The climax of Empire, the Netanyahu doctrine in crisis, the case for dollarization & the making of E.P. Thompson
Paul Guiragossian, Le Trajet
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On 29 September 1923, the addition of Mandatory Palestine increased the British Empire to its greatest size: nearly fourteen million square miles (150 times the size of Great Britain, a quarter of the world’s land area). It now contained 460 million people, a fifth of the world’s population.
Source: Literary Review
Joshua Leifer on The Netanyahu doctrine is excellent.
Source: Guardian
If you want to follow the logic for dollarization in Argentina … if … you may want to read this paper.
The COP crowd
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English-language advertising for Japan’s settler colonial project in Manchuoukuo
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Paul Guiragossian L’interieur 1971-2
The funding of the League of Nations is a revealing document of 1920s internationalism.
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Once seen, you never forget the death-spiral of the world economy after 1929
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The Making of E.P. Thompson
“The historian was driven by the mystery of his brother’s death fighting with anti-fascist partisans. “never, on any page of Blake is there the least complicity with the kingdom of the beast.”” This piece by Madoc Cairns in New Statesman is rather fascinating.
Paul Guiragossian, Stop Aggression in Vietnam 1966.
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