Remembering the Rosenbergs

Seventy years later, the lessons of their politically motivated state executions are as relevant as ever.

PaulVon Blum

Jun 19, 2023

On that June 19th evening in 1953, I was a small kid in a suburb of Philadelphia, concerned above all with baseball, when I noticed that something had made my parents very upset. When I asked them what was wrong, they informed me that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been killed in the electric chair, in a place called Sing Sing in New York, and that it was a horrible injustice. 

عملِ مرگ

زمانی‌ که خبر عمل پروستات یکی‌ از بستگانم را در بیمارستانی در آلمان شنیدم، با توجه به سیستم پیشرفتهٔ پزشکی‌ در آن کشور، وسائل مدرن، و بیمارستان‌های مجهز، هیچگونه نگرانی احساس نکردم. ولی‌ به نظر می‌رسد که در اشتباه بودم.

All-American Slush Fund: The Government’s Latest Gift to the Pentagon and Its Already Bloated Contractors

A new budget loophole will send pentagon spending soaring even higher.

Julia Gledhill

William D. Hartung

June 22, 2023

On June 3rd, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that lifted the government’s debt ceiling and capped some categories of government spending. The big winner was — surprise, surprise! — the Pentagon.

How US and UK Government Propaganda Specialists Collaborated with Nazis in Ukraine

David Miller

June 20, 2023

A MintPress investigation has found that a host of Western government officials, intelligence agents and assets have been directly involved in intimate collaboration with Nazi groups and individuals since at least 2014. This has included involvement in creating and operating the Nazi-run kill list in Ukraine, which MintPress revealed recently.

Report Details Intensifying Police Crackdown on US Journalists Covering Protests

"The inadequacy of press freedom protections was starkly exposed during the Trump administration, when some of the largest street protests in American history took place," according to a new report.

Julia Conley

Jun 20, 2023

In recent years, particularly since former Republican President Donald Trump took office in 2017, U.S. police have failed to uphold basic constitutional rights for journalists covering rallies and other protests, a new report from the Knight First Amendment Institute said Tuesday, with the study documenting a number of physical attacks, unjust arrests, and suppression tactics used by police at protests both large and small.

نژاد پرستی، تبعیض جنسی، تشویش

خودت باش و هرچه می‌خواهی بگو، چرا که کسانی که رنجه میشوند مهم نیستند و کسانی که مهم هستند رنجه نمی‌شوند

 دکتر زوس

ترس جمعی، غریزهٔ گَلّه‌وارِ انسان را تحریک می کند، و او تمایل به ایجاد خشونت نسبت به کسانی را پیدا می‌کند که به عنوان اعضای آن  گَلّه در نظر گرفته نمی شوند

 برتراند راسل

The Grim Reality of Joe Biden's 4-Point Plan to Change Social Security

Sean Williams

Jun 18, 2023

Although the average Social Security benefit is a relatively modest $1,835 per month for retired workers, as of April 2023, it's nevertheless a vital source of income for the vast majority of seniors.

Living on a Deadline in the Nuclear Age. Some Personal News From Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, who exposed the truth behind the Vietnam War, dies at 92

No Choice but to Indict Trump: Why a Gentlemen’s Agreement Had to be Broken

Paul Street

June 16, 2023

Special federal Trump prosecutor Jack Smith looks stern, anxious, and less than happy as he goes about his duties of indicting the United States’ forty-fifth president, the first actual fascist (see my book This Happened Here on the Trump presidency and world view) to sit in the White House.

Notes from the Editors

The Editors

Much of the impact of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s now-classic work Monopoly Capital when it was published in 1966, at the very height of the Vietnam War, can be attributed to its chapter on “Absorption of the Surplus: Militarism and Imperialism.” 

اعتقاد به جبر یا سرنوشت

 گاهی اوقات از اصطلاحات و گفتاری عامیانه استفاده می کنیم، بدون آنکه معنای واقعیِ آنرا دریابیم. عباراتی چون: همیشه اینطور بوده یا مردم همیشه حریص بوده‌اند، این طبیعت انسان است که بد باشد، بعضی‌ها نمی‌توانند به خوبی دیگران فکر کنند، مردم باید رهبر داشته باشند، انسان معمولی نمی‌تواند منافعش را تشخیص نمیدهد، و سایر چنین اصطلاحاتی که بدون در نظر گرفتن عواقب این چنین تنزل انسانیت، این جملات به راحتی بیان میشوند. سپس، و برای توجیه چنین عباراتی، سرنوشت انسان را به دست مجهولات می سپاریم. در این راستا از جملاتی استفاده می‌کنیم که در تضاد با توانایی‌های انسان است، مانند اینکه میگوئیم، خوب دیگه، سرنوشتش این بود. این پندار ساده‌ای است که این تقدیر است که سرنوشت فرد را تعیین می کند، و مهم نیست که آن شخص چه عملی انجام دهد، زیرا آنچه که قرار است پیش بیاید پیش خواهد آمد. جبرگرایی عطش دستیابی به اهداف، و کوشش و مبارزه برای پیشرفت را از بین می برد. مبارزه برای زنده ماندن در کتاب معروف ریچارد داوکینز -ژن خودخواه- به تفصیل به تصویر کشیده شده است. سرنوشت و ایمان، دو واژهٔ مترادف، در باورهای اساسیِ بسیاری از مردم ریشه دوانده‌ا‌ند.ا

The Democratic Party, Donald Trump and the Espionage Act

EricLondon

June 13,2023

On Tuesday, for the first time in US history, a former president will be arraigned in court for violating federal criminal law. The decision to indict Donald Trump reflects profound divisions within the ruling class and accelerates a crisis that will rattle the foundations of the American political establishment in the coming weeks and months.

Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain

The ability to conjure up possible futures or alternative realities is the flip side of memory. Both faculties cohabit in the brain region called the hippocampus

Ingrid Wickelgren

June 8, 2023

Henry Molaison, known for years as “H.M.,” was famously unable to form new memories. If someone he had met left the room only to return several minutes later, he would greet that person again as if for the first time. Because of surgery to treat intractable epilepsy, H M. lacked a sea-horse-shaped brain structure called the hippocampus and had amnesia. His case helped establish the hippocampus as an engine of memory.

Julian Assange prepares for last-ditch legal appeal after UK High Court dismisses plea against extradition

Peoples Dispatch

June 10, 2023

In a major setback to jailed WikiLeaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange, a UK High Court judge dismissed his appeal against his extradition to the U.S. In a 3-page decision handed down on Tuesday, June 6, Justice Jonathan Swift of the High Court of Justice in London rejected all eight grounds of appeal against the extradition order that was sanctioned by the UK Home Office around a year ago.

A War Long Wanted: Diplomatic Malpractice in Ukraine

Matthew Hoh

June 9, 2023

Author’s Note: This is the original draft of the letter to President Biden and the US Congress published in The New York Times on May 16 by the Eisenhower Media Network. This version, which is substantially longer than the published letter, is published here amended from its original formatting as a group letter. This version goes into much greater depth on the background of Russia’s invasion, the role of the military-industrial complex and the fossil fuel industry in US policy-making, and speaks to the toxic and dangerous diplomatic malpractice that has dominated US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.

Where Do You Get Your Ukraine News?

Consortium News

June 9, 2023

If it’s from the established media you’re not getting the full story. And you are being purposely misled.

Climate Crisis Is on Track to Push One-Third of Humanity Out of Its Most Livable Environment

As conditions that best support life shift toward the poles, more than 600 million people are already living outside of a crucial “climate niche,” facing more extreme heat, rising food scarcity and higher death rates.

AbrahmLustgarten

June 6, 2023

 

نگرشی به آینده

عتیقه‌جات، ماشین‌ و مبلمان کلاسیک، سنت، ضرب‌المثل قدیمی، یاد قدیما به خیر، رسوم قدیم، و بسیاری از عناوین دیگر که محافظه‌کاری را القا می‌کنند با عباراتی مانند نو، آینده‌اندیشی، فکر فردا باش، گذشته بر نگشته، مدرنیسم و آینده‌نگر مخالف هستند. ما روزانه از این زبان عامیانه استفاده می کنیم، غافل از اینکه در حال القأ یک نوع طرز فکر هستیم. ما می دانیم که تغییر تنها با تفکر رو به جلو امکان پذیر است، اما آیا این بدان معناست که باید گذشته را رها کنیم و هرگز به گذشته نگاه نکنیم؟ا

Countries of the World by Area

Nationsonline.org

This page shows a list of regions and sovereign nations by size, from the largest to the smallest countries in the world.

What makes a country huge or small?

Enhanced 1972 Apollo 16 hand-held Hasselblad image on 70 mm film of North America on Earth. Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula can be seen at lower center. Above that, much of the Rocky Mountains are visible.

Prisons around the world: which nations have the most inmates

Style Mania

June 6, 2023

Imprisonment is a reality in many countries around the world, and the number of prisoners can vary greatly from country to country: but how many prisoners are there in different nations?