Daily Archives: 8. September 2019


08.09.2019 - 22:11 [ WSWS ]

Wissenschaft im Dienste von Krieg und Zerstörung, Zweiter Teil

Seit die Bundesregierung vor fünf Jahren das Ende der militärischen Zurückhaltung verkündet hat, wird in Deutschland wieder massiv aufgerüstet. Auch Wissenschaft und Forschung werden zunehmend in den Dienst von Krieg und Zerstörung gestellt. Eine Schlüsselrolle spielt dabei der Fraunhofer-Verbund Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitsforschung (VVS), ein Zusammenschluss von sieben universitätsnahen Forschungseinrichtungen. Im ersten Teil hatten wir vier davon beschrieben. Der zweite Teil befasst sich mit den restlichen drei.

08.09.2019 - 22:05 [ WSWS ]

Wissenschaft im Dienste von Krieg und Zerstörung, Erster Teil

6.9.2019 Zwei Mitgliedsinstitute des VVS befinden sich in Freiburg, drei in der Nähe von Bonn. Die beiden größten Institute liegen in Karlsruhe. Im Folgenden soll ein knapper Überblick über Ausrichtung und Machenschaften dieser Forschungseinrichtungen gegeben werden.

08.09.2019 - 20:33 [ Daily Mail ]

Boris Johnson will ‚test the law to the limit‘ to defy anti-No Deal bill, says Dominic Raab amid growing speculation the PM will take his ‚do or die‘ fight to deliver Brexit on October 31 to the Supreme Court

Under the plan, detailed in The Sunday Times, Mr Johnson will try to agree a new deal with Brussels at a summit on October 17.

But should he fail he will then reportedly refuse to comply with the anti-No Deal legislation passed by MPs and ignore the requirement to ask for an extension.

Downing Street believes such a course of action will guarantee an immediate judicial review in the Supreme Court with the fate of Brexit placed in the hands of judges, just days before the October 31 deadline.

08.09.2019 - 20:31 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Two top EU chiefs tell Remainers NO more Brexit delays – even they’ve had enough now!

Verhoftstadt, the European Parliament‘s chief Brexit co-ordinator, said another extension would be „unacceptable unless the deadlock in London is broken“.

He added: „Let it be a 2nd ref., new elections, a revocation of art. 50 or the approval of the deal, but not today’s helpless status quo.“

08.09.2019 - 20:26 [ theSun.co.uk ]

EU WHAT?! John McDonnell hints Labour has DROPPED its own plans for Brexit deal and would back May’s hated Withdrawal Agreement

LABOUR has given up on plans to get a new Brexit deal and would back a version of Theresa May’s hated Withdrawal Agreement, John McDonnell has dramatically revealed.

McDonnell said Labour would hold a second referendum on one of the deals already discussed by Parliament – such as May’s or the Norway option.

08.09.2019 - 19:44 [ Haaretz ]

Trump-Rohani Summit Is a Done Deal, Israeli Defense Officials Believe

A meeting between the U.S. and Iranian presidents is just about a done deal. That is the growing conclusion in Israel’s security establishment after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Asper in London Thursday. As always, one caveat must be added: This summit will happen unless the less predictable member of the pair, Donald Trump, changes his mind at the last minute.

08.09.2019 - 19:41 [ Tulsi Gabbard, candidate for President / Twitter ]

Sending well wishes and a happy birthday to my friend @berniesanders!

08.09.2019 - 19:26 [ theHill.com ]

Pompeo defends Trump‘s invitation of Taliban to Camp David, citing ‚obligation to do everything we can‘

During a separate interview on NBC, Pompeo noted Camp David’s history in peace negotiations, “sometimes with some pretty bad actors.”

“The president ultimately made the decision that … if we could get commitments and then put in place a verification regime that would give us confidence that we could observe that those commitments were being honored, that … it was a useful effort to try and get all of those parties in one place so that we could have serious conversations.”

08.09.2019 - 19:20 [ New York Times ]

Arms Sent by U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands

(19. Mai 2009)

Of 30 rifle magazines recently taken from insurgents’ corpses, at least 17 contained cartridges, or rounds, identical to ammunition the United States had provided to Afghan government forces, according to an examination of ammunition markings by The New York Times and interviews with American officers and arms dealers.

08.09.2019 - 19:11 [ Radio Utopie ]

EU-Vize in Afghanistan „beriet“ als MI6-Agent „Taliban“-Terroristen

(26. Dezember 2007)

Der EU-Missionschef und MI6-Agent Semple „arbeitet“ seit den 80ern in Afghanistan (2). Beide, Semple und Patterson, sind die typischen Strippenzieher der zweiten Reihe. Sie haben die Kontakte, erledigen die Drecksarbeit und quatschen die Pressenutten dicht, während die Schlipsträger den Redner auf den Konferenzen und den Garderobenständer geben.
Der EU-Terrorhelfer Semple hielt auch gegenüber dem „Time-Magazin“ und „CNN“ seitenlange Vorträge über angebliche ethnische Konflikte in Afghanistan zwischen Sunniten und Schiiten. Sein Lieblingsfeind: der Iran. Dabei versuchte Semple die alte Platte von den verschiedenen ethnischen Gruppen aufzulegen, die sich alle bekriegen und wo der Westen dann helfend einmarschieren muss.

08.09.2019 - 18:57 [ Independent.co.uk ]

Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

(4. Februar 2008)

Afghan government staff also claimed the „EU peace-builders“ had handed over mobile phones, laptops and airtime credit to insurgents. They said the memory stick revealed plans to train the Taliban to use secure satellite phones, so they could communicate directly with UK officials.

Mr Patterson, a Briton, was the third-ranking UN diplomat when he was held. Mr Semple, an Irishman, was the acting head of the EU mission. Officially, the British embassy remains tight-lipped, fuelling speculation that the plan may have been part of a wider clandestine operation.

08.09.2019 - 18:40 [ Sueddeutsche.de ]

Krieg in Afghanistan: Warlord Inc. – freies Geleit gegen Geld

(23. Juni 2010)

Die USA verteilen in Afghanistan Milliarden Dollar an Firmen, damit schwerbewaffnete Söldner für Sicherheit sorgen. Die Dienstleister verdienen prächtig – und bestechen mit dem Steuergeld zwielichtige Kriegsfürsten und möglicherweise auch Taliban.

08.09.2019 - 18:33 [ Unterausschuss für Nationale Sicherheit und Auswärtige Angelegenheiten des U.S. Repräsentantenhauses / Washington Post ]

Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan

June 22, 2010
To the Members of the Subcommittee:

Today I present to you a report entitled, Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan, which has been prepared by the Majority staff of the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
After a six-month investigation, the report exposes the circumstances surrounding the Department of Defense’s outsourcing of security on the supply chain in Afghanistan to questionable providers, including warlords.

The findings of this report range from sobering to shocking. In short, the Department of Defense designed a contract that put responsibility for the security of vital U.S. supplies on contractors and their unaccountable security providers. This arrangement has fueled a vast protection racket run by a shadowy network of warlords, strongmen, commanders, corrupt
Afghan officials, and perhaps others.

Not only does the system run afoul of the Department’s own rules and regulations mandated by Congress, it also appears to risk undermining the U.S. strategy for achieving its goals in Afghanistan.

08.09.2019 - 18:26 [ Bloomberg ]

Nixed U.S.-Taliban Talks A Relief for Afghanistan Government

U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to abruptly cancel talks with the Taliban may have set back the Afghan peace process, but it came as a relief to the government in Kabul.

President Ashraf Ghani’s administration, which has been excluded from the negotiations, has distrusted the process from the beginning.

08.09.2019 - 18:20 [ CNN ]

Trump says he canceled secret Camp David meeting with Taliban leaders

„Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday,“ Trump tweeted Saturday night.
Trump claimed that before traveling to the US on Saturday evening, „Unfortunately, in order to build false leverage, they admitted to……an attack in Kabul that killed one of our great great soldiers, and 11 other people.“
„I immediately cancelled the meeting and called off peace negotiations,“ Trump added.

08.09.2019 - 17:30 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Mexiko: Oaxaca trauert um Künstler und Aktivisten Francisco Toledo

Auf seine Initiative hin wurde ein Verein gegründet, der die 140 politischen Gefangenen dieses Aufstands gegen die korrupte Regierung verteidigte. Zudem bezahlte er kurzerhand einen Grossteil der Kautionen für die Freilassung der Gefangenen.

08.09.2019 - 17:00 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Rheinmetall zeigt Drohnenpanzer mit Kamikazedrohne

Auf einer Rüstungsmesse im polnischen Kielce hat Rheinmetall den Drohnenpanzer diese Woche erstmals mit einem Werfer für Flugdrohnen des Typs „Warmate“ präsentiert. Dabei handelt sich um sogenannte „herumlungernde Munition“ (loitering munition), die zunächst über dem gegnerischen Gebiet kreist und Überwachungsbilder liefert. Anschließend wird die Drohne ins Ziel gelenkt, zündet ihre Sprengladung und wird dabei zerstört. Rheinmetall bezeichnet das Waffensystem aus Drohnenpanzer und Kamikazedrohne als „chirurgischen Angriff mit minimalen Kollateralschäden“.

08.09.2019 - 15:47 [ Tulsi Gabbard / Youtube ]

Tulsi Gabbard LIVE on the road – New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention – Manchester, NH

Tulsi is speaking at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention in Manchester, NH.

08.09.2019 - 15:25 [ Radio Utopie ]

US / Israel: Geheimtreffen wegen „Bosnien-Option“ für Irak?

(8. Dezember 2006)

Derzeit ruhen die Hoffnungen nur noch auf den Kräften in den Vereinigten Staaten, die die Wahnsinnspläne des Weißen Hauses und ihrer Kollaborateure in der SPD der Vereinigten Staaten („Demokraten“) noch aufhalten können.

Die Europäer sind ein Haufen Feiglinge und Kolonisten. Die Linke gibt es nicht. Die Araber sind gespalten und unter Kontrolle einer gekauften Schicht von Superreichen. Das Land Israel hat sich seiner Regierung immer noch nicht entledigt, allerdings gibt es auch keine Alternative zu einer korruptionszerfressenen großen Koalition, auch wir können da ein Lied von singen.

Die einzige Chance besteht darin, daß in den USA selbst sich die Einsicht durchsetzt, daß man mit Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit nichts gewinnen kann.

Ein Angriff auf den Iran wäre das Ende jeden Einflusses der USA über den amerikanischen Kontinent und Big Ben hinaus, eine ethnische Säuberung im Irak würde die westliche Invasionsarmee wahrscheinlich eh nicht mehr hinbekommen, ein Versuch wäre nur das sinnlose Unterfangen, sich selbst (also den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika) weltpoltisch den größtmöglichen Schaden zuzufügen. Auch ein Zerfall der USA ist bei dem ökonomischen, gesellschaftlichen, politischen und nicht zuletzt kulturellem Schaden, den der Krieg schon angerichtet hat, eine ernstzunehmende Gefahr. Jeder Versuch, den Krieg zu beenden ist ein Beitrag dazu, dies zu verhindern.

08.09.2019 - 15:17 [ Intercept ]

Joe Biden Is Proud of His Record on Iraq, but His Plan to Segregate It Would Have Unleashed Chaos

As Biden acknowledged this week, the plan to divide Iraq along ethnic lines he cooked up with Gelb was criticized at the time as more likely to incite than tamp down sectarian violence and ethnic cleansing, as it had early in the war in Bosnia and following the partitioning of Ireland, India, and Palestine in the last century. In each of those prior cases, partition, which looked good on paper and was accepted enthusiastically by extreme nationalist/segregationist leaders in each place, had the same result in practice: It encouraged violent sectarian cleansing and the destruction of the multiethnic societies that had existed in those territories for centuries.

08.09.2019 - 15:11 [ CNN ]

Joe Biden says he opposed the Iraq War soon after it started. A check of his record shows otherwise

„Nine months ago, I voted with my colleagues to give the president of the United States of America the authority to use force and I would vote that way again today. It was the right vote then and would be a correct vote today,“ Biden said in a July 2003 speech at the Brookings Institution.

Of the 20 Democrats still running for president in 2020, only two — Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — were in a position to vote on authorizing President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq back in 2002.

08.09.2019 - 15:03 [ Slate.com ]

When Did Joe Biden Start Believing He Had Opposed the Iraq War?

(04.09.2019)

This version of events is so twisted that the very next sentence of the NPR story starts debunking the idea that Biden was antiwar. But it’s worth unpacking more fully. Let’s start from the beginning and work our way through:

08.09.2019 - 14:47 [ theHill.com ]

Joe Biden lying about Iraq shows why our nation has so many wars

Hillary Clinton engaged in the same kind of historical revisionism. She was a reliable hawk on military interventions, including the disastrous intervention in Libya, without even a resolution; regarding Iraq, she jumped on the popular bandwagon for war. When it became less popular, however, she claimed to have been misled, even though she and her colleagues ignored those of us opposing the original war resolution.

08.09.2019 - 14:44 [ FOX 10 Phoenix / Youtube ]

FULL: Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren Speech In Manchester, New Hampshire

(24. Oktober 2016)

Hillary Clinton is praising Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, saying she gets under Donald Trump‘s „thin skin like nobody else.“

Clinton was joining the liberal favorite at a rally Monday at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, with two weeks to go before Election Day.

08.09.2019 - 14:39 [ wwwMOXNEWScom / Youtube ]

Elizabeth Warren „Anybody In Here Wanna Win In 2020?“

Elizabeth Warren Speech At New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention

08.09.2019 - 14:33 [ New York Times ]

Elizabeth Warren Stands Out at New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention

Out-of-state supporters for candidates including Mr. Biden and Senator Kamala Harris also attended the event, according to interviews and social media posts. Campaigns often bus in some supporters and allies for major events. It was not clear on Saturday night to what extent the different campaigns coordinated the importing of supporters. A Warren spokeswoman declined to comment.

08.09.2019 - 14:17 [ CBS News / Youtube ]

2020 Democrats head to New Hampshire for state convention

Nearly all of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are trying to rally support in New Hampshire this weekend. It‘s an especially crucial state for Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, two progressives from neighboring states.

08.09.2019 - 13:53 [ Daily Mail ]

Amid fevered rumours Boris Johnson is on the brink of resignation, Dominic Cummings tells senior Tory staff: Hold your nerve, act like TV’s Mr Cool – and it’ll be Happy Days!

Boris Johnson‘s powerful adviser Dominic Cummings has urged his army of Whitehall aides to hold their nerve and ‚be cool like Fonzie‘ over the Prime Minster‘s plan to ignore Parliament‘s orders to seek an extension to EU membership.

If MPs again block a General Election tomorrow, the Downing Street enforcer warned Government special advisers to prepare for an extraordinary showdown. He said Mr Johnson would refuse to bend to the will of Parliament – and insisted there is a ‚alternative‘ legal loophole.

08.09.2019 - 13:51 [ Spiked ]

The Remainer tyranny

This furious, anti-democratic wing of the elite, who make up the majority of the contemporary establishment, has been drifting towards extreme authoritarianism for two years now. They openly discuss overriding the largest democratic vote in British history. They condemn newspapers that use strong language to describe Remainer extremism. They make deals with the European Union above the heads of the prime minister, the Cabinet and the people to ensure that we stay in the EU for longer than planned. And now they warn the PM that if he doesn’t follow a new law insisting on an extension of the Article 50 process – and of the UK’s membership of the EU – then he will go to jail.

08.09.2019 - 13:11 [ John Mann, Member of Parliament / Twitter ]

My letter of resignation sent to Bassetlaw Labour Party members:

08.09.2019 - 13:09 [ The Sunday Times ‏/ Twitter ]

The Labour Party was plunged into civil war again this evening as a veteran MP revealed he is quitting the Commons to take up a full-time role as the government’s anti-semitism tsar

08.09.2019 - 12:59 [ theSun.co.uk ]

Speaker John Bercow tells aides he will quit at next election after Tories launch campaign to oust him

In 2009, he said he would only serve nine years as Speaker but has recently refused to step down.

A Commons source said Mr Bercow has privately told staff he is will step down as Speaker at the next election.

08.09.2019 - 12:53 [ Daily Mail ]

Boris Johnson tells John Bercow, ‚You‘re out!‘: Tories will oust ‚biased‘ Commons Speaker after he ripped up the rulebook and helped block Brexit

In an article for today‘s MoS – printed below – Ms Leadsom says that, by allowing MPs to take over the Parliamentary timetable, the Speaker ‚hasn‘t just bent the rules, he has broken them‘.

The Cabinet Minister – who clashed repeatedly with Mr Bercow when she was Commons Leader – describes last Tuesday‘s vote as ‚a flagrant abuse‘, adding: ‚It is right that the Conservatives will recognise this fact at the next General Election by standing our candidate in Buckingham.‘

08.09.2019 - 12:39 [ British Pathé / Youtube ]

Mr Churchill On Victory (1942)

Churchill says „Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning“.

08.09.2019 - 12:38 [ Zeit.de ]

Großbritannien: No-Deal-Brexit könnte Boris Johnson das Amt kosten

Das Gesetz gegen einen No-Deal-Brexit soll einen ungeregelten EU-Austritt Großbritanniens verhindern. Falls sich der Premier widersetzt, riskiert er eine Haftstrafe.

08.09.2019 - 12:12 [ theTimes.co.uk ]

Boris Johnson ‘to break law for Brexit’ as he snatches 14‑point lead over Corbyn

In a dramatic escalation of the prime minister’s war with parliament, Johnson will ignore legislation passed last week demanding that he seek an extension from Brussels to Brexit negotiations past the Halloween deadline — forcing MPs to take him to court.

Johnson will go to the EU summit on October 17 and seek a deal with Brussels — but if one is not agreed he will refuse to demand the extension to article 50 which the rebel legislation demands.

08.09.2019 - 12:05 [ Telegraph ]

Boris Johnson receives boost in polls despite damaging week in Parliament

Two polls published on Saturday evening give the Conservatives a commanding lead over Labour, suggesting that Mr Johnson’s hardline stance on Brexit is cutting through to voters.

The Tories are up three points on 35 percent in the latest Opinium poll, with Labour trailing in second place on 25 percent and the Liberal Democrats on 17 percent.

08.09.2019 - 11:56 [ Daily Mail ]

Theresa May leads fight to reinstate Remainer rebels as she emerges as the leading critic of Boris Johnson‘s ‚brutal‘ decision to purge 21 Tories

Mrs May has raised the issue directly with Party chairman James Cleverly and Chief Whip Mark Spencer on behalf of the group that includes former Chancellor Philip Hammond, ex-Justice Secretary David Gauke and Tory grandee Ken Clarke.

She approached Mr Cleverly behind the Speaker‘s Chair in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening to raise concerns about the legality of blocking any of the rebels from being candidates at the next Election.

08.09.2019 - 11:46 [ Daily Mail ]

Rogue Tories plot with Liberal Democrats: Rebel MPs stripped of the whip for voting against Boris Johnson‘s Brexit policy on verge of agreeing Election pact with Jo Swinson‘s party

Under the plan, if the rebels are not allowed back into the party, the Liberals and the Greens would not put up a candidate against MPs Rory Stewart, Sam Gyimah, Margot James and Dominic Grieve.

In return, if they were to beat the official Tory candidates and win election to the Commons, they would agree to take a ‚soft whip‘ from the Liberals, meaning they would vote with Ms Swinson‘s party on selected issues.

08.09.2019 - 11:42 [ Guido Fwkes ]

Is Rudd Resignation Really a Big Loss?

Amber Rudd was the least satisfactory member of the Cabinet in the eyes of Conservatives, according to the latest ConservativeHome polling. Pundits claiming Amber resigning will be a “huge loss for the Conservative Party” don’t understand the party or the reboot that is underway to align the party more closely with Brexit voters.

08.09.2019 - 11:38 [ PoliticsHome.com ]

Amber Rudd quits Cabinet and Conservative Party over ‚culling‘ of rebel MPs

The Work and Pensions Secretary accused the Prime Minister of „an assault on decency and democracy“ over the sacking of 21 Tory MPs who backed moves to prevent the UK leaving the EU without a deal.

Ms Rudd said Mr Johnson was guilty of „political vandalism“ and claimed Number 10 was now pursuing no-deal as official government policy.

08.09.2019 - 11:34 [ Spiked ]

The Brexit endgame

Has Boris lost control of Brexit? Did the Tory rebels deserve their fate? Why is Labour afraid of an election? Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss all this and more in this spiked podcast special.

08.09.2019 - 02:50 [ Reuters ]

Trump says he canceled peace talks with Taliban over attack

Trump said he had planned a secret meeting with the Taliban’s “major leaders” on Sunday at a presidential compound in Camp David, Maryland. Trump said he also planned to meet with Afghanistan’s president.

08.09.2019 - 02:43 [ Tagesschau ]

Frieden in Afghanistan: Trump bricht Verhandlungen mit Taliban ab

Kurz vor einem erwarteten Abkommen zwischen den USA und den radikalislamischen Taliban hat US-Präsident Donald Trump weitere Friedensverhandlungen völlig überraschend abgesagt. Trump schrieb auf Twitter, er habe ursprünglich für diesen Sonntag in Camp David geheime Treffen mit den Taliban und – getrennt davon – mit dem afghanischen Präsidenten Aschraf Ghani geplant.