iranian vegetables: INVASION!!!

US kills your president and builds a mcdonalds: FREEDOM

the article being dog shit aside, why is it always a conspiracy of “ooh the evil mullahs in the government are orchestrating a vegetable coup in the gulf” and not like “middlemen and fruit traders looking for increasing their profits try to sell their produce in richer countries”? why is it always some big conspiracy about the evil ayatollah doing imperialism through fruits?

aside from that, im against this because it’s basically only benefiting middlemen at the expense of everyone. iran is running out of water, water in tehran is being rationed and if things don’t change we’ll run out of water in october. the farmers are always forced to sell way under the real price to middle men just to pay debt from the previous year, only to go in debt for this year again. it’s fucked.

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Communism is when… food?

My stomach being invaded by food

feeding people is the most monstrous act you can do under capitalism

The US sends weapons to Israel and Saudi Arabia to be used in genocide, but OK, the real imperialism is vegetables.

Explaining the concept of imperialism to an American:

Imagine a vegetable

The previous generation did such a good job at propoganda that people would swear they werent being propogandized at all. Every article like this that comes out now feels like neanderthal, having seen homo sapien hit flint and iron together to make fire, trying to smash together two bits of quartz and being confused that it isn’t working.

The whole fucking bourgeois ideological ecosystem is utterly convinced that the person who pays money for a thing is doing a favor to the person who sells it

The California oligarchs who own the pistachio orchards contribute heavily to anti-Iran politicians and to maintain the embargo in order to increase their market share.

economist dot com lmfao

Wait till they find out what the shelves of supermarkets in these countries are normally filled with:

That’s Lulu Hypermarket, an Indian supermarket chain in WANA. Country origins are listed there for each produce but if it’s too hard to read (it is hard on mobile for sure), then just know that the produce and processed goods are imported from State Department approved states (South Africa (from white-owned farms duh), Australia, France, Norway, etc…)

OH OH and get this: some of the supermarkets are foreign-owned by European countries and they, in good ol’ foreign-investment fashion, tend to drive out local markets selling fresh produce in favor of selling exorbitant fruits and vegetables that sit there till god-knows-their-expiry-date:

• Carrefour is open in WANA (Fr*nch chain)

• Retailer SPAR to enter Middle East, eyes five markets (2013) (Dutch)

• Monoprix is open in WANA (also Fr*nch).

• Casino Group [owning Geant] expands presence in the Middle East and North Africa (2014) (also also Fr*nch)

Foreign (white) investment (driving out local chains) good, importing vegetables/fruits from a neighboring country bad… I couldn’t find any good articles on this sort of stuff since it’s not often talked about, but seeing this post I’m kinda motivated to write one myself :)

The Islamic Republic, on the other side of the Gulf, is in a serious pickle. After its war with Israel, it is more isolated than ever.

The way they write this you would think it was Iran who instigated that conflict.