از زمانی که «پروژه قرن جدید امریکا» درسال ۱۹۹۷ به منصهُ ظهور رسید٬ که خود به دنبال طرح های موفقیت امیز ریگان در ایران و ال سالوادور بود٬ جهان چرخش عظیمی به سمت راست کرد. سقوط شوروی جایگاه ابر قدرتیِ امریکا را تضمین کرد و سیاستهای جهانی توسط متمولین انگشت شمار امریکایی هر ساله در داووس پیاده شد. رئیس جمهور های امریکا که همواره از زمان کارتر به اسلامی کردن خاورمیانه و چنگ انداختن به ثروت هنگفت زیرزمینی چشم دوخته بودند٬ در این زمینه نیز پیروز شدند و زمانیکه بوش و یا اوباما با تبختر میبالیدند که “امریکا استثنایی و غیر قابل اجتناب است”٬ در عمل این پیشفرض به نیکی مشاهده شد. با توجه به سابقه دولت امریکا در تهیه و استفاده از بمب های شیمیایی که همچنان ادامه دارد )به عنوان نمونه در جنگ ایران و عراق(٬ تئوری توطئه ای که اخیراً مطرح میشود که ویروس کووید
- ۱۹ با مهندسی دولت امریکا بوجود امده٬ و ارتشی هایی که ده روز پیش از شیوع کرونا به ووهان رفتند عامل پخش ان بودند٬ قابل تعمق میباشد. ولی انچه که به این تئوری توطئه رنگ بیشتری میدهد دو کتاب میباشند که سالها پیش توسط دو نویسنده امریکایی نوشته شده بودند.
اندیشمند بزرگترین احساسش عشق است و هر عملش با خرد
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Monday, March 23, 2020
Lies My Teacher Told Me- Part Two- Ending
Saturday, March 21, 2020
قوتهای جامعه ایرانی در برابر کرونا
محمد فاضلی
اسفند ۲۶, ۱۳۹۸
جامعه ایرانی مثل همه جوامع، ترکیبی از قوتها و ضعفهاست. من در این یادداشت میخواهم شماری از قوتهایش را که در برابر کرونا آشکار شده است پررنگ کنم.
A Complete List of Trump’s Attempts to Play Down Coronavirus
By: David Leonhardt
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html
March 15, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus.html
March 15, 2020
President Trump made his first public comments about the
coronavirus on Jan. 22, in a television interview from Davos with CNBC’s Joe
Kernen. The first American case had been announced the day before, and Kernen
asked Trump, “Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?” The president
responded: “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one
person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be
just fine.” By this point, the seriousness of the virus was becoming clearer.
It had spread from China to four other countries. China was starting to take
drastic measures and was on the verge of closing off the city of Wuhan.
In the weeks that followed, Trump faced a series of
choices. He could have taken aggressive measures to slow the spread of the
virus. He could have insisted that the United States ramp up efforts to produce
test kits. He could have emphasized the risks that the virus presented and
urged Americans to take precautions if they had reason to believe they were
sick. He could have used the powers of the presidency to reduce the number of
people who would ultimately get sick.
He
did none of those things.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget
By: Chris Hedges
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/class-the-little-word-the-elites-want-you-to-forget/
Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us. The interests of the rich are not our interests. The truths of the rich are not our truths. The lives of the rich are not our lives. Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent. Neoliberalism, deindustrialization, the destruction of labor unions, slashing and even eliminating the taxes of the rich and corporations, free trade, globalization, the surveillance state, endless war and austerity—the ideologies or tools used by the oligarchs to further their own interests — are presented to the public as natural law, the mechanisms for social and economic progress, even as the oligarchs dynamite the foundations of a liberal democracy and exacerbate a climate crisis that threatens to extinguish human life.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/class-the-little-word-the-elites-want-you-to-forget/
Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us. The interests of the rich are not our interests. The truths of the rich are not our truths. The lives of the rich are not our lives. Great wealth not only breeds contempt for those who do not have it but it empowers oligarchs to pay armies of lawyers, publicists, politicians, judges, academics and journalists to censure and control public debate and stifle dissent. Neoliberalism, deindustrialization, the destruction of labor unions, slashing and even eliminating the taxes of the rich and corporations, free trade, globalization, the surveillance state, endless war and austerity—the ideologies or tools used by the oligarchs to further their own interests — are presented to the public as natural law, the mechanisms for social and economic progress, even as the oligarchs dynamite the foundations of a liberal democracy and exacerbate a climate crisis that threatens to extinguish human life.
The oligarchs are happy to talk about race. They are happy to talk about sexual identity and gender. They are happy to talk about patriotism. They are happy to talk about religion. They are happy to talk about immigration. They are happy to talk about abortion. They are happy to talk about gun control. They are happy to talk about cultural degeneracy or cultural freedom. They are not happy to talk about class. Race, gender, religion, abortion, immigration, gun control, culture and patriotism are issues used to divide the public, to turn neighbor against neighbor, to fuel virulent hatreds and antagonisms. The culture wars give the oligarchs, both Democrats and Republicans, the cover to continue the pillage. There are few substantial differences between the two ruling political parties in the United States. This is why oligarchs like Donald Trump and Michael Bloomberg can switch effortlessly from one party to the other. Once oligarchs seize power, Aristotle wrote, a society must either accept tyranny or choose revolution.
Four Numbers That Scream 'Vote for Bernie!'
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/03/four-numbers-scream-vote-bernie
The richest 10% are very interested in keeping things
just the way they are.
By: Paul Buchheit
By the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the 'centrist' candidate.
The families all the way up to the very center of America have actually lost
wealth since the recession. The families from the center to the 90th percentile
have seen their share of national wealth drop dramatically. This 90% of America
needs a President who will focus on a living wage and affordable health care
and the reduction of inequality. That's Bernie.
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Lies My Teacher Told Me- Part One
(Due to the length of this article, it will be published in two separate posts)
PART ONE
A history book written by James W. Loewen with a sub-title
“Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, discloses what is
missing from textbooks. In Addition, it discusses historical events that
happened differently from narratives of textbooks. The book contains many
interesting historical facts, that one may not have even read anywhere, or have
not read in a way of achieving the same conclusion. To understand why in such a rich and
plentiful country as the United States, where everyone from any part of the
world is striving to migrate to, significant historical events are omitted from
its history, one should examine American politics. Although it is claimed to be
a multi-party democracy, in fact there is only one party that is almost always
voted into the office in all elections, a party with two factions on the left
(called Democratic) and on the right (called Republican). A minority of well to
do people help candidates to be elected in their selected faction, and almost
half of the nation do not participate in elections at all. In late 1970s, with the election of Ronald Reagan, many of public benefits were either eliminated or weakened, until the last president of the 20th century, William Clinton, made a sharp right turn, and as a result, policies of the Democratic Party became much closer to those of the Republican Party.
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