News Analysis
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The ‘Insurrection’ and Its Discontents: ‘American Exceptionalism’ Revisited | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- Politics Today Jan. 19, 2021 History is being written in the United States today. Even the most pessimistic about the prospects of American democracy have rarely ventu ...
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Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’ | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 17, 2021 On Jan. 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mahmoud Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation ...
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Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine? | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2021 In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times, in 2015, former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that expo ...
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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 monument ...
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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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