اندیشمند بزرگترین احساسش عشق است و هر عملش با خرد

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

عاشقانه= فروغ فرخزاد

ای شب از رویای تو رنگین شده سینه از عطر تو ام سنگین شده ای به روی چشم من گسترده خویش شادی‌ام بخشیده از اندوه بیش همچو بارانی که شوید جسم خاک هستیم ز آلودگی‌ها کرده پاک
با تو ام دیگر ز دردی بیم نیست
هست اگر، جز درد خوشبختیم نیست

ای تپش‌های تن سوزان من آتشی در سایۀ مژگان من ای ز گندم‌زارها سرشارتر ای ز زرین شاخه‌ها پُر بارتر ای در بگشوده بر خورشیدها در هجوم ظلمت تردیدها

Saturday, September 15, 2018

The Costs of 9/11 Continue to Mount


By Paul Craig Roberts
September 11, 2018

This is the 17th anniversary of 9/11. During the years that have passed large numbers of experts have established conclusively that the official government account of the event is false. Every year fewer people believe the unbelievable conspiracy theory that a handful of Saudi Arabians outwitted the entirety of the US National Security State and attacked with hijacked airliners the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 

Nevertheless, the official story still stands, just as the official story of President Kennedy’s assassination still stands despite majority disbelief, just like the official story of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty still stands despite all evidence to the contrary. In the US the government never corrects its proven lies.

People all over the world are amazed that Americans could witness videos of the two towers blowing up floor by floor and the obvious controlled demolition of Building 7 and conclude that they were witnessing buildings collapsing from asymmetrical structural damage and limited, short-lived office fires.

The 9/11 fabrication and the Osama bin Laden myth were used by the Cheney/Bush regime to destroy the civil liberty protections in the US Constitution and to elevate the executive branch above both domestic and international law. This has culminated in yesterday’s declaration of US lawlessness by President Trump’s National Security Advisor, John Bolton, who stated that the US government will use any and all means to protect US and Israeli war criminals from prosecution by the International Criminal Court. The cost of 9/11 far exceeds the WTC buildings and the lives that were lost. The real cost is the US Constitution, the separation of powers, civil liberty, and the rule of law.

ای بی وطنان، میگم خفه

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II- Part Four


A war is a feud between two leaders. The science of sociology combined with history reflects this simple fact that people generally avoid hostility and find ways to settle conflicts in a peaceful manner. Reading through war documents, we realize that the rulers of so called democratic countries go through so much fabrication and unending explanations and struggles in order to convince people to participate in wars. In dictatorships, people have no choice anyway. And, there are multitude of reasons why leaders of a country ignite a war to begin with. At the very beginning of the revolution in Iran, Khomeini had showed his true identity to people, and Iranians realized that he was not the soft hearted human loving religious man he claimed to be before the collapse of the old regime, but a hard headed theocrat who did not have any love for his country or people, and a brutal dictator. As people started demanding their rights at the beginning of the post-revolution Iran, he realized that a war was the best thing to keep the society under his leash. He started egging on Saddam Hussein, as it is documented. Saddam, another brutal ruler, received American blessing and support to start his aggression: “During Iraq’s epic struggle against the Ayatollah Khomeini, the United States of course had more than spoken to Baghdad. Washington- choosing Iraq as lesser evil against Shiite extremism- was responsible for huge amounts of weaponry, military training, sophisticated technology, satellite-photo intelligence, and billions of dollars reaching a needy Hussein, who was also lavishly supported by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, they being concerned that Iran’s anti-monarchist sentiments might spread to their own realms. Indeed, there is evidence that Washington encouraged Iraq to attack Iran and ignite the war in the first place. And during this period on American support of Hussein, he was certainly the same odious, repressive, beastly thug as when he later came under American moralistic rhetorical fire. Similarly, absent Washington’s prodding, the UN did not condemn Iraq’s invasion, nor did it impose any sanctions or lay down any demands. Even as it officially banned arms sales to either combatant, the US secretly provided weapons to both. The other bête noire of the region, the Ayatollah, received American arms and military intelligence on Iraq during the war, so as to enhance the ability of the two countries to inflict maximum devastation upon each other and stunt their growth as strong Middle-East nations, (P. 332).” It is worth repeating this fact that Khomeini also went to Iran as the leader of the revolution with American blessing, and the aim of the war for the west was to destroy Shah’s ammunition stockpile.

Thursday, September 6, 2018

John McCain: The View from the Middle East



https://consortiumnews.com/2018/09/04/john-mccain-the-view-from-the-middle-east/


It is not unusual that Arabs and Americans look at the same event from divergent lenses. Take, for instance, a scene from John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign when he told  a woman in the audience who had called Obama an Arab: “No, Ma`am. He is not an Arab. He’s a decent family man.” 
That brief exchange has been tweeted and retweeted thousands of time in the last few days following McCain’s death. It has been promoted by people in mainstream media (and think tanks and academia) as evidence of the civility, “classiness”, and lack of prejudice of McCain.  Yet, Arabs saw something entirely different in that exchange.  They saw bigotry from McCain, who was denying that Obama was Arab in the same way one denies that someone is a Nazi.  He clearly implied that an Arab can’t be a decent family man.  In fact, Gen. Colin Powell was the only U.S. politician who pointed this out at the time.  But a new image of McCain is being formulated before our eyes.
For Arabs in the Middle East and in the U.S., the view of McCain does not conform to the hagiography of U.S. media.  People in the region remember well that McCain supported every U.S. and Israeli war, invasion, or attack against any Arab target. They remember that he was a major proponent of invading Iraq and argued for the expansion of U.S. wars into Iran, Libya and Syria in the wake of Sep. 11. 

The destruction of Mosul. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Other Side of John McCain



https://consortiumnews.com/2018/08/27/the-other-side-of-john-mccain/


As the Cold War entered its final act in 1985, journalist Helena Cobban participated in an academic conference at an upscale resort near Tucson, Arizona, on U.S.-Soviet interactions in the Middle East. When she attended what was listed as the “Gala Dinner with keynote speech”, she quickly learned that the virtual theme of the evening was, “Adopt a Muj.”
“I remember mingling with all of these wealthy Republican women from the Phoenix suburbs and being asked, ‘Have you adopted a muj?” Cobban told me. “Each one had pledged money to sponsor a member of the Afghan mujahedin in the name of beating the communists. Some were even seated at the event next to their personal ‘muj.’”
The keynote speaker of the evening, according to Cobban, was a hard-charging freshman member of Congress named John McCain.
During the Vietnam war, McCain had been captured by the North Vietnamese Army after being shot down on his way to bomb a civilian lightbulb factory. He spent two years in solitary confinement and underwent torture that left him with crippling injuries. McCain returned from the war with a deep, abiding loathing of his former captors, remarking as late as 2000, “I hate the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live.” After he was criticized for the racist remark, McCain refused to apologize. “I was referring to my prison guards,” he said, “and I will continue to refer to them in language that might offend some people because of the beating and torture of my friends.”
‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison where McCain was tortured. (Wikimedia Commons)

Monday, September 3, 2018

Killing Hope- Part Three


In October 1, 1965 six Indonesian generals were murdered by a group of junior officers who claimed that those generals were supporters of CIA who had planned to oust the first president of the country, Sukarno, and their action was to prevent it. General Suharto: “a man who had served both the Dutch colonialists and the Japanese invaders- and his colleagues charged that the large and influential PKI [Communist Party] was behind the junior officers’ ‘coup attempt’, and that behind the party stood Communist China, (P.193).” This so-called coup was an excuse for Suharto to encourage people, in particular Moslems, to initiate a Communist killing macabre: “The Indonesian people were stirred up in part by the display of photographs on television and in the press of the badly decomposed bodies of the slain generals. The men, the public was told, had been castrated and their eyes gouged out by Communist women. (The army later made the mistake of allowing official medical autopsies to be included as evidence in some of the trials; and the extremely detailed reports of the injuries suffered mentioned only bullet wounds and some bruises, no eye gougings or castration.),(P. 193,194).” Murdered Indonesians during those years are reported to be between half to one million. There are accounts of Muslim men banding known Communists together and mass killing them: “Twenty-five years later, American diplomats disclosed that they had systematically compiled comprehensive lists of ‘Communist’ operatives, from top echelons down to village cadres, and turned over as many as 5,000 names to the Indonesian army, which hunted those persons down and killed them…Robert Martens, a former member of the US Embassy’s political section in Jakarta, stated in 1990: ‘It really was a big help to the army. They probably killed a lot of people, and I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad. There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.’, (P. 194).”

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

US Military Intervention.. Killing Hope- Part Two


After WWII, many Europeans realized that the war that devastated Europe entirely, was nothing but a capitalist ambitions in expanding markets. This knowledge frustrated people to the point of checking socialist doctrines, especially considering the heroism witnessed by communist organizations in many countries involved in the useless war. The Predecessor of CIA fearing expansion of socialism in Europe became very active in every Western European country. Many of the fascists, or fascist sympathizers became agents of CIA: “Then there was the case of Cardinal Battista Montini, another beneficiary of CIA largesse. The payments made to him reveal something of the Agency’s mechanistic thinking about why people become radicals. It seems that the good Cardinal was promoting orphanages in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s and, says Victor Marchetti, ‘The thinking was that if such institutions were adequately supported, many young people would be able to live well there and so would not one day fall into Communist hands.’ The Cardinal, as a Monsignor, had been involved with the Vatican’s operation to smuggle Nazis to freedom after World War II. He had a long history of association with Western governments and their intelligence agencies. In 1963, he became Pope Paul VI, (P. 121).”

Saturday, August 11, 2018

US Military Interventions Since World War II- Part One


World War II sealed British Empire as a declining imperialist forever, and opened the door for the United States to rise as the new superpower in the world. In July of 1944, in Bretton Wood in New Hampshire, 44 allied nations got together and established IMF and what is now called World Bank, under the power of the United States, which guaranteed a predicted American Century. The rise was emanating from the pillars of capitalism, and no regime in the world could expand capitalism to such high stages as it has been the case with the US. Of course, this had been prophesied by some, that such great capitalistic prominence could be achieved through force and domination of other nations. Internally, as it was prophesied again, each industry became a monopoly, or conglomerate of several companies in a monopolistic nature, and enormous capitals were amassed in the hands of a few, while the rest of the country continued gradual losing of resources. Overt policing with uniforms, and covert controlling, FBI, keeps people inline to protect riches of capitalists, while military and CIA conduct the same duties beyond the borders. Anyone who could become a role model, a leader, a national hero, or someone who puts societal benefits before personal advantages, such as Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, were uprooted, even if they were in the highest positions such as Kennedy brothers. In other countries, military and CIA covertly, if possible, and without regards to human dignity and even life, mow down any nationalistic or socialistic uprising, and replace it with corrupt and sadistic money hungry dictators. This has been the history of the world in the past seventy years.

Sunday, August 5, 2018

در باره بحران حساس اخیر ایران - استقلال، آزادی، عدالت اجتماعی

این سخنرانی‌ یک و نیم
ساعته دکتر مرتضی‌ محیط در مورد بحران اخیر ایران و آینده و سرنوشت ایران را باید ملاحظه
کرد. آیا به ایران حمله نظامی خواهد شد؟ آیا در ایران جنبش خود جوشی به وجود میاید؟
آیا سرنوشت ایران مانند لیبی‌ و افغانستان و عراق و سوریه خواهد بود؟ دلیل بالا رفتن
دلار چیست؟ دکتر مرتضی‌ محیط در این برنامه به تمام این پرسش
ها پاسخ میدهد. دیدن این برنامه
برای همه ایرانیان ضروری است.







Saturday, July 28, 2018

Thomas Frank: All Aboard The Oblivion Express!







The other day I noticed, with something of a shock, that Brett
Kavanaugh, the supreme court nominee, is almost exactly the same
age as me. I have always scoffed at those of my generation who cynically
hitched their star to the conservative movement but now, as I take my leave
from this space, it occurs to me that maybe they played the game right after all.
The Great Revolt review: Trump-approved study of 2016 is key reading
for Democrats

I started out in
journalism in the orange-fingered sunset of the Reagan era. The rise of the
right, I felt back then, was the most consequential development of my lifetime,
and understanding it was where I came to focus my energies.
What came to
fascinate me was the paradox of the thing. Republicans had
successfully inverted their historical brand-image as the party of the
highborn, remaking themselves as plain-talking pals of the forgotten people who
had so spurned them during the Great Depression. Republicanism’s payload,
however, was the same as it had been in 1932. And just look at what
conservatism proceeded to do to those average people once they welcomed it into
their lives.
But understanding
the perversity of rightwing populism only brought me to another mystery: the
continuing failure of liberals to defeat this thing, even as its freakishness
and destructiveness became apparent to everyone. My brain twirls to think that
rightwing populism is still running strong in 2018 – that it’s even worse now
than it was in 1988 – that the invective and the journalism and the TV shows
and all the mournful books about the decline of the middle class have amounted,
basically, to nothing.

Democrats simply have to take one of the houses of Congress this
fall and commence holding Trump accountable
We had the perfect
opportunity to reverse course in 2008, after a deregulatory catastrophe sent
the billionaires shrieking for handouts and ruined middle America as collateral
damage. That was the perfect moment for liberals to reclaim their Rooseveltian
heritage by governing forcefully on behalf of ordinary people, by warring
against over-powerful corporations, by demonstrating the power of the state to
build a just and humane society. But they didn’t do it.
The biggest Trump resignations and firings so far

I know the excuses:
those Republicans were so clever, they wouldn’t vote for Obama’s proposals,
etc. But from the long-term perspective, what really mattered was the absence
of Democratic will. Instead of doing what the moment required, Democrats chose
to help the banks get back on their feet and to stand by as inequality soared;
they scolded their base for wanting too much and they extended their hand
instead to Silicon Valley and big pharma. The task of capturing public anger
was one they regarded with distaste; they left that to Tea Party demagogues and
to Donald Trump.
We are going to pay
for that failure for a long time. The GOP should have been ruined by the
financial crisis; instead the culture wars are raging all over again, with dog whistles
and fights over the flag and the persecution mania of the populist right
blaring from the TV screen. We’re right back where we started. The crisis went
completely to waste.
For all their
cunning, Republicans are a known quantity. Their motives are simple: they will
do anything, say anything, profess faith in anything to get tax cuts,
deregulation and a little help keeping workers in line. Nothing else is sacred
to them. Rules, norms, traditions, deficits, the Bible, the constitution,
whatever. They don’t care, and in this they have proven utterly predictable.

Wisconsin, of all places, is a battleground state. In the hands of
a real politician, Trumpism could romp even farther
The Democrats,
however, remain a mystery. We watch them hesitate at crucial moments, betray
the movements that support them, and even try to suppress the leaders and ideas
that generate any kind of populist electricity. Not only do they seem
uninterested in doing their duty toward the middle class, but sometimes we
suspect they don’t even want to win.
(This is more than
just a suspicion, by the way. As none other than Tony Blair has said,
“I wouldn’t want to win on an old-fashioned leftist platform. Even if I thought
it was the route to victory, I wouldn’t take it.”)
Still, as we are
reminded at every turn, this flawed organization is the only weapon we have
against the party of Trump. And as the president’s blunders take a turn for the
monumental and public alarm grows, the imperative of delivering a Democratic
wave this fall grows ever more urgent.
Make no mistake: it
has got to happen.
 Democrats simply have
to take one of the houses of Congress this fall and commence holding Trump
accountable. Failure at this baseline mission is unthinkable; it will mean the
Democratic party has no reason for being, even on its own compromised terms.
 As a conservative, I despair at Republicans' support for Trump.
His vision is not conservatism
Charles J Sykes

What concerns me as
I begin my leave, though, is the larger picture. Trump may be an oaf, but the
vicious strain of rightwing populism he introduced is not going away. Trumpism
is the future for the Republican party – it delivered Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Iowa too. Wisconsin, of all places, is now a battleground state.
In the hands of a real politician, Trumpism has the potential to romp even
farther.
Beating the right
cannot simply be a matter of waiting for a dolt in the Oval Office to screw
things up. There has to be a plan for actively challenging and reversing it,
for turning around the fraction of working class voters who have been
abandoning the Democratic party for decades. The time is up for happy fantasies
of office-park centrism and professional-class competence.
As for me, I am off
to write a few books. I’ll be back in this space in a few years and we will see
how things have gone.
Thomas Frank is an
American political analyst and historian. His books include What’s the Matter
With Kansas?. His latest is Listen, Liberal: or, What Ever Happened to the
Party of the People?
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Noam Chomsky on Mass Media Obsession with Russia & the Stories Not Being...

Sunday, July 22, 2018

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Source: https://unity4j.com/u4jempr.pdf

Friday, July 20th, 2018
#Unity4J to hold Emergency Public Meeting; Unveil Non-
Violent Digital Action Plan
International media are reporting that WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief
may imminently be handed by Ecuador to UK authorities. (Ref:
https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/07/breaking-possible-handover-
of-julian-assange-to-the-uk-may-be-imminent/)
If such an event occurs, it presents an immediate threat to Assange’s human rights, asylum
rights, liberty and to press freedoms. It would also be in direct contravention to the rulings
of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Inter-American Court of human
rights, both of which have found in his favour.
The #Unity4J movement in support of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks is holding an
emergency public meeting to unveil a plan for mass non-violent action to demand freedom
for the journalist and publisher. High profile supporters of Julian Assange will be in
attendance and unveil the new strategy.
The vigil will be held in a roundtable format with many guests from previous vigils, and a
few new faces as well, who will discuss the current state of Assange's asylum and the
future of the #Unity4J movement. Taking place at 23:00 UTC on Saturday ( Los Angeles:
Sat 16:00 , New York: Sat 19:00, London: Sun 00:00, Berlin: Sun 1:00, Sydney: Sun 9:00,
Auckland: 11:00 ) the vigil will continue for approximately 3 hours.
#Unity4J originated from an unplanned but timely response to injustice when Julian
Assange’s internet access and visitation rights were abruptly taken away and swiftly grew
into high-profile monthly online vigils endorsed by Chris Hedges, George Galloway, Ray
McGovern, Bill Binney and Daniel Ellsberg among many other noteworthy figures. It is with
that same sense of urgency and duty to take a public stand against oppression that we are
organising this Saturday to resist the escalated violations of Julian's basic rights.
“Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in
its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love."
-Julian Assange
Spread the word:
Livestream will be accessible at:
http://unity4j.com/stream
Event hashtag: #Unity4J
Official website: http://unity4j.com/
Official Twitter: @Unity4J
WikiLeaks Legal Defence Fund:
https://justice4assange.com/donate.html
WikiLeaks support website:
https://iamwikileaks.org
Courage Foundation:
https://couragefound.org/
Live-tweets and/or additional content: @Unity4J @Suzi3D
@ElizabethLeaVos @CassandraRules @KimDotcom @InternetPartyNZ
@greekemmy @couragefound @BellaMagnani @primal_species
@CrowdVBank
Other credible accounts for Julian Assange updates:
https://twitter.com/suzi3d/lists/Assange-updates
MEDIA INQUIRIES: Media inquiries and interview requests should be made
to Suzie Dawson, via DM on Twitter: @Suzi3D, or Elizabeth Vos on Twitter
via @Elizabethleavos, or by emailing info@unity4j.com
For more background on the recent escalation of grave threats to Julian
Assange’s life and liberty, we recommend reading the following articles:
Courage Foundation: Assange’s protection from US extradition “in jeopardy”
https://www.iamwikileaks.org/2018/05/25/assanges-protection-from-us-extradition-injeopardy/
Did Rep. Adam Schiff Just Admit the US Has a Secret Indictment of Julian Assange?
https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/26/did-rep-adam-schiff-just-admit-the-us-has-a-secretindictment-
of-julian-assange/
Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/16/assa-m16.html
The UK’s Hidden Role in Assange’s Detention
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2018/02/12/uks-hidden-role-Assange's-detention/
Treatment of Assange is unjust, says former Ecuador minister
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/16/julian-assange-treatment-irresponsibleecuador-
foreign-minister-guillaume-long

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Memo to the President Ahead of Monday’s Summit


July 15, 2018

With Friday’s indictments of Russian intelligence officers, Ray McGovern and Bill Binney have written an open letter to President Trump making clear that the “evidence” behind the indictments is as fraudulent as the intelligence alleging WMD in Iraq. It is being published exclusively here ahead of the Trump-Putin summit on Monday.
BRIEFING FOR: The President
FROM: Ray McGovern, former CIA briefer of The President’s Daily Brief, and William Binney, former Technical Director at NSA
SUBJECT: Info Your Summit Briefers May Have Missed
We reproduce below one of our most recent articles on “Russia-Gate,” which, in turn, draws from our Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Memorandum to you of July 24, 2017.

A true public servant

Source: ExpressVPN


William Edward Binney
1944 - present
Nationality:
American
Profession:
Crypto-mathematician, intelligence analyst
Notable for:
Whistleblowing on NSA surveillance
Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Spying
Whistleblower William Binney on NSA Spying

Monday, July 16, 2018

The Real Story of Genesis



Thousands of years ago, there was only God. God has control over the whole never-ending universe, which he created, and his throne is above the clouds. God, with His infinite ability and knowledge, created man, and Milky Way for human to conquer. It was implied that God is a man. Of course God is a man! He is an old man who lives in the skies and encompasses all the characters that man has. He, such as His creations, falls in love, is cunning and crafty, gets revenge, likes and hates, deceives, and even wrestles with his prophet. He is the one who has been, and will be, and created man on his own image. So each one of us is like him without his power, and we are nothing in comparison to him, but his sinful creations.

Sunday, July 8, 2018

More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty

By Paul Buchheit
July 2, 2018
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49769.htm


The extreme level of inequality in the U.S. is battering the poor
Deniers like Nikki Haley refuse to admit that mass poverty exists in their prosperous nation. That would reflect poorly on their capitalist beliefs. But if the skeptics would look at the half of America they don't care to see, the stark display of destitution might shock them. At least until they invent an excuse to remove it all from their minds. 

The U.S. poverty rate in 2016 was between 12.7 and 14.0 percent. But the poverty threshold is based on an outmoded formula from the 1960s. According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the threshold should be THREE TIMES HIGHER today. And it could be even higher if the true nature of poverty is considered.

Saturday, July 7, 2018

انقراض Mass Extinction

دانشمندان موارد چندی از انقراض موجودات در طول کره زمین را ثبت کرده‌اند. البته انقراض بطور روزمره اتفاق میافتد و هر روزه تعدادی از موجودات زنده نسلشان منقرض میشود. بحث در اینجا انقراض همگانی یا جمعی است که نسل گروه عظیمی‌ از موجودات زنده برای همیشه از صحنه گیتی‌ زدوده میشود، که تا کنون همواره به دلیل عوامل طبیعی بوده است. از نظر تاریخی‌، می‌توان به چند واقعه اشاره کرد که دانشمندان و زیست شناسان و دیرینه شناسان کشف کرده‌اند، که نسل بسیاری از موجودات را بطور جمعی‌ منقرض کرده است.

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Mexico President-elect Rejects Bodyguards: 'The Citizens Will Protect Me'

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49778.htm
July 03, 2018
By Tom Phillips in Mexico City

Leftist Amlo has also refused to live in ornate presidential residence and pledged to cut his own salary

He has just been elected commander-in-chief of a nation mired in an intractable drug conflict that has claimed more than 200,000 lives in little more than a decade.
But on Tuesday, Mexico’s incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claimed he would waive the right to close protection in a bid to stay close to the people.
“I don’t want bodyguards, which means the citizens will take care of me and protect me,” López Obrador, or Amlo, as he is best known, told reporters as he called on Mexico’s incumbent president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to discuss the transition.
Amlo, a 64-year-old leftist who trounced opponents in Sunday’s vote, was repeating an undertaking made on several occasions during his historic campaign – one of several promises designed to bolster his image as a man of the people who will rule for Mexico’s 53 million poor.

Saturday, June 23, 2018

داستان واقعی‌ آفرینش

هزاران سال پیش، جز خدای متعال هیچ چیز دیگری نبود. تخت سلطنت خداوند ابرهاست، و مقر حکومت او این کهکشان بی‌ انتهاست که او به وجود آورده است. خداوند مرد بزرگواری است که نه تنها انسان را خلق کرده است، بلکه کره زمین را برای زندگی‌ و آسایش او به وجود آورده است. گفته شد که خدا مرد است، البته که خدا مرد است! خدا نه تنها مرد است، بلکه پیرمردی است که در آسمانها زندگی‌ می‌کند و کلیه صفات انسانی‌ را داراست. او همانندِ بندگانش عاشق میشود، خدعه می‌کند، انتقام می‌گیرد، دوست دارد، نفرت دارد، نیرنگ میزند، و حتی با پیغمبرش دست و پنجه نرم می‌کند. این ربّ باریتعالی است که همیشه بوده و خواهد بود، و انسان را در تصورش و مانند خود ساخته است. پس ما هر کدام مانند او هستیم، ولی‌ قدرت لایزال او را نداریم، و چنان که گفته شده، در مقابل او بندهای بیش نیستیم.