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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Lookout for Karl Marx!

November 27, 2020
By: Chuck Churchill

Marx wrote all of his analyses and criticisms of capitalism well over one hundred and fifty years ago. Since then the capitalists have been working overtime to discount and demonize his assessments of capitalism as a system that exploits and indeed enslaves workers in order to profit from their labor. Our big business rulers have used their monopoly over state power and the mass media to inoculate the population against Marx’ ideas and strategies, which have historically been used to organize the workers and their allies throughout the world, and thus threatened the unchecked power of capital. Our corporate rulers have sought to discount Marx’s ideas as wrong or irrelevant for our times. But if this is so, then why not show this by widely presenting these ideas for discussion and debate? After all, do we not have “democracy” and “free speech” here in the “exceptional “US? Is not our system of education a “market- place for ideas?”

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Five scientists in 10 years: Iran's nuclear physicists are top targets for assassins

By: Sheren Khalel
27 November 2020

To be a nuclear scientist in Iran is to be in danger. During the past decade, up to this week, at least four had been killed in vehicle bombings and shootouts, and several others have been targeted but survived. On Friday, the alleged architect of Iran's military nuclear program joined the ranks of the slain. Armed assassins gunned down Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in his car in an ambush in Absard city, outside the capital Tehran.


Saturday, November 21, 2020

Biden’s transition team

Biden’s transition team is filled with war profiteers, Beltway chickenhawks, and corporate consultants

11/14/2020

KEVIN GOSZTOLA

A glance at the Biden-Harris agency review teams should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration could be “pushed to the left.”

An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United States government when Barack Obama was president.

The appointments should provide a rude awakening to anyone who believed a Biden administration could be pressured to move in a progressive direction, especially on foreign policy.

If the agency teams are any indication, Biden will be firmly insulated from any pressure to depart from the neoliberal status quo, which the former vice president has pledged to restore. Instead, he is likely to be pushed in an opposite direction, towards an interventionist foreign policy dictated by elite Beltway interests and consumed by Cold War fever.


Neocons Poised to Join New Government

 Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55875.htm

By Phillip Giraldi

November 15, 2020

Donald Trump was much troubled during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns by so-called conservatives who rallied behind the #NeverTrump banner, presumably in opposition to his stated intention to end or at least diminish America’s role in wars in the Middle East and Asia. Those individuals are generally described as neoconservatives but the label is itself somewhat misleading and they might more properly be described as liberal warmongers as they are closer to the Democrats than the Republicans on most social issues and are now warming up even more as the new Joe Biden Administration prepares to take office.

To be sure, some neocons stuck with the Republicans, to include the highly controversial Elliott Abrams, who initially opposed Trump but is now the point man for dealing with both Venezuela and Iran. Abrams’ conversion reportedly took place when he realized that the new president genuinely embraced unrelenting hostility towards Iran as exemplified by the ending of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad. John Bolton was also a neocon in the White House fold, though he is now a frenemy having been fired by the president and written a book.

Saturday, November 14, 2020

Biden's Transition Team

 One Third of Biden's Pentagon Transition Team Hails From Organizations Financed by the Weapons Industry. The president-elect is drawing from hawkish think tanks funded by arms companies.


By: Sarah Lazare   11/11/2020

Link: https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-department-of-defense-pentagon-transition-team-weapons-industry-military

In July 2019, while cam­paign­ing for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for pres­i­dent, Joe Biden declared in a for­eign pol­i­cy speech, ​“It’s past time to end the For­ev­er Wars, which have cost us untold blood and trea­sure.” But the pres­i­dent-elect — who as vice pres­i­dent over­saw wars in Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan and more — is already embrac­ing per­son­nel with strong ties to the mil­i­tary appa­ra­tus dri­ving this end­less combat. 

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

آیا گسترش گیتی بینهایت است؟

از شماره دسامبر ماهنامه "کشفDiscover "، صفحه ۱۳

در سال ۱۶۱۰، زمانیکه گالیله تلسکوپ تازه ساز خود را به سمت آسمان نشانه گرفت، به جهانی پی برد که تا آن زمان ناشناخته بود. او ستارگان بیشماری را در پهنه راه شیری دید که تا آن زمان از چشمان غیر مسلح پوشیده بودند. کیهان در آن لحظه بطرز وسیعی گسترش یافت. حدود سه قرن پس از آن، زمانی که دانشمندان تلسکوپی ساختند که نشان داد که راه شیری تنها یکی از "جزایر عالم وجود" بود، کائنات بار دیگر بطرز وسیعی گسترش یافتند. از آن زمان به بعد، با توسعه در پیشرفت های تلسکوپی، جهان قابل دید به ۹۲ بیلیون سال نوری که در بر گیرنده دو تریلیون کهکشان است، وسعت پیدا کرده است. و همچنان اختر شناسان در شگفت میباشند که پیشرفت آن قسمت از این جهان که از دید ما خارج است، چه اندازه است.


Saturday, November 7, 2020

Biden: A War Cabinet?

 https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/02/biden-a-war-cabinet/

11/2/2020

 



“Let’s bring decency and integrity back to the White House.” I can’t count the number of times I have heard and read this phrase uttered by U.S. expats here in Paris, France. As one of many American expats living here, of course I share in the desire for an end to a Donald Trump presidency. But at what cost? And will a Biden presidency — which promises a return to “normalcy” — really merit the sigh of relief that so many think it will? Below I summaries some of the most troubling information I have uncovered about some of the most likely foreign policy picks for key positions in a Biden cabinet.

Thursday, November 5, 2020

دموکراسی چیست؟

دموکراسی چیست؟ کشورهای خاورمیانه به عنوان ممالکی با دولتهای دیکتاتوری شناخته میشوند، که اکثرا یک نفر یا یک خانواده یا یک قوم آنها را اداره میکنند. کشورهای غربی، از طرف دیگر به عنوان ممالکی با دول دموکرات به ما معرفی میشوند. ولی آیا این چنین است؟ پاسخ به این پرسش را باید با نگرشی به طرز حکومت این کشورها یافت. کشورهای عربی که یک خانواده (ملک فیصل به عنوان نمونه) آنها را اداره میکنند دقیقا چنین مشخصه ای دارند. انهایی که دولتشان از طریق آراء مردم برگزیده میشوند، تحت نظر رهبری که در بالای دولت نشسته است (مانند خامنه ای) عموما از طرف گروه خاصی حمایت میشوند، و یا رییس جمهور مادامالعمر هستند (مانند مصر)، و یا اشراف و یا طبقه مذهبی و یا مالی آنها را به آن مقام میرسانند. جالب است که دقیقا همین طرز حکومت را میتوان در کشورهای غربی نیز جست.