From al Manar, 30 August 2020: http://english.almanar.com.lb/1130384 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah delivered a speech on the 10th of Muharram in which he tackled local and regional developments as he expressed that “this year the 10th day […]
Translation of an important article at al Akhbar, on the betrayal by Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Beshara Rai, who is now openly identified with Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces (which gained 9% of the national vote in the 2018 […]
How Amnesty International has become embedded in Washington’s campaign against China, through interventions in the politics of Hong Kong. 14 Aug 2020. Laura Ruggeri is an Italian national and resident of Hong Kong. In June 2018 five law […]
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former East Germany remembers the deliberate, immediate destruction of industry and jobs for the profit of West German firms and money-makers. East Germans still want to know how […]
Postwar West Germany helped build the new state of Israel, and had an important and little-known role in shaping the modern Middle East. But its early efforts to make amends often revealed old sentiments.
The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]
‘Trump’s Armistice Demands: the trade war against China has entered fever pitch’. This article is from Eddie Cheong, translation of an article from the Global Times written in Chinese, August 2020 The White House has announced that if […]
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz. Full PDF […]
Abstract:This article examines the peer-to-peer dynamics of Washington political journalists as Communities of Practice (CoPs) to better understand how journalists connect to and learn from each other and establish conventional knowledge. We employ inductive computational analysis that combines […]
15 August 2020 speech by Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, translated by Haidar Akarar. [https://vk.com/haidarakarar]. See also al Manar here: http://english.almanar.com.lb/1116766 While we are used to celebrating the divine victory of 2006 war with public celebrations, it’s not possible this […]
Detailed Spanish language report on the work of Cuban Medical Brigades from 1963 to 2020. English language abstract below. Full PDF report below, original post here: https://www.alainet.org/es/articulo/208384 “This work addresses the main milestones in the history of Cuban […]
“Erdogan is using Turkey’s monuments and worshipping places as new cards in a longer term game he has been conducting to win not only extra regional admirers but also cross continental roles, in his capacity as ‘Sultan of […]
A compact history of how the colonial powers created a divided Lebanon , the partisan Special Tribunal for Lebanon STL , the Beirut port explosion and the role of Israel in the country’s miseries. “Lebanon remains trapped in the mire of 1943. It is not a […]
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, January 2008 “Uyghur Muslim violence in Xinjiang, China, has two justifications—ethnic separatism and religious rhetoric. The Uyghurs, who reside throughout the immediate region, are the largest Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang […]
“Numerous videos that claim to show members of China’s Uighur Muslim minority being mistreated, arrested and tortured have been circulating on social media over the past few weeks. Although there is proof that the Chinese government is persecuting […]
“The threat of coronavirus should kindle global cooperation, not a new cold war.” The Guardian, full article below, original post here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/03/covid-19-cold-war-china-western-governments-international-peace “From the very beginning of this pandemic, legitimate questions have been asked about what Chinese authorities […]
“Propaganda studies can help to widen and deepen the reach of existing political communication research. It can do so by alerting us to the wide range of actors involved in propaganda production and dissemination, including governments, academics, NGOs, […]
“In recent years, the AFL-CIO has explicitly sought to shed its Cold Warrior image and portray itself as solely interested in the nonpartisan promotion of workers’ rights … former president John Sweeney … “forced several of the AFL-CIO’s […]
“The Swedish strategy on the Covid-19 has resulted in conclusive failure … defeat in the international epidemiological forum … an ethical defeat … causig thousands of unnecessary deaths … [and] losses in international prestige and credibility … [this] […]
Tim and Jay interview Lebanese academic and media commentator Dr Marwa Osman on the crisis in Lebanon. 3 August 2020. Online here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvpUvVBeUFA
Counter Hegemonic Chat #6. Tim and Jay discuss the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and its roots with Mia Shouha, graduate student who wrote a thesis on this matter and has traveled extensively in the region. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou-40UBY8NU&t=2901s
CCHS Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nA5yMLWqo&t=3241s Tim Anderson and Jay Tharappel discuss the US-backed Kurdish separatist movement in north Syria, at first called the YPG, a branch of the Turkish PKK, in 2015 rebadged as the ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) […]
A rebuke to the Trump regime, from the WP Editorial Board. July 21, 2020. Original post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/our-maximum-pressure-on-iran-failed–unless-the-goal-was-to-help-china/2020/07/20/484ae90a-c847-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html THE TRUMP administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has manifestly failed to achieve either its stated or unstated aims: It […]
“In late January … health workers knew to watch for precisely three symptoms: fever, cough, and shortness of breath. But as the number of infections climbed, the symptom list began to grow. Some patients lost their sense of […]
“Lebanese parties are convinced that no one can prevent the Resistance from exercising its right to respond to enemy crimes. As a result, it can be concluded that the enemy – its government, army, media and monitors – […]