Fereydoon Taheri

#Iran: the spirit of a #world without spirit

former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?

ترامپ می‌داند که جنگ اختیاری‌اش علیه ایران هیچ توجیه قانونی یا اخلاقی ندارد. به همین دلیل است که او ۴۷ سال گذشته را برای توجیه تجاوز خود بهانه می‌کند. مردم ایران بهای دفاع از استقلال خود را پرداخته‌اند و متجاوزان نیز همچنان برای هرگونه اشتباه محاسباتی هزینه خواهند داد.

This is how mass innocence is manufactured: When an American soldier dies, it is a tragedy with a name, a face, a hometown, a grieving family shown on the news. When a Vietnamese village was bombed, when a Yemeni wedding party was hit by a drone, when an Iranian girls' school was struck by a missile, it becomes "collateral damage." It becomes "unconfirmed reports." It becomes "a complex situation." It becomes "a tragic mistake." It becomes a passive sentence with no subject. Bombs dropped. Not: "we dropped bombs." Civilians killed. Not: "we killed civilians." The grammar of American war reporting is engineered to remove the agent from the action. This is not sloppy writing. This is the entire point. Keep the agent invisible and the citizen never has to decide whether they are responsible for what the agent does. The bombs drop themselves. The bodies appear. And the American viewer changes the channel with a clear conscience.

#رشتو زمانی که زیرساخت‌های ایران تهدید شد بعضی‌ها از روی تمسخر یا عدم اطلاع می‌پرسیدن «مگه ایران زیرساخت داره؟» ولی واقعاً برای خود من هم سوال شد و تصمیم گرفتم تحقیق کنم ببینم واقعاً #مگه_ایران_زیرساخت_داره؟ و نتیجه چیزی بود که انتظارش رو نداشتم!👇

'Self-defense' against what? Was there any 'armed attack' by Iran to justify 'self defense'? Definitely not! So this was absolutely NOT 'self-defense' — it was an act of AGGRESSION against the nation of Iran.

در نوجوانی کارگری کرده‌ام، نان پربرکت این شغل شریف را خورده‌ام و به آن افتخار می‌کنم. می‌دانم کارگر بودن یعنی نجابت، صبوری، عزتمند، ایستادگی در برابر دشواریها و ساختن آینده‌ای بهتر برای آنهایی که دوستشان داریم. آنطور که وعده داده‌بودم دستور جمع‌کردن شرکتهای پیمانکاری را صادر کردم

خیلی جالبه که اقتصاد سوسیالیستی کار نمی کند اما باید تا بن استخوان تحریمش کرد ... اما اقتصاد سرمایه داری کار می کند در حالی که با صدها بیلیون دلار وام دولتی باید بخش خصوصی را حمایت کرد تا پا بگیرند، صدها بیلیون‌ دلار باید هزینه ی Bailout بخش خصوصی کرد ... صدها بیلیون دلار باید از IMF به انها داد ... و ما فکر می کردیم دین افیون توده هاست!

Any peace agreement must include Iran’s complete disarmament in preparation of our next assault on Iran. (We really need an “EIPAC” tracker for all these ghouls)

Decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and oppression and 2.5 years of genocide, war crimes and starvation weren’t enough for the EU to even issue a statement of concern. One Russian vessel carrying grain:

one of the most pathetic deranged genres of propaganda on Iran that gets churned out daily in the NYT, Guardian, BBC, CNN, AP, Reuters are these idiotic vox pops: "hi, I spoke to 5 random Iranians on whatsapp, and here is how 90 million people actually feel based on my chats with these randos who are definitely "Iranians" and willingly searched out a scumfuck Zionist gusano Western media class hack to talk to, which is of course totally representative of the entire population". This isn't journalism. It doesn't even have the pretense of it. It is the most shallow, superficial, simplistic, utterly moronic propaganda slop that would get you fired if you dare suggest it for the US or UK or any other place they consider a real country with real people in it. "Hey I spoke to 5 rando Americans who are my contacts, here is my story on how every American thinks based on a 5 minute whatsapp convo".

Since when does the jurisdiction of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia extend to the Indian Ocean? Since when has that office assumed the role of the UN Security Council? Are we to dissolve the United Nations and replace Security Council resolutions with “warrants” issued by local U.S. Attorneys? Any idea, SG @antonioguterres?

وقتی در کافه های سوئد و المان چپ باشی شش ماه از اسماعیلیوت دفاع می کنی‌بعد پاک می کنی از‌ژیژک ترجمه می اوری و بعد بر میداری از پروژه ی ام‌ای‌۶ یعنی کلاه سفیدها قهرمان می‌سازی بعد بر می داری از ژوزف ضاهر که با لااقل ۴ تینک تنک دولتی ناتو فعالیت دارد مطلب می اوری بعد برمیداری از امام جمعه های سلفی در «نماز جمعه های اعتراضی» در شلوغی های مرزی حمایت می کنی بعد بر می داری از تضاد سلطنت طلبها با «چپ و مجاهدین» تحلیل می نویسی در حالی که مجاهدین خود الترا راست ری اکشنری هستند بر برمیداری حالا هم از اروپا فکر می کنی درد طبقه ی کارگر در ایران دسترسی به «اینترنت بین المللی است»!! جوکی به نام طبقه ی متوسط که در کافه ای در سوئد یا المان برای کارگران فقیر غصه می خورد!!

The most common liberal American response to criticism of American foreign policy is to agree with the specific criticism and then immediately undermine it. "Yes, the Iraq War was a terrible mistake." Mistake. "Yes, what happened in Vietnam was a tragedy." Tragedy. "Yes, the CIA did some very bad things during the Cold War." Some things. Very bad. Past tense. Watch the language. Watch what the language does. Watch how it processes an atrocity. A mistake is what you make when you mispronounce a word. A mistake implies no intent, no pattern, no structural cause, no accountability. A mistake is something that won't happen again because now we know better. A tragedy is what happens in Greek theater. Oedipus didn't mean to kill his father. Tragedy implies fate, complexity, the sad inevitability of good intentions meeting harsh reality. A tragedy is no one's fault, because fault requires agency, and tragedy requires that the agent be a victim of circumstance. Some bad things. Quantifying. Minimizing. Removing the specific human content from events that had specific human content. Not: the Phoenix Program systematically tortured and assassinated somewhere between twenty and forty thousand civilians. But: some bad things. This is the liberal version of American innocence. It performs more discomfort. It is willing to go further in acknowledging that something went wrong. But it arrives at the same destination: No one is accountable. No pattern is structura. No reckoning is necessary. And the fundamental moral standing of American power remains intact. The conservative version says it didn't happen. The liberal version says it happened but it was complicated. Both versions protect the same thing. Both versions mean you never have to change anything, because mistakes don't require structural change and tragedies don't require perpetrators. The people who were napalmed do not have the luxury of calling it a tragedy. They just call it what happened to them.

ولی تهش اون بچه شیعه ایی که فحش بهش می دادید و مسخره می کردید از ایران دفاع کرد و پای کار ایران ایستاد. اونی که اریایی بود و عرب نمی پرستید از خوشحالی بمباران ایران زد و رقصید.

Trump is responsible for many assassinations, most recently Ali Khamenei who was murdered alongside his family including a baby granddaughter. The entire Western media and political class celebrated, yet now they're all clutching their pearls OMG POLITICAL VIOLENCE IS EVIL OMG

Here is the complete architecture of how you keep a poor country poor while convincing its educated class that this is their own fault: Step one: During colonialism, extract capital, destroy domestic industry, structure the economy around export of raw materials. Step two: Grant formal independence while maintaining the economic structure, the debt obligations, the currency arrangements, and the trade relationships established under colonialism. Step three: When the economy underperforms, as it must, being structurally designed for extraction, not development, offer loans conditional on policies that deepen the existing structure. Step four: Train the country's economists in Western universities where the theories taught do not acknowledge steps one through three as economically relevant. Step five: Staff international institutions and domestic finance ministries with these economists. Step six: When the policies fail, attribute failure to cultural factors, corruption, and weak institutions. Step seven: Publish a report with recommendations. Step eight: Return to step three. The machine runs on its own now. The colonial administrator retired. The indebted finance minister presenting his structural adjustment plan to the IMF board doesn't think of himself as administering colonialism. He has a PhD from LSE. He genuinely believes the model. This is not a conspiracy. It is an education system.

Είμαστε εδώ για τα 180 κορίτσια που σκότωσαν οι Αμερικανοί και οι Ισραηλινοί στην πόλη Μινάμπ την πρώτη μέρα του πολέμου. Είμαστε εδώ επειδή ο πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ κήρυξε πολιτισμικό πόλεμο εναντίον ενός από τους αρχαιότερους πολιτισμούς της ανθρωπότητας. Είμαστε εδώ επειδή η Ευρώπη είναι ανύπαρκτη και δεν έχει καμία συμμετοχή σε μια ειρηνευτική προσπάθεια. Το αντίθετο, είναι συνένοχη στον πόλεμο που γίνεται αυτή τη στιγμή στο Ιράν. Είμαστε εδώ επειδή το ελληνικό κράτος έχει παραδοθεί, έχει δορυφοροποιηθεί πλήρως στο Ισραήλ και όχι μόνο στο ΝΑΤΟ και τις ΗΠΑ. Ο ελληνικός λαός, ο δικός μας λαός, συμπάσχει με τους Παλαιστίνιους, συμπάσχει με τους Σύριους, συμπάσχει με τους Λίβυους, συμπάσχει με όλους τους λαούς που ήταν θύματα της αμερικανο-ισραηλινής επιδρομής. mera25.gr/synantisi-g-va…

South Korea was among the largest recipients of U.S. aid per capita in postwar history, behind only Israel and South Vietnam. To put the scale in perspective: $6.85 billion went to all of Africa and $14.89 billion to all of Latin America in the same period. South Korea alone got $12.6 billion. But sure. South Koreans.

تحلیلگران الجزیره به احمدیان: نباید هیچ گروه مسلحی مانند حزب الله در داخل کشور وجود داشته باشد، که #دولت آن را کنترل نمی‌کند. دکتر #حسن_احمدیان با حضور ذهن بالا: و #پایگاه‌های_آمریکا در کشورهای شما؟ آیا این یک گروه مسلح تحت کنترل دولت‌های شما است؟

While Trump is saving AI women in Iran, his friends are targeting women Journalists in Lebanon. RIP Amal Khalil.