به مناسبت اول ماه مه، یازدهم اردی‌بهشت، روز جهانی کارگر

به مناسبت اول ماه مه، یازدهم اردی‌بهشت، روز جهانی کارگر
حادثه‌دیدگان و فوت‌شدگانِ ناشی از کار در ایران
محمد مالجو

• در چند سال گذشته با امواج جدیدی از دگرگونی‌ها برای استخراج فزاینده‌ترِ ارزش اضافی نسبی در اقتصاد ایران مواجه بوده‌ایم. یکی از مصداق‌های چنین امواج جدیدی عبارت است از کاهش چشمگیر در ایمنی محل کار که به احتمال قوی از کاهش هزینه‌هایی که انواع کارفرمایان باید برای ایمن‌سازی محل کار متقبل شوند سرچشمه می‌گیرد، آن‌هم به قیمت افزایش چشمگیر در نرخ وقوع سوانح شغلی در حین کار. در مقاله‌ی حاضر دو هدف را دنبال می‌کنم. ...

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شنبه  ٨ ارديبهشت ۱٣۹۷ -  ۲٨ آوريل ۲۰۱٨

The U.S. Role in the Destruction of Syria

By David Ray Griffin
April 20, 2018
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49267.htm

In Syria, the goal of creating chaos has succeeded in spades. Mnar Muhawesh wrote: [F]oreign powers have sunk the nation into a nightmare combination of civil war, foreign invasion and terrorism. Syrians are in the impossible position of having to choose between living in a warzone, being targeted by groups like ISIS and the Syrian government’s brutal crack- down, or faring dangerous waters with minimal safety equipment only to be denied food, water and safety by European governments if they reach shore.

Of course, many Syrians were unable, or chose not to try, to reach Europe. Continuing her discussion of the refugee crisis created by the destabilization of Syria, Muhawesh added:

Other Syrians seeing the chaos at home have turned to neighboring Arab Muslim countries. Jordan alone has absorbed over half a million Syrian refugees; Lebanon has accepted nearly 1.5 million; and Iraq and Egypt have taken in several hundred thousand. . . . Turkey has [by 2015] taken in nearly 2 million refugees.55

By the end of 2015, the conflict in Syria had “displaced 12 million people, creating the largest wave of refugees to hit Europe since World War II.”56

War is a Women’s Issue

Source: https://www.marchonpentagon.com/single-post/2018/04/17/War-is-a-Womens-IssueBy: 

Cheryl Biren

Date: April 17, 2018

Imperialist War is an atrocity and atrocities make up the whole of the atrocity. When they cannot be suppressed, the Pentagon and corporate media work in tandem to convince the public that the rapes, the massacres, the torture, the targeted murders of civilians, the sexual exploitation of girls and women are isolated incidents while insisting that these wars of aggression are just. Ultimately, the devastating aftermath of U.S imperialist war is deemed to be the fault and responsibility of others.

Classism, Racism, Sexism, Misogyny and Xenophobia serve as the grease that keeps the U.S. war machine running. U.S. imperialism also necessitates that the people are numb to the full-scale decimation of the living Earth.

Poor and working-class women, women of color, women who are immigrants, female refugees, women in conflict zones and those who live where U.S. military bases loom are especially harmed by the U.S. government’s fixation on world domination.

The UN Security Council reports that women suffer disproportionately during and after war. Can we expect to end war without recognizing the inherent role misogyny plays in it and how that misogyny runs through class, racial and ethnic lines? 

Caught in a lie, US & allies bomb Syria the night before international inspectors arrive

Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/424186-us-allies-syria-lie/

The US, Britain and France trampled international law to launch missiles against Syria, claiming to have “evidence” of the government’s use of chemical weapons. That evidence is based on terrorist lies.

After a week of outrageous tweets and proclamations by POTUS Trump, which included continued accusations that Syria’s president ordered a chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma, east of Damascus, with Trump using grotesque and juvenile terminology, such as “animal Assad,” the very evening before chemical weapons inspectors of the OPCW were to visit Douma, America and allies launched illegal bombings against Syria. The illegal bombings included 103 missiles, 71 of which Russia states were intercepted.

For the past week, we were told that the US had ‘evidence’ and the UK had ‘evidence’ that Syria had used chemicals. The ‘evidence’ largely relied on video clips and photos shared on social media, provided by the Western-funded White Helmets (that “rescuer” group that somehow only operates in Al-Qaeda and co-terrorist occupied areas and participates in torture and executions), as well as by Yaser al-Doumani, a man whose allegiance to Jaysh al-Islam is clear from his own Facebook posts, for example of former Jaysh al-Islam leader, Zahran Alloush.

Western Media's conundrum – why is 'bad guy' Putin so popular at home?

Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/423921-putin-economy-russia-capitalism/
By: Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He’s professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. You can support his attempts to build a new economics https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reviled as a "bad person" in the Western press and by Western politicians. And those accusations have heightened since the Skripal poisoning incident, which has been blamed on the Kremlin.

I'm neither going to dispute, nor support that characterization. Instead, I want to give some background as to why a "bad person" or "strongman" or, indeed, a hyper patriot, might have been elected Russia's leader in the first place. In other words, I want to explain why Putin has pursued certain policies which have helped to prompt such emotional reactions from many Western analysts.

And elected he was, first in 2000 – when, though the elections were criticized, they were regarded as broadly democratic. He has since been elected another three times, though Russia is no longer regarded as a true democracy by much of the West's media and political establishments.

The Bolshevik Experiment

No story starts yesterday, especially with Russia. The latest date one should commence with is 1914, when Russia was ruled by a hereditary emperor whose political ineptness helped lead to the First World War. The many disasters that flowed from WWI led to Nicholas II's own overthrow in 1917 when, after a bloody civil war, the Bolshevik faction of the Communist Party led by Vladimir Lenin became Russia's new leaders.

Who is John Bolton?

By: Marjorie Kohen

Source: http://marjoriecohn.com/trump-finds-fellow-bully-in-bolton/

Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton

Nothing Donald Trump has done since his inauguration 14 months ago is more dangerous – to the United States, and indeed, to the world – than his selection of John Bolton for National Security Adviser. It is not surprising the president would feel most comfortable receiving advice from a fellow bully.

Trump bullies people on a nearly daily basis, directing his ire at immigrants, Muslims, women, LBGTQ people, the poor and the environment. He hurls Twitter attacks at those who disagree with him.

The president has encouraged police brutality, suggesting in a Long Island speech that law enforcement officers bang suspects’ heads against police car doors. “Please don’t be too nice” when arresting people, Trump advised. “Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’”

After being told someone might throw tomatoes at him at a campaign rally, Trump urged his supporters to “knock the crap out of them … I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.” He stated on Fox News that a Black Lives Matter activist who was attacked at a Trump rally “should have been roughed up.”

Cue the Chemical Weapons Stunt in Syria

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49176.htm
By Finian Cunningham

April 08, 2018 -  This weekend’s alleged chemical-weapon attack on civilians in Syria has all the hallmarks of a false-flag propaganda stunt. Only people who have had their critical senses numbed by saturated Western media distortion could possibly believe otherwise.

Three hallmarks are: the typically unverified claims and videos showing children being hosed down, which are attributed to the discredited media outlet, the so-called White Helmets. This group is embedded with terrorist organizations like Nusra Front and Jaysh al Islam, among others, but is eulogized in Western media as a respectable source. Anything that the White Helmets claim should be taken with extreme caution, if not contempt.

State Dept Claims Syria Chemical Attack, Blames Russia

Last week, Trump announced removing Americans from Syria unless Saudis pay for it. Therefore, killing innocent people in a chemical attack in order to keep Americans in Syria and flare up another round of bombardment of Syrian government's military was necessary. Of course, it is very hard to convince anyone that Syrian government killed its citizens at the time when they are winning the war against the remaining Saudi and American supported rebels. The following is the latest news:

Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2018/04/07/state-dept-claims-syria-chemical-attack-blames-russia/

BREAKING: 'AIRSTRIKE on Syria' reports of fighter jets and missiles over Lebanon

REPORTS of explosions have been heard at Syria’s Tiyas Military Airbase amid reports of jets flying across Lebanon into Syria as well as unknown projectiles, it has been reported.

Lebanon residents have reported hearing unidentified jets towards Syria.

Speculation is rising of a foreign attack against the Syrian regime just a day after a chemical attack.

It happened roughly at 3.30am local time on Monday.

Residents reported hearing loud booms and the sound of jets.

There are reports that Syrian air defence has intercepted missiles.

There are also reports that US warships from the Mediterranean are reportedly launching tomahawk missiles into Syria.

Syrian state television has reportedly confirmed

Reports are not confirmed so far, but video has emerged showing an unknown object flying across the sky in Lebanon.

One Twitter user said: “We're already under attack at this very moment!”

Another said: “USA lauches widespread assault on SyAF infrastructure. Warships are now positioning to launch tomahawks in the second wave of attacks.”

Lebanon residents have reported hearing unidentified jets towards Syria.

Speculation is rising of a foreign attack against the Syrian regime just a day after a chemical attack.

THE ISOLATION OF JULIAN ASSANGE IS THE SILENCING OF US ALL

Source: http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-isolation-of-julian-assange-is-the-silencing-of-us-all

In this letter, twenty-seven writers, journalists, film-makers, artists, academics, former intelligence officers and democrats call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech.

If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now.

Citing his critical tweets about the recent detention of Catalan president Carles Puidgemont in Germany, and following pressure from the US, Spanish and UK governments, the Ecuadorian government has installed an electronic jammer to stop Assange communicating with the outside world via the internet and phone.

As if ensuring his total isolation, the Ecuadorian government is also refusing to allow him to receive visitors. Despite two UN rulings describing his detention as unlawful and mandating his immediate release, Assange has been effectively imprisoned since he was first placed in isolation in Wandsworth prison in London in December 2010. He has never been charged with a crime. The Swedish case against him collapsed and was withdrawn, while the United States has stepped up efforts to prosecute him. His only "crime" is that of a true journalist -- telling the world the truths that people have a right to know.

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