Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now (Naomi Klein)
►http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now
I love you. And I didn’t just say that so that hundreds of you would shout “I love you” back, though that is obviously a bonus feature of the human microphone. Say unto others what you would have them say unto you, only way louder. Source: Naomi Klein
Occupy Wall Street : Why So Many Demands for Demands? (The Nation)
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Everybody has a piece of advice for the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. They should put their clothes on. They should stop raising their fists. They should fact-check their handwritten signs. They should appoint leaders who can give pithy quotes to reporters. They should get with an electoral program. Nicholas Kristof even offered to help them out with a neat list of demands, in case those holding signs saying “We Are the 99%” just needed to have the unfairness of the carried interest rule explained to them. Indeed, their failure to present demands is the most frequently (...) Source: The Nation
Top Ten Death Penalty Songs
►http://www.thenation.com/blog/163521/top-ten-death-penalty-songs-tribute-troy-davis
Pfuh ... Y’a même pas Here’s to you ...
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Video : The Attica Prison Uprising: Forty Years Later (The Nation)
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The prisoners filling the cells of New York’s Attica prison in 1971 faced inhumane conditions. They earned 56 cents per day for manual labor in searing workshops, were only allowed one bar of soap a month and could only shower once every two weeks. They were not allowed to read what they wanted to read and there was no due process in parole hearings. The prison population was largely black and Hispanic, controlled by an all-white guard staff. After years of progress by civil rights activists and the black power movement, the authorities across America were beginning to push back. (...)
Blowback in Somalia (The Nation)
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Perhaps more than any other figure, Indha Adde embodies the mind-boggling constellation of allegiances and double-crosses that has marked Somalia since its last stable government fell in 1991. And his current role encapsulates the contradictions of the country’s present: he is a warlord who believes in Sharia law, is friendly with the CIA, and takes money and weapons from AMISOM. There are large parts of Mogadishu that are not accessible without his permission, and he controls one of the largest militias and possesses more technicals (truck-mounted heavy automatic weapons) in the city than any other warlord. (...)
Blowback in Somalia
►http://www.thenation.com/article/163210/blowback-somalia
It is quite a turnabout. Five years ago, Indha Adde was one of Al Qaeda and the Shabab’s key paramilitary allies and a commander of one of the most powerful Islamic factions in Somalia fighting against foreign forces and the US-backed Somali government. He openly admits to having sheltered some of the most notorious Al Qaeda figures—including Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania—and to deceiving the CIA in order to protect the men. (Fazul was killed in June in Mogadishu.)
Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery (Relevé sur le net)
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This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance—whether organized protests or spontaneous looting.
And that’s not politics. It’s physics. (...)
Daylight Robbery, Meet Nighttime Robbery | The Nation
►http://www.thenation.com/article/162809/daylight-robbery-meet-nighttime-robbery
This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut everything else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance—whether organized protests or spontaneous looting.
And that’s not politics. It’s physics.
Naomi Klein
Republican Candidates Mix Appeals to Economic Woes With Hard Line on Religion | The Nation
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If Paul is Bachmann’s competition for the gun lovers, Perry may be her toughest competition for the God vote. But many voters I talked to in Ames, even admittedly Christian, anti-choice, anti–gay marriage ones, did not seemed particularly moved to change their vote based on Perry’s prayer rally in Houston the previous weekend. Two Bachmann volunteers, both from Minnesota, one a “social issues” voter and the other a “fiscal issues” voter, both dismissed Perry as not pure enough from either of their perspectives.
How Rupert Murdoch Buys Friends and Influences People
►http://www.thenation.com/article/162670/how-rupert-murdoch-buys-friends-and-influences-people
One key factor must always be kept in mind when discussing Rupert Murdoch: he has a lot of money ($7.6 billion, according to Forbes) and makes even more for other people. Between 1977 and 2001, News Corporation outearned every other blue-chip company save Berkshire Hathaway and Walmart. And while money might not buy you love in America, it does buy a great deal of special favors and improper indulgences from powerful people.
Apartheid on Steroids - Stephen Robert | The Nation
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As a Jew who has been an ardent supporter of Israel since its independence, it pains me to record what I saw there. But it is my love for Israel and for the Jewish people that drives me to speak out at this treacherous time.
What I witnessed in the West Bank—home to about 2.5 million Palestinians and 500,000Israeli settlers—exceeded my worst expectations. While the world’s statesmen have dithered, Israel has created a system of apartheid on steroids, a horrifying prison with concrete walls as high as twenty-six feet, topped with body-ravaging coils of razor wire. Spaced along these walls are imposing guard towers that harbor bunkers from which trespassers can be shot by Israeli soldiers. From this physical segregation—one land for Israelis; another, unequal land for Palestinians—flows a torrent of misery, violence and human rights abuses. The West Bank suffers from acute shortages of water, housing, jobs and healthcare. Palestinian children are separated from their parents, denied access to hospitals and stoned and beaten by Jewish settlers. Human rights sanctioned by international law, including the right to health, the prohibition on transferring populations into occupied territoriesand equality before the law are routinely violated.
The Supreme Court’s Video Game Ruling: Yes to Violence, No to Sex
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This American life of ours has long been pro-violence and anti-sex, unless the two can be merged so that violence is the dominant theme. The US Supreme Court reaffirmed that historical record on Monday in declaring California’s ban on the sale of violent video games to minors unconstitutional while continuing to deny constitutional protection to purely prurient sexual material for either minors or adults.
►http://www.thenation.com/article/161447/ingrates-wall-street
The Ingrates of Wall Street
Wall Street’s refusal to pony up for Obama’s second term is an example of ingratitude mixed with ineptitude on the grandest scale imaginable.
Let Them Play: Behind FIFA’s decision to Ban Iran’s National Women’s Team | The Nation
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Soccer is the great global game: the closest thing we have to a connective cultural tissue that binds our species across national and cultural borders. But only in a world so upside down could “the Beautiful Game” be run by an organization as corrupt as FIFA and by a man as rotten to the core as FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Only Sepp Blatter, whose reputation for degeneracy approaches legend, would hire a war criminal like Henry Kissinger to head “a committee of wise persons” aimed at “rooting out corruption” in his organization. And only these two twinning avatars of amorality would use “the Beautiful Game” as an instrument of Islamophobia.
On Sunday, moments before Iran’s women’s team was due to take to the pitch and play in an Olympic qualifier against Jordan, the team was disqualified for wearing their traditional full-body tracksuits and hijabs. Jordan was granted a 3-0-forfeit victory, crushing the lauded Iranian team’s chances to go to the 2012 London Games.
An Accelerated Grimace : On Cyber-Utopianism | The Nation
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Une critique assez intéressante du livre de Clay Shirky, pour savoir ce que font les gens de leur temps libre passé sur #Internet : constructif ? sociétal ? révolutionnaire ? etc.
WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/154780/wikileaks-and-hacktivist-culture
Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan
▻http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, “snatch and grabs” of high-value targets and other sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The Nation has found
Who Is the « Taliban » ?
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Truth is, the Afghan insurgency is a volatile and highly complex phenomenon, involving three interlinked insurgent groups, the Taliban itself (based in Quetta and run by Mullah Omar and his council, or shura), the Haqqani group, and the Hizb-e Islami group of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.The three are partners of sorts, but they are different entities with their own ties to supporters, including links to the Pakistani ISI. Alongside them, and working with them, are various criminal gangs, drug organizations, timber and diamond smugglers, tribal chieftains and warlords, the shattered remnants of Al Qaeda, Uzbek militants, and more.