Excellent texte expliquant (études à l’appui) pourquoi l’#openspace au bureau est une mauvaise idée.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplac
Excellent texte expliquant (études à l’appui) pourquoi l’#openspace au bureau est une mauvaise idée.
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/google-got-it-wrong-the-open-office-trend-is-destroying-the-workplac
Après 5 ans d’#éthologie, je n’ai plus jamais trouvé quelqu’un capable de me convaincre des bienfaits de l’open space au bureau.
Gaza isn’t just a physical wreck. The psychological damage is even worse. - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/03/gaza-isnt-just-a-physical-wreck-the-psychological-damage-is-even-wor
KHUZAA, GAZA — “It feels” says Mosallam El Najaar, the retired customs official who is walking me through this small village in southern Gaza, “like the Day of Judgment.”
It looks like it, too. Houses are as squashed and scattered as paper cups. A water tower is torn up close to the ground like a stalk of corn. Mosques, schools and factories are blasted, useless shells. Olive trees that were almost ready to yield their fruit are reduced to kindling. It goes on, block after block here in Khuzaa, as well as in Beit-Hanoun in the north, Shejaia to the east of Gaza City, and Rafah in the south. Altogether 20,000 homes are destroyed and uninhabitable, 39,000 people are still living in UN shelters, and perhaps 100,000 more are homeless, crowded in with relatives. Building materials promised by the UN and international donors are stalled or unavailable.
#gaza
‘Homeland’ is the most bigoted show on television
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/homeland-is-the-most-bigoted-show-on-television
Since its first episode, “Homeland,” which returns Sunday, has churned out Islamophobic stereotypes as if its writers were getting paid by the cliché. Yet the show, created by “24” veterans Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and former Israeli paratrooper Gideon Raff, continues to rack up awards, critical praise and millions of viewers.
For starters, the show is riddled with basic errors about Islam and the Middle East. […]
More broadly, “Homeland” carelessly traffics in absurd and damaging stereotypes. The show hit peak idiocy, for instance, at the beginning of season two, when Beirut’s posh Hamra Street was depicted as a grubby generic videogame universe of Scary Muslims in which Mathison must disguise herself to avoid detection. The real Hamra Street is a cosmopolitan, expat-filled area near the American University, where Western chains like Starbucks and Gloria Jean’s compete for customers and no one would look twice at a blonde, blue-eyed white woman with uncovered hair. Islam itself is presented as sinister and suspicious: Brody secretly prays in his garage to foreboding music, and an imam who’s outraged that worshippers were shot during a police operation at his mosque turns out to be hiding information about Brody’s fellow POW-turned-terrorist Tom Walker.
These errors all add up to something important: The entire structure of “Homeland” is built on mashing together every manifestation of political Islam, Arabs, Muslims and the whole Middle East into a Frankenstein-monster global terrorist threat that simply doesn’t exist.
I understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/03/i-understand-why-westerners-are-joining-the-islamic-state-i-was-almo
It’s easy to assume that religious people, particularly Muslims, simply do things because their religions tell them to. But when I think about my impulse at age 17 to run away and become a fighter for the Chechen rebels, I consider more than religious factors. My imagined scenario of liberating Chechnya and turning it into an Islamic state was a purely American fantasy, grounded in American ideals and values. Whenever I hear of an American who flies across the globe to throw himself into freedom struggles that are not his own, I think, What a very, very American thing to do.
Pas mal vu; cette «very, very American thing to do» renvoit d’ailleurs à la description du nationalisme américain dans: America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism, d’Anatol Lieven.
Dans le Washington Post : « Les terroristes qui nous combattent en ce moment ? Nous venons juste de finir de les entraîner. ».
L’article original ici : ►http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/18/the-terrorists-fighting-us-now-we-just-finished-training-them
Sa traduction en français par Mounadil là : ▻http://mounadil.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/letat-islamique-en-irak-et-au-levant-fruit-dune-erreur-strategiq
Washington et ses alliés ont aidé des organisations dont les membres avaient dès le départ des idées anti-américaines ou anti-occidentales ou qui avaient été attirés par ces idéees dans le temps du combat. Selon des entretiens réalisés avec des membres d’organisations militantes, comme l’Etat Islamique en Irak et le Front al Nosra en Syrie (qui est affilié à al Qaïda), c’est exactement ce qui s’est passé avec certains des combattants en Libye et même avec des factions de l’Armée Syrienne Libre (ASL).
« Dans l’Est de la Syrie, il n’y a plus d’Armée Syrienne Libre. Tous ceux qui étaient dans l’Armée Syrienne Libre [dans cette région] ont rejoint l’État islamique », dit Abu Yusaf, un haut cadre militaire de l’Etat islamique, qui a fait l’objet d’un article d’Anthony Faiola la semaine dernière dans le Washington Post.
La citation d’un membre de Da3ech en guise de conclusion de l’article est magique :
« Grâce au Printemps Arabe et à l’Occident qui combat tous ces dirigeants pour nous, nous avons eu assez de temps pour nous développer et recruter au Moyen Orient, en Europe et aux Etats Unis, » déclare Abu Farouk. Il sourit et observe une pause de quelques secondes. « En fait, nous devrions dire, merci M. le président. »
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب : ISIS and the Syrian « revolution »
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2014/08/isis-and-syrian-revolution.html
Utile rappel : c’est la « romanticisation » de la « révolution » syrienne qui a produit Isis/Daesh
ISIS and the Syrian “revolution”
Of all the theories and the explanation about ISIS none are admitting the obvious: that it is the product of the Syrian “revolution” and its romanticization. There would not have been thousands of people flocking from the West to join the cause if ISIS if the West didn’t glamorize the Syrian “revolution” and invented the notion that a moderate Syrian command is leading the fight against Asad. A person on Twitter reminded me how the Syrian “rebels” (the so-called moderates among them) used to brag about the power of ISIS and they raised the slogan داعش_عرأس_الأسد (Stepping on Asad’s head—it is a pun in Arabic).
I understand why Westerners are joining jihadi movements like ISIS. I was almost one of them.
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/09/03/i-understand-why-westerners-are-joining-the-islamic-state-i-was-almo
My imagined scenario of liberating Chechnya and turning it into an Islamic state was a purely American fantasy, grounded in American ideals and values. Whenever I hear of an American who flies across the globe to throw himself into freedom struggles that are not his own, I think, What a very, very American thing to do.
And that’s the problem. We are raised to love violence and view military conquest as a benevolent act. The American kid who wants to intervene in another nation’s civil war owes his worldview as much to American exceptionalism as to jihadist interpretations of scripture. I grew up in a country that glorifies military sacrifice and feels entitled to rebuild other societies according to its own vision. I internalized these values before ever thinking about religion. Before I even knew what a Muslim was, let alone concepts such as “jihad” or an “Islamic state,” my American life had taught me that that’s what brave men do.
The terrorists fighting us now ? We just finished training them.
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/18/the-terrorists-fighting-us-now-we-just-finished-training-them
Washington and its allies empowered groups whose members had either begun with anti-American or anti-Western views or found themselves lured to those ideas in the process of fighting. According to interviews with members of militant groups, such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s Al Nusra Front (which is aligned with al Qaeda), that is exactly what happened with some of the fighters in Libya and even with factions of the Free Syrian Army.
“In the East of Syria, there is no Free Syrian Army any longer. All Free Syrian Army people [there] have joined the Islamic State,” says Abu Yusaf, a high-level security commander of the Islamic State, whom The Washington Post’s Anthony Faiola wrote about last week.
L’article résume le principe : « les Occidentaux » (dont le France) arment et entraînent la « rébellion armée démocratique » (sans jamais être capable de nommer de quels groupes il s’agit) et les mêmes gars vont ensuite rejoindre Nousra et ISIS. (Pour, par exemple, enlever et zigouiller des soldats libanais, alors que la France n’a toujours pas livré les armes promises par les Séoudiens à… l’armée libanaise.)
I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me. - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/19/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me
DON’T ARGUE WITH ME, DON’T CALL ME NAMES, DON’T TELL ME THAT I CAN’T STOP YOU, DON’T SAY I’M A RACIST PIG, DON’T THREATEN THAT YOU’LL SUE ME AND TAKE AWAY MY BADGE. DON’T SCREAM AT ME THAT YOU PAY MY SALARY, AND DON’T EVEN THINK OF AGGRESSIVELY WALKING TOWARDS ME.