Daily World Buzz

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Côte d'Ivoire, the massacre of women demonstrating against Gbagbo

Fifty dead in a week, 365 victims from 28 November last day of a crisis that slips dangerously close to civil war. Paralyzed from the incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to recognize the results of presidential elections that marked the victory of his rival Alassane Ouattara, Côte d'Ivoire continues to live days of rising tension.

In the morning, hundreds of women were without courage and took to the streets in Abobo, a district north of the capital inhabited by the supporters of Ouattara. "They started to raise slogans and placards against the Gbagbo," say many witnesses. "At one point, one lane of the square rushed a couple of jeeps loaded with armed men.

I'll be back in Italy!

I started some time ago to London, to try to build a hope that in my home country, Italy, I was constantly, mercilessly, destroyed. The problem is that this dream, this hope, I realized I was not even able to understand how to build, how it can be done, for that matter. What does it mean to have a future, a prospect? What does it mean to imagine that your work, whatever it is, bring a contribution to society, that society needs you, and not only seeks to exploit you and marginalized because he who was born at the right time and right place, and it is built his castle and security privileges, can continue to do what he does? Ever since I enrolled at university in Italy, I was taught that my opinion did not count, I had to learn only passively, that I was not a person with sufficient means to develop a thought, my self.

Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi suspected of plagiarism university

According to the statements of one of its spokesmen, the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) investigate whether the youngest son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, was guilty of plagiarism in his thesis Philosophy on the theme "The role of civil society in the democratization of international governance institutions," dated September 2007.

"The school takes very seriously all allegations of plagiarism and studying the matter in accordance with the procedures of the LSE," said the spokesman Tuesday 1st March. The charges were initiated by scholars who wished to remain anonymous, according to the student newspaper of the LSE, The Beaver.

Dying for the Tripoli Western dilemma

Intervene or not intervene? This is the problem. The readiness shown by the delusional dictator Muammar Gaddafi nell'ammazzare that the Libyans, he says, love it all, but they have strange ways to express it - takes us back to the crucial issue of our time. I defy anyone who watches the air attack Gaddafi city under siege not to admit that it is legitimate to discuss the desirability of at least some intervention by outside powers to prevent other victims of the dictator to his people.

Manning case: United States accuse WikiLeaks informant in 22 points

The pressure on Bradley Manning grows. The U.S. authorities have 22 new charges against the alleged informant of the unveiling platform published WikiLeaks. A soldier is accused, among other things, "collaborating with the enemy". It is suspected to have passed more than 250,000 secret despatches of the diplomatic service of the U.S. to WikiLeaks. Now Bradley Manning, according to U.S. media reports in 22 other points have been indicted. Be the worst accusations of weight "collaboration with the enemy", the U.S. NBC television network reported Wednesday, citing military sources. If convicted, he faces the death penalty here.

Why say no to intervention in Libya

Hillary Clinton, albeit ambiguously, raised the possibility of U.S. and NATO military intervention in Libya: "We will continue to explore all possible avenues for further action ... There is no imminent military action involving U.S. ships." The key words are "all" and "imminent." When it is stated that "all" options are possible it also includes the military.

And what is not "imminent" today could become tomorrow. Meanwhile, the Sixth Fleet is en route to the coast of Libya and Italy has already authorized the U.S. to use for its air base in Sigonella "purely humanitarian purposes." And you know how they end the "humanitarian purposes" operated by trigger-happy American pilots.