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Ken Burns explique que Donald Trump est l’héritier de Joseph McCarthy
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13FoWqtQy0

Joseph McCarthy’s lawyer was Donald Trump mentor.

Il suffit de regarder les entrées de Wikipedia pour identifier le rôle que joue l’interview dans la lutte entre les impérialistes démocrates et le réactionnaires républicains. La lignée de Trump est quand même intéressante.

Joseph Mcarthy
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

Roy Cohn
►https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

Cohn’s direct examination of Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, produced testimony that was central to the Rosenbergs’ conviction and subsequent execution. Greenglass testified that he had given the Rosenbergs classified documents from the Manhattan Project that had been stolen by Klaus Fuchs. Greenglass would later claim that he lied at the trial in order “to protect himself and his wife, Ruth, and that he was encouraged by the prosecution to do so.” Cohn always took great pride in the Rosenberg verdict and claimed to have played an even greater part than his public role. He said in his autobiography that his own influence had led to both Chief Prosecutor Saypol and Judge Irving Kaufman being appointed to the case. He further said that Kaufman imposed the death penalty, based on his personal recommendation.

J. Edgar Hoover, who recommended him to Joseph McCarthy.

Cohn invited his friend G. David Schine, an anti-Communist propagandist, to join McCarthy’s staff as a consultant. When Schine was drafted into the US Army in 1953, Cohn made repeated and extensive efforts to procure special treatment for Schine. He contacted military officials from the Secretary of the Army down to Schine’s company commander and demanded for Schine to be given light duties, extra leave, and exemption from overseas assignment. At one point, Cohn is reported to have threatened to “wreck the Army” if his demands were not met. That conflict, along with McCarthy’s accusations of Communists in the defense department, led to the Army–McCarthy hearings of 1954, in which among other developments the Army charged Cohn and McCarthy with using improper pressure on Schine’s behalf, and McCarthy and Cohn countercharged that the Army was holding Schine “hostage” in an attempt to squelch McCarthy’s investigations into Communists in the Army.

In 1971, businessman Donald Trump moved to Manhattan, where he became involved in large construction projects. Trump came to public attention in 1973 when he was accused by the Justice Department of violations of the Fair Housing Act in the operation of 39 buildings. The government alleged that Trump’s corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions to blacks and made false “no vacancy” statements to blacks for apartments they managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.

Representing Trump, Cohn filed a countersuit against the government for $100 million, asserting that the charges were irresponsible and baseless. The countersuit was unsuccessful. Trump settled the charges out of court in 1975 without admitting guilt, saying he was satisfied that the agreement did not "compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant.

Ken Burns
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns

Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, with almost $40,000 in political donations.

Christiane Amanpour
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour

Amanpour is the niece-in-law of General Nader Jahanbani, who commanded the Imperial Iranian Air Force for nearly 20 years until he was executed by Islamic Revolutionaries in 1979, and of his younger brother Khosrow, who was married to Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. Amanpour’s uncle, Captain Nasrollah Amanpour, was married to the younger sister of Khosrow and Nader.
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During the height of the Syrian crisis, in mid to late 2013, Amanpour started a push for the case of war with Syria. She traveled to the UK and appeared on several news programs, not as a journalist, but as an “expert” on the Middle East, and pushed the Obama administration line for war in Syria.

#USA #politique #racisme #anticommunisme #impérialisme élections

Gerard Ryle, directeur de l’ICIJ qui gère les #Panama_papers, a été interrogé par Christiane Amanpour sur CNN.
La jounaliste le questionne sur la source qui a délivré au journaliste de la Süddeutsche zeitung cette quantité de données, et s’il s’agissait d’un whistleblower venu de Mossack Fonseca. Réponse évasive de Ryle qui dit que la source est anonyme et inquiète de ce qu’elle a vu dans les documents.
Amanpour lui demande s’il est absolument sûr que ces données sont vraies. Et là Ryle balance qu’ une première fuite des documents de Mossack Fonseca ont eu lieu au profit du gouvernement allemand qui a acheté ces documents et les a partagé ensuite avec d’autres gouvernements dont le gouvernement britannique et américain. Ryle dit qu’il a eu accès à ce premier jet de documents et qu’il a pu les comparer avec ce qui avait été ensuite obtenu par le journaliste de la SDZ et comme ça correspondait cela prouverait la totale véracité des Panama Papers.
Second argument : on ne peut pas fabriquer une telle masse de documents.

Le passage concerné se trouve dans les 2 premières minutes de l’interview, ensuite la discussion ira sur ... Poutine.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w28POc36Gj4

Tweet de C. Amanpour
▻https://twitter.com/camanpour/status/717062627839574017

#PanamaLeaks info was “bought” by German govt; subsequently shared with UK and US governments, @RyleGerard tells me:

Under pressure from Turkey, UN excludes PYD from Syria talks
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/01/turkey-usa-syria-talks-ankara-won-batlle-against-pyd.html

That sentiment — that the United States sold out the Kurds — is not completely off-base. I arrived in Brussels on Jan. 25 to attend the European Parliament’s annual conference on the Kurds, organized by its leftist party bloc, which includes Nobel laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi of Iran and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor, as well as controversial American scholar Noam Chomsky.

I was a speaker on a panel with Selahattin Demirtas, Turkey’s popular pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) chairman, and Peter Galbraith, a former American ambassador considered a close friend of the Kurds because of the role he played in the struggles of Iraqi Kurds.

PYD leader Salih Muslim was on the list of speakers for the second day of that conference. But when I arrived in Brussels, I was told Muslim had left for Geneva at the invitation of UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura. He would be back the next day and then would travel again to Geneva for the Geneva III talks, which were set for Jan. 29.

Thanks to my Kurdish sources, who were in constant communication with Muslim, I learned that Galbraith had come to Brussels from Geneva, where he also had met with American officials working on the Geneva III talks. He had been told that the United States was keen on seeing the PYD at the table during the talks.

On Jan. 26, before Muslim was back in Brussels, the news broke: De Mistura had issued invitation letters to the Arab members of the Syrian Democratic Council like Manna. It was assumed that Muslim would be returning to Brussels with his invitation letter in his bag.

Instead, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who was in Strasbourg, Germany, said Turkey would boycott the Geneva talks if the PYD was involved.

Some hours earlier, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, had said Turkey objected to the PYD’s involvement because it is a terrorist organization, but would not object if it was included in the Syrian government’s delegation.

Galbraith was texting with Muslim, who informed him that de Mistura had not issued an official invitation to the PYD.

Manna announced that if their Kurdish allies would not be at the talks, the other members of the Syrian Democratic Council would not be participating, either.

The Kurdish sources in Brussels who were in constant contact with Muslim told me the morning of Jan. 27 that they had just spoken to Muslim, who was at that moment in a meeting with the Americans and that the PYD representation was still pending. He said everything would be clear by noon.

By evening, word came from Washington. US State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner declared that the PYD will not be invited to Geneva.

Ne le répétez pas : Al-Walid ben Talal confie à CNN que « des Séoudiens » ont bel et bien financé ISIS. Mais maintenant c’est fini : l’Arabie séoudite ne financera plus que des gentils Mickeys.

Saudi extremist funding ‘has been stopped completely,’ claims Prince Alwaleed
▻http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/10/20/saudi-extremist-funding-has-been-stopped-completely-says-prince-

With the scrutiny of the world on ISIS’s alleged Gulf funders, billionaire Saudi businessman Alwaleed Bin Talal insisted in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday that his country has completely clamped down on the practice.

“Yes, we had a weakness over there, whereby some unfortunately some extremists in Saudi Arabia…did fund certain extremist elements in Syria. But Saudi Arabia has taken very strict rules to stop that from happening. And yes, right now all this has been stopped completely,” he said.

Qatar has come under the most scrutiny in its alleged funding of extremists like ISIS, as Amanpour discussed with that country’s emir last month.

But wealthy patrons in Saudi Arabia have also been under the spotlight, especially now that the country (along with Qatar and several other Gulf nations) have joined the American coalition against ISIS.

Barzani gives ’concrete sign Iraq really is breaking up’

▻http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/barzani-gives-concrete-sign-iraq-really-is-breaking-up-.aspx?page

Massoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), told CNN International that “Iraq is obviously falling apart."

“And it’s obvious that the federal or central government has lost control over everything. Everything is collapsing – the army, the troops, the police,” Barzani said during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. "We did not cause the collapse of Iraq. It is others who did. And we cannot remain hostages for the unknown," he added.

“Iraq Kurdistan Pres Barzani gives me first concrete sign Iraq really is breaking up + Western policy behind the curve,” Amanpour tweeted late June 23 when announcing the interview.

Barzani had told Sky News Arabia TV on April 8 that an independent Kurdish state is to be established, pointing out that they are moving towards a confederation with Iraq.

Beginning late on June 9, militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran most of one Iraqi province and parts of three others north of Baghdad.

Iraqi forces made a “tactical” withdrawal from three western towns on June 22, as Sunni militants widened an offensive that has already overrun swathes of territory.

“The Kurds of Iraq can decide for themselves the name and type of the entity they are living in,” Hüseyin Çelik, a spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), reportedly told the Kurdish online news outlet Rudaw last week.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid applauded “Turkey’s move to welcome an independent Kurdistan on its border” on June 19.

Click here to read the rest of the interview on CNN International

« Drones, the Media and Malala’s Message »

▻http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/10/15/drones-the-media-and-malalas-message

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Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai’s visit to the United States was widely covered in the media, including interviews with ABC’s Diane Sawyer (10/11/13), CNN’s Christiane Amanpour (10/14/13) and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show (10/8/13). She was selected as ABC’s “Person of the Week” on October 11, and was considered a serious contender for the Nobel Peace Prize.

And for good reason; just one year ago, Malala was attacked by the Taliban for her outspoken advocacy on behalf of educational equality, surviving a an attack where she was shot in the head.

But one part of her message didn’t seem to penetrate the corporate media.

During her October 11 visit to the White House, Yousafzai told Barack Obama that his administration’s drone strikes were fueling terrorism. As McClatchy’s Lesley Clark (10/11/13) reported:

In a statement released after the meeting, Malala said she was honored to meet with Obama, but that she told him she’s worried about the effect of US drone strikes. (The White House statement didn’t mention that part.)

"I thanked President Obama for the United States’ work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees," she said in the statement. "I also expressed my concerns that drone attacks are fueling terrorism. Innocent victims are killed in these acts, and they lead to resentment among the Pakistani people. If we refocus efforts on education, it will make a big impact."

This exchange, for some reason, didn’t register in a corporate media that followed Malala’s visit, and her story, very closely.

#Pakistan #drones #US #Malala_Yousafzai #femmes #plo

The Syrian Days Of Rage - English
A retired Syrian military general tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour what it could take to stop the bloodshed in #Syria. ►http://ow.ly/beqTT
Syrian military general speaks out - CNN.com Video
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A retired Syrian military general tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour what it could take to stop the bloodshed in Syria.