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 The Einstein FileThe FBI’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist - New Updated Edition |
Einstein arrived in the United States in 1933, the year the Nazis rose to power in Germany. From that moment until he died in 1955, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI—with other … | Ajamu Baraka; David Suzuki; Fred Jerome | 402 | 2018 | View |
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From  The Empire of Japan |
Chapter One The Empire of Japan/i> focuses on the rise of Japanese imperialism and colonialism in Korea. As an emerging industrial power, Japan required access to vital raw materials necessary … | Stephen Gowans | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Era of NeoliberalismPopular Struggles in a Time of Reaction, 1980–2020s From: Humans |
This chapter looks at the supremacy of neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies, particularly in the midst of the dissolution of the Communist bloc, and the increasing disparity between … | Alvin Finkel | 40 | 2024 | $4.00 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 NEW! The First Peaceful Transition2019–2021 From: Postcards from Congo |
The final chapter follows the Congo in recent years as it adjusts to new political realities and the evolving pandemics. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From The First Real Holy War |
In the conclusion, The First Real Holy War Gowans reflects on the long struggle for freedom and the future of colonized states across the world. | Stephen Gowans | 3 | 2018 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The French RevolutionFrom: Myths of Modern History |
The book begins with the myth of the French Revolution, the “original catastrophe” (Urkatastrofe, to use a term coined by German historians) of modern history, and the wars that … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 34 | 2022 | $3.40 Add |
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From NEW! The Great Imperialist WarFrom: Myths of Modern History |
In this chapter the author argues against the cliché of conventional historiography that the First World War was a war for democracy, as well as the notion that this war was not a product of … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The Heart of Dark Imaginations |
In Chapter 8, Philpot offers a post-colonial critique of how Africa has been portrayed in the Western imagination. Using Dorothy Hammond’s and Alta Jablow’s in-depth study “The … | Robin Philpot | 9 | 2013 | $0.90 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  The Knowledge of Suffering |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recounting his own experiences coming to Canada from Iran as a result of the upheval of the 1970s. He interweaves personal … | Payam Akhavan | 76 | 2017 | $9.12 Add |
 The Legacy of Tiananmen Square |
More than 20 years after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Michel Cormier, CBC Television’s former China correspondent, examines the still-born legacy of the Tiananmen Square student protests … | 240 | View | ||
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From  The Long Ladder of Shame |
In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine. | C.L. Severson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From  The Mutilated CityBelfast From: Walls |
This chapter focuses on walls and divisions in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, looking at the history of Catholic and Protestant enclaves and tensions between these groups in the city. … | Marcello Di Cintio | 49 | 2013 | $4.90 Add |
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From  The Myth of the Modernate Rebel |
When the Daraa riot broke out in mid-March, 2011, two armed Islamist groups, which would play a lead role in the war against the Syrian government, Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham, had already … | Stephen Gowans | 26 | 2017 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! The October Revolution and its LegacyFrom: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter deconstructs major myths surrounding the 1917 Russian Revolution and especially its second phase, "Red October" and considers the positive impacts of this event on world … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
