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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 .
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), […]
By Hannah Woolaver, original post here: https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1270/2019/10/Woolaver-Final.pdf .
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, original post here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
From 57 California Law Review 1055-1110 (1969). Reprinted in 3 The Vietnam War and International Law 407 (Richard A. Falk ed. 1972)
American Security Project, PDF below, original post here: https://www.americansecurityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ref-0213-US-Military-Bases-and-Facilities-Middle-East.pdf
By Tim Anderson. First published at Global Research on 17 December 2017, here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/implausible-denials-the-crime-at-jabal-al-tharda-us-led-air-raid-on-behalf-of-isis-daesh-against-syrian-forces/5623056 On 17 September 2016 a carefully planned US-led air raid on Jabal al Tharda (Mount Tharda), overlooking Deir Ezzor airport, slaughtered over 100 Syrian […]