Why China’s capital exports can weaken Imperialism
by Dr Jay Tharappel. Originally published in the World Review of Political Economy, available here https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.12.1.0027
The Betrayal of Yemen
by Tim Anderson. Chapter 9 in his 2023 book West Asia After Washington (Clarity Press) The one successful revolution of the so called ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 has been ruthlessly suppressed and misrepresented, not only by the interventionist […]
Working paper: The colonisation of Indigenous self-determination: Australia and Palestine
by Gary Foley and Tim Anderson Both Aboriginal Australia and Palestine have examples of community controlled organization, the creation of self-governance structures compatible with the post-colonial ideal of self-determination. This self-determination can occur even under colonised rule and […]
Health Care and Medical Education to Promote Women’s Health in Iran; Four Decades Efforts
by Shima Tabatabai, ; Nasser Simforoosh, Arch Iran Med. July 2020;23(7):469-479 Identifies important trends and challenges. Since 1979, life expectancy has increased by 29% in Iranian women, while female adult mortality rate has decreased by 78%, and maternal […]
Churchill’s policies to blame for 1943 Bengal famine: Study
A Jazeera article https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/4/1/churchills-policies-to-blame-for-1943-bengal-famine-study which links to a Geophysical research paper, below. Geophysical study by Mishra et al 2019 finds that the 1943 famine was not linked to drought, contrary to some British claims. This reinforces the historical […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, by Alena Douhan
Report of 4 October 2021, original UN post in English here: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G21/269/56/PDF/G2126956.pdf .
Europe: the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia
by Glenn Diesen, Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2021 Glenn Diesen is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) and an associate editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. His latest books are Russian Conservatism (2021), […]
State failure, Sovereign Equality and Non-Intervention
By Hannah Woolaver, original post here: https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1270/2019/10/Woolaver-Final.pdf .
China’s long war on poverty
By Carlos Martinez, Co-Editor at Friends of Socialist China. Original post here: https://socialistchina.org/2022/06/19/chinas-long-war-on-poverty/ This article by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing war against poverty. In addition to discussing the […]
NATO’s fascist history
By Tim Anderson, First published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/natos-fascist-history NATO’s fascist history Tim Anderson In recent years NATO – essentially the USA and Western Europe – has bared its fascist roots through multiple interventions across four continents. The NATO states […]
The Haavara/Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Movement in Nazi Germany
Research article by Yf’aat Weiss, originally published by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Research Centre. The author discusses tensions between the German Jewish boycott movement of the 1930s and the German Zionists, with special reference to the Haavara agreement […]
20th C Fascism in Ukraine: the OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust
By Per A. Rudling, The Carl beck papers, Russian & East European Studies, Number 2107, Center for Russian & East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Original post here: https://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/view/164/160
Far-Right Groups Find a Home in Ukraine’s Main Military Training Centre
By Oleksiy Kuzmenko, published at illiberalism.org, September 21, 2021. Original post here: https://www.illiberalism.org/far-right-group-made-its-home-in-ukraines-major-western-military-training-hub/ x
The Pandemic and Independent Countries:
The failure of hegemonic neoliberalism, liberal denials and lessons from socialist systems. This book argues (1) that the COVID-19 pandemic exposed as never before the failings of the hegemonic neoliberal approach to public health – those nations which […]
The UN Security Council has betrayed the Yemeni people
A Yemen Centre for Human Rights study on U.N.S.C. resolutions from 2011 to 2021. More detailed reports (in Arabic) on Security Council violations can be found here https://ychr.org Study Summary Since the admission of Yemen to membership of […]
How Washington led the purge of Christians from its ‘New Middle East’
By Tim Anderson, 14 December 2021, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/how-washington-led-the-purge-of-christians-from-its-new-mid1 How Washington led the purge of Christians from its ‘New Middle East’ Tim Anderson Behind its pseudo-Christian ‘crusade’ of the 21st century, it was Washington which masterminded the […]
The elusive, often misunderstood concept of ‘objectivity’
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, original post here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/
Will China Suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union?
By Carlos Martinez, journal article from World Review of Political Economy, Vol 11 No 2, Summer 2020. JStor link here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.2.0189#metadata_info_tab_contents
Sanctions as siege warfare
By Tim Anderson Chapter 3 of: Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019). Full text below, PDF here: This paper studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and […]
PRC poll: U.S. Jews’ connections with and attitudes toward Israel
Pew Research Centre: “Eight-in-ten U.S. Jews say caring about Israel is an essential or important part of what being Jewish means to them. Nearly six-in-ten say they personally feel an emotional attachment to Israel .. [but the 2020 […]
The Palestine Exception to Free Speech, by the CCR
Report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015 documents the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States. 2015. Full PDF below, original post here: https://ccrjustice.org/the-palestine-exception