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    Fighting erupts in Yemen amid protests - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111125124426529361.html

    Officials in Yemen say heavy fighting broke out in the Yemeni capital between security forces and army defectors despite the signing of a recent deal to transfer power.

    One man from each side was killed in Friday’s clashes in Sanaa, a military official said.

    Central security forces under the command of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s nephew battled the army’s First Armoured Division, led by a general who defected to the opposition in March, the official said.

    The protests in Sanaa and the southern city of Taiz followed Saleh’s signing of a deal on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, brokered by the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council, transferring power in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

    Many protesters say the deal - under which Saleh will leave the president’s office in 30 days.- falls short of their demands because many crucial positions in the government and the military are held by Saleh’s family and friends.

    Five protesters were killed in Sanaa on Thursday as government loyalists dressed in plain clothes reportedly opened fire on the protesters from rooftops and moving cars.

    Sujet sur Euronews:
    ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXAZg86KQI&feature=player_embedded

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    Militias rearming in the DRC - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011112074454189674.html

    Reports have begun to emerge over the few weeks that rebel groups in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are reforming, recruiting new members and possibly rearming. Some commentators assume that this is related to the upcoming elections, but it seems equally likely that it is linked to disruptions in the mining sector in the eastern DRC over the past few months.

    #RDC #mines #pauvreté #milices

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    Prison slaves - Slavery : A 21st Century Evil - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/slaverya21stcenturyevil/2011/10/2011101091153782814.html

    China has the biggest penal colony in the world - a top secret network of more than 1,000 slave labour prisons and camps known collectively as “The Laogai”. And the use of the inmates of these prisons - in what some experts call “state sponsored slavery” - has been credited with contributing to the country’s economic boom.

    #chine #prisons #esclavage #reportage

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    Brazil suspends Chevron’s drilling activities - Americas - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/11/201111240404468280.html

    The Brazilian government has suspended Chevron’s drilling rights in the country until it clarifies the causes of an offshore oil spill, those responsible for the disaster are identified and safety conditions are restored in the area.

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    #Brésil #pétrole

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    Mais si, je t’assure que c’est intéressant (surtout si tu as de belles optiques Olympus) : Ousted #Olympus CEO to meet board in Tokyo
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2011/11/2011112375243814247.html

    Michael Woodford, the sacked chief executive of Olympus, is to attend the Japanese company’s board meeting later this week.

    Woodford arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday for the first time since losing his job just over five weeks ago for questioning $1.4bn in takeover costs now at the centre of criminal investigations.

    The firm said on Monday that a third-party panel it set up to investigate the matter had, so far, found no evidencethat organised crime syndicates or “yakuza” gangsters were involved in the payments.

    The panel’s report is due in early December.

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    Arab revolts - past and present | Joseph Massad (Al Jazeera English)
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111810259215940.html

    The US-British-Saudi-Israeli alliance in the region today is following the same strategies they followed in late 1960s and early 1970s and continuing the strategy they followed with the PLO in the early 1990s. They are crushing those uprisings they can crush and are co-opting those they cannot. The efforts to fully co-opt the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings have made great strides over the last few months, though they have not been successful in silencing or demobilising the populations. On the other side, Bahrain’s uprising was the first to be crushed with the efforts to crush the Yemenis continuing afoot without respite. It was in Libya and in Syria where the axis fully hijacked the revolts and took them over completely. While Syrians, like Libyans before them, continue their valiant uprising against their brutal regime demanding democracy and social justice, their quest is already doomed unless they are able to dislodge the US-British-Saudi-Qatari axis that has fully taken over their struggle - which is very unlikely. (...) Source: Al Jazeera English

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    The struggle for Syria - Joseph Massad - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111555722772798.html

    It was the United States that destroyed Syrian democracy in 1949 when the CIA sponsored the first coup d’état in the country ending democratic rule. It is again the United States that has destroyed the possibility of a democratic outcome of the current popular uprising. My deep condolences to the Syrian people.

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    Le dernier billet de Joseph Massad, à lire absolument (comme toujours) :
    Arab revolts - past and present - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/2011111810259215940.html

    As for the larger Arab context, those who call what has unfolded in the last year in the Arab World as an Arab “awakening” are not only ignorant of the history of the last century, but also deploy Orientalist arguments in their depiction of Arabs as a quiescent people who put up with dictatorship for decades and are finally waking up from their torpor. Across the Arab world, Arabs have revolted against colonial and local tyranny every decade since World War I. It has been the European colonial powers and their American heir who have stood in their way every step of the way and allied themselves with local dictators and their families (and in many cases handpicking such dictators and putting them on the throne).

    The US-European sponsorship of the on-going counterrevolutions across the Arab world today is a continuation of a time-honoured imperial tradition, but so is continued Arab resistance to imperialism and domestic tyranny. The uprisings that started in Tunisia in December 2010 continue afoot despite major setbacks to all of them. This is not to say that things have not changed and are not changing significantly, it is to say, however, that many of the changes are reversible and that the counterrevolution has already reversed a significant amount and is working hard to reverse more. Vigilance is mandatory on the part of those struggling for democratic change and social justice, especially in these times of upheaval and massive imperial mobilisation. Some of the battles may have been lost but the Arab peoples’ war against imperialism and for democracy and social justice continues across the Arab world.

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    Protesters storm Kuwaiti parliament - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111116204038300676.html

    Opposition lawmakers warned of a growing political crisis after dozens of anti-government protesters muscled their way into Kuwait’s parliament during debate over efforts to question the prime minister about corruption allegations.

    Local media reported the demonstrators briefly chanted before being forced out as hundreds of others protested outside on Wednesday.

    Opposition parliament members have sought to question Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Al Mohammad Al Sabah over claims that government officials illegally transferred money to accounts outside the Gulf country.

    Last month, Kuwait’s foreign minister resigned as the scandal grew.

    Pro-government lawmakers managed to vote down a request for the questioning, but opposition groups filed another motion to force another debate later this month.

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    Cambodians fight illegal logging - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2011/11/2011111213059173371.html

    Hundreds of protesters in Cambodia fear that within six months to a year illegal logging and government corruption could lead to the clearing of an entire forest of trees.

    [...] The protected resin trees in the forest are the main income source for 80 per cent of people in the area, but with cut trees fetching tens of thousands of dollars in Vietnam and China, government corruption is putting both the economy and environment of the region at risk.

    ►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8Bt_dTei8&feature=player_embedded

    #Cambodge #déforestation #corruption

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    Turning the ’right of return’ into reality - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
    ►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/05/2011527131738517819.html

    But it is the exposure of a third myth that is the most explosive: that a literal return is unfeasible. In the words of the excellent arenaofspeculation.org, engaging “in new ways with the spatial, political and social landscapes of Israel-Palestine” means that instead of asking “can we return?” or “when will we return?” Palestinians are suddenly allowed to ask “what kind of return do we want to create for ourselves?” 

    A discussion on what implementing the right of the return would look like is taking place. There is the long-standing work of Salman Abu Sitta and the Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), as well as studies by Badil and Decolonising Architecture Art Residency. Recently, the Israeli group Zochrot published in their journal Sedek a fascinating collection of articles on realising the return.

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