I told him that ‘jews’ are ruining my beloved canada and that’s all i care about. And the parrot replied: do u think complaining wld stop ‘jews’ from getting canada and US?
Why don’t u stop complaining and vote for the communist party! And not only vote, but join it? And i will! tnx

Because the Islamophobic aspect of the Zionist narrative is only one aspect of it? One that is especially visible right now, dominating MSM discourse, what events are chosen as “news”?

Hey, I just coined a word, I think I’m the first: “Iranophobia”?

No? How about “Iran-baiting”? “Iran-baiters”?

> McNally thinks it’s up to him in his Superior Wisdom to tell the Iranians how to run their country.

Cranking out more lies, as usual…<

I fail to see what I said that can be fairly described as "lies".

It is a fact that you have chosen to support the "Green Revolution" movement in Iran, claiming that it has more legitimacy than the elected government. Meanwhile you deploy a hoary debating gimmick by trying to turn this into a discussion of Gorbachev vs Breshnev, asserting that Gorbachev had no Western support as he rose to power in the KGB as the protege of his predecessor as KGB head, who in all probability was "turned" by the CIA well before Gorby thought up the Glasnost/Perestroika gimmick to mask his intention to adopt the Can't beat 'em, so join 'em adjustment and turn the USSR over to the tender mercies of Ronald Reagan et al.

But that's another discussion. I raised the issue of your efforts to persuade people that these "Greens" in Iran deserve to be supported by US progressives, and that "progressives" should join the US State Dept and the Izzy Embassy in denouncing the elected government of Iran as akin to fascism.

I myself have taken no position on the relatively progressive or relatively reactionary character of the elected government of Iran. I have simply maintained that Iranian internal affairs are no business of any US citizen or US resident, or any citizen/resident of any Nato member or other former or present Colonial Power.

Yet you continue to claim that my position somehow adds up to "Breshnevism".

What else could one expect from a seasoned Cold Warrior? What but a pile of Victor Navasky/Daniel Singer "Marxism"? What but a crock of White Colonialist crap about which Iranians are the "good guys" and which ones the Bad Guys?

So now that they don't have the Soviet Union to kick around, they've launched a new Cold War against all things Islamic in general , and against Iran in particular.

With Mr McN. taking over from Navasky et al as the provider of Left Cover for ZPC/US Militarist ideological warfare.

Same ol' same ol', only the names have changed.

I hear you. My point is however that this term “Islamophobia” seem to be used as a diversion from Zionism which is the cause of the “phobia”. In other words “Islamophobia” describes the outcome rather than the source. In that sense I see the word “Islamophobia” as a way of weaseling out of confronting and identifying the true condition.

my dictionary gives two definitions of "phobia", one related to fear, the other "aversion to or intolerance of" something. "Homophobe" is defined as "irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against".

I think the term "Islamophobe/phobia" is most often used in both senses to convey both fear of and hostility to, often with an added connotation derived from the way "homophobe" is used, emphasizing the "hostility".

Seems to me often used to characterize characters like Elie Weasel and Christofer Hitchens, as a counter to charges of "Islamofascism" etc. ??

Harry’s Place is a British blog founded in November 2002 by ‘Harry Hatchet’[1] to support the invasion of Iraq that was then in the offing.[2] Harry’s Place has a strong pro-Israel orientation and its bloggers were later among the founders of the Euston Manifesto network,[3] a key centre of the ‘pro war left’.[4] Its activities include mainly attacks on critics of Israel, with a special focus on the left and mainstream Muslims organizations. Its comments section licences — even invites — abuse against political opponents.
The website has a strong Zionist orientation: it serves as a platform for individuals with strong pro-Israel views. Following judge Richard Goldstone’s report on the war crimes committed during Israel’s 2008-2009 assault on Gaza, HP blogger Gene Zitver republished an article by Moshe Halbertal from The New Republic that tried to discredit the report

‘Democracy Promotion’ in Iran
On 5 August 2009 David Toube posted photos and videos of himself wearing a T-Shirt which reads ‘I’m blogging for Iranian democracy’ with a link to Harry’s Place underneath.[37] The website has been aggressively promoting Iran Solidarity, a new organization set up by Maryam Namazie (Workers-communist party of Iran) of the Council of ex-Muslims of Britain, with support from an assortment of New Atheist luminaries, neocons, and some British and international liberal voices.
Relying exclusively on Israel lobby’s regime-change brigade (Kenneth Pollack, Patrick Clawson, Michael Rubin), Michael Ezra of HP tried to cast doubt on the legacy of Mohammad Mossadegh — the popular Iranian prime minister overthrown in the 1953 CIA coup — questioning his democratic credentials and the causal links between the coup and the Islamic revolution of 1979.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WHO*RE OF ZIONISM, MARYAM NAMAZIE, compares Islam to Apartheid South Africa but she completely forgets about the present apartheid state, Israel. These ‘socialists’ cooperate with the Zionists and have no problem with genocide in Gaza, crimes against humanity in Iraq yet ‘Islam’ is the main problem of our world today, a Zionist/imperialist’s agenda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2rOadm3t4Q&feature=player embedded

What is the difference between Koran burning and scarf beating in the streets of London? Maryam Namazie, member of the Workers-Communist party of Iran and as spokesperson of EX-MUSLIM, funded by the Western intelligent agency, has focused her activities ONLY on Islam not ALL religion according, leaves out socialism all together, to Zionism/imperialism’s agenda.
THIS IS THE KIND of POLITICAL ACTIVITY IRANIAN SOCIALISTS DO, fighting against Islam to help the Zionist/imperialists’ war mongers. Namazie gives No words on Apartheid Palestine but only on Apartheid South Africa where was an issue more than a decade ago. No words on massacre and rape of Muslims in Iraq by American and Zionist forces, no words on Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Somalia, Pakistan, Sudan and elsewhere. No words on Palestinian women’s freedom, on Iraqi, Afghani, Pakistani Women’s freedom.

No words on OCCUPATION OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES. SHAME ON YOU ALL.

http://payvand.com/news/08/feb/1117.html

The shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by AMERICAN cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes killing all 300 passengers on board, many of whom were children is viewed war crime by majority of people in the world, has not forgotten.

The shooting down of Iran Air Flight 655 by the cruiser U.S.S. Vincennes marked the end of an eight-year-war between Iran and Iraq, a war that in all probability started with the help of the US government and was certainly prolonged by the US and Israel as part of the policy of dual containment of Iran and Iraq. As I have explained elsewhere, in the eight-year war the Reagan Administration tried to prevent Iran from winning the war against Saddam Hussein by providing him with intelligence, extension of credit and, indirectly, weapons (for a full discussion see The United States and Iran: Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment). The US also established full diplomatic relations with Hussein’s government, lifted trade sanctions against Iraq, and imposed economic sanctions against Iran. In addition, the US closed its eyes to the use of chemical weapons by Iraq in the war, and, indeed, supplied Saddam Hussein with chemical compounds that had multiple uses, including making poison gas.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/fayazmanesh1.html

Haven’t Iranians people paid enough already for their refusal to be a client state?

Since the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies who didn’t favor the post-revolutionary Iran’s doctrine of confrontation with the superpowers and its denial of Western liberal democratic values.

The 1979 revolution which put an end to 2,500 years of imperial monarchy in Iran was pivoted on theocratic and ideological values which the sumptuous, thrilling West usually tends to dislike and rebuff. Under the spiritual leadership of Imam Khomeini, Iranians declared that they wouldn’t need the support of Western and Eastern superpowers, will stand on their own feet and only seek to realize a political regime which establishes its bases and principles in accordance with morality and Islamic solidarity.

Iran’s ideological disagreement with the West and its efforts to fulfill independence as an Islamic state, however, cost for the Iranian people heavily. First of all, the United States spurred its regional puppet, the late dictator Saddam Hussein, on to launch a massive, crushing war against Iran so as to push the country’s newly-established political regime to annihilation. The 8-year war demolished Iran’s infrastructures irreversibly, caused irreparable damages to country’s economy and left more than 350,000 Iranians dead.

The 8-year resistance of the Iranian people, however, rendered the plans of the U.S. and its Baathist ally futile. Iran rose from the rubbles of 8-year war with Iraq and set out to emerge as a regional superpower gradually. Iranians recreated the country’s war-torn economy once again, renewed the obliterated infrastructures, appeased the pains of the families of 350,000 martyrs with compassion and brought hopes to the hearts of those who had come to think that a political state with the ideological pillars of Islam would be impossible to survive.

The animosity of the United States and its cronies, however, didn’t seem to be ending. In 1984, the United States approved its first set of sanctions against Iran which would prohibit Washington from selling American weapons to Tehran. During the presidency of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the sanctions got tougher and broader. In April 1995, President Bill Clinton issued a total embargo on U.S. dealings with Iran, banning every kind of financial transaction with the war-hit country. In 1996, the United States Congress passed the Iran–Libya Sanctions Act under which all the foreign firms and companies that provide investments over $20 million for the development of petrochemical projects in Iran would be penalized. The most inequitable and unreasonable sanctions against Iran, however, were those which would were endorsed in 1995 and disallowed the aviation companies around the world to sell aircrafts and repair parts to the Iranian airlines directly.

Iran’s aviation fleet which is chiefly comprised of Russian low-quality Tupelov and outdated Airbus and Fokker planes is one of the most vulnerable fleets in the world which suffers from increasing dilapidation and is considered to be highly at risk due to the unjust sanctions which are imposed against the country.

In December 2005, BBC World published a report in which it was expressively stated that Iran’s civil and military aviation fleet is undergoing intense safety setbacks. The report came after an Iranian Air Force C-130E military transport aircraft crashed into a residential complex in Tehran, killing 128 people including 68 reporters and journalists that were supposed to cover a military drill off the country’s southern coast on the Persian Gulf.

Two years earlier, a Russian-manufactured Ilyushin Il-76 transporter plane crashed in southeastern Iran, killing 302 passengers and cabin crew.

Iran has experienced several deadly air accidents in which hundreds of innocent civilians lost their lives. On July 15, 2009, the Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 heading from Tehran to Yerevan crashed near the village of Jannatabad in northern Iran, killing 168 passengers and cabin crews. Among the dead were all members of Iran’s national youth judo team members and several other prominent persons including a former parliament member and the wife of Georgian Ambassador to Tehran.

On July 24, 2009, another deadly plane crash happened in Iran which cost the life of 16 people. While attempting to land, the plane skidded off the runway and broke into a wall, killing 16 out of 153 passengers and crew members who were aboard the plane.

Unfortunately, the frequency of deadly plane crashes in Iran has been so high that made Iran’s aviation fleets one of the most insecure and unsafe ones in the world. Tens of people die each year as a result of a childish altercation which seems to have no rational basis. The United States has failed to dictate its political will to Iran and resorts to this failure as a pretext for punishing its people.

The United States and its European allies who boast of themselves as being the harbingers of human rights and liberty have obliviously forgotten that they are simply human beings who lose their lives as a result of the sanctions which they’ve devised. The civilian passengers who are destined to die in the insecure flights of Iran’s aviation fleet are the victims of those who have long trumpeted in our ears that they’re the sole defenders of human rights. If the life of each human being is respectable, then who is responsible for the lives of these hundreds of people who pass away before the eyes of the so-called international community which is always alert to caution about the violation of human rights in Iran and other independent countries? Isn’t the life of these people who get in the dilapidated Russian planes of Iran’s fleet and embrace death to the most extreme point of imagination respectable that you’ve deprived them of having the opportunity to experience a safe and secure trip? If you’re at loggerheads with the government of Iran, what’s the fault of its innocent civilians whom you’re punishing collectively?

http://counterpunch.org/sasan03172008.html

Such minds,

And so far the reason this will not happen is……?

The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Forbidden knowledge
Governments today, talk of “cap-and-trade-with-offsets”, a system rigged by big banks and fossil fuel interests. Cap-and-trade invites corruption. Worse, it is ineffectual, assuring continued fossil fuel addiction to the last drop and environmental catastrophe or the end of the human race as we know it as a start, drums,saxophone, trumpet, base guitar, there is a solution not for all our problems but a start we will work on the others the solution therefore requires a rising fee on oil, gas and coal – a carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic mine or port of entry. All funds collected will be distributed to the public on a per capita basis to allow lifestyle adjustments and spur clean energy innovations. As the fee increased, fossil fuels will be phased out, replaced by carbon-free energy and efficiency. Farming practices Worldwide will begin to change and those that needed help will get help. Will we all live happily ever after no but it will be a start.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Sagan

Don

Hawking went and did it this time alright saying science can answer questions about the beginning that used to be the providence of religion. I see this morning the pastor in Florida say’s he was lied too, really. I wonder the creator, God when creating the heaven and Earth to summon the forces needed to do that a simple wave of the hand using maybe what we human’s mere mortals call science, religion, knowledge or is that looking at it in the wrong way. I’ll bet this theory of everything could take a few more years to understand but known knowledge say the last 14 billion years not a blink of an eye the age of the Universe slow and sure no rolling of the dice so to speak. Now us human’s a blink of an eye and not even that have been very busy beavers indeed the last one hundred years and it does appear we start using reason, knowledge not illusion work together and stop burning fossil fuels and soon or the theory of everything will stay just that a theory maybe other life forms in the Universe will answer that question not us human’s as we will not be here off to the stars like the dinosaurs. Anyway going to use gravity and pour me a cup of coffee and turn on the tube and see how the rolling of dice is going this morning.

On 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, Iran Air Flight 655, a civilian airliner was shot down by US missiles fired from USS Vincennes commanded by Captain Rogers killing all 290 passengers and crew including 66 Iranian children.

Three years after the incident, Admiral William J. Crowe admitted on American television show Nightline that the Vincennes was inside Iranian territorial waters when it launched the missiles.

Commander David Carlson, commanding officer of the USS Sides, the warship stationed near to the Vincennes at the time of the incident, said that the destruction of the aircraft “marked the horrifying climax to Captain Rogers’ aggressiveness, referring to incidents on 2 June, when Rogers had sailed the Vincennes too close to an Iranian frigate undertaking a lawful search of a bulk carrier, launched a helicopter within 2–3 miles of an Iranian small craft despite rules of engagement requiring a four-mile separation, and opened fire on a number of small Iranian military boats.

America has never apologised to Iran or admitted responsibility, agreeing to pay compensation amid international pressure.

It is intriguing to see how whoever the United States and Israel find interfering with their imperial or dispossession plans is quickly demonized and becomes a threat and target for that Real-Axis-of-Evil (RAE), and hence their NATO allies and, with less intensity, much of the rest of the “international community” (IC, meaning ruling elites, not ordinary citizens). If and when the need arises, any bit of news that is damaging to the targeted state will be fed into the demonization process — and in the marvelous propaganda system of the West, the grossest distortions will be swallowed and regurgitated without much guilt or apology, even upon the exposure of exceptional gullibility and dishonesty.2 The dishonesty, gullibility, double standard, and hypocrisy are handled with an aplomb that Pravda and Izvestia could never muster in the Soviet era.

Thus, Iran is a threat, for one thing, because it has relations with the Iraqi Shiites, has supported them in the struggle within Iraq, and may even have supplied some of their factions with training and weapons.3 Of course Iran is a neighbor of Iraq, was invaded by it in 1980, with generous U.S. help provided to then-ally Saddam Hussein, and Iran obviously has an important political stake in the outcome of any struggle for power in Iraq. But only the United States has a right to invade and fight in Iraq and provide arms to the Iraqis of its choice. As a superpower with dominant military capability, and unlimited chutzpah, it has Aggression Rights, acknowledged by the IC, and the UN Security Council, who not only did nothing to oppose the 2003-2010 invasion-occupation of Iraq, but quickly sanctioned the U.S. right to manage the occupation, in contrast with its indignant vote and action to force the Iraqi eviction from invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990. This is the imperial double standard in action, and Iran, trying to interfere in Iraq, despite the IC and Council’s approval of the U.S. aggression and conquest, is clearly out of order. The aggressor may have made false or inflated accusations about Iranian interference, partly to cover over its own aggression-resistance problems, but also to prepare the ground for its next planned aggression, that against Iran itself. This is not discussible in the establishment U.S. media.

Iran is also a threat because it is hostile to Israel, objects to what Israel has been doing in Palestine and Lebanon, and is a local power rival to Israel. But Israel, like its patron, has Aggression Rights, and is free to invade Lebanon, as it did on a massive scale in 1982 and 2006, without penalty. And it has ethnic cleansing and even slow-motion genocide rights, which it has been exercising in Palestine for many years, with U.S. and EU support. During its last few days in Lebanon in 2006 before its final withdrawal, Israel dropped a million cluster bombs in the countryside in an act of state terrorism and crime against humanity that would have produced huge outrage and possibly sanctions if carried out by a state that was not a U.S. client. The same is true of its assault on the Gaza Palestinians in December of 2009, where this very civilian-oriented campaign against an essentially defenseless population was openly supported by U.S. officials and hence presented no problem for Israel except for some damage to its image as “a light unto the Nations” (Anthony Lewis4).

Go to the link for the rest.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/hp160310.html

by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

It is almost a commonplace, at least for the real — as opposed to the cruise-missile — left, that the flow of information, opinion, and moral indignation in the United States adapts well to the demands of state policy. If the state is hostile to Iran, even openly trying to engage in “regime change,” and if it is supportive of the state of Israel, no matter what crimes Israel may commit, and if it doesn’t like the populist president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and supports his overthrow and a follow-up “demonstration election” by the local elite, the media and many intellectuals will follow the state agenda, even if they must indulge in mental somersaults. In the case of Iran, the Israeli state and its U.S. supporters are also eager for regime change, so the somersaults on the Iran menace are wilder yet, with large injections of chutzpah.

This chutzpah is in full bloom in a full-page ad in the February 7 New York Times and February 9 International Herald Tribune addressed to Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dimitry Medvedev, Gordon Brown, and Angela Merkel: “How Long Can We Stand Idly By and Watch the Scandal in Iran Unfold?”1 The ad was sponsored by “The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity,” and signed by 44 Nobel Prize laureates, 42 of them men and a substantial fraction Jewish. The ad attacks Iran’s “cruel and oppressive regime” for its “shameless war against its own people” and its “irresponsible and senseless nuclear ambitions [that] threaten the entire world,” and calls upon Washington, Paris, Moscow, London, and Berlin, the UN Security Council, and “important NGOs” to impose “harsher sanctions” on Iran, and adopt “concrete measures . . . to protect this new nation of dissidents. . . .” “They must know that we are on their side,” the ad implores. “All of us who care must offer our full support and solidarity to the brave people of Iran.”

This open letter is a shameless and demagogic call for foreign intervention in Iran, for destabilization and subversion, and, above all, for war — although three of the signers (including Wiesel) are past recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize2 — and the text could have been written by the Foreign Office of the state of Israel. Indeed, Wiesel himself is an unabashed protagonist for Israel, having long proclaimed his unwillingness to make a public criticism of that country (“I never attack, never criticize Israel when I am not in Israel”3), so that we can rest assured that his “Foundation for Humanity” will never proclaim its solidarity with any humans living under the Israeli boot. The Wiesel Foundation did not sponsor a full-page ad in the New York Times to protest Israel’s shameless and criminal onslaught against the Gaza Palestinians in early 2009, which in just three weeks killed some 340 children, a greater number than the aggregate of protester deaths in post-election Iran.4 Nor will it sponsor an ad that criticizes the irresponsible buildup of nuclear weapons that Israel has accomplished outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and that pose a much clearer threat to the world than that posed by the still nuclear-weapon-free Iran, which is under steady threat of attack by Israel and by a U.S. leadership that says “all options” remain on the table. That Wiesel and his “Foundation for Humanity” could get 43 other Nobel laureates to sign this hysterical, hypocritical, and morally degraded war-call is a sad indication of the state of the reigning Western intellectual culture in 2010.

Go to the link for the rest.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/hp200210.html

Riding the “Green Wave” at the Campaign for Peace and Democracy and Beyond

by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson

There are many problems with the Campaign for Peace and Democracy’s “Question & Answer on the Iran Crisis,” issued by the CPD on July 7, and widely circulated since then.1

The CPD adopted this format, it tells us, because “some on the left, and others as well, have questioned the legitimacy of and the need for solidarity with the anti-Ahmadinejad movement,” and the CPD believes “those questions need to be squarely addressed.”

We believe, on the contrary, that the CPD’s 13 questions-and-answers do little to clarify issues related to Iran’s June 12 presidential election and its tumultuous aftermath, and even less to help leftists and “American progressives” decide how they should respond to them.

As we try to show below, when stripped of its didactic format, this Q&A amounts to little more than an emotional plea to its target audience to surrender what remains of their leftist instincts (long under siege in the States, and shrinking rapidly), and join its authors2 for a ride on the “green wave” of yet another color-coded campaign that fits well with one of their government’s longest-running programs of destabilization and regime change. We believe that any “confusion” felt by the left and “American progressives” towards these events is a confusion that has been sown by our would-be instructors.3

Go to the link for the rest.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/hp240709.html

Slipping in that ole hasbara, eh, israeli.

Nobody here buys it- get yourself a real life.

Please notice the FAKE photo of stoning in the following link where was made by the ‘socialists’ to attack Muslims who were demonstrating in support of Palestinians against the Zionists. These Iranian leftists are in the service of the West working in racist organization such as EX-MUSLIM funded by the Western intelligent agencies.

http://www.inminds.co.uk/article.php?id=10214

Maryam Namazie from Workers-Communist Party of Iran and a member of HOPI is Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain which aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam.

http://hurryupharry.org/2008/12/01/one-law-for-all/