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From  The Campaign of 1950-1953 |
Chapter nine, The Campaign of 1950-1953 provides a Korean perspective on the Korean War. From the perspective of the Republic of Korea, the movement of its military forces north of the 38th … | Stephen Gowans | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Wall Street’s Empire |
The United States has an empire, even if it’s not often called one. More often, the U.S. Empire is widely referred to by various euphemisms, anodyne terms which make the unacceptable appear … | Stephen Gowans | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Women’s WorkFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Nine focuses on women’s work, food orders, defending the camp and children from bears when the men are away, the authors stash of nanaimo bars attracting bears, laundry and the … | Kathryn Willcock | 37 | 2022 | $3.70 Add |
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From  Xi Jingping’s ChinaFrom: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square Collection: The Rise of 21st Century Fascism |
The book ends with an exploration of Xi Jingping’s China, including a brief overview of the country’s current conflicts, and looks at the future of democracy in China in the context … | Michael Cormier | 17 | 2013 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Calling It QuitsFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Ten focuses on the twilight years of the logging camp, struggles with machinery, injuries on the job, the death of an employee at her fathers camp, her parents first international holiday … | Kathryn Willcock | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapters 51-54From: My Road from Damascus |
Includes the chapters "Passports and Visas", "Dubai", "The Upside-Down Coffee Cup of God", and "The World Keeps Turning . . . So Do We". Topics discussed … | Jamal Saeed | 46 | 2022 | $4.60 Add |
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From Conclusion |
The Conclusion reflects on how the values which secular Arab nationalists promoted were antithetical to U.S. capitalist class interests, which were embodied in U.S. imperialist ideology. That … | Stephen Gowans | 30 | 2017 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Lucky |
In this chapter, the author describes his upbringing as a young gay Black man in Canton, Ohio. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, but protease inhibitor medication successfully treated his condition. | Eddie Walker | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Syria |
Chapter Ten focuses on Syria. Before the British and French divided Turkey’s West Asian possessions in 1920, Syria comprised territory covering today’s Palestine, Israel, Jordan, … | Stephen Gowans | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Anti-Communist Police State |
Chapter ten, Anti-Communist Police State After 1953 focuses on Washington’s commitment to rolling back communism in Korea. From the very first moments that Koreans had fought for freedom … | Stephen Gowans | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The Dark Heart of PeacekeepingFrom: Canada in the World |
War in the Gulf – The Peacekeeping Horizon – The Somalia Affair – “Ethnic Tension” and the Rwanda Genocides – Saint Roméo Dallaire – Paul Kagame, … | Tyler A. Shipley | 50 | 2020 | $5.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The Destruction of Hiroshima and NagasakiFrom: Myths of Modern History |
Pauwels examines the mythologized narratives surrounding the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which America’s mainstream media has long presented as a tragic necessity in order to force … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The First Decade of Mobutu’s Zaire1965–1975 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter explores the first decade of Mobutu’s rule over Zaire (formerly Congo) from 1965 to 1975. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The Importance of Being CanadianCarol Off |
In Chapter 10, Philpot examines Carol Off’s essay “The Lion, The Fox and the Eagle.” Off’s essay the is about author’s heroes, Roméo Dallaire (“the … | Robin Philpot | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From Canada’s War on TerrorFrom: Canada in the World |
Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War – “They Don’t Deserve Our Help” – “What the Afghans Need Is Colonizing” – Canada in the War on Terror … | Tyler A. Shipley | 54 | 2020 | $5.40 Add |
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From NEW! Economic Decline and Infrastructural Decay in Zaire1975–1993 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the economic decline and infrastructure decay in Mobutu’s Zaire from 1975 until 1993. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
