CHC #7: Dr Marwa Osman, the Crisis in Lebanon
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
CHC #6 | Behind the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, with Mia Shouha
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
CHC#5 | On Syria, the Kurds, “Rojava”, and the U.S.
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) […]
‘Our ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran failed — unless the goal was to help China’, Washington Post
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 […]
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus – we were wrong, by Ariel Bleicher and Katherine Conrad.
“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 […]