Pourquoi ont-ils tué Laurent-Désiré Kabila ? (Points de vue) (French Edition)

Besides, Bill Clinton is actually accused of sexual assault and in some cases, rape by various women before and after he was U. Hillary Clinton herself defended a child rapist when she was a defense attorney in Arkansas but the New York Times will not mention those cases so close to the presidential election. The MSM continues to associate Trump as an asset of Russia and now as a sexual predator who cannot keep his hands or mouth to himself.

Rest assured more women are going to come forward with new allegations that Trump sexually assaulted them in one way or another. The New York Times is a propaganda mouthpiece for U. What is most important principle for any news organization is to tell the truth to the public and that is something the MSM in the West has lost a long time ago. They mean that NATO should be given untrammelled access to the airspace to carry out mass bombings — but that nobody else should. We saw it in Libya. The argument goes like this. NATO aircraft need to enforce the no-fly zone.

To do this in safety, they need to attack and destroy any ground to air weapons capabilities on the ground. That does not just include surface to air missiles, both carriage mounted and hand held, but anything that can be pointed upwards and fired. They need to take out by more bombing any stores that may house such weapons. They need to take out any radar installations, including civilian ones, that may pinpoint NATO aircraft. They need to destroy any runways and hangars, including civilian ones.

They need to destroy by bombing all military command and control centres, including those in built up areas. They need to destroy the infrastructure on which air defence relies, including electricity generation and water supply, including civilian assets. I am not exaggerating. It really was NATO aircraft which did to the beautiful Mediterranean town of Sirte the destruction which you see in that picture — in order to enforce a no-fly zone. Enforcement of the no-fly zone was the only authorisation NATO had for the massive bombing campaign on Libya which enabled regime change, which enabled rival jihadist militias to take over the country.

They showed their gratitude by murdering the US Ambassador. The failure of central government led to Libya becoming the operating site from which a number now in the hundreds of thousands of boat refugees have crossed to Europe. Now they wish to do precisely the same again. But they want to replace this with NATO dropping a vastly greater weight of vastly more powerful weaponry on areas held by the Assad regime.

They are relentless warmongering bastards, pretending to be motivated by humanitarian concern. There are no easy answers in Syria. Without Russian and Syrian government air power, Syria might well already have fallen to disparate groups of murdering religious fanatics, who would then have redoubled their existing tendency to also kill each other. The pretence that there is any significant number of pro-western democratic rebels is ludicrous nonsense.

But so equally is the pretence that the Assad regime is a decent regime. It is not and never has been. They are all killing civilians. They are all bad guys. If all bombing were to stop, the danger is that jihadists would again gain the upper hand. But in a situation where there are no good options, I think that is still better than the continued bombing of civilian areas held by jihadists. The fact that the West has repeatedly done this massively in Mosul or Fallujah does not make it right for the Russians or Assad to do it now. The moral balance now must be for a halt to all bombing and all military air operations — including by NATO.

A security council resolution could be tabled calling for the end of all military flights, by anybody, over Syrian airspace. That would show up the bastards for the evil hypocrites they are. Britain is fighting at least seven covert wars in the Middle East and North Africa, outside of any democratic oversight or control.

Whitehall has in effect gone underground, with neither parliament nor the public being allowed to debate, scrutinise or even know about these wars. To cover themselves, Ministers are now often resorting to lying about what they are authorising. While Britain has identified Islamic State among others as the enemy abroad, it is clear that it sees the British public and parliament as the enemy at home. Britain began training Syrian rebel forces from bases in Jordan in British special forces also provide training, weapons and other equipment to the New Syrian Army.

British aircraft began covert strikes against IS targets in Syria in , months before Parliament voted in favour of overt action in December These strikes were conducted by British pilots embedded with US and Canadian forces. Britain has also been operating a secret drone warfare programme in Syria. Last year Reaper drones killed British IS fighters in Syria, again before parliament approved military action. Hundreds of British troops are officially in Iraq to train local security forces. But they are also engaged in covert combat operations against IS.

One recent report suggests that Britain has more than special force soldiers in the country, operating out of a fortified base within a Kurdish Peshmerga camp south of Mosul. British Reaper drones were first deployed over Iraq in and are now flown remotely by satellite from an RAF base in Lincolnshire. Britain has conducted over drones strikes in Iraq since November SAS forces have been secretly deployed to Libya since the beginning of this year, working with Jordanian special forces embedded in the British contingent.

British commandos are now reportedly fighting and directing assaults on Libyan frontlines and running intelligence, surveillance and logistical support operations from a base in the western city of Misrata. In July , Middle East Eye reported that this British involvement was helping to coordinate air strikes in support of Haftar, whose forces are opposed to the Tripoli-based government that Britain is supposed to be supporting.

The government says it has no military personnel based in Yemen. The same report also found that British military personnel were helping with drone strikes against AQAP. Britain has been widely reported outside the mainstream media as supporting the brutal Saudi war in Yemen, which has caused thousands of civilian deaths, most of them due to Saudi air strikes.

Indeed, Britain is party to the war. One such Centre, in Riyadh, coordinates the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and includes British military personnel who are in the command room as air strikes are carried out and who have access to the bombing targets. The UK is of course arming the Saudi campaign: The British government disclosed on 13 October that the Saudis have used five types of British bombs and missiles in Yemen. It is likely that this pact includes reference to the secret British training of Syrian rebels in Saudi Arabia, which has taken place since mid Operating from a desert base in the north of the country, British forces have been teaching Syrian forces infantry skills as part of a US-led training programme.

In Afghanistan, the public was told that British forces withdrew at the end of However, British forces stayed behind to help create and train an Afghan special forces unit. In , the government stated that it had ended its drone air strikes programme in Afghanistan, which had begun in and covered much of the country.

Yet last year it was reported that British special forces were calling in air strikes using US drones. Pakistan and Somalia are two other countries where Britain is conducting covert wars. The government has said that it has 27 military personnel in Somalia who are developing the national army and supporting the African Union Mission. Yet in it was reported that the SAS was covertly fighting against al-Shabab Islamist terrorists in Somalia, working with Kenyan forces in order to target leaders.

This involved up to 60 SAS soldiers, close to a full squadron, including Forward Air Controllers who called in air strikes against al-Shabab targets by the Kenyan air force. It says that this is a particular matter of concern as the US covert drone programme is illegal. Even this may not be the sum total of British covert operations in the region.

It is possible that these forces are also engaged in combat in the region. Britain has many other military and intelligence assets in the region. These bases intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence agencies, which information is then shared with the National Security Agency in the US.

Britain also has military assets at Manama harbour, Bahrain, whose repressive armed forces are also being secretly trained by British commandos. Turkey has also offered a base for British military training. In , for example, Britain deployed several military trainers to Turkey as part of the US-led training programme in Syria, providing small arms, infantry tactics and medical training to rebel forces.

When questioned about these covert activities, Ministers have two responses. The other is to lie, which has become so routine as to be official government policy. The reasoning is simple — the government believes the public simply has no right to know of these operations, let alone to influence them. This is plainly not true, as the extent of British covert operations show. Similarly, it was first reported in May that British troops were secretly engaged in combat in Libya.

There are many other examples of this straightforward web of deceit. In July , the government issued six separate corrections to previous ministerial statements in which they claimed that Saudi Arabia is not targeting civilians or committing war crimes in Yemen. This claim is defied by various news reports in the public domain. British foreign policy is in extreme mode, whereby Ministers do not believe they should be accountable to the public. This is the very definition of dictatorship. Although in some of these wars, Britain is combatting terrorist forces that are little short of evil, it is no minor matter that several UK interventions have encouraged these very same forces and prolonged wars, all the while being regularly disastrous for the people of the region.

I heard the news today…. Wonderful, now Canada is taking a stab at the discredited, dishonoured R2P slogan. So rather than just maintain the status quo, we are now taking the role of wanting to change things for our own pursuits and interests, much the same as with the U. Canada essentially has no independent foreign policy. Generally we have followed U. The Liberal government, while speaking in gentler terms than the Harper militants, is following the same course.

The results are what we see today: With all this interplay of forces in the Middle East, with a declining debt ridden violent empire as our neighbour that pits a war-mongering lying chicken hawk against a xenophobic misogynist racist bigot, the future does not look too bright. For Canada to now step into this increasing maelstrom of violence perpetrated mainly by the U. Canada has pretensions that do not fit the proposed actions.

The conflict began as a U. I am sure there are some legitimate forces in Syria who oppose the government of Assad, but the U. Also in Syria, approximately one dozen militias are not only trying to overthrow the Assad government but they are also fighting amongst themselves. The ranking Democrat on the U.

However, provoking Russia in places like Syria and Ukraine seems to be the height of arrogance and stupidity on the part of the U. Some of us see no hope for the mis-leaders here in the U. In the last U. Even though Russia has been invited into Syria by the government—as rational people who are filled with apprehension over the reality of this danger—we should be calling on all world leaders to pause in their rush to war.

But the only thing that can really stop imperialist carnage is an international working-class force, refusing to be used as cannon-fodder for capitalism, and instead fighting for socialism. Thank you very much, Mr. Okay, I will start from my questions. The situation in Syria become more dangerous and more unpredictable. Because this conflict draws inside more participants and more players. For example, who do we have now in Syria in the war? That is the main problem. They support us against the terrorists, while the other countries that you describe who are interfering, they are supporting the terrorists.

This term has been used recently a lot, especially after the recent escalation regarding the situation in Syria. You have many stages in that regard, and Syria is one of these important stages. You see more escalation than before, but the whole issue is about keeping the hegemony of the Americans around the world, not allowing anyone to be partner on the political or international arena, whether Russia or even their allies in the West.

Part of it is military, part of it is terrorism and security, and the other part is political.

But you said… Syria became stage of this war. I mean, okay, you are big country, I mean, you have oil but not like Saudi Arabia. It has many aspects. The West, for them, Syria and Russia are allies for decades now, and again, if we undermine the position of Syria, we can influence the Russians negatively. Syria has played that role in the region for centuries, it was always the hub of the geopolitical dynamic in the Middle East.

So, controlling Syria — since the Pharaohs, before the Christ, they used to fight for Syria, the Pharaohs and the Hittites, this is historical basis. So, it has a role, geopolitics, the position on the Mediterranean, the society, because Syria is the fault line between the different cultures in this region; whatever happens in Syria will influence the region, negatively and positively, so controlling Syria is very important. You agree with this? Yes, for a simple reason: We can put on the table.

You can put in your pocket, and put it on the table anytime.

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Now, we have a new player in this region. Okay, I mean, it was Turkish intervention, and nobody speaks about this now, like nothing happened. But what do the Turks want from this invasion regardless of the mask that they wear to cover their intention, real intentions. All the world knows this. They move it from ISIS. The second one, because he wanted to support al-Nusra in Syria. But he still feels like Syria is Ottoman Empire. His ideology is a mixture between the Brotherhood ideology which is violent and extremist, and the Ottoman Empire, or Sultanate.

And so he thinks with these two ideologies, he can make a mixture to control this region. After the Russian plane was shot down by the Turks, Russia stopped relationships with Turkey. Now, after, okay, his excuses, we again… it looks like again friendship, tourism, diplomatic relations everything. Do you think maybe we Russians make a mistake to trust Erdogan again after his betrayal?

I hope they can convince them that they have to stop supporting terrorists, stop allowing the flow of terrorists and money for those terrorists through their borders. But for Erdogan, these terrorists are instrument of influence. I agree with you a hundred percent. Not only ISIS, of course, or Daesh, not only al-Nusra; anyone, any terrorist who holds a machinegun and started killing and destroying in Syria was supported by Israel, either indirectly through the logistical support on the frontier, or sometimes by direct intervention by Israel against Syria in different areas in Syria.

Because Israel is our enemy, because they occupy our lands, and they look at Syria as enemy of course, and for them they think if they undermine the position of Syria and make it weaker as a whole, as society, as army, as state, that will prevent Israel from moving toward the peace, and the price of the peace is to give back the Golan Heights to Syria. So, for them, Syria will be busy with another issue now, it would be busy to talk about the Golan or the peace process, or even to do anything to get back its land. After this I see fitness centers full of young people, is very good muscles.

What are they doing here? Send them all on the front! Like, we made this in Patriotic War, in general, when we had big war, we sent all men to front! What is the meaning of partial? So, you need to have balance between the war and between the basic needs of the society, the university, and the services that you should offer to the people.

Of course you have many different points of view regarding the media, because media is about the perception.. We was living like this, when it was Great Patriotic War, all cities was empty, it was just women. Okay, doctors of course, some kind of teachers, but everybody was in the front. I will give you example from my family: And, it was not normal. We would never win this war if we will not put all our men on front. Yeah, but when you talk about war, war is not only military; war is everything. The most important part of our war, not only terrorists, which is in parallel, or as important as the terrorist issue, is the economy.

We are under embargo, so we have to do our best to keep this wheel moving forward. Why you ask help of Russia almost in the most critical moment? Almost when everything was crashed, and even your life was in danger? At the end, Syria is a small country, and even the population is not very big. So, we needed the help of our friends. Iran intervened, and Hezbollah, and Russia as a great power was very crucial in changing the balance of power on the ground.

They helped us before; maybe not directly through the air forces, they used to send us everything, every logistical support we wanted for that war. But they live with us, we have the military experts living in Syria for four decades. They saw on the ground that during that time in , the balance started changing in favor of the terrorists, with the support of the West and other countries like Saudi Arabia and Turkey and Qatar, and the Russians were ready to intervene directly.

We trust their politics, politics based on morals before interests. We trust them because we know that they wanted to support us because they wanted to get rid of the terrorists, not because they want to ask us anything in return, and they never did. Till this moment, they never asked us for anything in return.

All these factors encouraged me and the Syrian government and the institutions to ask for the Russian help. What they wanted from you? I heard, for example, Qatar wanted to make tube through Syria. Is it true or not? You got some kind of offer before? Not offer, they wanted to convince us to do something. The main issue was, at that time around the world, was the nuclear file of Iran. It was the main issue around the world, and Syria has to convince Iran to go against its interests, that time.

France tried, Saudi Arabia wanted us at that time to be away from Iran with no reason, just because they hate Iran.

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But what about this tube? After the war, the offer was directly from the Saudis; that if you-. Very simple and very straight to the point. And our people, of course, normal people, they are afraid to die. How to kill this ideology? The most important thing is in the mid-term and in the long-term is to fight this ideology through similar but moderate ideology. I mean you cannot fight extremism in Islam with any other ideology but the moderate Islam. How to deal with it? You need many aspects and many parallel paths at the same time.

This is the only way you can defeat it. But dealing with the terrorists, this is the last part, and this is the compulsory part. I mean, if you want to go to Paradise, you have to go through Syria. This is part of the ideology. They are sure if they will die in Syria, they will go straight to Paradise? Some of them, they think if they kill more innocents, they may have Iftar in Ramadan with the Prophet, for example. Do you satisfy with results of Russian intervention for this last year?

They really made something serious here? They used to have more oil to export through Turkey, and so on. After the Russian intervention, the same land under the control of the terrorists was shrinking. This is in brief. So, the reality is telling. Any other effect, I mean, is trivial. This is the main effect; they changed the balance on the ground not in favor of the terrorists. About Kurdish question, I was in Qamishli, and they want federation, they want to make federation. Russia has many nationalities and they make Russian Federation.

Why Syria cannot be a federation? Because they are really good fighters against ISIS. Let me clarify the different aspects of this issue. First of all, we cannot talk about a community, a full community in Syria, that it wants something, like talking about the Kurds or the Turks or the Arabs or the Chechens or the Armenians or any other community we have. So, we can talk about part of the Kurds that they need this, part, only part of them. Yeah, I mean even in the north, part of them talk about this.

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Second, when you talk about federalism or any other similar system, it should be part of the constitution, and the constitution is not owned by the government — the constitution reflects the will of the Syrian people. So, if they need to have a certain political system in Syria, they need to promote it among the Syrians. Exactly, to have referendum by the Syrian people to say yes or no. Even if you want it, the majority in that area are Arabs. So how can you have Kurdish federalism while you have majority of Arabs? We have dealing, we have negotiation, we always-. Of course, always, and we supported them during the war against ISIS.

We sent them armaments, and your army knows all these details. You have real partners for negotiations, or it is mission impossible? Yes, this is the problem, but everybody has guns. With who to speak? Now, if you want to talk about political opposition, of course we have. You can search for names. You have political currents or political movements-. You have new parties, we can get you names, we have so many, I mean, not all of them have seats in the Parliament, for example, but during the crisis and even before the crisis, you have so many.

We can bring you a list for all these, we have them. You have new parties who announce themselves as oppositions recently. So, even if we negotiate with the political opposition, we cannot change the situation. As a government, I have my means. We are fighting terrorists. What those oppositions can do? I cannot answer it. They have to answer it.

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I was shocked when I knew, I mean how they can use this like a source of information? How can you work in the same area if you are not under the control of al-Nusra? More importantly, many of their members — there are videos and pictures of them celebrating the death of Syrian Army soldiers, they were celebrating on their bodies-. What was… not long time ago, you mean when America was bombing Syrian Army, you mean this case? In Aleppo, you had fights, and they pictured themselves over the bodies of Syrian soldiers, the White Helmets with al-Nusra.

So, this is changing of the package of al-Nusra under the word or under the title of White Helmet, that they are the good people who are sacrificing their life to help the others and children, and this emotional picture that would affect the public opinion in the West. Now, in the internet, you can find anything, you cannot verify anything on the internet. This is the only picture they wanted to have in order to convince their public opinion that we should continue pressuring, that they are supporting the good Syrian people against their bad government, and so on.

You know this propaganda. It is the second big city in Syria, Damascus is the political capital, while actually Aleppo is the industrial capital in Syria. First of all, it has political gain, on the strategic level, political gain and national gain. This is the importance of Aleppo now.

How to cut this connection between Turkey and Idlib? Because this is the main source, main stream of money, soldiers, everything. So you cannot cut; you have to clean. You have to keep cleaning this area and to push the terrorists to Turkey to go back to where they come from, or to kill them. But Aleppo is going to be a very important springboard to do this move. How many foreign mercenaries passed through your country for the last five years, approximately? This is not an exaggeration. But just for few years, they became fanatics.

This is strange for me, and there was completely secular. How this become army of fanatics? Part of it is related to what happened in Iraq after the invasion in , where the American army or the Americans in general control everything in Iraq, including the prisons, and the leader of ISIS and most of his entourage were in the same prison. That was in In , of course, before the withdrawal of the Americans. Actually, from the very beginning, if you go back to the internet and you have videos, you have pictures, you have everything, the beheading started from the very first few weeks.

You have the same grassroots moving from area to area for different reasons. Third one, for the money. So, you have many different factors, but the basic-. But the same basic, the same foundation of extremism, is the common thing between all these different names and organizations. How can you convince the Syrians to stay in their country while you ask your family to leave your country? You have to be the first as a President; you, your family, anyone around you in the government, your staff. We never thought… I never thought about this, actually.

Thus the UK government is overtly supporting the illegal overthrow of yet another sovereign government. Incidentally, Foreign Office accounting farcically includes: Yet more nauseating, murderous, hypocrisy. In Foreign Office parlance, under the heading: Also, near farcically, the Foreign Office informs: The UK of course, is in no position to lecture on the law of armed conflict since the newly unelected Prime Minister, Theresa May, has vowed to halt all cases against British service men and women brought by Iraqis who allege torture, murder of relatives, and varying unimaginable abuses.

British generosity is seemingly boundless in murderous meddling in other nations. As Eric Draitser has written As the propoganda master, Joseph Goebbels knew: Disband the police, army, all structures of State — and Iraq is the soul searing, haunting, admonishing ghost, mourning the vibrant, cohesive, civil society for all its complexities, as most societies it was prior to the embargo and Iraq Liberation Act which stated that: As mentioned previously, there is now of course the Syria Accountability and Liberation Act of H.

Japan has also chipped in. A great deal of money, it would seem, is being thrown at insurgents and illegal immigrants in a sovereign country, awarding themselves the title of Syrian Civil Defence. Yet they do not even have an emergency telephone number. As Vanessa Beeley 5 has pointed out in extensive writings on the subject, the real Syria Civil Defence was established in , is a Member of the International Civil Defence Organisation whose partners include the UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs — and as all national emergency services, they have a telephone number: Much of his experience has involved delivering stabilisation activities through security sector and democratisation programmes.

Since , James has been working on the Syria crisis where he started the Syrian White Helmets programme in March In , he founded Mayday Rescue, and is dedicated to strengthening local communities in countries that are entering, enduring or emerging from conflict. Not really a mini think tank, some might speculate, where the rule of law is going to have highest priority. Incidentally, there are rigid protocols for first responders, paramount among which is to protect the injured, the traumatized, from publicity and identification, in their vulnerability.

The government forces stormed ISIS positions southwest of the gas fields and reached its gates. Clashes are ongoing in the area. The pro-government forces have achieved another notable success in northern Aleppo.

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Today, the Tiger Forces and the NDF are advancing west of the nearby village of Kubbariyah in an attempt to reach Suran, located at the highway between Hama and Aleppo. Il poursuit en disant: Poutine, lui, fait la guerre et on vient le lui reprocher? Jean Marc Eyraut a la solution: Quels individus veut-on mettre au pouvoir? Car la propagande occidentale est digne de celle du IIIe Reich. A young man, wearing a white helmet and a distinctive yellow-and-blue badge on his arm, digs for four hours in the rubble of a destroyed building in Idlib Province in northwest Syria.

He takes her to an ambulance like she is his own child. But what does the reality look like? Washington has been fighting the ideas of neo-marxism, guevarism and Liberation theology, which inspire FARC rebels, as well as other left-wing fractions. Ahmad , October 14 Ajamu Nangwaya , October 14 Despite the mute despair and apathy that fill the air, hope is needed to carry on and resist these destructive forces.

Sometimes in such a dark time the eye begins to see and the ear hears hope in unexpected places. Doing so necessitates a bit of a sideways move to discover pockets of resistance hiding in the shadows. There are torches of illumination in the underworld, but we need to come to our senses to get there. Negotiations, preceding the sign of the deal, took four years and were seen as a hope to end a half-a-century civil war, that took more than thousands of human lives. In the course of the last few years he invested all his political capital in negotiations with rebels, despite the lukewarm attitude of the White House towards this peace agreement.

This pesticide is made by US corporation Monsanto and widely known under the trademark Roundup. Once reached the ground, it destroys not only coca, but all other plants as well. She has never condemned the independence movements in Scotland or Catalonia. The United States is clearly on a path toward war with Russia.

Presidency is either ignorant or else grossly misinformed — or else in sheer reality-denial. But all of those other issues are dwarfed by the top issue of this election: WW3, yes or no on that. Presidential election will be decided upon the WW3-issue, unless the American electorate are incredibly stupid or else terribly deceived: Is she correct to allege that she and not Trump should have control over the nuclear button against Russia? And that is the issue. All else is mere distraction, by comparison. The Event that Created Christianity. Tragically, the public has seen little of this:.

Establishment candidates like Bill Clinton, Obama, and now Hillary Clinton are presented as awesomely benevolent, brave and wise. Bush — derided as a buffoon both before and after he held office — was depicted as a calmly authoritative humanitarian. Propaganda of this kind exploits the human tendency to revere authority and celebrity.

Gender and sexual rights are favoured because they can be presented as almost apolitical: At last, a woman leads a major US party to fight for the presidency. These, then, are the four causes for celebration: Really, one could hardly find a better example of a senior journalist viewing the world through a Guardian lens that filters out almost everything that matters. After millions of dollars were pledged by the oil company to the Clinton Foundation — supplemented by millions more from Giustra himself — Secretary Clinton abruptly changed her position on the controversial U. This is very, very bad news; in fact, it is a disaster that will affect every single person on this planet — you, us, your children, our children.

The next US president will be Clinton or Trump a self-declared climate change denier , which suggests that we indeed, now, do not have any hope of avoiding catastrophe. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex. Immediately prior to the war on Serbia, while travelling in Africa, Hillary called husband Bill: Once again Hillary bought into the CIA propaganda that regime change to remove Bashir al-Assad would be quick, costless, and surely successful.

The elections took place under intense militarism, and enormous fraud. Israel has a right to defend itself. Did Israel do enough to try and avoid killing civilians? Shamelessly apologising for the massacre, Clinton added: This is the great lie of the world as seen through the Guardian lens. Consider the third of the claims: So what is feminism? The dictionary definition is straight forward enough: This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment. Feminists typically advocate or support the rights and equality of women.

The very definition of feminism shows a complete opposition to this belief. We strongly support authentic feminism as an obviously just response to the inequality, exploitation, prejudice and violence facing women the world over. In reality, it would involve the exploitation of that vital cause by violent, greed-based power. Bring that shit on. Allons droit au but: Il est facile de faire le calcul. On ne peut pas faire ce genre de choses. When the financial crisis of brought GM and Chrysler to their knees, it was hardly surprising that the pressure would intensify on workers. This came not only from the economics of the crisis and threats from the companies, but also from the U.

Ford, the third of the auto triumvirate, had enough of a cash hoard to avoid seeking state help, but was no less anxious to exploit the crisis in bargaining with its unions.

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Such working class concessions did not of course start with this latest crisis. That the job security never really materialized rarely led to that logic being challenged; rather, it only resulted in hunkering down to ever more desperate cycles of concessions to save the remaining jobs which, by virtue of decent-paying jobs disappearing throughout the economy, now seemed even more valuable. In contrast, the Canadian section of the union had over most of that same period strongly opposed that illusory trade off — to the point of breaking their institutional links with its American parent in the mids to establish the CAW.

But stubbornness itself was always an incomplete response to the attacks on working people. By the early years of the new millennium the CAW too was slipping toward greater accommodation to corporate power. The marked rise in the Canadian dollar — an outcome of both the Tar Sands exports and an economy not doing as badly as the U.

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Going into the latest bargaining round, Canadian autoworkers had seen both their base rates frozen and their cost-of living suspended since Nor was that the only concession. The auto companies, smelling blood, also demanded a radical change in the compensation of new hires, calling for them to be paid substantially less and their defined pension benefits to be converted to benefits dependent on contribution and returns on investments.

The push for a two-tier wage structure — workers doing the exact same work getting different rates of pay over and above a short initial adjustment period — first significantly erupted in the U. It cropped up in the airline industry, which was struggling with the impact of deregulation, and quickly flowed into aerospace. When, in , McDonnell-Douglas achieved a two-tier structure in the U. The hiring rate structure remained unchanged over the following decades, but during the crisis of , it was revived as the easy way to shift the burden of concessions or at least a significant part of them to another generation.

Equal pay for equal work. And a refusal to subsidize, out of our own pockets, a crisis that is not remotely our fault. In , the roof caved in on the new-hire structure. The agreement brought an unambiguously qualitative change in the practice of equal pay for doing the same work. After the 10th year, new hires got to where the base was when they hired in. Soon after the signing of that definitive four-year agreement of , the crisis in auto sales abruptly ended. Profits, especially at GM and Ford, rose and stayed exceptionally high. As the Windsor Star noted, in U.

This changed context seemed to suggest that a reversal of the past concessions would surely come, and interviewed on the eve of his election as the first president of Unifor, Jerry Dias indicated as much. As the UAW went into negotiations in the summer of , that readiness to correct the concessions of the recent past was reconfirmed: Heaven knows we shared during the troubled times. Dias went on to express his expectations of the U. I am pulling for [UAW president] Dennis [Williams] because his members deserve a share in the success of their companies. He understands clearly the incredible inequity that exists.

Far from challenging and reversing the concessions made, the union consolidated them. Since pensioners also lost their cost-of-living, they too will continue to see their incomes erode. It might have been thought that such restraint was the most the companies would expect given the strong revival of the companies, the earlier sacrifices of the workers, and the favorable costs in Canada. Surely, this was the moment to ease the new-hire penalty? In the eyes of U. On this point the companies were unanimous and aggressive in rejecting changes to the progression length.

The agreement included some tinkering in the new-hire system — improvements in the grid were no longer frozen for three years — but the core structure remained unchanged. This did not even match the very modest change in the U. Here again, it might have seemed that with wage increases below the rate of inflation, no improvements in pensions, and the basic acceptance of the two-tier structure for new hires, the Company had little basis for adding more takeaways to the new hires.

When companies see weakness it only invites them to demand more. This is an old expedient for avoiding debate, but in this case it also dismisses the extent of dissatisfaction within the union. Most significant, as noted earlier the leadership in the Ford Oakville plant, very much backed by its members is intending to reject the pattern. By defending and so aggressively overselling the achievements of this contract, the union leadership came to depend on the same contradictory arguments that it once decried when used by the UAW.

Those arguments, the CAW emphasized at the time, had ensnared the union into making the case for the companies rather than defending its members. So Unifor bulletins now deny that the new-hire structure is effectively a two-tier structure even though almost everyone clearly understands it to be so. In attacking the Oakville workers for not accepting the pattern as an unchallengeable given, they too readily forget that the solidarity behind pattern bargaining was introduced to make progress, not prevent workers from fighting their employers.

They forget as well that the very formation of the CAW was rooted in the Canadian section of the UAW refusing to follow the American pattern it had for so long automatically accepted. In justifying the phasing out of defined benefit plans, Unifor does raise the legitimate question of whether private companies can in fact guarantee defined benefit plans in the future. This does need deeper discussion along with the alternative of a radically transformed universal pension plan that parallels universal health care. But to simply give up on such plans in bargaining betrays those still trying to hang on to their plans.

Moreover, it tends to lower popular expectations of what is possible for senior citizens in a rich society, and correspondingly reduces pressure on governments to actually move toward such pensions. Giving up defined benefit plans without a struggle is hardly the way to place on the agenda the larger, difficult question of the future of decent pensions for all. Underlying all this is the strategic trap Unifor fell into by effectively making investment the primary and, as the Oakville local rightly noted, the only issue in bargaining.

It is one thing to join with other workers in a political struggle to address investment and jobs. This point cannot be underestimated. Investments that would have been made anyways now become corporate bargaining chips — and worst of all, this is not temporary. It will never end. In , corporate profits will again be brushed aside. If Canadian labour costs are in fact lower, this will again be said to be irrelevant; if workers have issues to correct — tough.

The blackmail, once given into, works its magic indefinitely. And that too is not the end of the problem. Other times, corporations, in the pursuit of their own goals, simply ignore those promises because they can — there is no mechanism to enforce them. And sometimes the fine print in the promises is itself rather iffy. The experience in dealing with such promises is littered with false promises that the press and the union itself steadfastly ignores. When the UAW began to trade restraint for jobs in the late 70s, its U. Detroit Three membership stood at approximately , In Canada, the collapse was not quite as bad but still stunning: Desperate to defend its virtual total emphasis on bargaining investment commitments and perhaps also to isolate the Oakville local , Unifor has pointed to the Oakville plant as an example, arguing that the very major investments it got in were the result of the new-hire structure negotiated in But this is dishonest at worst, misleading at best.

The highlights brochure , produced by the national union, confirms this: The point is that bargaining over jobs ends up giving workers neither decent standards for their work nor job security. It would be unfair to blame the weaknesses in this current agreement solely on the present leadership of Unifor. The die was cast earlier under former leaderships. Moreover, the crisis in labour is clearly much deeper than recent trends in auto. When the turn to a new aggressiveness against working classes became the norm across capitalist countries, the responses of the trade union movement were remarkably limited.

One response assumed that nothing had fundamentally changed, that what was going on was temporary, that it would correct itself as the business cycle turned or as new politicians came into office with new policies. And so the best thing to do was to muddle through. A third acknowledged the significance of the changes going on but was overwhelmed by them. These changes were seen as inevitable, leaving little to do but to accommodate to them — make concessions to hang on to what you had and make deals with the corporations you formerly distrusted and the politicians you formerly despised.

Either way, unions faded as a vehicle for expressing and leading popular discontent What these so-called alternatives all had in common was their refusal to learn the lessons of the past and grasp that only mobilization and organizing, not muddling through, size, nor deals dressed in militant rhetoric could save the labour movement. The story may, however, not be over. The Ford workers in Oakville continue to press to reject the agreement reached at GM and Chrysler and to do so primarily around the basic principle of solidarity with a new generation of autoworkers.

But if these workers and their local leaders do have the confidence to take on this battle to the end of establishing a new pattern for the next round of negotiations, supporting them will be a test for the entire rank and file of Unifor and for the labour movement as a whole. Wow, the world gets crazier every moment! Apparently the letter was co-sponsored by 68 other countries. All of them for sure sycophantic allies of the U. Does anyone remember the war in Iraq, an illegal war all initiators of wars are war criminals that caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis many children obviously, as most populations consist of about fifty per cent children?

And before that, an estimated thousand children died as a result of U. When questioned about this, then U. And what about Libya and the war crimes committed there, with the destruction of civilian infrastructure and attacks against the government that went well beyond the UN sanctioned no-fly zone.

More war crimes, more severe unintended consequences — although it did play into U. Back to Afghanistan where the U. War crimes and crimes against humanity were committed there by U. Afghanistan as you should well know, is now a mess of factional fighting with the Taliban controlling about a third of the country. An estimated civilians were killed — sorry, no child count there. But definitely a war crime. The notable case here at least as seen from the MSM perspective, have been the Israeli attacks against the open air prison of Gaza population now at 2 million.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the unintended consequences of the UN meeting might be the bringing to light the war crimes of the U. But to focus a call on Russian war crimes is the height of arrogance and hubris from a nation Canada that has supported U. The world does need to express its outrage — at war crimes committed by the U. Well, yes and no. The latter came about as the result of U.

Not exactly a great history of western accommodation. The MSM across the west, in collusion with the political elites, are doing their best to create an evil Putin leading an evil Russia trying to regain its empire. That they have succeeded in this image is a testament to the power of the MSM, the ignorance of the people of the west most particularly in Canada and the U.

It has obviously revived its military power, and in many cases is considered to be well ahead of the U. Western action against China have created a Sino-Russian alliance stronger than it ever was during the Sino-Soviet era. The latter has serious implications for the U.

And for that, it is good that Russia is back. But it is definitely posturing — it is the U. Finally someone is capable of standing up to that — which unfortunately, given the U. America knows the leverage corporations have on Washington, but the latest WikiLeaks files on Podesta show how big the influence truly is. At least one email shows how those mechanisms ultimately affect United States policy abroad.

Ask anyone who ever knew disgraced President Richard Nixon. Podesta and his cohorts, whoever they are, have been given far too much power, and far too much leeway. And if Podesta could decide, America and the world would never have known. According to the below statement from the WikiLeaks Twitter account, a state party has intentionally cut off access to the Internet for Julian Assange, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks.

It also comes on the heels of a potentially serious campaign finance problem for the Hillary for America committee, the primary fundraising vehicle for Clinton, according to an email released by WikiLeaks just yesterday. The release of an email yesterday by WikiLeaks, together with others over the prior eight days, are making those charges harder to refute.

Unfortunately, there were three major problems with this. The deterrent for Hillary Clinton to set up the normal exploratory campaign vehicle was that throughout and into the spring of , both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton were making millions of dollars giving paid speeches to global banks, corporations and corporate trade associations according to her financial disclosure report. In an email dated November 18, , long-time adviser to Clinton, Huma Abedin, wrote to other members of the Clinton camp: She reviewed them all with you at meeting so you know everything.

Just three months prior to this speech, the U. Just six months later, a unit of Deutsche Bank entered a guilty plea with the U. Justice Department for wire fraud and engaging in a price-fixing conspiracy. Read complete article on Wall Street on Parade. Sheikh Lutfi is the goal. This was the biggest success of the pro-government forces since the start of massive counter-offensive in the province. The militant-controlled city of Souran will become the next target of the army and the NDF.

The army also set a full-control of the villages of Qudsiyah and al-Hamah, located near Damascus after militants had withdrew from the areas under the deal with the government. The government forces were developing the advance from the recently liberated town of Deir Khabiyah. The Kuznetsov is expected to join up with a nuclear submarine, as well as Tu long-range strategic bombers, for anti-piracy and anti-terror exercises before arriving in Eastern Mediterranean where it will join the Russian forces fighting terrorists in Syria.

The Peshmerga joined the operation northeast of Mosul. The Kurdish fighters will block ISIS escape routers and receive and screen refugees but not enter the city. The Obama administration focused on attempts to retake Mosul after the widely promoted idea of liberation of Raqqa in Syria failed due to the ongoing Turkish-Kurdish tensions in northern Syria. There are also reports that the US military staff has opposed that operation because it will weaken anti-Assad forces. And some experts — including the th President of the American Statistical Association, professor Fritz Scheuren — say that the Democratic race was stolen from Sanders.

As security expert Bruce Schneier writes in the Washington Post:. Longer term, we need to return to election systems that are secure from manipulation. The taboos protect the criminal warmongers and the oligarch class, as they corrode peace, equality, freedom, and prosperity. Open discussions are replaced by ad hominem attacks, or straw man arguments that are thought to neutralize dissent and make the truth go away. The CIA is well-versed in these psychological operations, and the masses willingly and gullibly take the bait every time.

It continues to shield the public from the known and well-documented truth that the West is expanding the reach of terrorism globally by using mercenary terrorists as proxies to destroy and occupy non-belligerent countries such as Syria. False flags are the spark that begin previously-planned invasions, and they always have been. Invasions take time to plan and prepare. But the taboo prevents this from happening, as elements within our deluded society emerge to suppress the show and its commentators.

Consequently, political ignorance prevails, terrorism grows, predatory economic models grow, free speech and thought are squelched, and repressive police state legislation flourishes globally. All of this protects and enriches the criminal warmongers and the oligarch classes, to the detriment of peace, justice, and stability. Those who seek the truth and open discussion about transformative events are seeking peace, not war, and yet ironically , they are the ones who are condemned, not the criminal warmongers.

Taboo topics also serve to maintain the political status quo at the highest levels. Geopolitically, most areas are off-limits, so political campaigning is increasingly nonsensical, even absurd. And there is nothing new about this. By common consent they agree to let these alone. We are afraid to discuss them.

Instead of this the press is engaged in a most amusing dispute whether Mr. Cleveland had an illegitimate child and did or did not live with more than one mistress. The choice is ours. We can continue on this path that leads us from one catastrophe to another, including permanent and increasingly dangerous warfare, or we can break some taboos and reject the status quo. The latter choice is more life-enriching. There were indeed anti-Assad protests, sometimes clashing with pro-Assad protests, but they were in many cases infiltrated or even promoted by elements with very different goals, mainly not Syrian in origin, and used for violence against civilians and peaceful protestors, policemen and soldiers.

Hybrid Warfare and US Geostrategy. Once the US has identified its target, it begins searching for the structural vulnerabilities that it will exploit in the coming Hybrid War. Then, Biden picked up again: In the s, the agrochemicals industry was able to evade effective regulation in the UK. Demonising Wind Energy in Australia: The South Australian Blackout. Binoy Kampmark , October 17 From the time when energy became a state ambition and the central, almost paranoid platform of security, its messiness became apparent.

The world of energy is one governed by invasion, acquisitive brutality and resistance. Not to those who feel that an award for literature cannot be based on writing popular music songs and publishing a book on prose poetry. In an ominous sign for press freedom, documentary filmmaker and journalist Deia Schlosberg was arrested and charged with felonies carrying a whopping maximum sentence of up to 45 years in prison—simply for reporting on the ongoing Indigenous protests against fossil fuel infrastructure.

Together, the charges carry 45 years in maximum prison sentences. They threw the book at Deia for being a journalist. The First Amendment and the Constitution are at stake in this case. The publication ominously noted that,. The USGS scientists believe that the 4. Kansas has had a long history with fracking. In fact, the first well ever fracked in the United States happened in in the Sunflower state. SandRidge Energy is the largest oil producer in Kansas and the largest disposer of wastewater in Oklahoma. Lorraine is a reporter for EcoWatch. For many, Bob Dylan, nee Robert Zimmerman, is a living legend and quite simply a genius.

He is an American icon; one in a long line of unique characters hailing from a culture where the capacity for self-invention is seemingly limitless. In this case, Dylan, the descendant of eastern European Jews raised in a small town in the American Midwest became an important figure in an age of tumultuous social change during which there was a marked evolution in the forms of popular musical expression. His influence on fellow musicians was profound. Think of the Byrds and the Beatles for starters. Fans of Jimi Hendrix should give Dylan a lot of credit for inspiring him to sing.

Hendrix, the story goes, was self-conscious about his voice and only really took to singing because he felt that he stood a chance if the whinny-voiced Dylan could become successful in the business. But Dylan has always been a polarizing figure right from the time he plugged his guitar into an electric socket. The folk purists never forgave him. Dylan, they claim had praised Meir Kehane and never retracted this even though the two major bodies that Kehane founded, the Jewish Defense League and the Israeli Kach Party, were both extremist organisations which were later proscribed.

And of course, unforgivable to many is the perception of Dylan as a sell-out to the values to which he had professed as he was propelled to fame and fortune. They argue that he imitated the folk hero activist mantle of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger but only used the protest movement as a pathway to personal enrichment and a means of opening the door to membership of the social elite. The popular view of Dylan as a rebel has worn thin with the passage of time. Songs of social protest gave way to ruminations of a personal and religious form.

It is fair to say that Dylan did not have to bear the turmoil of threats to his life and livelihood as did the musician purveyors of Tropicalismo who had to flee from the clutches of the Brazilian military junta of the s and s, or the Nigerian Fela Kuti who suffered beatings and imprisonment at the hands of successive military governments or Bob Marley who survived an assassination attempt by gunmen with a political motive.

If the question were asked as to what tangible change a political musician such as Jackson Browne achieved from his protests on behalf of the environment and against the United States backed authoritarian governments of Latin America, the response might be that Dylan did not even bother trying. Does the committee favour those who work within the English language above others? Are developing countries given a fair appraisal? There are suspicions of a rotation system among the continents. For instance, when Japan was about to receive its first award for literature, it was felt that Yukio Mishima , the most prominent Japanese writer of his time was the favourite.

But Mishima later ruled himself out of contention when he discovered that his early mentor Yasunari Kawabata was in the reckoning and wanted consideration. The award to Bob Dylan is baffling. He has only written one book of prose poetry and an autobiography. Meanwhile, those writers who have been genuinely innovative and experimental in form and content have been ignored. Energy reserves needed to be controlled; corrupt regimes with access to such resources needed to be placated, or, if not, overthrown and replaced by compliant puppet governments.

Even within countries less susceptible to regime change via energy exploitation, the tendency to politicise the issues surrounding access and acquisition remain. Cleaner, more sustainable options are deemed unpatriotic, draining traditional industries and jobs. The sense that the climate change phenomenon is an exaggerated bogey of politics persists. At stages the argument has been panicked. The opposite was the case. Various political figures were also lending their voices to the vitriolic mix, adding good lashings of distortion.



Permanent school boy Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce might well be a fanatic when it comes to repelling the introduction of biosecurity threats into Australia remember the Depp affair , but tends to be softheaded on the greening of the economy. Earlier this month, Joyce suggested that the mid-latitude cyclone, which generated several tornados, should not be saddled with the dramatic devastation. He had found the indisputable culprit. It was a severe thunderstorm. The searing spotlight had moved to demonising wind and the uneven nature of renewable targets across the states.

Frydenberg went on to tell the 7. Not that his views mattered. In the populist bilge, the exceptional nature of the weather event, advanced by the energy experts, was ignored. The authors of the report acknowledged a sudden loss of wind energy, but preferred to focus on the effects of the storm. Admitting that at the political level would be sensible, but in the ruthless and often misinformed world of energy politics, it would be unexpected.

The point is made more acute in a country where climate change denialism, along with a continued insistence on fossil fuels, prevails with stubborn determination. The American military has refueled more than 5, aircraft involved in the bombing campaign…. TV news reports, on the other hand, kept the spin and left out the context.

They mostly failed to mention that the US has been assisting the Saudi assault on the Houthi rebels for a year and a half, and framed the incident as a US warship being attacked while simply minding its own business in international waters. Starr even conflated Al Qaeda and Iran, despite their being on opposite sides of the conflict:.

The Yemeni missiles were fairly old but had been outfitted with highly lethal warheads, the kind Al Qaeda and Iran know how to make. The implication was that Al Qaeda might have somehow provided Houthi rebels with missiles, but this, of course, is absurd: The Houthis and Al Qaeda are sectarian enemies and have been fighting each other throughout the civil war.

Never mind; Starr needed to raise the stakes and throw out as many boogeymen as she could. Well, Iranian ships and American ships are now in the same waters, off the coast of Yemen in the middle of war, with Tomahawk missiles and cruise missiles already flying. Why are American ships in those waters? But such facts would messy up the election-season narrative. The viewer is given the impression that the war, aside from Iranian meddling, is an entirely internal affair—when it actually involves over 15 different countries, mostly Sunni monarchies propping up the Yemeni government—and that the rebels just randomly decided to pick a fight with the largest military in the history of the world.

US corporate media are aiding this official spin in their reporting on the US bombing of Yemen. It is in recognition of this service that drives hundreds of thousands of Thais into the streets of Bangkok to participate in the beginning of funeral rites this week. The depth and scope of this service includes not only the political boundaries and stability the monarchy provided when politicians and political parties clashed within the nation, but also service in driving long-term infrastructure projects regarding irrigation, energy, and agriculture shortsighted politicians refused to pursue.

Many aspects of Thai agriculture, from the introduction of new crops to the concept of cooperatives and localizing rice mills, were introduced through initiatives promoted and funded by the Royal Family itself. Thailand is a prominent Southeast Asian nation, home to 70 million people, a dynamic and diverse economy ranging from agriculture to manufacturing, and remains the only nation in the region to have eluded Western colonization. Since the conflict in Vietnam, Thailand has slowly and incrementally pivoted away from its role in US regional hegemony toward a more balanced place in the region.

Currently, Thailand along with the rest of Southeast Asia, serves as a source of trade and cooperation with Beijing. Contrary to popular belief, both China and Southeast Asia conduct the majority of their trade within Asia itself. The stability of the region is therefore essential to each and every nation within the region. Thailand is just one of several nations currently being destabilized by the US.

For each nation in the region, the US pursues similar strategies with only minor differences depending on socioeconomic and culturally factors. The presence of US-funded opposition groups and a virtual army of faux-non governmental organizations NGOs exist in each and every nation in Southeast Asia.

Thus, throughout the media, those networks including CNN and the BBC who regularly and intentionally target the military and monarchy are reviled by Thais. However alien such a concept may be, the consequences of misunderstanding this concept can cost some nations their influence and standing, not only in Thailand but in Southeast Asia in which Thailand resides a central and influential nation. Il changea aussi le drapeau du pays: Par la suite, plus personne ne se fit d'illusion sur les intentions absolutistes du nouveau dictateur.

Cet immense pays semble trop grand au point que cela devint son drame. Et quand elle le parle comme langue seconde, cette connaissance est souvent sommaire. De plus, les trois quarts des 73 millions de Congolais vivent avec plus ou moins un euro ou un dollar par jour. L'article 1 er de la Constitution de se lit comme suit: Ce statut lui donne toutes les chances de promotion. Elles jouissent d'une reconnaissance officielle, mais la Constitution actuelle promet seulement de les promouvoir.

Il est donc contraint de pratiquer rigoureusement au moins trois langues, sinon davantage, car bien souvent il parle une autre langue locale. Le niveau maternel comprend trois ans.