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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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Military Intervention Project: more than 100 US military interventions since 1999

CCHS — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 04:58:31 +0000

“The USA has undertaken over 500 international military interventions since 1776, with nearly 60% undertaken between 1950 and 2017. What’s more, over one-third of these missions occurred after 1999.” Original post here: https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/ Military Intervention Project (MIP) The […]

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Washington deletes all details of US/NED funded bodies in Ukraine, but they are posted here

CCHS — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 03:18:30 +0000

After NATO provocations and a Russian invasion the US Congress funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has rushed to delete all details of the civil and political bodies it funds in Ukraine. But that list is re-published here, […]

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How Washington led the purge of Christians from its ‘New Middle East’

CCHS — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 11:26:41 +0000

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 […]

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Washington’s strategic retreat

CCHS — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 09:02:34 +0000

by Tim Anderson, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1557539/washingtons-strategic-retreat While many have suspected ulterior motives in the Biden regime’s pull-out from Afghanistan, I suggest it is just the first move in a wider strategic retreat by Washington, not only from […]

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Washington’s New Middle East Plan in the Losing Gambit, Tim Anderson

CCHS — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 21:14:34 +0000

2015 onwards marks the start of a ‘losing gambit’ for Washington’s New Middle East .. now ‘on the back foot’ it has had to resort to direct interventions in Syria and Iraq, to provide safe haven for its […]

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Imperial logic: why the US cannot escape its ‘New Middle East’ wars, by Steven A. Cook

CCHS — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:50:43 +0000

Article from Foreign Affairs, PDF below, original post here: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/no-exit

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The Saudi-Israeli-US Propaganda War On Iran, by Benham Gharagozli

CCHS — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:43:44 +0000

“Shortly after the horrific attacks on 9/11, it was discovered that there was an American plan to dismantle the regimes of seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and lastly, Iran. Since then, the world witnessed regime […]

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A Web of Deceit: Amnesty International in Hong Kong, by Laura Ruggeri

CCHS — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:54:55 +0000

How Amnesty International has become embedded in Washington’s campaign against China, through interventions in the politics of Hong Kong. 14 Aug 2020. Laura Ruggeri is an Italian national and resident of Hong Kong. In June 2018 five law […]

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‘Our ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran failed — unless the goal was to help China’, Washington Post

CCHS — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 10:34:09 +0000

A rebuke to the Trump regime, from the WP Editorial Board. July 21, 2020. Original post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/our-maximum-pressure-on-iran-failed–unless-the-goal-was-to-help-china/2020/07/20/484ae90a-c847-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html THE TRUMP administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran has manifestly failed to achieve either its stated or unstated aims: It […]

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