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Just days after Amazon published a scathing letter slamming President Trump for not allowing the American multinational tech company to get the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract, which instead was awarded to Microsoft, Amazon’s board has just appointed former NSA head and retired general of the US Army Keith B. Alexander as a director.

In this video, we go over the latest insane government overreach going on in places like Australia and New York, while at the same time police allow mass protesting and rioting. Plus, we cover Donald Trump’s Middle East troop withdrawal and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

On February 7, two days after President Trump was acquitted by the Senate of impeachment charges, he gave a lengthy interview to veteran journalist Bob Woodward which he allowed to be taped.

Instead of talking about the impeachment, however, Woodward was ‘surprised’ that Trump was focused on COVID-19, the deadly virus gripping Wuhan, China while Dr. Anthony Fauci and the World Health Organization downplayed the risks.

Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État? (Russ)

The author writes, “This summer, shortly after scores of camo-wearing, heavily armed federal agents descended on Portland, Ore., to attack protesters, Charles Fried, Ronald Reagan’s solicitor general, pondered the implications of what he was seeing on the streets.

The fight against COVID-19 requires many tools, ranging from the simple and obvious (masks and gloves) to the massive (a future vaccine for billions of people). So it’s no exaggeration to say the rapid recovery of the US economy will depend to a great degree on how the healthcare industry meets the continuing demand for pandemic-fighting goods and services. 

Comme vous l’avez vu dans ce billet, les salariés souffrant d’affections de longue durée et à haut risque de vulnérabilité face à la Covid-19 – cancéreux, diabétiques, cardiaques… – pouvaient disposer automatiquement (mais facultativement s’ils le souhaitaient) du dispositif de Chômage partiel depuis le début de l’épidémie, ainsi que leur conjoint.

Covid-19. « On nous envoie à la morgue parce qu’on coûte trop cher »

Source : L’Humanité, Loan Nguyen, 07-09-2020

Obèses, diabétiques, malades atteints de pathologies cardio-vasculaires ou respiratoires ne font plus partie des personnes vulnérables bénéficiant d’un arrêt indemnisé par le chômage partiel depuis le 31 août. Celles-ci craignent d’être contaminées au travail.

Source : Consortium News, 28-08-2020

Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les Crises

Vous pouvez voir ici, sur Consortium News, un nouveau documentaire de Juan Passarelli, il est suivi d’une table ronde avec Passarelli, le réalisateur Ken Loach et la cinéaste Suzie Gilbert.

The ongoing U.S. “war on terror” has forcibly displaced as many as 59 million people from just eight countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia since 2001, according to a new report published Tuesday by Brown University’s Costs of War Project.

A history professor in Argentina who had been suffering from ‘persistent coronavirus symptoms’ for over a month collapsed and died while teaching a virtual lecture from her home, according to The Sun, citing Diari Mes.

Stat News reports that the large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom.

Nearly 1,200 active coronavirus cases as community transmission spreads.

WhoWhatWhy’s Election Integrity Weekly is written by Gabriella Novello, and edited by Dana Rohinsky and Sue Rushford. Have a tip or want to suggest a story? Send us an email at ei@whowhatwhy.org.

Please, Don’t Commit a Felony by Voting Twice: An election official’s job is already stressful when an election is less than 100 days away, but President Donald Trump’s latest suggestion about voting is a doozy — and a federal crime.

In this video, we explain whether Donald Trump is really for or against the military industrial complex.

The post The Truth About Trump’s Comments on the Military Industrial Complex appeared first on We Are Change.

Israel’s largest banks to lead delegations to Abu Dhabi.

How Trump and COVID-19 Have Reshaped the Modern Militia Movement (Dan)

From FiveThirtyEight: “In the video, the host of a local independent news radio program surveys the late-night shadows of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, car lot. You can just make out four men, long rifles in their hands, as they pace on top of the building.

Matthew Berlow lied that Palestine solidarity group was culprit.

For Eugene Jarecki, the raging COVID-19 pandemic that emptied sports arenas across the country has suddenly emerged as an opportunity to drastically reimagine how Americans approach Election Day.

Le Conseil européen de fin juillet nous a permis de vivre pour la trentième fois le traditionnel « sommet de la dernière chance », suivi du trentième « accord in extremis au fin fond de la nuit », promettant, à qui daigne encore y croire, de « relancer la construction européenne, pour une Nouvelle Europe résiliente, sociale et écologique« …

Chères lectrices, chers lecteurs,

Comme vous le savez peut-être, l’accès au contenu Les-Crises ne se fait pas uniquement via notre site Internet. Nous sommes présents à la fois sur les réseaux sociaux et sur diverses applications qui vous aident à nous suivre plus facilement et à nous soutenir plus largement.

Source : CEPII, Vincent Vicard

Intéressante archive de juin 2019

Le CEPII est le principal centre français de recherche et d’expertise en économie internationale. Fondé en 1978 et placé auprès du Premier ministre, il fait partie du réseau coordonné par France Stratégie, et publie des analyses et études sur la macroéconomie, les finances et les politiques commerciale et migratoire [Source].

Human rights and press freedom advocates cried foul early Monday morning after they were denied remote access to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing taking place in the United Kingdom.

“This is not normal,” said Marie Struthers, director of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office of Amnesty Eastern Europe & Central Asia, in a video interview outside the court proceedings.

In this video we explain, what on earth is going on with “racial inclusion,” Julian Assange and the protest movement in the United States.

The post This Is Outrageous How Are People Allowing This To Happen! appeared first on We Are Change.

The post Famed Lebanese Photographer Mirene Ghossein Titled This THE GENIUS OF THE JEWISH SPIRIT appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

The Great Depression was characterized by unemployment, homelessness, hunger, bankruptcies, home foreclosures, dust, drought, and inequality in the distribution of wealth. And America’s infrastructure was crumbling. Sound familiar?

The Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America (Peg)

From the American Prospect: “On the one hand, the coronavirus has thrown a spotlight on tens of millions of workers who are usually invisible to the media, upper-middle-class professionals, and political decision-makers.

The power of the press has always been a force to reckon with, but with the rise of social media, a simple tweet can spark a feeding frenzy of disinformation.

Source : Boston Review, Noam Chomsky & Scott Casleton

Importante archive de juin 2019 où Chosmky et Casleton discutent du socialisme, de l’anarchisme et des luttes progressistes dans les politiques actuelles des États-Unis.

Source : Arte, Youtube

La série documentaire Travail, salaire, profit nous entraîne dans les arcanes de l’économie mondiale, jugée bien souvent trop opaque pour en saisir tous les tenants et les aboutissants. L’étude de cas, didactique et passionnante, est pourtant salutaire, à l’heure d’une crise massive du capitalisme, notamment via son avatar contemporain, le néolibéralisme, rejeté en bloc par une grande partie de la société.

A few weeks ago, we joked that the people of Wuhan were ‘partying at ground zero’ when a story about a massive pool party to celebrate the end of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak went viral around the world. But unlike in the US, the Communist Party defended the pool party by arguing that it was a much-needed release for the people of Wuhan.

Amazon’s Alexa smart home gadgets are becoming more popular by the day, but there are still many people holding out on buying these types of devices because they have privacy concerns.

However, soon some of us may not have a choice because Amazon is making moves to have the devices pre-installed in places like apartment buildings.

Amazon has also been working hard to ensure that there is an Alexa device is every single hotel room.

Earlier this week we reported that a pregnant woman from Melbourne, Australia, was arrested in her home for creating a social media page for an anti-lockdown protest. According to a new report from ABC news, three other Australians have also been arrested for making anti-lockdown posts online.

The cartoon above was created by DonkeyHotey for WhoWhatWhy from these images: Mark Zuckerberg caricature (DonkeyHotey / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), body (Anthony Quintano / Flickr – CC BY 2.0), and background (Ax

OPINION

Attention Democrats: It’s time for less talk, more action.

When it comes to strategy for defeating President Trump, Democrats of all stripes are remarkably unified. But two pressing issues can’t wait until November: violent demonstrations and pandemic-related financial assistance.

With the media poised to pounce on negative Covid headlines at any chance they are given, it is more important now than ever to make sure that those headlines are accurate.

Source : RollingStone

Une étude sur la montée du niveau des océans révèle que certaines parties de l’Asie et du Moyen-Orient sont bien plus menacées que nous le pensions.

Source : The Intercept

Durant la nuit du 4 juillet 1954, la ville de San Antonio, Texas, a été secouée par le viol et le meurtre d’une fillette de 3 ans. L’homme accusé de ces crimes était Jimmy Shaver, un aviateur de la base aérienne voisine de Lackland, sans casier judiciaire. Shaver a prétendu avoir perdu la mémoire de ces événements.

The post Trump’s Department of Voter Suppression appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

Source : Consortium News, Danny Sjursen

Danny Sjursen est un major à la retraite de l’armée américaine et ancien instructeur d’histoire à West Point. Il a servi dans des unités de reconnaissance en Irak et en Afghanistan. Il a écrit un mémoire sur la guerre en Irak, « Ghost Riders of Baghdad : Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge ».

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a new report warning about a “potential” electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack against the U.S.

In this video, we raise very important questions about the death of Michael Reinoehl.

Civil conflict is unavoidable now!

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US sanctions senior officials pursuing war crimes investigations in Afghanistan and Palestine.

We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now — If We Want To (Bethany)

The author writes, “To get out of this pandemic, we need fast, easy coronavirus testing that’s accessible to everyone. From the way people often talk, you might think we need a technological breakthrough to achieve this.

Millions of words have been written about Fox News — most of them hyperbolic and anything but fair and balanced. The problem is that such overheated rhetoric makes it hard to understand why Fox is so successful, and how it has managed to insert itself so forcefully into the nation’s political consciousness.

Nous vous proposons aujourd’hui un point de situation sur l’épidémie de Covid-19.

Et, cette semaine encore, les nouvelles ne sont toujours très bonnes.

Nous avons donc encore travaillé pour vous proposer de nouveaux graphiques pour mieux comprendre la situation – n’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos réactions en commentaires.

Le plan de relance, qui était très attendu depuis la fin du mois d’août, a été enfin présenté par le Premier-ministre Jean Castex. La France est donc l’un des tous derniers pays d’Europe à dévoiler son programme économique pour faire face à la crise engendrée par le Covid-19. Mais, ce plan rassemble des choses très disparates.

Source : Consortium News

Pendant une décennie et demie, l’armée américaine a fait la guerre à des « musulmans féroces » dans un pays lointain. Ça vous dit quelque chose ?

In 2017, the Gateway Pundit‘s Cassandra Fairbanks published a claim from an anonymous former Secret Service agent who said that they had to protect female agents from Joe Biden due to “Weinstein level stuff,” referring to notable rapist and Democrat, Harvey Weinstein.

Source : Consortium News

En Colombie, la terre a été militarisée pour assurer les profits de l’élite, écrit Vijay Prashad.

The suspect in last weekend’s murder of Aaron “Jay” Danielson says he acted in self defense when he fired on the “Patriot Prayer” supporter.

Accepting the GOP nomination for a second term, President Trump took a warm and fuzzy approach. “We are one national family, and we will always protect, love and care for each other,” he said.

But that was so… last week.

Daoud al-Khatib had a few months left of his sentence before he died.

This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the NSA’s controversial spying program was illegal – the same program Edward Snowden released details about to journalists in 2013. The ruling added that the spying program may have been unconstitutional.

The court’s ruling was written by Judge Marsha Berzon, who decided that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, didn’t allow for the bulk collection of phone users’ call records, as the US government claimed at the time.

In this video, we delve into the civil conflict and “constitutional crisis” that are coming in the 2020 election cycle.

The post WARNING: This is going to get ugly… appeared first on We Are Change.

OPINION

This personal essay is part of WhoWhatWhy’s ongoing series on the challenges and opportunities the coronavirus pandemic poses for the US education system on all levels.

Georgia Likely Removed Nearly 200k From Voter Rolls Wrongfully (Reader Pat)

The authors write, “The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration, when in fact they never moved, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

For those that have either mocked or merely ignored the idea that big government may be (is) using the pandemic as an “excuse” to exercise more control over every aspect of your life, we present: Exhibit A.

Zoe Buhler is a 28 year old pregnant mother who lives just outside of Melbourne, Australia. She was handcuffed in her own living room on Wednesday afternoon and charged with “incitement” after officers entered her private property (with a search warrant) and began reading Buhler her rights.

The post The Democratic party is offering four years of National Brotherhood Week. It won’t wash. We’re heading towards four more years of Trump. appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

OPINION

Attacks on voting by mail. Accusations of voter suppression. Claims of Russian election interference. Hints that President Trump may refuse to leave office. 

Source : Inside Climate News

Les propres recherches d’Exxon ont confirmé le rôle des combustibles fossiles dans le réchauffement climatique il y a plusieurs décennies. Les cadres dirigeants ont été avertis d’une possible catastrophe due à l’effet de serre, puis ont mené des efforts pour bloquer les solutions.

Photo de groupe du sommet de l’OTAN 1990

Source : Le Média, Youtube

S’il ne s’agissait que de réparer le monde, on serait armés.

Une clé à molette, quelques vis, deux ou trois boulons, et tout repartirait. Mais le monde n’est pas cassé, il est perdu. Il est égaré, il est foutu. L’humanité se pousse elle vers la sortie ; vers son extinction totale ou juste cérébrale.

Despite the desperate efforts of the mainstream media and the left’s propaganda artists to suppress the story exposing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blow-outs for me, but not for thee” caught-in-the-act hair salon visit, she has been forced to make a public statement and face the media this afternoon to “explain.”

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You see what’s been happening in the United States. The insanity doesn’t even need any explaining.

Nous relayons cet appel, si certains de vos proches entrent dans ce cadre, n’hésitez pas à les contacter…

Source : High Flight, Pierre Bacara, Katia Gorskaïa, 02-09-2020

La Seconde Guerre mondiale s’est terminée il y a exactement trois quarts de siècle.

L’association High Flight lance un appel aux derniers témoins qui ont connu la France face au mur du nazisme, ainsi qu’à leurs proches et à leur entourage

UNE NUIT EN FRANCE

This is what an evil tyrannical government looks like.

In this video, we explain what is going on in Australia where we have terrifying footage of a pregnant woman being arrested for a Facebook post.

The post This New Government Overreach Is INSANE And Must Be Stopped IMMEDIATELY! appeared first on We Are Change.

Barr’s Removal of Career National Security Official Raises Concerns (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “Current and former national security officials are raising concerns over Attorney General William Barr’s recent decision to remove the head of a Justice Department office that helps ensure federal counterterrorism and counterintelligence ac

After Russia’s most outspoken opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, screamed with pain on a plane flight and slipped into a coma, pro-Kremlin media were quick to discover the cause. It was all Navalny’s fault — for drinking too much moonshine in a Siberian village, requiring a morning-after hangover pill. 

Source : The New York Times, Kashmir Hill

Une start-up peu connue aide les forces de l’ordre à faire correspondre les photos de personnes inconnues à leurs images en ligne – et « pourrait conduire à un avenir dystopique ou quelque chose de ce genre », explique un investisseur.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) – who invited people to tour Chinatown in late February to prove that coronavirus was ‘no big deal’ – has just been caught ignoring a San Francisco city ordinance ordering hair salons to remain closed during the pandemic.

Source : Le Média, Youtube

Source : Le Grand Soir, John Pilger