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Il n’y a pas beaucoup d’articles en anglais sur les #Gilets_Jaunes, et celui ci tombe dans certains pièges, mais il est plutôt meilleur que la moyenne :

Popular Uprising in Paris and Left’s Fear of Populism
Ranabir Samaddar, Alternatives international, le 14 décembre 2018
▻https://ici-et-ailleurs.org/contributions/actualite/article/les-gilets-jaunes-vus-d-inde

Ca, par exemple, c’est trop précis pour être vrai :

The Yellow Vests call for : (a) No one be left homeless ; (b) end of the austerity policy ; cancellation of interest on illegitimate debt ; end of taxing the poor to pay back the debt ; recovery of the 85 billion Euros of fiscal fraud ; (c) creation of a true integration policy, with French language, history and civics courses for immigrants ; (d) minimum salary €1500 per month ; (e) giving privilege to city and village centres by stopping building of huge shopping malls and arcades ; (f) more progressive income tax rates ; and finally (g) more taxes on big companies like Mac Donald’s, Google, Amazon and Carrefour, and low taxes on little artisans.

Mais ça c’est pas mal :

The rebels donning yellow breakdown-safety vests required to keep in their cars by the government have spurned political parties. They got organized on social media, and began acting locally. The movement spread in this way on successive Saturdays. Saturdays, because on working days women raising kids with their precarious jobs cannot strike. Thus, women receptionists, hostesses, nurses, teachers have come out in unusually large numbers. It is not the banal strike that the Left engages in, but something more. The Left in France as elsewhere has surrendered before the neo-liberal, pro-business counter-reforms. The union leaders are eager to keep their place at the table. They only go through the motions of carrying out strikes. Workers were fatigued.

#Yellow_Vests #France

Attaques contre #Jeremy_Corbyn (et accusations d’antisémitisme) :

Dans le #Guardian :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/606127

I’m ashamed at the way my party is offending Jews, says Labour MP
Peter Walker, The Guardian, le 29 juillet 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/711737

Remarks about Zionists draw official complaint against Jeremy Corbyn
Michael Savage, The Guardian, le 26 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/717315

Israël se cache-t-il derrière les attaques contre Jeremy Corbyn ?
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, le 30 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/716567

Dans #Le_Monde :

Antisémitisme : le leader travailliste britannique Jeremy Corbyn à nouveau dans la tourmente
Eric Albert, Le Monde, le 14 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

Dans #Médiapart :

Au Royaume-Uni, la décomposition du paysage politique se poursuit
Ludovic Lamant, Médiapart, le 21 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/716567
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Comment un diplomate israélien a travaillé au cœur du Parti travailliste pour mettre à mal Corbyn
Alex MacDonald et Simon Hooper, Middle East Eye, le 9 janvier 2017
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

Jeremy Corbyn appelle à une révision de la question des ventes d’armes du Royaume Uni à Israël après les morts sur la frontière de Gaza
Jeremy Corbyn, le 10 avril 2018
▻https://www.aurdip.org/jeremy-corbyn-appelle-a-une.html

Antisémitisme. Offensive orchestrée contre Jeremy Corbyn au Royaume-Uni
Jonathan Cook, Orient XXI, le 8 mai 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/692587

The Jewish establishment’s ‘War Against Corbyn’ risks bringing real antisemitism to Britain
Robert A. H. Cohen, Patheos, le 28 juillet 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/711737

Who’s guilty of antisemitism ? Questioning Labour’s Definition Bind
Peter Hallward, Verso, le 6 août 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/714306

How Israel lobby attacked an Auschwitz survivor to smear Corbyn
Adri Nieuwhof, Electronic Intifada, le 7 août 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/713760

Jeremy Corbyn, le futur premier ministre du Royaume-Uni ?
Gidéon Lévy, Haaretz, le 9 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/716567

Israel Is The Real Problem
Media Lens, le 9 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

La vérité sur la relation spéciale du Royaume-Uni avec Israël
Mark Curtis, Middle East Eye, le 10 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715335

No, this Netanyahu row won’t destroy Corbyn – it will only make him stronger
Richard Seymour, The Independent, le 14 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715078

Grande-Bretagne : le leader travailliste Jeremy Corbyn attaqué par Benyamin Netanyahou
Middle East Eye, le 14 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

Anti-Semitism and Labour : Jeremy Corbyn must stop apologising and start fighting back
Ghada Karmi, Middle East Eye, le 14 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

Netanyahu Falsely Attacks Corbyn for Laying Wreath on Palestinian Terrorist’s Grave
Richard Silverstein, le 15 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/715022

Jeremy Corbyn, les Palestiniens et l’antisémitisme
Alain Gresh, Orient XXI, le 16 août 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/715399

Israël se cache-t-il derrière les attaques contre Jeremy Corbyn ?
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, le 30 août 2018
►https://seenthis.net/messages/716567

It’s time to stand up and be counted - what defending Corbyn really means
Chris Nineham, Counterfire, le 30 août 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/719141

Ken Loach appelle les Travaillistes à ne pas ‘trahir la Palestine’ en cédant aux ennemis de Corbyn
Ben Chacko, The Morning Star, le 3 septembre 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/719511

Grande-Bretagne : le Labour adopte la définition complète de l’antisémitisme
Sonia Delesalle-Stolper, Libération, le 4 septembre 2018
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/719685

#Royaume-Uni #Grande-Bretagne #UK #Labour #Parti_Travailliste #antisémitisme #antisionisme #Palestine #censure #IHRA #recension

The French Left’s Long March to the Right
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/the-french-lefts-long-march-to-the-right #Halimi #France #Droite #Gauche #Macron #politique #parti_socialiste #new_center

Le Monde Diplomatique’s #Serge_Halimi dissects the collective suicide of France’s center-left — and how its new far left can pick up the pieces

The Hidden Meanings of Maps (1/2) | Pick-Me-Up Tonic

▻https://pickmeuptonic.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/the-hidden-meanings-of-maps

Intéressante analyse, j’ai eu la surprise d’y trouver une de mes production de 1993 - 25 ans tout de même... - en exemple dans le corps du texte

https://pickmeuptonic.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/belgique-3.png?w=700&h=548 https://pickmeuptonic.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/falklands_campaign_distances_to_bases_1982.jpg?w=613&h=1024

2. Scale matters

Once you’ve picked up a projection, you have to choose what scale is the best to illustrate the trend or phenomena you want to show. More than a zoom level, picking up the right scale is a tricky & meaningful process similar to building a photograph composition.

The scale choice reveals the very interpretation the cartographer is making of the represented phenomena. People and places that do not appear on the map are considered not relevant to the topic. Then, the edges of the map define a time & space frame containing both the issue & its solution/explanation.

belgique-3

On this map from Le Monde Diplomatique, for instance, the political situation in Belgium is the topic. The map was illustrating an article about the 1993 agreement of Saint Michel that made Belgium a federal state by unifying the two main regions as well as smaller german regions under the same government. This is a very specific debate concerning Belgium and Belgium only, not depending on external forces. The issue (political unity of Belgium) contains its solution (its a national debate that no one else can solve but Belgians).

On the example below, a map illustrating the Falklands War of 1982 between United Kingdom and Argentina over Falklands Islands sovereignty, the playground is the Atlantic Ocean, North to South.

Falklands,Campaign,(Distances_to_bases)_1982

The map focuses on the two protagonists to show how & when they moved strategically to an actual open conflict over the Falklands. There is clearly no other country involved in this, nor other political influences. The map is focusing on strategy, events timeline and show very well the obvious handicap of distance United Kingdom had. That tells us a lot about how UK’s empire last bite was escaping from its yoke and how they desperately fought for it, more as a symbol than as an essential land possession.

Scholars in solidarity with Ismail Alexandrani

Ismail Alexandrani was detained by Egyptian authorities on November 30th as he was coming back to his country to visit his sick mother. Alexandrani is one of Egypt’s brightest young researchers, who has spent the last few years doing ground-breaking work on the marginalized areas of Egypt – a blind spot in academic studies of the country – as well as on political Islam. His articles have featured in numerous publications and have been presented in international academic conferences, and they have earned him awards and fellowships. In his work, he has constantly demonstrated a genuine intellectual independence. He is a well respected member of the academic community, and someone we personally enjoyed working with. Alexandrani’s arrest is a repression of free speech and should be condemned. We hope that he will be released promptly and return to his friends and to the research community.

First signatures
Francois Burgat, Research Director, CNRS (Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique). Vincent Geisser, Research Director, CNRS. Alain Gresh, Le Monde Diplomatique. Miriam Catusse, Director of Contemporary Studies, IFPO (Institut Français du Proche–Orient). Claire Beaugrand, Researcher, IFPO. Nicolas Dot-Pouillard, Researcher, IFPO. Laurent Bonnefoy, Researcher, CERI/Sciences Po. Matthieu Rey, Researcher, College de France. Stéphane Lacroix, Associate Professor, Sciences Po. Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi, Professor, Lausanne University.
Ellen Lust, Professsor, Yale and Gottenberg. Gibert Achcar, SOAS. John Chalcraft, LSE. Asef Bayat, University of Illinois
Khaled Fahmy Professor, AUC. Rabab al Mahdi, Professor, AUC.

▻http://freealexandrani.wesign.it/ar

A French Atlas of the Gulf States
▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/20067/a-french-atlas-of-the-gulf-states

http://www.jadaliyya.com/content_images/3/Atlas_Gulf_States.jpg

Using a more demanding approach, the team of Le Monde Diplomatique and its famous cartographer, Phillippe Rekacewicz, have introduced a series of critical atlases, dealing with globalization, global conflicts, and environmental issues. In so doing, they are subverting the usual canons of mapping, often viewed by its critics as a tool in the hands of (military) powers, rather than an instrument of revolt and awareness. The former is probably the reason that, since the cultural and post-colonial turn of the 1990s, English-speaking academics seem to be wary of such intellectual products, seeing them as instruments of domination that utilize oversimplified—if not altogether flawed—categories intended to impose facts on the ground that in reality do not exist. Indeed, most governmental statistical data contribute to the legitimation of borders that often continue to be irrelevant.

Robert Fisk:

Alawite history reveals the complexities of Syria that West does not understand
The Independent

Eloge du Monde diplomatique

▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/robert-fisk-alawite-history-reveals-the-complexities-of-syria-that-we

For now Sabrina Mervin, the French author and researcher, has put together a remarkable document in which she traces the history of a people who used to call themselves “Nusayris” – after the founder of their faith, Muhammad Ibn Nusayr – and whose religion was founded “in the bosom of Shiism” in the 9th and 10th centuries. Mervin’s work, published now in that splendid French institution Le Monde Diplomatique, should be essential reading for every Syria “ expert”, for it suggests that the Alawites are victims of a long history of religious dissidents, persecution and repression.

As long ago as 1903, the Belgian-born Jesuit and Orientalist, Henri Lammens, was identifying the Alawites as former Christians – until he met a Sheikh who insisted he belonged to Shia Islam. Lammens, a typical imperialist, suggested that the Alawites – who appeared to believe in the transmigration of souls and a trinity (the Prophet Muhammad, his cousin and son-in-law Ali, and Salman, a companion) – might become Christians “which would allow France to interfere in your favour”. Indeed, France did indeed show favour to the Alawites in later years.