The Wholesome Photo of the Month Thu May 09, 2024 11:01 | Anti-Empire
In 3 War Years Russia Will Have Spent $3... Thu May 09, 2024 02:17 | Anti-Empire
UK Sending Missiles to Be Fired Into Rus... Tue May 07, 2024 14:17 | Marko Marjanović
US Gives Weapons to Taiwan for Free, The... Fri May 03, 2024 03:55 | Anti-Empire
Russia Has 17 Percent More Defense Jobs ... Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:56 | Marko Marjanović
Anti-Empire >>
A bird's eye view of the vineyard
Alternative Copy of thesaker.is site is available Thu May 25, 2023 14:38 | Ice-Saker-V6bKu3nz
Alternative site: https://thesaker.si/saker-a... Site was created using the downloads provided Regards Herb
The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog. We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).
What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are
Moveable Feast Cafe 2023/02/27 ? Open Thread Mon Feb 27, 2023 19:00 | cafe-uploader
2023/02/27 19:00:02Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of
The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
Pepe Escobar for the Saker blog A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up your soul as you?re immersed in a long walk under persistent snow flurries, pinpointed by
The Saker >>
The Losing Battle to Get Public Sector ?TWaTs? Back in the Office Thu Jul 25, 2024 19:06 | Richard Eldred
Years on from Covid, Civil Service 'TWaTs' (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday office workers) are harming productivity and leaving desks empty. The Telegraph's Tom Haynes explains how this remote work trend affects us all.
The post The Losing Battle to Get Public Sector ?TWaTs? Back in the Office appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Prepare to Go to Jail,? Judge Tells Just Stop Oil Art Vandals Thu Jul 25, 2024 17:00 | Richard Eldred
Guilty and about to face the consequences, two Just Stop Oil activists who hurled tomato soup at a Van Gogh masterpiece have been told to prepare for prison.
The post ?Prepare to Go to Jail,? Judge Tells Just Stop Oil Art Vandals appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Hundreds of Thousands Are Ditching the Licence Fee ? And It?s a Crisis for the BBC Thu Jul 25, 2024 15:00 | Richard Eldred
With an £80 million revenue drop and growing calls for a licence fee boycott, BBC bosses are struggling to prove that Britain's biggest broadcaster remains worth the cost.
The post Hundreds of Thousands Are Ditching the Licence Fee ? And It?s a Crisis for the BBC appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Democratic Party Clown Show Continues, With Giggles Replacing Bozo Thu Jul 25, 2024 13:00 | Tony Morrison
Biden's sudden exit and the canonisation of his hopeless VP is a dismal chapter in American politics ? one that will further erode trust in the democratic process, says Tony Morrison.
The post The Democratic Party Clown Show Continues, With Giggles Replacing Bozo appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Climate Change? Used to Justify Government?s Record ?Investment? in Renewables. Cui Bono? Not the T... Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:05 | Richard Eldred
The Government is using the excuse of 'climate change' to justify the largest taxpayer 'investment' in wind and solar farms in British history.
The post ?Climate Change? Used to Justify Government?s Record ?Investment? in Renewables. Cui Bono? Not the Taxpayer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en
Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en
Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en
Will Israel provoke a cataclysm?, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jun 25, 2024 06:59 | en
Voltaire Network >>
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 1 2ISLAMIC LEADERS USING ISLAM TO CONTINUE ON ABUSING HUMAN RIGHTS: ISLAMIC DICTATORS DECEIVING MANY SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS
We on the left must no more be trapped into supporting abuses of human rights by Islamic leaders; just in order to prevent another war such as towards Iran (this does not diminish my struggle or conviction as an Anti-War/peace activist especially against unjust capitalist imperialism as led by the US-UK regimes). Many Islamic leaders, including in Malaysia, to my great dismay have taken the opportunity to aggressively mobilize and brainwash further the "Muslim" (i.e Islamic followers) masses especially from the dominant ethnic group in Malaysia, the Malays, behind them in order to sustain their brutal, absolute, elitist and capitalist power after the Iraq War, using Islam. And that is what the brutal elite and capitalist classes including the male-dominated Islamic priestly hierarchy in Iran are doing, just as in many nations with Islamic leaders such as in Saudi Arabia and Sudan (see Malachy Browne, Death by Stoning continues in Iran, 15 Jan, 2008 at:
http://www.village.ie/World/Middle_East/Death_by_stonin...Iran/).
Thus, we socialists and other social justice activists especially need to wake up from our blinded anger and fight rationally on behalf of social justice, above racial, religious and ultra-nationalist politics. I myself fell into such trap of defending indiscriminately Islamic leaders, the "Muslim race" and the “Muslim nationhood” including in Malaysia, especially due to injustice of the Iraq War. For the most efficient (psychological) weapon of the capitalist and elite classes in their rule and divide strategy in this current historical context, is for "Muslims" ultimately towards "racializing" themselves. Thus formed, a newly constructed absolute racial identity totally based on religion since WW2 (whereas race is originally & flexibly defined based on many other factors from both physical traits and diverse cultural traits but not religion; and identity is based on many intertwined factors, and race and religion are only parts of diverse factors that determine our dynamic-everchanging construction of our whole identity). Just like the absolute "Jewish race" (i.e the "Jews") was constructed due to Hitler using the religious and racial language game of “divide and rule” where an absolute new "Jewish" racial identity totally based on religion was formed.
The hypocrisy and brutality that I saw when coming back to Malaysia, from the Malay-Islamic leaders especially from the dominant ruling party UMNO (United Malays National Organization), and the elite-capitalist classes and authority including the police force, who simultaneously use “indigenous/Malay/Muslim race”, ultra-nationalism and Islam extremely unjustly, opened my eyes and shook me up ultimately. That is, to never again support such false struggles based on religious, racial or ultra-nationalist but on social justice politics, especially on true Marxist-Socialist politics (not pseudo and barbaric ones like Maoism, Pol Pot-ism, Stalinism, Milosevicism etc). That fundamentally fights for true equality and freedom for all human beings; and between men and women. And that also fights for socio-environmental justice for the natural world. Thus the end of the unjust and primitive privileges, status and abuses of power by both the elite and capitalist classes, towards humanity and the natural world. Besides ending simultaneously the primitive and unjust dominance and sustenance of male supremacy's ideology and practises, especially in Islam.
This is a statement from Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Iran. Full text at the link.
Since Student Day December 7, dozens of students have been arrested. According to the list produced by the families of the jailed students there were 45 of them in prison. The number of detainees keeps changing, as new arrests are being made and a few released have been made on extortionate bails ranging from $30,000 to $150,000. It is estimated that fifty-odd students are now being held. In addition to students, hundreds of libertarians and rights activists are languishing in the jails of the regime.
The gates of those jails must be broken down. The ruling brutes in Iran must be forced to retreat. Let us make the week of Feb. 2 to Feb. 9 into a week of campaign for the freedom of the jailed students as well as all political prisoners in Iran.
We urge all the working and libertarian people in Iran and across the world to come out in full support of the call by the families of the detained students and various groups of students in Iran and do their best for the immediate and unconditional release of the jailed students.
Committee for Freedom of Political Prisoners in Iran
Contact: Shahla Daneshfar shahla_daneshfar@yahoo.com