September 2021

Bio

Le Huu Nhat Minh currently works at Cardiovascular Research Department, Methodist Hospital, Merrillville 46410, Indiana, USA. He is a research scholar at Harvard Medical School, Global Clinical Scholars Research Training (GCSRT) Program, class of 2022. His research focuses on cardiology, infectious disease and meta-analysis research. The current projects are the series of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).

Final cover and blurb for Red Valkyries

Forthcoming with Verso Books in July 2022

Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the 19th and 20th centuries-the aristocratic Bolshevik, Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue, Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand, Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan turned scientist turned global women's activist, Elena...

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Afghanistan and Fox News

I wasn't hearing many people defending our role in Afghanistan before Biden announced he was pulling out. Now suddenly you would think it was fighting the Nazis during World War II. This chorus is led by Fox News, which previously hardly mentioned Afghanistan and is now broadcasting daily lamentations of unlimited sadness.

China getting angry at Sweden

Sweden's leading newspaper notes there have been over 20 times in the last year when the Chinese ambassador has written strong or threatening messages to Swedish journalists and politicians. A Swedish journalist who partly reports from China has been told he will "suffer the consequences" if the reporting continues. As the newspaper notes, this is from a country constantly warning against others interfering in China's "internal affairs."

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Why are people leaving Hong Kong?

A letter to the South China Morning Post comments on statement by China rep in Hong Kong that people aren't leaving the city for the UK because of the national security law. "Is it because people are attracted by Britain’s higher tax regime? Is it because Britain has such exquisite culinary delights as toad in the hole and spotted duck? Is it because the cramped and largely non-air-conditioned London Underground is a much more pleasant form of transport than the MTR? Is it because a predominantly English-speaking country is easier to navigate when Cantonese is one’s mother tongue...

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