Great article. Been a crazy week seeing all these “I’m half Iranian…” people who don’t live in Iran calling for people to support the protestors and demand regime change. Makes me sick.
"Predictably from the right, but also from the left. And often they’ve been indistinguishable."
And that is because their is no movement or party in the West that is actually politically "left". The ruling class in these Imperialist countries long ago created a fake left focused on idpol, not social class, single issues not Capitalism and most importantly on bourgeois lawfare not general strikes.
In the West there is no organized political left left. This is why I appreciate you and Caitlyn so much. You two at least are the real thing. Millions of western wage slaves oppose Imperialism, Zionism, billionaires and their Capitalist system. A principled revolutionary party must be built for them.
Persians have a rich cultural history. One that is far longer than us culture lacking Western state denizens can mistakenly hold to possess. Persians do not need to be recast in our violent image, we need to immerse ourselves in their culture and borrow from the Chinese too.
Iran faces grave environmental challenges. Persians do not need to suffer bombing, subversion or infantry attack to forge a better climate for themselves.
Yes, let the people who live in Iran, simply live in Iran.
"We long ago submitted to the forces of enclosure, capitalism and neoliberalism, forces which are overwhelmingly anti-revolutionary in nature."
Point of order: there is no "We" in the West. There are the Zio Imperialists and there are the wage slaves. The two classes are separated by a river of blood, but we're encouraged from the cradle to see some unity between the two socioeconomic poles. They, the ruling class are Zio Imperialist. They have created a well paid s professional fake left since the 1970s to divide, confuse and weaken the working class. That's what has brought us, the wage slaves to this horrible reality. This society we inhabit is run down to the last detail by Them.
I am an American who lives in England, born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. On 30 March 1985, I met an Iranian gentleman who knew the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah personally. He taught me that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran who left Iran 47 years ago today, 16th January 1979 Ali was a student in electrical engineering at UCLA, but due to being a passenger on a bus that hit a car, Ali, suffered a pinched nerve in his neck resulting in having to take Percocet 5, the strongest pain medication there is, he had to drop out of school.
I met him because a man named Roger who was a Christian, allowed Ali to live in the room that I and my daughter needed to rent, because as a poor student who had not earned commissions as a life insurance agent for a while needed to move. After seeing the room by myself, I said to Roger that I would bring my daughter to see it too to give Roger our decision. Getting my daughter, when we arrived to show her the room, Ali was there. I apologised to him for invading his privacy, resulting in he and I becoming friends
In 1986 I would learn of David Rockefeller’s creation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, and combined those two facts in an independent study entitled The Trilateral Commission’s Effect on the Middle East for which I was given an A by the professor who had her Ph.D. when I was just about to graduate with my BA in 1987 and she told me that she gave my references to another student.
I actually added to the literature, because Holly Sklar, who edited the book, Trilateralism, which was my main source of documentation, didn’t know that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran.
British people don’t know the real reasons why the CIA did that. It’s rubbish what the MSM published about that here in the UK. That’s why I wrote and published my book that enlarges in why the CIA did that to the Shah of Iran. I ship that book, which is entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978 09725798-3-4 worldwide. Comments by a few who have read my top secret book are at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com followed by ordering information. I have s special offer for people here in the UK. £20.00 with free P&P. If interested in knowing the reality, please send me an Email using a@truedemocracy.net so I can give you my sort code and account number, and so you can give me your physical address for shipment of my hard bound book.
Two things you wrote her Nathan caused me to say OMG. The Iranian people did not get angry with the Shah; the only people who didn’t like him were the Tudeh Party which is the Iranian Communist Party. Everyone else loved him or at least respected him. And my Chapter 26 shows that the Iranian people want Reza Pahlavi to return to lead Iran.
One YouTube showed numerous Iranians holding Reza Pahlavi portraits. See
Great article. Been a crazy week seeing all these “I’m half Iranian…” people who don’t live in Iran calling for people to support the protestors and demand regime change. Makes me sick.
The Iranian, Cuban, Venezuelan etc diaspora are always deployed at these strategic moments
"Predictably from the right, but also from the left. And often they’ve been indistinguishable."
And that is because their is no movement or party in the West that is actually politically "left". The ruling class in these Imperialist countries long ago created a fake left focused on idpol, not social class, single issues not Capitalism and most importantly on bourgeois lawfare not general strikes.
In the West there is no organized political left left. This is why I appreciate you and Caitlyn so much. You two at least are the real thing. Millions of western wage slaves oppose Imperialism, Zionism, billionaires and their Capitalist system. A principled revolutionary party must be built for them.
You're right. And thanks for considering me alongside Caitlin, she's great
interesting. I did not know much of this.
Persians have a rich cultural history. One that is far longer than us culture lacking Western state denizens can mistakenly hold to possess. Persians do not need to be recast in our violent image, we need to immerse ourselves in their culture and borrow from the Chinese too.
Iran faces grave environmental challenges. Persians do not need to suffer bombing, subversion or infantry attack to forge a better climate for themselves.
Yes, let the people who live in Iran, simply live in Iran.
"We long ago submitted to the forces of enclosure, capitalism and neoliberalism, forces which are overwhelmingly anti-revolutionary in nature."
Point of order: there is no "We" in the West. There are the Zio Imperialists and there are the wage slaves. The two classes are separated by a river of blood, but we're encouraged from the cradle to see some unity between the two socioeconomic poles. They, the ruling class are Zio Imperialist. They have created a well paid s professional fake left since the 1970s to divide, confuse and weaken the working class. That's what has brought us, the wage slaves to this horrible reality. This society we inhabit is run down to the last detail by Them.
I am an American who lives in England, born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. On 30 March 1985, I met an Iranian gentleman who knew the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah personally. He taught me that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran who left Iran 47 years ago today, 16th January 1979 Ali was a student in electrical engineering at UCLA, but due to being a passenger on a bus that hit a car, Ali, suffered a pinched nerve in his neck resulting in having to take Percocet 5, the strongest pain medication there is, he had to drop out of school.
I met him because a man named Roger who was a Christian, allowed Ali to live in the room that I and my daughter needed to rent, because as a poor student who had not earned commissions as a life insurance agent for a while needed to move. After seeing the room by myself, I said to Roger that I would bring my daughter to see it too to give Roger our decision. Getting my daughter, when we arrived to show her the room, Ali was there. I apologised to him for invading his privacy, resulting in he and I becoming friends
In 1986 I would learn of David Rockefeller’s creation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, and combined those two facts in an independent study entitled The Trilateral Commission’s Effect on the Middle East for which I was given an A by the professor who had her Ph.D. when I was just about to graduate with my BA in 1987 and she told me that she gave my references to another student.
I actually added to the literature, because Holly Sklar, who edited the book, Trilateralism, which was my main source of documentation, didn’t know that the CIA deposed the Shah of Iran.
British people don’t know the real reasons why the CIA did that. It’s rubbish what the MSM published about that here in the UK. That’s why I wrote and published my book that enlarges in why the CIA did that to the Shah of Iran. I ship that book, which is entitled The Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times ISBN 978 09725798-3-4 worldwide. Comments by a few who have read my top secret book are at https://arlenejohnson.livejournal.com followed by ordering information. I have s special offer for people here in the UK. £20.00 with free P&P. If interested in knowing the reality, please send me an Email using a@truedemocracy.net so I can give you my sort code and account number, and so you can give me your physical address for shipment of my hard bound book.
Two things you wrote her Nathan caused me to say OMG. The Iranian people did not get angry with the Shah; the only people who didn’t like him were the Tudeh Party which is the Iranian Communist Party. Everyone else loved him or at least respected him. And my Chapter 26 shows that the Iranian people want Reza Pahlavi to return to lead Iran.
One YouTube showed numerous Iranians holding Reza Pahlavi portraits. See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90PGJfsPjNo
Duration: 11:50
Sincerely,
Arlene Johnson