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Book Review: Dissecting Israel’s Big Lie(s) “The Hundred Years War on Palestine” By Rashid Khalidi

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, January 5, 2023 Book Review: “The Hundred Years War on Palestine,” A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance 1917-1921 by Rashid Khalidi, Picador 2020 “There were no such thing as Palestinians…they did not exist. ” Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969. I was raised in a working-class Jewish home in South Florida[…]

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“Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance”

by Rick Sterling, published on Global Research, August 10, 2023 Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Dan Kovalik has written a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day. Kovalik includes his own experiences[…]

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Secrecy, Science, and the National Security State

by Cliff Connor, published on Socialist Action, April 8, 2023 Secrecy, Science, and the National Security State Book Review of Alex Wellerstein, Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States. By Cliff Conner The phrase “national security state” has become increasingly familiar as a way to characterize the political reality of the United States today. It implies[…]

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Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy

by John Perry of Masaya, Nicaragua, published on the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA, January 10, 2023 A review of the report Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, edited by Sara Flounders for the Sanctions Kill campaign and published by World View Forum.(1) Sanctions imposed without United Nations endorsement are illegal. That is why they[…]

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Capitalism on a Ventilator

by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, published on Counterpunch, December 18, 2020 Asian countries have been far more successful than the US in responding to the COVID pandemic, but you’d never know that from the US media. Even most alternative media has been largely US- & Euro-centric. While our domestic issues here are important, we have been missing out on important lessons[…]

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Keep It Real: A Review Of Diana Johnstone’s Book “Circle In The Darkness: Memoirs Of A World Watcher”

by Rick Sterling, published on Global Research, August 19, 2020 Diana Johnstone has written a compelling and insightful book. It is mostly a review and analysis of significant events from the past 55 years. It concludes with her assessment of different trends that are being debated on the Left today including “identity politics”, Antifa and censorship.  This is a book to[…]

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The Roots of Trump’s Immigration Policy

by Barry Shephard, published on Socialist Action, August 15, 2020 Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border By John Carlos Frey Bold Type Books, 2019 This book presents a harrowing well-researched description of Washington’s war against immigrants on the Mexican border. The author is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. Frey was born in Tijuana, Mexico. His[…]

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The Return of the Anti-Antiwar Left

by James Carden, published on CounterPunch, July 1, 2020 In her recently published memoir, Circle in the Darkness, the author and journalist Diana Johnstone recalls that only “a few decades ago, “the Left” was considered the center of opposition to imperialism, and champion of the right of peoples to self-determination.” Johnstone is part of a distinguished line of American expatriate[…]

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