Maroc : Imzouren, l’autre révoltée du Rif – JeuneAfrique.com. Maroc : road trip dans le Rif – JeuneAfrique.com. Sahara occidental : de la responsabilité de la France coloniale dans la naissance du problème – JeuneAfrique.com. The Guardian view on climate change and social disruption: how one form of chaos breeds another. In 2014, around 3,500 boat people died trying to cross the Mediterranean to enter Europe.
They risked their lives and lost. According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees around 218,000 people got to Europe “by irregular means” last year. They took a chance and survived. Among them were those fleeing the violence in Syria, and of these, a proportion must be counted as climate refugees. The Guardian view on climate change and social disruption: how one form of chaos breeds another. Chomsky: ‘Republicans are a danger to the human species’ - Il manifesto global. With terrifying clarity, the author and philosopher Noam Chomsky speaks to il manifesto about chaos, barbarism and destruction of human life.
After so many years of giving alarming interviews, Chomsky is more cynical than ever that we can avert global disaster. “The human species is facing a situation that is unprecedented in the history of Homo sapiens,” he said. China, Africa wrap up summit as focus shifts to security, with Beijing seeking bigger role in global affairs. FORTY-eight African countries and China wrapped up a landmark summit on Saturday vowing to push for homegrown solutions to solve Africa’s peace and security woes.
The leaders met for what South African President Jacob Zuma dubbed “historic” talks, aimed at bolstering ties between the continent and its major trading partner. In a declaration adopted in Johannesburg the leaders pledged to “continue to support each other on security matters and maintain peace and security.” They agreed to implement a China-Africa peace and security plan and “support the building of the collective security mechanism in Africa.” Is climate change really to blame for Syria’s civil war? Was the Syrian civil war partly caused by climate change?
Prince Charles, for one, seems to think so. “There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years,” he told Sky News, adding that climate change is having a “huge impact” on conflict and terrorism. The Prince is not alone on this one: he joins a chorus of voices making similar claims. In the US President Obama, Al Gore, and the democratic presidential hopefuls Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders have all talked of a link between climate change and the Syria conflict, Sanders going so far as to argue that climate change is “directly related to the growth of terrorism”. Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers.
Four former US air force service members, with more than 20 years of experience between them operating military drones, have written an open letter to Barack Obama warning that the program of targeted killings by unmanned aircraft has become a major driving force for Isis and other terrorist groups.
The group of servicemen have issued an impassioned plea to the Obama administration, calling for a rethink of a military tactic that they say has “fueled the feelings of hatred that ignited terrorism and groups like Isis, while also serving as a fundamental recruitment tool similar to Guantánamo Bay”. In particular, they argue, the killing of innocent civilians in drone airstrikes has acted as one of the most “devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world”.
The letter, addressed to Obama, defense secretary Ashton Carter and CIA chief John Brennan, links the signatories’ anxieties directly to last Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. L’EURASIA AGGREDITA SU PIÙ FRONTI. OWNING THE WEATHER: LA GUERRA AMBIENTALE GLOBALE È GIÀ COMINCIATA. Les attentats de l’Etat islamique : 20 pays, 18 mois, plus de 1 600 morts. Una proposta per risolvere il problema del gruppo Stato islamico - Carlo Rovelli. Stragi per l'energia - You-ng.
Con l’abbattimento dell’aereo russo la Turchia mette l’occidente davanti a un bivio - Gabriele Crescente. WikiLeaks Reveals How the US Aggressively Pursued Regime Change in Syria, Igniting a Bloodbath. Syrian soldiers and children at a checkpoint in the besieged and devastated city of Homs, Syria, March 23, 2014.
For both sides of Syria's civil war, Homs, a central Syrian crossroads with a diverse prewar population of 1 million, is crucial to the future. (Sergey Ponomarev / The New York Times) In 2010, WikiLeaks became a household name by releasing 251,287 classified State Department cables. Now, a new book collects in-depth analyses of what these cables tell us about the foreign policy of the United States, from authors including Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail and our regular contributors Gareth Porter, Robert Naiman, Phyllis Bennis and Stephen Zunes.
93% of deaths and injuries in Yemen are civilian - this must change. In March, in the small middle eastern country of Yemen, a long-running political crisis escalated into all-out conflict.
At the request of the Yemeni government an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia began air strikes across Yemen against Houthi rebels. For ordinary Yemenis, the consequences have been devastating. As a recent report, State of Crisis: Explosive Weapons in Yemen (pdf) documents, more than 2,200 civilian deaths had been registered by September. “The intensity of explosive violence in the country has meant that more civilian deaths and injuries from explosive weapons were recorded … during the first seven months of 2015 than in any other country in the world.”
La storia ci insegna che la guerra non ferma il terrorismo - Vijay Prashad. Kadhafi: "J'en appelle à la France" How Isis got its anthem. The first two minutes and 52 seconds of Dawlat al-Islam Qamat are undeniably beautiful.
It is little more than an Arabic chant, sung by a man whose voice is so relaxed you expect him to drift off halfway through. It sounds timeless – as if it has been dug up from the eighth century. Il Regno Unito che non vuole immigrati e crede alle bufale sui turisti del welfare - l'Espresso. The colourful propaganda of Xinjiang. China is in the midst of a crackdown on what it describes as "terrorism driven by religious extremism".
The campaign is focused on the western province of Xinjiang, home to China's Uighur ethnic minority who are predominantly Muslim. The government believes religion breeds terror and has been trying to control religious expression in the region by imposing rules on the Uighur community. Critics say it is exacerbating the terror problem. Un esercito di invisibili - Cecilia Attanasio Ghezzi. La Turchia di Erdoğan va verso la guerra civile - Gwynne Dyer. Due o tre cose che so sull’Ucraina. China reportedly just bought 5% of Ukraine (but the Ukrainian partner denies it) How many seconds have there been since January 1, 1972?
While that number is extremely large, it is pretty simply calculated. Multiply the number of years (and don’t forget leap years!) By the number of days in a year by the number of hours in a day by the number of minutes in an hour by the number of seconds in a minute and voilà: 1,371,513,600 seconds as of midnight on June 29, 2015. Except that that’s not right. Petizione: DEMAND JUSTICE FOR CECIL THE LION IN ZIMBABWE. Gail Cruickshank, MI Jul 29, 18:03 Janine Divens, QC Jan Adams, VA. Il vero obiettivo della guerra di Erdoğan non è l'Isis. I motivi dell’intervento di Ankara in Siria - Gabriele Crescente. Il jihad cerca casa in Africa. Il manifesto. The colourful propaganda of Xinjiang. Lo schieramento militare Usa.
Due o tre cose che so sull’Ucraina - Limes. Niente Ramadan per i musulmani cinesi - Cecilia Attanasio Ghezzi. La Polonia è un paese dell’Europa Centrale e non è una questione geografica. Il cambiamento climatico e i conflitti di potere, di oggi e di domani. How China Is Building the Biggest Commercial-Military Empire in History.