Declassified 9/11 pages show ties to former Saudi ambassador
▻http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/15/28-declassified-pages-911-commission-report-released-public/87134942
Bandar bin Sultan
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_bin_Sultan
(Bandar c’est le mec cool en jeans qui discute avec le mec cool en bottes de cow-boy)
“28 pages” showing Saudi connection to 9/11 attacks finally released after 14 years
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/07/15/28_pages_showing_saudi_connection_to_911_attacks_finally_released_after_14_ye
Saudi Ties to 9/11 Detailed in Documents Suppressed Since 2002
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/07/15/saudi-ties-to-911-detailed-in-documents-suppressed-since-2002
11-Septembre : pas de liens entre l’Arabie saoudite et les attentats
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2016/07/16/11-septembre-pas-de-liens-entre-l-arabie-saoudite-et-les-attentats_4970445_3
Un titre très étrange vu le contenu de l’article,
« Alors qu’ils se trouvaient aux États-Unis, quelques-uns des pirates de l’air du 11-Septembre ont été en contact, ou ont reçu soutien ou assistance d’individus qui pourraient être en lien avec le gouvernement saoudien », peut-on lire dans des pages de ce rapport. Mais les agences américaines de renseignement n’ont pas pu « identifier de manière définitive » ces liens, selon les constatations faites par les commissions sur le renseignement du Sénat et de la Chambre des représentants.
11-Septembre : aucune preuve de l’implication de dirigeants saoudiens
Par RFI Publié le 16-07-2016
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20160716-etats-unis-attentat-11-septembre-implication-arabie-saoudite?ref=tw_i
« Selon divers documents du FBI et une note de la CIA, certains des pirates de l’air du 11-Septembre, lorsqu’ils étaient aux Etats-Unis, ont apparemment eu des contacts avec des individus peut-être liés au gouvernement saoudien », peut-on lire dans le rapport, qui dresse une liste de ces liens présumés. Ces liens n’ont pu être confirmés de source indépendante.
Pour le ministre saoudien des Affaires étrangères, « le dossier est clos », il espère que ces publications mettront fin « au dénigrement dont le royaume d’Arabie saoudite a été victime ces 14 dernières années ». Depuis le 11-Septembre, le rôle de l’Arabie saoudite dans les attentats fait débat, 15 des 19 terroristes étaient Saoudiens.
28 pages of the Sep. 11 report
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2016/07/28-pages-of-sep-11-report.html
Clearly, the report is more damning that we all thought. For that reason, the US government and the Saudi government worked hard for month to soften the impact of the report by series of interviews, statements, and leaks that were intended to prepare the propaganda stage for the release. It clearly shows that the ties were not to Saudi nationals in the US, but to the people around the residence and business of the Saudi ambassador and his wife, and to Saudi intelligence operations in the US and Saudi Arabia. Most damning is that the requests by US government to investigate possible leads that could have prevented Sep. 11. There is so much materials in the report to advance and push the legal case by families of Sep. 11 victims in US courts against the Saudi government. The case against the car salesman in Texas (and his plot against the Chinese restaurant in DC and his ties to Revolutionary Guards) is 1/1000th of the case contained here. The government describes Saudi cooperation in counter-terrorism as “useless and obstructionist”. And then there is the case of the guy who prior to Sep. 11 tried to enter the cockpit of a US plane and then was allowed to leave the country and the Saudi regime would not make him available for interviews by the FBI. Did you know that there is a Saudi mosque in Culver City in the US named after Ibn Taymiyyah? This in itself surprised me.
Évidemment, on lit l’article du Monde, et celui de RFI (dans les deux : « Le sujet est clos »), le rapport en ligne lui-même, différents articles américains, et le commentaire d’Angry Arab, et ensuite on fera mine de se demander pourquoi les gens ont des penchants complotistes au lieu de simplement faire confiance à la presse de bon goût…
Ces liens n’ont pu être confirmés de source indépendante.
C’est quoi une source indépendante dans ce contexte ? Indépendante de quoi au juste ?
Saudi Arabia’s PR Machine Uses the 28 Pages to Blame Iran for 9/11 Attacks
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/07/21/saudi-arabias-pr-machine-uses-the-28-pages-to-blame-iran-for-911-attac
Other media outlets with ties to the Saudi government have used the 28 pages to dismiss concerns about Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Andrew Bowen, writing for al Arabiya, declares that the document ends any “conspiracy” that the Saudi government provided support to the hijackers. Another al Arabiya columnist, Turki Aldakhil, goes a step further, and in a piece about the 28 pages (“The Sept. 11 road began from Tehran”), attempts to claim that the declassified document should raise questions about Iran. The 28 ages, notably, does not include any information about Iran, and in contrast to Aldakhil’s claims, Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah is at war with al Qaeda.
Wrong all along: Neoliberal IMF admits neoliberalism fuels inequality and hurts growth
Top International Monetary Fund researchers concede austerity, privatization & deregulation can hurt more than help
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/05/31/wrong_all_along_neoliberal_imf_admits_neoliberalism_fuels_inequality_and_hurt
#FMI #néo-libéralisme #inégalités #croissance #austérité #privatisation
–-> ah bon?
Activist Hedy Epstein, Palestinian rights advocate and Holocaust survivor, dies at 91
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/05/27/activist_hedy_epstein_palestinian_rights_advocate_and_holocaust_survivor_dies
Hedy Epstein was a longtime outspoken supporter of Palestinian rights, civil rights, the anti-war movement and more Source: Salon.com
The “middle class” myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today
▻http://www.salon.com/2013/12/30/the_middle_class_myth_heres_why_wages_are_really_so_low_today
The argument given against paying a living wage in fast-food restaurants is that workers are paid according to their skills, and if the teenager cleaning the grease trap wants more money, he should get an #education. Like most conservative arguments, it makes sense logically, but has little connection to economic reality. Workers are not simply paid according to their skills, they’re paid according to what they can negotiate with their employers. And in an era when only 6 percent of private-sector workers belong to a union, and when going on strike is almost certain to result in losing your job, low-skill workers have no negotiating power whatsoever.
[...]
Slaughterhouses insist they hire immigrants because the work is so unpleasant Americans won’t do it. They hired European immigrants when Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle,” and they hire Latin American immigrants today. But it’s a canard that Americans won’t slaughter pigs, sheep and cows. How do we know this? Because immigration to the United States was more or less banned from 1925 to 1965, and millions of pigs, sheep and cows were slaughtered during those years. But they were slaughtered by American-born workers, earning middle-class wages. Mother Jones magazine explains what changed:
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The Uber-economy f**ks us all: How “permalancers” and “sharer” gigs gut the middle class
Steven Hill
▻http://www.salon.com/2015/10/31/the_uber_economy_fks_us_all_how_permalancers_and_sharer_gigs_guts_the_middle_
A significant factor in the decline of the quality of jobs in the United States has been employers’ increasing reliance on “non-regular” employees — a growing army of freelancers, temps, contractors, part-timers, day laborers, micro-entrepreneurs, gig-preneurs, solo-preneurs, contingent labor, perma-lancers and perma-temps. It’s practically a new taxonomy for a workforce that has become segmented into a dizzying assortment of labor categories. Even many full-time, professional jobs and occupations are experiencing this precarious shift.
This practice has given rise to the term “1099 economy,” since these employees don’t file W-2 income tax forms like any regular, permanent employee; instead, they file the 1099-MISC form for an IRS classification known as “independent contractor.”
“The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/05/15/the_scope_of_our_failure_the_real_story_of_our_decades_long_foreign_policy_di
How do you parse and apportion the various drivers that make American policy what it is? I identify these as follows: Psychological—the insecurities Americans have nursed since the 18th century—and maybe the 17th ; ideological—our exceptionalism and universalism; material—the drive for markets and economic dominance—and strategic, which at this point amounts to a desire for global hegemony or something close to it. Do you have any others to add, and what is your read as to which are the most prominent?
I think you’re making a very important point, and that is that there is no single explanation. This is the problem, I think, of those who argue that it’s all about capitalism. Or people say it’s all the military-industrial complex. Or it’s all the state of Israel. It is all those factors that you cite, and I think I would add one more, and that would be domestic politics. The cycle of elections and the competition for political power, then, shapes the posturing that the campaigns elicit.
But your question was, how do they all stack up in terms of priorities? Well, this is where I subscribe to the argument that Niebuhr makes in “The Irony of American History.” [Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian and public-affairs commentator; the book was published in 1952.] As I understand the argument, at the root there is this conviction that we are uniquely called to be the agents of history. That history has a direction and a purpose and its destination is defined by who we are, and that we have some responsibility to bring history to this intended outcome. I think, by no means dismissing the influence of these other factors, that the dogged persistence of our behavior, even in the face of obvious failure, is rooted in our conviction that we are the instrument of Providence. And that goes all the way back to the founding of Anglo-America to John Winthrop’s “City Upon a Hill.”
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/05/09/media_really_got_isis_wrong_its_brutality_helped_al_qaeda_terrorism_expert_sa
“The media really got ISIS wrong for a long time,” argues scholar Max Abrahms, a prominent terrorism expert.
Many Western media outlets “made it seem as if ISIS has a big advantage over al-Qaeda because it is even more radical; that because the group uses violence in such a brutal fashion, it will be able to out-recruit al-Qaeda, have a larger membership size, more staying power and greater capabilities.”
Yet actually, in the long term, Abrahms says, al-Qaeda is the group that has benefited the most from ISIS’ extremism, because it allows al-Qaeda to present itself as the more “moderate” alternative.
ISIS’ brutality, and the attention much of the world has paid to the extremist group, has allowed al-Qaeda to grow with much less opposition, and even with support of U.S. allies in some areas, particularly in Syria.
Max Abrahms is an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University who has closely studied terrorism for more than a decade.
Our awful elites gutted America. Now they dare ring alarms about Trump, Sanders — and cast themselves as saviors
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/05/06/our_awful_elites_gutted_america_now_they_dare_ring_alarms_about_trump_sanders
Si sauveurs il faut, ce ne sont certainement pas ceux qui sont au départ la cause de l’état catastrophique des choses,
Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem’s populism?
The system is just this rigged: Dark money, Citizens United and the secret story of how big money stole our democracy - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/03/20/the_system_is_just_this_rigged_dark_money_citizens_united_and_the_secret_stor
Today most lawmakers would tell you that any free moment not used raising dollars is time wasted.
Satire is dead when France honors the theocratic Saudi monarchy for “countering extremism and fighting terrorism” - Ben Norton
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/03/08/satire_is_dead_when_france_honors_the_theocratic_saudi_monarchy_for_counterin
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef received France’s Legion of Honor “for his great efforts in the region and the world in countering extremism and fighting terrorism,” the Saudi Press Agency revealed on March 6, two days after he and Hollande met at Élysée Palace.
This is fascinating, considering the E.U. has quietly admitted that Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s leading sponsors of Islamic extremism.
“Saudi Arabia has been a major source of financing to rebel and terrorist organisations since the 1970s,” writes the European Parliament in a 2013 report, adding, “countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait do too little to stop rich and conservative donors from financing terrorist organisations through charitable and religious institutions.”
“The United States is well aware about the financing network starting from Arab countries and reaching terrorists organisations through charitable institutions,” the European Parliament report points out, drawing attention to similar statements made in secret by the U.S. government.
Chomsky : Donald Trump est en train de gagner parce que l’Amérique blanche est en train de mourir | Réseau International
▻http://reseauinternational.net/chomsky-donald-trump-est-en-train-de-gagner-parce-que-lamerique
Je ne sais pas trop quoi en penser, mais je référence pour plus tard.
Noam Chomsky dit que l’ascension de Trump est due en partie à des sentiments profondément enracinés et potentiellement fatals de peur et de colère.
Noam Chomsky dit que l’ascension de Donald Trump dans la politique américaine est en partie alimentée par une peur et un désespoir très profonds, qui pourraient être causés par une croissance alarmante du taux de mortalité chez les blancs pauvres sous-éduqués.
« Il trouve à l’évidence un écho dans des sentiments très profonds de colère, de peur, de frustration et de désespoir, probablement dans des parties de la population dont le taux de mortalité est en train d’augmenter, chose inouïe en dehors des guerres et des catastrophes naturelles » a dit Chomsky au Huffington Post, dans une interview de jeudi dernier.
#site_complotiste (légèrement).
L’article lui même ne l’est pas, mais il peut facilement être mal interprété, laissant penser que les américains blancs, pauvres et sous-éduqués auraient une espérance de vie plus faible que toutes les autres catégories de population, alors que ce que me semble dire Chomsky, c’est qu’elle est la seule à décroître, donnant l’impression d’une injustice vis à vis des populations non-blanches, alors que l’injustice se situe en fait vis à vis des populations plus aisées.
Je crois que Chomsky tente d’exposer un #biais_cognitif dont seraient victimes ces américains (et qui les pousserait à préférer D. Trump), que l’article, par son manque de clarifications, risque de propager, au lieu de le mettre en évidence.
Some of Trump’s strongest supporters are registered Democrats. Here’s why - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/03/05/some_of_trumps_strongest_supporters_are_registered_democrats_heres_why
When we examine only whites to discover how economic peril interacts with resentment across partisanship and ideology, we find that the relationship between racial resentment and economic peril is particularly acute among white liberals and Democratic partisans. The graph below shows that conservatives and Republicans have higher levels of racial resentment compared to liberals and Democrats. Possibly because of this, increased perception of economic peril has no significant effect on racial resentment for Republicans and conservatives. However, the results show that increased sense of economic peril substantially increases racial resentment among both liberals and Democrats. At above-average levels of economic peril, the resentment attitudes of white Democratic partisans become almost indistinguishable from those of Republicans. Additionally, the attitudes of white liberals become indistinguishable from those of ideological conservatives. This may help explain one of the most confusing parts of the Trump phenomenon: his success with moderates, independents and even some liberals.
Profit over the planet: WTO’s lawsuit ruling could be a giant blow to the renewable energy movement - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/02/24/profit_over_the_planet_wtos_lawsuit_ruling_could_be_a_giant_blow_to_the_renew
A WTO tribunal ruled Wednesday that India’s national solar energy program violates trade law, in a lawsuit initiated by the U.S.
Yemen conflict : Al-Qaeda joins coalition battle for Taiz -
BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35630194?post_id=10204173811700246_10205101979663865#_=_
The BBC has found evidence in Yemen that troops from a Saudi-led coalition force and al-Qaeda militants are both fighting Houthi rebels in a key battle.
On a visit to the frontline near the city of Taiz, a documentary maker filmed jihadists as well as UAE-supported pro-government militiamen.
The coalition of 10 mostly Sunni Arab states is backing Yemen’s government in its war against the Shia rebels.
But it denies co-operating with Sunni extremists also opposed to the Houthis.
The coalition’s member states consider al-Qaeda a terrorist organisation, and the jihadist network’s local affiliates have attacked coalition forces and Yemeni government personnel.
At least 6,000 people have been killed in Yemen since March 2015, when the coalition launched a military campaign to defeat the Houthis and allied army units loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and restore the government.
Despite 10,000 civilian casualties in #Yemen — 13 per day — U.S. reaffirms support for Saudi Arabia
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/09/02/despite-10000-civilian-casualties-in-yemen-13-per-day-u-s-reaffirms-support-f
Journalist Safa al-Ahmad, reporting for the BBC, said she saw Emirati forces from the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside al-Qaeda, together battling Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
“They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/burn_pits
Thousands of soldiers have suffered similar fates since serving in the vicinity of the more than 250 military burn pits that operated at bases throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. Many who haven’t succumbed to their illnesses yet have passed along the legacy of their poisoning to their children. “The rate of having a child with birth defects is three times higher for service members who served in those countries,” according to the book.
The impact on local civilian populations is even more widespread. Although collecting data in these war-ravaged areas is extremely difficult, the studies that have been conducted reveal sharp increases in cancer and leukemia rates and skyrocketing numbers of birth defects. The toxic legacies of these burn pits will likely continue to devastate these regions for decades.
So what are the “burn pits”? When the U.S. military set up a base in Iraq or Afghanistan, instead of building incinerators to dispose of the thousands of pounds of waste produced each day, they burned the garbage in big holes in the ground. The garbage they constantly burned included “every type of waste imaginable” including “tires, lithium batteries, asbestos insulation, pesticide containers, Styrofoam, metals, paints, plastic, medical waste and even human corpses.”
Here’s where the story gets even more infuriating. As a result of the privatization of many aspects of military operations, the burn pits were operated by Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), a former subsidiary of #Halliburton, the company where Dick #Cheney was CEO before ascending to the White House. During the Bush administration, Halliburton made nearly $40 billion from lucrative government contracts (despite many corruption scandals), Dick Cheney and his corporate allies got incredibly rich, and the soldiers whose lives have likely been destroyed by this reckless operation… are pretty much screwed.
Profiting off of #chaos: How the U.S. privatized its war in Afghanistan — Antony Loewenstein on “Disaster Capitalism” - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/profiting_off_of_chaos_how_the_u_s_privatized_its_war_in_afghanistan_antony_l
Journalist Antony Loewenstein tells Salon how corporations exploit violent conflicts in Afghanistan and beyond
Hell on Earth for Iraqis: 19,000 civilians killed in less than two years — roughly 28 per day
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/01/22/hell_on_earth_for_iraqis_19000_civilians_killed_in_less_than_two_years_roughl
A new United Nations report paints a hellish picture of the violence that has overtaken Iraq in the wake of the U.S. war that destabilized the country.
At least 18,802 civilians were killed and 36,245 wounded in the country in the 22 months between Jan. 1, 2014, and Oct. 31, 2015, according to the Report on the Protection of Civilians in the Armed Conflict in Iraq.
Another 3,206,736 Iraqis were internally displaced, including more than 1 million school-age children, in the 21 months from January 2014 to September 2015.
[…]
In the Iraq War, from March 2003 to December 2011, more than 1 million people were killed — “a conservative estimate,” according to a study by the Nobel Prize-winning organization the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
Une parodie d’un « supplément » du New York Times, critiquant la couverture par ce journal de la situation en Israël/Palestine, distribué dans les rues de New York
Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss, le 2 février 2016
▻http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2016/02/04/une-parodie-supplement-du-new-york-times-critiquant-la-couvertu
On la trouve ici :
▻https://web.archive.org/web/20160202195655/http://www.newyorktimes-ip.com
Une copie pdf de cette parodie est aussi disponible ici :
▻https://www.scribd.com/doc/297836018/NYT-Parody
Entre temps, on apprend que c’est "Jewish Voice for Peace — New York" et "Jews Say No !" qui en sont responsables :
Progressive Jewish groups make New York Times parody issue to protest newspaper’s “biased Israel-Palestine coverage”
Ben Norton, Salon, le 3 février 2016
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/0/03/progressive_jewish_groups_make_new_york_times_parody_issue_to_protest_newspap
#Palestine #USA #New-York_Times #Journalisme #Parodie #Humour
Remembering Alan Rickman’s pro-Palestinian play about Rachel Corrie, American activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/01/14/remembering_alan_rickmans_pro_palestinian_play_about_rachel_corrie_american_a
[…] Rickman had not only a legendary film and theater résumé, but also a firm commitment to progressive politics, and support for Palestinian rights in particular.
Rickman edited and directed a play in 2005 titled “My Name Is Rachel Corrie,” based on the life of a 23-year-old American activist who was killed by an Israeli soldier.
[…]
“My Name Is Rachel Corrie” was based on the young woman’s diary and emails. Rickman co-edited it with Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of leading British newspaper The Guardian.
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When theaters tried to produce the play in the U.S., however, they faced powerful backlash. An Off Broadway production of the play was being considered at the New York Theater Workshop, but was delayed after opposition and pressure from pro-Israel groups.
Rickman vociferously condemned the delay of the production, which he called a form of “censorship.” “Calling this production ‘postponed’ does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled,” Rickman said. “This is censorship born out of fear, and the New York Theatre Workshop, the Royal Court, New York audiences — all of us are the losers.”
Alan Rickman gave the greatest gift to my late daughter, Rachel Corrie
Craig Corrie
Monday 18 January 2016
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/18/alan-rickman-rachel-corrie-play-actor?CMP=share_btn_fb
Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/01/04/oil_drives_our_israel_policy_new_government_documents_reveal_a_very_different
As the question of partition on Palestine assumed greater importance in Washington, another theme dominated, as it still does. This was the claim that U.S. policymakers were faced with the choice of protecting U.S. oil interests or deferring to partisans of partition and, later, Jewish statehood. The question became: Oil or Israel? This formula erred, as I will explain in the following chapters. The choice facing policymakers was not oil versus Israel but rather oil and Israel. In the years that followed, it was oil and Israel versus reform and revolution in the Arab world.
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming #Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s
▻http://www.salon.com/2015/11/17/we_created_islamic_extremism_those_blaming_islam_for_isis_would_have_supporte
Many pundits, including liberals, have argued that the Middle East, North Africa and Muslim-majority parts of South Asia are presently going through their parallel to the West’s Dark Age, a bloody period of religious extremism. They blame the rise of extremist groups like ISIS and al-Qaida on Islam itself, or on the Middle East’s supposedly “backward” culture, yet conveniently gloss over their own countries’ sordid histories and policies.
There is much more than a tinge of racism in this orientalist idea that, for some reason, Muslims in the Middle East are centuries behind the englightened Christian West. This ludicrous claim does not stand up to even the most superficial historical scrutiny.
#Etats-Unis “#djihadisme”
There are extremists in every religion, but they tend to be few in number, weak and isolated. Salafism, in its modern militarized form, has its origins in the 1920s, and even before. For decades, this movement remained weak and isolated. Yet, in the 1970s and ’80s, Western capitalist governments, particularly the U.S., came up with a new Cold War strategy: supporting these fringe Islamic extremist groups as a bulwark against socialism.