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According to US Foreign policy documents and people

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it is more than just oil companies, though they are a part of it.

"anti-imperialist" rant

Here is someone who actually regurgitates Frantz Fanon as if the world is still stuck in the 1960's...! Maybe the writer could apportion a little bit of blame on the stupid "oppressed" masses and the backward "culture" that they live by?! This boilerplate "anti-imperialist" rant is way ahead of present history, The aftermath of the disastrous Iranian Revolution should have taught any half-wit to "wait and see" before rejoicing at the triumph of "people" over their "oppressors"! Let's see if the "liberated" masses are worthy of any kind of representative governance ... These revolutions are dime a dozen (Africa, Asia, LatAm and now MENA ... knock yourself out!) and there has been nary an exception in their universal success in installing a more depraved, corrupt and unhinged oligarchy than what they had before!! Just because some wretched "people" are not happy with their "autocratic regimes" does not mean that they, and their "revolutionary leaders" either want or deserve a "better future"!! It's high time to point the finger to the angry mobs of "oppressed people" who are led by their ignorance and base instincts for revenge and looting, and intoxicated with holy religion, bananas ideology or a "charismatic leader" seem to be actors in their own perpetual "victimization" story ...

JJ theoritically you are right, but not so practically

Thats like saying that Africans are responsible for the rape of Africa or that Slaves were primarily responsible for slavery, the logic is ridiculous.

Yes they are using us, intellectual and leaders alike, but you honestly aren't looking at scope and size.

If I were to put my finger on a tiny ant I see crawling across a bench and crush it to death, would you say that it was the ant not taking responsibility for its own actions?  Of course not.

You JJ and ten thousand people like yourself, plus a $1billion dollar gift from fans couldn't do a thing to resolve the root causes of our difficulties.

Yes there are things we need to work on, things that make a serious difference in the cause of Freedom and Democracy for Iran, however we are dealing with a very complex problem that we as of yet don't have any solution for, nor do we have the possibility to resolve it.

The USA, France, Germany and the UK united to impose this policy of Africanization of oil producing countries.  Shah didn't leave due to too much support from allies.  To Add to the problem, Russia and China, Turkey and Brazil also have discovered the value of loving fundamentalism for Iran.

The one thing we can do that will make a difference is to develop unity, but in order to do that we need to look at what ideals we want to unite around, that requires true leadership and can not be bought with money.

For me personally unity that is not centered on friendship, patriotism and the truth are nonstarters, so a machievelian approach I would not be united behind.  Even with Unity based on certain ideals, we still need lots of luck and bravery and even then we may fail if its not planned well. 

It's the Military and the Monetary, business as usual

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Don't start me off on the IMF, World Bank and basically criminal banksters holding entire nation's like Greece, in effect , hostage in slavery....

P.S. Apart from the obvious, it's always good to have a look at the international art market as an indication of further sham.

They have busines partners

 
What about the billions upon billions of dollars being robbed from Iran and her people by the alliance of reesh-o pashm?

In Dubai, Beijing, Moscow, all over Western Europe, Asia, North America and South America. The IRI's money trail of murdering and looting goes well beyond the reesh o pashm in Iran itself. There is an international cast of corporate/business partners who are doing business with the mullahs making the mullahs sleaze-fest possible and so are complicit. One example, who sold one of the most up to date cell-phone surveillance technologies to the IRI just before the fake elections of 2009 and continues to service it: Nokia. And the list goes on and on...

Doctor joooon

what about the religious dictators in the middle, I say, Middle East? What about the rampant corruption and incompetence in your homeland? What about the billions upon billions of dollars being robbed from Iran and her people by the alliance of reesh-o pashm?

It is easy to blame those who are smarter than us, to say it is their fault we are so assbackward, when it is us who choose to remain in the 7th century (632 to be exact AD).

"As long as you give rides, people will take advantage"

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IRAN FIRST

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The Network - Corporate Cosmology

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Spot-on

Many kudos to Mohammad Ala for writing this article. I could not have said it better myself. What this article has articulated is how the world really works and why "democracy" and "human rights" in the hands of the elite global corporatocracy are completely empty and meaningless terms.

Hmmmm

Yes, international corporate power certainly does have a lot to answer to, but it seems to me that "bashing the corporates" has become bit of a sport recently with a lot of people jumping on the bandwagon and blaming everything on these "nasty" corporations. I don't think it's quite as simple as that.

If some corporations have shown to be deliberately working with despotic regimes to exploit people or do it on their own, then absolutely, go after them with full vigour. But generally corporations are there to make money for their owners/shareholders.

Keep in mind that ultimately corporations are as powerful as countries in which they operate and international institutions allow them to be. Like some posters have already said the crux of the problem lies with regimes/systems that create the conditions for exploitation to take place.

In Iran's case the regime IS the main corporation.

Who to blame

Well the multinationals are more powerful than the government and own it and the media...they have no nationality and no loyalty...they have exported our jobs, our capital, they take profits offshore and don't pay their fair share of taxes...when you say West...it is not the people...we are even less empowered than the people who are rebelling against dictators abroad...here the top 2% who own everything are invisible...we have our illusion of freedom like little dogs barking at the feet of giants so tall they can't hear us...they don't care what we say or want it won't effect them and they have the backing of the military industrial complex...so even if we were not all brainwashed into thinking that serving the rich and going into debt up to our eyeballs is patriotic we would be mowed down like bowling pins if we tried to revolt...besides they keep us so busy fighting and competing with eachother over scraps that we are too distracted to rebel...drugs, pornography, consumer goods...all distractions to keep us away from rebellion...the rest of the world is seen as a resource for raw goods and a market for finished goods like the old mercantilism of the British Empire...they could give a rats ass about Iran or Iraq except for their oil, about Afghanistan except for its Lithium deposits and as a corridor for a gas pipeline from Uzbekistan...but what I find the most disheartening as a former expatriate is that when you come from the old world you have a sense of personal uniqueness and identity, your culture, your traditions, your friends and extended family and then you come to the vast American Empire and you are only valued for how much money you can make for someone else and to hell with any other unique abilities and whatever you are good at; you compete with a million others who are better and richer than you are over fewer and fewer resources and jobs...slowly but surely you lose your unique identity and become a consumer...what is American culture? Buying things made by corporations. What is the global economy? Reducing all the world to consumer units and destroying indigenous culture and traditions and brain washing everyone into wanting the same crap. The wealthy have been given more and more and more power starting with the Reagan years until now until we resemble a "third world" country...where the superwealthy and the poor are the only two classes and the superwealthy live in gated communities with armed guards and private schools and the only use they have for the lower class is to saddle them with taxes used to bail out the corporations and entire sectors like the finance industry when they fail and bail on us...so if the capitalists don't have any mercy for the homeless and the jobless and the impoverished here then how can you expect them to care about the people of other countries who they have saddled with dictators to get a free hand at their stuff? What exactly does the author think that we the people can do about it? If this were Italy, everyone could stop paying income tax in protest but Americans are just a little too conservative and law abiding and comfortable to revolt...they don't see the power they have...if everyone stopped paying taxes to finance wars and stopped volunteering to fight them what would they do? Lock us all up? The jails are already full to the bursting....so you can slam the West, You can slam the East, you can slam the IRI but in the end it is always the same thing...the haves against the have nots and the rich get richer and the poor get poorer especially when the Republicans take over and the wealth becomes concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. The government is supposed to represent and protect the people from the corporations but right now it is the other way around....

Brian H. Appleton

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Rasool Aryadust

Ignorance

As long as people are uneducated, emotional, fanatics, ignorant, big corporations, special interest group as well as world powers will benefit from it – to put it differently, smarts and powerful will always dominate/rule

Anything About IR, Doctor?

Any ideas pertaining to what is happening to the revenues from oil and other natural resources in the "independent" Islamic Republic? Is it true that anuualy tens of billions of dollars from such revenues somehow evaporate without any trace? What do you prescribe for Iranians, Doctor?

"corporate leaders must be arrested"

 "their wealth confiscated for their crimes against humanity"

Easy Tiger!

Let us first "arrest and confiscate the welth" of Khamenei, rafsanjani, ahmadinezhad, et al who actually are directly responsible for the murder of Iranain people and theft of their oil wealth, you so nicely depicted in the accompanying picture.

As for the "corporate leaders" I postpone commenting until I seek legal advice on matters regarding "arrest" and "wealth confiscation" of "corporate leaders" in the USA whom I gather to be the biggest part of the problem, according to your blog.....

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

Blaming others

Corporations as well as world powers are certainly not blameless. But the PRIMARY blame falls on us alone. WE are responsible, far more than foreigners, for what has and is happening in OUR country.

The Islamic Republic (or any other regime) is DIRECTLY responsible for the crimes committed against the people. Protesters in the street were killed by IRANIAN security forces, critics and activists have not been executed or jailed or silenced by foreigners.

As long as we don't take responsibility for our own actions, nothing will change.

Good points.

Here is a different point of view on the wests pursuit of democracy and rule of law for oil producing countrys.

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