" Nous naissons seuls / seules et nous mourons seuls / seules . Nous aurons passé nos vies à nous chercher nous-mêmes  , chez les autres , et nous n ' aurons jamais trouvé que nous - mêmes .
L ' on ne peut jamais retrouver chez l ' autre , l ' équivalent de ce que l ' on est . C  ' est Narcisse devant son miroir  , qui ne voit jamais que son reflet  , même avec les plus belles femmes du monde  , à côté de lui , ou les plus beaux hommes du monde pour elle ... "

                      Henri Laborit   ( biologiste des comportements , 1914 - 1995 , un passage à radio libertaire , en 1984 )

Ainsi nous aurions en commun , 240 à 960 gènes , avec feu l ' homo sapiens néanderthalensis , lui qui jadis , fut si calomnié ...

Wikileaks Documents Paint Grim Picture of Afghan War

Interview with Tom Engelhardt, creator of The Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com, conducted by Scott Harris

In one of the largest unauthorized releases of classified military files since the Vietnam War era Pentagon Papers in 1971, the website Wikileaks published some of the 91,000 documents of Pentagon field reports it obtained related to the war in Afghanistan. The documents, totaling over 200,000 pages, covers the period from January 2004 to December 2009 -- spanning the last five years of the Bush presidency and the first year of the Obama administration. 

The archive of military logs reveals a grim picture of a failing war that polls find is increasingly unpopular among a majority of Americans. The documents describe unreported incidents of U.S. and NATO forces killing of Afghan civilians; expansion of a CIA assassination program targeting suspected Taliban and al Qaeda leaders; the Taliban's acquisition of ground to air heat seeking missiles; and the use of increased Predator and Reaper remote-controlled drones piloted from a U.S. base in Nevada.

by Kenzaburo Oe

Tokyo

August 6, 2010

THE Futenma Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa, one of the largest United States military bases in East Asia, is in the center of a crowded city. The American and Japanese governments acknowledge the dangers of this situation, and they agreed nearly 15 years ago that the base should be moved; however, no move has yet been made.

In 2009 a new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, tantalized Okinawans with the prospect of moving the despised base off the island, but he was recently forced to resign, in part because of his failure to keep that promise. Mr. Hatoyama’s successor, Naoto Kan, has made it clear that he intends to respect the United States-Japan security treaty — a position that, while not directly related to the issue of dialing down the United States military presence in Japan, may indicate which way the wind is blowing.

August 3, 2010

Democracy Now! interview: http://bit.ly/cDw1LX

AMY GOODMAN: It’s been ten days since the whistleblower website WikiLeaks published the massive archive of classified military records about the war in Afghanistan, the largest leak in US history with some, oh, more than 91,0000 documents released. But the fallout in Washington and beyond is far from over. Justice Department lawyers are reportedly exploring whether WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange could be charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for publishing classified Afghan war documents.

On Thursday, authorities at Newark Liberty International Airport detained and questioned a twenty-seven-year-old WikiLeaks volunteer named Jacob Appelbaum. He was questioned for three hours, had his laptop computer and three cellphones seized. Appelbaum is a US citizen who was arriving at Newark after an international flight.

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by David Sirota

With the President Obama reversing his campaign promises on trade issues by pushing to pass NAFTA-style trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, and with the unemployment crisis persisting, the key jobs question is once again front and center in American politics. Specifically: How do we create jobs here at home and build our most valuable 21st century industries?

The first and foremost answer is that our government should stop doing stuff like the program described in this stunning new report from Information Week:

U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers

Despite President Obama's pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a hand-picked Obama appointee has launched a $22 million program to train workers, including 3,000 specialists in IT and related functions, in South Asia.

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.”

The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.

“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science.