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The Betrayal of Yemen

CCHS — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:16:20 +0000

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 […]

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Working paper: The colonisation of Indigenous self-determination: Australia and Palestine

CCHS — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 02:22:11 +0000

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 […]

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Health Care and Medical Education to Promote Women’s Health in Iran; Four Decades Efforts

CCHS — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:37:45 +0000

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 […]

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Churchill’s policies to blame for 1943 Bengal famine: Study

CCHS — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 11:35:02 +0000

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 […]

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Hegemonic neoliberalism: a historic re-evaluation

CCHS — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 23:51:48 +0000

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

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Study on U.S. wars: most recent interventions have been “in countries with higher levels of democracy”

CCHS — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:02:12 +0000

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 […]

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Iran’s Islamic Revolution and the Ansarallah Government in Northern Yemen

CCHS — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:06:58 +0000

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 […]

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

CCHS — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 01:05:20 +0000

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 […]

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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

CCHS — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 06:33:34 +0000

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 .

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Europe: the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia

CCHS — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:18:32 +0000

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), […]

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