Unaccountable Killing Machines: The True Cost of U.S. #Drones - Joshua Foust - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/unaccountable-killing-machines-the-true-cost-of-us-drones/250661
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How Ethiopia’s Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists - Kathryn Joyce - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/adoption-inc-how-ethiopias-industry-dupes-families-and-bullies-activists/250296Adoption searchers — specialized independent researchers working in a unique field that few outside the community of adoptive parents even know exists — track down the birth families of children adopted from other counties. In Ethiopia, searching has arisen in response to a dramatic boom in international adoptions from the country in recent years. In 2010, Ethiopia accounted for nearly a quarter of all international adoptions to the U.S. The number of Ethiopian children adopted into foreign families in the U.S., Canada, and Europe has risen from just a few hundred several years ago to several thousand last year. The increase has been so rapid — and, for some, so lucrative — that some locals have said adoption was “becoming the new export industry for our country.”
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A Photo That Encapsulates the Horror of Egypt’s Crackdown - Max Fisher
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/a-photo-that-encapsulates-the-horror-of-egypts-crackdown/250147Outraged Egyptian Facebook users posted a composite of three photos from the above video. Taken together, they appear to show that a pair of bystanders — a man and a woman, both well dressed — watched the young woman’s beating, went to her side after the troops discarded her, and were then beaten themselves for their effort.
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Are Western-Educated Dictators Better Behaved? - Robert M. Danin - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/are-western-educated-dictators-better-behaved/249610Many observers simply assumed that because these three men were not only bilingual but bicultural—mixing easily among Western jetsetters—that they would bring home with them Western values and progressive approaches. If anything, they embodied a sense of superiority and entitlement, not equality among common citizens. Their privileged experiences in the West seem to have bred contempt and condescension for their fellow countrymen. While they may have known which fork to use at a palace dinner, it turns out that they were equally comfortable with the AK-47 and the killing and bloodshed it produces.
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Religion’s Role in Fighting AIDS - Isobel Coleman - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/religions-role-in-fighting-aids/249416While religious leaders are unusually well-placed to provide followers with guidance about this preventable disease, they have in many cases contributed to the epidemic by denying the importance of condoms in HIV prevention and contributing to the stigma that AIDS patients already confront.
Nevertheless, even in light of the ongoing devastation of AIDS, our mixed response to it, and the current funding crunch, we can find a few glimmers of good news. The 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report indicates that the number of new HIV infections throughout the world decreased by 21 percent from 1997 to 2010.
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For Nepali Girls Abducted into Indian Brothels, Where is Home? - Habiba Nosheen & Anup Kaphle - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/for-nepali-girls-abducted-into-indian-brothels-where-is-home/249213The room was sweltering and bare except for the bed. When 14-year-old Sunita Danuwar woke up, she had no idea where she was. She had on strange clothes; her hair had been cut. “And there were men staring at me like I was fresh meat,” says Danuwar. “I just sat there and cried.”
Danuwar, now 34, quickly learned that she — like 12,000 other Nepali women and girls a year — had been trafficked hundreds of miles away to an Indian brothel. She doubts her family sold her, but can’t be sure. The last thing she remembers is her parents befriending two young men, who gave her something sweet to eat. After that she fell unconscious.
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Netanyahu Government Suggests Israelis Avoid Marrying American Jews - Jeffrey Goldberg
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/netanyahu-government-suggests-israelis-avoid-marrying-american-jews/249166/#I don’t think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads. I understand the impulse behind them: Israel wants as many of its citizens as possible to live in Israel. This is not an abnormal desire. But the way it is expressed, in wholly negative terms, is somewhat appalling. […]
These government-sponsored ads suggest that it is impossible for Jews to remain Jewish in America. How else are we supposed to understand the “Christmas” ad? Obviously, assimilation and intermarriage are issues in America in ways they aren’t in Israel. Israel has other problems of course, such as the fact that many of its rabbis act like Iranian mullahs. […]
The idea, communicated in these ads, that America is no place for a proper Jew, and that a Jew who is concerned about the Jewish future should live in Israel, is archaic, and also chutzpadik (if you don’t mind me resorting to the vernacular). The message is: Dear American Jews, thank you for lobbying for American defense aid (and what a great show you put on at the AIPAC convention every year!) but, please, stay away from our sons and daughters.
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5 Ways to Tell if Burma’s Reforms Are Really Working - Joshua Kurlantzick - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/5-ways-to-tell-if-burmas-reforms-are-really-working/248902
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For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy - James Joyner - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/for-europe-some-fear-a-conflict-between-union-and-democracy/247918George Washington University political scientist Henry Farrell puts it more soberly: “European politicians have preferred to integrate by stealth rather than public debate.”
Farrell argues that they have tried to “treat the rolling crisis as another, albeit much more complicated, technocratic problem, which can be solved through the usual kind of technocratic solution.”
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Photo of the Day: Libyan Rebels Support ’Occupy Wala Street’ - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/photo-of-the-day-libyan-rebels-support-occupy-wala-street/246910The second thing that this photo demonstrates is that, as many Middle East analysts have long suspected, Libya’s revolutionaries have a touch of the hipster to them. The emergence of the Libyan Hipster-Rebel has been well documented in photos, most recently in a much-circulated shot of a fatigue-wearing rebel fighter strumming the guitar and singing in the middle of a heated battle in downtown Sirte.
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Why Are Dubai and Abu Dhabi’s Roads Some of the World’s Most Dangerous? - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/why-are-dubai-and-abu-dhabis-roads-some-of-the-worlds-most-dangerous/246816It turns out that the profusion of oil wealth (not to mention some cultural factors) might actually make the roads more dangerous. Individuals, who often live off lavish subsidies, are accustomed to seeing the government as something that gives out money, not as a regulatory and policing body. The governments, which draw their legitimacy and power from oil rather than from people, have less incentive to implement harsher driving rules, which might prove unpopular. I asked on Twitter why UAE traffic is so bad and got some interesting responses from residents, natives, and expats who’ve lived in the area.
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Iran launches long-delayed nuclear plant - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
►http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/201191218430653875.htmlIran’s first nuclear power plant has stepped up operations after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40 per cent capacity and marking a major step forward in the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant, which officials on Monday said could begin full-power operations in December, is a cornerstone of Iran’s drive to become a technological leader among Muslim nations with efforts such as a space program and long-range missile development.
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à nuancer dans un jeu de (néo)cons :
Tehran’s exaggerated nuclear bluster plays into the hands of Washington hawks who play up the Iranian threat. This American drum-beating in turn puts Iran on the defensive, increasing domestic Iranian support for nuclear development. Hence, the vicious cycle continues and the international diplomatic impasse over Iran’s program persists. The maximalist policies of both sides, from Iran’s zero-compromise fundamentalism to America’s zero-enrichment dogmatism, have created a serious dilemma. But the actual science of Iran’s nuclear program, as revealed by this latest IAEA report, looks far milder than what either side is portraying.
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/on-irans-nuclear-program-science-contradicts-rhetoric/245030
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Chart of the Day: Little Change in Terrorist Threat Since 9/11 - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/chart-of-the-day-little-change-in-terrorist-threat-since-9-11/244835This week’s anniversary of September 11 and the “credible but unconfirmed” reports of possible follow-on attacks provide a good opportunity to ask, Just how much of a threat does terrorism pose to the Western world?
Judging by this chart, produced by the invaluable Center for Systemic Peace, not all that much more than it did before the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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Même les plus pro-israéliens ne peuvent défendre la loi anti #boycott // Israel’s Boycott Bill and the U.S.-#Israel Alliance - Michael Koplow - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/israels-boycott-bill-and-the-us-israel-alliance/242089The boycott law has the capability to do real and lasting damage to Israel by eroding its standing with Americans. A law that severely limits political speech in this manner is redolent of authoritarianism, not an open and free democracy, and has been denounced as contrary to Israel’s democratic nature by Israeli politicians, the Anti-Defamation League, American rabbis, and prominent Jewish media figures. Ordinary Americans may begin to take notice.
voir aussi ►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/the-anti-boycott-law-meant-to-protect-settlements/242157
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On a la même en France non ? Une atteinte à la liberté d’expression que je serais surpris de voir passer la Cour suprême.
« Le Congrès ne fera aucune loi pour conférer un statut institutionnel à une religion, (aucune loi) qui interdise le libre exercice d’une religion, (aucune loi) qui restreint la liberté d’expression (...) »
(il nous faudrait le même chez nous).
Naturellement généralement j’utilise les listes de produits à boycotter comme liste de courses, mais c’est mon esprit de contradiction.
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Is Jiang Zemin Dead? Real-time Illustration of News Control in China - James Fallows - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/is-jiang-zemin-dead-real-time-illustration-of-news-control-in-china/241489For the past 24+ hours, anyone following various social-media feeds* about China has seen rumors, then official denials, then silence, about the possible demise of former president Jiang Zemin, shown in his prime at right. Jiang would turn 85 next month.
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An Important Irony in the Bin Laden Story - Jeffrey Goldberg - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/05/an-important-irony-in-the-bin-laden-story/238131Intelligence officials have said for some time that one of the difficulties in capturing Osama bin Laden was that he was off the communications grid, that he would not get on the phone, that he only spoke to his organization through couriers. This made it difficult, of course, to zero-in on his location. But suspicions were raised by the mansion in which Bin Laden lived precisely because it received no Internet or phone service, a strange circumstance for a million-dollar home in a relatively-advanced city.
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A Tchernobyl, la fascination du désastre | Christine Bergé (Les blogs du Diplo)
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La boite à #bébé finlandaise // Finland’s ’Baby Box’: Gift from Santa Claus or Socialist Hell? - Dominic Tierney - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/04/finlands-baby-box-gift-from-santa-claus-or-socialist-hell/237240For two of my Finnish friends, Santa Claus made an early visit this year. The couple, expecting a baby in June, found a note left by the postman. Their “baby box” was ready to pick up. The Finnish government sends all parents-to-be a container of goodies to help with the baby’s first year. Could this uniquely Finnish tradition encourage us to look outside the box of American parenting?
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Predicting #Revolution: ’The Index of Potential Unrest’ - Richard Florida - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/03/predicting-revolution-the-index-of-potential-unrest/71743The "Shoe-Throwers’ Index" (see chart below) is The Economist’s attempt to quantify all of these factors. It is weighted to the age structure of the population (specifically, the percent of people under 25 years of age) and accounts for the number of years a government has been in power, its lack of democracy and excess of corruption, the prevalence of censorship, and the level of economic development as measured by GDP per person. The Economist notes that Jordan comes out surprisingly low on the index and suggests that its weighting might benefit from some additional tweaks.
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Cablegate #Comics - Joe Alterio - International - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/cablegate-comics/70962After WikiLeaks’ released thousands of State Department communications, we began collecting the most interesting stories from the embassy messages in the Cablegate Chronicles here at The Atlantic. We wanted to find the most interesting narratives, the strangest stories, and the best writing.
Designer and illustrator Joe Alterio was similarly intrigued by the cables, and in collaboration with the website HiLoBrow, created a series of comics based on Cablegate selections. Here we present the 10-part series. (You can click each comic to get a larger version.)
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