Inspired by the French and American Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution led to the overthrow of not only the French colonial government but also the unfair rule of the wealthy plantation owners on the island that would become known as Haiti. Although the revolution was successful, it took many ...
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Said Sayrafiezadeh's Iranian-born father and American Jewish mother who had one thing in common: their unshakable conviction that the workers' revolution was coming. Separated since their son was nine months old, they each pursued a dream of the perfect socialist society. Bouncing with his ...
On the contrary, a lack of accurate information is precisely what allowed the Trump administration to successfully, and within a very short time, create the illusion that an unspecified imminent Iranian threat was looming. Given that the potential for miscommunication is very high and that the ...
In the end, the Iranian Revolution fell short of its goals, and except for in Lebanon, the Shiite resurgence that it inspired came to naught. Some say the Islamic Republic is now a tired dictatorship. Others, however, worry about the resurgence of Iran's regional ambitions, fueled this ...
The comparison was not lost on Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who said in an interview with Sky News Tuesday that “Palestine cannot be deleted and Palestinians cannot be expelled. My suggestion: Instead of Palestinians, try to expel Israelis to Greenland. Take them to Greenland so...
One of these was the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906–11. British perceptions of this "brave new world" in Iran were more nuanced and diverse than one would expect for this era, commonly portrayed as a time of jingoism and rampant "Orientalist" racism. This study identifies four ...
Why did the Guatemalan Revolution start? The Guatemalan Revolution began in 1944due to the unhappines of the people under the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico. ... The revolution began with the overthrowing of Ubico and the stepping up of Juan Jose Arevalo; who was later succeeded by Jacobo Arbenz...
A few days days ago the container ship MSC Aries was boarded in the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces and forced to anchor off the coast of Iran. The incident was overshadowed by the Iranian drone and missile attacks on Israel and was hardly mentioned by mainstream media. However as far...
When I was preparing to feed the dogs this morning, I walked past our Google hub and read the US had bombed Iranian-based targets in Syria in retaliation for drone attacks on US military bases. It was 6 am, far too early to consider more bad news from the Middle East. It was too ...