Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen ?
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen#
#medias #journalisme #Obama #Yemen
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen ?
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen#
#medias #journalisme #Obama #Yemen
The strange case of Barrett Brown - what happens when you peer too closely into the murky world of protected unethical security contractors who overstep their role...
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown
#Stratfor #Lulzsec #Anonymous #HBGary #Palantir #Berico #Endgame #FBI
it’s a #MUSTREAD
Some journalists are now understandably afraid to go near the #Stratfor files. The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is #Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups.
Free Barrett Brown | Supporting the defense of Barrett Brown: imprisoned American journalist and activist, founder of Project PM.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Human Gene Patents
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/174789/supreme-court-strikes-down-human-gene-patents
Today, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark victory for patients rights’ and a blow against corporate healthcare monopolies by unanimously deciding that human DNA is “a product of nature” and thus “not patent eligible.”
Un ancien employé de la #NSA compare la situation politique actuelle aux #États_Unis avec celle de l’Allemagne juste avant la prise du pouvoir par Hitler.
La transformation des États Unis dans une dictature à part entière serait imminente.
Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173521/obamas-crackdown-whistleblowers
By using the NSA to spy on American citizens, Binney told me, the United States has created a police state with few parallels in history: “It’s better than anything that the KGB, the Stasi, or the Gestapo and SS ever had.” He compared the situation to the Weimar Republic, a brief period of liberal democracy that preceded the Nazi takeover of Germany. “We’re just waiting to turn the key,” he said.
Est-ce vraiment inquiétant ?
James Bamford, the world’s foremost authority on the NSA, said Americans should take Binney seriously. “Remember, he was the equivalent of a general because of his rank” at the NSA, he said. “In terms of going public with their names and faces,” the NSA Four rank as the most important whistleblowers in NSA history, he added. “Obviously, I think they’re very credible.” Because of their experience in some of the NSA’s most secret programs, the NSA Four are “indispensable” to understanding the agency’s unconstitutional operations, said Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director for the ACLU. “NSA is an extraordinarily powerful agency with sophisticated technology that is poorly understood by many experts. It operates behind a veil of secrecy that is penetrated only occasionally by whistleblowers like these.”
D’après l’article les gouvernements depuis l’administration Bush auraient vendu la quasi totalité des activités sécuritaires étatsuniennes à des entreprises privées tellement corrompues que la défense américaine serait maintenant entre les mains de bandits qui imposeraient leurs lois à l’ensemble de la politique du pays.
ce matin un chroniqueur sur France culture faisait un parallèle entre les États-Unis et la Chine...
Il semble vous échapper qu’au moins un membre de l’Union Européenne emploie le même dispositif que l’administration américaine.
Et que de toute façon, Bruxelles impose la transmission de nombreuses données européennes aux US pour exploitation explicite dans le cadre de la coopération anti-toriste tout en agitant les bras pour faire diversion sur la question des données personnelles.
Bref, la Chine est désormais un pays dans lequel les libertés individuelles sont davantage en sécurité qu’aux USA ou en Europe (l’europe ayant certes encore quelques progrès technologiques à faire pour exploiter efficacement internet à son avantage, sans pour autant avoir des intentions bien différentes de celles de l’administration américaine).
Dans un tel contexte, l’émigration vers la Russie ou la Chine devient une hypothèse bien plus sensée qu’il n’y parait de prime abord
@bp314 : je ne suis pas d’accord avec ta phrase « la Chine est désormais un pays dans lequel les libertés individuelles sont davantage en sécurité qu’aux USA ou en Europe » qui est quand même d’un niveau de provocation assez énorme :)
On ne peut pas (ou plus, pour les plus naïfs) mettre en doute que nos chers États nous espionnent, que les US espionnent tout le monde et que si les services dans le #cloud sont gratuits, il fallait bien qu’il y ait un piège quelque part... Mais on ne peut pas pour autant faire un tel contresens. Nos libertés individuelles sont encore relativement bien protégées, surtout aux Etats-Unis et pour les américains ai-je envie de dire. « Liberté » en Chine, c’est limite un gros mot quand même... ;)
@bp314 Cette position peut se défendre, pourtant je ne suis pas d’accord. Je pense qu’il faut regarder la situation dans chacun de nos pays dans son contexte historique - avec un peu de recul on peut identifier des tendances et il me semble que la Chine n’est pas sur une voie qui mène vers tel ou tel résultat précis et prévisible.
Je vois que d’un côté il y a un grand effort pour créer un état de droit fiable pour les investisseurs et les citoyens mais qu’il y a pleins d’éléments qui agissent contre le succès de ce projet. Il est d’ailleurs difficile de parler de « la Chine », mais je peux imaginer des cas où ta position se révèle comme correcte - je pense particulièrement au cas d’Edward Snowden qui s’est réfugié á Hongkong.
Je viens d’apprendre que #Hongkong n’est pas un endroit sûr pour échapper aux poursuites du gouvernement US :
▻http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39296/1.html
Nach Aussagen von Rechtsexperten ist Hongkong für Snowden kein sicherer Hafen. Dort sei man allgemein gewillt, Gesuchte an die USA auszuliefern. Er könne zwar die Auslieferung hinausziehen, sie aber nicht verhindern, berichtet die New York Times. Ähnliches glaubt man auch bei WikiLeaks, Asange pries Snowden wenig verwunderlich als Helden: „China has no face on the table. Nothing to lose, everything to gain by arresting Snowden on US request. Deportation after pressure only hope.“ Auch Nicholas Bequelin von der Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch wundert sich, wie Snowden ausgerechnet auf Hongkong gekommen ist und vermutet schlechte Rechtsberatung.
Ce qu’on peut se demander c’est « quand » ? Quand est-ce que cette masse d’information va être utilisée ? Le jour où ils souhaiteront l’utiliser, ils le pourront, et les éléments collectés seront bel et bien là pour être utilisés contre les citoyens.
Imaginez une telle base de données à l’époque du Maccarthysme. Ce n’était pas si loin de nous, pas en Chine... Et peu reluisant.
@biggrizzly : exactement. D’ailleurs, on ne sait pas dans quelle mesure ces informations ne sont pas déjà utilisées... Il y avait eu un début de presque prise de conscience après l’attentat de Boston, quand les autorités américaines avaient reconnu du bout des lèvres que, s’ils avaient retrouvé les 2 suspects aussi rapidement, c’est parce qu’ils écoutaient tout le monde...
Le fond de mon argument est de remarquer que même les US peinent à maîtriser des technologies de datamining aussi primitives que la recherche par mot-clés, au point d’employer des individus peu fiables comme analystes faute de parvenir à trouver de bons élèves dévoués issus des bonnes familles.
Mais le fait qu’ils ne maîtrisent absolument pas ces technologies et les utilisent malgré tout démontre, pour l’Europe comme pour les USA que :
1) Leur ambition a toujours plus les utiliser à toutes fins est intacte
2) Leur usage progressera
La Chine peine encore bien davantage à ce faire et n’a pas besoin de ce genre de technologies pour assurer sa cohésion. De ce point de vue, je prédis que bientôt, la Chine et la Russie seront des pays dans lesquels il sera en pratique plus simple de mener sa vie comme bon vous semblera qu’aux US ou en Europe.
Ah... la Chine et la Russie seraient plus sûrs pour la vie privée car moins avancés technologiquement... Bien imaginé, mais pas sûr que ce soit vrai. Déjà, la vieille Europe n’est pas si à la ramasse que ça (#DPI toussa toussa, techno vendue à Kadhafi, etc.), et la Chine, niveau cybercensure, se place plutôt dans la catégorie « champion toutes catégories » que « petit scarabé ignorant ». De plus, en Chine et en Russie, on n’a pas besoin de beaucoup de technologie pour surveiller les masses : le parti est là pour ça...
Je cause quotidiennement avec des citoyens US « cultives » ( par opposition a d autres ) du monde des logiciels libres et de bitcoin, et je peux vous dire que beaucoup la bas sont conscients de cet aspect dictatorial, du fait que la constitution americaine n est plus respectee, du fait que plus de 50 millions d etatsuniens sont aux « foodstamps » , bons alimentaires , et j en passe.
Beaucoup aussi sont enerves par les lois qui veulent leur interdire de posseder des armes pour pouvoir faire une revolution . . .
Avant on disai « land of the free » pour les US . . . . on en est loin desormais
A propos de l’attentat de Boston et du fait que le FBI écoute tout le monde : ►http://bluetouff.com/2013/05/05/affaire-tsarnaev-la-surveillance-de-masse-des-citoyens-americains-revelee Bluetouff s’étonne dans un récent billet que ça n’ait pas fait plus de bruit à l’époque, alors qu’on fait tout un foin pour #Prism
Obama Speech On Drones, Guantanamo, Terror - Business Insider
►http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-speech-drones-guantanamo-terror-national-defense-university-2
Full text.
Une des parties occultées par Obama:
How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011. ▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173980/inside-americas-dirty-wars?page=0,0
Un an après,
▻http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/05/22/the_less_things_change_drones_targeted_killing_ndu_speech_counterterr
Here are 10 things that show how little has changed over the past year regarding U.S. targeted killing policies.
Inside America’s Dirty Wars
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173980/inside-americas-dirty-wars
How three US citizens were killed by their own government in the space of one month in 2011. Source: The Nation
Will Obama keep Yemeni journalist in jail ? | Index on Censorship
▻http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/05/will-obama-block-release-of-yemeni-journalist-again
The president of Yemen says journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye should be released from jail. Will Barack Obama stand between the reporter and freedom? Iona Craig reports
(Le journaliste yéménite Abdallah Shayi’ a été arrêté au Yémen en Août 2010 sur ordre étasunien, sous prétexte qu’il avait interviewé un militant d’AQ, en réalité parce qu’il rapportait les victimes civiles des frappes de drones.)
Seven months after the al-Majala bombing and following his criticism of both the Yemeni and US Governments, Shaye was abducted by Political Security Organisation [PSO] gunmen. Beaten and threatened before being released, in response Shaye went back on television. A month later, in August 2010, his house was raided by Yemen’s elite US-trained and funded Counter Terrorism troops. Shaye was once again beaten and tortured, according to the Yemeni human rights organisation HOOD, during 34 days in solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer or family members.
Meet Abdulelah Haider Shaye, The Other Journalist The Obama Administration Has Targeted
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/abdulelah-haider-shaye-yemeni-journalist_n_3366843.html?1370027597
James Rosen got off easy. After searching his email and tracking his whereabouts, the Department of Justice has not jailed or prosecuted the Fox News journalist, which the Obama administration says reflects its deep respect for the role of a free press. On Thursday, a DOJ spokesperson said in a statement that “the Department does not anticipate bringing any additional charges. During the Attorney General’s tenure, no reporter has ever been prosecuted.”
The Obama administration gave no such leniency to Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist who had access to top officials in the militant Islamist group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and reported on evidence that the United States had conducted a missile strike in al Majala for which the Yemeni government had claimed credit.
After Shaye was initially imprisoned for alleged involvement with AQAP in 2010, supporters pressed for his release, and word leaked that the Yemeni president was going to issue a pardon. In early 2011, Obama personally intervened. “President Obama expressed concern over the release of Abd-Ilah al-Shai, who had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP,” reads a summary of the call posted on the White House website.
The reporter was not released. The U.S. administration has still presented no evidence to back up the notion that he is a terrorist or a supporter of terrorism.
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen ? | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-keeping-journalist-prison-yemen
On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider Shaye, whom Obama said “had been sentenced to five years in prison for his association with AQAP.” It turned out that Shaye had not yet been released at the time of the call, but Saleh did have a pardon for him prepared and was ready to sign it. It would not have been unusual for the White House to express concern about Yemen’s allowing AQAP suspects to go free. Suspicious prison breaks of Islamist militants in Yemen had been a regular occurrence over the past decade, and Saleh has been known to exploit the threat of terrorism to leverage counterterrorism dollars from the United States. But this case was different. Abdulelah Haider Shaye is not an Islamist militant or an Al Qaeda operative. He is a journalist.
Yemeni Journalist Who Obama Kept in Prison is Free- ▻http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/07/23/yemeni-journalist-who-obama-kept-in-prison-is-free
▻https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/360956454947131392/photo/1
.. I honor the newly freed journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye. Never should have been imprisoned
Index Freedom of Expression Awards : Journalism nominee Abdulelah Haider Shaye - Index on Censorship | Index on Censorship
▻http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/03/index-freedom-expression-awards-journalism-nominee-abdulelah-haid
Inside America’s Dirty Wars
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173980/inside-americas-dirty-wars?page=full
While the battle over leaks concerning the operation—as well as the various contradictory stories on how bin Laden was killed—raged in the media, the White House was deeply immersed in planning more lethal operations against so-called “High Value Targets.” Chief among these was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen of Yemeni descent born in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
#JSOC #exécutions #guerre
The American Legacy in Iraq | The Nation
►http://www.thenation.com/article/173416/american-legacy-iraq#
Le legs étasunien : Un sectarisme digne de celui des pays du Golfe et une corruption massive et généralisée.
There is a grandeur in the blatancy and pervasiveness of corruption at every level in Iraq. People in prison found innocent at their trial must still pay to get released. Officers who want promotion in the army or police must pay. A civilian friend worked out that he could join the army and rise to the rank of colonel within months, but he would have to bribe eleven people to do so. One former minister describes the system as “institutionalized kleptocracy.” The government of Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister since 2006, allocates contracts to supporters and to political factions he wants to cultivate. Money is paid for contracts regardless of whether they are performed or not. The effects can be seen all over Baghdad, where there are almost no new buildings. I was there recently during a couple of days of heavy rain. Since 2003, $7 billion has been spent on a new sewage system, which should have taken care of the rainwater. But it turns out that either there are no new sewers or they don’t work, because within hours, the streets of Baghdad turned into murky gray pools of water and sewage. Electricity is often two hours on, two hours off, and there is a shortage of clean water.
A lire l’extraordinaire David Ignatius on croirait que la « spirale des tueries sectaires » existait avant l’invasion étasunienne et que David Petraeus n’a jamais créé d’escadrons de la mort.
David Ignatius : Ten years later, recalling Iraq’s hard lessons - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/david-ignatius-ten-years-later-recalling-iraqs-hard-lessons/2013/03/20/5a05890c-90d7-11e2-bdea-e32ad90da239_story.html?hpid=z2
By checking the spiraling sectarian killing, the surge of U.S. troops led by Bush and Gen. David Petraeus saved thousands of Iraqi lives. It’s one thing Americans did right in this painful story.
The American Legacy in Iraq- ►http://www.thenation.com/article/173416/american-legacy-iraq#
Baghdad was once a city where Sunni, Shiite and Christian lived side by side, conscious that they belonged to different sects but not frightened of one another.
On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173212/legacy-hugo-chavez#
By 2005, Chávez had weathered the storm and was in control of the nation’s oil, allowing him to embark on an ambitious program of domestic and international transformation: massive social spending at home and “poly-polar equilibrium” abroad, a riff on what Bolívar once called “universal equilibrium,” an effort to break up the US’s historical monopoly of power in Latin America and force Washington to compete for influence.
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Over the last fourteen years, Chávez has submitted himself and his agenda to fourteen national votes, winning thirteen of them by large margins, in polling deemed by Jimmy Carter to be “best in the world” out of the ninety-two elections that he has monitored...
after the last presidential ballot—which Chávez won with the same percentage he did his first election yet with a greatly expanded electorate—even his opponents have admitted, despairingly, that a majority of Venezuelans liked, if not adored, the man.
How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/173120/how-private-prisons-game-immigration-system
Three years after the company’s first contract in 1983, according to Southern Changes magazine, the company spent some $100,000 lobbying the state of Tennessee to secure a correctional facility privatization bill, which helped propel the business to financial success. Last year, the company brought in $1.7 billion in revenues, about a quarter of which came from contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and federal Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate non-citizens in the United States.
The War on Drugs Is a War on Kids
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/172895/war-drugs-war-kids
On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming exams.
On a warm spring afternoon at the nation’s poorer public schools, children (and I mean children) will endure a daily police presence, including drug-sniffing dogs, full-body pat-downs, searches of backpacks and lockers, stops in the hallways—all in the name of searching for contraband.
Judith Butler’s Remarks to Brooklyn College on BDS | The Nation
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/172752/judith-butlers-remarks-brooklyn-college-bds?fb_action_ids=101512842207535
Judith Butler lors du débat sur le #BDS au Brooklyn College
▻http://www.thenation.com/article/172752/judith-butlers-remarks-brooklyn-college-bds?page=full
One could be for the BDS movement as the only credible non-violent mode of resisting the injustices committed by the state of Israel without falling into the football lingo of being “pro” Palestine and “anti” Israel. This language is reductive, if not embarrassing.
Chase Madar, The Nation (USA) : Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning ▻http://www.thenation.com/article/172380/government-persecution-aaron-swartz-bradley-manning#
Le Storyteller Obama agit comme personne contre les whistleblowers tout en narrant qu’il les aime.
Nobel Laureates Salute Bradley Manning – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
►http://www.thenation.com/article/171272/nobel-laureates-salute-bradley-manning
We Nobel Peace Prize laureates condemn the persecution Bradley Manning has suffered, including imprisonment in conditions declared “cruel, inhuman and degrading” by the United Nations, and call upon Americans to stand up in support of this whistleblower who defended their democratic rights. In the conflict in Iraq alone, more than 110,000 people have died since 2003, millions have been displaced and nearly 4,500 American soldiers have been killed. If someone needs to be held accountable for endangering Americans and civilians, let’s first take the time to examine the evidence regarding high-level crimes already committed, and what lessons can be learned. If Bradley Manning released the documents, as the prosecution contends, we should express to him our gratitude for his efforts toward accountability in government, informed democracy and peace.
Hurricane Sandy as Greek Tragedy, Mark Hertsgaard | The Nation
►http://www.thenation.com/article/170918/hurricane-sandy-greek-tragedy
#Sandy is short for Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure who epitomizes tragedy. The gods gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy; depending on which version of the story one prefers, she could either see or smell the future. But with this gift also came a curse: Cassandra’s warnings about future disasters were fated to be ignored. (...)
And so it has been with America’s response to #climate_change.
How Mandatory Minimums Forced Me to Send More Than 1,000 Nonviolent Drug Offenders to Federal Prison
►http://www.thenation.com/article/170815/how-mandatory-minimums-forced-me-send-more-1000-nonviolent-drug-offenders
Never could I have imagined that by the end of my 50s, after nineteen years as one of 678 federal district court judges in the nation, I would have sent 1,092 of my fellow citizens to federal prison for mandatory minimum sentences ranging from sixty months to life without the possibility of release. The majority of these women, men and young adults are nonviolent drug addicts. Methamphetamine is their drug of choice. Crack cocaine is a distant second. Drug kingpins? Oh yes, I’ve sentenced them, too. But I can count them on one hand.
The House I Live In
►http://www.thehouseilivein.org
While recognizing the seriousness of drug abuse as a matter of public health, the film investigates the tragic errors and shortcomings that have meant it is more often treated as a matter for law enforcement, creating a vast machine that feeds largely on America’s poor, and especially on minority communities. Beyond simple misguided policy, The House I Live In examines how political and economic corruption have fueled the war for forty years, despite persistent evidence of its moral, economic, and practical failures.
Stopped-and-Frisked : ’For Being a F**king Mutt’
►http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video
Exclusive audio obtained by The Nation of a stop-and-frisk carried out by the New York Police Department freshly reveals the discriminatory and unprofessional way in which this controversial policy is being implemented on the city’s streets.