USA: Jill Stein, candidate du parti écologiste, veut un virage à gauche USA: Jill Stein, candidate du parti écologiste, veut un virage à gauche BALTIMORE (Etats-Unis) - Les Verts américains --minoritaires dans le système de bipartisme américain-- ont désigné samedi Jill Stein pour les représenter à l'élection présidentielle de novembre, où cette pédiatre de 62 ans défendra des idées fermement ancrées à gauche. Lors de la convention du parti écologiste, à Baltimore (Maryland, est), Jill Stein a réaffirmé ces idées, espérant faire entendre la voix des écologistes au milieu des luttes au sommet entre démocrates et républicains qui monopolise l'essentiel de l'attention médiatique. Les Verts veulent promouvoir un système de santé universel, abroger les frais de scolarité dans les universités, annuler les dettes contractées par les étudiants et mettre en place immédiatement un moratoire sur les saisies de maisons. Les deux femmes espèrent pouvoir être en course dans plus de 45 Etats. Candidate brillante Mme Honkala, a quant à elle une histoire étonnante.
The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International Getty Images Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning, a former army intelligence analyst in Iraq, faces up to 52 years in prison. He is currently being held in solitary confinement at a military base in Quantico, Virginia, where he is not allowed to see his parents or other outside visitors. Assange, the organizing brain of Wikileaks, enjoys a higher degree of freedom living as a hunted man in England under the close surveillance of domestic and foreign intelligence agencies -- but probably not for long. Published reports suggest that a joint Justice Department-Pentagon team of investigators is exploring the possibility of charging Assange under the Espionage Act, which could lead to decades in jail.
Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy Attacks? When a series of crackdowns on the Occupy camps suddenly occurred in, more or less, the same week, many observers wondered if perhaps the attacks had been coordinated at a national level. Oakland Mayor Jean Quan confirmed that suspicion during an appearance on the BBC - excerpted on The Takeaway radio program - when she casually mentioned taking part in a conference call with the leaders of 18 US cities right before the raids. “I was recently on a conference call with 18 cities across the country who had the same situation," said Quan. It turns out one of the 18 leaders who sat in on the call was Portland Mayor Sam Adams. In addition to conferring with their fellow mayors, it appears city leadership also received an assist from the Department of Homeland Security, according to journalist Rick Ellis at the Examiner. The existence of these types of conference calls could help to explain the near-universal brutal police response to Occupy.
Attaqué par le camp Obama, Romney assure n'avoir "rien à cacher" aux impôts Le candidat républicain à la Maison Blanche Mitt Romney a assuré mardi qu'il n'avait "rien à cacher" aux impôts, en réponse aux attaques du camp démocrate lui reprochant de rester très discret sur certains comptes qu'il détiendrait à l'étranger. Dans un entretien accordé à Radio Iowa (centre), M. Romney a affirmé que ses comptes étaient gérés par un mandataire et que lui-même n'avait aucun droit de regard dessus. "Je ne m'en occupe pas moi-même. "Cet administrateur respecte toutes les lois américaines. Ancien repreneur d'entreprises avec son entreprise de capital-risque Bain Capital, M. Il a indiqué à Radio Iowa que le président démocrate sortant, candidat à sa réélection le 6 novembre, essayait de "faire tout ce qu'il pouvait pour détourner l'attention de son mauvais bilan sur l'emploi et du fait qu'il ne propose rien pour améliorer les choses". Plus tard mardi, lors d'une réunion électorale à Grand Junction (Colorado, ouest), M. Et revenant à la situation financière de M.
WikiLeaks v the imperial presidency's poodle | Pratap Chatterjee Harold Koh, in 2000. As chief legal counsel to secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Koh has led the administration counterattack with his condemnation of WikiLeaks' release of the US embassy cables. Photograph: AP/Donald Stampfli Anticipating Sunday's release of classified US embassy cables, Harold Koh, the top lawyer to the US state department, fired off a letter to Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, on Saturday morning accusing him of having "endangered the lives of countless individuals". Koh, a former dean of Yale law school, is also the man who authored a legal opinion for the Obama administration this past March stating that the president had the right to authorise "lethal operations" to target and kill alleged terrorists anywhere in the world without judicial review. Koh became a law professor at Yale university, one of the top five in the US. Koh was the first to get his chance. Two months later, Barack Obama swept to power.
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons.
Élections américaines: Obama et Romney restent au coude-à-coude dans les sondages ETATS-UNIS - Barack Obama et son adversaire républicain Mitt Romney restent au coude-à-coude dans les intentions de vote, malgré le récent arrêt de la Cour suprême ayant validé la réforme de l'assurance maladie du président américain sortant, selon un sondage publié mardi. Alors que Barack Obama était attendu mardi matin dans l'Iowa (centre) pour une journée de campagne, 47% des électeurs inscrits interrogés dans cette enquête Washington Post-ABC affirment qu'ils voteront pour lui, et 47% pour Mitt Romney. Ces chiffres n'ont pas évolué depuis la précédente livraison de l'enquête il y a un mois, alors qu'entre-temps, le 28 juin, la Cour suprême a accordé une victoire majeure au président démocrate en déclarant constitutionnelle la réforme de l'assurance maladie promulguée en mars 2010. Obama a pour lui sa connaissance des dossiers Mais 50% des personnes interrogées affirment que Barack Obama comprend mieux que son adversaire les problèmes économiques des Américains.
Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America | Threat Level A truly free press — one unfettered by concerns of nationalism — is apparently a terrifying problem for elected governments and tyrannies alike. It shouldn’t be. In the past week, after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables, secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has been hit with denial-of-service attacks on its servers by unknown parties; its backup hosting provider, Amazon, booted WikiLeaks off its hosting service; and PayPal has suspended its donation-collecting account, damaging WikiLeaks’ ability to raise funds. MasterCard announced Monday it was blocking credit card payments to WikiLeaks, saying the site was engaged in illegal activities, despite the fact it has never been charged with a crime. Meanwhile, U.S. politicians have ramped up the rhetoric against the nonprofit, calling for the arrest and prosecution and even assassination of its most visible spokesman, Julian Assange. WikiLeaks is not perfect, and we have highlighted many of its shortcomings on this website.
Raids on OWS coordinated with Obama’s FBI, Homeland Security & others Update: ‘Occupy’ crackdowns coordinated with federal law enforcement officials Minneapolis Top News Examiner November 15, 2011 Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night’s move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies. The official, who spoke on background to me late Monday evening, said that while local police agencies had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies, the ultimate decision on how each jurisdiction handles the Occupy protests ultimately rests with local law enforcement.
Supreme Court upholds health-care law, individual mandate The decision keeps in place the largest new social program in a generation, a major overhaul of the health-care system that could extend coverage to about 30 million Americans. It creates state-run insurance exchanges and eliminates what have been some of the most unpopular insurance practices. The ruling did limit one significant portion of the law, which sought to expand Medicaid to cover millions more poor and disabled people. The program is a joint federal-state effort, and the court said the law’s requirement that states rapidly extend coverage to new beneficiaries or lose existing federal payments was unduly coercive. Obama welcomed the justices’ decision, which he called “a victory for people all over this country whose lives will be more secure.” At the core of the legislation is the mandate that Americans obtain health insurance by 2014. But Roberts found another way to rescue it. Justice Anthony M. “The court’s ruling undermines those values at every turn.”
Evicting the Public Why has occupying public spaces brought such heavy-handed repression? Across America police have been called to clear protestors from parks and university campuses. Ostensibly progressive cities like Portland and Oakland have been in the vanguard of evictions. In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg took pride in giving police a direct order to evict the original Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park. It is disturbing to see governments in ostensibly democratic America taking actions reminiscent of the Chinese government ousting protestors from Tiananmen Square. One should not just condemn his actions but wonder why he and a variety of other well-intentioned leaders thought such actions made sense. There is the obvious point that Bloomberg’s fortune was made mainly in financial services not public service. Similar decisions have been made by officials across the country, Democrats as well as Republicans.
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The NYPD Didn't Want You To See Occupy Wall Street Get Evicted A police officer carries trash through Zuccotti Park (AP) During our coverage of the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early this morning, a NPR reporter, a New York Times reporter, and a city councilmember were arrested. Airspace in Lower Manhattan was closed to CBS and NBC news choppers by the NYPD, a New York Post reporter was allegedly put in a "choke hold" by the police, a NBC reporter's press pass was confiscated and a large group of reporters and protesters were hit with pepper spray. According to the eviction notice, the park was merely "cleaned and restored for its intended use." If this is the case, why were so few people permitted to view it? "Get the fuck back! Police began vigorously jamming the torsos of those who stood on the sidewalk with their batons. Hundreds of NYPD officers filled Broadway in a show of force (Gothamist) Cornell Brown, a producer at an ad agency who lives on Wall Street, tried to speak with a police officer during a lull.