Chumbawamba - In Memoriam : Margaret Thatcher (CD) at Discogs
http://www.discogs.com/Chumbawamba-In-Memoriam-Margaret-Thatcher/release/4460591
Mail-order release. Recorded in 2005 and orderable only in advance from the Chumbawamba website, to be delivered upon the death of Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher died on Monday, 8th April 2013 and the CDs were mailed out the same day.
#muzik 2 bonnes nouvelles en même temps
Une autre chanson jouée par _
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSpqj3V0s2E
Operation Condor Trial Tackles Coordinated Campaign by Latin American Dictatorships to Kill Leftists | Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/7/operation_condor_trial_tackles_coordinated_campaign#transcript
AMY GOODMAN: The International Criminal Court.
JOHN DINGES: The International Criminal Court. There’s never been any participate—there’s never been any trials that have brought Americans in the dock. There was an attempt in Italy; of course, all of those people were gone. The United States, for one reason or another, Democrats and Republicans, protect our own human rights criminals when it’s involving human rights crimes outside of the United States. It’s just the way it is.
Admin Aids French Bombing of Mali After U.S. -Trained Forces Join Rebels in Uranium-Rich Region
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/15/admin_aids_french_bombing_of_mali
You know, I think one of the things that’s gotten lost in a lot of the talk about al-Qaeda and mujahideen and all of that is that—is the way that this conflict started. This conflict started with a movement of secular Tuareg separatists who rose up and demanded an independent state and who started to sweep down into the northern two-thirds of Mali to take over the area which they consider theirs. And they were shadowed in this operation by some other Tuaregs that had different views, more religious views, as well as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and some other actors. And, you know, together, sort of in an alliance not of the willing, they took over the area. And then, from that point on, the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the mujahideen, the local mujahideen who are allied with them, sort of took over the cities of northern Mali from the Tuareg separatists. So, I think, you know, the genesis of this whole conflict is the Tuareg people of northern Mali demanding a state, which is a very old demand, which goes back to 1963, of the first Tuareg rebellion.
And I think it also needs to be mentioned that France has very important economic interests, not necessarily in Mali, but in neighboring northern Niger, which is also a Tuareg area. And this whole area of northern Mali and northern Niger is a uranium-rich area, which is a Tuareg area, and which shares the same tribes going back and forth between the two, some of the same tribes, some of the same families even. And usually when you have a Tuareg rebellion or uprising in Mali, it spreads to Niger, and when you have one in Niger, it spreads to Mali, because they’re really all one people. And the Tuaregs, in general, have a kind of a national sense. I would compare them with the Kurds. They’re—they consider themselves one people, whether they’re in the Sahara of Algeria or the Sahara of Libya or the Sahara of Mali or the Sahara of Niger. For them, it’s just their homeland.
And so, you know, France has a huge economic interest in northern Niger. That is—northern Niger, Niger, is one of the world’s biggest reserves of uranium. France is—gets 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear power. And as we know, France is a major exporter of nuclear power, and it’s a major component of French’s—the France’s military-industrial entity. I mean, uranium, you know, the uranium from Niger, which is France’s former colony, really was a key for France in its own development. I mean, they developed their nuclear industry on the back of that very cheap uranium coming from northern Niger, which, by the way, Niger is one of the bottom three poorest countries in the world, according to the U.N. Human Rights—U.N. Human Development Index. I mean, it has one of the world’s most important resources, and yet it’s one of the poorest. Northern Mali also has a large amount of uranium, and the whole area has been divided up into exploration concessions, and there are a number of companies that are just waiting for the chance to get in there. And also gold and oil.
Democracy Now ! Interview with Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and « Islam & the Arab Awakening »
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/7352/democracy-now-interview-with-islamic-scholar-tariq
Tariq Ramadan sur les révolutions arabes, notamment sur Al-Jazira et le silence sur Bahreïn
AMY GOODMAN: Who are the petro-monarchists? Which countries?
TARIQ RAMADAN: The petro-monarchies are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, even Bahrain. Bahrain, we had protests in Bahrain, and they were tortured and repression. We don’t cover this. We didn’t cover this. And no one was saying that the government—it was translated into Shia-Sunni clashes. It’s wrong. There is clearly a lack of democracy there. And we need to come with something which is, don’t tell us that Islam in itself is a problem—is exactly what Barack Obama just said yesterday. If they are with us, protecting our interests, we will deal with them; if not, we will struggle.
AMY GOODMAN: Al Jazeera’s role in covering the Arab world?
TARIQ RAMADAN: Yes, I’m talking about it in the book, saying it’s quite—it’s quite—we have to look at the way they were dealing with this, pushing in Egypt, pushing In Tunisia, silent in Bahrain, silent in—so, it’s a selective—
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And pushing Libya, as well.
TARIQ RAMADAN: Exactly. Of course, they were, even, you know, sending armies and people. So, all—you know, Jazeera in itself, perceived as a counter, you know, Fox News Channel, has to be also questioned as to the intention. And we know now—you know, the Arabs and the people in the Arab world are very much supportive of Al Jazeera, taking it as a credible source of news. Now it’s much more questioned by the people. When I was in Tunisia, I say, “What do they want exactly? For whom are they running ? What do they want?” And there is something which is connected to the government. So I think that in all this, it’s clear that it played a very positive role in Egypt by pushing the people. But we need to look at political—the whole scene and the whole region to understand that there are much more questions to be asked about what are the intentions from behind—you know, from supporting some uprisings and forgetting others.
AMY GOODMAN: Like?
TARIQ RAMADAN: Like Bahrain, for example, as I was saying, and being silent, for example, about what also was happening in Libya, what also is happening in Iraq, and very much nurturing this sense of “be careful, al-Qaeda is there, the terrorists.” You know, it’s also nurturing a mindset. It’s as if, you know, doing the job of “be careful, terrorism is around the corner,” and I think that this is—this is to be questioned.
Assange inculpé : le regrettable silence des journalistes (We The Net)
http://www.wethenet.eu/2012/03/assange-inculpe-le-regrettable-silence-des-journalistes
Le « Grand Jury » mis en place l’an dernier par le ministère de la Justice américain, suite à la révélation des câbles diplomatiques par WikiLeaks, aurait bel et bien inculpé Julian Assange, sur le terrain de l’espionnage1. C’est là l’une des révélations majeures contenues dans les e-mails de la société de renseignement privée Stratfor, publiés cette semaine par WikiLeaks. Presse traditionnelle vs. Julian Assange Cette nouvelle particulièrement inquiétante pour la liberté de la presse et la transparence de nos démocraties reste pourtant négligée. Tout se passe comme si les grands médias traditionnels ne mesuraient pas réellement l’importance de ce qui si joue. (...) Source : We The Net
Yochai Benkler :
We cannot afford as a polity to create classes of privileged speakers and press agencies, and underclasses of networked information producers whose products we take into the public sphere when convenient, but whom we treat as susceptible to suppression when their publications become less palatable. Doing so would severely undermine the quality of our public discourse and the production of the fourth estate in the networked information society.
DEMOCRATY NOW ! - Leaked Stratfor Email Suggests Secret U.S. Indictment of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/29/leaked_stratfor_email_suggests_secret_us
Egypt : The Army vs. the People? (Relevé sur le net)
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/4/12/the_army_vs_the_people_a
Two months after the fall of the Mubarak regime, tension between the Egyptian military and the pro-democracy protesters is rapidly increasing. On Friday, Egyptian forces stormed Tahrir Square in Cairo, killing two protesters. On Monday, an Egyptian military court sentenced a pacifist blogger to three years in prison. Hundreds, and possibly thousands, of civilians remain in detention today after being sentenced by military tribunals over the past two months. Democracy Now! correspondent Anjali Kamat reports from Cairo. (...)
Entretien téléphonique avec Chomsky sur Democracy Now :
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/2/noam_chomsky_this_is_the_most
#Égypte #Noam_Chomsky #Democraty_Now
