Seymour Hersh: Prigozhin’s Folly

Seymour Hersh

June 29, 2023

The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group.

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ا"بهتر آن است که از تو بترسند یا اینکه دوستت داشته باشند، اگر نمیتوانی‌ هر دو را داشته باشی‌" نیکولو ماکیاولی

اا"از آنکه پیروز شده، هرگز پرسیده نخواهد شد که آیا حقیقت را گفته است یا خیر" آدولف هیتلر

Unveiling Resistance: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Iran

TaraSepehri Far

June 27, 2023

The sweeping public protests that erupted across Iran in response to the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini in custody of Iran’s morality police last September have been characterized by many observers as the first feminist uprising in the region. The visually powerful images of women and girls defying compulsory hijab laws in the streets and the slogan “women, life, freedom” have strengthened this characterization and drawn broad international sympathy. But the sweeping protests and their demands for fundamental change were met with a brutal government crackdown that resulted in hundreds of deaths and tens of thousands of arbitrary arrests. Almost nine months later, women’s right to choose their own way of dressing remains at the center of the protest movement. Understanding why requires a closer look at how the broader struggle of women for equal rights in Iran has evolved over the years.

We the People Can Stop the Surging Corporate Crime Wave

"Citizens mobilized against corporate abuses in the 1960s and 70s. It can happen again now."

RalphNader

June 25, 2023

Most heads of giant corporations are drunk with their own power. These corporate CEOs push the envelope in ways that harm defenseless people. They believe they can get away with anything, and they do, with few exceptions. The few corporate crime prosecutions keep declining from Obama to Trump to Biden, due to a settlement-obsessed Department of Justice staffed by lawyers readying to join the lucrative major corporate crime defense firms.

The Tragedy of the Unabomber

Alex Skopic

June 22, 2023

Ted Kaczynski’s criticisms of environmental destruction and out-of-control technology were incisive. But, disdaining leftists and being unwilling to join with others in a social movement, he resorted to abhorrent terroristic methods that had no chance of solving any of the problems he perceived.

به یاد روزنبرگ ها

درس‌های اعدام‌های دولتی، مانند هفتاد سال پیش و مثل همیشه، با انگیزه سیاسی آن‌ها همیشه مرتبط است

 پل فون بلوم

ا.۱۹ ژوئن ۲۰۲۳.ا  

در آن شب نوزدهم ژوئن هزار و نهصد و پنجاه و سه، به عنوان بچه کوچکی در حومه فیلادلفیا، من، بیش از هر چیزی  نگران بیسبال بودم، تا زمانی‌ که متوجه شدم که چیزی پدر و مادرم را بسیار ناراحت کرده است. وقتی از آنها پرسیدم چه چیزی آنها را نگران کرده است، پاسخ دادند که جولیوس و اتل روزنبرگ روی صندلی برقی، در مکانی به نام سینگ سینگ در نیویورک کشته شده اند و این یک بی عدالتی وحشتناک است. من قبلاً در مورد روزنبرگ ها یا سینگ سینگ چیزی نشنیده بودم. اما آن لحظه را به خوبی به یاد دارم. پدرم که مایوس شده بود، گفت که دولت دو آدم خوب را به قتل رسانده است.ا

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.