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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 Wild EastFrom: Chrystia |
From Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill | Catherine Tsalikis | 24 | 2024 | $2.40 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 |
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From To Make a Whore Of |
In this chapter, the author describes her mother’s ailing health and eventual death from AIDS. | Emily Stern | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From To Say Good-Bye |
This essay details the author’s HIV diagnosis in the late 1990s, and how he feels discomfited by the Bay Area because of his history there. | Andrew R. Spieldenner | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Trouble Brewing in the East: First Congo War1994–1997 From: Postcards from Congo |
The chapter follows the First Congo War from 1994 to 1997. | Edmund Trueman | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From Undead DiscoVariations on a Theme |
In this chapter, the author discusses gay music, music claimed by gay people, and music that, sometimes retrospectively, narrates the gay experience. | Patrick Milian | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
 NEW! Up the CoastOne Family's Wild Life in the Forests of British Columbia |
Kathryn Willcock and her sisters grew up in logging camps on the coast of B.C. in the 1960s when children were set loose to play in the wilderness, women kept rifles next to the wood stove, and … | Kathryn Willcock | 224 | 2022 | View |
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From US Supremacy’s All-Conquering March |
Chapter twelve, US Supremacy’s All Conquering March focuses on the United States commitment to ending the DPRK or North Korea state. The DPRK has a people- and Korean-centred economy, … | Stephen Gowans | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Waiting AbsurdNicosia/Lefkoşa From: Walls |
The author travels to Cyprus and discusses the wall that divides its territory and the Turkish and Greek Cypriots. He explores the history of this wall and the conflict between these two groups, … | Marcello Di Cintio | 31 | 2013 | $3.10 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 |
WallsTravels Along the Barricades |
Winner, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, and City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize Shortlisted, Dolman Travel Book Award Longlisted, … | 288 | View | ||
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From  Wang Dan’s Shooting Star |
This chapter begins with the author meeting with Wang Den in London, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The chapter goes on to provide a detailed day-by-day account of … | Michael Cormier | 33 | 2013 | $3.30 Add |
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From Wang Juntao’s Exile |
This chapter begins with the story of a Chinese exile named Wang Juntao, who was a student leader during the 1989 uprising and now lives in New York. The author goes on to discuss the legacy of … | Michael Cormier | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
Washington’s Long War on Syria |
When President Barack Obama demanded formally in the summer of 2011 that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down, it was not the first time Washington had sought regime change in Damascus. The … | Stephen Gowans | 280 | 2017 | View |
