Full article: Democratic regression in comparative perspective: sco...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/11695932
Full article: Democratic regression in comparative perspective: scope, methods, and causes | #civilsociety #decline #democracy #democratic #economy #fear #institutions #media #politics #populism #regression
Landmark Bill Would Designate 12 Illnesses as Connected to Burn Pits | Military.com
▻https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/15/landmark-bill-would-designate-12-illnesses-connected-burn-pits.html
Rien pour les #civils des pays agressés
Lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday that would streamline the process for veterans to receive disability benefits for diseases that may be related to exposure to burn pits and other battlefield pollutants
Americans insist the atom bomb ended the war in Japan — ignoring its human cost - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/americans-insist-the-atom-bomb-ended-the-war-in-japan--ignoring-its-human-cost/2020/08/06/2095f314-d76f-11ea-aff6-220dd3a14741_story.html
Stimson failed to mention, for example, that U.S. officials had debated dropping their demand that Japan’s surrender include the removal of the emperor, which Stimson himself had recognized as a possible way to bring Japan to an earlier capitulation. Stimson also omitted the most critical military development in August 1945: the Soviet Union’s entry into the war against Japan, which would have forced Tokyo to fight on two fronts, altered Allied strategies and probably ended the war before any land invasion. Through his military authority and strategic reasoning, Stimson forged a singular atomic bomb narrative with such moral certitude that it has superseded all others and fundamentally shaped American memory and perception ever since: The atomic bombings ended the war and saved more than 1 million American lives.
#narrative #nucléaire #etats-unis #mensonges #crimes #massacres #civils #victimes_civiles
Syrian refugee families volunteer to help during Coronavirus outbreak- Daily echo
“In UK,Dorset Council say they’ve received ’heart-warming’ messages from Syrian refugee families, who want to help their new communities during the coronavirus outbreak.”
#Covid-19#Syrie#Grande-Bretagne#migrant#migration#civilsociety
▻https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18355345.syrian-refugee-families-volunteer-help-coronavirus-outbr
Erdogan threatens new restrictions if Turks flout ’voluntary quarantine’-Al monitor
Turkey will tighten restrictions on daily life if the country’s coronavirus outbreak worsens because citizens didn’t follow the “voluntary quarantine,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#Covid-19#Turquie#Erdogan#Civilsociety#lockdown#migration
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/04/turkey-erdogan-new-restrictions-coronavirus-quarantine.html
Iraqi government calls on civil society to fight COVID-19
The Iraqi government is thus calling on civil society and charities to provide aid with their resources.Bank account numbers and phone numbers were given to the public to receive all types of societal assistance
A number of traders in Najaf have donated 350 million Iraqi dinars (the equivalent of $293,994) to provide medical supplies to governorate hospitals.
#Covid-19#Iraq#Civilsociety#migration
▻https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/iraq-covid19-coronavirus-civil-society.html
« Lève-toi et tue le premier » : les secrets d’une machine à tuer
Comment Israël a organisé des attentats terroristes au Liban à la fin des années 1970 pour provoquer l’OLP
►https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2020/03/13/leve-toi-et-tue-le-premier-les-secrets-d-une-machine-a-tuer_6032873_3232.htm
On apprend aussi et surtout – c’est la révélation la plus problématique – comment, entre 1979 et 1983, le chef d’état-major israélien Rafael Eitan, avec la bénédiction du ministre de la défense Ariel Sharon, a orchestré, à l’insu du reste du gouvernement, une campagne d’attentats au Liban. Perpétrées par des collaborateurs locaux et revendiquées par une organisation fictive (le Front pour la libération du Liban des étrangers), ces explosions ont causé la mort de centaines de personnes, en grande partie des civils.
D’abord actes de vengeance aveugle, en réaction au massacre d’une famille israélienne de Nahariya par un commando palestinien, ces opérations ont eu pour objectif, après 1981, de pousser Yasser Arafat à attaquer Israël, en violation du cessez-le-feu négocié par les Etat-Unis, pour justifier une invasion militaire au Liban.
“Libération » aussi
Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "Depuis la publication du livre en France, ces revelations tout-a-fait remarquables n’ont presque jamais ete mentionees, sauf 2 exceptions : par g_gendron pour @libe et desormais par @benjbarthe pour @lemonde." / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1238468213949845505
Toujours rien dans les autres pays occidentaux
Alex Shams sur Twitter : “Time to plug my article on the weaponisation of nostalgia, or how chauvinist men use pictures of women in miniskirts from the past to advance militaristic and jingoistic rhetoric that could hurt millions of women in the present” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/seyyedreza/status/1214272131762024448
Michael Coudrey sur Twitter : “Iran in 1973 Iran in 2019” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey/status/1213518322525863936
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENdIe1iUEAAI69u?format=jpg&name=large#.jpg 
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENdIe1eVUAAQEed?format=jpg&name=large#.jpg #Faux_monnayeurs #assassins #terroristes #civils #victimes_civiles
Dans l’exemple d’hier, on peut ajouter un second aspect dégueulasse plus « personnel » : les deux femmes à droite sont la famille de Qassem Soleimani (je n’ai pas plus de précision, mais possiblement son épouse et sa fille), en plein deuil, recevant l’ayatollah Khamenei.
Photo complète ici :
▻https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200104/p2g/00m/0in/026000c
Du coup, opposer des femmes qui sont en plein deuil personnel et dans le cadre d’une cérémonie officielle de condoléances, avec une jeune femme tout sourire en minijupe et décolleté qui coupe un gateau, c’est assez épouvantable comme façon d’insulter les gens…
#néo-conservateurs #va-t-en-guerre #voile (bien dégueulasse, cet usage des droits des femmes à s’offrir au regard des hommes comme marqueur de démocratie)
Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "January 1, #1982: Lebanon. A packed stadium. Bombs have been positioned where the PLO leaders will be seated. Bigger bombs are outside, ready to target panicked survivors This is #Olympia_2. One crazy operation in the Greatest “Terrorist” Campaign You Never Heard About
#THREAD" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1212429497351462912
#Liban #sionisme #terrorisme #massacre #civils #victimes_civiles #impunité #silence #complicité « #communauté_internationale »
#mensonges #propagandes #chutzpah #sans_vergogne #vitrine_de_la_jungle
Inside the U.S. military’s raid against its own security guards that left dozens of Afghan children dead
▻https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/12/29/security-guards-afghan-warlords-mass-civilian-casualties/2675795001
It remains one of the deadliest civilian casualty events of the Afghan campaign. But the story of how the operation turned tragic has been largely hidden from the public.
USA TODAY spent more than a year investigating the Azizabad raid and sued the Department of Defense to obtain almost 1,000 pages of investigative files previously kept secret because it had been deemed “classified national security information.” The records included photographs of the destruction in Azizabad and sworn testimony from the U.S. forces who planned and executed the operation.
#civils #victimes_civiles #Afghanistan #sécurité_nationale #états-unis
The problems began in 2007 when ArmorGroup, a private security company working on a Pentagon subcontract, hired two local warlords on the U.S. intelligence payroll to provide armed guards at an airfield on the western edge of Afghanistan.
Those warlords fought each other for control of the weapons and money ArmorGroup was giving out. The tangle of espionage and tribal infighting eventually drew in the very same military units that had helped empower the warlords in the first place.
After two Pentagon investigations, the U.S. military denied any wrongdoing. Defense Department officials declined to comment for this story.
A 2010 Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry laid blame with both ArmorGroup and the Defense Department for doing business with the warlords. In response to the Senate report, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates issued a letter recognizing problems with contract oversight, which he pledged to fix.
[...]
Lt. Colonel Rachel E. VanLandingham, a retired officer with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and the chief of international law at Central Command’s headquarters during the Azizabad raid, said the commanders responsible for investigating the incident seemed to ignore the failures instead of learning from them. She did not know the details of the operation or the military’s response until contacted by USA TODAY.
“The CENTCOM investigation seemed more worried about looking good than being good,” VanLandingham, now a law professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, said in an interview. “Everyone who deploys in Afghanistan should know this incident.”
ArmorGroup agreed to a Pentagon requirement that it fill the guard positions by hiring nearby villagers. It was part of the Pentagon’s economic stimulus plan for Afghanistan, but it also was less expensive than bringing in guards from outside the country.
"We are a commercial company, of course, we are looking to do the business as cheap as possible,” a company official later told U.S. military investigators.
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Bref, l’article de #USA_Today sur le bombardement d’ #Azizabad n’y est pas...
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azizabad_airstrike
VISUAL INVESTIGATIONS
‘Sent Candy’: Cockpit Tapes Show Russian Pilots Bombing Syrian Civilians
By CHRISTIAAN TRIEBERT, EVAN HILL, DMITRIY KHAVIN, MALACHY BROWNE & DAVID BOTTI | Dec. 1, 2019 | 6:52
A Times investigation used cockpit recordings to show for the first time how Russian pilots attacked civilians in Syria this summer, killing dozens.
So why is Russia attacking civilians? It’s the same reasons they’re bombing hospitals. It’s all part of a strategy to break the will of the people, force them to flee and to help the Syrian governement to retake the last opposition stronghold...
▻https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000006818506/russia-bombs-syria-civlians.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes
Remembering The 1989 #Massacre Of Jesuits In El Salvador : NPR
▻https://www.npr.org/2019/11/15/779628824/remembering-the-1989-massacre-of-jesuits-in-el-salvador
HAJEK: The Jesuit murders drew the world’s attention to a crisis in El #Salvador, and Congress faced mounting pressure to end American support of a brutal military regime. A U.N.-sponsored report in 1993 concluded that the Jesuits were killed by a Salvadoran army battalion trained and equipped by the United States. As for Lucia Cerna, sitting in her living room 30 years later, she still wonders if she could have somehow changed the hearts of the soldiers who killed her friends.
[...]
HAJEK: During the 1980s, the United States sent over $4 billion to El Salvador’s anti-communist military regime. But El Salvador’s military, supported by the U.S., kidnapped, tortured and killed innocent civilians.
« The FBI has a long history of treating political dissent as terrorism » The Intercept, Alice Speri, 22.10.2019
►https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/terrorism-fbi-political-dissent
#surveillance #political #dissidence #dissent #endOfTrust #civilSociety
VIDEO. Une frégate saoudienne dont la maintenance est assurée par la #France participe bien au blocus du Yémen
▻https://www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/proche-orient/yemen/video-une-fregate-saoudienne-entretenue-par-la-france-identifiee-au-lar
Le Yémen est en proie à un conflit sanglant dans lequel des milliers de #civils sont morts au cours de frappes de missiles ou de faim. L’état de #famine est aggravé en partie par le #blocus naval imposé par la coalition internationale menée par l’#Arabie_saoudite.
L’#Allemagne prête son espace aérien á l’état sioniste pour le rendre plus efficace dans le #massacre de #civils libanais
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-fighter-jets-join-military-exercises-over-northeastern-englan
Amos Harel, military correspondent for Haaretz newspaper, says the IDF no longer takes the view that it has little to learn from the armed forces of other nations.
It is also eager to train outside Israel because training areas within the country are few in number and variety, so officers and troops soon become overly familiar with the terrain.
A recent training exercise in Germany, Harel wrote, “is good preparation for combat in locales in which the IDF [Israel Defence Forces] might find itself some day, notably Lebanon, though that’s not spelled out explicitly to the hosts, to avoid embarrassing them”.
En Allemagne notre problème est le succès des lobbyistes israéliens qui ont réussi à convaincre le grand public que l’État d’Israël et les juifs en général forment une unité, que c’est la même chose, un peu comme la trinité pour les chrétiens où le père, le fils et et saint esprit sont identiques
( Oui, je sais, cette idée n’est pas partagée par tous les chrétiens du monde, mais c’est toujours comme ca avec les religions, chacun croit ce qu’il veut. Chez nous ils parlent de trinité et voilà. Moi ca m’a toujours étonnée qu’on puisse former une unité avec quelqu’un dont on de sait pas où il est et s’il existe, d’un personnage historique à l’histoire contradictoire et mythique et quelqu’un qu’on ne rencontre qu’en état d’intoxication. Peut-être il faudrait arrêter de prendre au sérieux les religions et ne s’intéresser plus qu’aux hommes et leurs besoins immédiats. )
Pour nous qui avons encore une idée ce ce que c’est l’impérialisme il est alors très difficile d’expliquer aux jeunes que la critique de la politique israélienne ne signifie pas automatiquement qu’il faut casser la figure à chaque homo qui porte la kippa ;-)
La définition gemano-israélienne de l’antisemitisme rend impossibe une vision nuancée des problèmes. La présence de prêtres islamistes dans les mosquées de Berlin ne facilite pas les choses non plus. #WTF, ils sont tous cinglés.
Zu wenig Engagement gegen Antisemitismus : Angriffe auf Juden sollten wir als Angriffe auf uns alle verstehen - Politik - Tagesspiegel
▻https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/zu-wenig-engagement-gegen-antisemitismus-angriffe-auf-juden-sollten-wir-als-angriffe-auf-uns-alle-verstehen/25059432.html
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, die die Shoah überlebt hat und gerade mit dem Nationalpreis ausgezeichnet worden ist, hat ihren Dank dafür mit einem Appell verbunden: dem Antisemitismus entgegenzutreten, wo immer er uns begegnet.
Und wo er uns überall begegnet. 25. September: Bekennende Juden-Hasser und Terrorunterstützer haben eine Genehmigung zum Rappen am Brandenburger Tor im Rahmen einer Pro-Palästina-Demonstration. Zwei Rapper, die in ihren Texten dazu anstacheln, Tel Aviv zu bombardieren; zwei, die Juden gerne „zertrampeln“ würden. Erst in quasi letzter Minute verbietet der Innensenator den Auftritt.
Tu m’étonnes, rapper contre les juifs, c’est la provocation suprême dans l’Allemagne sioniste. Quel privilège pour un jeune poète de voir ses texte censurés, c’est la gloire posthume assurée. Là les chiffres de vente explosent, ils ont gagné le concours du guerilla marketing ! Chapeau, Monsieur le censeur, vous avez fait deux heureux.
Letter detailing civilian presence failed to prevent deadly Afghan drone strike - Reuters
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-afghanistan-attack-drones-letter-idUKKBN1W430E
Local residents expressed shock and anger that the attack occurred despite the letter and subsequent assurances of safety for the workers.
[...]
A spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan confirmed on Thursday that the drone strike was conducted by the United States with the intention of destroying the hideouts of Islamic State fighters.
Asked about the letter sent to the governor by the village elders, Colonel Sonny Leggett said that would be part of the investigation.
Le Liban dévoile deux drones envoyés « par Israël » sur un fief du Hezbollah
Par AFP - 9 septembre 2019
▻http://www.45enord.ca/2019/09/le-liban-devoile-deux-drones-envoyes-par-israel-sur-un-fief-du-hezbollah
Le Liban a exposé jeudi deux drones qu’Israël est accusé d’avoir envoyés sur la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, bastion du mouvement chiite du Hezbollah, détaillant le modus operandi de l’opération.
Evoquant une « fabrication militaire avancée », le ministre de la Défense Elias Bou Saab a dit ne pas être en mesure d’identifier la cible exacte de « l’agression », qui s’est déroulée peu avant l’aube le 25 août. (...)
Le « fief » en question est avant tout le lieu d’habitation de centaines de milliers de #civils, hommes, femmes et enfants.
Saudi-led forces, Israel among states rapped by U.N. for killing children - Reuters
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-un-rights-children-idUKKCN1UL2SF
A lire les MSM seule l’#Arabie_Saoudite serait « préservée » dans les rapports de l’#ONU sur les #crimes contre les #enfants, alors que l’état sioniste l’est tout autant,
.... though no parties were blacklisted in the annex to the annual Children in Armed Conflict report, seen by Reuters.
#Palestine #sionisme #Guterres #comparse #civils #victimes_civiles
Israel dodges UN blacklist despite rise in Palestinian youth killed and injured in 2018 – Mondoweiss
▻https://mondoweiss.net/2019/07/blacklist-despite-palestinian
AOAV sur Twitter : “Over the last eight years (2011-2018), civilian casualties have accounted for three-quarters of total casualties recorded from #explosiveweapons.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/AOAV/status/1151425306667827200
How US “#good_guys” wiped out an Afghan family — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
▻https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2019-06-03/us-bomb-kills-afghan-family
The US denied repeatedly that it had bombed Masih’s house, or even that any airstrike in his area had taken place. But using satellite imagery, photos and open source content, we proved that denial false. Following our investigation, the military has now admitted that it did conduct a strike in that location, but it still denies it resulted in civilian deaths.
Congressman Hunter Says He Probably Killed ’Hundreds’ Of Civilians While In Combat | KPBS
▻https://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/may/30/congressman-hunter-says-he-probably-killed-hundred
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said he probably killed “hundreds of civilians” while serving as an artillery officer in #Fallujah.
His comments were made public Monday on the latest episode of the podcast “Zero Blog Thirty.”
“I was an artillery officer, and we fired hundreds of rounds into Fallujah, killed probably hundreds of civilians,” he said. “Probably killed women and children if there were any left in the city when we invaded. So, do I get judged too?”
IS fight: US-led coalition says it killed 1,300 civilians in Syria and Iraq - BBC News
▻https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48473979
Depuis 2014,
A UK-based monitoring group says the true toll is much higher, estimating up to nearly 13,000 civilian fatalities.
[...]
Last month, an investigation by activists concluded that more than 1,600 civilians were killed in coalition attacks on the Syrian city of Raqqa alone during a five-month campaign to oust IS in 2017.
#Etats-unis #crimes #mensonges #fake_news #civils #victimes_civiles #Irak #Syrie
Syrie. Une enquête sans précédent révèle que la coalition dirigée par les États-Unis a tué plus de 1 600 civils pris au piège dans Raqqa. Par Amnesty International
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/syrie-une-enquete-sans-precedent-revele-que-la-coalition-dirigee-par-les-
Syria Latest: Day-to-Day Life in War-Weary Damascus - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-04-26/waiting-19-hours-for-gas-in-a-lifeless-city
Instead of a frenzy of reconstruction and the promise of revival, Syrians have found themselves fighting another battle. Weary and traumatized from the violence, they’re focused on trying to survive in a decimated economy that shows no signs of imminent revival and with no peace dividend on the horizon.
[..,]
Robert Ford, a former U.S. ambassador to Syria, said the Trump administration is much more aggressive than under Barack Obama, using more secondary penalties that target those doing business with sanctioned individuals or companies.
In November, the U.S. Treasury Department added a network of Russian and Iranian companies to its blacklist for shipping oil to Syria and warned of significant risks for those violating the sanctions.
“It is a conscious policy of the American government to try to strangle to death the Iranian government in Tehran and the Syrian government in Damascus,” said Ford, who’s now a fellow at the Middle East Institute. “They don’t want to fight a military war with the Syrian government, but they’re perfectly willing to fight an economic war.”
Ford likened the situation in Syria to the one in Cuba after the economy collapsed in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. Cuba had financial difficulties, “but the Castros are still there,” he said.
Quand l’occident « libère » les peuples, ça donne ça. Résultat d’Amnesty, après analyse de grosses données + enquête sur le terrain.
Raqqa le carnage de la coalition occidentale - Amnesty International France
▻https://www.amnesty.fr/conflits-armes-et-populations/actualites/des-milliers-de-civils-ont-ete-tues-lors-de-loffensive
Plus d’un millier de civils ont été tués lors de l’offensive de la coalition dirigée par les Etats-Unis visant à débarrasser Raqqa de l’Etat Islamique.
Et un webdoc dédié « Rhetoric versus Reality » :
▻https://raqqa.amnesty.org
#Amnesty #guerre #crime_de_guerre #Raqqa #Syrie #occident #webdoc
