Eurasia’s Middle Corridor: An Atlanticist frenzy to stifle Europe-Asia integration
By Mathew Ehret, 2 jan 2023, full article as PDF below, original post here: https://thecradle.co/Article/Analysis/19949
Why didn’t Russia and Ukraine properly resolve their border issues in 1991?
Essay by Alexander Nepogodin, Odessa-born political journalist, expert on Russia and the USSR. Gorbachev advisor, Georgy Shakhnazarov (October 1991): “If Ukraine announces its withdrawal from the [Soviet] Union, Crimea will secede from Ukraine and become a part of […]
The ‘Holodomor’ Myth
“There was a very serious famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the Ukrainian SSR, in 1932-33. But there has never been any evidence of a “Holodomor” or “deliberate famine” “ by Grover Furr. Full article […]
Hegemonic neoliberalism: a historic re-evaluation
Tim Anderson, December 2022, in JAPE #90, full PDF below, first published here: https://www.ppesydney.net/content/uploads/2022/12/3_Anderson.pdf A linked video presentation on this topic is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWVkucZdxqI&t=16s
The High Moral Ground
Presentation by the Countess of Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice, and The Cradle https://thecradle.co
The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire at The Atlantic, source here: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/ The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with. China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive […]
Sanctions, SWIFT, and China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payments System
In the wake of unpredicted sanctions levied against Russia, will China be able to advance its own efforts to challenge US dollar dominance and promote alternatives to SWIFT? While its progress has been limited to date, how might dynamics […]
Al-Haq: Palestinian Coalition Report: ‘Israeli Apartheid: Tool of Zionist Settler Colonialism’
“A decolonisation approach is central to the present report, which situates apartheid within the broader context of Zionist settler colonialism.” From 29 November 2022 original post here: https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20931.html Full report as PDF below: Leading Palestinian civil society organisations, […]
Did Hezbollah suffer a setback in Lebanon’s 2022 election?
Joe Macaron in The New Arab, 23 May 2022. Original post here: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/did-hezbollah-suffer-setback-lebanons-election Analysis: Hezbollah’s electoral power has diminished nationally but the group’s influence remains entrenched in every aspect of the Lebanese system. Western and Arab media are […]
Study on U.S. wars: most recent interventions have been “in countries with higher levels of democracy”
The Military Intervention Project: A New Dataset on US Military Interventions, 1776–2019Sidita Kushi and Monica Duffy Toft. Original post here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00220027221117546 Full article here: Abstract While scholars have made many claims about US military interventions, they have not […]
How ‘targeted’ U.S. illegal sanctions on Syria become attacks on entire sectors like health, education, transport.
Excerpt from Rania Khalek’s interview with UN expert Alena Douhan. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_W6Z8Q77kA
Peter Beinart of ‘Jewish Currents’ leads the charge to ‘cancel’ Palestinian American journalist
By Mnar Adley and Alan McLeod, first published here: https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-beinart-leads-charge-cancel-palestinian-american-journalist-mnar-adley/282695/ The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine
by Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, first published here: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/dr-tim-anderson-on-his-intellectual-freedom-court-victory-and-slow-genocide-in-palestine/ Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer […]
Federal Court recognises right to intellectual freedom in NTEU and Anderson v University of Sydney
CCHS, 28 October 2021 Following the full bench decision of the Australian Federal Court (2021), Justice Tom Thawley has found on every count for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Dr Tim Anderson in their case against […]
Achievements of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Improving the Status of Women and the Family
The Government of Iran defends its record on advances in the status of women and the family The UNDP backs some of this, having charted (in 2013 and 2018) superior human development (income, education and health) advances in […]
The real terror network: terrorism in fact and propaganda
Classic from 1982 by the late Edward S. Herman
Book: Rise and Kill First: the 2,000+ terrorist murders of Mossad
by Ronen Bergman 2018. Israeli journalist exposes 2,000+ terrorist murders by Mossad
The “Holodomor” and the Film “Bitter Harvest” are Fascist Lies
by Grover Furr, first published in 2017 here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/ Author’s note: In this article I rely heavily on the evidence cited in the research of Mark Tauger of West Virginia University. Tauger has spent his professional life studying […]
Australian Universities’ Union the NTEU takes a stand to support Palestinian rights, BDS and an end to Israeli Apartheid.
The resolution below, the NTEU website is here: https://www.nteu.au Some reactions:
Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the Ansarallah Government in Northern Yemen
By Mohammed Almahfali & James Root, original post here: https://sanaacenter.org/publications/analysis/9050 IntroductionAnsar Allah, the armed movement from Yemen’s north widely known as the Houthis, drove the internationally recognized Yemeni government out of the capital, Sana’a, in 2014, and since […]
Iranian Hijab: Working-class symbol in an anti-imperialist class war
by Janna al Kadri, first published at Al Maydeen, here: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/the-iranian-hijab:-a-working-class-symbol-in-an-anti-imperia The manipulation of human rights in Western media has long been used to push for an agenda of regime change. This article explains why Iran’s revolution constitutes […]
CCTV and Report on the Death of Mahsa Amini & Ensuing Events, by Human Rights Council of Iran
CCTV is from September 2022, Reports are from October 2022 Iranian CCTV video of Ms Mahsa Amini fainting and receiving paramedic attention: “These riots had been planned. If the incident with the young girl had not taken place, […]
Syrian and Palestine: a Palestinian perspective
by Amal Wahdan, Ramallah During the last aggression on Gaza, of May 2021 President Bashar Al Assad called the Palestinian factions to a meeting to discuss the “The Jerusalem Sword” military operation, its lessons and ramifications. He praised […]
Yarmouk: how the CIA helped jihadist rebels invade the capital of the Palestinian diaspora
by William Van Wagenen | Apr 3, 2019, also published here: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-destruction-of-yarmouk/ Introduction The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria was thrust into international conscientiousness in March 2014 when the United Nations published the now iconic image of “thousands of Palestinians waiting amid […]