#bienveillant

  • US Marines massacre of Iraqi civilians revealed in gruesome photos – Middle East Monitor
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240829-us-marines-massacre-of-iraqi-civilians-revealed-in-grues

    The massacre in question took place in Haditha, Iraq, on 19 November 2005. US Marines killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children in three homes, and shot five men driving to their Baghdad college. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl; the oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The resultant war-crime investigation has been one of the longest in American history.
    One US Marine was killed nearby in an IED explosion just hours earlier; two other marines were wounded. As a result, the Marine Corps argued during legal proceedings that they had simply been responding to and fighting Iraqi insurgents that day. Despite all of those who were killed being civilians, the four marines who were charged with murder later had the charges dropped, and the case ended in a plea deal without a prison sentence being imposed.

    #bienveillant #benevolent #états-unis

  • Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/us/politics/military-proxy-niger-somalia-human-rights.html

    U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.

    […]

    Proxy forces are an increasingly important part of American foreign policy. Over the past decade, the United States has increasingly relied on supporting or deputizing local partner forces in places like Niger and Somalia, moving away from deploying large numbers of American ground troops as it did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    […]

    The disclosures underscored a need for tighter rules on proxy forces, Representative Sara Jacobs, Democrat of California, argued. “We need to make sure that we are not training abusive units to become even more lethal and fueling the conflict and violence that we’re aiming to solve ,” she said. “And that starts with universal human rights vetting.”

    […]

    “It’s very helpful now to have these internal policies in hand that definitively show that human rights vetting is not required,” Ms.[Katherine Yon] Ebright[, a counsel with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s law school] said. “It’s been frustrating, the more you know about this, because of those mixed messages and the opacity.”

    The Pentagon keeps secret much about its proxy force operations.

    […]

    The directives also describe the vetting that allied partners must undergo before American taxpayers pay their salaries and put weapons and specialized military equipment, like night-vision goggles, in their hands. […] But the purpose of this vetting is to detect counterintelligence risks and potential threats to American forces. The directive does not mention violations of human rights — such as rape, torture or extrajudicial killings.

    […]

    The Leahy Law, named after former Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, bans security assistance to units of foreign militaries or other security forces that have a history of gross violations of human rights. (The law does not cover nonstate forces, like a tribal militia.)

    […]

    But in a memo that year signed by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and obtained by The Times separately from the information act lawsuit, the Pentagon declared that the Leahy Law did not apply to counterterrorism surrogates.

    The memo said that enabling proxy forces to help Special Forces counterterrorism operations is “not assistance” to the foreigners. This purported distinction — that building up proxy forces so they can assist the United States in pursuing its objectives is legally different from assisting foreign partners in building up their own security abilities — is disputed.

    A critic of that theory is Sarah Harrison, who worked as a Pentagon lawyer from 2017 to 2021 and is now at the International Crisis Group, where she has called for requiring human rights vetting of surrogate forces. She argued that the Pentagon’s narrow interpretation of the Leahy Law is “a dishonest reading of the plain text and intention of Congress.”

    #états-unis le pays #bienveillant
    #made_in_america

  • L’État, une plateforme comme les autres ?

    Théorisé par l’entrepreneur américain #Tim_O’Reilly, le concept d’État plateforme vise à donner aux #entrepreneurs les outils pour créer des #ServicesPublics et mettre leur talent au service de la #collectivité. Il s’inspire du modèle adopté par les géants américains nés sur la toile. Le point sur ce concept de l’Etat-plateforme.

    https://usbeketrica.com/article/l-etat-une-plateforme-comme-les-autres

    Encore un truc #disruptif et #bienveillant ou réel progrès ? Jeunes loups vs vieux cons ?

    #etat2.0 ? #etatplateforme

  • Henri #CUECO peintre à Vigeois - Vidéo Ina.fr
    http://www.ina.fr/video/RXC05019893

    Le peintre Henri CUECO est né à Uzerche où il fut peintre en bâtiment, puis professeur de dessin avant de devenir l’un des chefs de file de la peinture française. Il revient fréquemment dans sa maison au POUGET de Vigeois pour se reposer et pour travailler. Il explique comment dans une certaine mesure le Limousin influe sur sa peinture. Des habitants du village, Michel DESAGUIER (centre culturel d’Uzerche), le maire de Vigeois, parlent du peintre et de la peinture. Henri CUECO s’exprime sur son art et sur la place du peintre dans la société.

    J’aime bien Cueco, il a été prof aux Beaux-Arts de Paris, toujours bon pédagogue de la peinture, même en #1976. Dans la vidéo, il parle de la province et de Paris à une époque où la télévision n’existait pas partout, alors internet, hein…

    Bref, merci à lui (je me disais autant remercier les gens vivants) parce que dans son atelier c’était la multiplicité et la richesse des approches des élèves qui était réjouissante. C’était pas un castrateur imbu d’égo comme les profs artistes qui sévissaient à l’ENSBA, un mec généreux et comment dire, ce truc qui manque si cruellement aujourd’hui : #bienveillant, oui voila.