U.S. Military Bases and Facilities in the Middle East
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
Implausible Denials: The Crime at Jabal al Tharda – the Sept. 2016 US-Australian air massacre of Syrian soldiers, to help ISIS/ Daesh
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 […]
How the Pandemic defrocked Hegemonic Neoliberalism
By Tim Anderson. This is the lead article in Tim’s book ‘The Pandemic and Independent Countries’, available here: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-pandemic-and-independent-countries The global pretensions of the USA and the UK have been stripped naked by the virus and responses to […]
The creeping privatisation of healthcare in the EU, Rachel Tansey
The creeping privatisation of healthcare: problematic EU policies and the corporate lobby push, 02.06.2017, by Rachel Tansey for Corporate Europe Observatory. Original post here: https://corporateeurope.org/en/power-lobbies/2017/06/creeping-privatisation-healthcare# Privatisation in its various guises is “spreading across Europe’s health services like a […]
La industria biofarmacéutica cubana en el combate contra la pandemia de COVID-19 / The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic (Esp)
The main article is in Spanish, but here is the English abstract: ‘The new coronavirus pandemic has challenged the capacity of health systems in most countries. Cuba’s strategy has recently been analyzed in an article published by President […]
Sharing Knowledge and “Microbubbles”: Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism, by Nikki Usher and Yee Man Margaret Ng
Abstract:This article examines the peer-to-peer dynamics of Washington political journalists as Communities of Practice (CoPs) to better understand how journalists connect to and learn from each other and establish conventional knowledge. We employ inductive computational analysis that combines […]
Uyghur Muslim Ethnic Separatism in Xinjiang, China, Elizabeth Van Wie Davis
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Hawaii, January 2008 “Uyghur Muslim violence in Xinjiang, China, has two justifications—ethnic separatism and religious rhetoric. The Uyghurs, who reside throughout the immediate region, are the largest Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang […]
Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through ‘Propaganda Studies’, Piers Robinson
“Propaganda studies can help to widen and deepen the reach of existing political communication research. It can do so by alerting us to the wide range of actors involved in propaganda production and dissemination, including governments, academics, NGOs, […]
Sanctions as Siege Warfare, by Tim Anderson
Chapter Three on ‘Sanctions’, from Axis of Resistance: towards an independent Middle East’ (2019). “This chapter studies the persistent use of economic ‘sanctions’ as a measure of hybrid warfare, and so part of the composite aggression which includes […]
Recent scientific studies on mask wearing and COVID19 prevention, July 2020
Compiled by Tim Anderson, 16 July 2020 A number of recent English language scientific studies have come out in support of face mask wearing, as an important supplemental means of controlling the COVID19 pandemic. Several of these are […]
Some sources on the long war against Syria, by Tim Anderson
This is a list of my articles, interviews and books, and some ideas on media sources. How the Violence began in Daraa:Syria’s Islamist Insurrection in Disguisehttps://www.globalresearch.ca/daraa-2011-syrias-islamist-insurrection-in-disguise/5460547 Syria and ME articles at Global Research, 2014-2020:https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tim-anderson Articles at American Herald […]
Genetic markers cannot determine Jewish descent, Raphael Falk
There are no distinct Jewish genetics. “Although Jews maintained detectable vertical genetic continuity along generations … intensive horizontal genetic relations were maintained both between Jewish communities and with the gentile surrounding. Thus, in spite of considerable consanguinity, there […]
How the Pandemic Defrocked Hegemonic Neoliberalism, Tim Anderson
The global pretensions of the USA and the UK have been stripped naked by the virus and responses to it. These profit-driven systems failed to protect lives. Only the fabricated anti-China hysteria and the pseudo-science of the pandemic […]
The Secret Contacts: Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933-1941, by Klaus Polkehn
From the Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3/4 (Spring – Summer, 1976), pp. 54-82
Jose Marti and the United States: A Further Interpretation, by John Kirk
Journal article from 1977 on Marti and the USA
The socio-political thought of Jose Marti, by John Kirk
This 1977 PhD thesis (300pp) provides a useful overview of the key socio-political ideas of Cuba’s key independence writer, Jose Marti, whose complete works are in 29 volumes and in Spanish, here. https://www.clacso.org.ar/coleccion_jose_marti/index.php Jose Marti (1853-1895) was the […]
Iranian Public Opinion 2019, University of Maryland
This report covers findings from three surveys fielded in May, August, and early October 2019, to evaluate how the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign is affecting public opinion in Iran. PDF below and original post here: https://cissm.umd.edu/sites/default/files/2019-10/Iranian%20PO%20under%20Maximum%20Pressure_101819_full.pdf
The Salafist Roots of the Syrian Uprising by William Van Wagenen
Scholarly revision of the sectarian roots of the ‘Syrian Revolution’, with special focus on 2011. PDF below and original post here: https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-salafist-roots-of-the-syrian-uprising/
Assessing nonviolence in the Palestinian rights struggle, Victoria Mason and Richard Falk
“The failure to acknowledge and welcome the Palestinian nonviolent movement serves to prolong the conflict and its negative effects, and lays bare the refusal of the international community to address the rights abuses at the heart of the […]
Expanding the Field of Political Communication: Making the Case for a Fresh Perspective Through ‘Propaganda Studies’, Piers Robinson
“A research agenda based on propaganda studies can provide a fuller and more accurate understanding of the role of communication in the exercise of power, serving better the objectives of speaking truth to power, holding power to account […]
‘Search bias quantification: investigating political bias in social media and web search’, by Kulshrestha et al (2018)
“the top-ranked results returned by these search engines can shape user opinion about the topic (e.g., event or person) being searched. In case of polarizing topics like politics, where multiple competing perspectives exist, the political bias in the […]
‘The Politics of Search: A Decade Retrospective’, by Laura A. Granka (2010)
This article describes the current state of online search engines from both a technical and societal perspective. From this, we are able to assess which of the initial concerns expressed about online search engines remain relevant today, and […]
OPCW engineer’s report on alleged Douma CW attack
“Engineering assessment of two chlorine cylinders observed at the Douma incident”. Conclusion: “there is a higher probability that both [chlorine] cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft” (OPCW 2019: 8).