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Some time. And it took me a lot of research with navy records of the black cats to kind of jive what he had written and what the real war diary was and finally managed to put the tombline together through the use of timeline together through the use of all these various pieces. I was surprised. I had no idea hed been through so much, and i was also surprised to find out as much as i have about the black cats in general. It was a Remarkable Group and really one of the leasttold stories of world w...

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Yassin al-Haj Saleh — How regional and global powers, internal colonialism and Salafi-jihadist subterfuge converged to short-circuit the Syrian struggle against despotism.

Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse  Richard Wolin  Princeton University Press, $29.95

There is every reason to believe that the Islamic Republics days are numbered. The current government, lorded over by the religious supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his Guardian Council of aging mullahs, who can overrule any policy change by

Scholars from Northwestern University and beyond will gather June 2 and 3 to celebrate the contributions of professor emeritus Hamid Naficy, a global authority on Iranian cinema and diaspora studies.

With their anthology on Iran's Green Movement, Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel provide an intellectual and political road map to the country's largest political protest since the 1979 revolution. Ramin Jahanbegloo introduces "The People Reloaded"

Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introductio...

Mourners hold mock funeral procession on highway leading to city’s airport where the January 3, 2020 strike took place.

Heidegger’s Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse  Richard Wolin  Princeton University Press, $29.95