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J’attends avec impatience que l’on se pose également ce genre de questions à propos de Star Wars .

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Trump Truth : The President With False Claims Faces Reality | Time.com
▻http://time.com/4710614/donald-trump-fbi-surveillance-house-intelligence-committee

The more the conversation continued, the more the binary distinctions between truth and falsehood blurred, the telltale sign of a veteran and strategic misleader who knows enough to leave himself an escape route when he tosses a bomb. Rather than assert things outright, he often couches provocative statements as “beliefs,” or attributes them to unnamed “very smart people.”

Is God Dead ?, #Time, le 8 avril 1966

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Women Photographers Are Being Written Out of the War Narrative | Time.com
▻http://time.com/4694204/women-war-photographers
▻https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/lynsey-addario-women-war-photographers.jpg?w=720

Since the beginning, photojournalism has been male dominated, binding the archetype of the war photographer inextricably to masculinity. I learnt this at university when I read, among others, Don McCullin’s Unreasonable Behaviour, a biography of Robert Capa by Alex Kershaw called Blood and Champagne and The Bang-Bang Club by Greg Marinovich and Joao Silva. I also learned this when I watched the documentary film War Photographer about James Nachtwey.

“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience, the cumulative offering of more than a century and a half’s worth of those professional, specialized tourists known as journalists,” writes Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others. “Specialised tourists known as journalists” is a cutting but accurate description of what we do in an industry where photographs mostly document the majority world’s tragedies, wars and natural disasters, and are created mostly by white men from the richest countries.

Women have photographed war for almost as long as men have. From Gerda Taro, who documented the Spanish Civil War, to Olive Edis, the first female photographer to be commissioned as an official war artist by the Imperial War Museum in Britain. There’s also Florence Farmborough, Christina Broom, Elsie Knocker, Mairi Chisholm, Margaret Hall and Nino Jorjadze, who photographed World War I. Many of these women were professional documentarians, commissioned as official military photographers or working for editorial clients. Others acted as journalistic witnesses whose works were widely overlooked, says Hilary Roberts, the research curator of photography at the Imperial War Museum London, who categorizes war photographers into three broadly defined categories; official, commercial and private.

Later, Lee Miller, Faye Schulman, Constance Stuart Larrabee and Margaret Bourke-White covered World War II. And Catherine Leroy, Dickey Chapelle and Felipa Schuyler went to Vietnam. Susan Meiselas, Alexandra Boulat and Carolyn Cole, alongside many exceptional women, have created significant contributions to the visual record of contemporary conflict.

#image

#nazi

Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon and the Coming Crisis in American National Life

During the 1990s, two amateur historians, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss, developed a new theory of American history in two books, Generations: the History of America’s Future (1991), and The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy (1997). They identified an 80-year cycle in American history, punctuated by great crises that destroyed an old order and created a new one.
Though their theory is not widely taught in colleges or discussed in the media, Strauss and Howe may well play a major role in Donald Trump’s administration. Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News who has been appointed Trump’s chief strategist in the White House, is very familiar with Strauss and Howe’s theory of crisis, and has been thinking about how to use it to achieve particular goals for quite a while. I know this because Bannon interviewed both Neil Howe and myself in 2009 while he was making a documentary film about the ongoing financial crisis. The film, called Generation Zero, discussed those ideas in some detail.

▻http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

#armement #dépenses_militaires

Tu parles d’une photographie glaçante.

Who will help Myanmar’s Rohingya?

Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades.

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▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38168917

Outcast: Adrift with Burma’s Rohingya

Persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar face a dangerous journey on their way to freedom in Thailand and Malaysia.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rewind/2016/11/outcast-adrift-burma-rohingya-161128063953657.html

Dozens of Rohingya missing as boat sinks off Bangladesh

Boat packed with at least 31 people reportedly chased by a Myanmar army speedboat as it tried to reach Bangladesh.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/dozens-rohingya-missing-boat-sinks-bangladesh-161205132909880.html

Rohingya Face Health Care Bias in Parts of Asia, Study Finds

HONG KONG — Members of the Rohingya ethnic group face chronic discrimination in access to medical care in Myanmar and other Asian countries, with severe consequences for health and mortality rates, a study has found.

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Burmese military killed seven of my children, says Rohingya refugee

Woman’s account is one of a wave of reports of murder and rape by soldiers in Myanmar, amid claims of genocide

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/10/burmese-military-killed-seven-of-my-children-says-rohingya-refugee?CMP=
#génocide

A family torn apart at sea

The trawler’s captain had abandoned the ship and naval authorities in the region had pushed it back out to sea, bereft of fuel and potable water with over 800 refugees and migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh onboard. With passengers crammed above and below deck in sweltering heat, a deadly brawl over water erupted.

▻http://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2016/12/58453b454/a-family-torn-apart-at-sea.html

Myanmar stops migrant workers going to Malaysia after Rohingya row

YANGON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Myanmar has stopped workers going to Malaysia after Malaysia’s leader criticised its treatment of Muslims, while Indonesia joined a growing chorus of concern about the fate of Myanmar’s stateless Rohingya Muslims.

▻http://news.trust.org/item/20161207111227-90q04/?source=dpagetopic

UN getting daily reports of rapes, killings and other abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Burma

UN human rights chief accuses Burmese government of taking ‘short-sighted, counterproductive, even callous’ approach to crisis

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/burma-rohingya-muslims-rape-murder-accusations-un-aung-san-suu-kyi-a7

Burma: Security Forces Raped Rohingya Women, Girls

(New York) – Burmese government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against ethnic Rohingya women and girls as young as 13 during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should urgently endorse an independent, international investigation into alleged abuses in northern Rakhine State, including into possible systematic rape against Rohingya women and girls.

▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/06/burma-security-forces-raped-rohingya-women-girls

Rohingya Villagers Bear Witness to a Brutal Crackdown in Myanmar

On the morning of Oct. 10, Hussein Muhammad, an old Rohingya man who doesn’t know his age, was awoken at 6 a.m. by a noise outside his home. When he stepped outside, he saw that dozens of soldiers and members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police had his hut surrounded.

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Rohingya Muslims tell of gang rapes and secret killings in Myanmar’s hidden region

As the last of the foreign reporters walked over a bamboo bridge a young Rohingya woman dressed in black, with a black umbrella, raised her hand hesitantly.

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Akhil Reed Amar teaches constitutional law at Yale University. This essay borrows from his recently published book, The Constitution Today.

At the Philadelphia convention, the visionary Pennsylvanian James Wilson proposed direct national election of the president. But the savvy Virginian James Madison responded that such a system would prove unacceptable to the South: “The right of suffrage was much more diffusive [i.e., extensive] in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes.” In other words, in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves (more than half a million in all) of course could not vote. But the Electoral College—a prototype of which Madison proposed in this same speech—instead let each southern state count its slaves, albeit with a two-fifths discount, in computing its share of the overall count.

(...) If the system’s pro-slavery tilt was not overwhelmingly obvious when the Constitution was ratified, it quickly became so. For 32 of the Constitution’s first 36 years, a white slaveholding Virginian occupied the presidency.

#pouvoir_de_vote #États-Unis #histoire #esclavage

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Greek Anarchists Are Finding Space for Refugees in Abandoned Hotels

Greek Leftists and Anarchists say they have found a better alternative to camps for Europe’s refugees: the continent’s empty buildings. The buildings’ owners don’t necessarily agree.

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▻http://time.com/4501017/greek-anarchists-are-finding-space-for-refugees-in-abandoned-hotels/?platform=hootsuite

Regarding the rumors on the imminent evacuation of refugee squats and the escalation of the anti-refugee policy

It looks like the government attack against the refugee housing squats is being escalated. Following the evacuation of the Thessaloniki squats in the summer, the Alkiviadou refugee housing squat and Villa Zografou were evacuated a few weeks ago. Following the statements by Minister of Public Order Nikos Toskas last week, regarding the evacuation of refugee housing squats, rumors and leaked information has been circulating, setting the stage for a new round of attacks.

▻http://solidarity2refugees.gr/regarding-rumors-imminent-evacuation-refugee-squats-escalation-a

An occupied hotel in Greece models how to welcome refugees

It is almost summer in Europe. Temperatures are rising, and many are preparing for vacations somewhere in the Mediterranean, which means searching for accommodation online. “No pool, no minibar, no room service, and nonetheless: the best hotel in Europe” reads the City Plaza Hotel’s homepage. A joke? Yes. A lie? Not at all. While this hotel in Athens, Greece might not offer those conventional services, it provides something far better: Free housing, medical care and meals for hundreds of people who have had to flee their countries.

►https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/city-plaza-hotel-greece-welcome-refugees

This refugee squat represents the best and worst of humanity

The derelict City Plaza hotel in Athens was taken over by activists in 2016. Since then, it has housed refugees without a cent of government funding

▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/23/refugee-squat-city-plaza-greece-best-worst-humanity?CMP=share_btn_tw

#culture_du_viol

Rohingya Women ‘Raped at Gunpoint’ in Burma Army Sweep for Suspected Jihadists, Report Says

Parts of Arakan state are on lockdown as the military searches for suspected militants connected to a deadly attack on border police

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▻http://time.com/4548834/rohingya-burma-myanmar-suu-kyi-maungdaw-rape/?xid=tcoshare

#rohingas

Myanmar detains police over Rohingya abuse video

Myanmar said Monday it has detained several police officers over a video shot by a fellow policeman that shows them beating Rohingya civilians, a rare admission of abuse against the Muslim minority.

▻https://www.yahoo.com/news/myanmar-investigate-police-abuse-rohingya-071610389.html

#police #violences_policières

Myanmar promises action over Rohingya abuse video

Rare admission of abuse in #Rakhine state follows release of selfie-style video filmed by border police showing #torture.

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/01/myanmar-promises-action-rohingya-abuse-video-170102112251701.html

Addressing gender-based violence amid the Rohingya refugee crisis: horrific stories, urgent action

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - When Shakila* arrived at a UNFPA Women Friendly Space she was tired and traumatized. Having fled the violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, the 36-year-old Rohingya refugee needed urgent medical services for the sexual violence she had suffered. UNFPA-trained personnel tended to her immediate needs, but the emotional scars from seeing her husband and baby girl killed in front of her will be tougher to treat.

▻https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/addressing-gender-based-violence-amid-rohingya-refugee-crisis-horrific-st

L’inferno dei migranti: cosa succede ai rifugiati in Libia

Quando le porte del deserto libico si aprono, si attraversa una linea invisibile nel Sahara. La sabbia del Niger sfuma nella sabbia della Libia, oltre una frontiera tanto arbitraria quanto invisibile agli occhi dei migranti stipati nei cassoni dei pick up 4×4. Il viaggio è stato duro ma nulla sarà duro come quello che li attende. Perché la Libia è l’inferno dei migranti.

▻https://thebottomup.it/2016/09/20/linferno-dei-migranti-cosa-succede-ai-rifugiati-in-libia

Libya’s Migrant Economy Is a Modern Day Slave Market

For migrants from sub-Sahran Africa, Libya was a destination even before Muammar Qaddafi fell in 2011, and the country turned itself in a boat launch to Europe. The dictator fancied himself as a munificent overseer of the continent below. When liberation struggles were underway against colonial masters, Qaddafi sent guns and money, and when the newly independent nations set out to organize themselves as a bloc, he not only helped fund the African Union, but proposed an even more ambitious configuration, The United States of Africa. It never went anywhere, not least because the dictator was, of course, more Arab than African. (The north African expanse of the Mahgreb, which includes Libya, is part of Africa on the maps, but separated from the sub-Saharan African region where migrants hail from by both desert and culture.)

▻http://time.com/4538445/libyas-migrant-economy-is-a-modern-day-slave-market/?xid=tcoshare
#travail #exploitation #néo-esclavage #esclavage

Desperate journeys: Rescued at sea, refugees detail abuse in Libya

Libya is one of the countries that has not signed the convention. The concern is, that leaves refugees even more at risk.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgRWWig11gI&sns=tw

German report details Libya abuses amid pressure to stem migrant flows

Embassy in Niger verifies reports of rights abuses including executions in camps as Italy demands action to halt crossings

▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/30/german-report-libya-abuses-pressure-migrant-flows

GRAND FORMAT. Dans l’enfer du #trafic_d'êtres_humains en Libye

Alors que la question migratoire est au cœur des discussions du sommet européen qui s’ouvre ce samedi à Malte, les yeux se tournent vers la Libye d’où partent la plupart des candidats à l’exil traversant la Méditerranée. L’occasion de re-découvrir l’enquête exceptionnelle du photographe Narciso Contreras sur le trafic d’êtres humains dans le désert libyen, récompensé par le prix Carmignac du photojournalisme.

▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/galeries-photos/photo/20170203.OBS4823/grand-format-dans-l-enfer-du-trafic-d-etres-humains-en-libye.ht