Daily Archives: 22. Juli 2019


22.07.2019 - 22:53 [ New York Times ]

With Guns, Cash and Terrorism, Gulf States Vie for Power in Somalia

Over the last two years, war-torn Somalia has emerged as a central battleground, with the United Arab Emirates and Qatar each providing weapons or military training to favored factions, exchanging allegations about bribing local officials, and competing for contracts to manage ports or exploit natural resources.

In an audio recording obtained by The New York Times of a cellphone call with the Qatari ambassador to Somalia, a businessman close to the emir of Qatar said that the militants had carried out the bombing in Bosaso to advance Qatar’s interests by driving out its rival, the United Arab Emirates.

22.07.2019 - 22:14 [ Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan ]

The poverty of the people is the actual cause of the devastation and ruination of a country; & the main cause of the poverty of the people is the desire of its ruler and officers to amass wealth and possessions whether by fair or foul means

Hazrat Ali (AS) Nahjul Balagha

22.07.2019 - 21:04 [ Nicolas J.S. Davies / Mintpress.com ]

Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen: Calculating the Millions-High Death Toll of America’s Post-9/11 Wars

(26.4.2018)

Altogether, in the three parts of this report, I have estimated that America’s post-9/11 wars have killed about 6 million people. Maybe the true number is only 5 million. Or maybe it is 7 million.

22.07.2019 - 20:55 [ usnews.com ]

Trump Says U.S. Working With Pakistan to Find Way Out of Afghan War

The Pentagon said Pakistan‘s army chief, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, will meet later on Monday with the top American military officer, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford.

22.07.2019 - 20:51 [ theHill.com ]

Trump says he could win Afghan war in a week but doesn‘t ‚want to kill 10 million people‘

The president added that Afghanistan would be “wiped off the face of the earth” in 10 days if he chose to bring a quick end to the nation’s longest war, which he called “ridiculous” and said has helped turn the U.S. into the world’s “policemen.”

“I don’t want to go that route,” Trump said.

22.07.2019 - 20:01 [ derStandard.at ]

Außenminister Hunt: Europäer sollen Schiffe im Golf beschützen

Großbritannien fordert eine europäische Schutzmission für die Schifffahrt im Persischen Golf. Das sagte der Außenminister Jeremy Hunt am Montag nach einer Dringlichkeitssitzung des Krisenkabinetts in London. Man habe in den vergangenen 48 Stunden „konstruktive Diskussionen“ mit mehreren Staaten geführt, erklärte Hunt.

22.07.2019 - 19:49 [ BBC Politics ‏/ Twitter ]

Voting has closed in the Tory leadership contest. What happens next: • Tomorrow: Winner announced by lunchtime • Wednesday: Theresa May steps down as PM • Wednesday eve: New PM enters Downing Street

22.07.2019 - 19:38 [ PoliticsHome.com ]

Jo Swinson defeats Ed Davey to become the new Liberal Democrat leader

The party‘s deputy leader defeated rival Sir Ed Davey in the race to succeed Sir Vince Cable.

Ms Swinson, the MP for East Dunbartonshire, received 47,997 votes, comfortably ahead of her rival on 28,021.

22.07.2019 - 19:19 [ KyivPost.com ]

A democratic first: One party wins majority in Ukraine’s parliament

Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People — 42.19 percent

Opposition Platform – For Life — 12.75 percent

Petro Poroshenko’s European Solidarity — 8.71 percent

Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna — 8.15 percent

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk’s Golos — 6.39 percent

22.07.2019 - 17:49 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Amlo in Chiapas: Nachricht an die EZLN

Richtig, die Zapatisten erhoben sich in Waffen, und dank dessen sah das Land auf einmal die indigene Bevölkerung. Seit dem Waffenstillstand bewahren die Rebellen zwar ihre Waffen, doch ohne sie zu benutzen. Stattdessen haben sie eine beispielhafte und völlig neue indigene Selbstverwaltung und Autonomie aufgebaut.

22.07.2019 - 17:42 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Brasilien: Aktivist der Landlosenbewegung bei Demonstration überfahren

Mehr als 1.000 Familien besetzen dort seit April 2018 nicht bewirtschaftetes Land der Maklerfirma Eldorado Empreendimentos. Zuvor hatte der Gerichtshof von São Paulo festgestellt, dass die Firma das Grundstück nur zum Zweck der Immobilienspekulation benutzt.

22.07.2019 - 16:59 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Der Faschist

Um zum Faschisten zu werden, zu einer gefährlichen Persönlichkeit, die ihre innere Störung in Herrschaft umsetzt, bedarf es des Hallraums, in dem sich die Herrschaft dem Groll und den Ängsten ihres Publikums stellt, sie gemeinsam verstärkt und im politischen Leben das Zerstören ankündigt. Trumps Rede in Greenville (North Carolina) füllt diesen Hallraum. Der Faschist tritt hervor, sobald das Staatsoberhaupt sich als Aufrührer gibt und das Gewaltmonopol, über das er verfügt, dem Groll und den Ängsten seines Publikums widmet.

22.07.2019 - 16:56 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Transatlantische Perspektiven (I)

Ungeachtet der jüngsten rassistischen Kampagne des US-Präsidenten stärkt die Bundesrepublik ihre engen Beziehungen zu den Vereinigten Staaten weiter. Deutsche Unternehmen kündigen milliardenschwere Investitionen in dem Land an; so will etwa die Deutsche Telekom weit mehr als fünf Milliarden Euro in ihre Tochterfirma T-Mobile USA investieren.

22.07.2019 - 15:41 [ Haaretz ]

Israel plans to deport about 100 foreign workers from the Philippines, along with their children, who were born in Israel

22.07.2019 - 15:39 [ Radio Utopie ]

Doppelagent Abbas

(01.05.2018)

Einerseits will also Abbas weiterhin verhindern, dass Palästina nach über 50 Jahren Besatzung endlich eine der Vereinten Nationen wird, unter den Schutz des Völkerrechts und des Internationalen Strafgerichtshof gelangt und die Besatzungsmacht Israel fürchten muss wegen ihrer Verbrechen und Verletzungen der Genfer Konventionen endlich verklagt zu werden.

Andererseits klammert sich der 83-Jährige schlicht einfach an die Macht und versucht diesen periodisch alle paar Jahrzehnte auftretenden Ausnahmefall von palästinensischer Stimmabgabe mit Bedeutung auch noch irgendwie zu überstehen, genauso wie der Rest der uralten, seit Jahrzehnten üppig eingekauften P.L.O.-Kader.

Und natürlich hoffen das auch alle internationalen Sponsoren von Doppelagent Abbas, sowie von seiner Fatah und seiner P.L.O.

Denn mit diesen hat die Regierung der Besatzungsmacht Israel, hat Washington, haben all die internationalen falschen Freunde Palästinas genau die Kollaborateure und korrupten Diener, die sie brauchen um Palästina auch weiterhin unter Kolonialherrschaft zu halten.

22.07.2019 - 14:55 [ International Committee of the Red Cross ]

Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.

Art. 49. Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.

Nevertheless, the Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement. Persons thus evacuated shall be transferred back to their homes as soon as hostilities in the area in question have ceased.

The Occupying Power undertaking such transfers or evacuations shall ensure, to the greatest practicable extent, that proper accommodation is provided to receive the protected persons, that the removals are effected in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition, and that members of the same family are not separated.

The Protecting Power shall be informed of any transfers and evacuations as soon as they have taken place.

The Occupying Power shall not detain protected persons in an area particularly exposed to the dangers of war unless the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand.

The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

22.07.2019 - 14:50 [ Schweizer Regierung ]

Genfer Abkommen über den Schutz von Zivilpersonen in Kriegszeiten

(12. August 1949)

Art. 49

Zwangsweise Einzel- oder Massenumsiedlungen sowie Deportationen von geschützten Personen aus besetztem Gebiet nach dem Gebiet der Besetzungsmacht oder dem irgendeines anderen besetzten oder unbesetzten Staates sind ohne Rücksicht auf ihren Beweggrund verboten.

Immerhin kann die Besetzungsmacht eine vollständige oder teilweise Evakuierung eines bestimmten besetzten Gebietes durchführen, wenn die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung oder zwingende militärische Gründe dies erfordern. Solche Evakuierungen dürfen nicht die Umsiedlungen von geschützten Personen in Gebiete ausserhalb der Grenzen des besetzten Gebietes zur Folge haben, es sei denn, eine solche Umsiedlung liesse sich aus materiellen Gründen nicht vermeiden. Unmittelbar nach Beendigung der Feindseligkeiten in dem in Frage stehenden Gebiet soll die so evakuierte Bevölkerung in ihre Heimstätten zurückgeführt werden.

Die Besetzungsmacht hat bei der Durchführung derartiger Umsiedlungen oder Evakuierungen im Rahmen des Möglichen dafür zu sorgen, dass angemessene Unterkunft für die Aufnahme der geschützten Personen vorgesehen wird, dass die Umsiedlung in bezug auf Sauberkeit, Hygiene, Sicherheit und Verpflegung unter befriedigenden Bedingungen durchgeführt wird und Mitglieder derselben Familie nicht voneinander getrennt werden.

Die Schutzmacht soll von allen Umsiedlungen und Evakuierungen verständigt werden, sobald sie stattgefunden haben.

Die Besetzungsmacht darf geschützte Personen nicht einer in besonders den Kriegsgefahren ausgesetzten Gegend zurückhalten, sofern nicht die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung oder zwingende militärische Gründe dies erfordern.

Die Besetzungsmacht darf nicht Teile ihrer eigenen Zivilbevölkerung in das von ihr besetzte Gebiet deportieren oder umsiedeln.

22.07.2019 - 14:37 [ Haaretz ]

Israel Begins Demolition of 70 Homes in Palestinian-controlled East Jerusalem Neighborhood

(today)

Forces deploy at dawn days after top court approves order to evict Wadi Hummus residents, in a move activists are concerned sets a precedent to affect thousands

22.07.2019 - 14:34 [ MondoWeiss.net ]

Israeli plan to raze East Jerusalem homes may be first step towards mass demolitions across the West Bank

(17.07.2019)

In less than 24 hours, 42-year-old Ismail Obeidiya, his wife Nida, and their six kids, could be made homeless. It’s a terrifying reality that Obeidiya is struggling to grapple with, his unease and frustration more palpable with every word.

“We fought so long and so hard, for years, to try to save our home. But in the end, the Israeli courts, the ‘High Court of Justice’ as they say, could not offer us any justice,” Obeidiya told Mondoweiss from the front yard of his home.

The Obeidiyas’ home is one of 10 buildings slated for an unprecedented mass demolition by Israeli authorities in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir.

While Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem are commonplace, typically under the pretext that the homes were built without Israeli-issued permits, the homes in question stand on ‘Area A’ and ‘Area B’ land under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), as designated by the Oslo Accords.

22.07.2019 - 14:29 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Israel Supreme Court backs demolition of 13 buildings under PA control

(18.06.2019)

Israel’s Supreme Court yesterday gave the green light for the state to demolish 13 apartment blocks built in “Area A” of the occupied West Bank, but which now lie inside the route of the illegal Separation Wall.

According to Haaretz, Palestinians say that the ruling “sets a precedent that will enable the demolition of thousands of buildings in the West Bank”.

22.07.2019 - 14:02 [ Alona Dolinsky ‏/ Twitter ]

Interesting developments within the Arab parties. No progress towards a joint list to contest the September elections;

internal elections in the Islamic Party placed a woman in 4th. Thank you @emankassem

22.07.2019 - 13:55 [ Times of Israel ]

Polls give right-wing alliance headed by Shaked 12-13 seats

A pair of television polls aired Sunday gave an alliance of the New Right and Union of Right-Wing Parties headed by Ayelet Shaked 12-13 seats in parliament, if September’s Knesset elections were held today. Shaked was announced earlier Sunday as the New Right’s new leader.

22.07.2019 - 13:47 [ Gil Hoffman, Jerusalem Post's chief political correspondent ‏/ Twitter ]

Poll on @kann_news finds @barak_ehud‘s Israel Democratic party would not cross threshold, while @NewsChannelIL poll predicts just 4 seats.

22.07.2019 - 13:41 [ Haaretz ]

Answering Barak, Daily Mail Says It Stands by Epstein Article, Rejects ‚Malicious‘ Motives

(18.07.2019)

In its statement the tabloid said: „DailyMail.com stands by its recent story concerning Ehud Barak’s relationship with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein 100 percent.“

„We note that Mr. Barak’s assertion that he was not party to Mr. Epstein’s illegal activities is a denial of a claim we have never made,“ the Daily Mail said in their statement, adding that the story only referenced the content of the photos.

22.07.2019 - 12:38 [ Order-Order.com ]

Regime Change Resignations

Officially resigned:

Alan Duncan

Preemptively announced:

David Gauke
Phillip Hammond

There will be more…

22.07.2019 - 12:07 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Geheimdienstmitteilung: Iran deckt CIA-Netzwerk auf

Das iranische Fernsehen veröffentlichte Aufnahmen, die CIA-Agenten zeigen sollen, die mit den mutmaßlichen Spionen in Kontakt waren. So soll ein Iraner in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten von der CIA rekrutiert worden sein. Zunächst äußerten sich weder die CIA noch die US-Regierung zu der Darstellung.

22.07.2019 - 12:04 [ CNN ]

Iran detains 17 citizens accused of spying for the CIA

„Defendants serving their sentences in prison mentioning tempting promises of CIA officers including emigration to USA, a proper job in America, and money,“ the Intelligence Ministry document said. It added that the spy mission was to collect classified information „from substantial centers as well as intelligence/technical operations.“

The Ministry said some of the 17 will be executed.

22.07.2019 - 08:52 [ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abgeordnete des US Repräsentantenhauses / Twitter ]

Having a seat in Congress is not about individual glory – it never has been, and never will be. It’s about serving the millions of children and people in our communities and across the country. Everyone deserves the dignity of representation. America belongs to us all.

22.07.2019 - 08:48 [ Vox.com ]

How 4 congresswomen came to be called “the Squad”

The way they’re using the term “squad” now is drawing support on social media and elsewhere, which in turn puts pressure on Democratic Party leaders to take them and their message seriously, Dittmar said. Voters, she explained, are saying, “that’s the squad I want to be a part of.”

22.07.2019 - 08:28 [ Bernie Sanders, candidate for President / Twitter ]

I wish we didn‘t have to say this, but it is the damn truth and we have to say it: We have a president who is a racist and a xenophobe. His goal is to turn us against one another.

22.07.2019 - 08:22 [ Zeit,de ]

US-Wahlkampf: Donald Trump legt gegen Demokratinnen nach

Der Präsident hatte Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar und Ayanna Pressley vor wenigen Tagen aufgefordert, sie sollten „dahin zurückgehen, wo sie hergekommen sind, und helfen, diese total kaputten und kriminalitätsverseuchten Orte wieder in Ordnung zu bringen“. Alle vier Abgeordneten sind US-Bürgerinnen, drei von ihnen wurden in den Vereinigten Staaten geboren.

22.07.2019 - 08:07 [ Andrew O'Hehir / Salon.com ]

Paralyzed by the God Emperor: As Democrats dither and bicker, the media gets punk‘d again

Have we learned nothing? Maybe not: If the media and the Democrats get any more defensive, they may disappear.

22.07.2019 - 07:59 [ Washington Post ]

Axios declines to comment on anonymous poll cited by President Trump

(16.07.2019)

The piece reports that the poll was taken in May and that it “included 1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education.” An important constituency, in other words.

Absent, however, is any indication of who did the poll, who commissioned it, how it was conducted, what the questions were, what its other results were and so on.

22.07.2019 - 07:52 [ Adrenochromaniac ‏/ Twitter ]

unfucking real. House Democrats paid for AND leaked to Axios a poll of 1000 white people without a college education to find a poll that says AOC, Ilhan, Tlaib et al are bad. What a fucking joke leadership is

(14.07.2019)

22.07.2019 - 07:47 [ New York Times ]

Trump Sets the Terms on Racial Division. Do Democrats Know What to Do?

Valerie Jarrett, the former senior adviser to Mr. Obama, said any Democratic nominee would do well to mimic the former president’s messaging.

22.07.2019 - 07:41 [ Haaretz ]

On Eve of Existential Election, Israel’s Center-left Is on the Verge of Implosion

The final deadline for Israel’s political parties to submit their lists of Knesset candidates for the September 17 election is in ten days. Center-left voters and their leaders depict the election as crucial, vital and even existential. Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection, they claim, could spell the end of Israel’s liberal democracy, as we’ve known it.

Nonetheless, as the clock nears midnight, the center-left is on the brink of implosion.

22.07.2019 - 07:31 [ Donald J. Trump, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten / Twitter ]

Congratulations to Bibi @Netanyahu on becoming the longest serving PM in the history of Israel. Under your leadership, Israel has become a technology powerhouse and a world class economy….

22.07.2019 - 02:36 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Iran-backed terrorist cells ‚ready to strike‘ UK as tension escalates over seized oil tanker

Iran-backed terrorist cells could be deployed to launch attacks in the UK if the crisis between London and Tehran deepens, intelligence sources have warned.

22.07.2019 - 02:31 [ Neil Clark ‏/ Twitter ]

´Barring earthquakes or a giant asteroid hitting central London on Monday afternoon Boris Johnson will be announced as the new British Prime Minister on Tuesday’.

My latest piece on the problems BoJo faces:

22.07.2019 - 02:22 [ ORF.at ]

May leitet Dringlichkeitssitzung zu Tanker-Krise mit dem Iran

Im Konflikt mit dem Iran wegen der Beschlagnahmung eines britischen Tankers in der Straße von Hormus kommt das britische Krisenkabinett heute zu einer Dringlichkeitssitzung zusammen. Das Gremium werde unter dem Vorsitz von Premierministerin Theresa May über die „Wahrung der Sicherheit für die Schifffahrt im Persischen Golf“ beraten, teilte Mays Büro gestern Abend in London mit.

22.07.2019 - 02:11 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Boris Johnson to sack Jeremy Hunt as Foreign Secretary if he becomes Tory leader in landslide victory

BORIS Johnson will sack Jeremy Hunt as Foreign Secretary if he wins the Tory leadership on Tuesday by a big margin, allies believe.

Two of his close confidantes have told The Sun the No10 frontrunner is still furious with his rival for launching a series of personal attacks on him during the race – including branding him a coward for initially refusing TV debates.