'Shooting the Messenger': German Police Target Climate Group Last Generation in Nationwide Raid

Olivia Rosane

May 24, 2023

"When will they raid the lobby structures and seize the government’s fossil fuel money?" the group wrote in response to the raids.

America’s Addiction to War Comes with a 15 Trillion Dollar Price Tag

Jeffrey D. Sachs

May 24, 2023

In the year 2000, the U.S. government debt was $3.5 trillion, equal to 35% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2022, the debt was $24 trillion, equal to 95% of GDP. The U.S. debt is soaring, hence America’s current debt crisis. Yet both Republicans and Democrats are missing the solution: stopping America’s wars of choice and slashing military outlays.

YouTube Videos: CIA (Chris Hedges)- Ukraine War (Richard Wolff)- Ukraine War (Amy Goodman)

 We don’t need the CIA - The Chris Hedges Report - YouTube

 Wolff Responds: Ukraine War Reshapes World Politics - YouTube

 “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace”: Nat’l Security Experts Demand U.S. Push to End Ukraine War - YouTube

 

US imperialism’s relentless escalation in Ukraine

AndreDamon

May 22, 2023

On Friday, against the backdrop of the debacle for the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut, US President Joe Biden announced that the US has authorized members of the NATO alliance to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

نابینایی راست و چپ بر گردش چرخ روزگار

م. م ابوعسکر

ا.۲۱ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۲.ا

از راست و چپ بسیار شنیده می شود که عملیات نظامی فدراسیون روسیه در اوکراین نه تنها موجب پیشگیری از توسعه سازمان تجاوزگر ناتو نشده که برعکس کشورهای دیگری، فنلاند، سوئد، ... را هم به این سازمان نزدیک یا به عضویت آن درآوده است و یا گفته می شود روسیه با این اشتباه راهبردی، باعث شد آلمان، ژاپن و برخی دیگر از کشورهای شکست خورده در جنگ جهانی دوم که بر اساس قوانین اساسی تحمیل شده به آنان، قادر به تشکیل ارتش تهاجمی نبودند، با چراغ سبز ایاالت متحد آمریکا در صدد تغییر این قانون و افزایش هرچه بیشتر بودجه نظامی خود باشند و هرچه بیشتر به ناتو نزدیک شوند تا صلح جهانی، در معرض خطری بسیار بیش از شروع عملیات ویژه روسیه در اوکراین، قرار گیرد . این موضوع در مورد دیگر کشورهای اروپای غربی و به ویژه شرقی که برخی از آنان تابع بی چون و چرای فرامین ایاالت متحد آمریکا هستند، نیز صدق می کند.ا

Nakba at 75: Israel’s state-building project is unravelling – from within

JohnathanCook

May 17, 2023

Israel’s undoing will not be an attack from Arab states or international sanctions. Rather, its leaders have created a monster they can no longer tame

Middle East Eye – 17 May 2023

مقاله‌ای از روزنامهٔ اعتماد به تاریخ ۲۸ اردیبهشت ۱۴۰۲

بررسي و نقد كتاب -كارنامه نئوليبراليسم در ايران

برون‌رفت از دوگانه خصوصي- دولتي

رضا اسدآبادي|نشست بررسي و نقد كتاب «كارنامه نئوليبراليسم در ايران؛ خصوصي‌سازي در آيينه پژوهش نشر گل آذين، ۱۳۹۹ ترجمه و تاليف مسعود اميدي در سراي ناشران داخلي سي و چهارمين نمايشگاه بين‌المللي كتاب برگزار شد. در اين جلسه ابتدا مسعود اميدي به بيان اجمالي مطالب كتاب پرداخت و در ادامه خسرو صادقي بروجني، پژوهشگر اقتصاد سياسي و نويسنده كتاب «نوليبراليسم در بوته نقد» به عنوان منتقد نظرات خود را در مورد كتاب مطرح کرد.ا  

A poem by Mark Twain شعری از مارک تووین

A poem by Mark Twain (from My Boyhood Dreams)

TO THE ABOVE OLD PEOPLE

شعری از مارک تووین

برای سالمندان

-از این قطعه به نظر می‌رسد که مارک تووین شاهنامه را خوانده بود-

Scoop: U.S. proposed conducting joint military planning with Israel on Iran

Barak Ravid

May 17, 2023

The Biden administration proposed to Israel a few weeks ago the idea of engaging in joint military planning concerning Iran, three U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios.

We must speak up before the propagandists get their war with China

JohnPilger

May 17,2023

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on “the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists” to discuss the “rapid crumbling of capitalism” and the beckoning of another war. They were electric events which, according to one account, were attended by 3,500 members of the public with more than a thousand turned away.

Man’s Place in the Animal World جایگاه انسان در دنیای حیوانات

جایگاه انسان در دنیای حیوانات اثر مارک تواین (سال نگارش: ۱۸۹۶ در لندن)

در آگوست ۱۵۷۲ اتفاقات مشابهی در پاریس و سایر نقاط فرانسه رخ داد،  به این صورت که مسیحی در مقابله با مسیحی بود. کاتولیک های رُمی، با سازماندهی قبلی، پروتستان های غافل و بی خبر را غافلگیر، و هزاران نفر از آنها را  - از هر جنسیتی و در تمام سنین - سلاخی کردند. این روز به یاد ماندنی روز سنت بارتولومیو بود. در رم پاپ و کلیسا وقتی که این خبر خوش رسید، خدا را شکر کردند.

Wolff Responds: Ukraine War Reshapes World Politics

Wolff Responds: Ukraine War Reshapes World Politics - YouTube

 

Jeffrey Sachs on the Path to Peace in Ukraine

Jeffrey Sachs on the Path to Peace in Ukraine - YouTube

2023 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to the apocalypse, scientists say

TeddyGrant/ Bill Hutchinson

January 24, 2023

Scientists revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been moved up to 90 seconds before midnight -- the closest humanity has ever been to armageddon.

Biden Administration Quietly Backs Israel’s Deadly Assault on Gaza

MitchellPlitnick, Mondoweiss

May 13, 2023

At least 29 Palestinians, including 6 children, have been killed in an Israeli bombing campaign with no end in sight.

America’s Mercenary Wars

WilliamJ. Astore
May 12, 2023
A very useful and informative site, Michigan War Studies Review, recently stopped publishing book reviews after 18 years. The site’s editor, James Holoka, posted several reviews written by yours truly, including this one in 2013 on Jeremy Scahill’s book, Dirty Wars.

You Don’t Have To Choose Between Happiness And Being Informed

Caitlin Jonstone

May 12, 2023

I write about some dark, dark things in this space, and it’s common to receive expressions of despair in response to the subjects I focus on.

Long Beach Plans a 400-Acre Facility for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines, Largest in World

Juan Cole
May 11, 2023

 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – City News Service reports that Long Beach is planning a 400-acre facility to manufacture and install offshore floating wind turbines off the coast of California.

The Debt Ceiling is a Massive Deception of the American Public

Richard D Wolff

May 10, 2023

Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: How could this happen?

The Flight From the US Dollar

TedSnider

May 8, 2023

On March 20, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. In his article in the Russian media preceding the meeting, XI enthused that "China-Russia trade exceeded 190 billion U.S. dollars last year, up by 116 percent from ten years ago." Though it has reached 190 billion US dollars, it is no longer all being traded in US dollars. In his article in the Chinese media, Putin said that "the share of settlements in national currencies" of all that trade "is growing." 65% of that massive China-Russia trade is now being conducting in their Russian and Chinese currencies.