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Titolo: Geopolitica su Economist - Caucaso, Iraq e Balcani

L'economist della settimana 19/8 - 25/8, quello con in copertina
lo smiley triste con titolo " what the internet cannot do" e'
assai interessante per gli appassionati di geopolitica (o per coloro
i quali vogliano sondare gli abissi dell'ignoranza di alcuni dei
piu' noti tuttologi che postano su SCI) - putroppo nella
edizione on line 
http://www.economist.com/
 solo
Caucaso e Iraq sono on line, ovvero:
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_sa5744.html
che nel caso qualcuno avesse dei dubbi sul perche' scoppino le guerre
li nei paraggi basta leggersi:
(..)
For energy firms, the Caucasus is a way out for the oil and gas around
the Caspian Sea. Proven reserves are estimated at 18 billion-35 billion
barrels—about as much as America and the North Sea combined. This could
rise threefold if a big new find off the Kazakh coast proves as
promising as results announced in July suggest.
(..)
tirare una linea sui percorsi degli oleodotti, se poi si vogliono
estrapolare le route fino in Europa il quadro diventa piu' chiaro.
gia' che si e' li' in zona, notare che Economist e' una rivista
Inglese, ci si puo' leggere anche:
http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/current/index_ir0404.html
The zapping of Iraq
Iraq and the UN
 HISTORIANS studying turn-of-the-century events may be baffled by the
Iraqi element. Why, they might ask, did American and British aircraft
bomb a warehouse, and perhaps a railway station too, in southern Iraq
in mid-August 2000?
Simple, the texts will say. To protect the southern Iraqis from the
dictator in Baghdad, American and British aircraft are patrolling the
skies, preventing the Iraqis from attacking their dissidents. Every now
and then, when radar is turned in their direction, they drop bombs on
Iraqi anti-aircraft sites. Precision bombing, regrettably, is not
always as precise as it should be. But did the patrols at least render
southern Iraqis safer from persecution? There is little evidence they
did.
(..)But the latest head of the UN oil-for-food mission (his two
predecessors resigned in disgust) emphasised this week that the UN’s
precautionary hold on an “excessive” number of purchasing contracts was
seriously hindering the humanitarian programme. And UNICEF has just
reminded the world that, in the 1990s, the sanctions regime is
estimated to have cost the lives of half a million Iraqi children under
five.
L'articolo piu' interessante  per le lunghe discussioni avutesi sul
Kossovo "Balkan peace in the balance" non e' putroppo on-line,
peccato.
Morale geopolitica:
diritti umani alla base degli interventi umanitari dell'Impero del Bene?
seh!!
Claudio
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Before you buy.

 seh!!
Ma come, De Diana, come FAI a dubitare che i
diritti umani
non sono in PRIMISSIMO piano nella politica
profondamente
umanitaria di USA, NATO & co  :
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/08/23/colombia.aid/index.html
                        Clinton OKs Colombia aid
package despite
country's
                        human rights abuses
                        WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S.
President Bill Clinton has set the stage for the
release of a $1.3 billion aid
                        package for Colombia's
anti-drug efforts -- certifying that the war-torn
nation has met minimum human
                        rights requirements and
waiving conditions it has yet to meet, said an
administration official.
                        Human rights groups say
Colombia's human rights record does not merit a
waiver. But the Clinton
                        administration believes
that stance is undercut by Colombia's need to gain
the upper hand in its drug war.
                        "There clearly is an
urgency in providing assistance to Colombia," said
the administration official, who asked not
                        to be named. "This gets
the money going so that Colombia can deal with its
counter-drug effort."
                        The official noted that
Congress had only recently mandated human
                        rights requirements, so it
was not surprising that Colombia had not
                        yet demonstrated complete
compliance with those criteria.
                        "We fully expect before
the next certification period that Colombia
                        will be able to
demonstrate further compliance," he said.
                        Civilian courts to try
military abuses
                        The official said that
Clinton on Tuesday night waived five of the human
rights requirements and certified two
                        conditions, including one
that was met when Colombia President Andres
Pastrana recently issued a directive
                        that any military
personnel accused of human rights abuses would be
tried in a civilian court.
                        The official said the
current aid package includes "a great deal of
support" for human rights programs in
                        Colombia and for
additional security for human rights workers.
                        Another official told CNN
on Tuesday that the administration was eager to
begin spending a first allotment of
                        the funding before the
fiscal year ends on September 30.
                        Legislation requiring the
administration to certify that Colombia has met
certain human rights reforms was
                        passed by Congress earlier
this summer, when it approved the aid package.
                        U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright recommended to Clinton on
Friday that he waive six of the seven
                        requirements, a senior
official told CNN. The official said most of the
requirements could not have been met
                        "under any circumstances,"
leading Albright to ask simply for a written
promise from President Pastrana to try
                        any military personnel
suspected of violating human rights.
                        The official said
Colombian law lacked the authority to carry out
such investigations and prosecutions in full.
                        "There have to be changes
in the law which will accommodate that," he said.
                        Human rights groups
criticize waivers
                        Human rights groups have
criticized the waiver as unearned and say they
fear a "sea change" in human rights in the
                        South American country.
                        "A waiver speaks to the
lack of political will on the part of the U.S.
with regard to human rights," said Carlos
                        Salinas, acting director
of government relations for Amnesty International.
                        Salinas insisted that
Colombian law does provide for the conditions to
be met. "I can't see how the U.S. can
                        possibly certify Colombia
on human rights grounds or any other grounds."
                        He said he believes the
requirements are reasonable and could have become
"a powerful tool which could
                        radically alter the
landscape in Colombia."
                        The waiver allows the
Clinton administration to spend some of the $1.3
billion aid package approved by
                        Congress last month to
help Colombia's battle against illegal drugs,
before the September 30 cutoff.
                        Colombia would have been
obligated to total elimination of all coca and
opium production by the year 2005, a
                        feat that another senior
State Department official said would be a "real
tough one to meet -- ever."
                        'Hundreds' of soldiers
suspected
                        The congressional mandates
also would have required Colombia to suspend and
prosecute soldiers caught
                        violating human rights. A
State Department official said there are
"hundreds" of soldiers suspected of such
                        violations.
                        Earlier this month, a
senior State Department official noted a "fairly
strong expectation" the conditions would
                        be waived, in order to
proceed with spending some of the money
authorized.
                        But, he added, the
activists, including over 80 Colombian-based human
rights groups, "made very clear" they
                        were "very much opposed"
to the aid package, on the basis that the current
conflict in Colombia is a
                        "military-heavy
counterinsurgency which will lead to thousands of
displaced Colombians and cause the death of
                        hundreds of innocent
civilians."
                        "It is a difficult line to
draw," he said of the potential for casualties.
"But the paramilitaries, rebels in the area,
                        have become targets
because they are involved in drugs."
                        A U.S. delegation met with
Colombian leaders earlier this month to discuss
the aid package, under which the
                        United States would
dispatch 90 Army helicopters to Colombia's armed
forces. U.S. military authorities would
                        train their Colombian
counterparts to use the aircraft to eradicate drug
crops and combat Marxist rebels, who
                        control roughly 40 percent
of the country and have ties to Colombian drug
traffickers.
                        The creation of a human
rights monitoring system is also expected to be a
first priority.
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 dispatch 90 Army helicopters to Colombia's armed
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..trattasi infatti di aiuti all'industria areospaziale americana,
caratteristica di detta industria  americana e' quella di strillare
come vergini
offese per i, a loro dire, "aiuti governativi" al consorzio Airbus
ed incassare silenziosamente questi ordini cosi' amorevolmente emessi
dal loro
governo.
E' affascinante notare che la patria del libero mercato
mica gli dice ai Colombiani di prendersi la grana e comprarsi il
migliore elicottero disponibile - no, la patria del libero mercato
gli dice ai Colombiani: "beccati 'sti 90 Blackhawk che sono tanto
bellini e stop".
Sic transit il libero mercato.
Un libro di un Americano (che di certo non puo' essere sospettato
di appartenere all'internazionale Marxista :-)) e' questo di Luttwack
(noto analista strategico - vi consiglio "Il Pentagono e l'arte della
guerra" un libro illuminante davvero) qui sotto.
In argomento droghe, del suo "la dittatura
del capitalismo", vi consiglio il capitolo su "lo spacciatore
razionale".
Claudio
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060193301/o/
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 Sic transit il libero mercato.
E se la Colombia avesse la forza di mandare la sua marina militare a
risalire la foce dell'Hudson ed imporre agli Usa di aprire nelle sue città
costiere "concessioni" per lo spaccio di cocaina?
Non sarebbe un bel (si fa per dire) contrappasso di dantesca memoria?
I cinesi lo troverebbero senz'altro divertente!
ciao
Danilo

 seh!!
Che non si permetta ad un dittatore qualunque di ricattare il mondo dandogli
il 30% delle riserve di petrolio mondiali č un mio, tuo, nostro,
limpidissimo diritto.
Io penso di essere un individuo della razza umana che ha degli specifici
diritti,
te non saprei.
Uno dei primi diritti č mangiare, io sono disposto a pagare per il vitto,
purchč
ad un prezzo giusto, non al prezzo di Saddam.
Se te ti acconti di biada e mangime, cazzi tuoi.

 Se te ti acconti di biada e mangime, cazzi tuoi.
attendo tuoi commenti sulla  citata parabola e ti saluto cordialmente.
Claudio
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