The Dance of Death

Source: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_dance_of_death_20170312

Posted on Mar 12, 2017

By Chris Hedges

The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to feed an insatiable lust for wealth, power and hedonism. Wars and military “virtues” are celebrated. Intelligence, empathy and the common good are banished. Culture is degraded to patriotic kitsch. Education is designed only to instill technical proficiency to serve the poisonous engine of corporate capitalism. Historical amnesia shuts us off from the past, the present and the future. Those branded as unproductive or redundant are discarded and left to struggle in poverty or locked away in cages. State repression is indiscriminate and brutal. And, presiding over the tawdry Grand Guignol is a deranged ringmaster tweeting absurdities from the White House.

The American Media Hide From The Truth

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46648.htm

By Paul Craig Roberts
March 13, 2017 "Information Clearing House"
The CIA created and accumulated from other sources a huge array of malware and cyber attack capability capable of stealing information from any individual, any government, any corporation, any intelligence agency and either leaving no trace or leaving a “fingerprint” of an innocent party. The CIA, being arrogant and incompetent, lost control over its monster which escaped and now is in the hands of we know not who. Floating around the Internet, it was sent to WikiLeaks. Listen to Julian Assange’s explanation of the capability of the CIA’s spyware, which includes end runs around encryption.

The presstitute media’s response was not outrage over the CIA’s criminal behavior, compounded by its incompetence in failing to keep the package from escaping. Rather, the whores who comprise the US media turned on Julian Assange for making known what we need to know. Brian Ross, the chief presstitute at ABC, wanted to know if WiliLeaks took money from Russia. Presstitute Andrea Mitchell, faithful to the CIA, quickly got former CIA director Michael Hayden on TV to agree with her that “Wikileaks has struck again” and revealed information damaging to the US about the CIA’s foreign intelligence operations. You can see what a great lie Andrea and Hayden have conspired to tell by listening to Assange explain the information delivered into his hands.

The American print and TV media are servants of the police state. This makes the US media the principal threat that Americans face. The US media is the handmaiden of war, the police state, lies, and evil. The presstitutes have no shame over their lack of integrity and the risk of thermo-nuclear war to which they expose humanity.


Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.

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O. Henry

We can add another 9/11 mystery to the ones we enjoy creating, which is the birth date of W.S. Porter, known as O. Henry. William Sydney Porter had a short life, from 9/11/1862 to 6/5/1910, but long enough to establish himself as one of the best American short story writers. His writings were reflected on periodicals and news publications of the time, and later collected into several books. He wrote a total of 381 short stories. Forty five of his stories are collected in a book titled “Selected Stories of O. Henry” that was published in 2003 by Barnes & Noble, Inc., with a great introduction by Victoria Blake. Quotations made of O. Henry’s work are from this book.

Trump and Saving Capitalism

March 6, 2017

by Richard D. Wolff

Capitalism, Thomas Piketty showed in his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century has a built-in tendency to worsen income and wealth inequalities. One consequence of this tendency are periodic political explosions of mass, popular anger. People push back against those inequalities and the political corruption and social divisions they always aggravate. Politicians who grasp these moments often succeed in taking advantage of them and win. Politicians who fail to see, admit, or accommodate these moments lose. Such losers have usually served as administrators and cheerleaders for capitalism – its sequential “establishments.”  So busy (and well paid) celebrating the system, they are undone by their own defensive blindness to its failures and critical oppositions.

فعالان حقوق زنان در ایران

شهناز آزاد

شهناز رشدیه (شهناز آزاد) (۱۲۸۰–۱۳۴۰) روزنامه‌نگار و یکی از پیشگامان جنبش زنان در ایران بود. او سردبیری نامه بانوان را برعهده داشت.

شهناز در خانواده‌ای فرهنگی و طبقه متوسط رو به بالا زاده شد. پدرش حاج میرزا حسن رشدیه مردی تحصیل کرده و مدرسه‌ساز بود. در جوانی با ابوالقاسم آزاد مراغه‌ای ازدواج کرد که روزنامه‌نگار بود. خود نیز در ۱۲۹۹ قبل از سن ۲۰ سالگی اقدام به انتشار نامه بانوان برای آگاهی زنان نمود. این نشریه مقالاتی درباره حقوق زنان، حجاب، اخبار ملی و بین‌المللی چاپ می‌کرد و همه مقاله‌هایش به قلم زنان بود. شهناز آزاد و همسرش در کنار آزارها، زندان و تبعید، با کمبود سرمایه و مشکلات مالی برای چاپ روزنامه‌هایشان نیز روبرو بودند. شهناز آزاد در ۶۰ سالگی در سال ۱۳۴۰ درگذشت.

توبا آزموده

توبا آزموده (طوبا، طوبی) (۱۲۵۷-۱۳۱۵) مؤسس دبستان ناموس و نیز نخستین دبیرستان دخترانه در تهران، از پیشگامان جنبش زنان در ایران بود.

توبا در ۱۲۵۷ در خانواده‌ای از طبقه متوسط با پدری باسواد و ارتشی در تهران زاده شد. در خانه نزد آموزگاران سرخانه (و نیز بعد از ازدواج) فارسی و فرانسه و عربی آموخت. در ۱۴ سالگی به ازدواج مردی نظامی درآمد اما زود جدا شدند. طوبا پس از جدایی چند سال درس خواند و به آموختن علوم مختلف مشغول شد. او دبستان ناموس را در ۱۲۸۶ در تهران با مشقات فراوان و مخالفت‌های بسیار تأسیس کرد. طوبا آزموده این مدرسه را با پشتکار و مبارزه حفظ کرد و در سال ۱۳۰۷ نخستین دبیرستان 
دخترانه تهران را نیز تأسیس نمود. طوبی آزموده در سال ۱۳۱۵ در سن ۶۰ سالگی درگذشت.

Trump’s Use of Navy SEAL’s Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda

Glenn Greenwald

March 1 2017, 5:47 a.m.

During his Tuesday night address to the U.S. Congress, President Trump paid tribute to Ryan Owens, the Navy SEAL killed in the January commando raid in Yemen that Trump ordered. As he did so, television cameras focused for almost four full minutes on Owens’s grieving wife, Carryn, as she wept and applauded while sitting next to and periodically being touched by Trump’s glamorous daughter Ivanka. The entire chamber stood together in sustained applause, with Trump interjecting scripted, lyrical expressions of support and gratitude for her husband’s sacrifice.

It was, as intended, an obviously powerful TV moment. Independent of the political intent behind it, any well-functioning human being would feel great empathy watching a grieving spouse mourning and struggling to cope emotionally with the recent, sudden death of her partner. The majestic setting of the U.S. Congress, solemnly presided over by the U.S. president, vested the moment with political gravity.

قرمطیان

Source: https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B7%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86

از ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد

قرمطیان گروهی وابسته به اسماعیلیان یا باطنیان بودند که پس از قیام علی بن محمد برقعی معروف به (صاحب الزنج) که میان سالهای ۲۵۵-۲۷۰ هجری در نواحی جنوبی عراق صورت گرفت و بنیان حکومت عباسیان را متزلزل ساخت، و با تلفات انسانی و مالی بسیار همراه بود، خود مستقلاً وارد صحنه مبارزه شده و به قیام دیگری پرداختند که از نظر قدرت و دوام و حدود قلمرو و بسط حکومت و تاسیس نظام اجتماعی در جهت رفاه مستمندان از نهضت صاحب الزنجی برتر و مهمتر بود.^[۱]

خیام

از ویکی‌پدیا، دانشنامهٔ آزاد

Source: https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85

عُمَر خَیّام
مجسمهٔ خیام نیشابوری در دفتر سازمان ملل متحد در وین

عُمَر خَیّام نیشابوری (نام کامل: غیاث‌الدین ابوالفتح عُمَر بن ابراهیم خَیّام نیشابوری) (زادهٔ ۲۸ اردیبهشت ۴۲۷ در نیشابور - درگذشتهٔ ۱۲ آذر ۵۱۰ در نیشابور)^[۳] که خیامی و خیام نیشابوری و خیامی النّیسابوری^[۲] هم نامیده شده‌است، فیلسوف، ریاضی‌دان، ستاره‌شناس و رباعیسرای ایرانی در دورهٔ سلجوقی است. گرچه پایگاه علمی خیام برتر از جایگاه ادبی اوست و لقبش «حجّةالحق» بوده‌است،^[۴] ولی آوازهٔ وی بیشتر به‌واسطهٔ نگارش رباعیاتش است که شهرت جهانی دارد. افزون بر آن‌که رباعیات خیام را به اغلب زبان‌های زنده ترجمه نموده‌اند، ادوارد فیتزجرالد^[۵] رباعیات او را به زبان انگلیسی ترجمه کرده‌است که مایهٔ شهرت بیشتر وی در مغرب‌زمین شده‌است.

یکی از برجسته‌ترین کارهای وی را می‌توان اصلاح گاه‌شماری ایران در زمان وزارت خواجه نظام‌الملک، که در دورهٔ سلطنت ملک‌شاه سلجوقی (۴۲۶–۴۹۰ هجری قمری) بود، دانست. وی در ریاضیات، نجوم، علوم ادبی، دینی و تاریخی استاد بود. نقش خیام در حل معادلات درجه‌سوم و مطالعاتش دربارهٔ اصل پنجم اقلیدس نام او را به عنوان ریاضی‌دانی برجسته در تاریخ علم ثبت کرده‌است.^[۶] ابداع نظریه‌ای دربارهٔ نسبت‌های هم‌ارز با نظریهٔ اقلیدس نیز از مهم‌ترین کارهای اوست.^[۷]

شماری از تذکرهنویسان، خیام را شاگرد ابن سینا و شماری نیز وی را شاگرد امام موفق نیشابوری خوانده‌اند.^[۴][۸][۹] صحت این فرضیه که خیام شاگرد ابن سینا بوده‌است، بسیار بعید می‌نماید، زیرا از لحاظ زمانی با هم تفاوت زیادی  داشته‌اند. خیام در جایی ابن سینا را استاد خود می‌داند، اما این استادی ابن سینا، جنبهٔ معنوی دارد.

The U.S. Carried Out Regime Change In Syria In 1949 … and Tried Again In 1957, 1986, 1991 and 2011-Today

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46544.htm

By WashingtonsBlog
February 25, 2017 "Information Clearing House" -  "WashingtonsBlog" - The CIA backed a right-wing coup in Syria in 1949. Douglas Little, Professor, Department of Clark University History professor Douglas Little notes:

Recently declassified records… confirm that beginning on November 30, 1948, [CIA operative Stephen] Meade met secretly with Colonel Zaim at least six times to discuss the “possibility [of an] army supported dictatorship.” [“Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958,” Middle East Journal, Winter 1990, p. 55]
***
As early as 1949, this newly independent Arab republic was an important staging ground for the CIA’s earliest experiments in covert action.
The CIA secretly encouraged a right-wing military coup in 1949.

The reason the U.S. initiated the coup?  Little explains:

 In late 1945, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) announced plans to construct the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line (TAPLINE) from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterra- nean. With U.S. help, ARAMCO secured rights-of-way from Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.  The Syrian right-of-way was stalled in parliament.

James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness

Source: ​http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/james_baldwin_and_the_meaning_of_whiteness_20170219

Posted on Feb 19, 2017

By Chris Hedges

Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” is one of the finest documentaries I have ever seen—I would have stayed in the theater in New York to see the film again if the next showing had not been sold out. The newly released film powerfully illustrates, through James Baldwin’s prophetic work, that the insanity now gripping the United States is an inevitable consequence of white Americans’ steadfast failure to confront where they came from, who they are and the lies and myths they use to mask past and present crimes. Baldwin’s only equal as a 20th century essayist is George Orwell. If you have not read Baldwin you probably do not fully understand America. Especially now.

History “is not the past,” the film quotes Baldwin as saying. “History is the present. We carry our history with us. To think otherwise is criminal.”

کشتنِ رفسنجانی‌، آتش زدنِ پلاسکو، و تهدیداتِ ترامپ

برای اینکه دلیلی‌ برای حملهٔ مستقیم به ویتنام  داشته باشند، مقامات دولت واقعهٔ خلیج تانکین را به وجود آوردند. مدارک آشکار میباشند که آمریکا از حمله به “پرل هاربر” اطلاع داشت، ولی‌ اجازه داد که این حمله صورت بگیرد تا بتواند وارد جنگ دوم، که اکثریت مردم آمریکا با آن مخالف بودند، شود. یازده سپتامبر، که گفته میشود که دولت آمریکا از آن اطلاع قبلی‌ داشت، دلیلی‌ برای حمله به افغانستان بود. سلاحهای کشتار جمعی‌ نیز دلیل حمله به عراق بود. چند هفتهٔ پیش سخنگوی کاخ سفید اعلام کرد که ناوچهٔ ایرانی‌ به کشتی آمریکائی در خلیج فارس حمله کرده بود، که البته ناوچه یمنی، و کشتی متعلق به عربستان سعودی از آب درآمد. 

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TWO IMPORTANT ARTICLES ON COUNTERPUCH BY: MIKE WHITNEY

Links:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/26/double-standards-where-were-the-liberal-protestors-during-obamas-wars/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/game-over-for-democrats/

JANUARY 26, 2017
Double Standards: Where Were the Liberal Protestors During Obama’s Wars?

The election of Donald Trump has sent millions of people pouring out onto the streets to protest a man they think is a racist, misogynist, xenophobic bully who will destroy US democracy in his quest to establish himself as supreme fascist ruler of the country.
Maybe they’re right. Maybe Trump is a fascist who will destroy America. But where were these people when Obama was bombing wedding parties in Kandahar, or training jihadist militants to fight in Syria, or abetting NATO’s destructive onslaught on Libya, or plunging Ukraine into fratricidal warfare, or collecting the phone records of innocent Americans, or deporting hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, or force-feeding prisoners at Gitmo, or providing bombs and aircraft to the Saudis to continue their genocidal war against Yemen?
Where were they?

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