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“Wendy la soudeuse” sur le chantier naval Electric Boat de Groton – Connecticut Octobre 1943

Photo : Bernard Hoffman

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“Wendy la soudeuse” était l'une des 2 000 femmes à avoir travaillé dans les chantiers navals américains pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Electric Boat, filiale de General Dynamics a construit 74 sous-marins d'attaque de classes Gato et Balao sur le chantier naval de Groton entre le 7 décembre 1941 et le 2 septembre 1945.

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Lithuania, 2016. Lithuanian soldiers training with US army rural fighting in houses. This programm with US instructors shall train different tactics and strategies to an army with no experience in real fighting. In 2016 I went with my big love and expert reporter Prune Antoine #plumaberlin and Gil Skorwid on a research trip about the remilitarisation of the Kaliningrad region for #Mediapart and later won the #prixchaffajon for multimedia reportage. After two days we got kicked out of Kaliningrad by the secret service who followed us all the time because we had no proper journalist Visa. So we went on to Lithuania and Poland who are direct neighbours to Russia / Kaliningrad. Both were afraid of what was coming after the annexation of Crimea. Poland built surveillance towers along the whole border of Kaliningrad and has military units stationed near the border. Lithuania just introduced conscription under President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The film maker Aleksandras Matonis restaged the battle of Kalniske between the NKDW forces and Lithuanian partisans after WW2 to reshape Lithuanian fighting spirit because history books said Lithuanian lost drastically which he thought to be a Russian myth. The US Army had a training center for the Lithuanian army and the NATO has their quick response air force stationed in the Baltic states. They reported daily flights from russian mainland to Kaliningrad without transponder so they had to scramble their fighters to check every flight. But nobody knew what’s inside Kaliningrad. And this enclave is in missile range of a lot of the mayor cities of Europe. It has been 6 years now and all of a sudden all the fears become real in #Ukraine. Its horrible and i hope its over soon and Russian forces are withdrawing from Ukrainian soil. #militarisation #warinukraine #peaceinukraine #military #nato #poland #lithuania #prixchaffajon #lithuania #armytraining https://www.instagram.com/p/CamfhQVsr18/?utm_medium=tumblr

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AYS Special from Greece: Militarisation — A tendency in 2020

Both people on the move and Greeks in general, have felt the impact of the growing militarisation of, and oppression by, the Greek state by means of expanding the role, the operational scope and tactics, the resources and the equipment of the police in 2020. It is a phenomenon which also existed under previous governments, but has been expanded substantially since the change in government after the elections in July 2019, bringing the centre-right Nea Demokratia (ND) into power.

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Getting rid of a disease, overcoming it and returning to live “among the healthy” is not a question of military value, strength, constancy, heroism of the individual; it is a question of being well cared for, of health resources and also, unfortunately, of luck. Applying the metaphor of war and defeat to an illness means loading the sick person with guilt and, [Susan] Sontag says, hindering him[/her/they] on...[their] recovery path.

@alanspazzaliartist in https://alanspazzaliartist.tumblr.com/post/613303745213874176/coronavirus-talking-about-war-invasion-and

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Mexico’s militarising

Two recent articles for your consideration:

Mexico’s Drug War and Neoliberal Energy Reforms Could Be Good for Business, Especially Mercenary Companies by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera

Transnational criminal corporations like the Zetas can be compared to big conglomerates such as Constellis, which is the is the largest and most diverse provider of risk management services and provides, among others, private security services. This corporate group includes a company once named Blackwater, which has been one of the U.S. government’s biggest providers of training and security services. In 2009 Blackwater changed its name to Xe Services as part of a company-wide restructuring plan and in response to a series of scandals. In 2010 a group of private investors purchased Xe’s main assets and created a new company named Academi. The services provided by Blackwater-Xe-Academi resemble some of the Zetas’ main functions, such as the provision (although illegal) of protection services. What is more, a group like the Zetas might need the services of a firm like Academi if its training capacities fall short or if it wishes to expand its operations.

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Keep Out! How the U.S. Is Militarizing Mexico’s Southern Border by Jeff Abbott

“The crisis of 2014 gave the excuse for the implementation of the Programa Frontera Sur,” Salvador Lacruz, a migrant advocate working with the Fray Matías de Córdova Human Rights Center in Tapachula, Chiapas, told me at the group’s offices. “Since then, there has been the consolidation of the plan, and the establishment of a border that is the southern border of the United States. Mexico is doing the United States’ dirty work.”

Since the plan’s establishment, the number of migrants captured and deported from Mexico has steadily increased. [...] Vidal Olascoaga said this increase in enforcement has been accomplished by a major escalation of resources. “There is a significant increase in technology that is arriving to the southern border of Mexico [from] the United States,” he said. This includes biometric identification machines, vehicles and drones, and additional training to help Mexican police and military detect migrants. 

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Symbole de la remilitarisation allemande, ces deux photos prises depuis le promontoire de Coblence, le Deutsche Eck, à 20 ans d'écart.

Soldats français pendant l'occupation de la Rhénanie sur la rive du Rhin à Coblence depuis le promontoire Deutsche Eck – 1918/1919

          Photographe : Willy Römer

Soldat allemand sur le promontoire Deutsche Eck à Coblence - 1938

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Lithuania 2016, NATO Air policing mission base. Norwegian officer in front of his fighter jet. NATO has several bases throughout the Baltic states. Each day the fighter planes of air forces of Nowegian, Italian and German, French and more states had to check for russian planes coming in from St.Petersburg to KaLiningrad with their transponders turned off. The amount of unofficials flights like this is raising constantly officials said You can search on YT for videos of NATO pilots checking out these planes. In 2016 I went with my big love and expert reporter Prune Antoine #plumaberlin and Gil Skorwid on a research trip about the remilitarisation of the Kaliningrad region for #Mediapart and later won the #prixchaffajon for multimedia Poland built surveillance towers along the whole border of Kaliningrad and has military units stationed near the border. Lithuania just introduced conscription under President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The film maker Aleksandras Matonis restaged the battle of Kalniske between the NKDW forces and Lithuanian partisans after WW2 to reshape Lithuanian fighting spirit because history books said Lithuanian lost drastically which he thought to be a Russian myth. The US Army had a training center for the Lithuanian army and the NATO has their quick response air force stationed in the Baltic states. They reported daily flights from russian mainland to Kaliningrad without transponder so they had to scramble their fighters to check every flight. But nobody knew what’s inside Kaliningrad. And this enclave is in missile range of a lot of the mayor cities of Europe. It has been 6 years now and all of a sudden all the fears become real in #Ukraine. Its horrible and i hope its over soon and Russian forces are withdrawing from Ukrainian soil. #militarisation #warinukraine #navy #peaceinukraine #military #kaliningrad #russia #prixchaffajon #urbanwarfare #airpolicing #nato #airforce #eurofighter https://www.instagram.com/p/CawZoF0sHdl/?utm_medium=tumblr