Analysis

2021: Palestine’s Chance of Fighting Back | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 3, 2021 2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored "peace process." While 2021 will not reverse the monumental change in the U.S. attitude and objectives in Palestine, Israel and the Middle East, the new year presents Palestinians with the opportunity to think outside the American box. The previous year beg ...

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The US Money Tree: The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2020 On Dec. 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spendin ...

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A Country in Turmoil: Why Netanyahu is a Symptom, Not Cause of Israel’s Political Crisis | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 20, 2020 It is convenient to surmise that Israel’s current political crisis is consistent with the country’s unfailing trajectory of short-lived ...

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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2020 The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is ano ...

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Tackling the Infrastructure and Unemployment Crises: The 'American System' Solution | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solv ...

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Make Panama Great Again? (31 years ago this week) — Mickey Z.

A U.S. Army M113 in Panama — DoD photo by PH1(SW) J. Elliott (public domain) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 17, 2020 (It’s been a while since I indulged my political history snark and this tim ...

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When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2020 Dec. 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, howe ...

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Let’s Get Ready to Rumble — Mickey Z.

Still image from the 1960 film version of West Side Story (credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 14, 2020 Part of growing up as a heavily conditioned, lower-middle-class male in New Y ...

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Debunking the ‘Opium of the People’ Maxim: Football is about Politics and Class Struggle | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2020 Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the United States, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people fr ...

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Take Your Job and Shove It — Mickey Z.

Meme found online Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 4, 2020 Back in June 2012, as part of the Occupy Wall Street “Summer Disobedience School” (please, don’t ask), I was marching with about 75 of ...

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Why the Fed Needs Public Banks | Ellen Brown

Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 3, 2020 The Fed’s policy tools -- interest rate manipulation, quantitative easing, and “Special Purpose Vehicles” -- have all failed to revive local economies sufferin ...

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