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Cyprus’s opposition leader Stefanos Stefanou has made a big claim on Israeli property purchases in the country, calling it a serious security risk. Pointed t...YouTube
نوام چامسکی فیلسوف و زبانشناس آنارشیست یکی از بزرگترین منتقدان سیاستهای خارجی ایالات متحده است. چامسکی که اکنون بالای نود سال سن دارد یکی از مهمترین و صادقترین صداهای آزادیخواه در جهان است. چامسکی در رابطه با حکومت ایران نظراتی صریح و واقعگرایانه دارد و به عنوان یک یهودی نیز مخالف اسرائیل است. در متن پیش رو من به دیپسیک اعلام کردم که در نقش نوام چامسکی با من مصاحبه کند.
«اگر آمریکا واقعاً به دموکراسی در ایران علاقه داشت، ابتدا باید از حمایت از دیکتاتوریهایی مثل عربستان دست بردارد!»
- مثال: اگر ایران مستقیماً با اسرائیل بجنگد، خطر نابودی کامل وجود دارد. اما حزبالله به عنوان یک نیروی فشار غیرمستقیم عمل میکند.
🔴 از دیدگاه حقوق بشری: خیر.
🟢 از دیدگاه واقعگرایی سیاسی: یک بازی بقا
- آمریکا از گروههای کرد در سوریه حمایت میکند.
- اسرائیل از جبهه النصره (تروریستهای سابق) در سوریه حمایت کرده است.
✅ پایان جنگ نیابتی نیازمند دو شرط است:
«وقتی ابرقدرتها بازی میکنند، مردم خاورمیانه مُهرههای شطرنج هستند. آیا کسی از مُهرهها میپرسد که آیا مایلند قربانی شوند؟»
چامسکی:
«هیچ کشوری—از جمله ایران—حق ندارد با بازی جان مردم، امپراتوری بسازد. بله، آمریکا بزرگترین تروریست جهانی است. بله، واشنگتن از عربستان تا اسرائیل را مسلح میکند تا خاورمیانه را تجزیه کند. اما آیا این، دولت ایران را مجاز میکند که با حمایت از شبهنظامیان در یمن، سوریه یا لبنان، خود به نقض حاکمیت ملی و کشتار غیرنظامیان دست بزند؟ قطعاً نه.»
چامسکی:
«۱. آمریکا باید تحریمها را لغو کند و خروج نظامی از منطقه را آغاز نماید—اینها جرقههای جنگ هستند.
۲. ایران باید از جنگ نیابتی دست بردارد—حزبالله و انصارالله ابزارهای امنیتی نیستند، بلکه بمبهای ساعتیاند که فقرا را منفجر میکنند.
۳. صلح واقعی نیازمند کنگرههای مردمی است، نه توافق ژنرالها. اگر مردم ایران و عربستان و یمن بتوانند دور از دخالت خارجی تصمیم بگیرند، این بازی خونین پایان مییابد.»
چامسکی:
«مقاومت در برابر امپریالیسم فضیلت است، اما وقتی به بهانهٔ آن، خود به جان مردم منطقه افتادید، دیگر شما هم بخشی از مشکلید.»
چامسکی:
«واقعبینانه؟ واقعیت این است که اسرائیل با حمایت بیقیدوشرط آمریکا، یک رژیم آپارتاید مدرن ساخته است. راه حل؟ اول باید دروغهای مسلط را کنار بگذاریم:
۱. "هیچ شریکی برای صلح وجود ندارد"؟ دروغ محض. اسناد افشاشده نشان میدهند که OLP بارها پیشنهادهای معقول داده، اما اسرائیل و آمریکا رد کردهاند.
۲. "اسرائیل حق دفاع از خود را دارد"؟ دفاع از چه؟ از سرزمینهای دزدیدهشده؟ از محاصرهٔ غزه که بزرگترین زندان باز جهان است؟
راه حل من (که هیچ قدرتی نمیخواهد بشنود):
✅ ۱. اجرای قطعنامههای بینالمللی (مثل ۲۴۲):
✅ ۲. حق بازگشت آوارگان فلسطینی:
✅ ۳. دولت واحد دموکراتیک (آیا جسارت دارید؟):
چامسکی:
«آمریکا هم هرگز به الغای بردهداری رضایت نمیداد—تا زمانی که جنبشهای مردمی آن را اجبار کردند. مسئله "امکانپذیری" نیست، مسئله توازن قوا است. امروز BDS (تحریم اسرائیل) تنها ابزار مبارزهٔ مسالمتآمیز جهانی است... و به همین دلیل است که ۳۵ ایالت آمریکا قوانین ضد-BDS تصویب کردهاند! چون میترسند.»
چامسکی:
نه، "نابودی اسرائیل" هیچگاه راهحل من نبوده و نیست. این یک سوءتفاهم خطرناک از مواضع من است. آنچه من—و بسیاری از فعالان حقوق بشر—خواستار آن هستیم، نابودی سیاستهای آپارتاید و استعمارگری اسرائیل است، نه نابودی مردم یهودی به عنوان یک ملت.
- آیا الغای آپارتاید در آفریقای جنوبی به معنای "نابودی سفیدپوستان" بود؟ خیر. به معنای پایان حکومت نژادپرستانه بود.
- اسرائیل امروز یهودیسالارتر از آفریقای جنوبیِ سفیدسالار بود. آیا این قابل دفاع است؟
- یهودیان نیز مانند همهی مردم حق دارند در امنیت زندگی کنند، اما نه به قیمت:
- پاکسازی قومی فلسطینیان در ۱۹۴۸ (النکبه)
- شهرکسازیهای غیرقانونی در کرانهٔ باختری
- تحتالحمایگی نظامی فلسطین
- الف) دولت واحد دموکراتیک (از رود تا دریا) با حقوق برابر برای همه (یهودی، مسیحی، مسلمان، بیدین).
- ب) اگر دو دولت، باید واقعی باشد:
- فلسطین مستقل با مرزهای ۱۹۶۷ و قدس شرقی به عنوان پایتخت.
- حق بازگشت آوارگان بر اساس قطعنامهی ۱۹۴.
- هیچکدام از اینها به معنای "پرتاب یهودیان به دریا" نیست.
چامسکی:
۱. ریشههای دشمنی ایران و اسرائیل:
۲. آیا این دشمنی توجیه دارد؟
- از تهدید نظامی مستقیم بکاهد (اسرائیل بمبافکنهای اتمی دارد، ایران ندارد).
- در بحرانهایی مانند جنگ سوریه، موازنهٔ قوا ایجاد کند.
- شعار "نابودی اسرائیل" نهتنها غیرعملی است، بلکه بهانهای به دست صهیونیستها میدهد تا سرکوب فلسطینیان را تشدید کنند.
- سیاستهای نژادپرستانهٔ اسرائیل باید محکوم شود، اما تهدید وجودی یک ملت (هرچند اشغالگر) قابل دفاع نیست.
۳. چرا ایران به روابط پیش از انقلاب بازنمیگردد؟
۴. راهحل چیست؟
- شعارهای تخریبگرایانه را کنار بگذارد و بر حقوق فلسطینیان متمرکز شود (نه نابودی اسرائیل).
- از دیپلماسی غیرنظامی برای فشار به اسرائیل استفاده کند (مثل حمایت از دادگاههای بینالمللی).
- آپارتاید را پایان دهد و به قطعنامههای سازمان ملل پایبند باشد.
"ایران امروز با شعارهای افراطیاش، نهتنها به فلسطینیان کمکی نکرده، بلکه بهانهای به دست نتانیاهو داده است تا خشونتها را تشدید کند. مقاومت در برابر اشغالگری مشروع است، اما باید عاقلانه و اخلاقی باشد."
چامسکی:
صلح ممکن است، اما نه تحت شرایط کنونی.
امید تنها زمانی زنده میماند که سه توهم مرگبار را کنار بگذاریم:
✅ در جنبشهای مردمی فرامرزی:
✅ در تغییر توازن قوا:
✅ در آلترناتیوهای عملی:
جملهٔ پایانی:
"صلح محال نیست، اما نیازمند شجاعتی است که سیاستمداران امروز ندارند—شجاعتِ به رسمیت شناختن ظلمی که خود مرتکب شدهاند. تاریخ نشان داده تغییر تنها زمانی میآید که مردم، قدرتها را مجبور کنند."
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Meanwhile, remember when San Francisco's "Mission Control" had not yet been moved to Oakland and definitely before "Mission Control" had been appropriated by a something erroneously claiming itself as SF's first "Hacker House"?
Does Unicorn Precinct 13 mean nothing to those people?
JFC.
It's a small world, and the people who were co-creating the prior art which the n00bz seem to be erroneously overwriting aren't dead yet.
Ah well, SNAFU, still on the worst timelines, apparently.
A sign of pushback, finally?
The County Tyrone village of Moygashel in Northern Ireland has adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards beneath the boat stating: “Stop the boats” and “Veterans before refugees”.
The police have been told that there is a very real prospect of serious and sustained disorder should there be any effort to remove the bonfire.
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I cannot help but admire the robust statement of the people in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel who have adorned their ritual bonfire with an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen lifesize mannequins with lifejackets, with placards benea…Richard North (Turbulent Times)
I gently remind those who think conquering the West is a push-over that they are dealling with the scions of the mud and blood, shit-stained barbarians that toppled Rome and everyone else that drew their focus.
Their current civility only exists because their barbarism was so destructive. Raised to temper your nature doesn't mean its gone, just buried, unhealthily deep. It has taken a ling time to lull it to sleep. Don't toy with the tail of a sleeping tiger.
Jurisdiction Is Nearly Irrelevant to the Security of Encrypted Messaging Apps
Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topic without worrying too much about tertiary matters. Here's the TL;DR: If you actually built your cryptography properly, you shouldn't give a shit which country hosts the ciphertext for your…
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Every time I lightly touch on this point, I always get someone who insists on arguing with me about it, so I thought it would be worth making a dedicated, singular-focused blog post about this topi…Dhole Moments
"NSA’s Tailored Access Operations is specifically chartered to hack foreign targets (and not domestic ones) for intelligence purposes. By hosting your metadata outside the USA, you’re putting it in scope of the more skilled government-employed hackers."
I do concur with that threat analysis!
"But Tor is a low-latency anonymity network designed for web traffic."
I do not concur with that.
There are reasons Tor is implemented as a SOCKS proxy.
Conflating the Tor Browser Bundle with Tor itself, isn't great?
Admittedly, while I am not a Tor developer, I have known Tor devs in plurality. I have co-habitated and worked with some of them elsewhere. Roger Dingledine crashed on my couch once upon a time, back when I had couches to offer as crash space to others; instead of years of homelessness as in more recent years (decade+?).
It's true that an egregious amount of traffic is web based though; so the Tor Browser Bundle is probably how a lot of folks ever use and/or encounter Tor in practice. Kind of orthogonal to the rest of your discourse.
Having written as much, I think even Roger would be the first to admit that Tor isn't a panacea. It attempts to provide a layer of anonymity predominantly at the IP (v4) layer. There are many other potential pitfalls, even for Tor users.
Giving a shit about which country (or more broadly; I would be concerned about NGOs) might be storing your data is probably still wise? It never sat well with me that Facebook would flag OTR traffic over XMPP as "encrypted message" in their WebUI. To me that screamed: "we are logging your data for future attacks."
Screenshot for reference: flickr.com/photos/artkiver/436…
As if (m)any users ever used OTR over Facebook's XMPP implementation in the first place! sigh
Which is a long winded way of saying: If Facebook/Meta Messenger claims to use the same Axolotl/Double Ratchet Algorithm utilized by Signal (and WhatsApp) and they have already previously demonstrated that they are actively logging ciphertext for potential future offline attacks, they seem to be showing everyone who should know better, that they are to be considered hostile, regardless of what nation state identity they may claim and whether the traffic hitting Facebook/Meta's servers from its ciphertext users ever leaves a nation state level border? It's totally inconsequential as a result. They should be treated as a Mallory.
Everything about Signal rubs me (and many others in the know; though I had a positively enlightening conversation over dinner with someone I met at REcon last month in Montreal who has, for reasons that remain mostly mysterious to me though grokked by someone else at the dinner table, unofficially and repeatedly backported various Signal versions to run on Windows 7 and dug into it more deeply and recently than I would ever care to [e.g. exfiltrated.com/download/signa… ]) the wrong way, and I was cajoled into running Signal when it was still called TextSecure and RedPhone.
I'd love to see you explore something such as SILC (which attempted to defend against malicious server operators, a threat model which is real and still denied by most/all end-to-end encrypted comms systems entirely) or better yet, PSYC2.
I have only encountered one detractor of SILC, who while not particularly outspoken (quite the opposite) was a former coworker of mine with some skills. Unfortunately, that individual has been less than communicative with me after I emailed about a laptop that was gifted to me by that same individual, having had a (U)EFI backdoor that took me considerable time and effort and expense to identify and remediate; just to give you an idea of the level of threats with which I have already contended by those professing to be allies.
I am a terrible judge of character, and much to my own detriment, have given folks the benefit of the doubt, even given past transgressions, since I acknowledge humans make mistakes, and we can learn from such situations! However, some things (at a level below most OSes at a minimum) seem to speak for themselves.
Oh yeah, updating because I meant to mention the deeply dystopian copaganda perspective (perhaps Devil's advocate) of assigning detention time based upon cryptographic key length as posited by Poul-Henning Kamp here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3703126 (direct link to 308KB PDF here: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/370…). That certainly isn't a world in which I would ever want to exist, but we already have a planet with fuckwits who have come up with "smart" contracts on the blockchain as an idiotic methodology to try to absolve themselves of attorneys?
Far be it from me to think highly of the "law" given that I was incarnated in a country which seems to have a so-called "justice" system which seems to be predominantly preoccupied with perpetuating carceral slavery in the 21st century, going so far as to apparently have over 90% of its inmates having never even had a jury trial (so much for "due process"!) but there are a lot of individuals with power and riches who likes things as they are, and would probably love a more punitive system as PHK seems to be advocating when it comes to encrypted comms systems. Just as there are, quite obviously from the headlines, governments (e.g. the UK) which are bullying private enterprises (e.g. Apple) into cryptographic backdoors (that will never end well yet they're doing it anyway!).
Having written as much, I think it's rather telling that while PHK pioneered the horridly named "jails" subsystem within FreeBSD, that Apple rather presciently (or more likely, because jkh [Jordan Hubbard], FreeBSD co-founder and also previously "Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies" at Apple for over a dozen years, leaving in 2013 sometime after Steve Jobs passed away [Jordan was CTO at iXSystems while I consulted for them around the same time]) decided not to integrate jails into OS X. Containers may be useful to some degree (Apple certainly eventually implemented their own Hypervisor Framework as an example in related realms), but words matter and PHK seems to have what is, from my vantage, and unhealthy obsession with "rule of law" nomenclature both in FreeBSD's jails subsystem, as well as that ACM writing to which I linked. I've never visited Denmark, maybe every cop and judge is honest there, but here in the USA, ACAB and judges are more likely to be "on the take" than benevolent and unfortunately that must be taken into account with threat modeling as well.
Adding encryption and privacy to facebook chat, two IM clients at a time, thanks to OTR! (one end using bitlbee-otr the other using Adium).Flickr
Italy opens Ukraine rebuilding conference as doubts of US defense help remain
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Tony Blair and the disgusting capitalist fantasy for Gaza | Counterfire
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Kevin Crane dissects the absurd and chilling corporate fantasies around a post-war Gaza, where the involvement of Blair brings it all back to the lies of the Iraq War over twenty years ago Last week, 170 humanitarian and human-rights groups, inclu…Counterfire
There were at least four Gabriel Knight games but one of them was a remake of the first one
The first one was about solving a voodoo ritualistic sacrifice murder case
Thefirst one is highly educational and teaches about the history of voodoo or hoodoo
I strongly recommend playing or watching a let's play video of the first one and it's remake
There can be a large amount of hours listening to people talk about voodoo whej you interview them
They make it entertaing and use good voice actors
Somalia, DR Congo and Yemen among states forced to sign deals and barter their minerals for aid or military supportMark Townsend (The Guardian)
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
This is the mainstream-est of mainstream 'serious' newspapers in Austria:
❞The tangled and confused world of the rationalists: How a group of tech-philosophers turned murderers❝
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Wirre Welt der Rationalisten: Wie eine Gruppe Tech-Philosophen zu Mördern wurde https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000278547/wirre-welt-der-rationalisten-wie-eine-gruppe-tech-philosophen-zu-moerdern-wurde?ref=mastodonMastodon
How America’s Godless Made a Thunder God Out of a Mortal ClownI saw someone on Reddit shrug: “The thing is, he’s actually responsible for stuff. He’s the pre...YouTube
Sharon Graham’s supporters force through neutralising ‘statement’ – delegates urged to defeat it tomorrow so motions are heard In what Unite conference delegates have descri…SKWAWKBOX
And Albanese treats US mafia intimidation with contempt it deserves Human rights expert and former United Nations director Craig Mokhiber has slammed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s decis…SKWAWKBOX
It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.
Public Sector Fraud Authority to look into loans taken out by James McMurdock during pandemicNadeem Badshah (The Guardian)
As scores of people – including medical staff and their families – have reportedly been killed in the past week, UN health partners in Gaza continue to provide emergency care despite very limited resources.www.globalissues.org
The Take: Is direct action for Palestine ‘terrorism’? The UK says it is
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The UK’s ‘terrorist’ listing of the Palestine Action group puts pro-Palestine protests and free speech at risk.Al Jazeera
@teajaygrey Wow. Thanks for taking the time to dig that up.
Forwarding the post for anyone else who might be curious.
You are more than welcome!
I had the good fortune to meet bunnie in person at REcon around two decades ago and took a hardware hacking class (back when the Chumby was still in prototype stage) from him at ToorCon as well. We last crossed paths in person in SF probably circa 2010?
I was hoping to see him (and even contemplated bringing a first edition self published "Hacking the Xbox" book for him to sign just in case, but decided I didn't want to lug the extra mass in transit on just a chance), and a bunch of other old familiar faces at REcon this year for the 20th anniversary but aside from Hugo, almost everyone was new to me!
I have been "out of the loop" for a very long time though; I think the last tangential event I attended was Chaos Communications Camp circa 2011?
So for me, a blog post from 2010 probably is still fresher in my neurons. ;)
Maybe I'll catch back to -CURRENT one of these days?
I've got more menial Maslow's hierarchy of needs layers to address first (I seem to have been stuck on the physiological needs being unsatisfactory for well over a decade as well) before loftier ideals! Still seemingly stuck in a "survival" mode. My suspicion: I will require a new (non human) incarnation to transcend my current corporeal maladies.
The US Supreme Court issued an 8-1 order on Tuesday—without addressing the constitutionality of the issue—that allows the Trump administration to proceed with the destruction of government agencies and the firing of tens of thousands of federal emplo…World Socialist Web Site
Bullies and cowards who don't like the truth
"Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, a Mazatec Indigenous community in Oaxaca, Mexico, has been defending its river from gravel and sand dredgers for over a decade. As a well-organized and determined force, the community has endured unprecedented repression, including criminalization, torture, displacement, imprisonment, and violence. Now, the community faces a new attack — 200 trumped-up charges against 56 residents, among them teachers, farmers, mothers, and the elderly. The trumped-up charges are meant to relate to a conflict in the region in 2014."
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#Mexico #Oaxaca #Indigenous #environment
Fifty-six residents of an Indigenous Oaxaca community face 200 trumped-up charges for resisting mining in their rivers.Tamara Pearson (Truthout)
Cam Schlittler brings heat and hope to Yankees in winning MLB debut
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Donald Trump’s budget essentially hands an exclusive contract to Anduril.The New Republic
ICE agents are using the shady online blacklist Canary Mission to target student protesters.The New Republic
French police raid far-right National Rally headquarters in finance probe
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Asian shares mostly gain after big tech rally on Wall Street
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Despite the closure, officials say the marijuana industry has provided economic value to Lansing.Rachel Fulton (WILX)
Part of a Los Angeles tunnel collapses, possibly trapping workers inside
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"just mad at myself for being upset and then feeling bad."
Been there. As a sage friend of mine once phrased it: "I eventually learned to stop beating myself up, for beating myself up."
Admittedly, I am not sure if I figured out that friend's solution for myself? His way of phrasing it was helpful framing to at least attempt to acknowledge when I am caught up in some similar mental anguish loop.
For me, changing scenery is a methodology that I find is sometimes helpful? Going for a walk in nature if possible, far away from humans and their noises is ideal! A babbling brook, raging rapids, or the moon reflected in an ocean with waves crashing seem to be fantastic for me when I can enjoy such things.
Rain drops, while soaking in some rustic hot springs far away from most signs of so-called "civilization"? Better still!
Unfortunately, it is not always easy or possible to change scenery to such realms without significant effort and often expenses.
Simpler things, such as making an herbal tisane, the meditative qualities of watching steam "peel" off the "skin" of the tea cup, help to slow down and be in the moment, a different moment than incessant negative thoughts.
Tea kettles and water and loose leaves are not always readily available.
So perhaps some headphones, and a song, or album, or something musical can be helpful, for me at least, to have another frame of reference when I am in exceedingly urban hellscapes full of human maladies.
Barring that, earplugs.
Admittedly, reducing inputs from the world around me that I find harrowing isn't the be all end all, but a starting point.
If stuck with human trappings and no good tunes are readily available, vegging out to some movies or something similar (ideally: comedic in nature if looking for levity) might be beneficial?
No doubt, if the negative thoughts are persistent (as they often are in my experience) such strategies may be of limited utility, but even temporary distractions can still be welcome in my experience.
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