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BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : ‘Fire and Flames’ is History of German Autonomist Movement
‘Fire and Flames’:Spontis, squats, and West Germany The squats served as living spaces and community meeting places. By 1973, they would become the site of some of the fiercest street battles ever seen in postwar Frankfurt. By Ron Jacobs | … Continue reading
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Tagged Autonomist Movement, Books, Fire and Flame, German New Left, Ron Jacobs, Squatters, West Germany, World History
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HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part 2, 641-1805
Egyptian Mamluk warriors serving in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century. Image from The Lost Treasure Chest. A people’s history: The movement to democratize Egypt Part 2: 641-1805 period — Egypt under many rulers. By Bob Feldman | The … Continue reading
HISTORY / Bob Feldman : A People’s History of Egypt, Part I, 525 BC-641 AD
Cleopatra VII and her son Caesarion at the Temple of Dendera. Image from Wikimedia Commons. A people’s history: The movement to democratize Egypt Part 1: 525 BC to 641 AD period — From the Persian invasion to the Byzantium Empire … Continue reading
Norman Pagett and Josephine Smit : Can We ‘Downsize’ and Survive?
Sewers under construction, north bank of the Thames looking west. Image from End of More. The end of more:Can we ‘downsize’ and survive? We continue to delude ourselves that ‘downsizing’ will somehow allow us to carry on with our current … Continue reading
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Tagged Cities, Downsizing, End of More, Engineering, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Health Care, Josephine Smit, Medical History, Norman Pagett, Sustainability, World History
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Harry Targ : Global Challenges to the International Order
Women protest in Cairo during Arab Spring. Image from Organizing Upgrade. The empire in disarray:Global challenges to the international order Latin American and African dependency theorists and “bottom-up” historians have argued for a long time that resistance must be part … Continue reading
BOOKS / Ron Jacobs : Iran and the Coup of Coups
Abrahamian’s ‘The Coup’: Shah of Shahs on the Peacock Throne As Abrahamian tells the reader, in the eyes of London and DC, there was no room for genuine negotiations in their dealings with the Mossadegh government. The struggle was about … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, CIA, Ervand Abrahamian, Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, Ron Jacobs, The Coup, U.S. Foreign Policy, World History
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Jack A. Smith : Reversing the Vietnam War Verdict
Demonstrators at the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon carry a banner that says, “Support our GIs, Bring Them Home Now.”Reversing the Vietnam War verdict Most of the allegations about insults directed at soldiers or vets from war opponents … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-War Vets, Foreign Policy, Jack A. Smith, Revisionist History, U.S. Military, Vietnam, VVAW, World History
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Harry Targ : The Ideology of U.S. Hegemony in the Hemisphere
Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge articulated what was to become the new ideology of American empire. Image from the Library of Congress.The ideological dimension:U.S. Hegemony in the Western Hemisphere In relations with Latin America, and particularly Cuba, policy has been built … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Imperialism, Latin America, U.S. Foreign Policy, Western Hemisphere, World History
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INTERVIEW / Jonah Raskin : Steven Halliwell, To Russia With Love
To Russia with love:A Rag Blog interview with Steven Halliwell What Russia shows us is that there’s no easy fix. Getting to a common global discussion is the biggest challenge of the 21st century. By Jonah Raskin / The Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Activists, Bankers, Interview, Jonah Raskin, Russia, Sixties, Soviet Union, Steven Halliwell, World History
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Harry Targ : NATO: From Fighting Socialism to Global Empire
The Big Three at Yalta, February 1545: Winston Churchill, prime minister of the United Kingdom; Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States; and Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union. Image from U.S. Department of Defense / Wikimedia Commons.NATO:From … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Imperialism, NATO, U.S. Foreign Policy, World History, World War II, Yalta Conference
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Harry Targ : U.S. Imperialism and Our ‘Special Relationship’ With Iran
An artist’s take on U.S. imperialism. Cartoon from Iran Review.Targets of U.S. imperialismand the danger of war with Iran Given the troubled history of U.S./Iranian relations spanning at least 60 years, the current threats of war expressed by both Israel … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Targ, Imperialism, Iran, U.S. Foreign Policy, World History
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