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Le silence coupable sur la détention de Chelsea Manning. Par Andre Damon
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/le-silence-coupable-sur-la-detention-de-chelsea-manning-par-andre-damon

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Dans un tweet supprimé, le commandement nucléaire américain se déclare « prêt » à « larguer quelque chose ». Par Andre Damon
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/dans-un-tweet-supprime-le-commandement-nucleaire-americain-se-declare-pre

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In deleted tweet, US nuclear command declares itself “ready” to “drop something” - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/01/03/comm-j03.html

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n deleted tweet, US nuclear command declares itself “ready” to “drop something”
By Andre Damon
3 January 2019

On New Year’s Eve, the US Strategic Command, which oversees the United States’ nuclear arsenal, posted a tweet declaring its readiness to “drop something much, much bigger” than the “big ball” at Times Square in New York.

The implication of the tweet is that the United States military is not only quite ready to kill people with nuclear weapons for a third time, but quite eager.

#brrr... #it_has_begun

#Facebook: The global censor - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/29/pers-d29.html

Facebook: The global censor
29 December 2018

The year 2018 has seen a vast intensification of internet censorship by Google, Facebook and Twitter, transforming them from tools for exchanging information and communicating around the world into massive censorship dragnets for policing what their users say, do and think.

In August 2017, the World Socialist Web Site published an open letter to Google charging that the company, in collusion with the US government, was working to shape political discourse by manipulating search results. The open letter warned that Google’s actions set a dangerous precedent for subverting constitutional protections of freedom of speech and demanded that the company cease what the WSWS called “political blacklisting” of left-wing sites.

Sixteen months later, the central argument of the open letter—that Google and its peers are carrying out political censorship—is undeniable. The regime that Google pioneered through its search engine has been expanded to all major US social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

#censure #réseaux_sociaux

Le World Socialist Web Site appelle à une coalition de sites web socialistes et antiguerre pour contrer la censure sur Internet.
▻https://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2018/01/19/wsws-j19.html

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North a lancé l’appel lors d’un webinaire diffusé en direct avec le journaliste Chris Hedges, Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship (Organiser la résistance à la censure sur Internet). Le webinaire a attiré un public mondial substantiel et a été visionné plus de 15.000 fois sur Facebook et YouTube dans les 24 heures qui ont suivi sa diffusion. Une déclaration du fondateur de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, soutenant l’événement, a été lue lors de la diffusion.

« Une coalition doit être formée pour défendre rigoureusement la liberté d’Internet, la neutralité du net, pour organiser la défense des sites et des personnes qui sont attaqués », a déclaré M. North. Il a exhorté « tous ceux qui sont engagés dans la lutte pour le socialisme et contre la guerre » à participer à la coalition, ajoutant : « Le World Socialist Web Site et le Comité international sont disposés à travailler sur des bases de principes avec ceux qui comprennent les enjeux cruciaux de la situation. »

La discussion entre North et Hedges a exploré le contexte politique de la censure d’Internet et de l’abolition de la neutralité d’Internet, y compris les niveaux historiques d’inégalités sociales. North et Hedges ont souligné le lien inséparable entre la guerre et la destruction des droits démocratiques, y compris la liberté d’expression.

Hedges a déclaré : « Le capitalisme des grandes entreprises, la mondialisation, le néolibéralisme, quoi que vous vouliez l’appeler, est en crise. Tout d’abord, l’idéologie elle-même a perdu sa crédibilité. Elle ne passe plus à travers la gamme politique. Elle a été révélée comme étant un mensonge ... Les élites dirigeantes sont effrayées parce qu’elles ont regardé la charade politique qu’elles avaient mise en place, à la fois dans le Parti républicain et démocrate, où les dirigeants, que ce soit la dynastie Bush ou la dynastie Clinton ou Obama, ont tous été serviteurs de l’État de la grande entreprise. »

North et Hedges ont également examiné les prétextes utilisés pour justifier la suppression de la liberté d’expression et ont discuté des stratégies politiques pour défendre les droits démocratiques, y compris la nécessité pour qu’un tel mouvement soit indépendant du Parti démocrate.

I run a small, independent magazine [Cuurent Affairs], I worry Facebook will kill us off, by Nathan Robinson, in The Guardian, le 21 janvier 2017

▻https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/small-independent-magazine-facebook

“it’s a commonplace to say that monopolistic tech corporations like Facebook and Google have amassed too much power. It’s important to realize, though, what this power actually means: these companies can literally hold the fate of media organizations in their hands. Mark Zuckerberg’s choices have serious financial ramifications for thousands of content providers. Yet this power is totally unregulated and totally unaccountable.”

Current Affairs est une source d’information inestimable, l’appel de son redacteur en chef est pour le moins alarmante !
▻https://www.currentaffairs.org/about

Warnings of new financial bubble as #bitcoin price hits $10,000 - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/29/bitc-n29.html

Warnings of new financial bubble as bitcoin price hits $10,000
By Andre Damon
29 November 2017

The price of the digital currency bitcoin reached $10,000 late Tuesday, an eleven-fold increase since the start of the year, when it was valued at $900.

The explosive surge of bitcoin, the first so-called “cryptocurrency,” or digital money, has eclipsed the run-up of any comparable asset in modern history. As the New York Times noted Tuesday, “The Dow Jones industrial average, in its biggest year, 1915, went up 82 percent, or one-tenth as much as Bitcoin has gone up this year. Amazon’s red-hot stock is up only one-fifteenth as much as Bitcoin this year.”

Google renforce la mise sur liste noire des sites Web et des journalistes de gauche
▻http://www.wsws.org/fr/articles/2017/oct2017/goog-o21.shtml

Une recherche par Google News pour un article de l’édition du WSWS du jeudi ne renvoie aucun résultat

Le journaliste et auteur Chris Hedges, titulaire du prix Pulitzer, a informé le WSWS mercredi que ses articles avaient cessé d’apparaître sur Google News. Hedges a déclaré que le changement est survenu après la publication de son entretien [en anglais] avec le World Socialist Web Site dans lequel il a dénoncé la #censure par Google des sites de gauche.

« Quelque temps après avoir accordé cet entretien, ils m’ont mis sur liste noire », a déclaré Hedges. « Si vous allez dans Google News et tapez mon nom, il y a six articles, dont aucun n’a un rapport avec moi. »
Une recherche sur Chris Hedges par le biais de Google News ne renvoie aucun résultat pertinent

« J’écris constamment. Auparavant, Google News a listé mes articles pour Truthdig et mes contributions à Common Dreams et Alternet, ainsi que des références à mes livres », a déclaré Hedges. « Mais maintenant tout s’est volatilisé. Et je suis certain que c’est parce que je me suis prononcé contre la censure par Google. »

Google semble avoir conservé une version plus ancienne de son système d’agrégation de nouvelles disponible en ligne, accessible en se rendant sur google.com et en cliquant sur le lien news sous la barre de recherche. Cette version d’agrégation de nouvelles, qui semble être en voie de disparition, répertorie 254 000 résultats pour la recherche « World Socialist Web Site ».

De même, une recherche pour « Chris Hedges » renvoie 89 600 entrées.

Les changements apportés à Google News marquent une nouvelle étape dans une campagne systématique de censure et de mise sur liste noire qui a débuté au moins depuis avril, lorsque Ben Gomes, vice-président chargé de l’ingénierie, a déclaré que Google cherchait à promouvoir des médias « fiables » par rapport aux sources de nouvelles « alternatives ».

Depuis lors, treize principaux sites web de gauche ont vu un effondrement de 55 pour cent de leur fréquentation via le moteur de recherche de Google, de même pour le World Socialist Web Site qui a connu une chute de 74 pour cent de sa fréquentation depuis le moteur de recherche.

« Rien que du point de vue d’un journaliste, c’est terrifiant », a déclaré Hedges. « Ceux qui essaient toujours de faire du #journalisme, ce sont eux qui en pâtissent ; en particulier les journalistes qui tentent de s’attaquer aux problèmes de pouvoir et de l’intégration entre les grandes entreprises et l’État. »

« Cela montre non seulement comment l’état est en faillite, mais aussi combien il est effrayé », a déclaré Hedges.

« Google développe des méthodes de plus en plus intensive de #ciblage visant à bloquer toutes les voix critiques dissidentes », a déclaré David North, le président du comité de rédaction international du World Socialist Web Site.

« C’est une attaque sans précédent contre la liberté d’expression. Dans l’histoire des États-Unis, la censure à cette échelle n’a jamais été imposée en dehors de la guerre », a-t-il ajouté, soulignant le blocage des publications trotskystes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

New #Google algorithm restricts access to left-wing, progressive web sites - World Socialist Web Site

Google rules, donc. Et si en plus Google tue Firefox...

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/27/goog-j27.html

New Google algorithm restricts access to left-wing, progressive web sites
By Andre Damon and Niles Niemuth
27 July 2017

In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly.

On April 25, 2017, Google announced that it had implemented changes to its search service to make it harder for users to access what it called “low-quality” information such as “conspiracy theories” and “fake news.”

#réseaux_sociaux

Large audience for interview with David North, author of <em>A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016</em> - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/29/nort-s29.html

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIl3p9lD4g

On Wednesday, September 27, the World Socialist Web Site held a live online Facebook interview with David North, chairman of the WSWS International Editorial Board, on his recently published book, A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony, 1990-2016.
Interview with David North on “A Quarter Century of War"

The interview, hosted by WSWS reporters Andrea Peters and Andre Damon, dealt with a broad range of issues covered in the book and their relationship to contemporary politics.

#états-unis #guerre #armement #géopolitique #hégémonie #monde_unipolaire

Police killed over 500 people in the US this year - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/12/poli-j12.html

Police killed over 500 people in the US this year

By Tom Hall and Andre Damon
12 June 2015

The number of people killed by police so far this year topped 500 this week as the nationwide epidemic of police violence continued, with cops killing 20 people over the past seven days alone.

The US media largely has ignored the 500-victim milestone, with headlines this week dominated by the attempt to whip up law-and-order hysteria around the massive manhunt to recapture two inmates who recently escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.

#états-unis #police #violence_policière #meurtres #mais_que_fait_la_police ?

Wealth of world’s 400 richest billionaires rose $92 billion in 2014 - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/03/bill-j03.html

Figure hits $4.1 trillion
Wealth of world’s 400 richest billionaires rose $92 billion in 2014
By Andre Damon
3 January 2015

The wealthiest 400 people in the world saw their combined net worth grow by $92 billion last year, hitting $4.1 trillion. The bonanza for the super-rich was underwritten by governments and central banks around the world, which fueled surging stock markets and record corporate profits by pumping hundreds of billions into the financial markets.

The figures were provided by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which was initiated in 2012 and tracks the wealth of the 400 richest people in the world.

#riches #pauvres

Richest one percent controls nearly half of global wealth - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/17/ineq-o17.html

Richest one percent controls nearly half of global wealth
By Andre Damon
17 October 2014

The richest one percent of the world’s population now controls 48.2 percent of global wealth, up from 46 percent last year, according to the most recent global wealth report issued by Credit Suisse, the Swiss-based financial services company.

Hypothetically, if the growth of inequality were to proceed at last year’s rate, the richest one percent for all intents and purposes would control all the wealth on the planet within 23 years.

#riches #pauvres #richesse #pauvreté #inégalités

World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/15/ebol-o15.html

World Health Organization says Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week

By Andre Damon
15 October 2014

The number of new Ebola cases in Africa could grow as high as 10,000 per week, ten times higher than earlier estimates, according to projections the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Tuesday.

Dr. Bruce Aylward, who heads the WHO response to the crisis, said the public health organization now estimates the mortality rate in the countries affected by the outbreak—Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea—to be around 70 percent. Even though earlier statistics had shown a survival rate of around fifty percent, the UN-affiliated organization is now recording “at best 30 percent survival,” he said.

#ebola

Wal-Mart to eliminate health benefits for 30,000 workers - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/09/walm-o09.html

Wal-Mart to eliminate health benefits for 30,000 workers
By Andre Damon
9 October 2014

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and the largest employer in the United States, announced in a blog post Tuesday that it would eliminate healthcare benefits for 30,000 part-time workers and increase healthcare costs for all employees.

The company is only the latest in a string of major retailers to slash benefits for their part-time employees after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Wal-Mart was a major corporate supporter of the Obama Administration’s healthcare overhaul.

#travail #emploi #états-unis #sécurité-sociale #wal-mart

US families affected by unemployment up by 33 percent - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/29/cens-a29.html

US families affected by unemployment up by 33 percent
By Andre Damon
29 August 2013

The number of US households with at least one unemployed parent has swelled as a result of the economic crisis, rising 33 percent between 2005 and 2011, according to a report published Tuesday by the Census Bureau.

#états-unis #emploi #chômage

Four in five Americans economically insecure - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/29/pove-j29.html

Four in five Americans economically insecure

By Andre Damon
29 July 2013

Four in five Americans are “economically insecure,” according to yet-unpublished data reported by the Associated Press Sunday, which shows that the vast majority of the population struggles with near-poverty and unemployment, or relies on government antipoverty programs during at least part of their lives.

#états-unis #inégalités #pauvreté

Obama budget slashes Social Security, Medicare - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/11/budg-a11.html

Obama budget slashes Social Security, Medicare
By Andre Damon
11 April 2013

US President Barack Obama unveiled his budget proposal Wednesday, calling for a historic attack on Medicare and Social Security. The move, coming after the imposition of $1.4 trillion in spending cuts over the past two years, marks a new stage in the US ruling class’s offensive against the social rights of the population.

#etats-unis #santé

Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud - World Socialist Web Site

►http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/09/bank-j09.html

Another sweetheart bank settlement on mortgage fraud
By Andre Damon

9 January 2013

Ten major financial firms agreed on Monday to pay $3.3 billion in cash to settle allegations of mortgage fraud by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in the latest in a string of sweetheart settlements between the major Wall Street banks and their nominal regulators. As usual, there were no criminal charges and no bank officials were held accountable.

The settlement, which nominally totals $8.5 billion, includes $3.3 billion in direct payments to borrowers and $5.2 billion in loan modifications and other forms of “borrower assistance” left largely at the discretion of the banks.

World economy slides deeper into slump
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/econ-o02.shtml

By Andre Damon
2 October 2012

A string of negative reports coinciding with the start of the fourth quarter has revealed a significant deterioration in the global economy, with world trade slowing, manufacturing contracting, and the number of unemployed workers in the euro zone hitting a record high.

Despite these disastrous figures, stock prices in Europe and the United States rose on Monday, fueled by new central bank injections of cash into the global financial system, an intensification of austerity measures against the working class and expectations of new bank bailouts.

#economie #mondialisation #globalisation #crise

Seven years after the Katrina disaster
Hurricane Isaac pounds Gulf Coast

►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/isaa-a30.shtml

By Andre Damon
30 August 2012

Hurricane Isaac made landfall in eastern Louisiana Wednesday morning, forcing thousands of people to flee, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, and causing untold millions of dollars in property damage.

Isaac has invoked comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, which exactly seven years ago flooded much of New Orleans, killed nearly 2,000 people, and forever changed the way millions of people viewed American society. As was the case then, the natural component of the current disaster intersects with the social conditions of American life, including massive inequality and the decay of the social infrastructure.

#katrina #isaak #etats-unis #désastres #mississippi #louisiane #nouvelle-orléans

#Canada #Québec #Manifestations #Education #Mouvement-étudiant

Video: Which way forward for the Montreal student strike?
►http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/vide-j28.shtml

By Andre Damon
28 July 2012

Five months after students in Montreal, Quebec launched a strike against tuition increases, the movement stands at a crossroads. The strike’s leaders are seeking to channel mass opposition among students and workers behind the political establishment and upcoming elections, while the government appears set to force the reopening of schools on August 15.