US Aristocracy Panics that Maybe Trump Is Serious

Link to Source: http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/01/08/us-aristocracy-panics-that-maybe-trump-serious.html
By: Eric Zuesse
Published January 8, 2017

On January 2^nd, the U.S. Republican Party’s Wall Street Journal headlined «Tensions Within GOP Rise Over How to Handle Russia», and reported that the policy toward Russia by the incoming Republican President Donald Trump is being opposed not only by Democrats in the U.S. Congress, but also by some Republicans, and perhaps even by enough Republicans to jeopardize confirmation of his nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, as well as some nominees for other crucial diplomatic and military positions.

A key insightful passage in that news-report was: «‘What you are seeing on Russia within the Republican Party is in some ways more a symptom of realignment across the board within American political parties,’ said Matthew Rojansky, director of the Washington-based Kennan Institute. ‘This speaks to something very critical that’s going on in our political system right now.’»

زن ذلیل، یا زنِ ذلیل؟

زن ذلیل عبارتی است که در دهان مردان میگردد و همیشه با تمسخر بر لب آنها جاری است، که بطور استعاره مانند خود را ذلیلِ زن می‌نمایانند. آیا این استعاره بطور ضمنی در واقع ‌ مرد سالار بودنِ گوینده را تائید نمی‌کند؟ در جوامعی که مردان همیشه در بالای هرم سیاسی، اداری، فرهنگی‌، و بخصوص مذهبی‌ بوده‌اند، و سیستمی‌ به وجود آورده‌اند که برتری مردان بر زنان بطور مشخص تثبیت و قانونی‌ میشود، چگونه یک زن میتواند حقوق برابری را دریافت کند. صحبت صرفا بر سر جامعهٔ ایران نیست. این یک روش جهانی‌ است که از زمانی‌ که مردها به دلایلی که ذکر خواهد شد قدرت یافتند، در تحکیم و استوار نگاه داشتن قدرت خود کوشش کردند، تا جایی که زن به صورت یکی‌ از املاک خصوصیِ مرد در آمد.

Neocons Have Trump on His Knees

By Robert Parry

April 10, 2017

Source:  https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/10/neocons-have-trump-on-his-knees/

After slapping Donald Trump around for several months to make him surrender his hopes for a more cooperative relationship with Russia, the neocons and their liberal-interventionist allies are now telling the battered President what he must do next: escalate war in the Middle East and ratchet up tensions with nuclear-armed Russia.

Star neocon Robert Kagan spelled out Trump’s future assignments in a column on Sunday in The Washington Post, starting out by patting the chastened President on the head for his decision to launch 59 Tomahawk missiles at an airstrip in Syria supposedly in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack blamed on the Syrian government (although no serious investigation was even conducted).

Trump Withholds Syria-Sarin Evidence

April 12, 2017

By Robert Parry

Source:  https://consortiumnews.com/2017/04/12/trump-withholds-syria-sarin-evidence/

After making the provocative and dangerous charge that Russia is covering up Syria’s use of chemical weapons, the Trump administration withheld key evidence to support its core charge that a Syrian warplane dropped sarin on a northern Syrian town on April 4.

A four-page white paper, prepared by President Trump’s National Security Council staff and released by the White House on Tuesday, claimed that U.S. intelligence has proof that the plane carrying the sarin gas left from the Syrian military airfield that Trump ordered hit by Tomahawk missiles on April 6.

The Spoils of War

The Spoils of War: Trump Lavished With Media and Bipartisan Praise For Bombing Syria

Glenn Greenwald

April 7 2017, 7:43 a.m.

In every type of government, nothing unites people behind the leader more quickly, reflexively or reliably than war. Donald Trump now sees how true that is, as the same establishment leaders in U.S. politics and media who have spent months denouncing him as a mentally unstable and inept authoritarian and unprecedented threat to democracy are standing and applauding him as he launches bombs at Syrian government targets.

Trump, on Thursday night, ordered an attack that the Pentagon said included the launching of 59 Tomahawk missiles which “targeted aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defense systems, and radars.” The governor of Homs, the Syrian province where the attack occurred, said early this morning that the bombs killed seven civilians and wounded nine.

The Pentagon’s statement said the attack was “in retaliation for the regime of Bashar Assad using nerve agents to attack his own people.” Both Syria and Russia vehemently deny that the Syrian military used chemical weapons.

ریاست جمهوریِ تکان دهندهٔ ترامپ!

در تصور چه کسی‌ میگنجید که دانالد ترامپ بیشترین آرا را بیاورد و در صدر بزرگترین دمکراسیِ دنیا قرار گیرد؟ با توجه به سخنان نژاد پرستانه، زور گو، مرد سالار، خودخواهانه، زن ستیز، و اسلام ستیز، او چنان تصویر تنفر برانگیزی از خود نشان داده بود که انسان در شگفت میماند که چگونه او توانست اکثریت آرا را سهم خود بکند؟ علاوه بر آن، چگونه دستگاههای امنیتی نتوانستند از نفوذ روسها در سیستم انتخاباتی جلوگیری کنند؟

Demobilizing America

Source: http://americanempireproject.com/blog/demobilizing-america/

A Nation Made by War and a Citizenry Unmade By It

by Tom Engelhardt

On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world and seemed eerily relevant in the Age of Trump.  The first, “Hippie Modernism,” an exploration of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s (heavy on psychedelic posters), was appropriately enough at the Berkeley Art Museum.  To my surprise, it also included a few artifacts from a movement crucial to my own not-especially-countercultural version of those years: the vast antiwar protests that took to the streets in the mid-1960s, shook the country, and never really went away until the last American combat troops were finally withdrawn from Vietnam in 1973.  Included was a poster of the American flag, upside down, its stripes redrawn as red rifles, its stars as blue fighter planes, and another showing an American soldier, a rifle casually slung over his shoulder.  Its caption still seems relevant as our never-ending wars continue to head for “the homeland.”

“Violence abroad,” it said, “breeds violence at home.” Amen, brother.

U.S. Weighs “Saturation Strike” Against Syrian Government in Response to Chemical Attack

Source: https://theintercept.com/2017/04/06/u-s-weighs-saturation-strike-on-syrian-government-in-response-to-chemical-attack/

April 6 2017, 2:05 p.m.

Matthew Cole

The Pentagon has developed plans for an airstrike against Syrian government targets in response to this week’s apparent chemical attack by Syrian government forces, according to two U.S. military officials.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis will present the proposals to Donald Trump later today at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

One of the proposals drawn up is a “saturation strike” using dozens of cruise missiles designed to hit Syrian military targets — including military air fields — in an effort to limit future Syrian Air Force attacks on rebel positions, according to the two U.S. military officials.

The officials asked for anonymity to discuss classified plans.

The proposed strike would involve launching Tomahawk cruise missiles to overwhelm Russian air defense systems used by the Syrian military. The Russian government currently helps maintain the air defense sites and advises the Syrian military.

According to both U.S. military officials, the current proposal would likely result in Russian military deaths and mark a drastic escalation of U.S. force in Syria.

One U.S. military official said the decision to allow the strikes, which would kill Russians, signals a significant change in policy by the Trump administration. A decision by Trump to go forward with the plan would be a reversal from the Obama administration, which denied multiple airstrike proposals that would likely cause Russian personnel casualties in Syria.

The Bashar al-Assad government placed many of its air defense systems in civilian areas, putting Syrian civilians at risk, according to the U.S. military and intelligence sources.

President Trump said yesterday that the Syrian government “crossed many, many lines” by conducting an apparent chemical weapons attack in Idlib on Tuesday. The attack has killed as many as 100 Syrians.

The proposed airstrike was prepared by U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. military operations in Syria, where a civil war has resulted in an estimated 500,000 Syrians killed, millions displaced, and an ongoing refugee crisis.

Neither the Pentagon nor CENTCOM responded to requests for comment.

Shocking Trump’s Presidency!

Who knew Donald Trump would become the president of the leading democracy in the world, achieving show of hands of majority of Americans? With his racist, bullying, male chauvinist, egotistical, misogynistic, anti-Moslem remarks, He had such a ghastly presentation of himself in his campaign leading to the election that makes one wonder how he could win majority of the votes. How anyone seeing through him could have voted for him? How could the secret service not protect our electoral system against Russian hacking?

نراقی

احمد بن محمد مهدی فاضل نراقی مشهور به ملا احمد نراقی از دانشمندان و علمای دوران قاجاریه بود. گر چه ملا احمد را نمی‌توان با ابن سینا و یا خیام و یا زکریای رازی مقایسه کرد،‌ از حق نباید گذشت که در زمانی‌ که این مملکت سیاه‌ترین دورانش را میگذارند، و حکمران کشور فتحعلیشاه نامی‌ بود که در همه جنگ‌هایش شکست خورده بود، و قسمی از سرزمین ایران را که عمویش آقا محمد خان با خونریزی سَبُعانه جمع آوری کرده بود، از دست داده بود، وجود ذیجود شخصی‌ مانند ملا احمد که بر بسیاری از دانشهای زمان خود واقف بود، شعله‌ای بود در تاریکی‌. او بیش از سی‌ کتاب، نه تنها در رشته مورد تخصصش یعنی‌ فقه و اجتهاد، بلکه در شعر و فلسفه و ریاضیات نیز نوشته بود. جمهوری اسلامی که هر نوحه خوان و روضه خوان و ملای سر قبری را به درجه اجتهاد رسانده، و مثلا نام پلید شیخ فضل‌الله نوری را روی یکی‌ از شاهراههای تهران می‌گذارد، سد البته برای چنین شخصی‌ و اقوامش پایگاه اینترنتی با عنوان فاضِلِین نراقی تاسیس می‌کند. 

Dr. Morteza Mohit, 18 Mar. 2017 - استقلال، آزادی، عدالت اجتماعی

شنیدن به این برنامه از دقیقه چهار و سی‌ و
یک ثانیه،  تا پایان ساعت نخست آن برای کسانی‌
که از تلفنهای هوشمند و همراه استفاده میکنند مفید خواهد بود؟

The Dangerous Reality of an Iran War

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46672.htm

By: Sharmine Narwani

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March 16, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - After weeks of saber-rattling over Iran as the “number one terrorist state” in the world, the Trump administration appears to have quietly dialed down the rhetoric a notch.

Here in the Middle East, however, where every peep and creak out of Washington is scrutinized to death, interested parties haven’t stopped speculating about a U.S. confrontation with Iran. Fifty days into his term, Trump’s foreign-policy course remains an enigma. He swears “all options” remain on the table with Iran—but do they?

There are already some early actions that hint at Trump’s policy directions—and limitations—in the Middle East. In three key military theaters where U.S. forces are currently engaged, some important corners have been turned:

• In northern Syria, America’s Kurdish allies just voluntarily relinquished territory to the Syrian army and Russian forces in order to avoid a direct confrontation with another U.S. ally and NATO member, Turkey. Washington has rejected a Turkish role in the liberation of Raqqa, knowing that Ankara will not tolerate the ISIS capital falling into Kurdish hands either. It’s becoming increasingly likely that the winning formula will see the city and its environs ceded to an authority friendly to the Syrian government, under a Russian umbrella.
• In northern Iraq, the fight to regain Mosul has accelerated, with Iraqi forces liberating half of western Mosul in just twenty days. Under command of the central Baghdad government, these fighters consist heavily of Shia militias, many of whom have received training and equipment from Iranian forces.
• In Yemen, where alarming western headlines warn of U.S. military blunders and overkill, the media is missing a bigger story. The U.S. bombing blitz is actually—not hypothetically, as once was the case—hitting Al Qaeda terrorists, working alongside UAE forces to target Islamist militias who everybody knows are de facto Saudi allies on the ground. Just last week, the UAE reportedly upped the ante by demanding the Saudis abandon their puppet president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi—ostensibly the “legitimate” Yemeni authority the western-backed Saudi coalition was fighting to reinstate.

"War Torn" - U.S. Slaughter In Syria, Somalia And Yemen

By: Moon of Alabama

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46681.htm

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March 17, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - When I saw the above tweet this morning I wondered which "war torn" country those Somalis were fleeing from when they were murdered. The tweet doesn't say. Were they fleeing from the "war torn" Somalia? Or were the fleeing from "war torn" Yemen?

It is a sad world when has to ponder such.

It tuned out these people were fleeing from both wars:

Coast guard Mohammad Al Alay told Reuters the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents, were on their way from Yemen to Sudan when they were attacked by an Apache helicopter near the Bab Al Mandeb strait.

An Apache attack helicopter shot up the refugees' boat. There are Saudi, United Emirates and U.S. Apache helicopters in or around Yemen. It is unknown which of them ordered and which executed the strike. These helicopters, their ammunition and the service for them are a favored U.S. export to belligerent dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.

دانشنامه مزدیسنا

علاقمندان به نکته‌های تاریخیِ ایران باستان، و یا کسانی‌ که علاقمند به یادگیری واژه‌های متداول در دوره‌های

باستان میباشند، میتوانند به کتاب دانشنامه مزدیسنا؛ واژه‌ نامهٔ توضیحیِ آیین زرتشت که توسط دکتر جهانگیر اوشیدری گرد آوری شده و در سال ۱۳۷۱ در شرکت نشر مرکز انتشار یافته است رجوع کنند. همچنین کسانی‌ که به خواندن متون قدیمی‌ مهر میورزند، این کتاب برای آنها بسیار مفید و گرانقدر خواهد بود. واژه‌های بسیاری در زبان پارسی‌ متداول است که ما بدون توجه به ریشهٔ آنها، بصورت رایج از آن واژه‌ها استفاده می‌کنیم. به عنوان نمونه، هر کدام از دوازده واژه برای ماههای سال به نوبه خود تاریخچه‌ای دارند. و یا جشنها و اعیاد ما در زمان باستان چندین برابر جشنهای امروزین بوده‌اند، که متاسفانه عزاداری‌های اسلامی جانشین‌شان شده‌اند. هدف دکتر اوشیدری با جمع آوری این واژه‌ها احتمالا یاری به کسانی‌ بوده است که به دین باستانی مزدیسنا معتقدند، و این مجموعه به روشن شدن آئین‌های آنها کمک می‌رساند. هر آینه، اگر دکتر اوشیدری هدف دیگرش این نبود که به کسانی‌ که به این دین اعتقادی ندارند ولی‌ به فرهنگ باستان خود علاقمندند کمک برساند، با توجه به دریای عظیم اطلاعات در این کتاب این نتیجه خواه ناخواه کسب شده است.

A Flawed UN Investigation on Syria

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46642.htm

 

By: Gareth Porter

March 13, 2017

 

U.N. investigators increasingly make their conclusions fall in line with Western propaganda, especially on the war in Syria, as occurred in a distorted report about last year’s attack on an aid convoy, explains Gareth Porter.

The March 1 report by the United Nations’ “Independent International Commission of Inquiry“ asserted that the bloody attack on a humanitarian aid convoy west of Aleppo City on Sept. 19, 2016, was an airstrike by Syrian government planes. But an analysis of the U.N. panel’s report shows that it was based on an account of the attack from the pro-rebel Syrian “White Helmets” civil defense organization that was full of internal contradictions.

The UN account also was not supported by either the photographic evidence that the White Helmets provided or by satellite imagery that was available to the commission, according to independent experts. Further undermining the UN report’s credibility, the White Helmets now acknowledge that rockets they photographed were not fired from Russian or Syrian planes but from the ground.

Bashar al-Assad interview (Phoenix Chinese Channel, 2017.03.11.)

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.