Trois Français sur quatre soutiendraient l’opération militaire au Mali. #comme_en_14 !
http://lignesdedefense.blogs.ouest-france.fr/archive/2013/02/07/trois-francais-sur-quatre-soutiendraient-l-operat
Selon un sondage de l’Ifop à paraître demain dans le Midi Libre, 27% des personnes interrogées sont « tout à fait favorables » et 46% « plutôt favorables » à l’engagement de l’armée française au Mali, soit un total de 73% de Français approuvant l’opération.
On a un gouvernement sécuritaire, des medias aux ordres, un matraquage mondial pour maîtriser le « terrorisme ». Il faut être informé et se souvenir pour résister à ce rouleau compresseur néo-colonialiste.
« L’opinion, ça se travaille… » Les médias et les « guerres justes » : Kosovo, Afghanistan, Irak de #Serge_Halimi, #Dominique_Vidal et #Henri_Maler
http://atheles.org/agone/elements/lopinioncasetravaillepoche/index.html
Le Figaro - Flash Actu : Israël : Hollande veut éviter les sanctions
http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2012/12/03/97001-20121203FILWWW00506-israel-hollande-veut-eviter-les-sanctions.php
« Nous ne voulons pas entrer avec Israël dans une logique de sanctions », a déclaré François Hollande aujourd’hui, alors que le quai d’Orsay et le Foreign Office ont convoqué les ambassadeurs israéliens ce lundi.
alors quoi ?
Torture UK: why Britain has blood on its hands (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/19/torture-uk-britain-blood-government?CMP=twt_gu
When the US and its allies went to war in Afghanistan in 2001, it was inevitable that a small number of those captured on the battlefield would be British. For more than a decade, MI5 had been aware that British Muslims had been travelling to Pakistan and Afghanistan in what it saw as a form of jihadi tourism that posed no threat to the UK. All that changed after 9/11. (...) Source: The Guardian
Longue enquête de Ian Cobain : comment la Grande Bretagne a participé aux actes de torture contre ses propres citoyens
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/oct/19/torture-uk-britain-blood-government?CMP=twt_gu
The UK would do more than offer mere logistics support to the rendition programme, however. It would become an enthusiastic participant. And, as I discovered, this would not be the first time it was involved with the torture of its own citizens.
BBC News - Saudi Arabia ’insulted’ by UK inquiry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19943865
Saudi Arabia says it is “insulted” by a parliamentary inquiry into how the UK deals with the country and Bahrain.
Comment l’entreprise britannique G4S aide Israël à violer les conventions de Genève :
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/how-g4s-helps-israel-break-geneva-convention
Since 1967, more than 730,000 Palestinian men, women and children are estimated to have been imprisoned by Israeli military courts. The majority of such prisoners are held in detention facilities inside Israel, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits the transfer of these prisoners into Israel.
[…]
The UK government has confirmed that Israel’s policy of detaining Palestinians is contrary to Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, that they have raised this with the Israeli government and will continue to do so. In a recent letter to me, Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt MP stated that the FCO is lobbying Israeli authorities for a number of improvements, including a reduction in the number of arrests that occur at night, an end to shackling and the introduction of audio-visual recording of interrogations.
Such diplomatic pressure is important - but what of the British companies that keep Israel’s prisons running?
Un article dans « The Independent » évoque le projet de fragmentation de l’Afghanistan qui a été soumis au Foreign Office anglais par un député conservateur du nom d’Ellwood. Ce plan, baptisé plan C, consiste à diviser l’Afghanistan en 8 « royaumes », dont certains sous contrôle taliban, afin de permettre le départ des troupes occidentales :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/controversial-plan-to-split-up-afghanistan-8120167.html
Le blogger Djazaïri a traduit l’article ici :
http://mounadil.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/vers-une-fragmentation-de-lafghanistan
L’Equateur accorde l’asile politique à Julian Assange
http://www.leparisien.fr/wikileaks-tempete-sur-la-diplomatie-americaine/en-direct-londres-n-autorisera-pas-assange-a-quitter-l-ambassade-16-08-20
En choisissant ce jeudi à la mi-journée d’accorder l’asile politique à Julian Assange, réfugié dans son ambassade à Londres depuis deux mois, l’Equateur a fait bondir les autorités britanniques et suédoises.
Deny the British empire’s crimes? No, we ignore them | George Monbiot
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/23/british-empire-crimes-ignore-atrocities
Last week’s revelations, that the British government systematically destroyed the documents detailing mistreatment of its colonial subjects, and that the Foreign Office then lied about a secret cache of files containing lesser revelations, is by any standards a big story. But it was either ignored or consigned to a footnote by most of the British press.
[…]
Elkins reveals that the British detained not 80,000 Kikuyu, as the official histories maintain, but almost the entire population of one and a half million people, in camps and fortified villages. There, thousands were beaten to death or died from malnutrition, typhoid, tuberculosis and dysentery. In some camps almost all the children died.
The inmates were used as slave labour. Above the gates were edifying slogans, such as “Labour and freedom” and “He who helps himself will also be helped”. Loudspeakers broadcast the national anthem and patriotic exhortations. People deemed to have disobeyed the rules were killed in front of the others. The survivors were forced to dig mass graves, which were quickly filled. Unless you have a strong stomach I advise you to skip the next paragraph.
Interrogation under torture was widespread. Many of the men were anally raped, using knives, broken bottles, rifle barrels, snakes and scorpions. A favourite technique was to hold a man upside down, his head in a bucket of water, while sand was rammed into his rectum with a stick. Women were gang-raped by the guards. People were mauled by dogs and electrocuted. The British devised a special tool which they used for first crushing and then ripping off testicles. They used pliers to mutilate women’s breasts. They cut off inmates’ ears and fingers and gouged out their eyes. They dragged people behind Land Rovers until their bodies disintegrated. Men were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked around the compound.
Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes | UK news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes
Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.
Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.
Colonial Office files detail ’eliminations’ to choke Malayan insurgency
Documents transferred to National Archives lay bare how communist groups were targeted in long jungle war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/18/colonial-office-eliminations-malayan-insurgency
Les réfugiés de la crise seront rapatriés | Presseurop (français)
http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/news-brief-cover/1306261-les-refugies-de-la-crise-seront-rapatries
Au moment où les agences de notation mettent en doute la capacité de l’accord passé par les responsables européens au début du mois à sauver la monnaie unique, le Sunday Times révèle de son côté que le Bureau des Affaires étrangères et du Commonwealth envisage l’évacuation de milliers de Britanniques expatriés en Espagne et au Portugal si le système bancaire de ces pays venaient à s’effondrer.
Prepare for riots in euro collapse, Foreign Office warns
British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain.
(...)“It’s in our interests that they keep playing for time because that gives us more time to prepare,” the minister told the Daily Telegraph.
(...)Diplomats have also been told to prepare to help tens of thousands of British citizens in eurozone countries with the consequences of a financial collapse that would leave them unable to access bank accounts or even withdraw cash.(...)
M6 déjoue une attaque contre la CNT !!!!
http://www.journalmetro.com/monde/article/1026090--le-mi6-dejoue-une-attaque-contre-le-cnt-en-libye
Il n’y a pas que Sarkozy et Obama qui ont une mauvaise idée de Netanyahu. Déjà en janvier dernier, on apprenait que le menteur est, en anglais, un bullshitter.
Britain believes Israeli PM Netanyahu is an ’armour-plated bullshitter’ – Alastair Campbell | Politics | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/wintour-and-watt/2011/jan/20/alastaircampbell-binyamin-netanyahu
1) Britain believes that Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is an “armour-plated bullshitter”. [...]
2) Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister who recently left the Labour party to strengthen his coalition with Netanyahu, also believes the Israeli prime minister is a bullshitter. [...]
3) Tony Blair thought the Israelis bugged him during his first visit to the country.
Où l’on (ne) reparle (pas) du Mossad
Depuis trois jours, l’enquête des journaux anglais sur la démission du ministre britannique de la défense Liam Fox prend une tournure explosive, tournure que les médias français évitent de rapporter avec un professionnalisme qui force le respect.
Le 14 octobre, Patrick Wintour, Rupert Neate et Richard Norton-Taylor évoquent dans le Guardian les craintes d’« officiels » britanniques, qui seraient préoccupés par le fait que Fox et Werrity puissent avoir eu des liens avec les services de renseignement israéliens ;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/13/rightwing-tories-rally-liam-fox
Officials expressed concern that Fox and Werritty might even have been in freelance discussions with Israeli intelligence agencies.
Le 16 octobre, toujours dans le Guardian, Jamie Doward détaille les liens de l’organisation « Atlantic Bridge » avec le big business américain, les néoconservateurs et le « tea party » :
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/15/liam-fox-atlantic-bridge
The huge rise in income, which dwarfed that of its UK sister organisation, coincided with a significant expansion in the charity’s advisers and directors. By 2009 Werritty, whom the US accounts list as the (unpaid) UK executive director of the Atlantic Bridge, found himself reporting to a new chief executive officer, Amanda Bowman, the former New York director for the Centre for Security Policy, the neocon think-tank that opposed the planned Park 51 Muslim community centre close to the site of Ground Zero.
L’article rappelle les liens entre Werritty et Israël :
By 2009 a powerful lobby group, Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (Bicom), was covering the cost of Werritty’s trip to an important security seminar in Israel. The trip was arranged by Bicom’s former deputy chairman, Michael Lewis, who donated to Atlantic Bridge and to Fox’s Tory leadership campaign in 2005. Bicom’s former communications director, Lee Petar, who runs a lobbying firm, Tetra Strategy, put Werritty in touch with the Dubai businessman, Harvey Boulter, whose meeting with Fox triggered the initial furore that triggered his demise.
Jane Merrick and James Hanning, dans The Independant ce dimanche, vont plus loin, et affirment qu’Adam Werrity a été « débriefé » par le contre-espionnage anglais spécifiquement au sujet de ses liens supposés avec le Mossad :
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-foxs-best-man-and-his-ties-to-irans-opposition-2371352.html
Adam Werritty, the man at the centre of the Liam Fox cash-for-access scandal, has been involved in an audacious plot to topple Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, it was claimed last night.
[...]
Mr Werritty, 33, has been debriefed by MI6 about his travels and is so highly regarded by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad – who thought he was Mr Fox’s chief of staff – that he was able to arrange meetings at the highest levels of the Israeli government, multiple sources have told The IoS.
Le quotidien fait carrément sa Une avec ce titre :
http://craigmurray.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/indy_werritymossad.jpg
Le même jour, l’ancien diplomate Craig Murray va plus loin dans le Daily Mail :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049642/Was-Mossad-using-Fox-Werritty-useful-idiots-Ex-Ambassador-reveals-links
But my source told me that what really was worrying senior officials in the MOD, FCO and Cabinet Office was the possibility that Fox could be being used as a ‘useful idiot’ by Mossad, Israel’s far-reaching and extremely effective intelligence service.
Key funding sources for Werritty were from the Israeli lobby and a rather obscure commercial intelligence agency.
Might Mossad be pulling Werritty’s strings, with or without his knowledge?
On Friday, two senior Fleet Street journalists also reported hearing similar concerns from other Whitehall officials about possible Israeli intelligence service involvement with Fox and Werritty.
By working closely with an unofficial aide with extraordinary access but no security vetting and murky funding sources, Fox had potentially compromised national security. That is the real story here.
L’information du Independent est reprise par Haaretz :
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/report-ex-u-k-defense-secretary-adviser-involved-in-plot-to-topple-iran-pre
Adam Werritty, the adviser and close friend of Britain’s recently resigned Defense Secretary Liam Fox, was accused Sunday of involvement in a plot to bring down Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and of having links to the Mossad.
À connaissance, aucun média français n’a repris aujourd’hui ces informations, alors qu’il existe déjà une dépêche AFP datée de hier après-midi :
http://www.romandie.com/news/n/_GBex_ministre_de_la_Defense_l_opposition_reclame_une_enquete_plus_large16
Les médias, loin de s’arrêter avec la démission vendredi du ministre, ont continué dimanche de publier des révélations, remontant le fil des dons et spéculant sur l’influence des deux hommes sur la politique étrangère britannique.
[...]
The Independent croit savoir que M. Werritty complotait pour renverser le régime iranien et était si bien considéré par le Mossad qu’il avait pu arranger des rencontres avec de hauts responsables israéliens.
The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news
British arms exporters cash in on Arab Spring
British arms exports to the Middle East and North Africa have jumped by almost 30 per cent since the height of the Arab Spring, an investigation by The Times has found. Arms worth £30.5 million were exported to countries including Libya, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia between February and June, compared with £22.2 million in the same period in 2010. Weapons exported include those capable of being used for internal repression, such as small-arms ammunition, sniper rifles, shotguns and submachineguns.
article payant
#printemps-arabe
Government backs away from plan to close social media sites during riots - The Independent - #ukriots
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-backs-away-from-plan-to-close-social-media-sites-during-ri
Threats to close down Twitter and other social media during civil disturbances, raised in the heat of this month’s riots, have been abandoned. The subject was not even discussed during an hour-long meeting between senior ministers, the police, and representatives of Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry yesterday.
The Government has executed a rapid climbdown after being alerted to the pitfalls of a policy put forward “in the heat of the moment”. Whitehall sources privately admitted they were not now seeking any new powers to censor the internet.
UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring | World news | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/28/uk-training-saudi-troops
Britain is training Saudi Arabia’s national guard – the elite security force deployed during the recent protests in Bahrain – in public order enforcement measures and the use of sniper rifles. The revelation has outraged human rights groups, which point out that the Foreign Office recognises that the kingdom’s human rights record is “a major concern”.
In response to questions made under the Freedom of Information Act, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed that British personnel regularly run courses for the national guard in “weapons, fieldcraft and general military skills training, as well as incident handling, bomb disposal, search, public order and sniper training”. The courses are organised through the British Military Mission to the Saudi Arabian National Guard, an obscure unit that consists of 11 British army personnel under the command of a brigadier.
Bahrain visit : Cameron embraces tyranny - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bahrain-visit-cameron-embraces-tyranny-2286704.html
But in Downing Street, David Cameron exchanged a warm handshake with Bahrain’s Crown Prince, Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa. While other Arab tyrants feel the full force of British disapproval, Sheikh Salman is here on a mission to repair the damaged reputation of his dynasty.
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/dynamic/00608/Pg-01-splashpic-epa_608273t.jpg
Évidemment, la photo du serrage de pinces était hier dans le canard de propagande de #Bahreïn Gulf Daily News. Oui, hein, bon, la démocratie, les droits de l’Homme et tout ça.
British government approved sale of crowd control equipment to #Libya | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/british-crowd-control-equipment-libya
The British government has approved the sale to Libya of a wide range of equipment for use against civilians, including teargas and “crowd control ammunition”, official reports show.
BAE Systems hires Britain’s former envoy to Saudi Arabia | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/18/envoy-saudi-bae-systems
The senior British diplomat who played a central role in pressuring the Serious Fraud Office to drop its investigation into BAE Systems over the al-Yamamah Saudi arms deal has been hired by the defence group, the Guardian has learned.
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, who left the Foreign Office last October, will become BAE’s international business development director, focusing on the Middle East and south-east Asia. He starts his new, full-time role next week.
The move is likely to cause uproar among anti-corruption campaigners.
WikiLeaks cables: how America spied on the Foreign Office - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8304628/WikiLeaks-cables-how-America-spied-on-the-Foreign-Office.html
The United States ordered its diplomats to spy on Foreign Office ministers, asking them to gather gossip on their foibles and the strains in their professional relationships, leaked US cables show.
[...]
Leaked diplomatic cables show that within weeks of the appointment of Ivan Lewis as a junior foreign minister in 2009, US officials were briefing the office of Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, about rumours that he was depressed and had a reputation as a bully.
They also were desperate for more information on Mr Lewis’s relationship with David Miliband, the then foreign secretary, and other senior Foreign Office staff.
WikiLeaks cables: Britain pledged millions to lawless Somali region linked to pirate gangs - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8302131/WikiLeaks-cables-Britain-pledged-millions-to-lawless-Somali-region-link
Britain pledged millions of pounds to support the leaders of a lawless region of Somalia despite knowing that they had links to pirate gangs, cables show.
WikiLeaks cables: FCO ’refused to speak with doomed British hostage’ - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8303489/WikiLeaks-cables-FCO-refused-to-speak-with-doomed-British-hostage.html
Foreign Office officials turned down the opportunity to speak to a British man held hostage in Mali before his execution because they did not want to be seen to negotiate with terrorists, cables obtained by WikiLeaks indicate.
Bangladesh interrogation centre where Britons were taken to be tortured | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/17/bangladesh-secret-interrogation-centre?INTCMP=SRCH
The methods they employ suggest a great deal of thought has been given to suffering. Men are reported to be beaten, subjected to electric shocks and strapped to a chair that spins at high speed. In one room, fingernails are said to litter the floor. The taking of life during interrogation is not unknown here.
Hundreds of people have been consigned to the TFI in recent years. Among them, the Guardian has established, were a number of British citizens who were detained after Jacqui Smith, then home secretary, flew to Dhaka to press the government for greater co-operation in counter-terrorism operations.