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.

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.

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.

Justice and Freedom For Julian Assange Mean Free Speech For Us All

By John Pilger: June 05, 2018

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49572.htm

The Courage Foundation announces an urgent campaign to support Julian Assange and demand his freedom. Keep an eye on our liveblog for updates.
This month, it will be six years since Julian was forced to take refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. He had been warned; the US Department of Justice was likely to file an application with Britain’s Home Office for his extradition to the United States. The allegations against Julian and WikiLeaks in the US were subsequently declared secret by a US District Court judge, but it has since been confirmed that a grand jury in Virginia has concocted a number of possible ‘charges’ against the WikiLeaks founder.
The most likely of these is ‘espionage,’ which harks back to a long-defunct First World War law designed to punish conscientious objectors.
Julian is not an American; neither has he ‘betrayed’ any state. His ‘crime’ has been free journalism and publishing, which are protected under the US Constitution, a document whose sanctity has apparently been jettisoned.

In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal Right to Attack Iran

By Marjorie Cohn: June 06, 2018

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49573.htm

In a little noticed but potentially monumental development, the House of Representatives voted unanimously for an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 5515) that says no statute authorizes the use of military force against Iran.
The amendment, introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), states, “It is the sense of Congress that the use of the Armed Forces against Iran is not authorized by this Act or any other Act.”
A bipartisan majority of the House adopted the National Defense Authorization Act on May 24, with a vote of 351-66. The bill now moves to the Senate.
If the Senate version ultimately includes the Ellison amendment as well, Congress would send a clear message to Donald Trump that he has no statutory authority to militarily attack Iran.
This becomes particularly significant in light of Trump’s May 8 withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. That withdrawal was followed by a long list of demands by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which could set the stage for a US attack on Iran.

Making Sense of Russian Political Ambiguities

The Saker • May 17, 2018

https://www.unz.com/tsaker/making-sense-of-russian-political-ambiguities/

Introduction: the world is not Hollywood

The past couple of weeks saw a number of truly tectonic events taking place simultaneously in the US, in Russia, in Israel, in Syria, in Iran and in the EU. I think that it would also be reasonable to say that most of those who opposed the AngloZionist Empire have felt feelings ranging from mild disappointment to total dismay. I sure did not hear many people rejoicing, but if somebody was, they were in the minority (uncharacteristically, Mikhail Khazin, for example). These reactions are normal, we all form expectations which can be, and often are, disappointed. Still, even when the news is clearly bad it is helpful to keep a number of things in mind.

پاسخ هنرمند هادی خرسندی به رضا پهلوی

source: http://www.iranglobal.info/node/64203

دوشنبه ۱۵ ژانویه ۲۰۱۸

هادی خرسندی

پسر را بجاى پدر نبايد محاكمه كرد

اما تاسفباره كه آقاى رضا پهلوى از يكسو ادعا ميكند كه طرفدار آزادى است, و از سوى ديگر, در همين مصاحبه بدون هيچ سند سياسى و منطقى ميشود كه همه جوانان برخلاف والدينشان با توجه به مطالعه و بدون تعصب اينك همگان طرفدار شاه فقيد و او هستند! ولى در ادامه آب پاكى را خيلى آشكارا روى دست همه طرفداران فريب خورده اش ميريزد! او در همين مصاحبه با آيت الله بى بى سى چنين ميگويد : در زمان حكومت پدرم رژيم پهلوى آزادى بسيار زياد وجود داشت ، زن و مرد با هم كاملا برابر بودندووو!!!

Hacking of the American Mind

Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? That is the subject of an interview broadcasted recently on our local radio station. Dr. Robert Lustig is famous for his anti-sugar campaign. He has been on several radio programs, TV programs, and TED talks, speaking about his books. There is a link to his interview with KPFA radio host Brian Edwards Tickered, during the pledge drive of this Berkeley radio station. He speaks about "corporate consumption complex" and why everything becomes addictive.

Here is the link:

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=286194

Noam Chomsky - Is Iran a Threat?

What the Media Won't Tell You About Iran

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Trump’s Ten Lies: A Response to the Iran Nuclear Agreement Speech

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2018/05/10/trumps-ten-lies-a-response-to-the-iran-nuclear-agreement-speech/

by Ted Snider Posted on May 11, 2018

After listening to Trump’s speech explaining his decision to pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Trump’s speech contained "over ten lies." Khamenei didn’t go on to name the lies.

So, what were the lies Trump told?

Israeli Attack On “Iranian” Targets in Syria

Israeli Attack On “Iranian” Targets in Syria a Sign of Tel Aviv’s Frustration, Fear

Immediately after Trump’s withdrawal from the JCPOA on Tuesday, Israeli officials began accusing Iran of positioning its forces in preparation for an attack. The alleged activity was cited as a justification for a new round of airstrikes on Syria targeting a military base in Kisweh.

by: Elliott Gabriel

Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/israeli-attack-iranian-targets-syria-sign-tel-avivs-frustration-fear/241871/

May 10, 2018

GOLAN HEIGHTS, SYRIA — An hours-long exchange of fire between the Israeli military and alleged rocket-equipped Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel seized the world’s attention early Thursday morning just after midnight, fanning fears that the Middle East is once again being plunged into a major new war pitting the settler-colonial state against its bitter rival, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ‘terrorism’

Source: http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/remarkable-disappearing-terrorism/

“With Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”

– Mossad officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

The remarkable disappearing act of Israel’s car-bombing campaign in Lebanon or: What we (do not) talk about when we talk about ‘terrorism’

Rémi Brulin on May 7, 2018

“With Sharon’s backing, terrible things were done. I am no vegetarian, and I supported and even participated in some of the assassination operations Israel carried out. But we are speaking here about mass killing for killing’s sake, to sow chaos and alarm, among civilians, too. Since when do we send donkeys carrying bombs to blow up in marketplaces?”

– Mossad officer, quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

On August 29, 1982, Ariel Sharon took to the opinion pages of the New York Times to argue that Israel’s “most immediate achievement” following its invasion of Lebanon had been the “crushing defeat” of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). As a result, the Israeli Defense Minister explained, Katyusha rockets had stopped raining down on Israeli villages “from terrorist sanctuaries in Lebanon.” The “kingdom of terror” established by Yasser Arafat’s organization on Lebanese soil was “no more,” and Israeli troops had been “greeted as liberators for driving out the terrorists who had raped and pillaged and plundered.” This had been the case, Sharon insisted, “despite the casualties that were the inevitable result of fighting against P.L.O. terrorists who used civilians as human shields and who deliberately placed their weapons and ammunition in the midst of apartment houses, schools, refugee camps and hospitals.”

به مناسبت اول ماه مه، یازدهم اردی‌بهشت، روز جهانی کارگر

به مناسبت اول ماه مه، یازدهم اردی‌بهشت، روز جهانی کارگر
حادثه‌دیدگان و فوت‌شدگانِ ناشی از کار در ایران
محمد مالجو

• در چند سال گذشته با امواج جدیدی از دگرگونی‌ها برای استخراج فزاینده‌ترِ ارزش اضافی نسبی در اقتصاد ایران مواجه بوده‌ایم. یکی از مصداق‌های چنین امواج جدیدی عبارت است از کاهش چشمگیر در ایمنی محل کار که به احتمال قوی از کاهش هزینه‌هایی که انواع کارفرمایان باید برای ایمن‌سازی محل کار متقبل شوند سرچشمه می‌گیرد، آن‌هم به قیمت افزایش چشمگیر در نرخ وقوع سوانح شغلی در حین کار. در مقاله‌ی حاضر دو هدف را دنبال می‌کنم. ...

اخبار روز: www.akhbar-rooz.com
شنبه  ٨ ارديبهشت ۱٣۹۷ -  ۲٨ آوريل ۲۰۱٨

The U.S. Role in the Destruction of Syria

By David Ray Griffin
April 20, 2018
Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49267.htm

In Syria, the goal of creating chaos has succeeded in spades. Mnar Muhawesh wrote: [F]oreign powers have sunk the nation into a nightmare combination of civil war, foreign invasion and terrorism. Syrians are in the impossible position of having to choose between living in a warzone, being targeted by groups like ISIS and the Syrian government’s brutal crack- down, or faring dangerous waters with minimal safety equipment only to be denied food, water and safety by European governments if they reach shore.

Of course, many Syrians were unable, or chose not to try, to reach Europe. Continuing her discussion of the refugee crisis created by the destabilization of Syria, Muhawesh added:

Other Syrians seeing the chaos at home have turned to neighboring Arab Muslim countries. Jordan alone has absorbed over half a million Syrian refugees; Lebanon has accepted nearly 1.5 million; and Iraq and Egypt have taken in several hundred thousand. . . . Turkey has [by 2015] taken in nearly 2 million refugees.55

By the end of 2015, the conflict in Syria had “displaced 12 million people, creating the largest wave of refugees to hit Europe since World War II.”56

War is a Women’s Issue

Source: https://www.marchonpentagon.com/single-post/2018/04/17/War-is-a-Womens-IssueBy: 

Cheryl Biren

Date: April 17, 2018

Imperialist War is an atrocity and atrocities make up the whole of the atrocity. When they cannot be suppressed, the Pentagon and corporate media work in tandem to convince the public that the rapes, the massacres, the torture, the targeted murders of civilians, the sexual exploitation of girls and women are isolated incidents while insisting that these wars of aggression are just. Ultimately, the devastating aftermath of U.S imperialist war is deemed to be the fault and responsibility of others.

Classism, Racism, Sexism, Misogyny and Xenophobia serve as the grease that keeps the U.S. war machine running. U.S. imperialism also necessitates that the people are numb to the full-scale decimation of the living Earth.

Poor and working-class women, women of color, women who are immigrants, female refugees, women in conflict zones and those who live where U.S. military bases loom are especially harmed by the U.S. government’s fixation on world domination.

The UN Security Council reports that women suffer disproportionately during and after war. Can we expect to end war without recognizing the inherent role misogyny plays in it and how that misogyny runs through class, racial and ethnic lines? 

Caught in a lie, US & allies bomb Syria the night before international inspectors arrive

Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/424186-us-allies-syria-lie/

The US, Britain and France trampled international law to launch missiles against Syria, claiming to have “evidence” of the government’s use of chemical weapons. That evidence is based on terrorist lies.

After a week of outrageous tweets and proclamations by POTUS Trump, which included continued accusations that Syria’s president ordered a chemical weapons attack on civilians in Douma, east of Damascus, with Trump using grotesque and juvenile terminology, such as “animal Assad,” the very evening before chemical weapons inspectors of the OPCW were to visit Douma, America and allies launched illegal bombings against Syria. The illegal bombings included 103 missiles, 71 of which Russia states were intercepted.

For the past week, we were told that the US had ‘evidence’ and the UK had ‘evidence’ that Syria had used chemicals. The ‘evidence’ largely relied on video clips and photos shared on social media, provided by the Western-funded White Helmets (that “rescuer” group that somehow only operates in Al-Qaeda and co-terrorist occupied areas and participates in torture and executions), as well as by Yaser al-Doumani, a man whose allegiance to Jaysh al-Islam is clear from his own Facebook posts, for example of former Jaysh al-Islam leader, Zahran Alloush.

Western Media's conundrum – why is 'bad guy' Putin so popular at home?

Source: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/423921-putin-economy-russia-capitalism/
By: Steve Keen is an Australian economist and author. He’s professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. You can support his attempts to build a new economics https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reviled as a "bad person" in the Western press and by Western politicians. And those accusations have heightened since the Skripal poisoning incident, which has been blamed on the Kremlin.

I'm neither going to dispute, nor support that characterization. Instead, I want to give some background as to why a "bad person" or "strongman" or, indeed, a hyper patriot, might have been elected Russia's leader in the first place. In other words, I want to explain why Putin has pursued certain policies which have helped to prompt such emotional reactions from many Western analysts.

And elected he was, first in 2000 – when, though the elections were criticized, they were regarded as broadly democratic. He has since been elected another three times, though Russia is no longer regarded as a true democracy by much of the West's media and political establishments.

The Bolshevik Experiment

No story starts yesterday, especially with Russia. The latest date one should commence with is 1914, when Russia was ruled by a hereditary emperor whose political ineptness helped lead to the First World War. The many disasters that flowed from WWI led to Nicholas II's own overthrow in 1917 when, after a bloody civil war, the Bolshevik faction of the Communist Party led by Vladimir Lenin became Russia's new leaders.

Who is John Bolton?

By: Marjorie Kohen

Source: http://marjoriecohn.com/trump-finds-fellow-bully-in-bolton/

Trump Finds Fellow Bully in Bolton

Nothing Donald Trump has done since his inauguration 14 months ago is more dangerous – to the United States, and indeed, to the world – than his selection of John Bolton for National Security Adviser. It is not surprising the president would feel most comfortable receiving advice from a fellow bully.

Trump bullies people on a nearly daily basis, directing his ire at immigrants, Muslims, women, LBGTQ people, the poor and the environment. He hurls Twitter attacks at those who disagree with him.

The president has encouraged police brutality, suggesting in a Long Island speech that law enforcement officers bang suspects’ heads against police car doors. “Please don’t be too nice” when arresting people, Trump advised. “Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over” their head, “I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’”

After being told someone might throw tomatoes at him at a campaign rally, Trump urged his supporters to “knock the crap out of them … I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.” He stated on Fox News that a Black Lives Matter activist who was attacked at a Trump rally “should have been roughed up.”