دکتر ابراهیم باستانی پاریزی

یکی‌ از نویسندگان پر توان ایران که حدود ۷۰  کتاب نوشته و در ادبیاتِ تحقیقی فعالیتهای بسیاری کرده و زبان شیرینی‌ در نوشته‌هایش داشت، دکتر ابراهیم باستانی پاریزی بود. او که سه سال و نیم پیش به دلیل بیماری کبد در سن ۸۸ سالگی بدرود حیات گفت، تا آخرین لحظه عمر به خواندن و نوشتن اشتغال داشت. اطلاعات تاریخی‌ خود را به زبانی ساده و همراه با امثال و سخنان طنز آمیزی عنوان میکرد که خواندن وقایع خشک تاریخی‌ را بسیار جذاب مینمود. زیرنگاشت‌هایی که در کتابهایش میاورد به دلیل طول آنها، که گاهی چند صفحه را در بر میگرفتند، بسیار مشهور بودند.

What The Tax "Reform" Means To Us All

The Deep State Hiding in Plain Sight

By Bill Moyers and Mike Lofgren
Posted December 07, 2017
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48374.htm

Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought out nothing but loads of dung. That was their return cargo.

— The Martyrdom of Man by Winwood Reade (1871)

There is the visible government situated around the Mall in Washington, and then there is another, more shadowy, more indefinable government that is not explained in Civics 101 or observable to tourists at the White House or the Capitol. The former is traditional Washington partisan politics: the tip of the iceberg that a public watching C-SPAN sees daily and which is theoretically controllable via elections. The subsurface part of the iceberg I shall call the Deep State, which operates according to its own compass heading regardless of who is formally in power. [1]

احمدزاده و حکایتی که آن شب گفت تا مکتوب شود

Source: http://www.akhbar-rooz.com/article.jsp?essayId=83387

«شبا گریه کُنوم، روزا بخندُوم/که تا دشمن ندونه سرِ دردُم»
احمدزاده و حکایتی که آن شب گفت تا مکتوب شود

 فرج سرکوهی 

اخبار روز: www.akhbar-rooz.com
آدينه  ۱۰ آذر ۱٣۹۶ -  ۱ دسامبر ۲۰۱۷

و این حکایت که احمدزاده گفت و من این جا مکتوب می کنم تا ابدآلاباد بر سینه تاریخ ها بماند. ...آن شب جمله بافته شده از کلمات از کتاب درآمده بود. «جسم» شده بود. در قامت میهمان در خانه ما در تهران رو به روی من و فریده نشسته بود و بی آن که بپرسیم و بخواهیم از جهنمی می گفت که در زندان، به فرمان مستقیم امام راحل، بر او آوار کرده بودند ...

آن شب در خانه ما در نگاه او چیزی بی نام کم بود هرچند همان پیکر و همان چهره بود که در زندان های قصر و عادل آباد شیراز دیده بودم اما نگاه چیزی کم داشت که شاید بعدتر، و به تدریج، به چشم های او بازگشت. نمی دانم. دیگر او را ندیدم. در آن شب که میهمان ما بود، هم من و هم فریده که اول بار او را می دید، می دیدیم که چیزی بی نام در نگاه او غائب است. چیزی از جنس سکوتی که سخن می گوید، چیزی از جنس سپیدی که بیش از نوشته حرف می زند. غیبتی که از حضور قاطع تر است. 

Option انتخاب

There are certain natural resources or properties which are privately owned, such as land and forest, and sometimes streams and beaches.  From the earliest time written history is found, people have claimed such properties as their belongings, and have fought over those belongings with their neighbors. Same people got together and established an organization to protect their group property against others while eyeing their properties, and called that organization a government. Then, governments fought with each other in order to acquire properties each claimed to be theirs. In the meantime, if some crafts or products were made by any, such as household utensils and weapons, the victor in the war would have attained those as well, all of which became the property of the winner of the war. Therefore, private property started from the time one claimed a piece of nature as his (or most probably hers), and fought to keep it for himself, or herself. Anything else that the person added to the property, such as buildings and farming materials, became a part of that private property and subject to ownership. Consequently, wars are merely an aggression to annex, or for invasion of someone else’s property. After a while, it was realized that animals, and then other people could be forced to become properties as well, which continues to this day in a different shape and form. That is the time slavery, meaning owning someone else’s labor, was discovered. There have been various social and political forms that controlled and regulated private property (specially human as a property), beginning with bourgeoisie, feudalism, and ending with capitalism at its present form of monopoly, which exists in many Western countries.

بسیاری از منابع طبیعی به مالکیت خصوصی تبدیل شده‌اند، مانند زمین و جنگل. از زمانی‌ که تاریخ مُدَوّن یافت شده است، منابع طبیعی تحت مالکیت اشخاص قرار گرفته‌اند، و همیشه جنگ با همسایگان بر سر این املاک بوده است. گروهی با یکدیگر جمع شدند و سازمانی را به وجود آوردند که بتوانند بصورت جمعی‌ از مالکیت شخصی‌ خود دفاع، و اموال همسایگان را تحت سلطه خود قرار دهند؛ و نام این سازمان را دولت گذاشتند. سپس دولتها بر سر آن املاک شروع به جنگ کردند. در این حین، اگر محصولی نیز توسط اشخاص تولید شده بود، مانند صنایع دستی‌ و یا جنگی، آن محصول نیز توسط برندهٔ جنگ تصاحب میشد. بالانتیجه مالکیت خصوصی از زمانی‌ آغازید که شخصی‌ قسمی از منابع طبیعی را از آنِ خود دانست. هر آنچه که توسط شخص به وجود آمده بود، مانند ساختمان و وسائل کشاورزی نیز قسمی از مالکیت خصوصی به حساب آمد. بنابر این جنگها صرفا به منظور تحت تسلط گرفتن مالکیت خصوصیِ دیگران شعله‌ور گردیدند. پس از مدتی‌، انسانها به این نتیجه رسیدند که می‌توانستند با نیروهای زور، فشار، و اختناق حیوانات، و سپس انسانهای دیگر را نیز تبدیل به اموال کنند، که به صورتهای مختلف همچنان ادامه دارد. برای آنکه به مالکیت خصوصی نظمی بخشیده شود و بهتر بتوان آنرا بطور سیستماتیک مورد استفاده قرار داد (بخصوص مالکیت اشخاص)، روشهای اجتماعیِ مختلفی‌ از جمله بورژوازی، فئودالی، و سرمایه‌داری، ابداع شدند، که هم اکنون سرمایداریِ انحصاری در بسیاری از کشورهای غربی وجود دارد.

Lonliness: Testimony before the US Senate Aging Committee

Testimony before the US Senate Aging Committee

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Brigham Young University

1024 SWKT

Provo, UT 84602

801-422-1324

julianne.holt-lunstad@byu.edu https://socialhealth.byu.edu

INTRODUCTION

Thank you, Chairman Collins, Senator Casey, and members of the committee for your interest in social isolation and loneliness and for the opportunity to present testimony today. My name is Julianne Holt-Lunstad, and I am a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University. My research focuses on the influence of our social relationships on physical health outcomes. In my remarks, today, I’ll talk about the public health relevance of social isolation and loneliness, including data on prevalence rates, health and mortality risk, and potential risk factors.

Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

One of the most celebrated innovations of the twentieth century was the art of movie making. It was properly named the 7^th art, which continues to this day in its original form and variations, whether on the wide screen or on a computer, television, or even on a cell phone monitor. Acting is an old profession, but having it accessible and watching it whenever or wherever one desires is what movie, film, and clip technology have brought to us. A movie director is the brain behind the film. Checking the history of movie making from the beginning, we don’t know the first director, as it started in several countries and spread out to the rest of the world rapidly. However, we know of famous movie directors at the time that a motion picture was in its infancy. The most known movie directors of all times are those who pioneered many of the movie making standards, such as D.W. Griffith and Fritz Lang. Many of the techniques of cinema and the art of movie making were as a result of innovations by these two, and some other internationally known movie makers of the time such as Sergei Eisenstein of Russia, Lumières brothers of France (who invented the art) and Alfred Hitchcock of England, to name a few. However, Hollywood’s fame is indebted to some early movie makers, such as Fritz Lang who started in Germany, and the British born genius Charlie Chaplin, whose films still bring smile to viewers’ lips. However, when one speaks of suspense in movies, the name that comes to mind is Hitchcock.

Hariri’s Resignation as Prime Minister of Lebanon is Not All it Seems

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48177.htm

November 10, 2017

He certainly did not anticipate what happened to him. Indeed, Hariri had scheduled meetings in Beirut on the following Monday – with the IMF, the World Bank and a series of discussions on water quality improvement; not exactly the action of a man who planned to resign his premiership

Trump and Democrats Misread Mandates

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/08/trump-and-democrats-misread-mandates/

November 8, 2017

Exclusive: Neither the Democrats nor President Trump learned the right lessons from the 2016 election, leaving the nation divided at home and bogged down in wars abroad, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

One year ago, the American electorate delivered a confused but shocking result, the election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, a quirky outcome in the Electoral College that put Trump in the White House even though Clinton got three million more votes nationally. But neither party appears to have absorbed the right lessons from that surprise ending.

he Democrats might have taken away from their defeat the warning that they had forgotten how to speak to the white working class, which had suffered from job losses via “free trade” and felt willfully neglected as Democrats looked toward the “browning of America.”

The choice of Clinton had compounded this problem because she came across as elitist and uncaring toward this still important voting bloc with her memorable description of half of Trump’s voters as “deplorables,” an insult that stung many lower-income whites and helped deliver Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin to Trump.

For more than a decade, some Democratic strategists had promoted the notion that “demography is destiny,” i.e., that the relative growth of Latino, Asian and African-American populations in comparison to whites would ensure a future Democratic majority. That prediction seemed to have been validated by Barack Obama’s winning coalition in 2008 and 2012, but it also had the predictable effect of alienating many whites who felt disrespected and resentful.

So, while the Democrats and Clinton looked to a multicultural future, Trump used his experience in reality TV to communicate with this overlooked demographic group. Trump sold himself as a populist and treated the white working class with respect. He spoke to their fears about economic decline and gave voice to their grievances. He vowed to put “America First” and pull back from foreign military adventures that often used working-class kids as cannon fodder.

But much of Trump’s message, like the real-estate mogul himself, was phony. He really didn’t have policies that would address the needs of working-class Americans. Still, his promises of a massive infrastructure plan, good health-care for all, and rejection of unfair trade deals rang the right bells with enough voters to flip some traditionally Democratic blue-collar states to Republican red.

When Law and Ethics Collide - Why Physicians Participate in Executions

Source: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp068042#t=article

On February 14, 2006, a U.S. District Court issued an unprecedented ruling concerning the California execution by lethal injection of murderer Michael Morales. The ruling ordered that the state have a physician, specifically an anesthesiologist, personally supervise the execution, or else drastically change the standard protocol for lethal injections.1 Under the protocol, the anesthetic sodium thiopental is given at massive doses that are expected to stop breathing and extinguish consciousness within one minute after administration; then the paralytic agent pancuronium is given, followed by a fatal dose of potassium chloride.

The judge found, however, that evidence from execution logs showed that six of the last eight prisoners executed in California had not stopped breathing before technicians gave the paralytic agent, raising a serious possibility that prisoners experienced suffocation from the paralytic, a feeling much like being buried alive, and felt intense pain from the potassium bolus. This experience would be unacceptable under the Constitution's Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment. So the judge ordered the state to have an anesthesiologist present in the death chamber to determine when the prisoner was unconscious enough for the second and third injections to be given — or to perform the execution with sodium thiopental alone.

علی‌اشرف درویشیان

Source: https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%81_%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86

علی‌اشرف درویشیان در ۳ شهریور سال ۱۳۲۰ در یک خانوادهٔ کارگری در محلهٔ آبشوران  شهر کرمانشاه به دنیا آمد. در سال ۱۳۳۷ دانشسرای مقدماتی را گذراند و سپس برای معلمی به روستاهای اطراف کرمانشاه و گیلانغرب رفت. در سال ۱۳۴۵ تحصیل در رشتهٔ ادبیات فارسی را در دانشگاه تهران آغاز کرد و پس از دریافت مدرک کارشناسی، تحصیلات خود را در مقطع کارشناسی ارشد در رشتهٔ روان‌شناسی تربیتی ادامه داد و همزمان در دانشسرای عالی تهران در رشتهٔ مشاوره و راهنمای تحصیلی به تحصیل پرداخت.^[۱] او پس از پایان تحصیلات متوسطه به تدریس در مدارس روستاهای کردستان پرداخت.^[۲] درویشیان در زمان حکومت محمدرضا پهلوی، از سال ۱۳۵۰ تا ۱۳۵۷ برای نگارش کتاب «از این ولایت» و فعالیت‌های سیاسی، سه بار دستگیر و ممنوع‌القلم شد. دستگیری اول وی در کرمانشاه ۸ ماه به طول انجامید، اما درویشیان ۲ ماه بعد در تهران دوباره دستگیر و به ۷ ماه زندان محکوم شد. وی همچنین به دنبال این حکم از دانشگاه اخراج و از معلمی نیز منفصل گردید. دستگیری بعدی درویشیان در ۱۳۵۳ اتفاق افتاد که منجر به صدور حکم ۱۱ سال زندان برای او شد. درویشیان از این تاریخ به زندان رفت و تا پیروزی انقلاب بهمن در زندان ماند. وی همچنین در اواخر سال ۱۳۵۲ با شهناز دارابیان ازدواج کرد.^[۱]

French Minister: Citizens Who Joined Jihad Should Die on the Battlefield – “We Don’t Want Them Back”

By Peter Koenig

October 23, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48068.htm

AP reported in The New York Post of 21 October 2017, that during ISIS heydays, it is estimated that about 30,000 citizens from around the world traveled to the Middle East, mostly Syria and Iraq, to join ISIS / Daesh as jihadi fighters. This included an estimated 6,000 Europeans, mostly from France, Germany and Britain, many with immigrant backgrounds. A study found that less than 10% converted to Islam.

After ISIS’ defeat in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, the former ISIS stronghold and artificial capital of the Islamic State’s Caliphate, about a third of the European jihadists have returned home, where many are awaiting trial in prison. Others are free and under surveillance. They are easy fodder for western secret services to blow themselves up, as jihadists, leaving always an ID behind; False Flag acts of ‘terror’, immediately claimed by ISIS, through the Islamic State’s news agency, Amaq. No surprise, though, in case they were contracted by CIA, Mossad, MI6 et al, to do so.

Raqqa Destroyed To Liberate It

By Eric Margolis

October 22, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/48054.htm

The so-called Islamic State organization was primarily a bogeyman encouraged by the western powers.  I’ve been saying this for the last four years. I asserted, as a former soldier and war correspondent, that IS would collapse like a wet paper bag if proper western ground forces attacked their strongholds in Syria and Iraq.  This week, the western powers and their local satraps finally took action and stormed the last IS stronghold at Raqqa.  To no surprise, IS put up almost no resistance and ran for its miserable life. The much-dreaded IS was never more than a bunch of young hooligans and religious fanatics who were as militarily effective as the medieval Children’s Crusade.

In the west, IS was blown up by media and governments into a giant monster that was coming to cut the throats of honest folk in the suburbs. IS did stage some very bloody and grisly attacks – that’s what put it on the map.   But none of them posed any mortal threat or really endangered our national security.   In fact, the primary target of IS attacks has been Shia Muslims in the Mideast. Many of the IS attacks in North America and Europe were done by mentally deranged individuals or were initiated by under-cover government provocateurs, such as the 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center.  IS was notorious for falsely taking credit for attacks it did not commit.

The Indonesia Massacre’s Historic Message

By Jonathan Marshall

October 19, 2017

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/10/19/the-indonesia-massacres-historic-message/

Fifty-four years after the assassination of President Kennedy, historians are still waiting to see whether President Trump will approve the final release of secret records related to that crime by the Oct. 26 deadline set by a unanimous Congress in 1992 with the JFK Records Act.

Lyndon Johnson sworn in as U.S. President after John F. Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. (Photo Credit: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library)

Senior Republicans in both the House and Senate have called on the President to “reject any claims for the continued postponement” of declassification. “Transparency in government is critical not only to ensuring accountability; it’s also essential to understanding our nation’s history,” said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.

قابل انکار نیست

چگونه منکرین علوم میتوانند بخود بقبولانند که گرمایش جهانی‌، تاریخ تکامل، و لزوم واکسیناسیون عمومی‌ دروغی بیش نیستند. برای کسانی‌ که این آزموده‌های علمی‌ را باور دارند، چنین مُنکرینی معمای بغرنجی هستند. بسیاری از اَنان تحصیلکرده و هوشیار هستند ولی‌ هنوز این دست‌آوردهای علمی‌ را نمی‌پذیرند. حد اقل حقایقی را که با منافع شخصی‌ و یا عقیدتی آنها سازگاری ندارند به کناری مینهند.

The Addicted Nation

United States is the largest and the most prosperous market variety of narcotics, and legally prescribed drugs. A consumer nation that is accustomed to buying on credit, and working hard in order to be able to buy more of the things that are mostly unused. As many entertaining gadgets are invented in this country, so are new kinds of drugs. Statistics are jaw dropping: “The most recent census on drug addiction shows that at least 24 million Americans (9.4%) have used illicit drugs in the preceding month. Of these, approximately 19.6 million have, or have had, a substance abuse disorder in the preceding year.  This means that nearly one in every ten Americans has a drug abuse problem – a statistic that would surprise many.” This is merely an illicit drug problem. The most common drug addiction is through the use of prescribed drugs. These days, you can buy any prescription drug you desire online. 

Americans Can Stop U.S. Role in Yemen War

OCT 04, 2017

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Source: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/americans-can-stop-americas-war-yemen/

Author’s note: Saudi Arabia, which launched military operations in 2015, says its aims in Yemen are to fight Iranian influence and restore the “legitimate” government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi’s, run out in 2014 by Houthi rebels. But Iran’s influence is heavily exaggerated, and Hadi is not popular. U.S. involvement has to do with controlling Bab-el-Mandeb strait, through which 3 million to 4 million barrels of oil travel daily. 

Yemen continues to suffer in silence as the world turns away from its ongoing misery.

The Rise of the New McCarthyism

September 26, 2017
By Robert Parry
Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/26/the-rise-of-the-new-mccarthyism/

Make no mistake about it: the United States has entered an era of a New McCarthyism that blames nearly every political problem on Russia and has begun targeting American citizens who don’t go along with this New Cold War propaganda.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wisconsin, who led the “Red Scare” hearings of the 1950s.

A difference, however, from the McCarthyism of the 1950s is that this New McCarthyism has enlisted Democrats, liberals and even progressives in the cause because of their disgust with President Trump; the 1950s version was driven by Republicans and the Right with much of the Left on the receiving end, maligned by the likes of Sen. Joe McCarthy as “un-American” and as Communism’s “fellow travelers.”

The real winners in this New McCarthyism appear to be the neoconservatives who have leveraged the Democratic/liberal hatred of Trump to draw much of the Left into the political hysteria that sees the controversy over alleged Russian political “meddling” as an opportunity to “get Trump.”

Already, the neocons and their allies have exploited the anti-Russian frenzy to extract tens of millions of dollars more from the taxpayers for programs to “combat Russian propaganda,” i.e., funding of non-governmental organizations and “scholars” who target dissident Americans for challenging the justifications for this New Cold War.

US Provides Military Assistance to 73 Percent of World's Dictatorships

By Rich Whitney

September 25, 2017 

For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by "evil dictators." We were told we had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator. We had to bomb Libya because Muammar Gaddafi was an evil dictator, bent on unleashing a "bloodbath" on his own people. Today, of course, we are told that we should support insurgents in Syria because Bashar al-Assad is an evil dictator, and we must repeatedly rattle our sabers at North Korea's Kim Jong-un and Russia's Vladimir Putin because they, too, are evil dictators.

This is part of the larger, usually unquestioned mainstream corporate media narrative that the US leads the "Western democracies" in a global struggle to combat terrorism and totalitarianism and promote democracy.

How the UN Covers for US Aggression

By J.P. Sottile
September 19, 2017
Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/19/how-the-un-covers-for-us-aggression/

President Trump opened his big United Nations week … and his famous mouth … with a predictable plug for one of his properties and some playful glad-handing with French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump also scolded the U.N.’s unwieldy scrum for “not living up to its potential.” He made a passing reference to the U.N.’s wasteful use of American money. And he called for “reform” of the much-maligned international forum.

It was a stolid prelude to what will no doubt be “must-see” TV when he speaks to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday about North Korea and Iran. And it was a far cry from the way America’s leading “America Firster” spent the campaign lamenting how unfair the U.N. is to the poor schlemiel we call Uncle Sam.

He is likely to use his speech to throw a little bit of that same red meat to his base, but his call for reform falls well short of what his supporters want … which is an abrupt end of U.S. involvement in the international body. They are motivated by a grab-bag of reasons that point to the U.N. being a threat to their guns, their bank accounts and their God-given freedom.

Trump's UN Speech Was Tailored For Americans That Were Born Yesterday

By Chris Rossini
September 19, 2017

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47842.htm

In America, we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to watch.

Those were actual words spoken by President Trump today at the UN. If only it were possible to see the thoughts swirling through the minds of everyone listening.

The words "yeah right" most likely dominated at that moment.

​If only the president's words were true. Instead, the U.S. government has been at constant war (both overt and covert) for an entire century. The globe is bursting with American military bases that are stationed around every corner.

میرزاده عشقی

میرزاده عشقی (۱۲۷۳ همدان - ۱۳۰۳ تهران)، شاعر، روزنامه‌نگار، نویسنده و نمایشنامه نویس دوران مشروطیّت و مدیر نشریه قرن بیستم بود؛ که در دوره نخست وزیری رضاخان، به دستور رئیس اداره تأمینات نظمیه (شهربانی) وقت، ترور شد. وی از جمله مهمترین شاعران عصر مشروطه به شمار می‌رود که از عناصر هویت ملی در جهت ایجاد انگیزه و آگاهی در توده مردم بهره گرفت.

میرزاده عشقی نام اصلیش «سید محمدرضا کردستانی» و فرزند «حاج سید ابوالقاسم کردستانی» بود و در تاریخ دوازدهم جمادی‌الآخر سال ۱۳۱۲ هجری قمری مطابق ۲۰ آذرماه ۱۲۷۳ خورشیدی و سال ۱۸۹۴ میلادی در همدان زاده شد. سالهای کودکی را در مکتب‌خانه‌های محلی و از سن هفت سالگی به بعد در آموزشگاه‌های «الفت» و «آلیانس» به تحصیل فارسی و فرانسه اشتغال داشته، پیش از آنکه گواهی نامه از این مدرسه دریافت کند در تجارتخانه یک بازرگان فرانسوی به شغل مترجمی پرداخته و به زبان فرانسه مسلط شد.

شاهد بازی

چند سال پیش که این کتاب را خواندم اندوه سنگینی‌ تمام وجودم را فرا گرفت. دلیلش رفتار زشت و به غایت  تهوع آور پدران ما نبود، که البته در این مورد هیچگونه پوزشی پذیرفته نیست. ولی‌ به این دلیل که اشعاری که با آنها از نوجوانی انس گرفته بودم، و هر سطر آن اشعار باعث میشد که پندار شور انگیزی در ذهنم نقش ببندد، اکنون چهره ننگینی به خود گرفته بودند، و آن ادبیاتِ دلآرا را به صورتی‌ زشت و پلید میدیدم. به عنوان مثال در مرجع دیگری خواندم که این شعر لطیف حافظ که میگوید: نگار من که به مکتب نرفت و مشق ننوشت/ به غمزه مساله آموز سد مدرس شد، آن پنداری که من داشتم نبود، که چهرهٔ ناز و عشوه‌گر دختر زیبائی را که برای حافظ شراب میریخت، در ذهنم تصویر میکرد. دین سالاران البته معتقدند این شعر در مورد پیغمبر اسلام است، که هر چه را که زیباست به گردن این موجود هزار و چهارصد ساله می‌آویزند. این نگار غماز در واقع همان شاه شجاع خونخوار است که پدرش را میکُشد که جای او بنشیند‌ وروزها خون میمکد و چون حافظهٔ سرشاری دارد و اشعار بسیاری به فارسی و عربی‌ و ترکی‌ در ذهن دارد، شبها هم پیالهٔ حافظ است! 

The Dangerous Decline of US Hegemony

September 9, 2017

By Daniel Lazare

Source: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/09/the-dangerous-decline-of-us-hegemony/

The showdown with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a seminal event that can only end in one of two ways: a nuclear exchange or a reconfiguration of the international order.

While complacency is always unwarranted, the first seems increasingly unlikely. As no less a global strategist than Steven Bannon observed about the possibility of a pre-emptive U.S. strike: “There’s no military solution. Forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don’t die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don’t know what you’re talking about. There’s no military solution here. They got us.”

This doesn’t mean that Donald Trump, Bannon’s ex-boss, couldn’t still do something rash. After all, this is a man who prides himself on being unpredictable in business negotiations, as historian William R. Polk, who worked for the Kennedy administration during the Cuban Missile Crisis, points out. So maybe Trump thinks it would be a swell idea to go a bit nuts on the DPRK.

How History Explains the Korean Crisis

By William R. Polk
Source:https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/05/on-the-brink-of-nuclear-war/

The U.S. and North Korea are on the brink of hostilities that if begun would almost certainly lead to a nuclear exchange. This is the expressed judgment of most competent observers. They differ over the causes of this confrontation and over the size, range and impact of the weapons that would be fired, but no one can doubt that even a “limited” nuclear exchange would have horrifying effects throughout much of the world including North America.

A Korean girl carries her brother on her back, trudging past a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea., June 9, 1951. (U.S. military photo)

Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1917–2017

by John Bellamy Foster

Source: https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/revolution-and-counterrevolution-1917-2017/

The Russian Revolution of 1917 erupted on the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital. From the start, the October Revolution seemed both to confirm and contradict Marx’s analysis. He had envisioned a working-class-based socialist revolution breaking out in the developed capitalist countries of Western Europe. But the 1882 preface to the Communist Manifesto, written a year before his death, amended this by pointing to a revolution in Russia as a possible “signal for proletarian revolution in the West.”¹ Yet although a worker-peasant revolution under Marxist leadership triumphed in Russia in 1917, Russia was still a largely underdeveloped country, and the revolutionary uprisings in Germany and Central Europe which followed were weak and easily extinguished.

In these circumstances, Soviet Russia, completely isolated, faced a massive counterrevolution, with all the major imperialist powers intervening on the side of the White Russian forces in the Civil War. “Socialism in one country,” the basic defensive posture of the USSR throughout its history, was thus to a large extent a geopolitical reality imposed on it from outside. This was evident beginning with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, in which Russia was forced to give up much of the territory of the Tsarist Empire, followed soon after by the Treaty of Versailles, which sought to isolate it still further.