant l’intro de l’article de Mona Eltahawy dans la revue de presse de France Inter, vendredi :
http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-la-revue-de-presse-l-exercice-du-pouvoir

FEMMES ARABES • Pourquoi ils nous haïssent | Courrier international
http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2012/10/25/pourquoi-ils-nous-haissent

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Au début de Distant View of a Minaret [éd. Heinemann, 1983, non traduit en français], Alifa Rifaat, auteure égyptienne largement ignorée et aujourd’hui disparue, nous raconte l’histoire d’une femme tellement indifférente au coït que son mari lui impose, concentré sur son seul plaisir, qu’elle remarque la présence d’une toile d’araignée à nettoyer au plafond. Elle médite sur l’attitude de son mari, qui refuse toujours de poursuivre leurs ébats pour la faire jouir elle aussi, “comme s’il tenait à la priver [de quelque chose]”. De même qu’il lui refuse un orgasme, l’appel à la prière interrompt soudain le sien. Le mari sort. Après s’être lavée, la femme s’absorbe dans la prière – un acte tellement plus satisfaisant qu’elle attend avec impatience la prochaine – et regarde la rue depuis son balcon. Elle interrompt sa rêverie pour aller consciencieusement préparer du café pour son mari après sa sieste. Alors qu’elle apporte la boisson dans la chambre pour la verser sous les yeux de son mari – il préfère –, elle remarque qu’il est mort. Elle ordonne à son fils d’aller chercher un médecin. “Elle retourna au salon et se versa une tasse de café. Elle était elle-même surprise par son calme”, écrit Alifa Rifaat.

« Courrier International » republie cet article en français sans évoquer la polémique qu’il a soulevée lors de sa parution dans « Foreign Policy » en avril. Quelques liens :

Mona El Tahawy or native neo-orientalism - Ibn Kafka’s obiter dicta
►http://ibnkafkasobiterdicta.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/mona-el-tahawy-or-native-neo-orientalism

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It’s of course not the need to dramatically improve the condition of women in the Arab world in order to achieve a long overdue parity that is at fault – on the contrary, witness the recent statement by Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz al Sheikh according to which girls are ripe for marriage at 12. It’s rather the tone and lexical and discursive resources which El Tahawy taps into: essentialism, reduction of social and political phenomena to simple psychological factors (fear, hate), and even more so the lumping together of all men into a vague and threatening « they » – the kind of manicheism she resented when it came to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but I suppose one has to distinguish between good manicheism and bad manicheism. That piece could have been written by David Pryce-Jones, Fouad Ajami or the staggeringly inane Lee Smith, a US journalist who wrote a 2010 book called « The strong horse » aiming to show that Arabs only understood and bowed to force and violence – unfortunately for him, 2011 came after 2010.

An American journalist writing exclusively for European, US and Israeli media outlets, Mona El Tahawy is not interested in helping Middle Eastern activists to bring about the legislative and social changes required, or to identify the practical ways this might be achieved. No easy clues here: there’s only hate to confront. How does one confront hate – by drone attacks, invasion or forced conversion? She does not say. More importantly still, Arab men and women are not really her main target – her piece is written in the tone of a native informer bringing the White (Wo)Man her exclusive insights about the twisted minds of her fellow natives. That article is more a career move, à la Irshad Manji or Ayaan Hirsi Ali (but without the latter’s islamophobia), than a sincere contribution to a fight for equality that is both morally necessary and socially unavoidable, as Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd have shown.

Les Arabes haïssent-ils les femmes ? Mona Eltahawy face à la tempête - Global Voices
►http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/2012/04/29/106756

Nous ne sommes pas faibles, Mona, et les révolutions arabes nous ont prouvé que nous étions plus fortes que nous le pensions, les héroïnes des révolutions arabes n’ont pas besoin d’être pointées du doigt.

Je ne pense pas que nous ayons besoin d’être sauvées par des tiers de la haine ou de la vengeance de nos hommes, spécialement depuis que ces révolutions ont prouvé que nous étions plus que capables de nous dresser épaules contre épaules avec les hommes pour obtenir le progrès de nos sociétés.

Votre article, en accord avec les photos l’illustrant, dépeint la société arabe noire, sombre, déprimante, un corps peint en noir. Vous avez réduit le problème de la femme arabe aux sentiments des hommes ; réduisant parallèlement cette dernière aux pathétiques images parfaitement conforme à la vision que l’Orient a d’elle.

(…) La société arabe n’est pas aussi barbare que vous la dépeignez dans votre article, ce dernier renforce dans l’esprit du lecteur une vision stéréotypée de nous, stéréotype effroyablement répandu qui contribue à élargir le clivage culturel entre notre société et les autres et accroît le racisme envers nous.

On « Why do they hate us ? » and its critics - The Arabist
http://www.arabist.net/blog/2012/4/29/on-why-do-they-hate-us-and-its-critics.html

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It is impossible to look at the situation of women across the Middle East and other Muslim countries and not see how increasing militarization strengthens patriarchal and heteronormative ideologies that have mutually reinforcing effects on the increased subordination of women and the propagation of masculinities. One cannot ignore the impact of globalization on economic, social and cultural rights as well as restrictions on civil and political rights. The continued growth in the power and influence of the private sector, bolstered by states pursuing neoliberal economic policies has pushed many women (and men) into the margins of society, and into irregular migration networks where they are exploited. After all, the uprisings in the Arab world have been a cry for socio-economic justice. They have also been a cry against authoritarian regimes, which also reinforce gender and other social hierarchies. Religious fundamentalism, which across all religions, is premised on absolute monolithic approaches, is just one the factors which also strengthens patriarchy.

And let’s not forget that patriarchy, which I, like many feminists define as the privileging of male power in all forms of social relations, is a system in which men and women participate. Some of the responses to Mona El Tahawy have raised the issue that women participate in some of the practices which she criticizes, for example Female Genital Mutilation. Or, as one commentator noted, women, just as much as men, have voted Islamists into power. But women’s participation in these activities does not make them any less patriarchal.

Some of the other criticisms of El Tahawy’s piece illustrate the dilemma of the “double bind” that African-American and other feminists have also faced. For instance, when they write about their experiences, African-American feminists often find themselves caught between confronting the patriarchy within African-American communities, and defending their African-American brothers from the broader racism that exists in American society.

Similarly, women who identify as Islamic feminists often find themselves in this bind, as they try to reconcile their feminism and religious identity, and also defend their religion from Islamophobia.

Feminists like El Tahawy who write about women’s subordination in the Middle East, and the critics responding to her also fall into this double bind if they are not careful in how they phrase their message. On the one hand, El Tahawy is accused of playing into Western imperialist agendas. On the other hand, her critics are in danger of becoming apologists who are pawns of their native country’s patriarchy.

Muslimah Media Watch a proposé une revue de presse des réponses à l’article ici :
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/04/some-issues-with-foreign-policys-sex-issue-part-one

... et organisé une table ronde avec ses contributrices :
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2012/04/some-issues-with-foreign-policys-sex-issue-part-two-mmw-responds

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Sharrae: What I think is interesting is that all the writers of the “sex issue” agree that women’s bodies are the world’s battleground. And to be honest, I don’t disagree with that statement either. However, what I find remarkable is that the writers fail to realize the ways that they, themselves, end up waging war on the Muslim woman body. As they (particularly Sadjadpour) condemn Middle Eastern men for making women the symbol of purity in society, they are making Muslim women the symbols of oppression – and liberation. A woman who wears less equals liberation; a sign of a closed gap between men and women, and thus a higher GDP, as those supposedly cloaked under “suffocating cloth” are the symbols of the deep-seeded patriarchy of both Islam and those evil Muslim men. Authors such as Eltahawy or Sadjadpour seem to be caught between two sides. They want to speak to the various problems in their ancestral homeland, but they manage to feed and reproduce images of imperialist notions of those living in the Middle East. “Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend,” Eltahawy commands, after requesting that readers put aside what the United States does or doesn’t do to women.

Krista: Like many others, I was really turned off by the framing of the piece. I’m not sure that “hatred” is really the issue; patriarchy and sexist violence in all societies are rooted in more than just men who hate women. Moreover, “Why do they hate us?” was a rallying cry post-September 11, used to point to “them” as irrational and hateful, and “us” as the good ones. While the “us” is different in Eltahawy’s piece, the “they” is largely the same: violent, irrational, hateful Muslim and/or Arab men. So it’s not just that the title is inaccurate or melodramatic; it’s also very clearly part of the same rhetoric that has drummed up support for wars in the not-so-distant past.

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Let’s Talk About Sex - Jadaliyya
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/5233/lets-talk-about-sex

Then there is the visual. A naked and beautiful woman’s flawless body unfolds a niqab of black paint. She stares at us afraid and alluring. We are invited to sexualize and rescue her at once. The images reproduce what Gayatri Spivak critiqued as the masculine and imperial urge to save sexualized (and racialized) others. The photo spread is reminiscent of Theo van Gogh’s film Submission, based on Ayyan Hirsli Ali’s writings, in which a woman with verses of the Quran painted on her naked body and wearing a transparent chador writhes around a dimly lit room. Foreign Policy’s “Sex Issue” montage is inspired by the same logic that fuels Submission: we selectively highlight the plight of women in Islam using the naked female body as currency. The female body is to be consumed, not covered!

#femmes #islam #racisme

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/covering-embassy-protests

There is a certain expectation that our paper will always be providing a platform of apology for our street and that every narrative has to subscribe to this consideration. And this is why I made the decision to run Ali’s piece. I recognize the value of being empirical in our approach. It’s good to be sometimes liberated from the classic anxieties of orientalism. The question here is how to convey what you see on the ground without the need to feel either apologetic or orientalist.

#egypt #USembassy #protests

#Go_Daddy planté, une des plus grosses pannes dans le DNS : Go Daddy est de loin le plus gros bureau d’enregistrement de .com et de nombreux autres TLD. Il sert aussi d’hébergeur #DNS. Ce soir, tous leurs serveurs de noms sont injoignables, entraînant l’impossibilité de joindre des millions de noms de domaine, et donc les serveurs situés derrière. C’est l’une des plus grandes pannes qu’ait jamais connu le DNS. Elle illustre une nouvelle fois l’importance de s’assurer de la résilience de son service DNS, notamment par le biais de la redondance.

http://www.bortzmeyer.org/go-daddy-down.html

Mission accomplished for big oil ? - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition (Le Monde diplomatique)
http://mondediplo.com/openpage/mission-accomplished-for-big-oil

Now, without its troops and bases, much of Washington’s political heft has vanished. Whether Iraq heads in the direction of dictatorship, sectarianism, or democracy remains to be seen, but if Iraqis again start to build a more democratic future, the U.S. will no longer be there to obstruct it. Meanwhile, if a new politics does emerge, Big Oil may discover that, in the end, it was mission unaccomplished. Source: Le Monde diplomatique

The War in Mali

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security-council/index-of-countries-on-the-security-council-agenda/general-issues/51864-the-war-in-mali.html#1554

By Conn Hallinan
Counterpunch
August 28, 2012

Mali has been in crisis since its coup on March 22 this year. While mainstream media has framed the crisis as a result of radical Islam, it should also be seen a consequence of the West’s scramble for resources in Africa and the outcomes of the intervention in Libya. The crisis was set in motion when the Bush Administration declared the Sahara desert a breeding ground for “terrorism” and inaugurated the Trans-Sahal Counter Terrorism Initiative. The crisis in Mali, however, has its origins in the country’s deep poverty and the push by the Tuaregs for greater autonomy. What the US calls “terrorism” in Mali is encouraged by local inequalities, not by an international jihadist agenda.

The reports filtering out of Northern Mali are appalling: a young couple stoned to death, iconic ancient shrines dismantled, and some 365,000 refugees fleeing beatings and whippings for the slightest violations of Sharia law. But the bad dream unfolding in this West African country is less the product of a radical version of Islam than a consequence of the West’s scramble for resources on this vast continent, and the wages of sin from the recent Libyan war.

.The current crisis gripping northern Mali—an area about the size of France— has its origins in the early years of the Bush Administration, when the U.S. declared the Sahara desert a hotbed of “terrorism” and poured arms and Special Forces into the area as part of the Trans-Sahal Counter Terrorism Initiative. But, according to anthropologist Jeremy Keenan, who has done extensive fieldwork in Mali and the surrounding area, the “terrorism” label had no basis in fact, but was simply designed to “justify the militarization of Africa.”

#mali #sahel #islamisme #afrique-ouest #réfigiés #conflit

On the Politics of Protest in Cape Town | Groundup
http://groundup.org.za/content/politics-protest-cape-town

suites du massacre de Marikana — les oppositions entre « durs » et « mous » se tendent

For those who have begun to take civil disobedience into middle class spaces, the logic goes that it is better to be vilified and taken notice of than to be given ’lip service delivery’ from the government. In other words, the escalation of protests by poor black communities is an indication of the complete lack of democracy for anyone who can’t afford to purchase their right to a voice in the elite public sphere.

(...) It is quite concerning, therefore, that a collection of Cape Town-based activist oriented NGOs have been making a significant effort to vilify certain forms of protest that do not fit within its directors’ and funders’ view of what constitute ’acceptable’ forms of protest.

To be sure, many of these NGOs can claim important victories. The Treatment Action Campaign, for instance, has had a significant impact in helping turn the tide from AIDS denialism to a more proactive HIV/AIDS health policy at the national level. However, just as often, well-funded and publicised protests led by NGOs have gone nowhere, fast. Despite bringing more than 10,000 people into the streets of Cape Town last year to demand that the state build one library per school, Equal Education has not been able to compel the government to build any more libraries. Instead, the Western Cape is now closing down 27 schools in the province. Legal protests have done nothing to prevent this from happening.
(...)

One of the best examples of real immediate success from illegal protest tactics was the 2007 blockade of the N2 by thousands of residents of the Joe Slovo shack settlement in Langa. The community was resisting the then Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s flagship N2 Gateway housing project which was attempting to evict 20,000 Joe Slovo residents to ’temporary relocation areas’ in Delft, a bleak and underdeveloped township on the far outskirts of the city.
(...)

Unfortunately, many of the leaders of NGO based civil society moralistically lambaste disruptive tactics in protests here in Cape Town while hypocritically forgetting that they simultaneously support those same tactics in other struggles throughout the world. For instance, respected activist Zackie Achmat attacked Abahlali baseMjondolo’s non-violent but disruptive Informal Settlement Strike in 2010 while a year later hosting Israeli Yonatan Pollak from Anarchists Against the Wall, a respected activist who consistently engages in disruptive and sometimes violent civil disobedience protests against the Israeli occupation.

During the recent protests, Vuyiseka Dubula, General Secretary of the TAC, penned an article in which she called for protests “built on alliances, strategy, clear realistic demands and the genuine intent to improve the lives of people”. (...)

Thus, what Vuyiseka, TAC and its affiliated NGOs are really saying is that communities should protest their way, should build alliances under their umbrella, and should make only ’realistic’ (reformist) demands that are acceptable to their vein of sectarian liberal politics. Yet their approach at donor-funded activism often does not work or is unaffordable to shackdwellers – thereby dictating who can afford to protest and actively preventing the formation of alternatives.

#afrique_du_sud

http://www.legrandsoir.info/l-avenir-de-la-syrie-liberee-nettoyage-ethnique-religieux-et-genocide-

L’avenir de la Syrie “libérée” : Nettoyage ethnique religieux et génocide (Countercurrents)

Shamus COOKE

Un revirement fascinant s’est opéré dans les médias-systèmes étasuniens : Au bout d’un an de propagande anti-syrienne et de mensonges, des bribes de la vérité commencent à être révélées au public. Il se peut que ce soit trop peu et trop tard : le pays se débat dans un cauchemar de nettoyage ethnique religieux et de massacres.

Après avoir incité à la guerre sans discontinuer, le New York Times s’est donné une seconde pour essuyer le sang de ses mains avant de se mettre à décrire le véritable état des choses en Syrie. Apparemment, les reportages précédents affirmant que l’armée syrienne massacrait sans discrimination les citoyens de Homs n’étaient qu’un mensonge qui tournait en boucle dans les médias.

Il apparaît maintenant que c’était exactement le contraire.

En réalité, beaucoup des réfugiés qui se sont enfuis de Homs étaient des chrétiens persécutés, attaqués par des membres de l’Armée Syrienne Libre qui ont aussi assassiné des membres de minorités religieuses dans le but de recruter des Sunnites radicaux en Syrie pour mener une guerre religieuse contre l’état laïque syrien.

Le contexte

Comme l’Armée Syrienne Libre n’est pas le fruit d’une révolution populaire - mais de l’argent et des armes de l’Arabie Saoudite - il fallait que la guerre pour abattre le gouvernement syrien soit une guerre ethnique et religieuse. L’Arabie Saoudite se sert depuis longtemps du Wahhabisme, une forme rare d’extrémisme de l’Islam sunnite, comme d’une outil politique, en l’exportant dans les pays dont elle veut renverser les gouvernements.

Les Etats-Unis soutiennent depuis longtemps les efforts de l’Arabie Saoudite dans ce sens dans une dynamique qui a progressivement donné naissance aux Talibans et à Al Qaeda. Les Etats-Unis refusent de renoncer à cette stratégie parce qu’elle est incroyablement efficace pour renverser des gouvernements “hostiles”, ce qui n’empêche pas de maintenir de grandes parties du Moyen-Orient dans l’Islam traditionnel qui exerce un bon contrôle des activités politiques de la classe laborieuse, d’autant plus qu’en Arabie Saoudite les manifestations, les syndicats et les droits civils sont illégaux.

Les minorités religieuses persécutées de Homs considéraient le gouvernement syrien comme leur allié contre les “libérateurs” de l’ASL, les chéris des médias étasuniens et les marionnettes au service de la politique étrangère de l’Arabie Saoudite.

La persécution des minorités

Un article d’opinion du New York Times () a décrit les faits mieux qu’aucun reportage précédent :

« L’opposition [l’armée Syrienne Libre] armée et financée par l’Arabie Saoudite a “nettoyé” la province de Homs de 80 000 chrétiens en les chassant de chez eux... en mars et ces chrétiens ont petit à petit abandonné l’espoir de rentrer chez eux un jour ».

“Le nettoyage ethnique perpétré par les rebelles [l’Armée Syrienne Libre] a conduit une partie des Sunnites qui au départ soutenaient les rebelles et des Syriens qui hésitaient entre les deux camps à se rallier à Assad. Beaucoup de gens qui auparavant considéraient le régime comme une kleptocratie, le voient maintenant comme le meilleur défenseur du pluralisme [ethnique et religieux] en danger.”

La complicité des Etats-Unis

Cette soudaine volte-face révèle des faits qui sont connus depuis longtemps par le gouvernement et les médias étasuniens. Le New York Times ajoute :

“Washington est conscient de l’ampleur du problème [fanatisme religieux et persécution des minorités]. Déjà en juin 2011, Robert Stephen Ford, l’ambassadeur étasunien en Syrie, avait prévenu ses homologues à Damas de ce qu’Al Qaeda avait infiltré les forces de l’opposition. En s’entêtant à soutenir la tentative de l’Arabie Saoudite pour déstabiliser la Syrie, Washington, loin d’aider Israël ou d’affaiblir l’Iran, contribue a créer une crise humanitaire qui reviendra hanter les Etats-Unis.”

En résumé : les politiciens étasuniens des deux partis politiques ont menti au public sur la vraie nature du conflit en Syrie parce que le spectacle d’un pays non allié des Etats-Unis détruit par de barbares luttes ethniques et religieuses leur donnait un avantage politique.

Un dernier extrait de l’article du New York Times :

“L’indifférence apparente de la communauté internationale à la dégradation de la situation des minorités religieuses syriennes -et le fait que les gouvernements occidentaux unis contre Assad n’aient quasiment jamais critiqué les forces d’opposition- nourrit un profond sentiment anti-étasunien parmi les Syrien laïcs qui voient les Etats-Unis s’aligner sur l’Arabie Saoudite, le berceau du Wahhabisme [sunnisme extrémiste], contre l’état le plus résolument laïc du monde arabe.”

Voilà. il a fallu plus d’un an, mais tout à coup, tout n’est plus blanc ou noir dans la guerre syrienne, ce n’est plus les bons contre les méchants. Il n’est pas question de porter le gouvernement syrien aux nues, mais la dévastation infligée au pays l’a été sur de fausses prémices à l’instigation de puissances étrangères -l’Arabie Saoudite et les Etats-Unis- qui voulaient à tous prix annihiler le pays pour isoler l’Iran et faciliter le renversement de ce dernier. Prétendre que cette entreprise meurtrière est une avancée de la démocratie -comme l’ont fait les politiciens et les médias étasuniens- n’est pas seulement un sommet d’hypocrisie ; cela rentre dans la catégorie réservée à ceux qu’on appelle des criminels de guerre.

Shamus Cooke

Shamus Cooke est assistant social et syndicaliste, et il écrit pour Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org).

Note : Lien de l’article en question : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/04/opinion/syrias-crumbling-p...

Pour consulter l’original : http://www.countercurrents.org/cooke050812.htm

Traduction : Dominique Muselet
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William Blum :: Anti-Empire Report, Number 106
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer106.html#link-5

I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any way of knowing how it would turn out. He might be forced to be there for years. “That’ll teach him to mess with the most powerful country in the world! All you other terrorists and anti-Americans out there — Take Note! When you fuck around with God’s country you pay a price!”

GroundUp: Taking stories from the streets to the sheets
http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-07-03-groundup-taking-stories-from-the-streets-to-the-sheets

The programme began in February, when 24 candidates took part in an intensive two-week training course. Of that group, the five most promising individuals were selected to make up the GroundUp team. They receive ongoing on-the-job training and support from UCT students from the Centre for Social Science Research, who also help out as subeditors. In April, GroundUp began to publish stories on their website.

“Our primary focus is news relating to social justice in the townships,” says Geffen. He points out that, though South Africa’s tabloids and community newspapers carry a great deal of township-based stories, they often lack focus on issues like health, gender and government performance.

#afrique_du_sud #médias #journalisme #bidonvilles #justice_sociale #formation #creative_commons #sida #police #transports #femmes #cdp
http://www.groundup.org.za

The Realpolitik of armchair anti-imperialists
ince the revolt in Syria started, many have been convinced that it has been an American-Zionist conspiracy that has been behind the scenes, directing the uprising. They say that the majority of Syrians still support Bashar al-Assad. They say that the living is still good in Syria and that the life conditions were better than in the other Arab states where the revolts broke out. They say that the activists of the opposition and the mainstream media that support them exaggerate the number of victims. They say that right from the start it was an insurrection armed by the United States and Gulf countries. They say that Syria is the last secular State and especially that it is the last bastion, together with Iran, against the policies of the United States and their allies in the region. Expressing this vision of what is happening in Syria since last March are persons who see themselves as belonging to the so-called Anti-imperialist camp. It is difficult to identify with precision those who belong to it: more than anything else, it is with a way of thinking, which emerges when one finds himself in discussion with human rights activists, those who sympathise with the Palestinian cause, anarchists, exponents of social centres (translator’s note, leftist student groups) and many others. In general, those who are against the world order that has the stamp of the United States. But it is a reading that at times also finds its expression in more official ways. In Italy, an example is il manifesto, which since the start had an attitude regarding Syria that can be called ambiguous at best. Any argument seems valid as long as it deviates the attention from the repression of the regime regarding the protests: the geo-political interests at play, the lack of precision in the count of the victims, the armed character of the revolt, the infiltration by al Qaeda and Iraqi Jihadists.

to read more
http://wewritewhatwelike.com/2012/02/29/the-realpolitik-of-armchair-anti-imperialists
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