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Chris Bambery – The US has scuppered multiple opportunities to do a deal with Iran

April 6, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Important context to understand the long history of US diplomatic missed opportunities which helped bring us to this disastrous point. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator. His books include A People’s History of Scotland and The […]

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Chris Hedges – Making the Film ‘Palestine 36’ (w/ director Annemarie Jacir)

March 31, 2026 Ben Wray 0

A very important film about Palestinian history has just come out. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle […]

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Nathalie Louisgrand – How Paris’ working-class dining experience is reshaping restaurant economics in France

February 16, 2026 Ben Wray 0

A 19th century Parisian affordable dining tradition is having a renaissance. Nathalie Louisgrand is an associate professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM). Her research focuses on French gastronomy and its transmission. Cross-posted from The […]

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Michael Parenti (1933-2026) – 1918 

January 27, 2026 Ben Wray 0

The American marxist intellectual Michael Parenti died last week. This is thought to be his last essay. It was first published on U.S. Memorial Day, May 28, 2018. Cross-posted from ScheerPost Looking back at the […]

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Juan Cole – Top 5 Mistakes Bush made in Iraq that Trump is making in Venezuela

January 5, 2026 Ben Wray 0

Of all these errors, no day-after planning sticks out as the most important point of comparison between Iraq and Venezuela. Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell collegiate professor of history at the University of […]

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Adriana Marin – How US intervention in Venezuela mirrors its actions in Panama in 1989

January 5, 2026 Ben Wray 0

US actions in Venezuela have been framed as a break with the so-called rules based international order, but similar actions in Panama just as the Cold War was ending shows that there is significant continuity […]

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Workers must challenge the narrative of tech progress – interview w/ Jason Resnikoff

December 2, 2025 Ben Wray 0

Workers shouldn’t accept the imposition of AI in the workplace as natural or inevitable. Interview by Marta Checa, former co-editor of Equal Times and a multi-media journalist. Cross-posted from Equal Times Jason Resnikoff, a US […]

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Vijay Prashad – Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago and Will Defeat it Again

December 1, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The truth, concealed in the West today, is that fascism was largely defeated in the Second World War by Russian and Chinese workers and peasants. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is […]

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Christopher Opie, Quentin Douglas Atkinson – The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago

November 25, 2025 Ben Wray 0

New research suggests that the ability to tax crop output was a key driver of the emergence of states. Christopher Opie is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Bristol. Quentin Douglas Atkinson […]

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Maha Nassar – History tells us international recognition of a Palestinian state will not bring it into being

September 22, 2025 Ben Wray 0

The long history of struggle for Palestinian statehood suggests that diplomatic victories do not necessarily translate into tangible changes in reality. Maha Nassar is a cultural and intellectual historian of the twentieth-century Arab world, with […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

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Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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