“Thirst for strength” is one driver of Israeli ethnonationalist expansionism.

Facial Recognition Misidenitified 26 California Lawmakers as Criminal Suspects (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “Matt Cagle, a technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU, said the organization ran [an] experiment using Amazon’s Rekognition software and screened 120 lawmakers’ images against a database of 25,000 mugshots.”

Massive grassroots support for socialist lawmaker.

In an attempt to balance Alaska’s books, Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) cut the University of Alaska system’s 2020 budget by an astonishing 41 percent, to the tune of $130 million dollars. Thus far, the Alaska legislature has failed to overturn this drastic measure.

Source : Lobe Log, Paul R. Pillar, 16-07-2019

16 juillet 2019

Mike Pompeo

par Paul R. Pillar

Source :René Naba, 31-07-2019

Arms from companies owned by Warren Kanders have almost certainly been used in attacks against Palestinians.

UN using biased anti-Semitism definition that targets supporters of Palestinian rights.

US Government Weakens Application of Endangered Species Act (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “The Trump administration moved on Monday to weaken how it applies the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act, ordering changes that critics said will speed the loss of animals and plants at a time of record global extinctions. The action, which expands the administration’s rewrite of U.S.

The recent decision not to charge the New York police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner is a good opportunity to examine the related Black Lives Matter movement and the potential power of online social movements generally. How can they mobilize so many people and yet be so ineffective when it comes to influencing policy and decision making?

Earlier this month, we wrote an editorial that apparently didn’t sit so well with the higher-ups at Fox News, so they got in touch with us over it. Here is an account of what happened.

The editorial, which ran on August 4, began like this:

Source : The Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, 24-07-2019

Boris Johnson avec l’ancien rédacteur en chef du Telegraph Max Hastings, avant qu’ils ne se disputent.

Par Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

24 juillet 2019

Source : The Nation, Stephen F. Cohen,

Aspects peu remarqués du premier volume du rapport Mueller.

Le directeur du FBI, Robert Mueller, lors de sa prestation de serment au Capitole le 13 juin 2013. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

Dozens injured with tear gas and stun grenades in al-Aqsa mosque compound.

Critical US Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials (Chris) 

From Motherboard: “The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet.

Council snitched to police about The Big Ride to Palestine.

Nous sommes heureux de fournir aujourd’hui plus d’éléments sur cette incroyable affaire touchant le Ministre de l’Intérieur…

I. L’article de Marianne, qui a sorti l’affaire

Diffuser une BD porno contre son adversaire, l’erreur première de Castaner, par Etienne Campion

Source : Marianne, Etienne Campion, 08-08-2019

What do Sense About Science, the Science Media Center, the Center for Food Integrity and the International Food Information Council have in common?

They were all groups paid by Monsanto to undermine investigations into the safety of its pesticides. And they are all groups the public looks to for honest answers.

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J'ai connue une esthète qui outrepassait toutes les bornes de l'esthétisme, n'observait pas les normes, n'avait comme elle disait aucun respect pour nous autres borgnes, savamment bornés. Son œil, c'était son orgueil... Elle avait une approche différente, un jugement de goût à part... insolite, je dirais...

Pa exemple, elle trouvait laid le soleil... sans nuances. Laide, la lune... sans consistance.

The post For those with long memories, Epstein’s “suicide” has a precedent: appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Traffic fatalities in Sweden are off the charts compared to other western countries.

18-07-2019

Par Olivier Soria Enseignant-chercheur à Kedge

Source : The Hill, Jonathan Turley, 06-07-2019

Par Jonathan Turley –Chroniqueur d’opinion

Les opinions exprimées par les collaborateurs sont les leurs et non celles de The Hill (et encore moins des Crises…).

How and why did Jeffrey Epstein die? Did he commit suicide to escape an embarrassing trial and a lengthy prison sentence as a child rapist? Or did he know too much about too many powerful people who did not want to be implicated? In any case, any serious person would admit that the timing was most convenient.

The post For he’s a jolly good fellow Which nobody can deny! appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Ça peut vous paraître un peu fou mais j'ai du mal à joindre les deux bouts.

Mes deux index sont hostiles à tout rapprochement et ça me rend de plus en plus perplexe... pour ne pas dire que ça me vexe! C'est comme s'ils ne dépendaient pas du même cerveau, du même sexe. Leur souci est neuronal et hormonal...en même temps et depuis longtemps.

Lorsque l'un avance, l'autre recule... et plus j'insiste et plus ils me résistent... entre eux, il n'y a ni ébats ni débat... Ils refusent obstinément le combat... les deux ont adopté le même repli sur soi.

Five years ago, on August 9, 2014, a policeman shot an unarmed black man in Ferguson, MO, under circumstances that are still not clear. A grand jury concluded the shooting was justified. This led to more than a week of protests and rioting, with a heavy-handed, militarized response from the police, even when protests were peaceful.

Below are three videos that provide close-up views of what it was like to be in the midst of these confrontations.

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Source : Consortium News, Elizabeth Vos, 23-04-2019

Le 23 avril 2019

Source : Libération, Willy Le Devin, Ismaël Halissat, 04-08-2019

Critiqués après les conclusions d’une enquête sur l’opération brutale menée le soir de la mort de Steve Caniço à Nantes, la directrice de l’Inspection générale de la police nationale, Brigitte Jullien, et le chef de l’unité de coordination des enquêtes, David Chantreux, répondent à nos questions.

The post If you’re a good dentist, please write this website. appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

President Donald Trump’s condolence trip to El Paso turned out to be a perfect bookend to his inauguration. Incredibly, after two and a half years in the White House, the man remains as obsessed by crowd size as he was on his very first day.

Je ne suis pas un enfant de chœur.

Je n'ai aucun angélisme de bonne sœur.

Je ne crois ni aux promesses de bonheur ni aux oiseaux de malheur.

Peut être parce que je connais l'homme par cœur.

Rien ne me fait peur... je n'ai même pas peur de la peur.

C'est aussi simple que ça... ça vit, ça leurre et ça meurt.

Nos valeurs ont une saveur, certes mais aucune valeur.

Misleadingly-named Anti-Semitism Awareness Act introduced in US House of Representatives just before summer recess.

Those who defend the rights of regular Americans to own weapons of war often say that this is necessary to defend the US against tyranny or a foreign enemy. They conveniently leave out the fact that they would still be hopelessly outgunned if such an authoritarian regime ever were in charge.

DHS Was Asked What They’re Doing About White Nationalists. They Sent a Report About Environmentalists. (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “DHS’s response is bewildering on several levels. Why did the agency give multiple reasons for not releasing any information — and then provide a report on environmental extremism anyway?

Joan Didion famously said that the Sixties ended on August 9, 1969, with the murders of Sharon Tate and six others at the hands of the so-called Manson Family. For 50 years, the official narrative has held that the murders were initiated by Manson to appear as if they were committed by the Black Panthers with the goal of starting a race war. That was prosecutor Vince Bugliosi’s theory of the case. Bugliosi argued at trial that Manson had gotten this idea of “Helter Skelter” from a Beatles song.

And we talk to the author of a new thriller on Palestinian resistance to Israel.

If you believe President Donald Trump, Beijing has opened a devious new front in the US-China trade war by manipulating its currency to make Chinese exports more competitive and retaliate for the damage inflicted by US tariffs. The evidence: On Monday, three days after Trump announced punitive tariffs on an additional $300 billion of Chinese goods, the renminbi (literally “people’s dollar,” also called the yuan) weakened to its lowest level since 2008.

Source : The Times of Israël, Cnaan Liphshiz, 06-06-2019

Les ambassadeurs d’Israël et de Pologne signent ensemble une lettre adressée au maire d’Ivano-Frankisvsk ; tandis qu’à Kharkiv, des nationalistes déclenchent des bombes fumigènes devant le bâtiment de la communauté juive.

Par Cnaan Liphshiz

6 juin 2019

Les « retours d’URSS », ces voyages dont les intellectuels français (mais aussi américains, britanniques, etc…) tiraient livres et articles généralement élogieux sur l’URSS, et parfois aussi fort critiques[1], sont un classique des années trente. Ils représentent un type particulier de littérature. Plus rares, mais aussi plus précieux, sont des témoignages relativement intimes, comme des lettres rédigées pour des tiers dans le cour d’un de ces voyages.

UN criticizes approval of 2,400 new West Bank housing units.

Senate GOP Plans to Divert Health, Education Funds to Border Wall (DonkeyHotey)

From Roll Call: “[The]$5 billion move would set up [a] clash with [the] Democratic House over fiscal 2020 spending.”

While people from across the political spectrum have called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump on various grounds, the American public at large hasn’t warmed to the idea. Polls on the issue are all over the place but generally show that US voters are against it. A group of activists believes that one of the reasons for this is that Americans don’t understand the impeachment process.

Source : The Intercept, Mehdi Hasan,

Source : The Guardian, Stephanie Kirchgaessner & Nick Hopkins,

Le militant pro-démocratie İyad el-Baghdadi a critiqué haut et fort le prince héritier saoudien

Stephanie Kirchgaessner à Washington et Nick Hopkins à Londres

7 mai 2019

Un article ancien mais intéressant…

Source : Forbes, Kenneth Rapoza,

Kenneth Rapoza

Je publie sur les affaires et l’investissement sur les marchés émergents.

Comment tu as fait pour tuer ta femme ?

Je ne l'aurais jamais fait si ce n'était pas la mienne...

Encore un usage abusif du pronom possessif ?

Tout est question de grammaire ! Pour sa fille, pour sa femme comme pour sa mère. C'est kif-kif!

Comme quoi, il ne suffit pas d'avoir les mêmes droits, il faut aussi avoir le même poids. Un point et ce n'est pas tout. 85 femmes ont été abattues par leur conjoint entre janvier et juin.

Pentagon Testing Mass Surveillance Balloons Across the Midwest (Gerry)

The author writes, “Up to 25 unmanned solar-powered balloons are being launched from rural South Dakota and drifting 250 miles through an area spanning portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, before concluding in central Illinois.

Election integrity experts are urging Democratic candidates to force a conversation about voting rights and securing future elections from foreign interference. They worry that neglecting this vital issue on a national stage could significantly distort the outcome of the 2020 election.

One key area of concern is that a foreign power could once again attempt to steer voters toward a specific candidate, as Russia did in 2016 with Donald Trump.

Source : Le Grand Soir, Chris Wright, 08-07-2019

Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Richard Labévière,

Pour se vendre, ils font semblant, seulement semblant de tout entendre, de tout comprendre... sans jamais vouloir se rendre à l'évidence.

L'évidence c'est que le fond de l'air est vide de sens !

L'existence reste opaque même pour ceux qui prétendent avoir un bon niveau de conscience.

Pour tout ce qui concerne l'être, nul ne peut dissiper son mystère...et comme ils ont du mal à s'y soustraire. Ils ne font rien d'autre que le contrefaire!

People wondering how Jeffrey Epstein acquired his enormous wealth may find a clue on page 5 of the lawsuit, filed — and later withdrawn — by Katie Johnson against Donald Trump and Epstein for allegedly raping her when she was 13 years old.