#msm

Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "Anti-semitism thrives on disgusting conspiracy theories about ‘Jewish elites &money,’ “Jewish elites &media,” etc When US media covers up revelations about past Israeli crimes (eg ‘terrorist’ car bombing campaign in 80s) it FUELS conspiracy theories &gives anti-semites ammunition ▻https://t.co/yfgHhb9D0n" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1096416763548454912

#antisémitisme #Israel #MSM

Meyer Habib sur Twitter : « Parabéns #JairBolsonaro qui ouvre de nouvelles perspectives au #Bresil, affranchi de la corruption et du socialisme. Accueil chaleureux et fraternel à Israël et au PM netanyahu. Le 🇧🇷 va transférer son ambassade à #Jerusalem, de même que #Honduras 🇭🇳. À quand la France ? ▻https://t.co/nvhBIFYgrj » / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/Meyer_Habib/status/1080409327943454720

#extrême_droite #silence #MSM

AP Investigation : Food aid stolen as #Yemen starves
▻https://apnews.com/bcf4e7595b554029bcd372cb129c49ab

Associated Press : l’aide alimentaire du PAM est détournée par TOUTES les parties en conflit (RIEN en français côté #MSM)

The problem of lost and stolen aid is common in Taiz and other areas controlled by Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is supported by the Saudi-led military coalition. It is even more widespread in territories controlled by the Houthi rebels, (...)

Réaction du PAM ( massivement rapportée par les MSM francophones), menace d’interruption de l’aide à l’appui :

Au Yémen, le PAM accuse les rebelles houthis de détourner l’aide humanitaire
▻https://www.france24.com/fr/video/20190102-yemen-rebelles-houthis-accuses-detourner-laide-humanitaire

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Aucune réaction ni menace du PAM vis-à-vis des mercenaires de l’#Arabie_saoudite

#ONU

Le traitement médiatique des #Gilets_Jaunes : un mois de #propagande #pro-Macron

Les gilets jaunes : des « beaufs » pour Jean Quatremer, vêtus d’une « chemise brune » selon BHL, qui adhèrent à des théories « conspirationnistes lunaires » à en croire Jean-Michel Aphatie (le même Jean-Michel Aphatie qui, un peu plus tard, estimait qu’une « organisation souterraine, cachée », « tirait les ficelles » derrière les Gilets Jaunes – mais personne n’est à une contradiction près). Les éditorialistes et chroniqueurs ne sont pas tendres. On ne s’attendait certes pas à ce que les médias prennent la défense des Gilets Jaunes, ou qu’ils se muent en critiques acerbes du pouvoir macronien. On ne peut pourtant qu’être interloqué par la violence des Unes, des éditos, des reportages ou des tweets qu’ils ont déclenchés contre le mouvement. Avec les Gilets Jaunes, la grande presse révèle désormais ce qu’elle est : une courroie de transmission des intérêts dominants.

▻https://lvsl.fr/le-traitement-mediatique-des-gilets-jaunes
#médias #presse #journalisme

signalé par @wizo

The 25 Worst Headlines of 2018 | Current Affairs
▻https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/12/the-25-worst-headlines-of-2018

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6. The Economist : “The Drug That Is Starving Yemen: Famine in Yemen could be avoided if the men chewed less qat.”

A little-known fact about neoliberalism is that it’s quite emotionally satisfying. If everything bad that happens to someone is their own fault—or, more specifically, you can find some small negative aspect of their behavior and blow it up to outsized proportions of blame—then you never have to feel sorry for people, or take responsibility for the fact that you yourself are complicit in harming them. Say it out loud: “The U.S. isn’t starving Yemen, the bad moral choices of Yemeni men are starving Yemen.” How did that feel? It felt good, right? In fact it feels so good it’s practically addictive. Time for another headline: “Neoliberalism: The Ideology That Is Psychologically Starving America,” and its subtitle: “Moral rot in America could be avoided if we collectively declared ‘Death to the Economist.’”

#MSM #sans_vergogne

Social Democracy or Barbarism ? Barbarism, Please | FAIR
▻https://fair.org/home/social-democracy-or-barbarism-barbarism-please

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Political commentators see AMLO as a bigger threat than Bolsonaro

Parce que le centriste Andrés Manuel López Obrador dit AMLO a un programme en faveur des #pauvres

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#msm

Our Poor, Defenseless Military Industrial Complex | FAIR
▻https://fair.org/home/our-poor-defenseless-military-industrial-complex

... disent les #MSM étatsuniens

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Even these figures do not include military pensions and veterans’ healthcare, or nuclear weapons, and therefore the true total is possibly greater than all other countries combined. Military spending is approaching the highest in recorded history of any country, and the increase in military spending Trump approved last year alone would be enough to make public colleges and universities across the US free to all.

Considering the problems of unemployment, poverty, climate change and infrastructure in the US, perhaps tooling up for an intercontinental war against two nuclear-armed superpowers is not the most effective use of trillions of dollars. That reducing a $716 billion war budget can be presented as a threat to the nation, and that “#defense” can refer to wars in Taiwan or the Baltic, illustrates the depth of the media’s imperial mindset, and goes to show President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the power of the military industrial complex went unheeded.

«#sécurité» #complexe_militaro_industriel #Etats-Unis

Gwyneth Lonergan sur Twitter : “Shame on BBCNews” / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/DrGLonergan/status/1076872646741106689

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#BBC #MSM #Extreme_droite

U.N. tells UK - Allow #Assange to leave Ecuador embassy freely | Reuters
▻https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-assange-un-idUKKCN1OK1U1

Les experts de l’#ONU exhortent le #Royaume-Uni à honorer ses obligations en matière de droits et à laisser M. Julian Assange quitter librement l’ambassade d’Équateur à Londres
►https://www.legrandsoir.info/les-experts-de-l-onu-exhortent-le-royaume-uni-a-honorer-ses-obligation

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GENÈVE (21 décembre 2018) - Les experts des #droits de l’homme de l’ONU ont réitéré aujourd’hui leur demande que le Royaume-Uni respecte ses obligations internationales et permette immédiatement au fondateur de #Wikileaks, Julian Assange, de quitter l’ambassade d’#Equateur à Londres où il est depuis plus de 6 ans, craignant une arrestation par les autorités britanniques et une #extradition aux #Etats-Unis.

« Les États qui sont fondés sur la primauté du droit et qui en font la promotion n’aiment pas être confrontés à leurs propres #violations du droit, ce qui est compréhensible. Mais lorsqu’ils admettent honnêtement ces violations, ils honorent l’esprit même de la primauté du droit, gagnent un plus grand respect à cet égard et donnent des exemples louables dans le monde entier », a déclaré le Groupe de travail sur la détention #arbitraire (GTDA) des Nations Unies.

« Il est irresponsable de faire croire que la #France pourra continuer à vivre au-dessus de ses moyens jusqu’à la fin des temps »
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/12/17/il-est-irresponsable-de-faire-croire-que-la-france-pourra-continuer-a-vivre-

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Les #sophismes de Stéphane Lauer, éditorialiste au « Monde » : on ne peut pas à la fois demander plus d’argent à l’Etat et refuser de payer des taxes.

Pas un mot sur les cadeaux fiscaux faits aux plus riches.

#MSM

‘This Is About Systematically Impoverishing People’ | FAIR
▻https://fair.org/home/this-is-about-systematically-impoverishing-people

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JJ: We watched it in real time, a kind of bait-and-switch, in the so-called liberal press. I remember papers like the #New_York_Times starting out saying, “Well, we’ll agree, it would be OK to cut benefits, as long as there’s a guaranteed job.” And then the job went into parentheses. And then it became, “Well, a job—or else some training.” And then it just kind of disappeared, you know, and childcare….

FK: That’s right, with incredible credulity, or something worse.

JJ: Exactly. Childcare went the same way, so folks may not remember that it was sold as an anti-poverty program, and now it’s being celebrated as simply being anti-welfare, and the difference between those is what’s being elided.

FK: Yes. I almost hesitate to say this, because, of course, Donald Trump is horrible, and our contemporary politics are terrifying. But it’s worth remembering also that, you know, Bill #Clinton was a pretty good liar, too . Donald Trump is a liar, but Clinton was also a liar.

And he said all the time, and people in his administration said all the time, or suggested at least, that there was going to be childcare available for every person who was now going to be expected to be in the waged labor market, that people weren’t just going to be thrown off the welfare rolls willy nilly. But that there would be, he kept on saying, there would be opportunity, there would be education, there would be training, there would be jobs, there would be childcare, but none of that was actually in the law.

“#réformes” #etats-unis #guerre_aux_pauvres #racisme #complicité #MSM

How ‘The #New_York_Times’ Deceived the Public on North Korea | The Nation
▻https://www.thenation.com/article/how-the-new-york-times-deceived-the-public-on-north-korea

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The New York Times may still have a Judith Miller problem—only now it’s a David Sanger problem.

#MSM #manipulations

Olivier Berruyer sur Twitter : « Dessinateur au Monde, c’est un métier... Les #médias demandent souvent “Qu’est ce que le #macronisme ?” Je crois que ceci en est une bonne illustration... #LeMépris » / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/OBerruyer/status/1063834204461514753

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#MSM

Media Lens - The Filter Bubble - Owen Jones And Con Coughlin
▻http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2018/886-the-filter-bubble.html

It stands to reason that anyone seeking employment within this bubble will have to accept an unwritten agreement not to challenge the integrity of the bubble by which they are granted wealth and fame. Any ingrate deciding to renege is attacked, reviled and cast out; treated almost as sub-human, not entirely real. Politicians like George Galloway challenging the bubble can be beaten up in broad daylight and it is of no concern. Idealistic hippies like Russell Brand preaching love can be torn to shreds and silenced by the press pack – it doesn’t matter. Whistleblowing activists like Julian Assange can be trapped, threatened with life imprisonment and death, and it is a laughing matter. Whole countries can be destroyed – it doesn’t matter. The climate can be destroyed – it doesn’t matter. The filter bubble has its own dream logic, follows its own cosmic laws as if the real world was none of its concern.

Quant aux noms invoqués dans le titre, ils font référence à la différence abyssale existant entre un fil twitter (franc et incisif) du journaliste du « Guardian » Owen Jones concernant la flagornerie sans vergogne dont fait preuve le journaliste du « Telegraph » Con Coughlin vis-à-vis de l’Arabie saoudite, et un article (aussi peu critique du flagorneur que possible) du même Jones dans le Guardian :

Why are defence editors, defence correspondents, diplomatic editors and the like so often biased in favour of the Western defence and diplomatic establishment they are covering? And why are they allowed to demonstrate this bias without anyone so much as commenting?

The filter bubble ensures that these questions can never be asked, much less answered.

#filtre #bulle #MSM

Crucifying Julian Assange
▻https://www.truthdig.com/articles/crucifying-julian-assange

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What is happening to #Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and  sneering contempt. Once he is pushed out of the embassy, he will be put on trial in the United States for what he published. This will set a new and dangerous legal precedent that the Trump administration and future administrations will employ against other publishers, including those who are part of the mob trying to lynch Assange. The silence about the treatment of Assange is not only a betrayal of him but a betrayal of the freedom of the press itself. We will pay dearly for this complicity.

#MSM

What Empire Loyalists Are Really Saying When They Bash Julian Assange – Caitlin Johnstone
▻https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/11/02/what-empire-loyalists-are-really-saying-when-they-bash-julian-assa

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So when you see some political writer yukking it up about Julian Assange and kitty litter, what they are really saying is, “Hey! Look at me! You can count on me to advance whatever #narratives get passed down from on high! I’ll cheer on all the wars! I’ll play up the misdeeds of our great nation’s rivals and ignore the misdeeds of our allies! I’ll literally spit on Assange if you’ll give my career a boost!”

They are saying, “I support everything the media-controlling oligarchs support, and I hate everything they hate. I will be a reliable mouthpiece of the ruling class regardless of who is elected in our fake elections to our fake official government. I will say all the right things. I will protect what you need protected. I will hide what you want hidden. I understand what you want me to do without your explicitly telling me to do it. I’ve got what you need. I have no principles. Look, I’m even joining in the dog pile against a political prisoner who can’t defend himself.”

#opportunisme #MSM

Bolsonaro is a monster engineered by our media
▻https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-10-30/bolsonaro-is-a-monster-engineered-by-our-media

Jonathan Cook, à propos d’un article de Jenkins dans le Guardian, ▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/29/brazil-election-far-right-democracy-social-media

Jenkins wants to lecture the masses about their depraved choices while he and his paper steer them away from any politician who cares about their welfare, who fights for a fairer society, who prioritises mending what is broken.

The western elites will decry Bolsonaro in the forlorn and cynical hope of shoring up their credentials as guardians of the existing, supposedly moral order. But they engineered him. Bolsonaro is their monster.

#MSM #extrêmes-droites

Perquisitions, pantouflage et porte-conteneurs : on vous explique l’affaire Alexis Kohler - LCI
▻https://www.lci.fr/justice/alexis-kohler-perquisitions-pantouflage-et-porte-conteneurs-on-vous-explique-l-a

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Alors qu’Alexis Kohler est un proche cousin des principaux actionnaires du numéro 2 mondial du transport maritime par porte-conteneurs, il a occupé des fonctions au sein du ministère de l’Economie, qui l’ont mené notamment à représenter l’État chez les chantiers navals STX de Saint-Nazaire. Or, l’armateur MSC est le principal client de STX. De quoi fonder des soupçons de conflit d’intérêt, selon Mediapart et Anticor. D’autant plus qu’Alexis Kohler a ensuite quitté ses fonctions au gouvernement en 2016, pour rejoindre pendant quelques mois le siège de MSC en tant que directeur financier.

Je n’avais pas vu passer ça... Je cherche la réaction de Macron au porte-conteneurs St Ex (@simplicissimus ?).

The bank bailout of 2008 was unnecessary. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke scared Congress into it
▻http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-baker-bailout-20180914-story.html

.... news reports on the crisis raised the prospect of empty ATMs and checks uncashed. There were stories in major media outlets about the bank runs of 1929.

No such scenario was in the cards in 2008. Unlike 1929, we have the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The FDIC was created precisely to prevent the sort of bank runs that were common during the Great Depression and earlier financial panics. The FDIC is very good at taking over a failed bank to ensure that checks are honored and ATMs keep working. In fact, the FDIC took over several major banks and many minor ones during the Great Recession. Business carried on as normal and most customers — unless they were following the news closely — remained unaware.

[...]

The Great Depression ended because of the massive government spending needed to fight World War II. But we don’t need a war to spend money. If the private sector is not creating enough demand for workers, the government can fill the gap by spending money on infrastructure, education, healthcare, child care or many other needs.

There is no plausible story where a series of bank collapses in 2008-2009 would have prevented the federal government from spending the money needed to restore full employment. The prospect of Great Depression-style joblessness and bread lines was just a scare tactic used by Bernanke, Paulson and other proponents of the bailout to get the political support needed to save the Wall Street banks.

This kept the bloated financial structure that had developed over the last three decades in place. And it allowed the bankers who got rich off of the risky financial practices that led to the crisis to avoid the consequences of their actions.
While an orderly transition would have been best, if the market had been allowed to work its magic, we could have quickly eliminated bloat in the financial sector and sent the unscrupulous Wall Street banks into the dust bin of history. Instead, millions of Americans still suffered through the Great Recession, losing homes and jobs, and the big banks are bigger than ever. Saving the banks became the priority of the president and Congress. Saving people’s homes and jobs mattered much less or not at all.

#MSM #mafia #finance #etats-unis

Les animaux des politiques : le coq de Castaner a trouvé l’amour
►http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/le-coq-de-christophe-castaner-a-trouve-l-amour-14-08-2018-7852497.php

Doudou, le coq de Christophe Castaner, a trouvé l’âme sœur
►https://www.bfmtv.com/animaux/doudou-le-coq-de-christophe-castaner-a-trouve-l-ame-soeur-1506176.html

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#journalisme_subventionné #MSM #France

Via @GMeurice sur twitter

How the UAE is destroying #Yemen | Middle East Eye
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/how-uae-destroying-yemen-421364462

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Et encore une guerre par procuration qui n’intéresse pas du tout les #MSM,

The UAE’s rift with Saudi Arabia has also been problematic. Riyadh has supported Islah, Yemen’s Muslim Brotherhood branch, as a stable ally on the ground. But the UAE opposes the Brotherhood, instead backing militants who maintain non-hostile relations with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - which it is supposed to be fighting - to counteract Islah, researcher Helen Lackner notes in her book Yemen in Crisis. As such, the UAE is in a proxy war with Saudi Arabia in Yemen.

#narrative #arabie_saoudite #e.a.u. #émirats_arabes_unis

L’interview de la mère d’Oussama Ben Laden, Alia Ghanem, par Martin Chulov dans le Guardian est l’évènement médiatique du moment :
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/osama-bin-laden-mother-speaks-out-family-interview
L’article a été largement signalé et commenté (positivement) dans les grands médias français.

Or, en dehors d’Angry Arab, personne ne semble vouloir remarquer que l’interview reprend tous les talking points de la propagande séoudienne de l’ère Mohamed Bin Salman.

D’entrée de jeu, Chulov admet qu’il interviewe la famille Ben Laden sous le contrôle du régime séoudien :

Now, Saudi Arabia’s new leadership – spearheaded by the ambitious 32-year-old heir to the throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – has agreed to my request to speak to the family. (As one of the country’s most influential families, their movements and engagements remain closely monitored.)

Voilà l’une des dictatures les plus violentes de la planète, où le déplaisir du prince vous vaudra la ruine, ou la prison, ou la réclusion à vie dans une résidence privée, ou quelques centaines de coups de fouets, voire la décapitation. Un pays où des milliardaires parmi les plus puissants ont été retenus dans un hôtel, possiblement torturés, avant d’être proprement ruinés. Où un Premier ministre étranger a été retenu et démissionné d’office.

Mais si la famille accepte enfin de parler – avec l’accord de la nouvelle direction du régime – c’est, selon Chulov, pour éviter de « réouvrir d’anciennes plaies » :

Unsurprisingly, Osama bin Laden’s family are cautious in our initial negotiations; they are not sure whether opening old wounds will prove cathartic or harmful. But after several days of discussion, they are willing to talk.

L’idée qu’il n’est pas bien sain, d’un point de vue journalistique, de présenter dans de telles conditions la parole de ces gens comme un authentique entretien, est soulevée dans la fin de l’article par une demi-sœur de Ben Laden installée (réfugiée ?) à Paris. Objection balayée d’une phrase et l’euphémisme « complicated status in the kingdom » :

From her home in Paris, she later emailed to say she strongly objected to her mother being interviewed, asking that it be rearranged through her. Despite the blessing of her brothers and father, she felt her mother had been pressured into talking. Ghanem, however, insisted she was happy to talk and could have talked longer. It is, perhaps, a sign of the extended family’s complicated status in the kingdom that such tensions exist.

D’ailleurs la conversation se fait ouvertement en présence d’un commissaire politique du régime mais, précise notre grand reporter : qui ne fait aucune tentative pour influencer la conversation…

When we meet on a hot day in early June, a minder from the Saudi government sits in the room, though she makes no attempt to influence the conversation.

On est heureux de constater que les méthodes séoudienness se sont affinées depuis l’interview grotesque de Saad Hariri.

Bref, l’entretien commence.

D’entrée de jeu, premier élément de langage tiré de la propagande officielle saoudienne : Oussame Ben Laden s’est radicalisé sous l’influence d’un membre des Frères musulmans. Subtile…

“The people at university changed him,” Ghanem says. “He became a different man.” One of the men he met there was Abdullah Azzam, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who was later exiled from Saudi Arabia and became Osama’s spiritual adviser.

Un autre élément de langage, central, reviendra plusieurs fois dans l’interview : en Afghanistan, Ben Laden est un type très bien : il n’est pas encore un jihadiste (jusqu’en 1999…).

“[…] He spent all his money on Afghanistan – he would sneak off under the guise of family business.” Did she ever suspect he might become a jihadist? “It never crossed my mind.”

Tant qu’à faire, le petit détail sectaire qui ne trompe pas : la maman de Ben Laden est alaouite :

Ghanem begins to relax, and talks about her childhood in the coastal Syrian city of Latakia, where she grew up in a family of Alawites, an offshoot of Shia Islam.

Évidemment, le bon fan-boy de la rébellitude syrienne ne tarde pas à en faire la bonne lecture : la mère de Ben Laden est alaouite « comme les Assad ». Par exemple Sam Dagher te conseille l’article en commençant par cette remarque (subtile) :
▻https://twitter.com/samdagher/status/1025343757229678597

Must read by ⁦@martinchulov⁩ on Bin Laden’s mother. She’s Syrian Alawite like the Assads. […]

Un autre talking point typique de MBS : l’Arabie séoudite était un pays relativement libéral dans les années 70 (ah ah… comment traduire « freewheeling » ici sans paraître totalement ridicule), mais a adopté une interprétation rigoriste du wahhabisme en réaction à la révolution iranienne (dont le but, écrit-il, était d’exporter le chiisme dans le monde arabe sunnite).

Osama bin Laden’s formative years in Jeddah came in the relatively freewheeling 1970s, before the Iranian Revolution of 1979, which aimed to export Shia zeal into the Sunni Arab world. From then on, Saudi’s rulers enforced a rigid interpretation of Sunni Islam – one that had been widely practised across the Arabian peninsula since the 18th century, the era of cleric Muhammed ibn Abdul Wahhab.

Ah, il faut te dire qu’à ce moment de ce long article, l’interview proprement dite de la mère de Ben Laden est terminée depuis longtemps, et n’a dû occuper que deux gros paragraphes…

À la place, on part dans des considérations enthousiastes sur cette nouvelle direction saoudienne, sous l’influence de Bin Salman, qui voudrait instaurer un « islam modéré » en Arabie (Chulov est d’ailleurs sans surprise coupable, dans le Guardian, de plusieurs articles enthousiastes sur les femmes séoudiennes autorisées à conduire) :

In 2018, Saudi’s new leadership wants to draw a line under this era and introduce what bin Salman calls “moderate Islam”. This he sees as essential to the survival of a state where a large, restless and often disaffected young population has, for nearly four decades, had little access to entertainment, a social life or individual freedoms. Saudi’s new rulers believe such rigid societal norms, enforced by clerics, could prove fodder for extremists who tap into such feelings of frustration.

Reform is beginning to creep through many aspects of Saudi society; among the most visible was June’s lifting of the ban on women drivers. There have been changes to the labour markets and a bloated public sector; cinemas have opened, and an anti-corruption drive launched across the private sector and some quarters of government. The government also claims to have stopped all funding to Wahhabi institutions outside the kingdom, which had been supported with missionary zeal for nearly four decades.

Such radical shock therapy is slowly being absorbed across the country, where communities conditioned to decades of uncompromising doctrine don’t always know what to make of it. Contradictions abound: some officials and institutions eschew conservatism, while others wholeheartedly embrace it. Meanwhile, political freedoms remain off-limits; power has become more centralised and dissent is routinely crushed.

Toujours plus éloigné du sujet initial (la maman d’Oussama), le prince Turki al-Faisal, l’« érudit » ancien chef des services secrets saoudiens :

I meet Prince Turki al-Faisal, who was the head of Saudi intelligence for 24 years, between 1977 and 1 September 2001 (10 days before the 9/11 attacks), at his villa in Jeddah. An erudite man now in his mid-70s, Turki wears green cufflinks bearing the Saudi flag on the sleeves of his thobe.

Lequel te synthétise l’élément de langage central de l’article : en Afghanistan c’est un combattant de la liberté, et c’est après que ça se gâte :

“There are two Osama bin Ladens,” he tells me. “One before the end of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and one after it. Before, he was very much an idealistic mujahid. He was not a fighter. By his own admission, he fainted during a battle, and when he woke up, the Soviet assault on his position had been defeated.”

As Bin Laden moved from Afghanistan to Sudan, and as his links to Saudi Arabia soured, it was Turki who spoke with him on behalf of the kingdom. In the wake of 9/11, these direct dealings came under intense scrutiny.

Et une autre explication totalement tirée par les cheveux : si la plupart des terroristes du 11 Septembre étaient séoudiens, ce n’était pas parce que les Séoudiens vivent dans un environnement toxique depuis l’enfance, mais parce que Ben Laden voulait tourner le monde occidental contre l’Arabie… Oui, c’est une très jolie théorie du complot dans laquelle on présente le royaume comme une victime du 11 Septembre :

“There is no doubt that he deliberately chose Saudi citizens for the 9/11 plot,” a British intelligence officer tells me. “He was convinced that was going to turn the west against his ... home country. He did indeed succeed in inciting a war, but not the one he expected.”

Et pour terminer, enfonçons le clou sur l’authentique conviction réformatrice (« mais pourra-t-il réussir ? ») de ce brave Mohammed Bin Salman :

While change has been attempted in Saudi Arabia before, it has been nowhere near as extensive as the current reforms. How hard Mohammed bin Salman can push against a society indoctrinated in such an uncompromising worldview remains an open question.

Saudia Arabia’s allies are optimistic, but offer a note of caution. The British intelligence officer I spoke to told me, “If Salman doesn’t break through, there will be many more Osamas. And I’m not sure they’ll be able to shake the curse.”

Why We Know So Little About the U.S.-Backed War in Yemen – Rolling Stone
▻https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/yemen-war-united-states-704187

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What the U.N. calls the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis” is an unhappy confluence of American media taboos

#narrative #propagande #MSM #etats-Unis #yemen

Detente Bad, Cold War Good
▻https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/07/detente-bad-cold-war-good

The entire “#liberal” #media and political #establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy wars, is apparently the “liberal” stance.

Political memories are short, but just 15 years after Iraq was destroyed and the chain reaction sent most of the Arab world back to the dark ages, it is now “treason” to question the word of the Western intelligence agencies, which deliberately and knowingly produced a fabric of lies on Iraqi WMD to justify that destruction.

#profiteurs_de_guerre #MSM

Contributor to the Nation ejected from Helsinki presser - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2018/07/16/the-nation-contributor-ejected-from-helsinki-presser

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Aucun #MSM français pour le rapporter,

Un journaliste expulsé de la conférence de presse Trump-Poutine à Helsinki (vidéo) - Sputnik France
▻https://fr.sputniknews.com/international/201807171037238315-journaliste-conference-presse-trump-poutine

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À l’extérieur de la salle, il a continué à crier, interrogeant les gardes : « C’est la liberté de la #presse, que diriez-vous de la presse libre ? »