Dans le cerveau de Google | Slate
http://www.slate.fr/story/72221/schmidt-cohen-google-cerveau-futur
Eric Schmidt, le patron de Google, et Jared Cohen, le directeur de Google Ideas, nous promettent dans leur livre commun, The New Digital Age, un meilleur des mondes numérique. Le problème, c’est Google qui parle... avec une grande naïveté, une ambition commerciale insatiable et une tendance à prendre les désirs pour la réalité.
« Leaning in » in Iraq : Women’s rights and war ? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/03/2013323141149557391.html
Sur le « féminisme » qui consiste à réclamer une place au sommet d’un système d’oppression et d’exploitation.
It is problematic and troubling that Sandberg readily claims to be a feminist, without qualifying that her kind of feminism is corporatist and way too exclusionary. Her notion of “true equality” requires more women to be at the top - in leadership positions in government and the corporate structure. She supposedly believes that these women can change the world for the rest of women, and men. But, so far, they have not done so in meaningful ways. Shall I remind us of Madeleine Albright’s famous statement when asked about US sanctions against Iraq that endangered the lives of 100 of thousands children? She said: "We think the price is worth it."
So what is a girl or woman to think? Hillary finishes up her stint as Secretary of State and is lauded as one of the best, ever. She is acclaimed for her “women’s rights” foreign policy agenda and the gratitude of women worldwide. Little is said about the imperial stance of her framing, or the gender violence that US policy has triggered and continues for women across the globe under her watch. Women in Iraq, and Afghanistan and Egypt are standing up, what Sandberg might term leaning in, but against patriarchal practices that US policy is implicated in.
Women in leadership posts just mean that women will be in place to lead this structural exploitative imperial nightmare. We do not need more women in the power slots that already exist. We need a different non-hierarchical formulation of power - one that is not rooted in gender violence across the globe, and then feminists of whatever sex and race can occupy places of leadership.
Imperial feminism does not work for most women in the US or abroad, so it makes little sense to endorse it. Feminism promised to the many by the few does not work. Trickle-down feminism does not work.
The Iraq War ten years on: A turning point for US imperialism - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/19/pers-m19.html
The Iraq War ten years on: A turning point for US imperialism
19 March 2013
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Ten years ago, the world watched the “shock and awe” bombing campaign light up the nighttime sky of Baghdad with billowing clouds of flame and smoke.
This campaign and the bloody ten years of occupation that followed had a devastating impact on what was once among the most advanced societies in the Middle East. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed and millions were made homeless.
Bush-Aznar Transcript : The War Crime of the Century
Comment Bush a refusé une proposition d’exil de Saddam Hussein et a préféré la guerre
http://www.juancole.com/2007/09/bush-aznar-transcript-war-crime-of.html
The second claim that I made was that Bush was aware of, and rejected, an offer by Saddam Hussein to flee Iraq, probably for Saudi Arabia, presuming he could take out with him a billion dollars and some documents on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs. Both provisions were intended by Saddam to protect him from later retaliation. The money would buy him protection from extradition, and the documents presumably showed that the Reagan and Bush senior administrations had secretly authorized his chemical and biological weapons programs. With these documents in his possession, it was unlikely that Bush would come after him, since he could ruin the reputation of the Bush family if he did. The destruction of these documents was presumably Bush’s goal when he had Rumsfeld order US military personnel not to interfere with the looting and burning of government offices after the fall of Saddam. The looting, which set off the guerrilla war, also functioned as a vast shredding party, destroying incriminating evidence about the complicity of the Bushes and Rumsfeld in Iraq’s war crimes.
2012 11 06
Bonjour à tous,
Il y environ 3 jours, 3 tanks de l’armée syrienne se sont introduits dans le Golan syrien occupé par Israël. Ce mouvement est survenu au moment même où venait de commencer l’exercice militaire le plus important jamais mené conjointement par les israéliens et les américains intitulé "Austere Challenge 12 ".
Cet exercice qui a débuté le 31 octobre devrait durer 3 semaines environ et devrait se concentrer sur la défense anti-missile.
Quelques jours plus tôt, la secrétaire d’Etat aux affaires étrangères américaine, Hillary Cliton, avait appelé à l’élargissement de l’opposition syrienne en affirmant "la nécessité de redéfinir l’opposition syrienne au détriment du Conseil national syrien " et que son pays voulait « aider l’opposition à s’unir fermement pour résister au régime d’Assad », et à s’élargir au-delà du CNS. « Le CNS ne peut plus être vu comme le leader visible de l’opposition. Il peut être une partie de l’opposition, mais l’opposition doit inclure des gens à l’intérieur de la Syrie et d’autres ». Pourtant, il y a encore quelques mois, Clinton était une des plus ardentes supportrices du CNS.
C’est évidemment un coup dur porté au CNS qui est parrainé et appuyé par la Turquie, le Qatar et l’Arabie. Les Etats-Unis craignent en effet l’influence grandissante des salafistes et expliquerait la réticence des américains à armer l’opposition syrienne car cela pourrait se retourner contre eux et les Israéliens. Mais c’est surtout l’assassinat du consul américain à Tripoli début octobre qui ont poussé les américains à revoir leur position.
C’est également dans ce contexte que le ministre des affaires étrangères, Serguei Lavrov, s’est rendu à Aman pour s’entretenir avec Riad Hijab, l’ancien premier ministre syrien qui a fait défection le 10 août dernier avec l’aide de l’armée syrienne libre.
Les élections présidentielles américaines ayant lieu aujourd’hui, beaucoup s’attendent à une réelection d’Obama. Ceci étant, quel que soit le nom vainqueur, il y aura une période transitoire entre l’actuelle et nouvelle administration qui va s’étendre du 7 novembre au 21 janvier. Même si Obama l’emportait, il est certain que Clinton ne sera plus à la tête de la diplomatie américaine selon ses propres dires.
Il faut rappeler que c’est durant cette période intérimaire que l’agression israélienne contre Gaza avait eu lieu (27 dec 2008-17 janvier 2009). Et c’est également à quelques jours de l’investiture d’Obama que Condoleeza Rice et Tzipi Livni avaient signé un accord en impliquant les Etats-Unis dans la lutte contre la contrebande d’armes, c’est-à-dire concrètement contre le Hamas palestinien...alors que jamais depuis sa fondation le Hamas s’en était pris aux intérêts américains dans la région...http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/feb/02/israel-gaza-us-military-aid
Donc les deux mois à venir risquent d’être plein de rebondissements.
Et la nomination du prince saoudien, Mohamed Bin Nayef, réputé pour sa cruauté au poste de ministre de l’intérieur en dit long sur la fébrilité des Saoudiens actuellement. Déjà qu’en août dernier la nomination de Bandar Bin Sultan à la tête des services de renseignements avait été perçu comme un durcissement : on peut dire que c’est la branche dure et ultra-conservatrice qui est en train de prendre la "relève" chez la dynastie des Saoud...
Tous ces signaux semblent montrer qu’une solution politique en Syrie n’est pas envisageable pour le moment...
Les efforts de Clinton pour constituer un gouvernement syrien en exil semblent voués à l’échec
par Joshua Landis, Syria Comment (USA) 3 novembre 2012, traduit de l’anglais par Djazaïri
http://mounadil.wordpress.com/2012/11/06/vers-des-negociations-en-syrie
Le plan C est actuellement en cours. Il s’agit de retourner vers le Syriens éduqués dans l’espoir d’en tirer rapidement quelque chose qui fonctionne. Clinton est en train de reconstituer une sorte de leadership pro-américain à partir d’éléments du vieux CNS en ajoutant force membres des Comités de Coordination, certains transfuges du gouvernement et d’autres qui viendront les rejoindre. On a comme l’impression que le CNS boycotte cette démarche. Michel Kilo a dit qu’il ne s’y associerait pas. D’autres ont choisi une attitude attentiste.
L’objet de cet exercice semble d’obtenir qu’une sorte d’élite éduqué pro-américaine adhère à un effort militaire qui semble trop islamiste au goût de Washington et pas trop respectueux des droits de l’homme.
Mais cette correction de trajectoire de dernière minute peut-elle marcher ?
Cette démarche est presque identique à celle de la Grande Bretagne et des Etats Unis dans les années 1950 pour empêcher la Syrie de tomber entre les mains de l’URSS, de Nasser et de la gauche baathiste.
‘Mushroom Cloud’ Sales Pitch Is Back – Peter Dyer
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/09/08/mushroom-cloud-sales-pitch-is-back
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained to his cabinet on Sept. 2 that “the international community is not setting Iran a clear red line and Iran does not see international determination to stop its nuclear project.”
But Netanyahu also is having trouble convincing the Israeli people about the need to attack Iran, with one recent poll indicating less than one-third of respondents favor a military strike.
Ten years ago this week, President George W. Bush faced a similar dilemma in persuading the American public that it was necessary to go to war with Iraq. Like Netanyahu, the Bush administration also resorted to the specter of a hypothetical nuclear threat to rally the public.
On Sept. 8, 2002, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, spoke of intercepted shipments to Iraq of “aluminum tubes … that are really only suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs. …
“The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Iraqi President Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”
Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/12/honoring-a-terror-war-architect
It now turns out we didn’t know the half of it. Piling outrage upon indignity, Fordham announced this week that Brennan will enjoy pride of place among the “eight notables” on whom it will confer honorary degrees at commencement. […]
Unlike his co-recipients, Brennan is widely known for his advocacy of kidnapping-for-torture (aka “extraordinary rendition”) and killing “militants” (including U.S. citizens) with “Hellfire” missiles fired by “Predator” and “Reaper” drone aircraft.
These practices and “Special Forces” operations guarantee an indefinite supply of anti-U.S. militants for what is now known as the “new normal” in the kind of wars that former Gen. and now CIA Director David Petraeus has said our grandchildren will still be fighting.
The endless supply of “insurgents” engendered by the violent tactics so beloved of Brennan makes Americans less secure. But there is no sign that Brennan recognizes that — or cares. Not that some of Brennan’s co-honorees are all that great, either.
#Wikileaks : #Google caught in spy games on execs and ’regime change’
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/03/wikileaks-mossad-and-google-caught-in-spy-games.html
It would seem from the emails that Google executives were consulting #Stratfor about [Jared] Cohen’s travels. Stratfor started spying on Cohen after concerns were raised regarding the executive’s previous employment with the U.S. government under both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. The intelligence reports do not indicate coordination between Cohen and the Obama administration, as suspected.
ça cause d’#Egypte et d’une entreprise devenue tellement grosse qu’elle se méfie de ce que peuvent bien faire ses salariés quand ils vont (assister des révolutions) à l’étranger via @opironet
StratforLeaks: Google Ideas Director Involved in ‘Regime Change’
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/stratforleaks-google-ideas-director-involved-‘regime-change’
Top Google execs, including the company’s CEO and one of Barack Obama’s major presidential campaign donors Eric Schmidt, informed the intelligence agency Stratfor about Google’s activities and internal communication regarding “regime change” in the Middle East, according to Stratfor emails released by WikiLeaks and obtained by Al-Akhbar. The other source cited was Google’s director for security and safety Marty Lev.
The briefings mainly focused on the movements of Jared Cohen, currently the director of Google Ideas, a “think/do-tank” billed as a vehicle for spreading American-style liberal democracy. Cohen was also a former member of US Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and former advisor to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton.
Email exchanges, starting February 2011, suggest that Google execs were suspicious that Cohen was coordinating his moves with the White House and cut Cohen’s mission short at times for fear he was taking too many risks. Stratfor’s vice-president of counter-terrorism Fred Burton, who seemed opposed to Google’s alleged covert role in “foaming” uprisings, describes Cohen as a “loose Cannon” whose killing or kidnapping “might be the best thing to happen” to expose Google.
Newt Gingrich’s Deep Neocon Ties Drive His Bellicose Middle East Policy
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/30/newt-gingrich-s-deep-neocon-ties-drive-his-bellicose-middle-east-poli
If elected, Gingrich would be the first American president to emerge from the dark think-tank world born in the Reagan era that gave us the Iraq war and lusts now for an Iranian reprise. The Daily Beast closely examines Gingrich’s long-time association with this discredited group.
Palestinian leader : Arabs erred on 1947 partition
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmPpFABdslNhZzlJO9vfBP7koCEg?docId=2468da0ccbbc443ca50381cfb24005af
The Palestinian president, in a remarkable assessment delivered on Israeli TV, said Friday the Arab world erred in rejecting the United Nations’ 1947 plan to partition Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state.
The Palestinian and Arab refusal to accept a U.N. plan to partition the then-British-controlled mandate of Palestine sparked widespread fighting, then Arab military intervention after Israel declared independence the following year. The Arabs lost the war.
“It was our mistake. It was an Arab mistake as a whole,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Channel 2 TV in a rare interview to the Israeli media. “But do they (the Israelis) punish us for this mistake for 64 years?”
Et tu espères aboutir à quelque chose, comme ça ?
Can the United States move beyond the narcissism of 9/11? | Gary Younge | Comment is free | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/04/narcissim-america-reality-failure?CMP=twt_gu
But beyond mourning of the immediate victims’ friends and families, there was an element of narcissism to this national grief that would play out in policy and remains evident in the tone of many of today’s retrospectives. The problem, for some, was not that such a tragedy had happened but that it could have happened in America and to Americans. The ability to empathise with others who had suffered similar tragedies and the desire to prevent further such suffering proved elusive when set against the need to avenge the attacks. It was as though Americans were unique in their ability to feel pain and the deaths of civilians of other nations were worth less.
Alors : du porno, de la drogue, comme Ben Laden ? Non : des photos de Condoleezza Rice. Les « révélations » farfelues commencent.
Rebels find album of Condoleezza Rice’s photos in Gadhafi compound
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/08/rebels-find-album-of-condoleeza-rices-photos-in-gadhafi-compound/1
Libyan rebels rummaging through Moammar Gadhafi’s compound have discovered a photo album with pictures of Condoleezza Rice, who has long fascinated the Libyan leader.
WikiLeaks cables : planned US missile shield blind to nuclear weapons - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8300950/WikiLeaks-cables-planned-US-missile-shield-blind-to-nuclear-weapons.htm
US plans for a missile defence system on Czech soil ran into trouble when defence chiefs realised the proposed radar was blind to nuclear missiles, leaked diplomatic cables show.
Décidément, ça marche pas, leur truc. Référencé le mois dernier :
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Palestinian leaders weak – and increasingly desperate | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/palestine-papers-power-weakness-negotiations
Having listened to Sharon berate him for failing to crack down on the “terrorist infrastructure” of Hamas and Islamic jihad, Abbas was recorded as noting “with pleasure the fact that Sharon considered him a friend, and the fact that he too considered Sharon a friend”, adding that “every bullet that is aimed in the direction of Israel is a bullet aimed at the Palestinians as well”.
LRB · James Harkin · Cyber-Con: Tweet for the CIA!
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n23/james-harkin/cyber-con
The Iranian protesters had every reason to be paranoid about the internet. While some demonstrators were busy drumming up virtual support from the outside world, the police were scanning social networking sites to round them up. According to Evgeny Morozov, the Iranian authorities and their allies were quick to get into the swing, and were soon flooding mobile networks and the internet with false information and videos of dubious authenticity as a way of intimidating, dividing or demoralising the opposition. ‘Dear citizen,’ one cheery text sent to known protesters began, ‘according to received information, you have been influenced by the destabilising propaganda which the media affiliated with foreign countries have been disseminating.’ Morozov, an alumnus of George Soros’s Open Society Institute who blogs for Foreign Policy magazine, knows from his native Belarus that electronic activism doesn’t necessarily blow the doors off repressive regimes.