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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965): |
La
XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965)
dichiara "la legittimità della
lotta da parte dei popoli sotto
oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il
loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti
gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e
materiale ai movimenti di liberazione
nazionale nei territori coloniali". |
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:: ONU
- Risoluzione 1514 |
"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e
asservimento costituisce una negazione
dei diritti umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite
ed è un impedimento alla promozione
della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di
tale diritto essi devono liberamente
determinare il loro status politico e
liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo
economico, sociale e culturale". |
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:: Convenzione
di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I
(1977): |
La lotta
armata può essere usata, come ultima
risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il
diritto all' autodeter-
minazione. |
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:: Tribunale
penale internazionale |
In
base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale
internazionale, sono definiti “crimini
di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
contro popolazione civili in quanto tali
o contro civili che non prendano
direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
nella consapevolezza che gli stessi
avranno come conseguenza la perdita di
vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e
lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà
civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e
gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano
manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme
dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi
militari previsti. |
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Israel Insults Britain (Again)
Stuart Littlewood
On Tuesday the Israeli navy, in a blatant act of piracy on the high seas, assaulted the vessel 'Spirit of Humanity' and abducted six British nationals who were taking part in a voyage of mercy. The tiny unarmed ship was bringing a humanitarian cargo of medicines, children's toys and reconstruction materials to the devastated people of Gaza. Israel's murderous 22-day offensive last December/January left more than 50,000 homes, 800 industrial properties, 200 schools, 39 mosques and two churches damaged or destroyed. The International Committee of the Red Cross says the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza are "trapped in despair", unable to rebuild their lives because Israel, having wantonly wrecked their civil society and infrastructure, is blocking efforts to bring in the necessary repair materials. Those on board the 'Spirit of Humanity' were acting in accord with donors' pledges of $4.5 billion for reconstruction and rehabilitation and US President Obama's request to Israel to let those supplies pass. ..
continua / continued  [55667] [ 04-jul-2009 00:38 ECT ] |
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The Base Court: Another Fortress Rising in America's Ring of Iron
Chris Floyd
While President Obama circumnavigates the globe, talking loftily of peace and engagement with the peoples of the world -- in language largely cribbed from old George Bush speeches, but presented in a far more photogenic, plausive package -- this is the real face that the United States is showing to the world. Chalmers Johnson writes: The U.S. Empire of Bases — at $102 billion a year already the world’s costliest military enterprise — just got a good deal more expensive. As a start, on May 27th, we learned that the State Department will build a new "embassy" in Islamabad, Pakistan, which at $736 million will be the second priciest ever constructed, only $4 million less, if cost overruns don’t occur, than the Vatican-City-sized one the Bush administration put up in Baghdad...
continua / continued [55663] [ 03-jul-2009 17:38 ECT ] |
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Coup “President” Installs Nephew as “Mayor” of Honduras’ Second City
Al Giordano |
The Oligarch Diaspora shouts, again and again, in its flailing attempt to convince the Honduran people and the world that its coup d’etat was somehow legitimate, "we want democracy!" Well, here’s a powerful example of the kind of "democracy" they apparently want. In November of 2008, the voters of San Pedro Sula – with a population of one million, it's the second largest city in Honduras – elected Mayor Rodolfo Padilla Sunseri (right, in the photo above) to be their Liberal Party candidate for mayor, with 63 percent of the vote. Another candidate in that contest – William Hall Micheletti (left, in the photo above, and doesn't that last name sound familiar?) – garnered just 16 percent, coming in third. Padilla went on to win the mayoralty. But when your uncle Roberto Micheletti is the newly installed dictator of your country, coming in third is good enough!...
continua / continued [55662] [ 03-jul-2009 15:09 ECT ] |
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Looking in the wrong places
Hamid Dabashi
...The cause of Palestinian national liberation has to be rescued from such demagoguery and re-written into our democratic aspirations in an emerging geopolitics of which these young Iranians, men and women, lower and middle class, demonstrating in the streets of their cities are a vanguard... Israel loves nothing more than its own mirror image in the region -- fanatical regimes that make it feel at home in the neighbourhood. And it would much rather deal with corrupt collaborationists from one end of the Arab and Muslim world to another, punctuated by populist demagogues. This is a moment in our history that requires visionary leadership (...) We are witness to an epistemic shift in our received political culture. We must learn from those who are risking their lives in the streets of Iran and muster courage and imagination to face and read it proactively, rather than collapse back to a structural-functional analysis of the status quo in which we are, in effect, saying to ourselves, "Listen folks, we are Orientals. Oriental despotism is written into our DNA, and charlatans like Ahmadinejad are the best we can produce," as our false guilt mistakes their lumpenism for their proletarian origins and projects, and then allows for our intellectual reticence to theorise their victory as self-evident. We need, for the sake of posterity, to think better of ourselves...
continua / continued [55656] [ 03-jul-2009 05:20 ECT ] |
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John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners
Jason Leopold
On January 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon's top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Establish a working group within the Department of Defense to assess the legal, policy and operational issues relating to the interrogations of detainees held by the US Armed Forces in the war on terrorism," the directives said. Among the issues to be addressed were "policy considerations with respect to the choice of interrogation techniques, including contribution to intelligence collection, effect on treatment of captured US military personnel, effect on detainee prosecutions, historical role of US armed forces in conducting interrogations, recommendations for employment of particular interrogation techniques by [Defense Department] interrogators."...
continua / continued [55651] [ 03-jul-2009 04:13 ECT ] |
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Picket Venezuelan Embassies!
Reza Fiyouzat, Revolutionary Flowerpot Society
...This theocracy is 'anti-imperialist' only in sinister gestures. In their well documented deeds, however, besides their stabbing in the back of the Nicaraguan revolution, they have helped the imperialists plenty in securing their plans for the greater Middle East, during their invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq... Thanks to the full account presented by Robert Parry, American readers must now know what a lot of Iranians have known for thirty years: that this theocracy colluded with the Reagan campaign team in the 1980 presidential elections, at the behest of the Israelis mind you (!!!), to make sure that Carter was not re-elected. And he wasn't. The history of the behind-the-scenes collaborations between the theocrats and the Republicans came to shameful yet insightful light in the form of the Iran-Contra Affair. But, it didn't stop there. For all the fire and the fury expressed about the axial qualifications for being evil bestowed on Iran by the Bush regime, during W's presidency, the trade between Iran and the U.S. actually increased tenfold. Also, Ahmadinejad's inflammatory rhetoric is a fantastically welcome dose of 'rising up of the temperatures' that the likes of Israeli war criminals love to have around. What better than another crazy in the neighborhood to justify the crazies in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
continua / continued [55650] [ 03-jul-2009 04:01 ECT ] |
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This Shame is Yours.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues |
So what's with this endless torture business in Iraq ? Fawziya al-Jashami said she had seen "horrific traces" of torture during a visit to a prison in the southern Province of Babel of which Hilla is the capital. "I saw types of torture which are so vicious and horrific that I cannot describe them as a woman. "It is a kind of sexual torture which one is ashamed to talk about and occurs for the first time in Iraq," Jashami, who heads the Human Rights Committee in the province, said. ...Hey, I thought the "Tyrant" and his regime were the ones who tortured...Did you not tell us about humans minced in meat machines then? Of course, all came out to be lies. But now, today, this hour, this minute, is where real torture is taking place in "democratic and free Iraq." I've written about Torture before, and I did mention Iraq's underworld. Out of sight, out of mind... Well, thank you Fawzia Al-Jashami, for your courage. As an Iraqi woman, today, in "free Iraq" it must have been very difficult for you to even utter the lines you did... But please Fawzia, don't be shy, timid, nor ashamed. Call things by their names. Leave aside your "pudeur - your "modesty", erase it from your dictionary of morals. In today's Iraq there are no morals left. So why are you so worried about words ?...
continua / continued [55622] [ 02-jul-2009 02:59 ECT ] |
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