Tag: History

The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

First posted August1, 2020 Vanessa Thorpe The hidden role of a British secret service officer who led the coup that permanently altered the Middle East is to be revealed for the first time since an Observer news story was suppressed in 1985. The report, headlined “How MI6 and CIA joined forces to plot Iran coup”, appeared… Read More The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

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Amarjit Chandan: The Great War & its Impact on Punjabis

Presented at Across the Black Waters One-Day Symposium at the Imperial War Museum, London, November 7, 1998 Don’t go don’t goStay back my friend. Crazy people are packing up,Flowers are withering and friendships are breaking.Stay back my friend. Allah gives bread and workYou won’t find soothing shade anywhere else.Don’t go my friend don’t go. –… Read More Amarjit Chandan: The Great War & its Impact on Punjabis

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Towards the Flame

Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven By Serge Schmemann Aug. 30, 2015 Dominic Lieven’s stated reason for this contribution to the centenary literature on World War I is to place Russia “where it belongs, at the very center” of the war’s history. Certainly the war proved to be at the center of Russian… Read More Towards the Flame

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Permanent Spring: Indian Maoism and the Philosophy of Insurrection

Dilip Simeon Permanent spring: Seminar # 607, March 2010 ON 30 April 1908, two young men, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, entered the boundary of the Muzaffarpur Club in Bihar and waited for the hated judge Douglas Kingsford to appear. They were members of Jugantar, the foremost nationalist-revolutionary group to emerge during the Swadeshi movement… Read More Permanent Spring: Indian Maoism and the Philosophy of Insurrection

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May 1968 was a revolution. Now the violence is just frightening: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

First posted December 08, 2018 As a student, he led the 1968 uprising in Paris. Now he has Macron’s ear, but ‘Dany le Rouge’ is not afraid to speak out on why both sides are at fault The last time Paris burned, his was the face of insurrection. Dany le Rouge (Danny the Red – a nickname… Read More May 1968 was a revolution. Now the violence is just frightening: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

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‘The whole world is watching’: how the 1968 Chicago police riot shocked America. By David Taylor and Sam Morris

First posted August 20, 2018 By the summer of 1968, Americans were dying at a rate of more than 1,000 per month in the bloodiest year of the Vietnam war Where the National Guard once stood in formation with bayonets fixed, a line of stands for rental bikes now stretches away along South Michigan Avenue.… Read More ‘The whole world is watching’: how the 1968 Chicago police riot shocked America. By David Taylor and Sam Morris

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Sam Dresser: How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free

First posted August 25, 2019 They were an odd pair. Albert Camus was French Algerian, a pied-noir born into poverty who effortlessly charmed with his Bogart-esque features. Jean-Paul Sartre, from the upper reaches of French society, was never mistaken for a handsome man. They met in Paris during the Occupation and grew closer after the Second World… Read More Sam Dresser: How Camus and Sartre split up over the question of how to be free

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March on Rome under scrutiny

Richard J. B. Bosworth Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič It’s 100 years since Mussolini took political control of Italy. Given a period of violent tensions across large parts of Europe after the First World War, what specifically lay behind the rise of fascist totalitarianism? And how does the Duce’s leadership compare to that of other contemporary authoritarianism?… Read More March on Rome under scrutiny

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The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition

As was the case with the British Empire, today’s global form of extractive capitalism is a system of human sacrifice hidden in plain sight. A critical look at the palm oil industry reveals both the violence of this trajectory in an exemplary way and the challenges for a transition into a just world, social thinker… Read More The Sacrificial Altar of Extractive Capitalism: Notes on Abolition and Transition

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