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Friday, June 30, 2023

نظریه‌هائی در مورد انسانیت

در مورد انسان و انسانیت دو مکتب وجود دارد، که یکی‌ فراگیر و دیگری انحصاری نام گرفته است. روش تفکر فراگیر فرض می کند که همه انسان ها از نظر ظرفیت ذهنی، امیدها، ترس ها، آرزوها و تعاملات اجتماعی یکسان هستند. تفاوت در جامعه است، یعنی‌ جایی که انسان در آن بزرگ شده و به سبک زندگی آن عادت کرده است. مکتب فکری دیگر به طرد شدن معتقد است و فرض می‌کند که همه افراد متفاوت هستند و هر ویژگی‌ برای هر انسانی‌ منحصر به فرد است. بر اساس این طرز تفکر، یک فرد می تواند ذاتاً فعال یا تنبل یا باهوش یا احمق یا اجتماعی یا غیر اجتماعی باشد. این دو مکتب فکری در دو طیف متضاد تصور کلی انسانی قرار دارند، دیدگاه‌هایی که مبنای انتقادیِ یک اقلیت کوچک است. باورهای بقیه مردم جهان بین این دو عقیدهٔ افراطی قرار دارند.م

Thursday, June 29, 2023

Seymour Hersh: Prigozhin’s Folly

June 29, 2023
The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group.

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

ارتش

ا"بهتر آن است که از تو بترسند یا اینکه دوستت داشته باشند، اگر نمیتوانی‌ هر دو را داشته باشی‌" نیکولو ماکیاولی
اا"از آنکه پیروز شده، هرگز پرسیده نخواهد شد که آیا حقیقت را گفته است یا خیر" آدولف هیتلر

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran

June 27, 2023
The sweeping public protests that erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in custody of Iran’s morality police last September have been characterized by many observers as the first feminist uprising in the region. The visually powerful images of women and girls defying compulsory hijab laws in the streets and the slogan “women, life, freedom” have strengthened this characterization and drawn broad international sympathy. But the sweeping protests and their demands for fundamental change were met with a brutal government crackdown that resulted in hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of arbitrary arrests. Almost nine months later, women’s right to choose their own way of dressing remains at the center of the protest movement. Understanding why requires a closer look at how the broader struggle of women for equal rights in Iran has evolved over the years.

Monday, June 26, 2023

We the People Can Stop the Surging Corporate Crime Wave

"Citizens mobilized against corporate abuses in the 1960s and 70s. It can happen again now."
June 25, 2023
Most heads of giant corporations are drunk with their own power. These corporate CEOs push the envelope in ways that harm defenseless people. They believe they can get away with anything, and they do, with few exceptions. The few corporate crime prosecutions keep declining from Obama to Trump to Biden, due to a settlement-obsessed Department of Justice staffed by lawyers readying to join the lucrative major corporate crime defense firms.

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The Tragedy of the Unabomber

June 22, 2023
Ted Kaczynski’s criticisms of environmental destruction and out-of-control technology were incisive. But, disdaining leftists and being unwilling to join with others in a social movement, he resorted to abhorrent terroristic methods that had no chance of solving any of the problems he perceived.

Saturday, June 24, 2023

به یاد روزنبرگ ها

درس‌های اعدام‌های دولتی، مانند هفتاد سال پیش و مثل همیشه، با انگیزه سیاسی آن‌ها همیشه مرتبط است

ا.۱۹ ژوئن ۲۰۲۳.ا  
در آن شب نوزدهم ژوئن هزار و نهصد و پنجاه و سه، به عنوان بچه کوچکی در حومه فیلادلفیا، من، بیش از هر چیزی  نگران بیسبال بودم، تا زمانی‌ که متوجه شدم که چیزی پدر و مادرم را بسیار ناراحت کرده است. وقتی از آنها پرسیدم چه چیزی آنها را نگران کرده است، پاسخ دادند که جولیوس و اتل روزنبرگ روی صندلی برقی، در مکانی به نام سینگ سینگ در نیویورک کشته شده اند و این یک بی عدالتی وحشتناک است. من قبلاً در مورد روزنبرگ ها یا سینگ سینگ چیزی نشنیده بودم. اما آن لحظه را به خوبی به یاد دارم. پدرم که مایوس شده بود، گفت که دولت دو آدم خوب را به قتل رسانده است.ا

Remembering the Rosenbergs

Seventy years later, the lessons of their politically motivated state executions are as relevant as ever.
Jun 19, 2023
On that June 19th evening in 1953, I was a small kid in a suburb of Philadelphia, concerned above all with baseball, when I noticed that something had made my parents very upset. When I asked them what was wrong, they informed me that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been killed in the electric chair, in a place called Sing Sing in New York, and that it was a horrible injustice. 

Friday, June 23, 2023

عملِ مرگ

زمانی‌ که خبر عمل پروستات یکی‌ از بستگانم را در بیمارستانی در آلمان شنیدم، با توجه به سیستم پیشرفتهٔ پزشکی‌ در آن کشور، وسائل مدرن، و بیمارستان‌های مجهز، هیچگونه نگرانی احساس نکردم. ولی‌ به نظر می‌رسد که در اشتباه بودم.

Thursday, June 22, 2023

All-American Slush Fund: The Government’s Latest Gift to the Pentagon and Its Already Bloated Contractors

A new budget loophole will send pentagon spending soaring even higher.
June 22, 2023
On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon.

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine

June 20, 2023
A MintPress investigation has found that a host of Western government officials, intelligence agents and assets have been directly involved in intimate collaboration with Nazi groups and individuals since at least 2014. This has included involvement in creating and operating the Nazi-run kill list in Ukraine, which MintPress revealed recently.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Report Details Intensifying Police Crackdown on US Journalists Covering Protests

"The inadequacy of press freedom protections was starkly exposed during the Trump administration, when some of the largest street protests in American history took place," according to a new report.
Jun 20, 2023
In recent years, particularly since former Republican President Donald Trump took office in 2017, U.S. police have failed to uphold basic constitutional rights for journalists covering rallies and other protests, a new report from the Knight First Amendment Institute said Tuesday, with the study documenting a number of physical attacks, unjust arrests, and suppression tactics used by police at protests both large and small.

Monday, June 19, 2023

نژاد پرستی، تبعیض جنسی، تشویش

خودت باش و هرچه می‌خواهی بگو، چرا که کسانی که رنجه میشوند مهم نیستند و کسانی که مهم هستند رنجه نمی‌شوند

 دکتر زوس

ترس جمعی، غریزهٔ گَلّه‌وارِ انسان را تحریک می کند، و او تمایل به ایجاد خشونت نسبت به کسانی را پیدا می‌کند که به عنوان اعضای آن  گَلّه در نظر گرفته نمی شوند

 برتراند راسل

Sunday, June 18, 2023

The Grim Reality of Joe Biden's 4-Point Plan to Change Social Security

Jun 18, 2023
Although the average Social Security benefit is a relatively modest $1,835 per month for retired workers, as of April 2023, it's nevertheless a vital source of income for the vast majority of seniors.

Friday, June 16, 2023

No Choice but to Indict Trump: Why a Gentlemen’s Agreement Had to be Broken

June 16, 2023
Special federal Trump prosecutor Jack Smith looks stern, anxious, and less than happy as he goes about his duties of indicting the United States’ forty-fifth president, the first actual fascist (see my book This Happened Here on the Trump presidency and world view) to sit in the White House.

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Notes from the Editors

Much of the impact of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s now-classic work Monopoly Capital when it was published in 1966, at the very height of the Vietnam War, can be attributed to its chapter on “Absorption of the Surplus: Militarism and Imperialism.” 

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

اعتقاد به جبر یا سرنوشت

 گاهی اوقات از اصطلاحات و گفتاری عامیانه استفاده می کنیم، بدون آنکه معنای واقعیِ آنرا دریابیم. عباراتی چون: همیشه اینطور بوده یا مردم همیشه حریص بوده‌اند، این طبیعت انسان است که بد باشد، بعضی‌ها نمی‌توانند به خوبی دیگران فکر کنند، مردم باید رهبر داشته باشند، انسان معمولی نمی‌تواند منافعش را تشخیص نمیدهد، و سایر چنین اصطلاحاتی که بدون در نظر گرفتن عواقب این چنین تنزل انسانیت، این جملات به راحتی بیان میشوند. سپس، و برای توجیه چنین عباراتی، سرنوشت انسان را به دست مجهولات می سپاریم. در این راستا از جملاتی استفاده می‌کنیم که در تضاد با توانایی‌های انسان است، مانند اینکه میگوئیم، خوب دیگه، سرنوشتش این بود. این پندار ساده‌ای است که این تقدیر است که سرنوشت فرد را تعیین می کند، و مهم نیست که آن شخص چه عملی انجام دهد، زیرا آنچه که قرار است پیش بیاید پیش خواهد آمد. جبرگرایی عطش دستیابی به اهداف، و کوشش و مبارزه برای پیشرفت را از بین می برد. مبارزه برای زنده ماندن در کتاب معروف ریچارد داوکینز -ژن خودخواه- به تفصیل به تصویر کشیده شده است. سرنوشت و ایمان، دو واژهٔ مترادف، در باورهای اساسیِ بسیاری از مردم ریشه دوانده‌ا‌ند.ا

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The Democratic Party, Donald Trump and the Espionage Act

June 13,2023
On Tuesday, for the first time in US history, a former president will be arraigned in court for violating federal criminal law. The decision to indict Donald Trump reflects profound divisions within the ruling class and accelerates a crisis that will rattle the foundations of the American political establishment in the coming weeks and months.

Monday, June 12, 2023

Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain

The ability to conjure up possible futures or alternative realities is the flip side of memory. Both faculties cohabit in the brain region called the hippocampus
June 8, 2023
Henry Molaison, known for years as “H.M.,” was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if for the first time. Because of surgery to treat intractable epilepsy, H M. lacked a sea-horse-shaped brain structure called the hippocampus and had amnesia. His case helped establish the hippocampus as an engine of memory.

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Julian Assange prepares for last-ditch legal appeal after UK High Court dismisses plea against extradition

June 10, 2023
In a major setback to jailed WikiLeaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange, a UK High Court judge dismissed his appeal against his extradition to the U.S. In a 3-page decision handed down on Tuesday, June 6, Justice Jonathan Swift of the High Court of Justice in London rejected all eight grounds of appeal against the extradition order that was sanctioned by the UK Home Office around a year ago.

Saturday, June 10, 2023

A War Long Wanted: Diplomatic Malpractice in Ukraine

June 9, 2023
Author’s Note: This is the original draft of the letter to President Biden and the US Congress published in The New York Times on May 16 by the Eisenhower Media Network. This version, which is substantially longer than the published letter, is published here amended from its original formatting as a group letter. This version goes into much greater depth on the background of Russia’s invasion, the role of the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry in US policy-making, and speaks to the toxic and dangerous diplomatic malpractice that has dominated US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.

Where Do You Get Your Ukraine News?

June 9, 2023
If it’s from the established media you’re not getting the full story. And you are being purposely misled.

Friday, June 9, 2023

Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment

As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.
June 6, 2023
 

Thursday, June 8, 2023

نگرشی به آینده

عتیقه‌جات، ماشین‌ و مبلمان کلاسیک، سنت، ضرب‌المثل قدیمی، یاد قدیما به خیر، رسوم قدیم، و بسیاری از عناوین دیگر که محافظه‌کاری را القا می‌کنند با عباراتی مانند نو، آینده‌اندیشی، فکر فردا باش، گذشته بر نگشته، مدرنیسم و آینده‌نگر مخالف هستند. ما روزانه از این زبان عامیانه استفاده می کنیم، غافل از اینکه در حال القأ یک نوع طرز فکر هستیم. ما می دانیم که تغییر تنها با تفکر رو به جلو امکان پذیر است، اما آیا این بدان معناست که باید گذشته را رها کنیم و هرگز به گذشته نگاه نکنیم؟ا

Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Countries of the World by Area

This page shows a list of regions and sovereign nations by size, from the largest to the smallest countries in the world.
What makes a country huge or small?
Enhanced 1972 Apollo 16 hand-held Hasselblad image on 70 mm film of North America on Earth. Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula can be seen at lower center. Above that, much of the Rocky Mountains are visible.

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Prisons around the world: which nations have the most inmates

June 6, 2023
Imprisonment is a reality in many countries around the world, and the number of prisoners can vary greatly from country to country: but how many prisoners are there in different nations?

Monday, June 5, 2023

15 Reasons Why Media Don’t Do Journalism

June 5, 2023
There is a much less centralized network of factors which tips the scales of media coverage to the advantage of the U.S. empire and the forces which benefit from it.

Sunday, June 4, 2023

دموکراسی ایالات متحده برای کشورهای دیکتاتوری

دولت‌های غربی با مردم کشورهای استعمار زده، مانند مردم کشور ما، از دمکراسی سخن می‌گویند، و اینکه چگونه مردم آنها از این آزادی فردی و اساسی و پایه‌ای برخوردارند و آنرا پاس میدارند. یکی از راه‌های بررسی این ادعا، بررسی قوانین اساسی دولت‌های غربی است. تا آنجا که به دموکراسی مربوط می شود، قانون اساسی ایالات متحده به عنوان بهترین قانون اساسی نوشته شده در بین تمام کشورهای غربی شناخته شده است. بنابراین، آغاز خوبی خواهد بود که نگرشی به قانون اساسی ایالات متحده بی‌اندازیم و با آن آشنا شویم، به خصوص که سران این کشور در هر موقعیتی آنرا ذکر میکنند و از سیستم‌های وحشیانه و غیر دمکراتیک در آفریقا و خاورمیانه انتقاد میکنند. در اینصورت، قانون اساسی آمریکا را از روز نخست پیگیری می‌کنیم تا به ارزش‌های آن پی ببریم.ا

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Biden’s debt deal: A bipartisan blueprint for war and austerity

Barry Grey
June 3, 2023
The rapid and lopsided passage by both houses of Congress of the debt ceiling bill worked out between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, with the Democrats supplying the bulk of the votes, exposes the unbridgeable class chasm between the entire political establishment and the working class.

Friday, June 2, 2023

The Iran document Trump talked about on tape is missing

June 2, 2023
Earlier this week, Hunter reported on the discovery that there was an audio recording of Donald Trump in a 2021 meeting in which he talked about holding on to a national security document containing details of a potential military attack on Iran. That recording made it clear that Trump knew he had retained information classified at the highest level, and that he had not declassified this material before leaving the White House.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

دولت ایالات متحده

تعاریف متعددی برای “دولت” در وبستر وجود دارد. اولین تعریف در این کتاب "راهنمائی یا کنترل مقتدرانه"  است. به گفتهٔ همین منبع، اولین کاربرد شناخته شدهٔ این واژه در قرن چهاردهم میلادی بوده است. هر حکومتی قبل از این زمان به شکل سلطنت پادشاهی، خودگردانی و دیکتاتوری بوده است.ا