Légendes Cartographie - Accueil. Mahmoud Abbas, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Peace. Donald Trump met Mahmoud Abbas, in Bethlehem today, a twofer for a President intent, as the national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster, put it last week, on visiting “homelands and holy sites” and expressing “his desire for dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians.” Reading prepared remarks, in a Presidential palace outfitted with the trappings of sovereignty, Trump told reporters that he’d work with Abbas on “unlocking the potential of the Palestinian economy.” Naftali Bennett, the Israeli education minister and a settlement advocate, probably spoke for most of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government last November, when he declared that, with Trump’s election, “the era of the Palestinian state is over.”
Today, in Bethlehem, it was prolonged. Much has been written about the Trump Administration’s growing desire to conceive that state from the region in, rather than from the conflict out. Abbas is eighty-two, with a smoking habit, and he has no designated successor. Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of U.S. Drone Warfare | Ian Shaw. This is a pre-corrected version . FULL VERSION: AS: Ian G. R. Shaw (2013): Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare, Geopolitics For example, Bialasiewicz et al.’s analysis of the 2002 U.S. . To break away from Bush’s integrationist strategies, and even expunged the terms Islamic extremism and Muslim fundamentalism with a renewed focus on rebuilding the U.S. economy. Strategic environment or world as it is . ’i da was still a far-reaching network of violence and hatred that threatened the American way of life. Frontline of the fight as Afghanistan and Pakistan the epicenter of the violent extremism .
Disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al- Qa’ida and its affilia tes through acomprehensive strategy that denies them safe haven , and to continue to rebalance our military capabilitiesto excel at counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, [and] stability operations . Qa’ida in Pakistan was . Ively been clandestine CIA drone strikes. . Des forces spéciales françaises présentes en Syrie. [herodote.org] Voir le sommaire de ce numéro Barbara Loyer Résumé Les cartes suscitent aujourd’hui un engouement extraordinaire grâce aux possibilités nouvelles qu’offrent les techniques de géolocalisation et la géomatique qui permettent de très rapidement cartographier des phénomènes.
Dans les situations de crises géopolitiques, la cartographie géomatique est parfois même présentée comme une nouvelle « arme » pour ceux qui choisissent la non-violence et qui disent pouvoir déjouer la force par la communication sur la géographie des combats. Abstract : Geopolitical crises and theircartography Maps arouse today an extraordinary craze thanks to the new possibilities that are offered the geolocalisation and geomatic techniques that enable us to map phenomenons very swiftly. Cet article sur cairn.info (payant pendant deux ans, gratuit ensuite ; Attention : mise en ligne tardive)
Des forces spéciales françaises présentes en Syrie. Cambodge, extension du domaine de la Chine, Enquête. The NATO-industrial complex - NATO. “Optics!” Hissed the NATO summit staffer. “Jesus Christ, optics!” He was right to panic. It was Sunday evening, 6 sharp, the end of the first day of the NATO summit in Chicago. A swarm of global press was gathered around the convention hall’s lone display, a slick industry-sponsored video exhibit of NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. Any minute, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and his entourage would come sweeping out of a nearby tunnel for a tour the installation. There was just one problem. It reveals much about NATO and the media coverage of the Chicago summit that images of protest are “bad optics,” but not what came next.
“If you are looking for a case study on defense industrial interests shaping NATO policy, missile defense is a good place to start,” says Ian Davis, the London-based director of NATO Watch and the organizer of a recent NATO shadow summit in Washington, D.C. With NATO missile defense, it is the U.S. taxpayer picking up the tab. U.S-led raids hit grain silos in Syria, kill workers: monitor. Alwasat sur Twitter : "Electricty and drinking water cut off in #Sirte. #Libya... History of Bulgaria (1878–1946) The 1912-1913 Balkan Wars, Bulgaria initially formed an alliance with Greece and Serbia against the Ottoman Empire, together conquering a great deal of Ottoman territory. Bulgaria was however unhappy with the resulting division of territory, and soon went to war against its former allies, in which it lost territory it had gained in the first war.
The First World War saw Bulgaria allied with Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Its defeat led to the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in which it lost further territory. Social problems and political instability persisted throughout the interwar years. Borders of Bulgaria according to the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March 1878 and the subsequent Treaty of Berlin As a result, the Treaty of Berlin (1878), under the supervision of Otto von Bismarck of Germany and Benjamin Disraeli of Britain, revised the earlier treaty, and scaled back the proposed Bulgarian state.
Balkan states around 1900. Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Bonne nouvelle pour le monde entier, plus de soucis à se faire pour la mer de Chine. Par Peter Lee – Le 23 janvier 2016 – Source UNZ On assiste à une campagne médiatique concertée pour présenter la mer de Chine (MdC) comme une voie indispensable pour le transport commercial, fournissant une bonne raison aux États-Unis pour surveiller et intervenir dans cette zone.
Le porte-parole de cette campagne évoque une valeur de $5 mille milliards de marchandise traversant la mer de Chine chaque année. Reuters en particulier est accro à cette formulation. Voici sept dépêches de l’agence Reuters, datées du mois dernier, évoquant ce chiffre de $ 5 mille milliards : Ce qui attire mon attention dans ces sept articles est qu’ils sont le travail de six reporters et sept rédacteurs en chef (sept à six ! Mais c’est compréhensible. L’entourloupe, bien sûr, est que la part du lion de ces $5 mille milliards ressort du commerce chinois et que la plupart passe par la MdC par choix et non par nécessité. Regardons plutôt une carte. Vraiment les mots me manquent. Mais pas vraiment. Peter Lee. *****#Map shows how dependent European countries are on #gas from #Russia. #Renewables are a #geopolitical asset too! Energy / Superpower geographies / Campagne Climat. Revolution through devolution | GUEST EDITORIAL.
It has been 20 years since we won our fight to get the government to allow the public to have its own community radio station in Nepal. When we finally got the license in May 1997 after four years of struggle, it was a landmark not just for Nepal but the whole of South Asia. We had to work hard to try to convince politicians, the bureaucracy and even the Army that devolving radio to communities would not bring anarchy, but actually help strengthen grassroots democracy and development. Our slogan was ‘Communication for Development’, and that is what Nepal’s radio revolution has achieved, given communities a voice and forced local government to be accountable and responsible.
As South Asia’s first independent FM station, Radio Sagarmatha has been a success story, and role model for public service broadcasting. It has enabled the common people access to information and strengthened democracy. The other model station was the second independent FM to get a license, Radio Madanpokhara. Create new island for #refugees suggests @EuropeinAfrica. Publicity stunt or or sound geopolitical solution? Moscow Challenges The Monroe Doctrine, Russia’s Military Facilities in Latin America.
One of the dogmas of US foreign policy is the so-called Monroe Doctrine dating back to, surprisingly enough, President James Monroe who in 1823 said, in an address before US Congress, that outside powers’ efforts to colonize or exploit Latin American countries would be viewed as acts of aggression by the United States. The sentence above pretty much encapsulates the average American’s understanding of the doctrine. What is left unsaid is that the doctrine has no legal standing. It is not an international treaty or agreement, and the US Congress has not granted the Presidency a blanket authority to go to war against any external power encroaching upon the US “exclusive preserve.”
What is equally left unsaid is Monroe’s quid pro quo: the US would likewise refrain from meddling in European politics, which radically changes the actual meaning of the doctrine. Those days of US restraint and respect for international treaties are long gone. Vote 2013: Armenia in for most bizarre election in its history - Vote 2013 | ArmeniaNow.com. Armenia is having the most “latent” presidential elections ever as three days before the official start of the nominations it is not yet clear who will form the lineup of the strongest rivals to incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan.
Some expert circles view it as a result of indifference and distrust existing in society towards the elections and the political forces’ ignoring public opinion. Nominations will take place from December 25 to January 5 to coincide with the most frantic period of preparations for and celebration of the New Year and Christmas (January 6). People who are now busy preparing for the feast marathon, will, in fact, later be confronted with a list of candidates that most of them have nothing to do with. The timing of the nomination stage (coinciding with the holiday season) is imposed by the Constitution in accordance with the calculation of days remaining before Election Day, but it only emphasizes the complete detachment of society from political processes.
Mahmoud Abbas, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Peace. America's Looming War with Iran: What You're Not Being Told. February 2, 2017 | Darius Shahtahmasebi (ANTIMEDIA) The mainstream media has attempted to frame Donald J. Trump’s election victory as a sort of collusion between Russia and Trump — a scheme allegedly intended to promote an American president who would do Vladimir Putin’s bidding.
But the truth is that there is one other country that stands to be the prime beneficiary of Trump’s reign as president: Israel. Under the Obama administration, the United States had a curious relationship with Israel. “Our military exercises are more advanced than ever. In 2016, Obama approved a “record” military package to Israel worth $38 billion, nullifying claims that Obama “abandoned” Israel following the decision to withhold its veto on a resolution marking Israel’s settlements illegal at the end of 2016.
“In the midst of our own financial crisis and budget deficits, we repeatedly increased funding to support Israel. Why is this important? Iran has been a major problem for the U.S. What does this mean? La Grande-Bretagne prépare des accords bilatéraux avec le monde entier : l’Union Européenne l’a mauvaise ! | FN – Front National. HuffPost Arabi: Arabic version of site promises to give a voice to bloggers in the Middle East. A new Arabic language edition of the Huffington Post will give a voice to bloggers from across the region - including those who might succumb to the message of Isis - the platform's founder Arianna Huffington promised.
Launched on Tuesday, HuffPost Arabi is the 14th international edition of the blogging platform, which has close to 100m global monthly unique visitors. HuffPost Arabi is a joint venture between Ms Huffington, who founded the Post in 2005 and Wadah Khanfar, a former director-general of the Al Jazeera television news network. Ms Huffington said the Arab-language platform would be open to “anyone with something to say - from politicians and business leaders to activists and students.”
The new site, which could challenge the BBC, Al Jazeera and other regional news providers, will put the “devastating rise of Isis, extremism, and sectarian and ethnic tensions" into context, she promised. Would Arabi publish a blog by a British girl who has run off to Syria to join Isis? Criticism And Self-Criticism: Telling The Truth To the Poor South Africans Is In Their Interest - African Zeitgeist. Telling It Like It Is... I hated and disliked Apartheid for its use of religious preachings and prattles that I stayed away from religious discourses or whatever, and kept my own beliefs limited to talking with my ancestors on my Mtundu. I have always thought that the Afrikaners were true hypocrites, because they invoked the scripture and Jesus Christ as their pacifier of the oppressed, and committed genocide on their colonized African subjects, and those that survived these killings, were relegated to slave labor camps and Concentration Camps called Townships with their curfews and inhuman living conditions and draconian laws implemented to control and oppress them.
I have always thought that if then there's a God, he must be one unfair deity. He had chosen people(His Afrikaner children) and those that he acknowledged should be enslaved and murdered (the African children of Ham?!)... We are now crazy unfree slaves of our own self-pity and wanting short-cuts to meet and fill this void. U.S.-Saudi Relations. The U.S. -Saudi Arabia alliance, which survived the oil embargo in 1973 and the attacks of September 11, 2001, in which fifteen of the nineteen passenger jet hijackers were Saudi citizens, is coming under new strains. A new generation of Saudi Arabian leaders is adjusting to what it sees as a resurgent Iran and a retreating United States, which has announced a strategic rebalancing to Asia, by taking a more assertive military role in the Middle East. The Obama administration, for its part, points to Saudi policies it says have exacerbated regional conflicts, and says the kingdom has undermined U.S. interests while under the protection of the U.S. security umbrella.
Seventy-Year Alliance Modern Saudi Arabia traces its roots to an alliance between the Saud family and descendants of Sheikh Mohammed Ibn Abdul Wahab, a prominent Hanbali Muslim cleric, who follow the most conservative school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. President Franklin D. Oil Defense and Counterterrorism U.S. Divergence U.S. History of Bulgaria (1878–1946) History of Bulgaria (1878–1946) Guerre des malouines : manoeuvres militaires, manoeuvres idéologiques, un piège pour le prolétariat | Courant Communiste International.
La guerre des îles Malouines vient alimenter une propagande intensive de la bourgeoisie. Le spectre d'une 3ème guerre mondiale vient hanter la conscience des prolétaires. Pourtant, la préoccupation essentielle de la bourgeoisie, ce n'est pas la guerre, c'est la perspective des affrontements de classe dans les centres du capitalisme. Le cours historique est à la révolution. C'est ce cours que la bourgeoisie essaie de renverser pour ouvrir le chemin vers la guerre mondiale. Sur son chemin, elle doit s'affronter au prolétariat qui n'est pas embrigadé. La lutte de classe en Pologne est venue montrer que le prolétariat n'est pas vaincu, que son potentiel de combativité est énorme. L'enjeu du conflit n'est pas aux îles Malouines, il est au coeur du prolétariat mondial, là où se dessine 1'avenir de 1'humanité.
Depuis le début des hostilités, le 2 avril 1982, le conflit des îles Malouines a fait des centaines de morts et de blessés. Il n'y a pas d'enjeux économiques majeurs aux Malouines. Future of Colombia’s new peace deal with FARC rests with No campaign. Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas were stunned by the country’s rejection of a much-heralded peace accord in a referendum last month, and they returned to the negotiating table feeling their bargaining power was sharply diminished. And when Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last week, leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia knew the window for a deal was likely to close quickly.
Those factors combined helped government negotiators swiftly secure a new deal with key concessions from the guerrillas, according to Frank Pearl, a member of the state’s negotiating team. “We’ve been sitting with FARC for four years, but the country was divided, and we didn’t have the muscle that we had after [the referendum] on Oct. 2 – after that, it was Yes and No united negotiating with FARC – so the team used that muscle to secure a better agreement,” said Mr.
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