(BXL) SMASH NATO APPEL : L’état d’urgence mondial est déclaré : C’est la #Guerre !
▻https://nantes.indymedia.org/articles/37665
Appel à agir contre le sommet de l’OTAN à #bruxelles !
#Contre-sommets #Guerre,Contre-sommets
(BXL) SMASH NATO APPEL : L’état d’urgence mondial est déclaré : C’est la #Guerre !
▻https://nantes.indymedia.org/articles/37665
Appel à agir contre le sommet de l’OTAN à #bruxelles !
#Contre-sommets #Guerre,Contre-sommets
Un peu d’histoire sur le développement de la « cyberguerre » au sein de L’OTAN
!En 2007, des attaques DDOS visent les sites gouvernementaux estoniens, aboutissant à une paralysie totale de certains services administratifs pendant trois semaines"
L’OTAN dans la cyberguerre : stratégie globale et capacités opérationnelles
▻http://www.diploweb.com/L-OTAN-dans-la-cyberguerre-strategie-globale-et-capacites-operationnelles.
Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds Cold War levels: U.S. admiral
Recent Russian naval activity in Europe exceeds levels seen during the Cold War, a top U.S. and NATO military officer said, voicing concern that the distributed nature of the deployments could end up “splitting and distracting” the transatlantic alliance.
Swedish Doctors for Human Rights : White Helmets Video, Macabre Manipulation of Dead Children and Staged Chemical Weapons Attack to Justify a “No-Fly Zone” in Syria – THE INDICTER
▻http://theindicter.com/swedish-doctors-for-human-rights-white-helmets-video-macabre-manipulati
Si, après ça, vous avez encore la moindre estime pour les Casques blancs ! Perso, j’ai tendance à accorderplus de crédibilité aux Swedish Doctors for Human Rights...
UN representatives were moved to tears by the spectacle presented to them by the White Helmets. An appropriate response, to the black art performance of the White Helmets, whose acting talents have propelled them onto Hollywood’s red carpet. In any sane world, however, the ‘misuse’, the propaganda abuse, of the children being exploited as props in a war that will inevitably kill more children, should also qualify the White Helmets for due process in a court of law and condemn their sponsors to prosecution in the European Court of Human Rights.
As for war-hawk, Samantha Power’s threats, echoed by her puppet human rights organisations, controlled by western corporate elites, I would like to mention that the war in Syria started when the US and NATO states, in unholy alliance with Gulf State tyrannies, funded, trained and armed the “moderate” extremist forces which have since invaded and terrorized the Syrian state and its people, who have steadfastly stood with their elected government against the tide of regime change propaganda and proxy military intervention.
In the final judgement, when the international court for war crimes puts the immoral warmongers on trial, they will be condemned and found guilty of abhorrent crimes against Humanity by all the decent people of this world.
Border fences and internal border controls in Europe
The EU has built #1000_km of border walls since fall of Berlin Wall
European Union states have built over 1,000km of border walls since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a new study into Fortress Europe has found.
Migration researchers have quantified the continent’s anti-immigrant infrastructure and found that the EU has gone from just two walls in the 1990s to 15 by 2017.
Ten out of 28 member states stretching from Spain to Latvia have now built such border walls, with a sharp increase during the 2015 migration panic, when seven new barriers were erected.
Despite celebrations this year that the Berlin Wall had now been down for longer than it was ever up, Europe has now completed the equivalent length of six Berlin walls during the same period. The barriers are mostly focused on keeping out undocumented migrants and would-be refugees.
The erection of the barriers has also coincided with the rise of xenophobic parties across the continent, with 10 out of 28 seeing such parties win more than half a million votes in elections since 2010.
“Europe’s own history shows that building walls to resolve political or social issues comes at an unacceptable cost for liberty and human rights,” Nick Buxton, researcher at the Transnational Institute and editor of the report said.
“Ultimately it will also harm those who build them as it creates a fortress that no one wants to live in. Rather than building walls, Europe should be investing in stopping the wars and poverty that fuels migration.”
Tens of thousands of people have died trying to migrate into Europe, with one estimate from June this year putting the figure at over 34,000 since the EU’s foundation in 1993. A total of 3,915 fatalities were recorded in 2017.
The report also looked at eight EU maritime rescue operations launched by the bloc, seven of which were carried out specifically by the EU’s border agency Frontex.
The researchers found that none of the operations, all conducted in the Mediterranean, had the rescue of people as their principal goal – with all of them focused on “eliminating criminality in border areas and slowing down the arrival of displaced peoples”.
Just one, Operation Mare Nostrum, which was carried out by the Italian government, included humanitarian organisations in its fleets. It has since been scrapped and replaced by Frontex’s Operation Triton, which has a smaller budget.
“These measures lead to refugees and displaced peoples being treated like criminals,” Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto, researcher for Delàs Center and co-author of the report said.
At the June European Council, EU leaders were accused by NGOs of “deliberately condemning vulnerable people to be trapped in Libya, or die at sea”, after they backed the stance of Italy’s populist government and condemned rescue boats operating in the sea.
▻https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-border-wall-berlin-migration-human-rights-immigration-borders-a862
Building walls. Fear and securitization in the European Union
This report reveals that member states of the European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people migrating into Europe. These physical walls are accompanied by even longer ‘maritime walls’, naval operations patrolling the Mediterranean, as well as ‘virtual walls’, border control systems that seek to stop people entering or even traveling within Europe, and control movement of population.
Authors
Ainhoa Ruiz Benedicto, Pere Brunet
In collaboration with
Stop Wapenhandel, Centre Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau
Programmes
War & Pacification
On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, marking what many hoped would be a new era of cooperation and openness across borders. German President Horst Koehler celebrating its demise some years later spoke of an ‘edifice of fear’ replaced by a ‘place of joy’, opening up the possibility of a ‘cooperative global governance which benefits everyone’. 30 years later, the opposite seems to have happened. Edifices of fear, both real and imaginary, are being constructed everywhere fuelling a rise in xenophobia and creating a far more dangerous walled world for refugees fleeing for safety.
This report reveals that member states of the European Union and Schengen Area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls, the equivalent of more than six times the total length of the Berlin Walls, since the nineties to prevent displaced people migrating into Europe. These physical walls are accompanied by even longer ‘maritime walls’, naval operations patrolling the Mediterranean, as well as ‘virtual walls’, border control systems that seek to stop people entering or even traveling within Europe, and control movement of population. Europe has turned itself in the process into a fortress excluding those outside– and in the process also increased its use of surveillance and militarised technologies that has implications for its citizens within the walls.
This report seeks to study and analyse the scope of the fortification of Europe as well as the ideas and narratives upon which it is built. This report examines the walls of fear stoked by xenophobic parties that have grown in popularity and exercise an undue influence on European policy. It also examines how the European response has been shaped in the context of post-9/11 by an expanded security paradigm, based on the securitization of social issues. This has transformed Europe’s policies from a more social agenda to one centred on security, in which migrations and the movements of people are considered as threats to state security. As a consequence, they are approached with the traditional security tools: militarism, control, and surveillance.
Europe’s response is unfortunately not an isolated one. States around the world are answering the biggest global security problems through walls, militarisation, and isolation from other states and the rest of the world. This has created an increasingly hostile world for people fleeing from war and political prosecution.
The foundations of “Fortress Europe” go back to the Schengen Agreement in 1985, that while establishing freedom of movement within EU borders, demanded more control of its external borders. This model established the idea of a safe interior and an unsafe exterior.
Successive European security strategies after 2003, based on America’s “Homeland Security” model, turned the border into an element that connects local and global security. As a result, the European Union Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) became increasingly militarised, and migration was increasingly viewed as a threat.
Fortress Europe was further expanded with policy of externalization of the border management to third countries in which agreements have been signed with neighbouring countries to boost border control and accept deported migrants. The border has thus been transformed into a bigger and wider geographical concept.
The walls and barriers to movement
The investigation estimates that the member states of the European Union and the Schengen area have constructed almost 1000 km of walls on their borders since nineties, to prevent the entrance of displaced people and migration into their territory.
The practice of building walls has grown immensely, from 2 walls in the decade of the 1990s to 15 in 2017. 2015 saw the largest increase, the number of walls grew from 5 to 12.
Ten out of 28 member states (Spain, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Austria, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania) have built walls on their borders to prevent immigration, all of them belonging to the Schengen area except for Bulgaria and the United Kingdom.
One country that is not a member of the European Union but belongs to the Schengen area has built a wall to prevent migration (Norway). Another (Slovakia) has built internal walls for racial segregation. A total of 13 walls have been built on EU borders or inside the Schengen area.
Two countries, both members of the European Union and the Schengen area, (Spain and Hungary) have built two walls on their borders for controlling migration. Another two (Austria and the United Kingdom) have built walls on their shared borders with Schengen countries (Slovenia and France respectively). A country outside of the European Union, but part of of the so-called Balkan route (Macedonia), has built a wall to prevent migration.
Internal controls of the Schengen area, regulated and normalized by the Schengen Borders Code of 2006, have been gone from being an exception to be the political norm, justified on the grounds of migration control and political events (such as political summit, large demonstrations or high profile visitors to a country). From only 3 internal controls in 2006, there were 20 in 2017, which indicates the expansion in restrictions and monitoring of peoples’ movements.
The maritime environment, particularly the Mediterranean, provides more barriers. The analysis shows that of the 8 main EU maritime operations (Mare Nostrum, Poseidon, Hera, Andale, Minerva, Hermes, Triton and Sophia) none have an exclusive mandate of rescuing people. All of them have had, or have, the general objective of fighting crime in border areas. Only one of them (Mare Nostrum) included humanitarian organisations in its fleet, but was replaced by Frontex’s “Triton” Operation (2013-2015) which had an increased focus on prosecuting border-related crimes. Another operation (Sophia) included direct collaboration with a military organisation (NATO) with a mandate focused on the persecution of persons that transport people on migratory routes. Analysis of these operations show that their treatment of crimes is sometimes similar to their treatment of refugees, framed as issues of security and treating refugees as threats.
There are also growing numbers of ‘virtual walls’ which seek to control, monitor and surveil people’s movements. This has resulted in the expansion, especially since 2013, of various programs to restrict people’s movement (VIS, SIS II, RTP, ETIAS, SLTD and I-Checkit) and collect biometric data. The collected data of these systems are stored in the EURODAC database, which allows analysis to establish guidelines and patterns on our movements. EUROSUR is deployed as the surveillance system for border areas.
Frontex: the walls’ borderguards
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) plays an important role in this whole process of fortress expansion and also acts and establishes coordination with third countries by its joint operation Coordination Points. Its budgets have soared in this period, growing from 6.2 million in 2005 to 302 million in 2017.
An analysis of Frontex budget data shows a growing involvement in deportation operations, whose budgets have grown from 80,000 euros in 2005 to 53 million euros in 2017.
The European Agency for the Border and Coast Guard (Frontex) deportations often violate the rights of asylum-seeking persons. Through Frontex’s agreements with third countries, asylum-seekers end up in states that violate human rights, have weak democracies, or score badly in terms of human development (HDI).
Walls of fear and the influence of the far-right
The far-right have manipulated public opinion to create irrational fears of refugees. This xenophobia sets up mental walls in people, who then demand physical walls. The analysed data shows a worrying rise in racist opinions in recent years, which has increased the percentage of votes to European parties with a xenophobic ideology, and facilitated their growing political influence.
In 28 EU member states, there are 39 political parties classified as extreme right populists that at some point of their history have had at least one parliamentary seat (in the national Parliament or in the European Parliament). At the completion of this report (July 2018), 10 member states (Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Sweden) have xenophobic parties with a strong presence, which have obtained more than half a million votes in elections since 2010. With the exception of Finland, these parties have increased their representation. In some cases, like those in Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden, there has been an alarming increase, such as Alternative for Germany (AfD) winning 94 seats in the 2017 elections (a party that did not have parliamentary representation in the 2013 elections), the Law and Justice party (PiS) in Poland winning 235 seats after the 2015 elections (an increase of 49%), and Lega Nord’s (LN) strong growth in Italy, which went from 18 seats in 2013 to 124 seats in 2018.
Our study concludes that, in 9 of these 10 states, extreme right-wing parties have a high degree of influence on the government’s migration policies, even when they are a minority party. In 4 of them (Austria, Finland, Italy and Poland) these parties have ministers in the government. In 5 of the remaining 6 countries (Germany, Denmark, Holland, Hungary, and Sweden), there has been an increase of xenophobic discourse and influence. Even centrist parties seem happy to deploy the discourse of xenophobic parties to capture a sector of their voters rather than confront their ideology and advance an alternative discourse based on people’s rights. In this way, the positions of the most radical and racist parties are amplified with hardly any effort. In short, our study confirms the rise and influence of the extreme-right in European migration policy which has resulted in the securitization and criminalization of migration and the movements of people.
The mental walls of fear are inextricably connected to the physical walls. Racism and xenophobia legitimise violence in the border area Europe. These ideas reinforce the collective imagination of a safe “interior” and an insecure “outside”, going back to the medieval concept of the fortress. They also strengthen territorial power dynamics, where the origin of a person, among other factors, determines her freedom of movement.
In this way, in Europe, structures and discourses of violence have been built up, diverting us from policies that defend human rights, coexistence and equality, or more equal relationships between territories.
►https://www.tni.org/en/publication/building-walls
#rapport
Pour télécharger le rapport:
►https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/building_walls_-_full_report_-_english.pdf
#murs_virtuelles #surveillance #murs_maritimes #murs_terrestres #EUROSUR #militarisation_des_frontières #frontières #racisme #xénophobie #VIS #SIS #ETIAS #SLTD
War and Propaganda
▻http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/29/war-and-propaganda
In 1996 George Kennan, architect of the containment policy towards the Soviet Union, warned that NATO’s expansion into former Soviet territories would be a “strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions.” In 1998, Thomas Friedman solicited Kennan’s reaction to the Senate’s ratification of NATO’s eastward expansion. Kennan said: ”I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else.”
Pour « Le Monde », c’est le contraire qui est vrai,
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/03/28/le-systeme-poutine-face-a-la-jeunesse-russe_5101965_3232.html
... une confrontation idéologique créée de toutes pièces, ou presque, avec l’Occident,
Pirates demand ransom for oil tanker captured off coast of Somalia | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/14/pirates-demand-ransom-for-oil-tanker-captured-off-coast-of-somalia
Les affaires reprennent au large des côtes somaliennes
AP in Mogadishu
Tuesday 14 March 2017 22.44 GMT
Armed men are demanding a ransom for the release of an oil tanker they have seized off the coast of Somalia and the crew is being held captive, the European Union anti-piracy operation in the region announced late on Tuesday.
An EU naval force statement said the operation had finally made contact with the ship’s master, who confirmed that armed men were onboard the Comoros-flagged tanker Aris 13.
’We had to eat rats,’ say sailors held by Somali pirates for four years
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Monday’s hijacking was the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel off Somalia since 2012. It came as a surprise to the global shipping industry as patrols by the navies of Nato countries, as well as China, India and Iran, had suppressed Somali pirate hijackings for several years.
Officials: Somali Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
Somali officials say pirates have hijacked an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean and guided it to the coast of #Puntland region.
▻http://www.voanews.com/a/somali-pirates-hijack-oil-tanker-indian-ocean-officials-say/3764750.html
Maintaining Arctic Cooperation with Russia
Despite this being a period of generally heightened tensions between Russia and the West, cooperation on Arctic affairs has remained largely intact, with the exception of direct military-to-military cooperation in the region. This report examines potential transformations that could alter Russia’s current cooperative stance there. It analyzes four current security challenges in the Arctic: increased maritime access because of climate change; increased interest in Arctic resources; upcoming decisions on claims set forward by several Arctic states regarding the limits of their continental shelf; and Russia’s perception of a threat from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Arctic. This report suggests some ways in which these could undermine Arctic cooperation. It concludes with recommendations for the U.S. government to manage the risks to cooperation posed by these various factors. These include maintenance of, and investment in, Arctic infrastructure and capabilities; establishing a forum for the discussion of Arctic security as well as other confidence-building activities; careful development of the role of NATO in the Arctic; and further affirming U.S. commitment to the international norms relevant to the Arctic, particularly the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
▻http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1731.html?adbsc=social_20170306_1354831&adbid=838873076313944064&adbpl=tw&ad
#OTAN #Russie #Arctique #coopération
Hidden: PsychiatrIc Hospitals
"Between 1999 and 2002, I visited three psychiatric institutions while living and working in Kosova and Serbia on a long term project, Between The Lines, on the aftermath of the NATO conflict with Serbia. The work from the institutions, a story on it’s own, is also an integral part of this bigger narrative of conflict, division, difference and exclusion.
Having spent four years teaching a photography class to people with psychiatric disorders in London prior to this, psychiatric institutions and patients were not alien to me and I was aware of the fluctuating behavioural patterns. What I found in Kosova and Serbia was a far cry form contemporary practice in London.
When I first visited the institutions they were hidden from the gaze of the general public and came as a shock to Serbs when they were exposed. Money, during the years of the Milosevic regime had drained away, leaving filthy conditions, contagious diseases, lack of medical care and rehabilitation and a failure to provide oversight due to an unmotivated low paid staff struggling with their own economic difficulties.
The worst aspect was the total lack of care and stimulation and the high number of people who should never have been in these places. People with physical disabilities, (the boy with no legs was a victim of a car accident and orphaned), downs syndrome, a high proportion of Roma or children whose misfortune was to have been born in the institutions. By living in this environment of deprivation, with little stimulation or compassion they start to display repetitive rocking behaviour and self-injury.
By 2002, on my final visits, money had been raised in a public campaign of awareness in Serbia and with the help of a number of NGO’s conditions had improved. For me, after the initial shock at the conditions and total lack of care, it became clear that the patients from all ethnic backgrounds were able to display more community, affection and care with each other, than the sad situation that their “sane” countrymen were displaying to each other on the outside."
#photographie #hôpitaux_psychiatriques #santé_mentale #psychiatrie #Serbie #Kosovo #George_Georgiou
2月3日のツイート
▻http://twilog.org/ChikuwaQ/date-170203
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Trump threatens Europe’s stability, a top leader warns - The Boston Globe
▻https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2017/01/31/trump-threatens-europe-stability-top-leader-warns/DMe7CwSVWjedUaFlBQswhJ/story.html
“For the first time in our history, in an increasingly multipolar external world, so many are becoming openly anti-European, or Eurosceptic at best,” Tusk wrote. The letter was released ahead of an EU summit meeting in Malta on Friday; Tusk is responsible for setting the agenda for the meetings.
“Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy,” he wrote.
The EU has been struggling to contend with fractious internal forces. Among them: the vote by Britain to leave the bloc, the organization’s failure to establish a unified response to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers, and the debt crisis that has driven many Greeks into poverty. And then there are external pressures like Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
Before the election and since taking office, Trump has lauded the vote by Britain, known as Brexit, and said the country would thrive outside the EU. He met with Nigel Farage, a populist leader of the Brexit campaign, before seeing Prime Minister Theresa May. And at one point he went so far as to suggest that May appoint Farage as Britain’s ambassador to the United States.
Trump has also praised President Vladimir Putin of Russia and indicated he would pursue friendlier relations with Moscow, even as Russia encourages chaos on the EU’s eastern border.
Tusk’s letter does not reflect a new policy for the EU, and member states of the 28-nation bloc are not required to act on Tusk’s advice when they meet on Friday. But many European leaders have made their differences with Trump known.
After the United States said it was temporarily blocking refugees from entering the country, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany felt compelled to point out to Trump the obligations of nations under the Geneva Conventions to protect refugees of war on humanitarian grounds. And President François Hollande of France said he had reminded Trump that “the ongoing fight to defend our democracy will be effective only if we sign up to respect to the founding principles and, in particular, the welcoming of refugees.”
May, of Britain, sought in a meeting with Trump last week to confirm his commitment to NATO; he was dismissive of the alliance, the bedrock of European security, during his campaign.
Now, the sentiments expressed in Tusk’s letter are pushing European leaders’ exasperation with the US president further into the public view.
Tusk has sounded the alarm about the existential crises facing the bloc before, but never with the urgency he displayed in the letter. And he has never before included a longstanding ally like the United States in the list of challenges.
“An increasingly, let us call it, assertive China, especially on the seas,” he wrote, “Russia’s aggressive policy toward Ukraine and its neighbors, wars, terror, and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role, as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable.”
Much of the frustration Tusk displayed in his letter stemmed from what Guntram B. Wolff, director of Bruegel, a research organization in Brussels, said was Trump’s “de facto supporting” of populist forces that could further upend the European order.
Far-right populist challengers in France, Germany, and the Netherlands have adopted some of his antiestablishment rhetoric in their own campaigns.
Still, Wolff said it was unwise to enter into a war of words with the Trump administration.
“We need to uphold our values here, but does it mean that we need now a declaration where we put the United States on the same level as ISIS?” he said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State group. “No, I don’t think so. I don’t think it that would be helpful in any way.”
The trans-Atlantic volley of opprobrium Friday included an accusation by Peter Navarro, the director of Trump’s new National Trade Council, that Germany was manipulating its currency to gain a trade advantage. Navarro told The Financial Times that Germany was using a “grossly undervalued” euro to “exploit” the United States and its partners in Europe.
That did not sit well with Merkel, who defended the European Central Bank’s independent role at a news conference on Friday: “Because of that we will not influence the behavior of the ECB. And as a result, I cannot and do not want to change the situation as it is.”
The value of the euro is near a 13-year low compared with the dollar, allowing German carmakers and other manufacturers to sell their goods more cheaply in the United States. But German firms also employ around 670,000 people in the United States, including many in a BMW factory in Spartanburg, S.C., the carmaker’s largest in the world, and a Mercedes factory in Tuscaloosa, Ala. These are the sort of manufacturing jobs that Trump says he wants to keep in the United States.
Jan Techau, director of the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum in Berlin, a research center dedicated to diplomacy, said Tusk’s letter was less a warning to the US president than it was a message to Europeans not to be lured away from union, or to be tempted away from the bloc by favorable bilateral ties offered by the Trump administration.
“He is encouraging everyone to fall into that trap,” Techau said of the US president.
Tusk, by contrast, is making the case for Europeans to stick together for their own survival.
“_He wants to remind them that there is something bigger at stake than just what they are going to be talking about in Malta,” Techau said.
On appréciera particulièrement la remontrance du président français qui s’y connait quant au traitement des réfugiés …
And President François Hollande of France said he had reminded Trump that “the ongoing fight to defend our democracy will be effective only if we sign up to respect to the founding principles and, in particular, the welcoming of refugees.”
Jeremy #Corbyn Accused of Being Russian “Collaborator” for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border
▻https://theintercept.com/2017/01/16/jeremy-corbyn-accused-of-being-russian-collaborator-for-questioning-na
The leader of the U.K.’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called for a “de-escalation” of tensions between NATO and Russia, adding in a BBC interview on Thursday: “I want to see a de-militarization of the border between them.” Along with the U.S., the U.K. has been rapidly building up its military presence in the Baltic region, including in states that border Russia, and is now about to send another 800 troops to Estonia, 500 of which will be permanently based.The response to Corbyn’s call for better relations and de-escalation of tensions with Moscow was swift and predictable. The armed forces minister for Britain’s right-wing government, Mike Penning, accused Corbyn of being a collaborator with the Kremlin:
#Russie #OTAN #Royaume-Uni #géopolitique #relations_internationale #Baltique #guerre_nucléaire
Continental Rift - Roads & Kingdoms
▻http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/continental-rift
The idea that Istanbul is a transcontinental city—the literal bridge between Europe and Asia that represents a metaphorical bridge between East and West—has become an integral part of the city’s, and Turkey’s, identity. Turkey is a modern, secular (i.e., “Western”) country with Islamic (i.e., “Eastern”) roots. The issues that vex Turkey today—its increasing authoritarianism and Islamization, its strained ties with the European Union and NATO—are all interpreted, both inside and outside of the country, as factors nudging Turkey one way or another along a spectrum marked “East” on one end and “West” on the other.
#OTAN : l’Europe sous la menace du désengagement américain
▻http://fr.myeurop.info/2017/01/26/otan-l-europe-sous-la-menace-du-d-sengagement-am-ricain-15001
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Daniel Vigneron
Donald #Trump juge « obsolète » l’organisation militaire du Traité de l’Atlantique nord et estime que les Européens ne paient pas assez. Pour l’Europe, qui n’a pas su construire sa #défense commune, les conséquences géopolitiques et sécuritaires d’un retrait américain seraient très lourdes.
L’avènement de Donald Trump à la présidence des Etats-Unis ouvre une période de grave incertitude pour l’Union européenne. lire la (...)
#EUROFOCUS #Europe #afghanistan #armée #avions_de_combat #Bosnie #Crimée #NATO #personnel_militaire #RFI #Traité_de_l'Atlantique_Nord #Ukraine
Saudi Arabia’s Dream of Domination Has Gone Up in Flames
▻http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/saudi-arabias-dream-of-domination-has-gone-up-in-flames
Pour Patrick Cockburn les dirigeants des pays du #Golfe sont beaucoup plus d’énormes #bouffons disposant de moyens énormément indus que des disciples de Machiavel,
Critics of Saudi and Qatari policies often demonise them as cunning and effective, but their most striking characteristic is their extreme messiness and ignorance of real conditions on the ground. In 2011, Qatar believed that Assad could be quickly driven from power just like Muamar Gaddafi in Libya. When this did not happen they pumped in money and weapons willy-nilly while hoping that the US could be persuaded to intervene militarily to overthrow Assad as Nato had done in Libya.
Experts on in Syria argue about the extent to which the Saudis and the Qataris knowingly funded Islamic State and various #al-Qaeda clones. The answer seems to be that they did not know, and often did not care, exactly who they were funding and that, in any case, it often came from wealthy individuals and not from the Saudi government or intelligence services.
[...]
The attempt by Saudi Arabia and Gulf oil states to achieve hegemony in the Arab and Sunni Muslim worlds has proved disastrous for almost everybody.
@kassem ils me fichent la trouille, en plus de détruire les Lieux saint de la Mecque (patrimoine de l’humanité) ils importent leur secte le « wahhabisme » dans le monde entier et en Europe avec l’assentiment des élites européennes qu’ils peuvent acheter aisément. Cela a commencé lors de la guerre inique contre la Yougoslavie un complot des membres de l’Otan, Usa et Allemagne en particulier. Ce pays anciennement socialiste a éclaté en myriades de petits états conformément aux voeux américains. ▻http://docslide.fr/documents/comment-le-djihad-est-arrive-en-europe.html
Jurgen Elssasser a écrit ce livre préfacé par Mr Chevènement ou clairement il est dit qu’Al Qaida se trouvait en Serbie, Kovoso pour servir de mercenaires contre les communautés chrétiennes, roms et ré-islamiser la région pourtant la plus laique possible. Faite des recherches sur les anciennes images de ce pays (Yougoslavie) et ce qu’il est devenu maintenant effarant. Les madrasas financés par l’Arabie Saoudite, ont ré-islamisés la population, importé la « sharia » avec des bastions djihadistes, faits reconnus par Interpol, des kosovars sont partis en Lybie, Syrie comme mercenaires étant donné que l’économie laminée de ces petites nations est déliquescente seul comptait pour les Usa et l’OTAN d’avoir une base arrière vers le moyen orient et le Caucase, Afghanistan avec la base Us du Camps Bondsteel..Merci Madame Albright et Mr Clinton et Soros.
Le directeur du Centre Français de Recherche sur le Renseignement dénonce la falsification de l’information par les médias
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/actualites-france/12884-le-directeur-du-centre-francais-de-recherche-sur-le-renseignement-d
Après l’Elysée qui déroule le tapis rouge à un groupe de soutien terroriste, nous avons vu récemment avec le traitement de l’information à Alep des médias, qu’ils ont implicitement fait l’apologie du terrorisme en glorifiant les djhadistes en Syrie et en les présentant honteusement comme des martyres.
Fawkes
Ce spécialiste du renseignement et du terrorisme confirme qu’il s’agit plus que d’une simple impression. Plutôt que de taper à la chaîne sur les médias alternatifs, les médias feraient mieux d’arrêter leurs mensonges éhontés en Syrie qui sont en train de légitimer et inciter ni plus ni moins les jeunes qui vont mourir en Syrie. (Regardez bien la réaction effarante de Calvi qui a l’air de ne pas comprendre de quoi on lui parle : un grand classique chez lui. A (...)
Dommage que ce type ait perdu de la crédibilité en parlant des « terroristes défenseurs des animaux » dans les pages du Paysan Breton pour complaire au lobby des éleveurs et de la viande, parce que là, il a raison sur le suivisme, les indignations sélectives et les inexactitudes de medias maintream...
Nouvelles formes de destructions des démocraties ... par la falsification de l’information :
"Malheureusement on le voit presque chaque jour. Le travail du @STRATCOMCOE à Riga devient de plus en plus important" ( Imants Liegis , Ambassadeur de Lettonie en France ▻https://twitter.com/imantsliegis/status/812033859185479680 )
NATO Strategic Communications is the coordinated and appropriate use of NATO communications activities and capabilities in support of Alliance policies, operations and activities, and in order to advance NATO’s aims. These activities and capabilities are:
Publications :
Russian Propaganda Concerning Ukraine During the Syrian Campaign: an Innovative Approach to Assess Information Activities
22nd November 2016.
The Dynamics of Russia’s Information Activities against Ukraine during the Syria Campaign
22nd November 2016
Les étonnants commentaires d’Eric Dénécé au sujet de la ZAD de NDDL
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/lancetre/blog/231216/les-etonnants-commentaires-deric-denece-au-sujet-de-la-zad-de-nddl
Who profits from Turkey’s ’Sarajevo moment’?
RT Op-Edge –
Pepe Escobar | Published time: 20 Dec, 2016 15:40
▻https://www.rt.com/op-edge/370997-turkey-ambassador-russian-assassination-syria
(...) The Big Picture
On the bilateral front, Moscow and Ankara are now working close together on counter-terrorism. Turkey’s defense minister was invited to Russia for anti-air defense system negotiations. Bilateral trade is booming again, including the creation of a joint investment fund. On the all-important energy front, Turkish Stream, despite the Obama administration’s obsession about its derailment, became the subject of state law in Ankara earlier this month.
Atlanticists are appalled that Moscow, Ankara and Tehran are now fully engaged in designing a post-Battle of Aleppo Syrian future, to the graphic exclusion of the NATO-GCC combo.
It’s under this context that the recent alleged capture of a bunch of NATO-GCC operatives – deployed under the US-led-from-behind “coalition” - by Syrian Special Forces in Aleppo must be interpreted.
Syrian member of Parliament Fares Shehabi, the head of the Chamber of Commerce in Aleppo, published the names of the apprehended coalition officers; most are Saudi; there’s one Qatari; the presence of one Moroccan and one Jordanian is explained by the fact Morocco and Jordan are “unofficial” GCC members.
And then there’s one Turk, one American (David Scott Winer) and one Israeli. So NATO shows up only via two operatives, but the NATO-GCC link is more than established. If this information proceeds – and that’s still a big “if” - these may well be coalition military personnel and field commanders, formerly advising “moderate rebels” and now a formidable bargaining chip in the hands of Damascus.
Both NATO and GCC remain absolutely mum; not even non-denial denials have materialized. That might imply a made in the shade deal for the release of the high-value prisoners, further strengthening Damascus’ grip.
It was President Putin who all but established a de facto Russia-Iran-Turkey axis dealing with facts on the Syrian ground – in parallel to the rhetoric-heavy, zero-solution UN charade going on in Geneva. Moscow diplomatically emphasizes that the work of the axis complement Geneva. In fact, it’s the only reality-based work. And it’s supposed to sign and seal definitive parameters on the ground before Donald Trump enters the White House.
In a nutshell; the five-year (and running) NATO-GCC combo’s multi-billion dollar regime change project in Syria all but miserably failed. Wily Erdogan seems to have learned his realpolitik lesson. On the Atlanticist front nevertheless, that opens myriad avenues to channel geopolitical resentment.
The Big Picture couldn’t be more absolutely unbearable for neocon/neoliberalcon Atlanticists. Ankara slowly but surely is veering the Eurasianist way; bye bye to the EU, and eventually NATO; welcome to the New Silk Roads, a.k.a. the China-driven One Belt, One Road (OBOR); the Russia-driven Eurasia Economic Union (EEU); the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO); the Russia-China strategic partnership; and Turkey as a key hub in Eurasia integration.
For all that to happen, Erdogan has concluded Ankara must be on board the Russia-China-Iran long-term strategy to pacify and rebuild Syria and make it a key hub as well of the New Silk Roads. Between that and an “alliance” of fleeting interests with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the US, it’s certainly a no-brainer.
But make no mistake. There will be blood.
In video: Syrian ambassador to the UN discloses names of foreign intelligence agents remaining in east Aleppo
By Ivan Yakovlev -
20/12/2016
►https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/video-syrian-ambassador-un-discloses-names-foreign-intelligence-agents
20.12.1617:29
Joint Statement by the Foreign Ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey on agreed steps to revitalize the political process to end the Syrian conflict, Moscow, 20 December 2016
▻http://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2573489?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw&_101_INSTANCE_cKNonkJE02Bw_languageId=e
#Operation_Sophia, the EU’s naval mission in the Mediterranean: an impossible challenge
▻http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldeucom/144/144.pdf
#Méditerranée #asile #migrations #réfugiés #EUNAVFOR_Med #passeurs #2A #Libye #Frontex #Triton #OTAN #Mer_Egée #rapport
Contributo dei militari italiani al controllo dei flussi migratori nel Mediterraneo
Indagine conoscitiva sul contributo dei militari italiani al controllo dei flussi migratori nel Mediterraneo e l’impatto delle attività delle organizzazioni non governative: audizione del Comandante di EUNAVFOR MED operazione SOPHIA, amm. div. Enrico #Credendino
Turkey sees lesser NATO role in Aegean, lower migrant numbers
Once struggling to stop the migrant flow to Europe, Turkey now boasts a significant drop in the number of people leaving its Aegean shores on deadly journeys. Thus, “it is time for NATO elements deployed in the Aegean Sea since last year to be withdrawn,” Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said.
▻https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/10/13/turkey-sees-lesser-nato-role-in-aegean-lower-migrant-numbers
#Turquie
Ready for Russia: Lithuanians taught how to resist invasion | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/05/ready-for-russia-lithuanians-taught-how-to-resist-invasion
The Lithuanian defence ministry has issued 30,000 copies of an instruction manual advising citizens on what to do in the event of a Russia-led invasion.
The release of the 75-page paperback, entitled Guide to Active Resistance, comes amid increased fears of Russian aggression following the election of Donald Trump, who stated during his campaign that he would review the US’s position on defending Nato allies.
#Made_in_america (compilation uniquement à partir de sources MSM)
The world’s best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/515937
The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/532933
Americans Claim Role in Yeltsin Win
▻http://articles.latimes.com/1996-07-09/news/mn-22423_1_boris-yeltsin
The U.S. is no stranger to interfering in the elections of other countries
▻http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html
The U.S. has a long history of attempting to influence presidential elections in other countries – it’s done so as many as 81 times between 1946 and 2000, according to a database amassed by political scientist Dov Levin of Carnegie Mellon University.
That number doesn’t include military coups and regime change efforts following the election of candidates the U.S. didn’t like, notably those in Iran, Guatemala and Chile. Nor does it include general assistance with the electoral process, such as election monitoring.
Levin defines intervention as “a costly act which is designed to determine the election results [in favor of] one of the two sides.”
These acts, carried out in secret two-thirds of the time, include funding the election campaigns of specific parties, disseminating misinformation or propaganda, training locals of only one side in various campaigning or get-out-the-vote techniques, helping one side design their campaign materials, making public pronouncements or threats in favor of or against a candidate, and providing or withdrawing foreign aid.
Those Times the NSA Hacked America’s Allies
▻http://www.juancole.com/2017/01/hacked-americas-allies.html
Juan Cole n’a rien à voir avec les MSM, ses liens si.
Why can 12-year-olds still get married in the United States?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/10/why-does-the-united-states-still-let-12-year-old-girls-get-married
In this way, U.S. lawmakers are strongly at odds with U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, released last year by the State Department, lists reducing child, early and forced marriage as a key goal. The strategy includes harsh words about marriage before 18, declaring it a “human rights abuse” that “produces devastating repercussions for a girl’s life, effectively ending her childhood” by forcing her “into adulthood and motherhood before she is physically and mentally mature.”
Le contraste entre les deux couvertures est frappant
U.S.-led forces appear to be using white phosphorus in populated areas in Iraq and Syria - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/605882
Les Etats-Unis auraient financé un réseau social pour déstabiliser Cuba
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/243735
Les Etats-Unis allergiques aux traités internationaux
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/606664
The U.S. knew Hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history — and still gave him a hand.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/613086
CIA killed first PM of Pakistan
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/620766
Sujet à caution,
[Indonésie] The United States provided the special radio system so the Army could coordinate the killings over the vast archipelago.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/390703
The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/621295
Deux psychologues du programme de torture de la CIA échappent à leur procès
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/623132
Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System - Real Time Economics - WSJ
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/630455
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/417111
Alan Stevenson, un ancien analyste de l’armée, a ainsi confié devant les membres du Congrès que lorsqu’il travaillait dans la base de Quảng Trị au Nord du Vietnam, en 1969, il était chargé de lister les hôpitaux qui devaient être pris pour cibles par les Américains. « Et plus l’hôpital était important, mieux c’était. »
Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/637438
#chili et #opération_condor
Declassified Files Lay Bare U.S. Knowledge Of Mass Murders In Indonesia
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/638346
Watchdog: Troops say they were told to ignore Afghan child sex abuse | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645571
The Uncounted - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/645280
Les Etats-Unis avaient embauché, en pleine connaissance de cause, l’ingénieur en chef des armes chimiques de Hitler,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/169437
Ambros only served half of his prison sentence. After his release in 1951, he was whisked to the West to advise the U.S. Army on its own chemical weapons program — including Sarin.
Leaked memo schooled Tillerson on human rights - POLITICO
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/655968
Et encore en-deçà de la vérité puisque la violation des droits humains n’est pas seulement tolérée par les Etats-Unis comme reconnu dans ce mémo, mais encouragée quand le règne de leurs alliés dictateurs est menacé.
Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/world/07doctors.html
Article de 2010
En français :
Quand les médecins de la CIA perfectionnaient les tortures
▻http://www.jeuneafrique.com/155595/societe/quand-les-m-decins-de-la-cia-perfectionnaient-les-tortures
Les médecins américains qui ont assisté aux interrogatoires de la CIA après le 11-Septembre ont contribué à affiner les méthodes de torture, une pratique qui s’apparente à de l’"expérimentation humaine", selon une ONG. Ces praticiens ont ensuite pu émettre des recommandations pour améliorer ces techniques « d’interrogatoire ».
The CIA Drug Connection Is as Old as the Agency - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/03/opinion/03iht-edlarry.html
Article de 1993
Allégations d’implication de la CIA dans le trafic de drogue — Wikipédia
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%A9gations_d%27implication_de_la_CIA_dans_le_trafic_de_drogue
Database Tracks History Of U.S. Meddling In Foreign #Elections : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670012
Les 100 entreprises qui vendent le plus d’armes dans le monde
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670113
Russia Isn’t the Only One Meddling in #Elections. We Do It, Too. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/670240
He Wouldn’t Become an Informant. Now He’s Headed for Prison. - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/675306
Gina Haspel : CIA veteran tied to use of brutal interrogation measures
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/676265
Why does Putin treat Britain with disdain? He thinks he’s bought it.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/677423
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/652709
Le marché de l’immobilier haut de gamme est devenu de moins en moins transparent - et plus attrayant pour ceux qui à l’étranger possèdent des actifs qu’ils souhaitent garder secrets - alors même que les Etats-Unis poussent les autres nations à les aider à empêcher l’argent américain de sortir du pays pour éviter les impôts.
« Les Etats-Unis ont été la plus grande source de corruption en Afghanistan »,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/319094#message319097
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/306331
Le « New York Times » révèle l’existence d’armes chimiques abandonnées en Irak
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/302863
Toutes les armes trouvées auraient été fabriquées avant 1991 : rien à voir, donc, avec le matériel de destruction massive que l’administration Bush soupçonnait le régime de Saddam Hussein de produire. Selon le New York Times, les armes découvertes seraient des reliquats d’un programme lancé par l’Irak durant sa guerre contre l’Iran dans les années 1980.
[...] le mutisme des Etats-Unis pourrait aussi s’expliquer par leur implication dans la fabrication de ces armes.
5 / Les pays occidentaux impliqués dans la fabrication des armes
Selon le New York Times, le soutien de plusieurs pays occidentaux à l’Irak pendant la première guerre du Golfe lui a permis de développer rapidement un programme d’armement contenant ces armes chimiques . Le journal évoque le rôle d’entreprises allemandes dans la construction d’usines irakiennes ayant servi à fabriquer des ingrédients chimiques. Saddam Hussein aurait aussi acheté à des entreprises européennes et américaines des munitions pour disperser les agents toxiques fabriqués sur son sol.
L’effet boomerang est la mesure de la réussite ?
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/313053
Le Pentagone aurait dépensé plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars pour produire de fausses vidéos jihadistes
►https://seenthis.net/messages/530053
Expérimentations délétères sur des civils à leur insu
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/691602
’Astonishing’ #CIA memo shows Brazil’s ex-dictator authorized #torture and #executions | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/693502
La CIA a protégé Carriles, terroriste notoire, en toute connaissance de cause.
►https://seenthis.net/messages/697401
U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/707272
In the early years of the U.S. occupation, the Pentagon and CIA cultivated influential Afghan tribal leaders who were not part of the Quetta Alliance, even if they were deeply involved in drug trafficking, in order to turn them against the Taliban. That willingness to overlook drug trafficking was assisted by their belief that the drugs were going almost entirely to Asia and Europe.
A Nation Challenged : Hearts And Minds ; Pentagon Readies Efforts To Sway Sentiment Abroad - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/708813
Les « fake news » comme tactique du Pentagone
Des #enfants migrants victimes de #tortures aux #États-Unis
►https://seenthis.net/messages/709770
“I’m shocked somebody did some hacking. That’s never happened before.”
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/710918
U.S. War Footprint Grows in Middle East, With No Endgame in Sight - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/world/middleeast/us-war-footprint-grows-in-middle-east.html
(2017)
Les victimes civiles des tirs russes ne sont plus comptabilisées par les Etasuniens de peur qu’elles se révèlent moindre que celles dues aux tirs Etasuniens.
The rise in reports of civilian deaths linked to the United States and its allies has been so significant that Airwars, a group that tracks airstrikes, said last week that it was suspending its investigations into Russian airstrikes to avoid falling behind on those by the United States.
The U.S. military’s stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/567530
Sale of U.S. Arms Fuels the Wars of Arab States - NYTimes.com
►https://seenthis.net/messages/362590
PUTSCH – Les sept gouvernements (officiellement) renversés par les #Etats-Unis | Big Browser
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/166899
Washington aurait eu connaissance de projets d’arrestation de Khashoggi, selon le Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/728348
50 countries vow to fight #cybercrime; US and Russia don’t | Chicago Sun-Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/735196
Special Report: The Pentagon’s doctored ledgers conceal epic waste
►https://seenthis.net/messages/197847
THE #C.I.A. AND #LUMUMBA - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746801
Four more ways the #CIA has meddled in Africa - BBC News
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/746802
#CIA Confirms Role in 1953 #Iran Coup
▻https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/#_ftn1
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2013 – Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, the National Security Archive is today posting recently declassified CIA documents on the United States’ role in the controversial operation. American and British involvement in Mosaddeq’s ouster has long been public knowledge, but today’s posting includes what is believed to be the CIA’s first formal acknowledgement that the agency helped to plan and execute the coup.
US calls for ‘new government’ in Venezuela
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/752062
Before Venezuela, US had long involvement in Latin America
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/755789
Top Ukrainian justice official says US ambassador gave him a do not prosecute list | TheHill
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/769396
US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape as weapon of war, officials say | World news | The Guardian
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/776454
government officials continue to engage in a decades-long practice of overclassifying information, often for reasons that have nothing to do with national security..,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/783402
Congressman Hunter Says He Probably Killed ’Hundreds’ Of Civilians While In Combat | KPBS
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/784606
Overruling his experts, Pompeo keeps Saudis off U.S. child soldiers list - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/788233
#Libye : les #Etats-Unis bloquent une résolution pour condamner le #carnage dans un centre pour migrants
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/791032
Letter detailing civilian presence failed to prevent deadly Afghan drone strike - Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/802991
The U.S. tried to fix Ukraine’s government. We exported our corruption, instead. - The Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/804463
Remembering The 1989 Massacre Of Jesuits In El Salvador : NPR
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/811572
Le scandale de l’affaire Omar Khadr
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/134220
Vol des avoirs irakiens
▻http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7444083.stm
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/813717#message813722
A BBC investigation estimates that around $23bn (£11.75bn) may have been lost, stolen or just not properly accounted for in Iraq.
The BBC’s Panorama programme has used US and Iraqi government sources to research how much some private contractors have profited from the conflict and rebuilding.
A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.
The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.
U.S. officials misled the public about the war in #Afghanistan, confidential documents reveal - Washington Post
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815195
Centres de torture au Yémen : les Etats-Unis auraient leurs entrées - Libération
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/609299#message609710
Guerre contre la dissidence aux Émirats arabes unis avec l’aide des Etats-Unis,
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/756518#message815319
What the C.I.A.’s #Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured - The #New_York_Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/815805
La CIA reconnaît son rôle dans le coup d’Etat en Iran en 1953
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/822593
Après des bombardements qui ont causé la mort de nombre de civils les #Etats-Unis ont permis l’évacuation sécurisée des responsables et des combattants de Daesh
Raqqa’s dirty secret - BBC News
►https://seenthis.net/messages/644594
Vol des avoirs irakiens (bis)
Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy - The New York Times
►https://seenthis.net/messages/871642
In the annals of American diplomacy, corruption has long had an equivocal status: deplored in public but in practice often regarded as a tolerable, even useful vice. The United States has a long history of supporting kleptocrats who were on the “right side” of one geopolitical rivalry or another.
‘Environmental Poisoning’ of Iraq Is Claimed
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/241509
FinCEN Files Show Criminals Moved Billions As Banks Watched
►https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks
..."the largest money laundering operations occur with the cooperation of the financial institutions , or at least some officers within those institutions. The lack of money laundering enforcement had nothing to do with a lack of evidence of suspicious transactions, but a lack of interest by political and law enforcement leadership.’’
[...]
“Under US law, a bank that engages in money laundering can literally be forced out of business by the government, and it is kind of surprising that government hasn’t taken that step, given the obvious deterrent effect it would have.”
[...]
Mazur, the former federal special agent and money laundering expert, says there are a “mosaic” of reasons why US authorities let the money keep running, but one of them may just be that it finds its way into too many pockets.
“Even if it’s bad wealth, it buys buildings,” he said. “It puts money into bank accounts. It enriches the nation.” ●
Les régimes kleptocratiques blanchissent aux États-Unis l’argent qu’ils volent
►https://seenthis.net/messages/890356
... as has been well documented, the world’s kleptocratic regimes depend heavily on money laundering networks that commonly extend into Western centers of global #finance like New York and London, aided by lax incorporation rules in places like Delaware .
Opinion | With Hacking, the United States Needs to Stop Playing the Victim - The New York Times
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/893078
« Pandora Papers » : des milliers de milliards de dollars toujours à l’abri dans des paradis_fiscaux
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/931805
Ces documents, pour la toute première fois, montrent que les Etats-Unis sont eux-mêmes un paradis fiscal.
U.S. lawmakers move urgently to recognize survivors of the first atomic bomb test
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/935594
Civilian Deaths Mounted as Secret Unit Pounded ISIS
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/939698
Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups | Reuters
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/967217
Février 2018
Ex-CIA director : US meddles in foreign elections for a ‘very good cause’ | The Hill
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Hidden Menace : Massive methane leaks speed up climate change | AP News
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Opinion | The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start - The New York Times
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Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power - The New York Times
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« Les pays industriels ont “choisi” la croissance et le réchauffement climatique, et s’en sont…
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Dès novembre 1976, la Mitre Corporation, un groupe de réflexion d’origine militaire proche de la Maison Blanche, organisait un congrès intitulé « Living with Climate Change : Phase II ». Dans son préambule, le rapport passait rapidement sur le réchauffement, considéré comme inexorable. Restait à en évaluer les conséquences sur l’économie américaine. Mitre souhaitait ouvrir « un dialogue avec les leaders de l’industrie, de la science et du gouvernement ». Le résultat est impressionnant de prescience, et de désinvolture.
’Barbaric’ and ’negligent’ treatment in ICE detention, inspections found : NPR
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CHILE’S COUP at 50 Countdown Toward a Coup | National Security Archive
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Life expectancy in U.S. is falling amid surges in chronic illness - Washington Post
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A Turning Point in Aleppo
▻http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/66314
The most interesting area is the rebel zone carved out thanks to Turkish military intervention northeast of Aleppo, in battles against the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Here, the prospect of military backing from Turkey’s fiercely anti-Assad president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has raised the opposition’s hopes of breaking the siege of Aleppo. But that is unlikely, for three reasons.
First, the purpose of the Turkish intervention was to clear the area from Islamic State jihadis and ensure that the vacuum was not filled by Kurdish forces aligned with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. For all of Erdogan’s loathing of Assad, it doesn’t come close to his hatred of the PKK. Indeed, if Erdogan’s primary concern had been to overthrow the Syrian president, he wouldn’t have diverted thousands of Syrian rebel combatants to help him clean up the border region when they were so desperately needed in Aleppo.
Second, the Turkish intervention was based on an understanding with Russia, which is committed to protecting Assad. How Ankara and Moscow plan to divide the border area is unclear and may be up for renegotiation, and there may well be clashes between Turkish- and Russian-backed forces (perhaps even some friction between Russian and Turkish troops). But we know that neither Russia nor Turkey is interested in a major conflict, having spent so much time improving their relations—and also because Turkey’s NATO membership greatly raises the stakes of any confrontation.
Third, if Erdogan had any intention of breaking the siege of Aleppo, he would have done so long ago. It makes no sense for him to wait until Assad has virtually destroyed the rebel enclave to try saving it now.
After a long and telling silence, the Turkish president recently spoke out on Aleppo, saying his intervention in August had been to “end the rule of the cruel Assad.” Unsurprisingly, this met with immediate Russian pushback, as a Kremlin spokesperson said it would be in touch with Turkey to seek an explanation. The actual explanation? Most likely, Erdogan is simply trying to save face.
If Turkish intentions northeast of Aleppo are not what the opposition had hoped for, Ankara’s involvement in Idlib has so far been more clearly aligned with the rebel cause. The area, which fell completely to Syrian rebels in spring 2015, still receives strong support from across the Turkish border and has served as a staging ground for attacks in Aleppo, Hama, and Latakia.
The Idlib rebellion is strong and well implanted. It is a real threat to Assad. But though it contains many different groups, it is strategically dominated by hardline Islamists such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, the new incarnation of Jabhat al-Nusra that has links to Al-Qaeda and is riddled with international jihadis. These groups are formidable enemies of the regime, but they are also too toxic to gain Western endorsement. Policymakers in Doha and Ankara have shown a higher threshold of tolerance for jihadism than their colleagues in Washington, but Jabhat Fatah al-Sham is ultimately a step too far for everyone.
In other words, while it will remain a thorn in Assad’s side, the Idlib region is unlikely to serve as the springboard for a foreign-backed strategy to end Assad rule.
EU to keep patrolling for Somali pirates until end of 2018 | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-naval-somalia-idUSKBN13N14I
The European Union’s naval mission will keep patrolling for pirates off the coast of Somalia for another two years, to guard against any resurgence of attacks, the bloc said on Monday.
The number of raids and kidnappings has fallen - though maritime officials have warned that the risk is still, underlined by two attempted attacks last month.
NATO said last week it had ended its own mission off the Horn of Africa, as it shifts resources to deterring Russia in the Black Sea and people smugglers in the Mediterranean.
But the EU said it would extend the EUNAVFOR Somalia Operation Atalanta until the end of 2018, allowing it to keep guarding U.N. aid deliveries.
The mission, which was due to shut down at the end of 2016, typically uses 1,200 personnel, four to six warships and two or three patrolling aircraft provided by EU member states.
NATO ends counter-piracy mission as focus shifts to Mediterranean | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-defence-idUSKBN13I22D
L’OTAN va (enfin !) pouvoir se consacrer aux vrais enjeux…
NATO has ended its Indian Ocean counter-piracy mission after a sharp fall in attacks, the alliance said on Wednesday, as it shifts resources to deterring Russia in the Black Sea and people smugglers in the Mediterranean.
All ships and patrol aircraft have now left the area off the Horn of Africa, where they patrolled since 2009, as part of a broader international effort to crack down on Somali-based pirates who had caused havoc with world shipping.
NATO says its “Ocean Shield” operation, as well as European Union and other counter-piracy missions, have significantly reduced attacks, with no ships captured off Somalia since May 2012, down from more than 30 ships at the peak in 2010-11.
Trois labels célèbrent Joëlle Léandre
▻http://www.citizenjazz.com/Trois-labels-celebrent-Joelle-Leandre.html
Il fallait au moins ça !
Trois labels majeurs, trois maisons de disques françaises, Fou Records, Nato et RogueArt, s’associent pour fêter les 40 ans de carrière de #Joëlle_Léandre en organisant un concert
le 28 novembre à l’Eglise Saint-Eustache à Paris, en présence de la contrebassiste.
Elle n’y sera pas seule.
Le violoniste, altiste américain Mat Maneri (partenaire de Cecil Taylor, Paul Motian, Marilyn Crispell, Craig Taborn, Barre Phillips…), la chanteuse écossaise Maggie Nicols (John Stevens, Johnny Dyani, Keith Tippett, Phil Minton, Robert Wyatt, Dudu Pukwana…) et la tromboniste française Christiane Bopp (Kent Carter, Dominique Pifarély, Hélène Breschand …), qui figure dans le tentet de Joëlle Léandre, la rejoindront.
Cette soirée sera l’occasion de revenir sur ce parcours émeraude.
Les places peuvent être pré-achetées en suivant ces liens :
– ▻http://web.roguart.com/shop/album/id/109 (tarif plein à 12 euros)
– ▻http://web.roguart.com/shop/album/id/110 (tarif réduit à 8 euros : étudiants, chômeurs, RSA)
#whouah #ça_va_être_top !
How Russia views Turkey’s role in Syria
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/11/russia-view-turkey-role-syria.html
Since August, Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have conducted two state visits with each other and had numerous telephone conversations. The parties agreed to resume cooperation on key economic projects, and Russia has gradually lifted anti-Turkish sanctions. Even so, there have been doubts about the relationship’s progress all along the way, especially regarding geopolitics and security-related issues.
As an active NATO member, Turkey until recently interacted frequently with potential NATO member states and insisted on increasing the alliance’s presence in the Black Sea so that it didn’t turn into a “Russian Sea.” Moreover, Turkey has its own opinion about developments in the Caucasus and Central Asia, and this opinion rarely coincides with Moscow’s.
However, Syria is undoubtedly the major issue. The view in Moscow is that Erdogan, seeing the rapid regime transformations in 2011 during the course of the Arab Spring, was planning to use the moderate opposition to his own advantage, change power in the neighboring country and in due time construct a natural gas pipeline from Qatar. Despite their previously friendly relations, the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad became a primary political goal for Erdogan. Thus, Turkey made a U-turn in its rhetoric and actions, and yesterday’s friend turned into a “dictator” and “assassin.” For Moscow, which rejects regime change accomplished in illegitimate ways and which has had a very positive relationship with Syria, it was unacceptable.
Read more: ▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/11/russia-view-turkey-role-syria.html#ixzz4QdjgO1Bi