The US is bombing the hell out of the #Taliban as munitions dropped reaches nearly 10 year high
▻https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2020/01/27/the-us-is-bombing-the-hell-out-of-the-taliban-as-munitions-dropped-re
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In the backdrop of peace negotiations to end the 18-year long war U.S. aircraft are bombing the hell out of the Taliban and other militants as the warring parties slog through never-ending discussions to bring the fighting to a close.
Toujours dans le cadre des négociations de paix,
Afghanistan : Taliban claim they shot down US air force plane | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/27/afghanistan-taliban-claim-they-shot-down-us-air-force-plane-crash
In separate comments, Mujahid told the Guardian the purported shoot-down “has no impact” on the ongoing negotiations over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. “No agreement has been reached yet and Americans are continuing their attacks too.”
Il movimento delle Pantere Nere - Wikiradio del 04/12/2015
▻http://www.rai.it/dl/portaleRadio/media/ContentItem-f6c989dd-9486-49d6-b827-600887510e2d.html
l 4 dicembre #1969 a #Chicago viene ucciso dalla polizia #FredHampton, leader delle Pantere Nere con Paolo Bertella Farnetti
Repertorio
– alcuni estratti da un documentario dedicato al movimento delle Pantere Nere, trasmesso all’interno del programma tv Boomerang - Ricerca in due sere (RAI, 30 luglio 1970)
– un breve estratto da una puntata di La storia siamo noi dal titolo «Hoover: i segreti dell’FBI» (RAI 3, 10 giugno 2003)
– un tg americano del settembre 1968 che riferisce la definizione del movimento delle #BlackPanthers come «la più grande minaccia interna per la nazione» data dal capo dell’ #FBI, John Edgar Hoover (fonte: YouTube)
Brani musicali
– «The end of silence» di Elaine Brown, cantrice del movimento delle Black Panthers di cui entrò a far parte nel 1969 ricoprendo diversi incarichi importanti (dall’album Seize the Time, ed. Vault 1969)
– «The Panther», dallo stesso album di Elaine Brown
– «The Meeting» di Elaine Brown, che divenne l’inno nazionale del movimento
❞
#podcast #wikiradio #RaiRadio3 #usa #afroamerique #blackcommunity #racism
#audio #Black_Panthers #histoire #USA #Etats-Unis
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#Elaine_Brown - The End of Silence
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-JbT9ic7g
Elaine Brown - The Meeting
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JsDMwUE4mI
ping @sinehebdo
Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of Trump | The New Yorker
▻https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/mike-pompeo-the-secretary-of-trump
Pompeo, an evangelical Christian who keeps an open Bible on his desk, now says it’s possible that God raised up Trump as a modern Queen Esther, the Biblical figure who convinced the King of Persia to spare the Jewish people.
#Irak : les #États-Unis cherchent à créer un État sunnite pour contrer le déclin de leur influence | Middle East Eye édition française
▻https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/reportages/irak-les-etats-unis-cherchent-creer-un-etat-sunnite-pour-contrer-le-d
« Les réunions battent leur plein et tous les dirigeants sunnites y participent. Mais ils démentent cela publiquement, ils attendent les conditions qui les protégeront », a déclaré à MEE un dirigeant sunnite de haut rang proche des pourparlers.
Si les manifestants parviennent à forcer l’adoption d’un gouvernement national qui veillera sur toutes les communautés irakiennes, alors les sunnites rejetteront tout projet de région autonome, a déclaré le dirigeant.
Dans le cas contraire, a-t-il averti, les sunnites soutiendront en masse le projet de #partition.
« Les sunnites ne veulent pas faire partie du croissant chiite et refusent de se soumettre au contrôle iranien. Ils donneront donc aux Américains la permission de construire des bases militaires sur leurs terres, en échange du soutien nécessaire pour établir la région souhaitée. »
Les décennies se suivent et se ressemblent,
Former top U.S. general Dunford joining Lockheed Martin’s board | Article [AMP] | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lockheed-dunford-idUSKBN1ZN2L8
Eric Blanc sur Twitter : "#Lol, instead of listing Bernie in their poll, abc7newsbayarea counted his votes under “Other.” And he’s winning 😂 ▻https://t.co/DMliPkfD9Y" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/_ericblanc/status/1219356956734812160
Primaire démocrate : le #New_York_Times soutient Warren et Klobuchar
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/202001/20/01-5257515-primaire-democrate-le-new-york-times-soutient-warren-et-klobucha
Il y a décidément une vague sans précédent de #crimes contre la #langue,
Pour justifier cette ambivalence, le prestigieux quotidien explique que les deux approches en compétition parmi les nombreux candidats- celle, « radicale », représentée par Elizabeth Warren ou celle, « réaliste », portée par Amy Klobuchar [...]
[...]
Mme Warren, 70 ans, qui représente l’aile #gauche du parti démocrate, est assez bien placée dans les sondages pour la primaire démocrate, [...] derrière [...] un rival très à gauche, #Bernie_Sanders.
Le « problème des Blancs avec les Noirs », à propos de W.E.B. Du Bois
https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-suite-dans-les-idees/la-suite-dans-les-idees-emission-du-samedi-14-decembre-2019
La traduction en français, 120 ans après sa publication aux Etats-Unis, des « Noirs de Philadelphie » offre l’occasion de revenir sur son auteur désormais considéré comme l’un des fondateurs de la sociologie, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Je découvre :
En seconde partie, l’historienne de l’art Elvan Zabunyan le rejoindra pour évoquer le travail de représentation graphique des statistiques dont Du Bois est l’auteur, à l’occasion de la parution en français de « La Ligne de couleur ».
#sciences_sociales #statistiques #visualisation (on dit comment, @fil ?)
Trump renews attack on lightbulbs and goes after dishwashers, fridges, toilets and showers
▻https://news.yahoo.com/trump-renews-attack-lightbulbs-goes-113230094.html
▻https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/OYJne2.lZ4EGnMMiv3jJ8w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEwNTI7aD03OTA-/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gGXdM9WtvwH.cR84tgH3cA--~B/aD0zOTU7dz01MjY7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7881e24631f58665c2a171fe998ebb1e
Donald Trump has revisited his vendetta against energy-saving lightbulbs, ascribing them the blame for his orange hue while extending the focus of his ire to include showers, dishwashers and toilets in a wide-ranging rally speech in Milwaukee.
Despite claiming an aide had warned against mentioning lightbulbs ahead of his address, Mr Trump complained “the new lightbulb costs you five times as much and it makes you look orange”.
Opinion | How the Health Insurance Industry (and I) Invented the ‘Choice’ Talking Point - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/opinion/healthcare-choice-democratic-debate.html
To my everlasting regret, I played a hand in devising this deceptive talking point about choice when I worked in various communications roles for a leading health insurer between 1993 and 2008, ultimately serving as vice president for corporate communications. Now I want to come clean by explaining its origin story, and why it’s both factually inaccurate and a political ploy.
Those of us in the insurance industry constantly hustled to prevent significant reforms because changes threatened to eat into our companies’ enormous profits. We were told by our opinion research firms and messaging consultants that when we promoted the purported benefits of the status quo that we should talk about the concept of “choice”: It polled well in focus groups of average Americans (and was encouraged by the work of #Frank_Luntz, the #P.R. guru who literally wrote the book on how the Republican Party should communicate with Americans). As instructed, I used the word “choice” frequently when drafting talking points.
But those of us who held senior positions for the big insurers knew that one of the huge vulnerabilities of the system is its lack of choice. In the current system, Americans cannot, in fact, pick their own doctors, specialists or hospitals — at least, not without incurring huge “out of network” bills.
Not only does the current health care system deny you choice within the details of your plans, it also fails to provide many options for the plan itself. Most working Americans must select from a limited list made by their company’s chosen insurance provider (usually a high-deductible plan or a higher-deductible plan). What’s more, once that choice is made, there are many restrictions around keeping it. You can lose coverage if your company changes its plan, or if you change jobs, or if you turn 26 and leave your parents’ plan, among other scenarios.
#assurances #assurance_maladie #couverture_sociale #choix #manipulation #tromperie #inversion #etats-unis
Comment les USA asservissent les autres pays, notamment la France et l’Europe ? Série d’articles dans la Tribune :
Souveraineté : la France en état d’urgence absolue (1/11)
►https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/souverainete-la-france-en-etat-d-urgence-absolue-1-13-836790.html
Souveraineté juridique : la soumission de la France aux lois américaines (2/11)
►https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/souverainete-juridique-la-soumission-de-la-france-aux-lois-americaines-2-1
Washington a organisé un pillage des données des entreprises françaises" Raphaël Gauvain (3/11)
►https://www.latribune.fr/economie/france/washington-a-organise-un-pillage-de-donnees-des-entreprises-francaises-rap
Souveraineté numérique : les nuages noirs s’amoncellent (4/11)
►https://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/souverainete-numerique-les-nuages-noirs-s-amoncellent-4-13-836810.html
Les sanctions, reflets de la suprématie américaine
▻https://www.latribune.fr/opinions/tribunes/les-sanctions-reflets-de-la-suprematie-americaine-837050.html
Les articles 5 à 11 ne sont pas encore parus.
#Etats-Unis #data #données #Droit #juridique #numérique #GAFA #Extraterritorialité-du-droit-américain
De tous les postérieurs dont les traces ont rendu illisibles les documents du #droit_international, celui des #etats-unis est de loin le plus imposant.
Dean Baker sur Twitter : “If we had a serious news media this would be getting a lot of attention. The Iraqi government asked the U.S. to leave. Trump said he’s not going, that makes us an #occupation #force. That’s should even be simple enough for Chuck Todd to understand. ▻https://t.co/Qi5HfGhOKH” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/DeanBaker13/status/1216370739143536640
Environnement : ces rivières s’assèchent dangereusement | National Geographic
▻https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/photography/2019/03/environnement-ces-rivieres-sassechent-dangereusement?image=drawn-
Le #Colorado est l’un des cours d’eau les plus utilisés et les plus disputés du monde. Il fournit de l’#eau à 30 millions de personnes et compte de nombreux barrages et déviations le long de son lit s’étendant sur plus de 2 333 kilomètres.
À l’état naturel, la rivière coulait des hautes plaines de l’ouest des #États-Unis jusqu’au golfe de #Californie, au #Mexique. Mais comme il est très largement exploité en cours de route pour l’#agriculture, l’#industrie et les municipalités, l’eau n’atteint plus que rarement l’océan. Pendant quelques semaines en 2014, les États-Unis et le Mexique ont coopéré, permettant aux eaux d’atteindre l’océan. Un effort est en cours pour rétablir le flux en permanence, mais il est peu probable qu’il soit mis en œuvre prochainement.
Ce type est quand même ministre de la Défense...
Aaron Rupar sur Twitter : “#Mark_Esper on CBS: I didn’t see the intelligence about Iran posing an imminent threat to 4 US embassies, but I believe President Trump when he says there was one ▻https://t.co/pAaMVXGAde” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1216365680871821312
#on_en_est_la #cacophonie #etats-unis #post_vérité #air_du_temps
Macron a fait des émules, parce que #en_même_temps....
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-usa-idUSKBN1ZB0KM
.... Esper said in a separate interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the administration had “exquisite intelligence” that a broader attack against multiple embassies was likely but that could only be shared with the “Gang of Eight,” a group of top congressional leaders who get briefed on sensitive information that the rest of Congress does not have access to.
Retrait des troupes américaines : le ton monte entre Washington et Bagdad
▻https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/202001/10/01-5256308-retrait-des-troupes-americaines-le-ton-monte-entre-washington-et
Interrogé vendredi sur la demande du premier ministre irakien, Mike Pompeo a lui temporisé [sic].
« Nous sommes prêts à poursuivre la discussion avec les Irakiens sur la meilleure structure » pour la présence américaine, a-t-il dit. « Notre mission est très claire, nous sommes là pour former » les forces irakiennes « et poursuivre la campagne contre l’EI » : « nous allons continuer cette mission ».
U.S. Warns Iraq It Risks Losing Access to Key Bank Account if Troops Told to Leave
▻https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-warns-iraq-it-risks-losing-access-to-key-bank-account-if-troops-told-to-lea
The Trump administration warned Iraq this week that it risks losing access to a critical government bank account if Baghdad kicks out American forces following the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general, according to Iraqi officials.
The State Department warned that the U.S. could shut down Iraq’s access to the country’s central bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a move that could jolt Iraq’s already shaky economy, the officials said.
Les #États-Unis sont le pays que tout le monde imite ; si ces pratiques mafieuses se poursuivent on assistera à leur généralisation ouverte à travers le monde.
Book review of The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew J. Bacevich - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/they-wanted-to-remake-the-world-instead-we-got-president-trump/2020/01/10/00b84096-32fc-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html
The Cold War mind-set, in Bacevich’s telling, came with certain disciplining features. Because the Soviet Union was always out there, doing its own thing, American statesmen could not be as reckless as they might otherwise have been, and American citizens were forced to live up to some modicum of their own oft-stated virtues. But the Cold War also constituted a “tragedy of towering proportions,” Bacevich writes, 40-plus years of “folly and waste,” all to create the greatest buildup of lethal force in human history . The proper response, when it came to an end, would have been “reflection, remorse, repentance, even restitution.” Instead, an “intoxicated #elite” rushed ahead into the 21st century, giddy with its own power and wealth, sure that it could now, at last, remake the world in America’s image.
What emerged from this enthusiasm, Bacevich argues, was a dreary new post-Cold War consensus, built around a commitment to neoliberal economics at home and abroad, backed by American military supremacy and an increasingly powerful White House. Technology was supposed to bring it all together, as smart bombs and drones replaced messy human warfare. And everyone was supposed to win: America, the world, the poor, the rich, the cause of human freedom. Bacevich likens the late 1990s to the moment when Dorothy and her “Wizard of Oz” companions arrive at the yellow brick road, convinced that their troubles have come to an end. We all know how well that turned out.
Dans une lettre, les #États-Unis annoncent leur redéploiement en #Irak en vue d’un retrait - La Libre
▻https://www.lalibre.be/international/asie/dans-une-lettre-les-etats-unis-annoncent-leur-redeploiement-en-irak-en-vue-d
L’armée américaine a indiqué lundi soir au numéro deux du commandement militaire irakien « repositionner » les forces de la coalition antijihadistes dans le but d’"un retrait de l’Irak de manière sécurisée et efficace", dans une lettre dont l’AFP a pu consulter une copie.
Deux responsables militaires américain et irakien ont confirmé à l’AFP l’authenticité de cette lettre signée du général William H. Seely, commandant des opérations militaires américaines en Irak. « Nous respectons votre décision souveraine qui ordonne notre départ », ajoute la missive, au lendemain d’un vote au Parlement exhortant le gouvernement à expulser les troupes étrangères d’Irak après l’assassinat du général iranien Qassem Soleimani et de l’homme de l’Iran en Irak, Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, vendredi à Bagdad.
▻https://twitter.com/RudawEnglish/status/1214170432603086853
Iraq’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul al-Mahdi receives China’s ambassador to Iraq, Zhang Tao conveyed Beijing’s readiness to provide military assistance.
Les Etats-Unis annoncent « par erreur » leur retrait d’Irak, avant de démentir
▻https://www.nouvelobs.com/monde/20200106.OBS23120/l-armee-americaine-annonce-a-l-irak-preparer-son-retrait.html
Il s’agissait en fait d’un « projet [de lettre] non signé », a déclaré le chef d’état-major américain, le général Mark Milley. « Il n’aurait jamais dû être envoyé », a-t-il ajouté, évoquant « une erreur commise en toute bonne foi ».
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Selon le secrétaire américain à la Défense Mark Esper, les Etats-Unis redéploient leurs troupes en Irak mais ne quittent pas le pays. « Aucune décision n’a été prise de quitter l’Irak. Point », a déclaré à la presse le chef du Pentagone.
A ‘Rare Case Where Racial Biases’ Protected African-Americans - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/upshot/opioid-epidemic-blacks.html
African-Americans received fewer opioid #prescriptions, some researchers think, because doctors believed, contrary to fact, that black people 1) were more likely to become addicted to the drugs 2) would be more likely to sell the drugs and 3) had a higher pain threshold than white people because they were biologically different.
A fourth possibility is that some white doctors were more empathetic to the pain of people who were like them, and less empathetic to those who weren’t.
#préjugés #biais #racisme #opiacés #opioides #santé #empathie #blancs #noirs #etats-unis
U.S. Stops Dozens of Iranian-Americans Returning From Canada - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/05/us/politics/iranian-americans-border.html
More than 60 people were held for additional questioning in Washington State, according to advocacy groups and accounts from travelers.
Reza Marashi sur Twitter : “#THREAD: Over the past few days, I’ve spoken extensively with career U.S. government officials as they’ve worked around the clock to try and mitigate the damage from Trump’s ineptitude on #Iran. With their permission, I’m sharing a small taste from our lengthy conversations. Enjoy.” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/rezamarashi/status/1214031169173348352
Édifiant,…
“For as bad as it looks to you all on the outside, it’s even worse when you see it from the inside.”
THREAD: Over the past few days, I’ve spoken extensively with career U.S. government officials as they’ve worked around the clock to try and mitigate the damage from Trump’s ineptitude on Iran. With their permission, I’m sharing a small taste from our lengthy conversations. Enjoy.
“We have no functional national security decision-making process in place. We have no plan for what comes next. They are woefully unprepared for what’s about to pop off, and they’re too stupid to realize it. People here are freaking out, and rightfully so.”
“We’re still trying to dig out from underneath the last war of choice, and now they’re trying to start a new one. I finally cracked open the bottle of scotch you gave me that I’ve been keeping stashed away in my desk drawer.”
“I’m gonna call you later tonight to talk through this so I can go into meetings tomorrow armed with some sane talking points to insert into this clusterfuck.”
“When did most of us find out about killing Soleimani? After it already happened. Since then, we’ve been trying to cobble together contingency planning on the fly, but these charlatans ignore most of it, and then Trump does more stupid shit that puts us back at square one.”
“All Trump cares about is shitting on Obama’s legacy, sucking up to donors, and distracting from impeachment. None of this is about American interests or security. He’s surrounded by ideological lunatic sycophants like Pence and Pompeo. But they’re far from the only ones.”
“So many of Trump’s top advisors on Iran are military vets who served multiple tours of duty in our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. They believe to their core that Iran is the reason why they lost those wars, and they’re dead set on payback - no matter what it takes.”
“They’ve been pushing to kill Soleimani for years, and they finally baited Trump into it. They think war with Iran is long overdue, so for them, this was a means to an end. When Iran responds, they’ll tell Trump to hit the Iranians harder. You see where this could go.”
“They know the Iraqis are gonna kick them out now, so they’re gonna try to kill as many as possible on their way out. Iranians, Iraqis, whoever. Some of them are advising Trump to tell the Iraqi government to fuck off and dare them to make us leave. I shit you not. Insanity.”
“When I used your points about Soleimani’s murder being a catalyst for Iranians to rally around the flag, they said that was ’Obama apologist bullshit,’ and the Soviet Union forced people against their will into public displays of support. So apparently Iran is a superpower now.”
“Trump is threatening war crimes against Iran, and none of his top advisors have the courage to publicly oppose it. Instead, they act like cowards and go on background with journalists to express their opposition. They should all resign. They don’t deserve to serve this country.”
“We have friends that are getting deployed into war zones, but for what? Trump has deployed 14,000 troops over the past 6 months, and it didn’t prevent the current crisis. At what point do we start asking whether deploying troops is part of the problem rather than the solution?”
“The scariest part is that they’re just making shit up to justify their preferred course of action. When we point out inaccuracies or question logic, we’re at best yelled at or at worst cut out of the process. Most of the political appointees are paranoid, unqualified, or both.”
“Last year, if you would’ve asked me whether American institutions are durable enough to prevent a Trump-led war with Iran, I would’ve said absolutely. Today, I’m not so sure. For as bad as it looks to you all on the outside, it’s even worse when you see it from the inside.”
“One of Trump’s top Iran advisors got suckered into a honey trap, had their laptop/iPhone stolen and hacked before they woke up, and the White House refused to take precautionary measures regarding their security clearance. Ladies and gents, I give you the Trump administration.”
In conclusion: Yes, folks. It really is that bad. I am but a humble messenger of truth. The voice of the voiceless. That is all. You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.
Oué, bon, ça ne fait que 15 ans que tout le monde se demande comment les américains vont réussir à ne pas rentrer en guerre contre l’Iran, et en 2005-2007, ce sont les militaires qui avaient résisté aux politiques. Époque où les politiques n’étaient pas dirigés par Trump.
Defense stocks spike after airstrike against Iranian commander - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/03/defense-stocks-spike-following-airstrike-against-iranian-commander
Major weapons builders saw their stock prices jump Friday after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian military official near the Baghdad airport, drawing immediate threats of retaliation.
With thousands of U.S. troops already headed to the region to bolster security there, defense analysts now predict the long-running U.S. military presence in Iraq ― and the billions of taxpayer dollars spent there every year on munitions and troop support ― is unlikely to be drawn down.
U.S. defense contractors, which have benefited financially from the long-running wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, are among Wall Street’s few beneficiaries of heightened tensions in the Middle East, analysts said. Stock prices of most major defense manufacturers closed several points higher Friday even as climbing oil prices appeared to hurt major stock indexes .
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The Pentagon has already announced that it is sending 3,500 additional troops to the Middle East and warned Americans to leave Iraq “immediately.”
Stock analysts tracking the defense market said the escalated tensions could create more support for escalated levels of defense spending. The U.S. defense budget increased by about 16 percent in the first few years of Trump’s presidency before leveling off.
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He said the event makes a further troop drawdown in the Middle East unlikely, as Iran and other “antagonists” pose a greater threat to U.S. installations across the region. The Defense Department’s spending from an account called Overseas Contingency Operations, which is used to fund active military operations, will probably remain at its current high as a result, he said.
Jefferies Investment Bank analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu wrote in a note to investors that the threat of escalated conflict in the Middle East “points to the broad threat profile that supports elevated levels of spending.” She wrote that Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics could be the biggest beneficiaries because of their international #business.
#BlackRock ou la tentation du #pouvoir absolu des fonds d’investissements | IRIS
▻https://www.iris-france.org/140297-blackrock-ou-la-tentation-du-pouvoir-absolu-des-fonds-dinvestiss
... dans un contexte où l’administration américaine instrumentalise tout #dollar investi à des fins politiques via l’#extraterritorialité de certaines de ses lois, ne peut-on craindre un affaiblissement supplémentaire des États et des entreprises européennes face à la velléité d’#hégémonie américaine ?
Top UN official accuses US of torturing #Chelsea_Manning | US news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/31/chelsea-manning-us-torture-un-official-wikileak
Un haut responsable de l’#ONU accuse les #Etats-Unis d’avoir torturé Chelsea Manning – Anti-K
▻https://www.anti-k.org/2020/01/02/un-haut-responsable-de-lonu-accuse-les-etats-unis-davoir-torture-chelsea-man
Nils Melzer, le rapporteur spécial des #Nations_unies sur la #torture, a fait cette accusation dans une lettre envoyée en novembre mais qui n’a été publiée que mardi.
Dans la missive, Melzer dit que Manning est soumis à « une mesure de contrainte de plus en plus sévère et illimitée qui remplit tous les éléments constitutifs de la torture ou d’autres peines ou traitements #cruels, #inhumains ou #dégradants ».
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... Melzer a déclaré que la détention de Manning « n’est pas une sanction légale mais une mesure coercitive de durée progressive et sévère, équivalente à de la torture et devrait être interrompu et supprimé sans délai ».
Interesting Poll Shows Hong Kongers Not Exactly Against China
▻https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/01/02/interesting-poll-shows-hong-kongers-not-exactly-against-china
Only 17% of Hong Kongers say they want independence from China with just 20% saying China has abused the “one country, two systems” model to favor Beijing, a Reuters poll released on December 31 shows.
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The U.S. Senate passed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act last month, backing the Hong Kong protesters whom Trump said should have been listed in Time magazine’s Person of the Year issue.
Hong Kong protesters are often seen waving American and British flags at protest rallies.