Year: 2022

#Debate

The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth

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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 […]

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Peter Beinart of ‘Jewish Currents’ leads the charge to ‘cancel’ Palestinian American journalist

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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 […]

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Dr Tim Anderson on His Intellectual Freedom Court Victory and “Slow Genocide” in Palestine

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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 […]

#Research

Yarmouk: how the CIA helped jihadist rebels invade the capital of the Palestinian diaspora

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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 […]