Where Are the Skeptics as the Drums Roll for War with Iran?
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/where-are-the-skeptics-as-the-drums-roll-for-war-with-iran
Vijay Prashad challenges the media reality that Iran attacked the oil tankers, calling for a real investigation to uncover the truth.
“It’s not a question of being skeptical of anything a...
Inde et Israël : une « love story » entre marchands de canons
Vijay Prashad – 21 janvier 2018 – Al- Jazeera – Traduction : Chronique de Palestine
▻http://chroniquepalestine.com/inde-israel-marchands-de-canons
Si vous pensez que le peuple indien fait de façon unanime bon accueil au Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, c’est que vous avez été trompé.
Les médias dominants – tant en Inde qu’en Israël – se sont concentrés sur les communiqués de presse des bureaux des Premiers ministres et ont acheté des hameçons, des lignes et des plombs dans leur propagande bien orchestrée.
Il y a eu les visites obligées : au Taj Mahal, à l’ashram [ermitage] Sabarmati de Gandhi et au samadhi (mémorial) de Gandhi. Il y a eu l’ouverture d’un centre de technologie ainsi qu’une réunion avec des chefs d’entreprise.
Pourtant, non seulement les médias n’ont pas couvert le véritable but de la visite de Netanyahu, mais ils ont aussi ignoré les Indiens qui protestaient contre cette visite et qui appelaient à la solidarité avec la Palestine. (...)
Quand un article sur les « bienfaits de la colonisation » fait imploser une revue scientifique | Slate.fr
▻http://www.slate.fr/story/152360/article-bienfaits-colonisation-revue-scientifique
Tout a commencé avec la publication par la revue universitaire Third World Quarterly, au début du mois de septembre, d’un article intitulé « The Case for Colonialism » (« Le bien-fondé du colonialisme »). L’auteur, Bruce Gilley, professeur de science politique à l’université de Portland, estime qu’il est « grand temps de réévaluer la signification péjorative » du mot « colonialisme » :
« La notion selon laquelle le colonialisme est toujours et partout une mauvaise chose nécessite d’être repensée au regard du grave coût humain d’un siècle de régimes et politiques anticoloniaux. »
Gilley estime que la pensée anticoloniale a surestimé les coûts et sous-estimé les bénéfices de la colonisation et a un peu vite écarté la légitimité politique des régimes coloniaux. Pour lui, les bases de cette pensée n’étaient pas scientifiques mais « politiques et idéologiques » : « Le but n’était pas l’exactitude historique mais un plaidoyer pour l’instant présent. » Il cite des exemples de pays qu’il juge détruits par la décolonisation, comme la Guinée-Bissau, et estime que « peut-être que les Belges devraient revenir » au Congo.
Quand Slate alimente le « Chomsky-bashing »
Titre du paragraphe : « Soutien de Noam Chomsky »
Emploi du l’expression « Certains défendent Bruce Gilley », alors qu’il s’agit d’une autre démarche car « défendre quelqu’un » supposerait qu’on adhère à ses idées ou son point de vue.
Or un peu plus loin :
Le cas le plus significatif, ici, est probablement celui du linguiste Noam Chomsky, membre du comité de rédaction de Third World Quarterly, qui a jugé que le retrait de l’article de Gilley était une option « dangereuse » et a estimé que les chercheurs devaient plutôt s’occuper de le réfuter.
Mais là encore on commence par parler du « cas le plus significatif » (de quoi au juste) ce qui accrédite la thèse de départ, à savoir que Chomsky « défend » Gilley. Mais, ouf, le lecteur un peu fouineur apprend que Chomsky est contre le retrait de l’article et non pas pour les thèses qu’il défend, Chomsky s’en expliquant par le fait que l’article restant visible dans la publication, d’autres chercheurs auraient la possibilité de réfuter les thèses avancées par Gilley.
Donc nous avons affaire à du mauvais journalisme et Jean-Marie Pottier, son auteur, fait preuve de suivisme et de conformisme intellectuel mais c’est sans doute ce qu’on attend de lui.
Évidemment, ici ressurgit le spectre des thèses négationnistes de Faurisson auxquelles Chomsky aurait apporté son « soutien ».
Voir ci-après une discussion sur un article de Wikipédia à propos de Robert Faurisson
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussion:Robert_Faurisson
En effet, toute autre interprétation est fallacieuse, Chomsky a été très clair sur ce point au cours de nombreuses conférences aux USA. En France. il y des émissions de Daniel Mermet sur ce sujet ainsi qu’un documentaire qui reprend cette polémique en l’éclaircissant. Chomsky précisa à propos de notre loi Gayssot « Staline et Hitler auraient été très heureux d’appuyer une telle loi ». Il indiqua également que si la liberté d’expression ne sert qu’à laisser s’exprimer des opinions favorables aux nôtres, elle ne sert pas à grand chose. Celle-ci n’a un sens que si des opinions que nous abhorrons peuvent avoir libre cours. Sa lettre en soutien au droit d’expression de Faurisson — et non pas à ses idées comme on semble le faire croire ici — ne disait pas autre chose.146.185.28.59 (discuter) 22 août 2014 à 18:27 (CEST)
J. Robinson explique ainsi que le calcul coûts/avantages de l’auteur revient à absoudre quelqu’un qui dirait « OK, j’ai tué ma femme, mais mon métier, c’est pompier » et ajoute que « construire des lignes électriques et ouvrir une école ne constitue pas un permis pour dépouiller et assassiner des gens ». Vijay Prashad, professeur au Trinity College (Connecticut) et un des membres démissionnaires du comité de rédaction de la revue, reproche lui à Gillay de s’inscrire dans un courant de « débrutalisation » de l’histoire coloniale très actif depuis une quinzaine d’années. Et, de manière plus actuelle, de refléter le climat politique :
« Cet essai paraît à l’époque de Donald Trump, alors que le suprémacisme blanc est de retour et les cicatrices du colonialisme encore visibles. L’idée selon laquelle les penseurs progressistes, post-coloniaux et marxistes ont dénigré “l’histoire blanche” est un refrain constant des racistes. »
Sinon, je connais bien la position de Chomsky sur la censure et il a toujours été très clair avec. ▻https://blog.monolecte.fr/2015/05/06/pourquoi-la-liberte-dexpression-nest-pas-negociable
D’ailleurs, le papier de Slate ne dit pas autre chose :
Le cas le plus significatif, ici, est probablement celui du linguiste Noam Chomsky, membre du comité de rédaction de Third World Quarterly, qui a jugé que le retrait de l’article de Gilley était une option « dangereuse » et a estimé que les chercheurs devaient plutôt s’occuper de le réfuter
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Il est important d’expliquer en quoi le postulat du bonhomme sur les bienfait du colonialisme est biaisé, donc d’en débattre et d’en démontrer les mécanismes, un peu comme il est contreproductif de punir un gosse sans lui expliquer pourquoi.
Bien sûr, Lordon répliquerait que le problème de fond, c’est qu’il ne faut que quelques secondes pour balancer une idée-slogan fausse qui claque et qui marque les esprits, mais qu’il faut souvent bien plus d’une heure pour argumenter et démonter cette idée fausse. Or dans notre contexte médiatique de l’instantanéité et de l’éphémère, il n’y a plus de place pour les temps longs de la réflexion, juste pour les slogans…
#médias #censure #liberté_d'espression
Bien sûr, Lordon répliquerait que le problème de fond, c’est qu’il ne faut que quelques secondes pour balancer une idée-slogan fausse qui claque et qui marque les esprits, mais qu’il faut souvent bien plus d’une heure pour argumenter et démonter cette idée fausse.
Rapidité et paresse intellectuelle sont deux problèmes qui minent la crédibilité des médias.
Ce n’est pas en cachant les malades de la peste que l’on éradiquera la maladie. Mais là, je ne fais que paraphraser ce que dis sur ton blog à propos des blattes ...
Reclaiming value from academic labor: commentary by the Editors of Human Geography (2017-11-07)
There have long been discussions about the need for an alternative publishing model for academic research. This has been made clear by the September 2017 scandal involving #Third_World_Quarterly. The editor’s deeply problematic decision to publish an essay arguing in favor of colonialism was likely meant as click-bate to drive clicks and citations. But we should not lose sight of the fact that this latest scandal is only one recent manifestation of a long-simmering problem that has periodically commanded significant attention in the academic literature, blogs, email lists, conference sessions, and the popular press. As a direct result, over the last decade or more, new journals have been created that specifically endeavor to offer routes around corporate/capitalist academic publishing, and several existing journals have removed themselves from this profit-driven ecosystem. In this commentary, the editorial team of the journal Human Geography weighs in on what we see as the nature of the problem, what we are doing in response, what our successes have been, and what challenges remain.
▻https://fennia.journal.fi/forthcoming/article/66683/27159
#université #recherche #édition_scientifique #publications_scientifiques
L’Inde a vécu la plus grande grève de l’histoire humaine
▻http://www.directmatin.fr/monde/2016-09-03/linde-vecu-la-plus-grande-greve-de-lhistoire-humaine-737701
Selon les syndicats, ce seraient ainsi près de 180 millions de travailleurs, hommes et femmes, qui ont manifesté pour s’opposer à la politique économique du gouvernement. L’Inde comptant environ 1,250 milliards d’individus, ce serait donc un septième de la population qui a arrêté le travail pour une journée. Mais ces chiffres n’ont toutefois pas pu être vérifiés de façon indépendante.
The Biggest Strike in World History ? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone
▻http://fair.org/home/the-biggest-strike-in-world-history-no-thanks-were-focusing-on-the-new-iphone
And yet there was virtually no coverage of the strike in commercial US media, according to searches of the Nexis news database. Not a word on ABC, CBS or NBC. No mention on the main cable news networks—CNN, Fox and MSNBC—either. (The Intercept‘s Zaid Jilani—9/6/16—noted that there was one mention on CNN International, when “the CEO of the human resources consulting firm ManpowerGroup cited the Indian strike as part of global concerns about technology suppressing wages.”) Neither the PBS NewsHour nor NPR touched the story.
Not a single US newspaper found in the Nexis database—which includes most of the major papers, like the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today—reported an original story on the strike. (Associated Press had a brief, 289-word report, which ran on the New York Times‘ website and was doubtless picked up by other papers.) The Wall Street Journal, whose full text isn’t on Nexis, also skipped the Indian strike story.
That’s an example of the kind of story US corporate media don’t care about. What do they care about? Well, Apple is planning to release a new version of the iPhone next week. That’s already making news: CBS did a segment on its Money Watch program (9/7/16) previewing the phone, as did NPR‘s Morning Edition and All Things Considered (9/7/16); the product was front-page news in USA Today (9/8/16) and the Wall Street Journal (9/8/16), while you had to turn to page A12 in the Washington Post (9/7/16) or the first page of the business section in the New York Times (9/8/16) to get your future cellphone news.
A hundred million or more workers striking for their rights hold no interest for the news managers in US corporate media. But a new gadget from a prominent advertiser? Now, that’s the news that’s fit to print.
citons la source des autres articles:
India Is Making Labor History With the World’s Largest General Strike | Alternet
▻http://www.alternet.org/world/india-worlds-largest-strike
Trade unions leaders are reticent to say how many people struck work on September 2, 2016. They simply cannot offer a firm number. But they do say that the strike – the seventeenth general strike since India adopted its new economic policy in 1991 – has been the largest ever. The corporate news media – no fan of strikes – reported that the number of strikers exceeded the estimated 150 million workers. A number of newspapers suggested that 180 million Indian workers walked off the job. If that is the case, then this is the largest reported general strike in history.
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A leading international business consultancy firm reported – a few years ago – that 680 million Indians live in deprivation. These people – half the Indian population – are deprived of the basics of life such as food, energy, housing, drinking water, sanitation, health care, education and social security.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ..., did not pay heed to these workers. His goal is to increase India’s growth rate, which – as judged by the example of when he was Chief Minister of the State of Gujarat – can be accomplished by a cannibal like attitude towards workers’ rights and the livelihood of the poor. Selling off state assets, giving hugely lucrative deals to private business and opening the doors of India’s economy to Foreign Direct Investment are the mechanisms to increase the growth rate. None of these strategies, as even the International Monetary Fund acknowledges, will lead to social equality. This growth trajectory leads to greater inequality, to less power for workers and more deprivation.
La conclusion de l’auteur d’Alternet
Class Struggle.
Only four per cent of the Indian workforce is in unions. If these unions merely fought to defend their tenuous rights, their power would erode even further. Union power has suffered greatly since the Indian economy liberalised in 1991, with Supreme Court judgments against union democracy and with the global commodity chain pitting Indian workers against workers elsewhere. It is to the great credit of the Indian trade unions that they have embraced – in different tempos – the labour conditions and living conditions of workers and peasants in the informal sector. What power remains with unions can only grow if they do what they have been doing – namely, to turn towards the immense mass of the informal workers and peasants and draw them into the culture of unions and class struggle.
L’auteur
Vijay Prashad is professor of international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of 18 books, including Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK Press, 2012), The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013) and The Death of a Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution (University of California Press, 2016). His columns appear at AlterNet every Wednesday.
Oui on m’a répondu sur twitter entre temps, merci @kassem ; poser des questions sur seenthis, avoir les réponses sur twitter, le luxe
Saudi Arabia executes Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 47 people
▻http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=74540
Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 47 people convicted of “terrorism”, including a prominent Shiite cleric behind anti-government protests, the interior ministry said.
The cleric, Nimr al-Nimr, was a driving force of the protests that broke out in 2011 in the Sunni-ruled kingdom’s east, where the Shiite minority complains of marginalisation.
But the list does not include Nimr’s nephew, Ali al-Nimr, who was 17 when he was arrested following the protests.
Version française ici : ▻http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/962861/riyad-execute-le-dignitaire-chiite-nimr-al-nimr-et-sattire-les-foudre
Nos clients saoudiens sont formidables !
Ça commence à circuler aujourd’hui, assez nettement en contre-feu sectaire à l’indignation internationale contre l’Arabie séoudite, mais l’info date de la semaine dernière : Al Adl wal Ihssane dénonce la condamnation à mort de 27 sunnites en Iran
▻http://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/41206/ihssane-denonce-condamnation-mort-sunnites.html
Al Adl wal Ihssane dénonce le verdict de la cour suprême de Téhéran condamnant un groupe de 27 religieux et prédicateurs sunnites à la peine capitale. Ils étaient poursuivis pour « activités hostiles au rite chiite », le seul reconnu officiellement par la constitution iranienne rédigée au lendemain de la chute du régime du Chah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi en 1979.
Du coup, attention : ce n’est pas directement « en réponse » à l’exécution de Nimr, mais c’est tout aussi sûrement le bon chemin vers la #catastrophe.
(Et pour l’instant, les sources sur cette info ne sont pas forcément les plus fiables.)
▻http://www.spa.gov.sa/french/content.php?cid=22&pg=1&titresonly=1&open=1
0011 Communiqué du ministère de l’Intérieur saoudien : Exécution d’un certain nombre de condamnées pour terrorisme (3) Riyadh, 22 Rabi’I 1437. 02 janv. 2016 (SPA) -
Les mentionnés ci-dessus ont commis les crimes suivants :
1- Embrasser l’approche blasphématoire contenant les doctrines des kharijites qui contrecarrent le Livre Saint et la Sunna et le consensus des prédécesseurs de la nation, la publier par des moyens trompeux, la promouvoir par divers moyens, l’appartenance à des organisations terroristes et la mise en œuvre de leurs plans criminels , à travers : le bombardement du « complexe résidentiel Al-Hamra », du « complexe résidentiel Finil » et le « complexe résidentiel Ichbilia », à l’est de Riyadh le 11/03/1424 H, en plus de l’irruption du complexe de la « Compagnie Arabe des Investissements pétroliers », (AB Corp)," et la « société (Centre Petroleum), » le « complexe résidentiel Oasis » dans la province d’Al-Khobar dans la région Est, le11/4/1425 H, en utilisant des grenades et des armes à feu différent, provoquant des morts et des blessés parmi les citoyens et les agents de la sécurité et de nombreux résidents, et en mutilant de leurs corps, en procédant au ciblage d’un certain nombre de complexes résidentiels à travers le Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite pour les faire exploser, à l’empoisonnement de l’eau publique et à l’enlèvement d’un certain nombre de résidents dans le but de les tuer, à la fabrication d’explosifs et les faire passer en contrebande dans le Royaume d’Arabie Saoudite, la possession d’armes et de bombes fabriqués localement et importés ainsi que l’acquisition de matières explosives de haute capacité de destructrion et la possession d’une variété de bombes et de roquettes.
–-SPA 14:03 LOCAL TIME 11:03 GMT
0010 Communiqué du ministère de l’Intérieur saoudien : Exécution d’un certain nombre de condamnées pour terrorisme (2) Riyadh, 22 Rabi’I 1437. 02 janv. 2016 (SPA) - En voici les noms des condamnés pour terrorisme dont la peine de mort leur a été infligée : (suite)
23 Abdallah ben Moualla ben ’Ali - la nationalité saoudienne.
24 Abdellaziz Rashid ben Hamden Al-Tawili’ - nationalité saoudienne.
25 Abdelmohsen Hamed ben Abdallah Al-Yahya - Arabie nationalité.
26 Issam Khalaf Mohamed Al-Modhra’ - nationalité saoudienne.
27 Ali Saïd Abdallah Al-Rabh - un ressortissant saoudien.
28 Ghazi Mahissen Rashed - nationalité saoudienne.
29 Faris Ahmed Jamaan Al-Shouweil - nationalité saoudienne.
30 Fikri Ali ben Yahia Faqih - Arabie nationalité.
31 Fahd ben Ahmed ben Hanash Al-Zamel - nationalité saoudienne.
32 Fahd Abderrahmen Ahmed Al-Baridi - nationalité saoudienne.
33 Fahed Ali Ayedh Al Jibrane - un ressortissant saoudien.
34 Majed Ibrahim Ali Al-Mghinim - nationalité saoudienne.
35 Majed Maïdh Rashed - un ressortissant saoudien.
36 Mishaal ben Hamoud ben Jouir Al-Faraj - nationalité saoudienne.
37 Mohamed Abdellaziz Mohamed Al-Mouhareb - nationalité saoudienne.
38 Mohamed Ali Abdelkarim Souimel - nationalité saoudienne.
39. M. Mohamed Fethi Abdel A’ati Assayed- de nationalité égyptienne.
40 Mohamed ben Faisal ben Mohamed Al-Chioukh- de nationalité saoudienne.
41 Mostafa Mohamed Al-Taher Abkar - de nationalité tchadienne.
42 Moaïdh Mofreh Ali Al-Chokr - de nationalité saoudienne.
43 Nasser Ali Ayedh Al-Jobrane - de nationalité saoudienne.
44 Nayef Saad Abdallah Al-Bridi - de nationalité saoudienne.
45 Najib ben Abdellaziz ben Abdallah Al-Bahiji - de nationalité saoudienne.
46 Nimr Baker Amine Al-Nimr - de nationalité saoudienne.
47 Nimr Sahaj Zaïd Al-Krizi - de nationalité saoudienne.
–-SPA 13:15 LOCAL TIME 10:15 GMT
0009 Communiqué du ministère de l’Intérieur saoudien : Exécution d’un certain nombre de condamnées pour terrorisme (1) Riyadh, 22 Rabi’I 1437. 02 janv. 2016 (SPA) - Le ministère de l’Intérieur a publié, aujourd’hui, la déclaration suivante :
Un groupe de criminels ayant perdu le chemin de la vérité après avoir été séduits par la passion et suivi les traces du diable, ont commis des diverses actions terroristes pour répandre le sang infaillible et l’attentat à la pudeur dans la religion, ciblé de saper la sécurité et semé la discorde et les troubles et pour avoir interpolé la religion d’Allah par ignorance et passion.
En voici les noms des condamnés pour terrorisme dont la peine de mort leur a été infligée :
1 Amine Mohamed Abdallah Al-Akala - de nationalité saoudienne.
2 Anwar Abderrahman Khalil Al-Najjar - de nationalité saoudienne.
3 Badr ben Mohamed ben Abdallah Al-Bader - de nationalité saoudienne.
4 Bandar Mohamed ben Abderrahmen Al-Ghaith - de nationalité saoudienne.
5 Hassan Hadi ben Chouja’ Al-Masarir- de nationalité saoudienne.
6 Hamad ben Abdallah ben Ibrahim Al-Hamidi - de nationalité saoudienne.
7 Khaled Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Jarallah - de nationalité saoudienne.
8 Ridha Abderrahmen Khalil Al-Najjar - de nationalité saoudienne.
9 Saad Salama Hamir - de nationalité saoudienne.
10 Salah ben Saïd ben Abderrahim Al-Najjar - de nationalité saoudienne.
11 Salah ben Abderrahmen ben Mohamed Al-Houssein - de nationalité saoudienne.
12 Saleh ben Abderrahmen ben Ibrahim Shamsan - de nationalité saoudienne.
13 Saleh ben Ali ben Saleh Al-Jomoa- de nationalité saoudienne.
14 Adel ben Saad ben Jaza Al-Dhabiti - de nationalité saoudienne.
15 Adel Mohamed Salem Abdallah Yamani - de nationalité saoudienne.
16 Abdel Jabbar ben Hamoud ben Abdellaziz Al-Touijri - de nationalité saoudienne.
17 Abderrahmen Dakhil Faleh Al-Faleh - de nationalité saoudienne.
18 Abdallah Sayer Moawadh Massad Al-Mhamdi - de nationalité saoudienne.
19 Abdallah ben Saad ben Mouzhar Sharif - de nationalité saoudienne.
20 Abdallah Saleh Abdellaziz Al-Ansari - de nationalité saoudienne.
21 Abdallah Abdellaziz Ahmed Al-Mogrine - de nationalité saoudienne.
22 Abdallah Msallem Hamid Al-Rahif - de nationalité saoudienne.
–-SPA 13:14 LOCAL TIME 10:14 GMT
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0017 La Commission des droits de l’Homme : Les décisions judiciaires concernant les 47 condamnés à mort sont une application de la justice et remplissent les exigences légales.
▻http://www.spa.gov.sa/french/ContentPage.php?cid=22&id=198623
Riyadh, 22 Rabi’I 1437 - 02 janvier 2016
(SPA) - La Commission des droits de l’Homme a confirmé aujourd’hui que les décisions judiciaires contre les 47 personnes condamnées à mort étaient venues pour faire respecter la justice, une application de la charia et de la loi, et protéger la sécurité de la société et sa stabilité.
La Commission des droits de l’Homme a également déclaré que les crimes terroristes commis par les 47 personnes étaient des crimes les plus graves, ajoutant que ces crimes ont entraîné la mort de dizaines de civils innocents, des militaires, des citoyens et des expatriés.
La Commission des droits de l’Homme a souligné qu’elle avait suivi et participé aux jugements de ses affaires, et a fait en sorte que les procès ont été fait en conformité avec les procédures légitimes. La Commission a également déclaré que les cas ont été examinés par trois juges spécialisés de la Cour pénale et les peines ont été présentées devant cinq juges de la Cour d’appel mais aussi, devant cinq juges de la Cour suprême.
La Commission des droits a souligné que la réalisation de la justice et la protection des droits de l’homme exige la mise en œuvre des décisions judiciaires ainsi que la mise en œuvre des peines contre quiconque viole les droits, tue des innocents et menacent la sécurité et la stabilité.
Je dis que la « commission des droits de l’homme » saoudienne utilise des arguments « trompeux ».
Sérieusement, avec tout le fric qu’ils ont ils pourraient se payer un bon traducteur les Saoud.
L’ambassadeur de l’Arabie Saoudite à l’ONU, hilare à juste titre, lors de la nomination de son pays à la tête du groupe consultatif du conseil des droits de l’homme de l’ONU en septembre 2015,
►http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2015/09/22/le-role-de-l-arabie-saoudite-au-conseil-des-droits-de-l-homme-fait-debat_476
@nidal contrefeu ou pas, il faut reconnaitre que dans les statistiques internationales, le futur client iranien est un serial killer patenté, même si il reste derrière la Chine et si l’Arabie Saoudite essaie de le rattraper...
Les autorités municipales à Téhéran ont changé le nom de la rue où se trouve l’ambassade saoudienne.
Vijay Prashad
▻https://twitter.com/vijayprashad/status/683588262737383424
Frénésie d’exécutions dont celle d’un dignitaire chiite
Les autorités saoudiennes ont fait preuve d’un mépris total pour les droits humains et la vie en exécutant 47 personnes dont un dignitaire chiite, la seule journée du 2 janvier 2016.
▻https://www.amnesty.ch/fr/pays/moyen-orient-afrique-du-nord/arabie-saoudite/docs/2015/47-personnes-executees-nimr-baqir-al-nimr-dignitaire-chiite
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Liz Sly and the Saudi regime talking points on the mass executions
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2016/01/liz-sly-and-saudi-regime-talking-points.html
Liz Sly does not mention one peculiar methodology of Amnesty International: Amnesty International for some reason adds to the list of executions in Iran its own numbers of unacknowledged executions when it does NOT do that for Saudi Arabia. What gives?
Saudi Nimr’s execution: Condemnation and hypocrisy
Sharif Nashashibi
Thursday 7 January 2016
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/saudi-nimrs-execution-condemnation-and-hypocrisy-1182188250
However, in any situation, condemnation is meaningless when based on hypocrisy. As such, Iran - which has arguably been most vocal about Nimr’s execution - does not have a leg to stand on. “It is perhaps surprising that a regime which imprisons journalists, censors cartoonists and holds activists without charge for years on end should be in any position to moralise against another,” wrote Evan Bartlett, news editor at The Independent newspaper.
It is galling - almost comical - for the world’s second-biggest executioner after China to criticise the third-biggest on the subject of executions. It carries the same moral authority as the US lecturing others about gun control, or Japan discouraging other countries from whale-hunting.
The number of people Saudi Arabia executes annually does not even come close to Iran’s tally. The former executed 158 people in 2015, its highest recorded number in a single year since 1995.
Slow death via cranes
However, between January and 1 November last year, Amnesty International recorded 830 executions in Iran, which are carried out by hanging via a crane that is lifted up from the ground, ensuring a slow death. That is equivalent to almost three executions per day, or 984 for the whole year (more than six times as many as Saudi Arabia’s 20-year record high).
Palestinian shot dead in Nablus after alleged attempted attack
Dec. 17, 2015 11:16 A.M. (Updated: Dec. 17, 2015 3:43 P.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=769379
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen near the Huwwara military checkpoint in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus on Thursday, locals and Israel’s army said.
An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an that “during routine security activity” at the checkpoint Israeli forces approached a suspect for questioning, when the suspect “charged the forces while armed with a knife.”
The forces “responded to the immediate threat” and shot the teen, killing him, the spokesperson said.
Palestinian ambulance driver Kamal Badran identified the Palestinian as 15-year-old Abdullah Hussein Nasasra , from the Nablus-area village of Beit Furik.
Badran told Ma’an that Israeli soldiers gathered around the teen preventing medical teams from treating him after he fell.
Palestinian lives matter!
Vijay Prashad | Date of publication: 27 December, 2015
▻http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2015/12/28/palestinian-lives-matter
On December 17, Naseer was driving from Nablus to Ramallah. Light rain fell as he approached the Israeli military’s checkpoint at Huwwara. In front of him was another car, moving cautiously. About fifty meters before that car was an Israeli military vehicle. Caution is the order of the day in the vicinity of the Israeli military. No sense in provoking their ire. Naseer kept some distance between the cars. They were moving slowly.
Beside the road, on the grass off the sidewalk, a young boy walked in the same direction of the cars. Naseer observed that the boy seemed to be on the grass to avoid the puddles on the sidewalk.
The Israeli military vehicle braked. An order must have come from the soldiers. The boy put his hands up. Naseer did not hear them but saw him obey. The car in front of his began to go around the military vehicle. Naseer followed. He saw the boy with his hands up. The next minute, in his rear view mirror, Naseer saw the boy on the ground. All this happened in a split second. One minute the boy was standing with his hands up, and the next minute he was dead on the ground.
Naseer stopped his car, as did the driver of the car in front of him. The two men exchanged information. They had both witnessed an execution. There was no opportunity to approach the Israeli soldiers, who had already cordoned off the area.
Not long after, Israeli state media announced that their military had killed Abdullah Hussein Nasasra (age 15) from Beit Furik (near Nablus). The Israeli military said that Nasasra had “charged the forces while armed with a knife.”
Naseer said that he saw no knife. Nor did he see Nasasra charge the military men. They had guns trained on him. Why would he try to attack them with a knife?
Over the course of the past few weeks, Israeli military and security forces have used deadly force against a number of children whom they accuse of knife attacks. Israeli political leaders have given carte blanche to their military to kill anyone they see as a threat. Interior Security Minister Gilad Arden said, “Every terrorist should know that he will not survive the attack he is about to commit.” Yair Lapid, former Minister of Finance in the Israeli government, concurred, “You have to shoot to kill anyone who pulls out a knife or a screwdriver.” Since the Israeli military is the Judge, Executioner and Investigator of these incidents, there is no accountability for them.
When Kamal Badran Qabalan drove his ambulance to the scene, the Israelis blocked him from access to the body. There will be no independent investigation of this death. The miasma of Israeli propaganda – terrorist, knife – has already covered over the facts. Naseer says he is ready to testify against the Israeli military. But how does he do it? There will be no trial. The case will close quietly. Naseer is a distinguished man. His eyes are kind and honest. His voice is defiant as he tells me the story – “I saw them kill a boy,” he says. But what can Naseer do? His body language bespeaks the Occupation. There is futility here beside the defiance.
Who’s Buying ISIS’ Oil? | Alternet
By Vijay Prashad / CounterPunch
December 10, 2015
▻http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/whos-buying-isis-oil
On December 2, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Antonov made a strong statement about Turkish complicity with ISIS. The charge sheet is long and detailed. It mentions many aspects, but the most incendiary is the accusation about “ISIS oil.”
ISIS controls Iraqi oil fields near Mosul. They have been making millions of dollars each day by selling oil from these fields. How does ISIS get the oil from the fields in Mosul to the market?
What ISIS has done is to use the old networks that have smuggled oil from the Kurdish Regional Government without any consideration given to Baghdad’s sovereignty over that oil. This had been a point of contention for decades, since the Kurdish region began to exercise autonomous control of the north. Kurdish oil was sold to smugglers who would cart them in tankers across the border into Turkey. In Turkey the trucks would run the length of the country to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. From Ceyhan, which is a port run by the Turkish government, the oil is purchased by transporters whose ships go to Malta, where the oil is transshipped to destinations such as Ashdod (Israel). This has long been a bone of contention between the Iraqi government, the Kurdish Regional Government and the Turkish government. It was documented by Tolga Tanış in his book Potus ve Beyefendi (2015). Tanis accuses Berat Albayrak, son-in-law of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of involvement in this illegal scheme. ISIS has merely replaced the Kurdish Regional Government in the new arrangement.
Les réfugiés sur les rivages d’Europe : l’effet boomerang des guerres impérialistes
Vijay Prashad - CounterPunch, le 4 septembre 2015
▻http://www.info-palestine.net/spip.php?article15594
Les attentats de Charlie Hebdo n’étaient-ils pas déjà un effet boomerang de ces mêmes guerres ?
#Migrants #Réfugiés #Guerre #Syrie #Europe #Attentats #Charlie_Hebdo
BRICS Challenges the « Double Standard » | TRNN 2015-07-13
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♲ The Real News Network: BRICS Challenges the “Double Standard” of the WestNewsclick talks to Vijay Prashad about the Declaration of the 7th Summit of the BRICS countries held in Ufa, Russia.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP8Muohwlbs
#BRICS #ONU #Conseil_de_Securité
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#sanctions
For clarity in Syria’s muddy politics - VIJAY PRASHAD The Hindu
▻http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-clarity-in-syrias-muddy-politics/article6517020.ece?homepage=true
With the West showing that when the politics is inconvenient, it will not make noises about the responsibility to protect citizens, other ideas are needed to stop the bleeding of West Asia
The United States and its allies continue to bomb northern Iraq and Syria. The purported target is the Islamic State (IS), whose territory stretches across the borders of the two countries. The Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane, a few 100 metres from the Turkish border, remains a key battleground of the current war. Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG), supported by fighters from the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), have been courageously holding the city against the superior firepower of IS fighters. U.S. aircraft have struck near Kobane, halting the advance of IS fighters temporarily. The U.S. Pentagon’s Rear Admiral James Kirby said air power is very limited and the air strikes “ are not going to save ” Kobane.
Turkish tanks remain on the Turkish side of the border. They refuse to allow YPG and PKK reinforcements to cross into Kobane. A town with little strategic value has nonetheless come to represent the fortitude of the Kurdish resistance against the IS on the one hand, and of Kurdish aspirations for autonomy on the other. ‘Diren Kobane’ (Save Kobane) is the slogan of Kurdish people across the region. Protests of Kurdish groups and the Turkish Left across Turkey were met with police force, whose actions killed over 30 people. Rather than come to the aid of the Kurdish fighters, the fighter jets of the Turkish air force bombed PKK positions in southeastern Turkey. In a flippant tone, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdog˘an said, “ Hey world, when a terrorist organisation like IS emerges, you all speak out. But why do you not condemn PKK as a terrorist organisation ? ” The otherwise fruitful “ Imrali Process ” to end the insurgency by the PKK inside Turkey has now ended with these air strikes and Turkish intransigence on Kobane.
No clear political agenda
When U.S. President Barack Obama said that there is no strategy for the U.S. fight against IS in Syria, he was correct. The U.S. has no clear political agenda. Nor does the United Nations. The appointment of Staffan de Mistura to replace the highly accomplished Lakhdar Brahimi was an indicator that the U.N. had lost faith in the political process for Syria. As one former U.N. official told me, “ de Mistura has a reputation for glad-handling, not for results.”
Even Mr. De Mistura broke the wall of diplomacy, comparing the situation in Kobane to the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, home of the 1995 killings. Mr. De Mistura called upon Turkey to open its borders to reinforce the fighters. With no easy political direction, the U.S. turned to a military solution - aerial bombing. But military solutions do not necessarily clarify the political complexity. Indeed, they seem to have made the politics unresolvable.
Three immediate political nudges might help move the confusion to clarity. It is unlikely that these would be adopted. Nonetheless, they could seed the germination of a short-term political process.
The first is Turkey and NATO. On September 10, Mr. Obama said IS is a threat to the U.S. According to Articles 5 and 6 of the Charter of NATO, a threat to one of the NATO members activates the members of the alliance to defensive action. Turkey is a member of NATO.
At a NATO council meeting, Turkey needs to be formally asked to take action to defend Kobane - and to degrade IS. NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference on October 14 that NATO would come to the aid of Turkey if IS attacks across the border. But there was no mention of the declared threat to the U.S. by IS - the basis for the U.S. bombing raids in Iraq and Syria. At a NATO Council meeting, Turkey would be forced to clarify its position on IS. The U.S. would also have to clarify its bombings in Syria on behalf of the groups that Turkey is currently bombing in its southeast.
The second is Syria and the moderate opposition. The emir of Qatar went to Saudi Arabia to begin a process to resolve their differences over the next leader of the Syrian opposition. Both have candidates in the fray. Neither is willing to allow the Syrian opposition the freedom to build their political institutions. A former financier of the Syrian opposition, Mouataman al-Baba, told me that there is no chance for the creation of a fighting force for the moderate opposition in Syria. Other former leaders of the Syrian opposition say privately that they believe that the armed phase of their movement is substantially over.
The government of Bashar al-Assad is weakened. Syria, says one former leader, is “ in danger of being lost permanently.” Residues of Syrian patriotism remain, and these leaders are eager but afraid to make a public declaration to the following effect - the armed struggle to bring democracy to Syria has failed, the Damascus government is weak and prepared to make concessions, and a united front of Syrians is required to fight the threat from IS.
Such a manoeuvre would remove the illusion that persists in Washington, Paris and London for a moderate armed force to take on both Mr. Assad and IS. That illusion keeps the door open for Saudi and Qatari funds to jihadi groups that are replicas of IS, although they have shut off the cameras to document their own barbarity.
The third is the Arab League. Threatened states such as Jordan and Lebanon could call the Arab League for an emergency session. In 2011, the Gulf Arab states suborned the Arab League to push for a strong resolution against the Libyan government whose troops they said threatened the civilian population of Benghazi. No such enthusiasm has come from the Arab League about the civilian populations of Iraq and Syria, now more than threatened by IS. The ambiguity of the Saudis and the Qataris has not been called to question. It is the case that Jordan and Lebanon would find unlikely allies in the Arab League - such as the United Arab Emirates and Oman - as well as countries such as Egypt and Algeria, who would put pressure on the Gulf Arabs to clarify their intentions.
These three manoeuvres do not themselves indicate a transparent politics. They are simply initiatives that would force the currently muddy political environment to some clarity. Political mendacity threatens to continue this prolonged bleeding of West Asia. The cynicism of leading political figures in the West is breathtaking. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted, “Kobane is a tragedy ” but then said that “ it has nothing to do with American strategy in the region.” The integrity of the idea of humanitarian intervention by the West is threadbare. It has demonstrated that when the politics is inconvenient it will not make noises about the responsibility to protect citizens. Other means are needed. Other unconventional ideas are necessary. It is time to refine the politics that otherwise disable any hope for Syria.
For a little pressure on Israel - The Hindu
▻http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/for-a-little-pressure-on-israel/article6250154.ece?homepage=true
VIJAY PRASHAD
Despite the massacres of entire families, U.S. President Obama has made no major public address to caution Israel
Sixteen days into the Israeli offensive on Gaza, on July 23, the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva held a hearing. Pressure from the League of Arab States has been severe. A few days before, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held an emergency session on Gaza. The Jordanian delegation, on behalf of the Arabs, carried a resolution for a ceasefire around the United Nations building to no avail. It had two points that Israel would not accept — it did not sanction Hamas by name, and it called for the end to the stranglehold on Gaza. Israel, which continues to occupy Gaza despite the withdrawal of its troops in 2005, has obligations as an occupying power. In 2005, it signed an Agreement on Movement and Access, but has never allowed this to come into effect. Israel controls the borders of Gaza, sealing in the almost two million people on to 140 square miles of land. With absent movement on the Jordanian resolution in the UNSC, the momentum shifted to the Human Rights Council.
The debate in Geneva was very emotional. The U.N. agencies in Gaza have been deeply impacted by the Israeli war, with their buildings taking fire and their personnel in grave danger (with three U.N. teachers killed). Kyung-wha Kang of the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs suggested that the attack on hospitals and school was “a flagrant violation of international law,” while the mechanism to warn civilians of bombardment creates “terror and trauma” in an occupied territory where there is no safe haven. Civilian homes are not a target, said the U.N. High Commissioner Navi Pillay, also pointing out that the entire situation was “dreadful and interminable.” The most telling moment in Commissioner Pillay’s statement came when she said this was the “third serious escalation of hostilities” in her six years on the job. As in 2009 and 2012, she said, “it is innocent civilians in the Gaza Strip, including children, women, the elderly and persons with disabilities, who are suffering the most.”
A ceasefire
In Gaza, meanwhile, the sounds of bombardment continue. Negotiations persist in Cairo and Doha to create a pathway to a ceasefire, while Israel, obdurate, continues to pound the Gaza Strip. In an unguarded moment on Fox News, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his frustration with Israel. He hastily caught himself. The U.S. has no appetite to force Israel to silence its guns. Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal, speaking from Doha, said that he would accept a ceasefire only if it came alongside an end to the embargo. This is the pillar of the Jordanian resolution, which, it is clear, the Israelis will not tolerate. The Palestinians do not want a ceasefire without some improvement of their situation. Fatah, the other major faction of the Palestinians, takes the same position as Hamas. Yasser Abed Rabbo, the likely successor to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, said, “Gaza’s demand to lift the siege is the demand of the entire Palestinian people and not just one particular faction.” This is a position with which the government of India concurs. All factions in Palestine and the Arab League agree that the blockade must be lifted for a genuine ceasefire. If this is their minimum requirement, it is unlikely that there will be a ceasefire deal. No amount of U.S. pressure can convince Israel to the rationality of that demand.
Fifty thousand Palestinians went on the streets of the West Bank through the night of July 24, signalling to the Israelis that they are ready for a third intifada
Indications of any U.S. pressure are not evident. Despite the massacres of entire families, U.S. President Obama has made no major public address to caution Israel. Instead, the White House tells the press that Mr. Obama continues to talk to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer U.S. support, as the U.S. Congress voted unanimously to fully back the Israeli war effort.
Ms Pillay asked the Council, “What must we finally do to move beyond a ceasefire that will inevitably be broken again in two or three years?” A first step, she noted, is accountability — “ensuring that the cycle of human rights violations and impunity is brought to an end.” To that end the Human Rights Council called for the creation of an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate “all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law” in all of Occupied Palestine “particularly in the Gaza Strip.” After Operation Cast Lead (2009), the U.N. empanelled the Goldstone Commission, whose report castigated Israel for the use of dangerous weapons (such as white phosphorus) and for targeting Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. Under intense U.S. pressure, including on India, the Goldstone Commission’s report went into cold storage.
Out of the 47 members in the Council, 29 voted to create a Commission, 17 abstained and one voted against it. The sole ‘No vote’ came from the U.S., showing how little appetite there is in Washington to pressure Israel not only to a ceasefire but to be held accountable for its methods of war. The members of the European Union abstained, as did several African states. The ‘Yes’ countries included members of the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, South American states, some African countries, and the entire BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). India’s Ambassador to the U.N. Asoke Mukerji said that India is “deeply concerned” about the civilian casualties — over 700 Palestinians dead, several thousand of them injured (as opposed to one Israeli civilian dead). Dilip Sinha, India’s ambassador to the Human Rights Council, was more graphic, bemoaning the “heavy air-strikes in Gaza and the disproportionate use of force resulting in the tragic loss of civilian lives.”
India’s position
The Indian government’s reticence to hold a debate in Parliament and its refusal to put any pressure on Israel for its war with a statement is now of no consequence. The U.N. vote shows two things. First, that India’s drift into the U.S. orbit is not complete. It has commitments to the BRICS states. South Africa — with vivid memories of apartheid — would be unwilling to soft-pedal on the issue of Palestinian rights. Nor would Russia, which sees this as an easy way to pressure the U.S. The BRICS, therefore, will retain India in the pro-Palestine camp. Second, despite the desire of the Indian establishment to create an enduring relationship with Israel, the grotesque actions of Tel Aviv are a constraint. India continues to believe in the possibility of the creation of Palestine with stable borders, including Jerusalem as its capital.
None of this is accepted by Israel, whose own policy vis-à-vis the Palestinians is incoherent. Fifty thousand Palestinians went on the streets of the West Bank through the night of July 24, signalling to the Israelis that they are ready for a third ‘Intifada’. Israel is in no mood for concessions. The only outcome is more terrible violence.
“All these dead and maimed civilians should weigh heavily on all our consciences,” said Ms Pillay. They certainly did not seem to bother the U.S.’ Ambassador Samantha Power, who is otherwise the champion of humanitarian intervention. Her preferred cocktail of Responsibility to Protect (R2) and “no fly zones” was not in evidence.
Nor did it bother the U.S. Ambassador to the Human Rights Council, Keith Harper — a Native American lawyer who knows a great deal about the occupation of a people. The U.S. sat silent and pushed the red button. This is not a red light of caution to Israel. For Tel Aviv, this is a green light.
(Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.)❞
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
By Pepe Escobar / 6 septembre 2013
▻http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-05-060913.html
(...) Free bombing. For three months. With inbuilt free upgrading. Operation Tomahawk With Cheese but also bacon, onions, chilies, mayo, guacamole, the works. All courtesy of Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan - aka Bandar Bush - plus minions Emirates and Qatar. What’s not to like? The inestimable Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations, has been using his calculator:
Exhibit A: Saudis have put ’’on the table’’ their offer to pay for the entire US assault on Syria. Exhibit B: in case of an attack on Syria, the price of oil is slated to go from $109 to $125 per barrel (base case scenario), with an upside scenario of $150 per barrel. Saudi Arabia will produce 9.8 million barrels of oil a day. Which means if the spike is only the base case scenario, Saudi will gross a super-profit of $156.8 million per day. If it is the upside scenario, then the Saudi super-profits will be $401.8 million per day. Not a bad arbitrage game from Mr Bandar and his gang of Saudi “democrats”.
Addendum: each Tomahawk costs only US$1.5 million. With a prospective free flow of Bandar Bush’s cash, no wonder there’s a compatible free flow of Krug at Raytheon’s HQ.
Confronted with the sumptuous marriage of the industrial-military complex and the House of Saud producing lethal cruise offspring duly employed as al-Qaeda’s Air Force, a pesky detail like hardcore Chechen jihadis forming their own militia, The Mujahedin of the Caucasus and the Levant, is, well, irrelevant. As irrelevant as the fact that these jihadis are run by none other than Bandar Bush, who bragged to President Vladimir Putin he can turn them on and off at will.
So if these Chechens are Bandar’s minions, they are also Friends of Obama/Kerry/Rice/Power. Just like the jihadis who are fighting to take over the “crusader” village of Maloula - where people still speak Aramaic, the language of Jesus - so they can proceed to gleefully behead a few Christian infidels.
“what we’re seeing in #syria is in some ways the inevitable re-balancing of power along #ethnic and...”
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“what we’re seeing in Syria is in some ways the inevitable re-balancing of power along ethnic...
#2013 #sects #religions #sectarism #levant #iraq #sunni #sunnis #alawite #alawites #arab #arabs
“... in some way the inevitable balancing of power...”
– Au 19ieme siècle, dans la langue du style de la diplomatie bismarckienne, on l’aurait appelé « die syrische Frage »
Dans la même catégorie : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/169476 , ou par exemple cette article avec son titre très convaincant du NYTimes op-ed 27.08.2013 :
Bomb Syria even if it is illegal
- ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/bomb-syria-even-if-it-is-illegal.html
Mais écoutons mieux à une entretien avec Vijay Prashad, qui réside au moment à Beirut (non, pas Bayreuth), d’où il prend la liberté d’appeler les opinons de ces grands diplomates « ... simpleminded cynic politics ... »
Vijay Prashad: Possible missile strike against Syria has been a part of the West’s game plan since 1979 to weaken Iran for its independent path, but US military intervention will increase sectarianism in the region and disrupt fragile peace in Lebanon
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paQBvvVxWA
Ou un peu plus rude dans sa manière s’exprimer, c.v.d. sans des figures rhétoriques de la haute métaphysique diplomatique et des sciences politiques :
Larry Wilkerson: With Saudi Arabia heavily funding the opposition and Iran backing Assad, the Syrian civil war has spiraled into a global struggle for power with the potential for greater catastrophe
Une compilation chronologique des articles en FR, EN, DE commencée le 17ieme août 2013 sur le conflit en Syrie et la région de Levant
▻http://02mydafsoup-01.soup.io/tag/Syria_2013autumn
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Vijay Prashad : Palestine’s Norwegians
►http://www.counterpunch.org/prashad07252011.html
A few hours later, Breivik’s manifesto began to appear on various websites. Here Breivik fulminated against “Marxist-Multiculturalists.” This has become a familiar refrain among the defenders of Fortress Europe: they want to secure their continent from the re-conquest of the Moors. The tendency is hateful toward immigrants and Islam. But these are not marginal socio-paths. Their views flow down the center of the stream of European conservatism. In October of last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism “has utterly failed.” Immigrants needed to be force-marched into German culture, and if this is not possible, they should not be allowed to enter the country.
In February of this year, Britain’s Cameron and France’s Sarkozy followed Merkel’s lead. Cameron blamed the “doctrine of state multiculturalism” for encouraging migrants to “live separate lives, apart from each other and the mainstream.” France’s Sarkozy gave a bitter speech against multiculturalism and then told the MPs of his “Union for a Popular Movement” party that he wanted laws to rein in Islam. Electorally, Sarkozy wanted to outflank the increased popularity of Martine Le Pen’s National Front. “We had a debate on the burqa,” he said, “now we should have a debate on street preachers.” This is less a debate and more a vitriolic campaign against Islam and those who look like Muslims.
Sa conclusion est très forte (c’est moi qui souligne) :
Above my desk I have a poster from a demonstration led the Anti-Fascistik Aktion in Copenhagen in June 1995. “No Fucking Fascists,” it says. That is the sentiment of the more than ninety young people of the AUF killed last week. Breivik was certainly a right-wing militant, and without a doubt inspired by the Euro-fascism of Merkel-Sarkozy-Cameron. The press might be obsessed by their “lone gun-man” theory. They see things in the police’s terms, which is to say, in terms of who actually acted, and who provided material support for the action. The action in Utøya was not the act of a madman, and it was not a human tragedy. It was an act of political murder against people who had committed themselves to a convivial world not only for their beloved Norway, but also for those who live under Occupation elsewhere.