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From ![]() The Oneness of Humankind |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the efforts of people to come together and fight human rights abuses. The chapter includes a discussion of human rights in Afghanistan … | Payam Akhavan | 70 | 2017 | $8.40 Add |
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From ![]() The Patriot |
Chapter three, Patriot focuses on the life and work of Kim Il-sung. He was neither a puppet installed in a North Korean Soviet satellite state by Joseph Stalin, as US propagandists would have it, … | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Patriot State |
Chapter five, The Patriot State focuses on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) which formed under the Soviet influenced northern half the the peninsula. While the United States … | Stephen Gowans | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Political Partician of Korea |
Chapter eight, The Political Partition of Korea focuses on Washington and Moscow’s agreement regarding Korea, which decided that the post-war zonal division of the peninsula would be … | Stephen Gowans | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Power of a Word |
In Chapter 3, Philpot discusses how Central Africa has been turned upside down in the pursuit of génocidaires. Philpot examines how with the support of the United States, Canada, the United … | Robin Philpot | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Pursuit of Global Justice |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recalling his experiences as a human rights lawyer in The Hague. He describes notable cases he was involved in and how it shaped his … | Payam Akhavan | 85 | 2017 | $10.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Road to the War Against DemocracyFrom: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter focuses on the First World War and the myth that this was an unexpected war triggered by an "accident;" rather, as the author explores, this war was wanted, expected, … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Rough Road to Independence1945-1960 From: Postcards from Congo |
This chapter follows the journey of the burgeoning Congolese nation to fight for and achieve Independence following the second world war until 1960. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Spirit of Human Rights |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the bonds that unite humans and the ways in which we can use those bonds to protect human rights. Please Note: A collection can … | Payam Akhavan | 70 | 2017 | $8.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Tide of War Turns in Front of MoscowFrom: Myths of Modern History |
Pauwels explores the popular idea that the tide of war turned in June 1944, when the Americans and their allies landed in Normandy; he proposes instead that the tide had turned in the second half … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Truth About LoggersFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Eight focuses on the truth about loggers, entertainment at logging camps, calls in and out of the camps, sport at the camps, animals visitors, the star loggers Erik and Olaf Nyström, life … | Kathryn Willcock | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The United States, Champion of Democracy?From: Myths of Modern History |
This chapter explores how in theory US foreign policy and ceaseless military ventures promote democracy, but in reality they seek to achieve corporate desiderata such as worldwide open doors for … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() The US Occupation |
Chapter four, The US Occupation focuses on the reasoning behind American interests in the Korean Peninsula after the Second World War. He focuses on the perspective of the American, Soviets, and … | Stephen Gowans | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The War Against Communists of the South |
Chapter six, The War Against Communists of the South focuses on the brutal measures the US occupation forces and their Korean subalterns look to suppress communism and communist sympathies in the … | Stephen Gowans | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Will to Intervene |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses efforts by the international community to respond to human rights abuses an atrocities. He provides a history of UN peacekeeping … | Payam Akhavan | 61 | 2017 | $7.32 Add |
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From ![]() Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed |
This chapter details the author’s experiences growing up as a gay man in Eqypt, and his work with refugees and migrants who have been affected by HIV. | Ahmed Awadalla | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |










