N Azarpira

PhD Candidate Islamic Economics & Finance — Economic Consultant & Analyst

[N Azarpira @n_azarpira]

The concept of compound interest applies to EVERYTHING. Investments, Career Choices, Social Issues, Development etc. Invest in the future.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Imagine if Iran started bombing New York's Long Island.

Would any media outlet in the world describe it is "defensive in nature"?

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

The US started a war of aggression against Iran on Feb 28th.

US-Israeli strikes have killed thousands of Iranians.

The US empire has been at war for 90+ percent of its history. NONE of its wars since WW2 have been "defense".

Words have meaning. But to US neocon war propagandists, they are merely another weapon to wield and spin in the quest for full-spectrum dominance.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US is bombing Iran again, as part of a blatant war of aggression started by Trump.

The entire US corporate media is obediently spreading Pentagon propaganda calling this a "defensive" operation.

By definition, it can't be defensive. It's an illegal, offensive US war.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

So, Israel (a nuclear-armed state) is pushing the U.S. (a nuclear-armed state) to nuke Iran (not a nuclear-armed state) because Iran is a “nuclear threat.���

It’s the same logic that tells you genocide is “self-defense.”

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

A reminder of why Julian Assange was persecuted and targeted by the US for over a decade:

Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US Apache helicopter opens fire.

Reuters journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen were gunned down, several others were killed while the US pilots laughed.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

This is what @Macklemore is protesting, btw.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Pay attention to how propaganda is cobstructed:

The US just deliberately bombed an Iranian wedding party, but somehow the BBC has managed to make Iran sound like the aggressor.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

ANTI-ZIONISM PROTECTED BY UK LAW

We have set a binding legal precedent!

Anti-Zionism is now a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010. Full stop.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal finally handed down its judgment this morning. The University of Bristol’s attempt to overturn my 2024 Employment Tribunal victory has been comprehensively dismissed. We won on every single count.

This is a public humiliation for the genocidal Zionist regime, whose assets in Britain bullied the University into sacking me and then dragged them into this futile appeal. Their legal strategy has collapsed. Their pressure campaign has spectacularly backfired.

Thanks to everyone who believed in me and supported me. This is a victory for the whole anti-Zionist movement.

A full statement will follow shortly.

From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸

#DismantleZionism

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Indigenous leaders of La Paz, Bolivia: We don't want dialogue or negotiation with those who have our blood on their hands, we'll be at the barricades until the President is gone.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1830, the US ruling class passed the Indian Removal Act, legalising the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Americans from their ancestral homelands. Thousands were killed as this crime was carried out. One of the most evil and disgraceful acts in US history.

[Rethinking Economics @rethinkecon]

As fascism rises across the world - what role can economics play in resisting?

Explore just that - read the first in our Anti-fascist Economics articles series: https://t.co/djZBVtU5zn

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

This is Lord Rothemere, founder and owner of the Daily Mail, with Adolf Hitler in 1937

Rothemere deeply admired Hitler - and his paper supported the Nazi dictator

The Rothemere family still owns the Mail. Target is no longer Jews. Now, it's Muslims and immigrants. Same hate tho

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The US does not care about the people of Iran. It does not care about democracy, or political freedom, or human rights, at all. Zero. It is pure propaganda.

Remember, the US orchestrated a coup against Iran's democratic Prime Minister in 1953, and propped up a dictator who ruled as a stooge of the US and brutally repressed political dissent for the next 26 years. That's how much they care about democracy and political freedom in Iran.

Now the US is imposing sanctions that are *explicitly* designed to starve and immiserate ordinary people. And they want to do an illegal invasion in order to crush Iran's sovereignty and install the son of the previous dictator as a literal monarch, who will run the country as a playground for US capitalists.

All this in the name of "democracy" and "freedom". The absurdity is so extreme you couldn't make it up if you tried.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨We Don't Want Peace, We Want Dominance

The world does not want to be led by a, a few crazy Americans.

The main goal of the United States was to make sure that there would not be a German-Russian economic relationship.

"The most natural fit in the world of economies is Russia and Germany."

The Cold War was not necessary, it could have ended at any time based on neutrality and security, collective security in Europe, which of course, the United States rejected.

[Laurie Macfarlane @L__Macfarlane]

Economics was born from political economy, which itself emerged from moral philosophy.

The question of who gets what, and why, has always been inseparable from ethical judgments — even if much of modern economics pretends otherwise.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“Imperialism is a system that must be destroyed, because it is the root of the suffering of our peoples.”

— Hugo Chávez

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

A lot of people seem unaware of the achievements of the socialists in Venezuela 🇻🇪 before US sanctions wrecked the economy. Here's a rundown by the numbers (taken from the United Nations and quoted in my book, "Bad News From Venezuela, 20 Years of Fake News and Misreporting"):

GDP per capita:

1999: $5150
2012: $6434

Poverty:

1999: 49.4%
2012: 25.4%

Extreme Poverty:

1999: 17.9%
2012: 7.1%

Unemployment:

1999: 15.0%
2012: 8.1%

School Enrollment:

1999: under 50%
2012: Almost 75%

Undernourished population:

2000-2002: 3.8 million
2010-2012: "Not statistically significant number" [i.e.: close to zero]

Doctors per 10,000 inhabitants:

1998: 18
2012: 58

Number of free health clinics built, 1999-2012:

7,000

Number of people receiving old age pensions:

1999: 0.39 million
2012: 2.1 million

During the years of Hugo Chavez (1999-2012/2013), the government built a nationalized healthcare and education system from scratch. In 2005, UNESCO declared Venezuela free of illiteracy.

This doesn't mean everything was perfect by any means, but the gigantic and extraordinary successes the country was making attracted academics, statisticians, and epidemiologists from around the world to study it. Indeed, in 2013, the UN awarded Venezuela special recognition in combatting poverty and achieving rapid human development.

They were able to do this because Chavez nationalized the country's resources (oil) and used the profits to fund social programs, rather than enrich foreign billionaires.

It was precisely this threat of a good example that precipitated a massive US economic blockade of the country, which crippled the economy, and led to mass emigration and hardship. The United States is and was terrified that such a successful example of socialism would inspire people across the planet into believing a better world is possible.

[The American Conservative @amconmag]

John Mearsheimer says President Trump is "pursuing a reckless foreign policy" in Venezuela:

"This demonstrates that the US is a rogue state. This has nothing to do with the Monroe Doctrine. Basically what Trump is doing here is overthrowing a government he doesn't like."

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

The world is in a very dark moment. From Gaza to Ukraine to Venezuela the powerful do as they want to further their economic interests, destroying the entire edifice of the international rule of law created in the wake of the Holocaust to ensure ‘Never Again’. The financialisation of politics has led to captured states controlled by monied interests, killing and immiserating millions. Democratic rights & freedoms are being trampled, especially in the ‘West’. 2026 has to be the year of maximum resistance against this oligarchic, psychopathic, corrupt & authoritarian order.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

That moment when Hugo Chávez completely shut down former U.S. CIA asset and now “Nobel Peace Prize” hopeful María Corina Machado:

"You called me a thief in front of the country, I won't cause you offence. An eagle doesn't hunt flies, Congresswoman."

Presidente Hugo Chavez