Why Iran Matters
In West Asia Iran leads an anti-imperial alliance of independent states.
Resistance challenges in face of uneven US decline
US decline is real but uneven: Washington still wields outsized power through finance, propaganda, and militarism, increasingly favoring proxy/hybrid wars as its dominance erodes. In face of this Resistance requires coordinated multipolar strategy, defensive alliances, BRICS-linked financial alternatives, and independent media.
China’s Rapid Development Has Transformed Its Migration Trends
The increase in migration to and from the country is deeply intertwined with its history of socioeconomic reforms.
Stephen Wheatcroft on the Soviet famine and the Holodomor hoax
‘The Years of Hunger’ is an unanswerable refutation of the now widely promoted lie that the famine constituted an ethnically targeted genocide of Ukrainians or Kazakhs or other specific peoples of the USSR.
2024-2025 report on terrorism against Iran
In 2024, we witnessed a significant increase of over 57% in terrorist operations targeting Iran and Iranian citizens both inside and outside the country, compared to the year 2023
INSAN, The Tripartite Aggression on Yemen in the Time of ‘Tufan al Aqsa’
The full ‘Tripartite Aggression’ report in English is below in PDF, it can also be found with other INSAN reports (in English and Arabic) here. On January 12, 2024, a military coalition of eleven countries, led by the […]
Gaza, the Corporate University and the Re-Regulation of Intellectual Freedom
The corporatised University of Sydney, conscious of pressures from the state, private funders and the corporate media, has created rhetorical innovations to re-regulate ‘intellectual freedom’, even using non-discrimination slogans to shut down controversial political expression and calls for a boycott of Israel.
Report on the Crimes of the Tripartite Aggression on Yemen (USA-UK-Israelis)
by The INSAN Organization for Rights and Freedoms, Yemen, March 2025 In November 2023, the Yemeni armed forces carried out their military operations against the Zionist entity on the occupied Palestinian territories as well as in the Red […]
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