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jeudi 28 février 2019
Chronique dans "Trudeau le midi": les cas Cohen et Wilson-Raybould
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mercredi 27 février 2019
mardi 26 février 2019
Pacte de non-agression entre les candidats démocrates?
"Democratic Party chairs in the four early presidential states are working to convince the 2020 presidential candidates to avoid waging social media disinformation warfare against each other.
"The effort began this week with a letter to state party chairs across the country broadly laying out the issue with an ultimate goal of establishing what amounts to a non-aggression pact, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/2020-cyber-nonaggression-pact-1187926
Caricature Robert Kraft ne lance pas la serviette
Caricature de Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com
La stratégie de Trump pour la Corée du nord séduit certains experts
"When Barack Obama took office, the boxes were a mixture of pinks and light reds. By the time he left office, eight out of 11 boxes were bright red, with North Korea testing missiles and bombs.
By 2017 — with Trump’s bombastically calling Kim “Little Rocket Man”— nine boxes were bright red.
“The risk of war was high,” Hecker said.
Since then, though, the diplomacy box has shifted to green. With North Korea suspending nuclear and missile tests, other boxes have returned to a more reassuring mid-red or pink.
“Rapid North/South rapprochement and the Singapore Summit in 2018 dramatically lowered tensions and the threat of war on the Korean Peninsula,” the trio says in a report, “creating space and time to pursue diplomatic solutions.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/its-certainly-unconventional-but-is-it-working-trumps-north-korea-strategy-wins-over-some-experts/2019/02/26/1c1a339e-39bf-11e9-b786-d6abcbcd212a_story.html?utm_term=.4fc7fe4b4b1b
Allégations d'abus sexuels à l'endroit de jeunes migrants détenus à la frontière à la hausse
"From October 2014 to July 2018, the HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement received 4,556 complaints, and the Department of Justice received 1,303 complaints. This includes 178 allegations of sexual abuse by adult staff."
https://www.axios.com/immigration-unaccompanied-minors-sexual-assault-3222e230-29e1-430f-a361-d959c88c5d8c.html
Michael Cohen pourrait incriminer Donald Trump
"The person said the document will refute a claim by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, that Cohen used a $35,000 a month retainer from Trump as reimbursement for paying off Daniels. Cohen — who will soon report to prison for a three-year sentence tied to a litany of tax fraud and lying charges — is scheduled to appear Wednesday in a public House hearing, and will also testify privately on Tuesday and Thursday before Senate and House investigators.
During his testimony, Cohen also plans to address a much-discussed BuzzFeed report that the president ordered him to lie to Congress about business dealings in Russia during the campaign. The story initially sparked impeachment speculation, but was later thrown into question when special counsel Robert Mueller’s office took the rare step of issuing a carefully worded denial of certain elements of the piece.
“He’ll explain exactly why he lied and how he came to lie,” said the person familiar with Cohen’s testimony."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/26/michael-cohen-testimony-congress-1186702
Aux origines de Jim Crow dans le nord
"When the conductor ordered them to separate, Douglass stayed put. The conductor laid down the usual ultimatum: the Jim Crow car or ejection. Collins demanded to know the basis for the conductor’s directive. The conductor ripped down a posted placard from the car’s entrance and thrust it toward them. Collins treated the placard’s words as one more debating point, arguing that the rule violated the state constitution’s guarantee of equal rights. But he and Douglass proved no match for the half-dozen men who seized Douglass and dragged him out of the car.
Then, a complicating sequence of events for the exasperated conductor: Another abolitionist on the train, George Foster, announced his intention to join Douglass in his exile from the whites-only car. The conductor stood firm against this unexpected challenge, telling Foster that he “was not black enough to sit there.” Foster fumed, but retreated.
The next day at the meeting in New Hampshire, Collins and Douglass ignited the assembled with their account. Soon, the abolitionists had more than another outrage to discuss. Thanks to Ruggles and Douglass, they now had a rallying cry and a new cause: Ban the “dirt car,” as it was also known. Send Jim Crow, they demanded, to the “receptacle of forgotten barbarisms.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2019/02/20/feature/the-forgotten-northern-pre-civil-war-origins-of-jim-crow/?utm_term=.0a84cd8889e9
lundi 25 février 2019
Caricature "The Green Book" vainqueur controversé
Caricature de David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star, Tucson, AZ
Semaine folle pour le communisme
"The big picture: In the three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, communism has faded in much of the world and, where it remains, been pushed “discreetly aside in the pursuit of business,” as Will Englund put it in the Washington Post.
“Today it lives on in only the most attenuated forms. North Korea is the one ferocious holdout among the remaining Communist nations, but even there markets have been changing the nature of the economy,” Englund writes."
https://www.axios.com/remaining-communist-countries-around-the-world-e2edaf11-efbe-4c36-b977-ee25a769e608.html
Une victoire démocrate en 2020 passe-t-elle par le midwest ou par le sud?
"Yet far away from the mounting snowdrifts that line every curb here, there is a growing school of thought that Democrats should not spend so much time, money and psychic energy tailoring their message to a heavily white, rural and blue-collar part of the country when their coalition is increasingly made up of racial minorities and suburbanites. The party should still pursue voters who have drifted toward Republicans, this thinking goes, but should also place a high priority on mobilizing communities more amenable to progressive politics.
The numerical swap between the three Rust Belt states that handed Mr. Trump the White House and the most alluring trio of Sun Belt targets is nearly even: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have a combined 46 electoral votes, while North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona offer 42. And an aspirational “reach” state like Texas would offer a larger trove of electoral votes for Democrats than the combined total of Ohio and Iowa, states that have started to slip away from the party."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/us/politics/democrats-2020-midwest-voters.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Politics
Mike Pence plus puissant qu'on ne le croit
"Pence also exerts power on other critical foreign policy issues. He publicly — and controversially —attacked European allies in a recent Warsaw speech for not supporting Trump's maximum pressure campaign on Iran.
He infuriated Turkish officials while working with Trump to secure the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson from a Turkish prison.
He also gave the toughest speech on China by any American leader in recent history, and has worked with key officials, including John Bolton, to shape the administration's China policy."
https://www.axios.com/mike-pence-trump-administration-power-venezuela-4debcdd5-9719-42a3-8ac9-95ab4f5e9dd5.html
Caricature Cohen témoigne enfin devant le congrès
Caricature de Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Retirer la citoyenneté à des Américains qui ont combattu pour l'État islamique?
"I share Thomas Hegghammer’s suspicion that the harsh attitude of U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid toward Shamima Begum (who gave birth on Sunday, and wants to bring her baby home too) owes much to a desire to deter future terrorist travelers. Begum is now among the most detested Britons. Unlike Muthana, she has expressed no regret at having left London for Syria. If she is allowed back, some may reasonably conclude that joining a murderous cult is a decision with little legal downside, especially if during your terrorist holiday you refrain from Instagramming evidence of your complicity in murder. (How will prosecutors prove that these women are guilty of anything? Until very recently, we didn’t even know they were alive.) Being turned into an example, for purposes of deterrence, is partly bad luck for Begum. Of course, criminals have bad luck all the time, and that alone is not a reason to treat her mildly.
But of all arguments against denaturalization, I find the moral ones most compelling: Begum and Muthana are ours. ISIS foreign fighters think of themselves as members of a Muslim ummah stretching back 1,400 years. But my reporting shows that with very few exceptions, they always bear marks of the culture in which they were raised. They thought the Islamic State would be a utopia, but usually their idea of utopia was conditioned by the ideals of their home nation. Japanese recruits projected onto the caliphate an idealized form of Japanese culture; Texans saw an Islamic Wild West; Brits thought that the Islamic State would fulfill a dream of social welfare that the U.K. had aspired to, but never quite managed to create."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/isis-fighters-begum-and-muthana-should-remain-citizens/583450/
Lady Gaga et Bradley Cooper nous ont-ils offert le moment de la soirée avec leur interprétation de "Shallow"
Je n'ai pas l'habitude de relayer beaucoup d'articles sur les différentes remises de prix aux États-Unis, encore moins pour commenter une interprétation. Si je me limite souvent au caractère politique de certains choix, je croise dans mes lectures du matin un grand nombre d'articles sur la performance des deux vedettes du film "A star is born", deuxième remake d'un succès des années 1930. J'avoue avoir été séduit par l'aisance et le naturel avec lesquels les deux artistes ont quitté leur siège respectif pour offrir une très solide performance. Selon l'auteur de cet article, la puissance de ce duo trouve son origine dans la manière de filmer la scène.
"The same could be said for Sunday’s supernaturally intimate rendition of “Shallow,” the building-then-boiling duet that would later win Best Original Song. The first brilliant thing that Cooper and Gaga did was break with the loud, fake-y, predictable rhythm of awards shows: After one acceptance speech ended, the guitar-picking began, without so much as a canned joke of a celebrity introduction. Cameras placed viewers at the back of the stage; the curtain lifted; crew members pushed a piano into place. Welding-hot lights from the stands of the theater, seen from a singer’s vantage, evoked the final scene of A Star Is Born. A slow-floating lens searched as if it were God’s eye, or a director’s. The TV gala, it seemed, had ended. A movie was beginning.
And then Gaga and Cooper got up.
As in, they got out of their seats in the front row where they’d been sitting all night. It was such a simple thing, and so shocking. Naturally, the point of the Oscars is the audience itself, with each member a potential trove of speeches, GIFs, and gossip. Cooper and Gaga provided such treats in generous quantities over the awards season, with months of mutual-admiration spectacles on red carpets fueling speculation—fan fiction, really—of an affair. Last week, Gaga’s engagement to Christian Carino ended, intensifying the heavy breathing among observers. On Sunday, Cooper’s longtime partner, Irina Shayk, sat between him and Gaga in the front row: a theoretically un-extraordinary move that landed like a dramatic twist in the narrative."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/02/lady-gaga-bradley-cooper-shallow-oscars-review/583525/
Alva Johnson poursuit Donald Trump: le candidat Trump l'aurait embrassée sans son consentement
"Johnson, an event planner who lives in Madison County, Ala., is seeking unspecified damages for emotional pain and suffering. The federal lawsuit, filed Monday in Florida, also alleges that the campaign discriminated against Johnson, who is black, by paying her less than her white male counterparts. A campaign spokeswoman, Kayleigh McEnany, rejected that claim as “off-base and unfounded.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/former-campaign-staffer-alleges-in-lawsuit-that-trump-kissed-her-without-her-consent-the-white-house-denies-the-charge/2019/02/25/fe1869a4-3498-11e9-946a-115a5932c45b_story.html?utm_term=.0d4fbfa0a947
Sommet Donald Trump et Kim Jong-Un: un seul gagnant possible?
"As the second Trump-Kim meeting approaches, North Korea looks to have the upper hand again.
Mr. Kim has been playing hardball. If the United States “persists in imposing sanctions and pressure against our Republic,” he warned in his New Year’s address last month, “we may be compelled to find a new way for defending the sovereignty of the country and the supreme interests of the state and for achieving peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula.”
Team Trump, for its part, is painfully understaffed. The Senate has yet to confirm an assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific. Stephen Biegun, the special representative for North Korea, is widely respected, but has been working the file for just six months. The North Korean side has brushed off American entreaties both for a nuclear inventory and for setting up substantive working groups ahead of the summit in Hanoi. All of that is to its advantage."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/opinion/trump-kim-hanoi-summit.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
Donald Trump reproche à Spike Lee une déclaration raciste
"Aside from his acceptance speech, Lee also spoke about Trump on Sunday night while talking to reporters.
In response to a question, Lee referred to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last year that turned deadly.
“That car drove down that one street in Virginia, and the president of the United States did not reject, refute, did not denounce the Klan, Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis,” Lee said. “This film, whether we won Best Picture or not, this film will stand the test of time being on the right side of history.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-accuses-spike-lee-of-delivering-a-racist-hit-on-him-at-oscars/2019/02/25/1a78d5f2-38f4-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html?utm_term=.ae00b687dda7
L.histoire noire du "Green Book"
"The Green Book was subversive in another way as well. It promoted an image of African-Americans that white Americans rarely saw — and that Hollywood deliberately avoided in films for fear of offending racist Southerners. The guide’s signature image, shown on the cover of the 1948 edition — and used as stationery logo for Victor Green, Inc. — consisted of a smiling, well-dressed couple striding toward their car carrying expensive suitcases.
Green believed exposing white Americans to the black elite might persuade white business owners that black consumer spending was significant enough to make racial discrimination imprudent. Like the black elite itself, he subscribed to the view that affluent travelers of color could change white minds about racism simply by venturing to places where black people had been unseen. As it turned out, black travelers had a democratizing effect on the country."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/opinion/green-book-black-travel.html
dimanche 24 février 2019
vendredi 22 février 2019
jeudi 21 février 2019
Peut-on maintenant acheter un poste d'ambassadeur américain?
"Though favored by presidents, America's preference for selecting ambassadors from outside the professional diplomatic corps is rare among advanced democracies and is opposed by the U.S. Foreign Service's professional association."
https://www.axios.com/trump-ambassadors-less-qualified-campaign-contributions-b01cda50-2bf8-4868-9b4d-37d125eda347.html
mercredi 20 février 2019
Caricature Justin Trudeau inquiet des retombées du départ de Gerald Butts
Caricature de Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
lundi 18 février 2019
Jasper Johns la légende américaine
"Johns has assiduously avoided his public throughout his career, and yet he has also managed to consistently speak to what it is to be alive in America at any given moment. From his iconic paintings in the mid-50s of the American flag, which seemed to embody the fallout of Red Scare nationalism, to the modish apathy of his bronze sculptures of banal objects like flashlights and light bulbs, to his almost compulsive return in his later paintings to a holistic system of ambiguous symbols like galaxy spirals and cartoonish stick figures holding exaggeratedly large paintbrushes, he has been in a constant state of reinvention. He is the rare artist whose work has never become stale, who in his 80s is still creating strange and mysterious images that could be looked at endlessly and never fully reveal themselves. Whether Johns is actually about anything (or nothing) in particular has been the central question of his work, and yet it is ultimately less important than his endless search for meaning itself — the mere act of the lone artist entering the studio every day and deciding to continue. His constant presence is defined mostly by self-erasure, which has made him an artist who has disappeared almost entirely into his work. There is a sense that he’s been here forever, and that no one will replace him once he’s gone."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/t-magazine/jasper-johns.html
Le complot pour assassiner George Washington
“We love in America to tell the story of the American Revolution where we just all held hands together, dreamed of democracy and took on the British,” Meltzer says. “It's a great story. It's not the real story.”
There was no polling data then, but historians estimate that in the summer of 1776, about one in five white colonists were loyal to the king. Most loyalists were in the middle colonies of New York and New Jersey, and included New York’s royal governor, William Tryon.
Tryon had been forced into a strange exile onboard a ship docked in the New York harbor, where he waited for the British invasion and took regular visitors. One of those visitors was David Mathews, the loyalist mayor of New York City. Together, they worked on a way to help the British from behind enemy lines.
“The plan was that they were going to blow up certain bridges, they were going to steal cannons, and some said they were going to kill George Washington right there in an assassination. And others say they were going to kidnap him and hang him,” Meltzer says.
Obviously, the two would need help to pull off something so huge, and it was Mathews’s job to recruit conspirators. He got at least four of them from Washington’s elite Life Guard, a sort of proto-Secret Service responsible for protecting the commander in chief."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/02/17/plot-assassinate-george-washington-how-it-was-foiled/?utm_term=.bdffe7d6f6a7
Les Américains de tous les états sauf le Vermont échoueraient le test de citoyenneté
"It suggests most Americans can't live up to the standards we set for people applying to be U.S. citizens — and we set those standards because we expect Americans to be informed and engaged. Only four out of 10 Americans would have passed the test, and just 27% of those under age 45."
https://www.axios.com/happy-presidents-day-history-is-hard-8dbed5a2-07f6-43f4-bfab-0836597bfba8.html
dimanche 17 février 2019
Colin Kaepernick s'entend avec la NFL et pourrait jouer avec les Panthers
"By signing Reid last year and then re-signing him to a long-term deal, the Panthers have shown that they aren't afraid of putting a player on the roster who wants to make a political statement. That makes them a strong fit for Kaepernick.
Also, there is some uncertainty surrounding starting quarterback Cam Newton. Carolina shut down Newton late last season because of a shoulder injury, and he underwent surgery in January. If Newton has to miss part of the 2019 season, the Panthers may be in the market for a quarterback.
Carolina's offense is built around a dual-threat quarterback in Newton, and Kaepernick is similar in that he can beat teams with his legs and his big arm."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2821162-colin-kaepernicks-lawyer-mark-geragos-predicts-qb-could-play-for-panthers?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
Caricature la taille de la dette ne fait pas peur aux Républicains
Caricature de Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, MN
Un démocrate blanc et hétérosexuel peut-il encore déposer sa candidature?
"Does this mean that Democratic Party voters are so obsessed with identity politics that they are shutting straight white men out of the party? No. Who have been the top two candidates in nearly every primary poll? Not just two straight white males, but geriatric ones: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are the two oldest straight white men in the lot. In the most recent POLITICO/Morning Consult Democratic presidential primary tracking poll, the straight white male candidates, largely driven by Biden and Sanders, combined to garner 64 percent of the vote. Biden and Sanders are holding the top slots with the help of double-digit support among African-Americans, Latinos and women, showing that it remains possible for a white male Democratic candidate to knit together a diverse coalition.
Still, the straight white men—including Biden and Sanders—are not being irrational by hesitating. Yes, they are risking a loss of media buzz, A-list staff and access to donor networks by allowing others get a head start. But they have good reason to tread carefully. Issues pertaining to race and gender are bound to be prominent in the campaign, and white men do not exactly have the best track record of dealing with them."
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/02/17/white-male-democrats-2020-225101
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