Chase Madar sur Twitter : “realDonaldTrump We’re looking forward to your funeral, too!” / Twitter
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Chase Madar on Twitter: ““Well, the law is the law” is a favorite American tautology, often with punitive connotations. But the law is often not the law, at least for the dominant tribal in-group. ▻https://t.co/ZoAFnap3Yk”
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Chase Madar sur Twitter : "The idiot American proverb “Only Nixon (and #HenryKissinger) could go to China” is like saying “Only the kidnappers could return the baby.”"
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Chase Madar · Short Cuts · LRB 2 July 2015
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n13/chase-madar/short-cutsReprésentants (personnes et institutions) théoriques des droits humains agissant ou prenant position en faveur de la violence létale,
Harold Koh is the former dean of Yale Law School and an expert in human rights law. As the State Department’s senior lawyer between 2009 and 2013, he provided the Obama administration with the legal basis for assassination carried out by drones. And despite having written academic papers backing a powerful and restrictive War Powers Act, he made the legal case for the Obama administration’s right to make war on Libya without bothering to get congressional approval. Koh, who has now returned to teaching human rights law, is not the only human rights advocate to call for the use of lethal violence. Indeed, the weaponisation of human rights – its doctrines, its institutions and, above all, its grandees – has been going on in the US for more than a decade.
Take Samantha Power, US Ambassador to the United Nations, former director of Harvard’s Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy and self-described ‘genocide chick’, who advocated war in Libya and Syria, and argued for new ways to arm-twist US allies into providing more troops for Obama’s escalated but unsuccessful war in Afghanistan. This last argument wasn’t successful in 2012, though she was at it again recently when interviewed on Charlie Rose. Or there’s Sarah Sewall, another former director of the Carr Centre, who was responsible for the material on human rights in the reworked US Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. Or Michael Posner, the founder of Human Rights First, now a business professor at NYU, who, as assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labour in Obama’s first term, helped bury the Goldstone Report, commissioned by the United Nations to investigate atrocities committed during Israel’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza. Or John Prendergast, a former Human Rights Watch researcher and co-founder of Enough, an anti-genocide group affiliated with the Centre for American Progress, who has called for military intervention to oust Robert Mugabe.
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Human rights organisations have also been at it. Although it’s the policy of Human Rights Watch not to comment on matters of jus ad bellum – whether or not a war should be waged – in 2011 the UN resolution authorising military force in Libya was warmly endorsed by the outfit’s executive director and top Washington lobbyist. Just days after airstrikes began against the Qaddafi government, a Human Rights Watch researcher called Corinne Dufka called for ‘nothing less than the type of unified and decisive action the UN Security Council has brought to bear in Libya’ to be employed in Côte d’Ivoire in an article published in Foreign Policy. Amnesty International consistently backed US military operations in Afghanistan, which it seemed to view as a Peace Corps programme with soldiers attached.
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Tomgram: Chase Madar, The Criminalization of Everyday Life
▻http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175781/tomgram%3A_chase_madar%2C_the_criminalization_of_everyday_lifeOur incarceration rate is the highest in the world, triple that of the now-defunct East Germany. The incarceration rate for African American men is about five times higher than that of the Soviet Union at the peak of the gulag.
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Etats-Unis - Quand les fusils remplacent les plumes
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Par : Chase MadarC’est un paradoxe très négatif que les civils du Département d’État figurent parmi les voix les plus agressives en faveur de la guerre, quel que soit le nom qu’ils choisissent de lui donner. Madeleine Albright, lorsqu’elle était la secrétaire d’État du président Bill Clinton, avait demandé à Colin Powell : « À quoi ça sert d’avoir cette superbe armée dont vous parlez tout le temps si on ne s’en sert pas ? ».
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... Samantha Power, l’ambassadeur d’Obama aux Nations unies, a fait carrière sur la « militarisation des droits de l’homme ». Le livre qui l’a rendue célèbre, A Problem from Hell, est une spéculation passionnée sur le potentiel de la force militaire pour prévenir les génocides, sans poser comme préalable que la diplomatie préventive et avec une vision à long terme peut aboutir aux mêmes résultats. (Le livre ne mentionne pas non plus les multiples génocides post guerre mondiale que le gouvernement américain a armés ou soutenus, en dehors d’une phrase sur Timor-Est).
Pourquoi cette préférence compulsive de la force militaire chez les élites de la politique étrangère, malgré ses piètres et parfois terrifiants résultats ? George Kenney, un responsable des services étrangers qui a démissionné du département d’État en 1992 pour protester contre la politique américaine dans la crise de Yougoslavie, me disait récemment que pour les plus ambitieux, l’adhésion retentissante à la violence militaire est le chemin le plus court et le plus rapide pour accéder à Washington et que l’on ne peut dissocier leur foi illusoire en la violence militaire comme arme humanitaire de leur carriérisme cynique.
* Chase Madar, journaliste, auteur de « the Passion of Bradley Manning »
Source New York Times/débat
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Chase Madar, The Nation (USA) : Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning ▻http://www.thenation.com/article/172380/government-persecution-aaron-swartz-bradley-manning#
Le Storyteller Obama agit comme personne contre les whistleblowers tout en narrant qu’il les aime.
