["colour revolution". The same old song as it was in Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. Even more so in Iran - and Z posts FOUR articles repeating imperialist media prop! What good for leftists come from such "revolutions" before? Not mentioning what good for "unwashed mass"? Zunes is notorious for his support for imperialsm-founded coups, and Dreyfuss support is for the people who could be in another time and place murders of captured communards. Really, Z could do better. Or coud it?]

The Campaign for peace and democracy (CPD) has cooperation with Zmag. Chomsky has signed all their petitions written against Iranian government. Many have accused CPD is spreading disinformation and like HOPI has hidden agenda meaning ‘regime change.’ One of the co-editor of CPD, Joanne Lany, has been criticized by Louis Proyect in “Joanne Landy at it again”. He writes:
[After the USSR disappeared, Joanne Landy and the New Politics milieu were forced to fish around for new causes upon which they could establish their Tolstoyan saintliness. It should come as no big surprise that Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro would serve as useful substitutes for the role that Josef Stalin once played. In two open letters drafted on the occasion of two separate wars with Iraq, they proclaimed their desire for peace and their utter antipathy to Saddam Hussein.]
Joanne Landy like Noam Chomsky is associated with New Politics group.
http://www.cpdweb.org/

I agree with you when you write “this author writes for the Socialist Worker.” As I wrote earlier I was shocked to see article after article where were appeared at Zmag website, more or less, were siding with Mousavi believing the elections was fraud.

I’m not. Zmag is a big promoter of Chomskyism and has been for years. Z-Mag, most especially Michael Albert, has been trying to persuade the Left away from Marxism for years (with his “Parecon” fallacy) and also disfavored Nader’s candidacy in 2004. Albert also has been a big promoter of the “War for Oil” canard and supported the discombobulation of the anti-war movement and threw his support for John Kerry.

Since Chomsky and his ilk are signatories of Hopi it makes sense that they would favor Mousavi. Z-Mag is a very good reflection of the mindset of the Chomskyite “Left” and their tactics of obscuring the influence of Zionism on the U.S. political economy.

Max:
I agree with you when you write “this author writes for the Socialist Worker.” As I wrote earlier I was shocked to see article after article where were appeared at Zmag website, more or less, were siding with Mousavi believing the elections was fraud. I am sure these people must have heard about number of independent polls where were conducted weeks before the elections including one by ‘the New American Foundation.’ We were told the elections was rigged because the result published early after people cast their votes not realizing that Iranian elections process, like other places, has been partly computerized, in addition to fewer number of candidates, 4 people this elections, running this time compare to last time where were 7 people.
No one says Iran does not have problems. In fact, Iran has a real problem and that is schism, especially in Tehran which should be taken care of. Tehran is split between two different groups of people, one who has more internationalist worldview and cooperates with the west propaganda and the other group who has more nationalistic view and is suspicious of the west motif. Both, in my opinion, are exaggerating. The destabilization plan contributes to this division and makes it wider to put one against the other. Majority of NGOs who are active in different areas including, ‘women movement’, Labor movement, Youth movement or Human rights, are trained in different conferences in Persian Gulf, like Dubai, or Germany, India by a grant provided by the West to teach them how to push their agenda, live in Tehran.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14143

We’ve had debates on this blog about the use of Socialism and whether it serves a purpose (not that elements don’t) as we emerge from a marketing of ideas which wash all meaning from them.

Here, and apparently a Marxist organization in Latin America, has continued to push this wild and totally unsupported idea that Iran is in “revolt” and that it is a leftist/socialist one at that!!!

Hogwash. When Obama was elected, that symbolism took the wind out of whatever little solidarity there was.

By the way, a former Congresswoman and US citizen, and candidate for POTUS has been jailed by Israel. Where’s the US demand to release her and her Noble prize winning colleague? Where’ this Obama- rama guy calling for their release??

[In office, Ahmadinejad was anything but a friend to the working class. He pursued policies of privatization to enrich his coterie around the national security apparatus and ruthlessly suppressed efforts at organizing independent unions.]

Ahmadinejad is not the architect of Article 44, privatization law, but Rafsanjani, a corrupt businessman and a pragmatist along with Khatami, a Reformist, who have close connection with the West are the main architect of article 44 where the highest number of privatization took place under Khatami where already where was initiated under Rafsanjani, NOT AHMADINEJAD. During Ahmadinejad, contrary to what the write, the speed of privatization process diminished due to impediments not accepted to Ahmadinejad.

There are about three million impoverished women in Iran who weave carpets in their homes. It was not either Rafsanjani or Khatami to give them full insurance rather it was Ahmadinejad who brought a law to give them full insurance. Also, Ahmadinejad initiated distribution of some government-owned enterprises’ shares called “Justice Shares,” to redistribute state wealth to the low income Iranians. Justice shares are mutual fund shares of the state-owned enterprises that are privatized. Please correct your notes.
Ahmadinejad was elected against Rafsanjni with 2 to 1 margin in 2005 election because he promised to fight corruption meaning rich families like Rafsanjani and Nouri and others who have enriched themselves using their influence in the government. He also promised to bring ‘oil money to people ‘s dinner table and protect Iran nuclear energy program, where was compromised during Khatami – many Iranians believed – and improve Iran’s security which is encircled with the biggest terrorist state on earth, the United States and its allies including Israel. He has fulfilled some of his promises, and need more time to work on the others. Ahmadinejad victory is legitimate. This is part of the coup that the imperialist and Zionist planned before the election because according to many polls they have conducted independently they knew the winner is Ahmadinejad by wide margin. A review of all the ‘color revolution’ around the world which started by calling the result ‘fraud’ when their puppet does not win, then they use their 5th column agents as well as their terrorist groups, such as MUJAHEDEEN-e-KHALQ, inside and outside the country to bring chaos and speed up destabilization process to fool their own citizens like MANY TIMES IN THE PAST for ‘regime change’ to take control of Iran resources and her destiny and expanding Israel influence in the region.

For this purpose, the lawmakers’ call for greater U.S. support for the Iranian resistance groups — including the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), for regime change. The US and Israel have close relations with this terrorist group and many suspect that this terrorist and their supporters inside the country were involved in the recent riot in Iran. Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, an Israeli think tank, is trying very hard to remove MEK from the list.

At a Capitol Hill press conference on June 26th, Rep. Bob Filner, a Zionist Jew, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, argued the U.S. should explicitly side with Iranian “resistance groups”, including the MEK despite the fact its name in on the terrorist list of the State Department. Joining Filner in the call for greater U.S. support for the MEK was Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who fought alongside the Afghan mujahedeen in their war against the Soviet Union. Rohrabacher is a Zionist and friend of Abramoff, the Zionist thief who was convicted.
American people must rise and force these Zionists out of the office and free occupied territories including WH, Senate and Congress. Shame on America.
The Qazvin regional intelligence department reported that suspects had confessed to connections with groups including the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or People’s Mujahedeen, the armed wing of a France-based opposition group, the National Resistance Council of Iran. The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq has been listed as a terrorist group by the United States, and Iran has repeatedly blamed it for inciting post-election unrest.
[One killing captured on video — the shooting of 21-year-old Neda Agha Soltan on June 20 — quickly came to symbolize the human toll of the vicious crackdown.]

Regarding the shooting of Neda Agha Soltan, I think Mr. Suster should handle this case with great care otherwise he will be discredited if Iranian Judiciary found that she was not killed by Iranian forces. We have been told SHE WAS TARGETED TO CREATE A FACE FOR THE OPPOSITON IN IRAN. This kind of fabrication is very common by Zionists and imperialist forces. The United States, biggest terrorist on earth, found fabricated a story in 1991 the first Persian Gulf aggression to fabricate evidence for Saddam brutality beyond any doubt in Kuwait when American thugs, according to CIA plan, said Saddam ordered his military personnel to throw all the embryos out of the incubators to kill them. This story was aired by a Zionist whore, daughter of a Kuwaiti diplomat, to form public opinion against Saddam. Later, it was revealed that the story was fabricated by CIA under Bush administration. We also remember fabricated story of ‘yellow cake’ and related stories where it was leaked and someone, Mr. Kelly from Britain, gave his life for it and ICC, the zionofasicst judges, did not charge Blair for war crimes but instead they went after Al-Bashir who is trying to save his country from “Save Darfur” a terrorist group mainly made of zionist Jews formed and supported by Israel for ‘regime change’ in Sudan to help ‘the greater Israel’ project which is going from Mauritania to Afghanistan.
According to Neda’s fiancé, she was not present in the main street among protester; rather she was in a street away from the protesters talking to her teacher inside a car. She got tired and in order to stretch her leg she got out of the car and it was at that moment that she was shot. No security forces were present in the street since it was away from the main street where protester was present. Furthermore, the type of bullet that killed her is not used by Iranian security forces, has been reported.
Neda’s fiancé said her heart was hit with a bullet. However, there was a rumor that she was hit in the back from a short distance. There are many conflicting stories aound her case. No one really knows why Neda, a YOUNG and attractive WOMAN with a suitable NAME Neda, in Persian means VOICE, was targeted.
Ahmadinejad has asked the Judiciary chief to conduct a thorough investigation into the death of Neda Aqa-Soltan, an Iranian woman who was shot dead in Tehran’s post-vote protests.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/28/iran.neda.dispute/index.html

FoxNews, “War on Terror”, has brainwashed Usan Blacks and Latinos, now it ‘s brainwashing iranian vagabonds in USA and Europe.

You are exactly right! But of course, this makes too much sense for the twisted notions of rioters are “good”, government “bad”.

Not one word about the hundreds of millions the US is spending to destablize and undermine the regime. This is simply buying Fox News hook line and sinker.

This is not a Dissident Voice….this is MSM bait and switch. This guy knows what the majority of Iranians want?

He, like the MSM, has taken the election issue and blown it out of factual proportion.

Than this “writer” quotes fucking “Facebook”!!! Idiot.

the working class in iran must be for nationalization, more democracy, and abolishment of a theocracy; which, of course, wld occlude any fairness, freedoms, etc?!

question arises then whether the west opposes clerics in iran solely because they want to establish a one binat’l state in palestine? tnx