MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : NACH CORONA IST VOR CORONA – KONDITIONIEREN – DISZIPLINIEREN – KONTROLLIEREN FÜR IMMER !
Bundespressekonferenz – Bald Freiheitseinbußen fürs Klima? Merkel-Sprecher: „Warten Sie ab!“ “Ich kann mit Ihrer pauschalen Frage nichts anfangen”
Veröffentlicht am 5. Mai 2021 BORIS RITSCHUSTER NTV
„Künftig können selbst gravierende Freiheitseinbußen zum Schutz des Klimas verhältnismäßig und verfassungsrechtlich gerechtfertigt sein; gerade deshalb droht dann die Gefahr, erhebliche Freiheitseinbußen hinnehmen zu müssen.“
Das ist keine Verschwörungstheorie.
Das stammt aus einer Pressemitteilung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, in dem dieses aus seinem Urteil zum Klimaschutz zitiert.
Nachdem Merkels Sprecher Steffen Seibert heute auf der Bundespressekonferenz extra selbst noch einmal auf das Urteil zu sprechen kam, es in hohen Tönen lobte und weitere einschneidende Maßnahmen der Bundesregierung im Sinne des Gesetzes ankündigte, wollte ich es genau wissen. Und fragte ihn, ob wir uns auf neue bzw. inzwischen ja schon alte Freiheitsbeschränkungen einstellen müssen – diesmal für das Klima.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ANNALENAS & ROBERTS VORGÄNGER
Vom Straßenkämpfer zum Konzern-Lobbyisten – Ein Nachruf auf Joschka Fischer
Wieso Nachruf? Joschka Fischer lebt noch und erfreut sich bester Gesundheit. Von Vera Lengsfeld
Es handelt sich auch nicht um eine vorläufige Skizze, wie sie in den Schubladen gewichtiger Medien liegt, damit man im Falle eines unerwarteten Ablebens von Promis gewappnet ist. Nein, als Nachruf will der Autor Gerd Schumann sein neuestes Buch über den einstmaligen Ober-Grünen Joschka Fischer verstehen, das kürzlich mit dem Titel „Wollt ihr mich oder eure Träume?“ im Verlag Das Neue Berlin erschienen ist.
Gerd Schumann, ein bekennender, um nicht zu sagen unverbesserlicher, Kommunist hat den Werdegang von Joseph Fischer analysiert, von dem er schon gleich am Anfang behauptet, dass dieser Mann auf ein Kriegsverbrechertribunal gehört. Wer nach dieser martialischen Ankündigung ein hysterisches Enthüllungsbuch erwartet hat sich getäuscht. Schumanns Stil ist ruhig, analytisch und faktenbasiert. Jedenfalls bemüht er sich, hinter den zahllosen Legenden, die sich um Fischers Biografie ranken, die Fakten zu entdecken. Mal gelingt es, mal muss er passen, wenn die Erzählung, wie es heute heißt, die Wirklichkeit bereits zu stark zurückgedrängt hat. Das Ganze ist eher nachdenklich als anklägerisch, auf jeden Fall gut lesbar geschrieben.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IN DEPTH SYRIA : How have the AANES’s policies contributed to the resurgence of ISIS?
5 May 2021 For those advocating a U.S. (& EU) disengagement from #Syria, the argument has taken an intriguing shift in recent weeks, from: – We have no influence; its unpopular; we’ve done all we can; to: – The most *moral* thing to do is leave & allow #Assad‘s re-integration/recovery.
Charles Lister@Charles_Lister 5 May 2021 – 30m
#ISIS‘s persistence in eastern #Syria isn’t only down to its tactics — policies pursued & doubled-down upon by the #SDF-linked AANES have played a key (if unintended) role, argues – @mohammed_nomad , for @MEI_Syria . Important piece:
How have the AANES’s policies contributed to the resurgence of ISIS?
May 5, 2021 Mohammed Hassan MEI – MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE
Over two years have passed since the liberation of Baghouz camp in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Governorate, which was ISIS’s last stronghold in the country. The international coalition and its ally, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), have been attempting to stabilize areas east of the Euphrates to prevent ISIS from making a comeback. The group, however, is still active and carrying out security operations in the region, a trend that has increased dramatically over time, especially in the last two years.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – Kurdistan’s Weekly Brief, May 4, 2021
A weekly brief of events that occurred in the Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
Turkey :
Turkey’s Court of Cassation upheld Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas’s four-year, eight-month prison sentence. At the same time, Demirtas and 105 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers are facing potential prison sentences due to ongoing legal actions known as the “Kobani Trial,” though the trials have been postponed until at least May 18 because of coronavirus lockdowns. On another note, Turkish police arrested at least ten HDP members and supporters in Batman and Van, including an environmental activist named Huseyin Akil. Turkish police also detained 220 people in Istanbul on Saturday for rallying on International Workers’ Day and accused them of breaking lockdown rules.
The HDP criticized the Turkish government’s latest incursions into Iraqi Kurdistan and described them as a “mistake” that has been ongoing since 1983. The HDP also accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government of attacking Iraqi Kurdistan to divert attention from domestic issues like the economy.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SYRIA : BASHAR AL ASSAD WILL BE BACK IN CHARGE VERY SOON
Saudi and Assad Regime Intelligence Heads Meet in Damascus
Posted by Scott Lucas | May 5, 2021 | eaworldview – Bashar al-Assad with Saudi King Abdullah, March 2009 – Saudi Arabia’s intelligence head has met his Assad regime counterpart in Damascus, the first known encounter in Syria’s 122-month conflict.
Gen. Khalid Humaidan, the head of the Saudi General Intelligence Directorate, was received on Monday by the regime’s Gen. Ali Mamlouk, who oversees State Security. The meeting was first reported by the Arab-world newspaper Rai al-Youm.Officials in Riyadh said normalization of relations could begin soon after the end of Ramadan and the Eid al-Fitr festival next week.
Saudi Arabia supported anti-Assad factions following the uprising against the regime in March 2011.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT : Iraq erects new border posts as Turkey-PKK clashes intensify, forcing village evacuation
Halgurd Sherwani – Members of the Iraqi Border Police are pictured at a military post on the border between the Kurdistan Region and Turkey. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi forces have erected four new military posts on the border between the Kurdistan Region and Turkey amid a new round of clashes between Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), forcing nearby villagers to abandon their homes.
The move by Iraqi border police on Tuesday came after Turkey launched a new round of airstrikes and a ground operation – dubbed Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt – against its decades-old archenemy, the PKK. The main battlefield for the renewed war is the border areas of the Kurdistan Region, which on Tuesday witnessed an overnight village evacuation due to the conflict.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INSIDE : Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus
The meeting takes place during the first official visit to Damascus by Saudi Arabia since 2012.
Al-Monitor Staff May 5, 2021 – Saudi Arabia’s intelligence chief met with his Syrian counterpart in Damascus on Monday in a sign of possible rapprochement between the two governments a decade after relations were severed.
London-based Rai al-Youm news outlet reported that Gen. Khalid al-Humaidan’s met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his trusted intelligence chief Ali Mamluk to discuss restoring diplomatic ties after the Eid al-Fitr holiday later this month.
The Guardian independently confirmed that Humaidan met with Mamluk.
The Saudi visit is the first of its kind since the outbreak of Syria’s civil war in 2012. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have also signaled interest in restoring ties with the Assad regime in recent months.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : The Old Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Dead—Long Live the Emerging Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
NATHAN J. BROWN – MAY 05, 2021 CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
Summary: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become deeply ingrained in daily life. Work must begin now to heal deep-seated divisions, which are not likely to be resolved in a burst of diplomacy.
It is time to admit what most observers already know: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that diplomats have been dealing with for half a century is over. It is not that a solution has been found. Just the opposite: all the injustices and insecurities that afflict inhabitants of the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are now so deeply ingrained in daily life that no diplomatic framework can address them now. This leaves some people far better off than others, of course—and it leaves many quite satisfied. But even the smug have cause for worry—less about their own lives and livelihood and more about the world to be inhabited by their children and grandchildren. And many others are left stateless, restricted in movement, harshly policed, and pondering how to provide for their family’s needs now rather than for future generations.
TAKING A BETTER LOOK AT SOME BAD HISTORY
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Turkey and Egypt hold initial meetings in tentative rapprochement
May 05 2021 12:02 Gmt+3 AHVAL NEWS – Turkey and Egypt are holding two days of exploratory meetings as part of cautious attempts to mend ties strained by conflicting positions on the Muslim Brotherhood and the war in Libya.
The two countries’ deputy foreign ministers are leading the talks in the Egyptian capital of Cairo.
“These exploratory discussions will focus on the necessary steps that may lead towards the normalisation of relations between the two countries, bilaterally and in the regional context,” the foreign ministries of both countries said on Tuesday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FINAL PERSPECTIVE KURDISTAN/PKK ? / BIDEN WITH ERDOGAN CONTRA KURDS !
KNK’s Nilüfer Koç: The offensive in Iraqi Kurdistan ‘is Erdogan’s last hope. But Turkey can’t win this war’
Sharing her perspectives on the ongoing clashes between Turkey’s armed forces and the Kurdish fighters in Iraqi Kurdistan, Nilüfer Koç, member of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), stressed that this battle will have existential outcomes for the Kurds.
11:18 am 05/05/2021 MEDYA NEWS
The cross-border operation that the Turkish army launched in Metîna, Avaşîn, and Zap (also known as Medya Defence Zones) regions in Iraqi Kurdistan has entered its 13th day. Nilüfer Koç provided an evaluation of the conflict and the latest agendas of the US government in the Middle East.
“A new design of the Middle East in line with the USA’s agendas is being prepared. The operation started right after US president Biden spoke with president Erdogan. These forces see the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a major obstacle to the invasion of Southern Kurdistan”, she told MA.
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