Month: May 2015

Haitian lawyers condemn impunity for Sri Lankan soldiers raping children in Haiti

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30 May 2015 — HLLN

— We shall not forget: Sri Lankan soldiers were found to have been systematically raping Haiti women and girls, some as young as 7 years old  We shall not forget that rape is a war crime in military conflicts and that the UN gives itself a chapter seven combat mission in Haiti.  If the UN had stop the impunity of the Sri Lankan soldiers in 2007 as demanded  by Ezili’s HLLN in Haiti, maybe the orgy of UN Sri Lankan rape in 2009 against small Tamil girls’ life and innocence would have been prevented.#BlackLivesMatter  Sri Lankan soldiers are still in Haiti. Our babies are still being put into brothels to service UN foreign troops of up to 52 nations. We who believe in decency cannot join in the carnival of Haiti men who say NOTHING to protect Haiti women and small children but are lining up to supervise the UN system in Haiti as puppet “president” or parliament for the occupiers. See,  Haitian lawyers condemn impunity for Sri Lankan soldiers Continue reading →

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 728: SPECIAL ISSUE: FROM MDGS TO SDGS: CLAIMS VS. REALITY

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30 May 2015— Pambazuka News

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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 24-30 May 2015

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30 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Will Moscow and Riyadh Get Closer?

30.05.2015 | 10:50 | Nikolai BOBKIN

…With King Salman becoming the head of state Saudi Arabia has entered a period of transformation. There is ground to believe the Kingdom will review its foreign policy priorities, including the relations with Russia. Until recently the bilateral relationship had been stable. The both sides had strived to keep up the balance in the region. But the Kingdom is an ally of the United States. It spoiled the things. This factor negatively affects the bilateral relationship…

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Statewatch News Online, 29 May 2015 (13/15): News: Med crisis and EU response

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29 May 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org

Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean

New Key Documents

1. European External Action Service (EEAS): Military Advice: RESTRICTED doc no: 8802-15
2. Political and Security Committee: PMG Recommendations on the draft Crisis Management
 3.Draft Crisis Management Concept for a possible CSDP operation to disrupt human smuggling networks in the Southern Central Mediterranean – Approval
4. Proposal for Council Decision
5. WRITTEN PROCEDURE for adoption of: Council Decision 
6. Formal Decision in the Official Journal 

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Ukraine Labor Dares Operation Vulture by Michael Hudson

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28 May 2015 — michael-hudson.com

Ukraine’s collapse since the February 2014 coup has become an umbrella for grabitization. Collateral damage in this free-for-all has been labor. Many workers are simply not getting paid, and what they actually is being paid is often illegally low. Employers are taking whatever money is in their business accounts and squirreling it away – preferably abroad, or at least in foreign currency.

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America Admittedly Behind ISIS "Surge" By Tony Cartalucci

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25 May 2015 — Land Destroyer

Taking advantage of a Syrian military stretched thin to protect everywhere at the same time, high concentrations of well-coordinated Al Qaeda forces, based in NATO-member Turkey as well as in US-allies Jordan and Saudi Arabia, have attacked across several fronts. The tactical and strategic gains are minimal compared to the initial stages of the West’s proxy war against Syria beginning in 2011, but the Western media is intentionally fanning the flames of hysteria specifically to break both support for Syria from abroad, and fracture resistance from within.

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The Anti-Empire Report #139 By William Blum – Published May 23rd, 2015

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23 May 2015 — The Anti-Empire Report

Their precious young minds and our precious young minds

She was a redheaded rebel, the singer in the family, a trash-talking, tattooed 21-year-old wrapped up in a hip-hop dream of becoming Holland’s Eminem. Then Betsy found Allah. After her sudden conversion to Islam last summer, Betsy began dressing in full Muslim robes. By January, the once-agnostic Dutch woman, raised in a home where the only sign of religion was a dusty Bible on a shelf, began defending homegrown terrorists. … Denis Cuspert, a German hip-hop artist known as Deso Dogg who converted in 2010 and later joined The Islamic State [ISIS], delivers a rap-like chant portraying the path to jihad as a chance for empowerment, spiritual fulfillment, vengeance and adventure. … ‘The door to jihad is standing there waiting for you,’ says a Swedish convert to Islam in a video. ‘It is the fastest way to paradise.’

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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 May 2015

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23 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation

America is on a Banking Delayed-action Mine
23.05.2015 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV

Since 2009, it has been compulsory for all major US banks to pass an exam called a stress test. The test checks the banks’ ability to withstand sudden changes in economic and financial conditions. Put simply, it assesses the banks’ ability to survive should America experience a financial crisis similar to the one in 2007-2009. In all the years of testing, the majority of US banks have received a rating of ‘satisfactory’, and even then with a stretch of the imagination. Some banks have had to retake the exam… The results of the stress testing shows that America is living on a delayed-action mine called the US banking system, and sooner or later this mine is going to explode…

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Thinking Beyond Capitalism with André Gorz BY Christophe Fourel & Olivier Corpet

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21 May 2015 — – Green European Journal

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While we ‘miserably await a future, which restores the past’, we should ‘break with this dying society never to be reborn’. Such was the certitude of philosopher André Gorz, who passed away just five years ago, recall both Christophe Fourel, author of André Gorz: Un penseur pour le XXIème siècle, and Olivier Corpet.

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Drone warfare news stacking up

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20 May 2015 — Drone Warfare

Thanks to a Moseley reader for sending this link to a May 11th article:

One paragraph:

British aircraft and unmanned drones have attacked Islamic State targets in Iraq with more than 200 bombs and missiles in military operations that have been largely ignored, a Guardian analysis has shown. The air strikes, which began in the autumn, have been undertaken by the RAF’s oldest bombers – Tornado GR4s and its newest weapon – the remotely piloted Reaper. – The Guardian, 11 May 2015

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Live: Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with the Count Basie Orchestra – Avenue C

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17 June 2015 — Youtube

What can I say? I’ve dug them since I was a teenager. For a number of years, from the sixties, Jon Hendricks was living ‘in exile’ in London, and I used to bump into him into a small, and cheap Italian restaurant just off Charing X Road in Soho, and we’d talk jazz and politics over a scallopini and spag.

The fantastic trio of Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross perform ‘Avenue C’ in an extremely rare video clip, backed by a jammin Count Basie Orchestra. Jon Hendricks, who famously wrote and sang lyrics  written using  instrumental solos, note for note, by the likes of Coltrane, Miles and Cannonball. A totally underrated and innovative group who deserve greater recognition for their contributions to the music, but especially Jon Hendricks.

Written by Buck Clayton, Jon Hendricks, and Dave Lambert
Performed by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross with the Count Basie Orchestra
unknown program, circa 1959

New at Strategic Culture Foundation 9-16 May 2015

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16 May 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Saudi Option of Yemen War to Blow Iran P5+1 Deal

16.05.2015 | 00:00 | Finian CUNNINGHAM

The Obama White House pulled out all the stops this week to indulge the «insecure» Persian Gulf Arab oil sheikhdoms. The assurances lavished by President Obama on his guests – with meetings in the Oval Office and later at the presidential retreat Camp David – may assuage Arab feelings of insecurity in the short-term… But there seems little doubt that the bitter relations that have been festering between the Saudi-led GCC and its main Western patron in Washington will continue to deepen and corrode the «extraordinary relationship» that Obama tried to talk up…

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COLDTYPE ISSUE 98 is now on line

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13 May 2015 — Coldtype

COLDTYPE ISSUE 98 is now on line

Download – free of charge – now at http://coldtype.net

ANOTHER MID-MONTH BONUS EDITION with 64 pages of great writing and photography. 

Cover story is Laurent Scheinfeld’s superb Photo Essay from Paris, France, while other international features include stories about Protests in Baltimore; the Election in Britain; Child Coldier Omar Khadr’s release from prison in Canada; Racism in Australia; the strange antics of US Soldiers in Africa; Migrant Slave Drivers in the Mediterranean; Unlearned Lessons from Vietnam; the Dogman of California; Hacking the White House; and more.

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