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Analysis: Silicon Valley Bank's Fall Widens Systemic Cracks As Cheap Money Vanishes | David Randall And Davide Barbuscia
NEW YORK, March 12 (Reuters) - Cracks are appearing in the global financial system as the decade-long era of cheap money ends, with some investors worrying the shock collapse of Silicon Valley Bank signals world markets may be on the cusp of a reckoning. Over the past year, the U.S. Federal Reserve launched its most aggressive interest rate hiking cycle since the early 1980s and other central ban ...
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Why is Israel Amending Its Open-Fire Policy?: Three Possible Answers | Ramzy Baroud
Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. (Photo: UNRWA) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 29, 2021 At the outset, the Israeli military decision to revise its open-fire policies in the occupied West Ban ...
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WATCH: Republican National Committee Abandons America
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The Revolt of the Imagination, Part One: Notes on Belbury Syndrome | John Michael Greer
Feb. 2, 2022 (EcoSophia.net) --Maybe it’s true that life really does imitate literature. Over the last week or so, certainly, a detail from one of my favorite works of imaginative fiction played out ...
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The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’| Ramzy Baroud
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: via Facebook) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2021 The result of a vote, on Dec. 14, in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophob ...
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Why the Palestinian Voice Should Take Center Stage | Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian activists Mohammed and Muna El-Kurd. (Photo: via Twitter) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2021 At a recent New York event, the President of the Foreign Press Association Ian Wil ...
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“Harnessing social media to help solve and predict crime” — Mickey Z.
; Still image from the 2002 film, Minority Report Mickey Z. — World News Trust November 19, 2021 On January 30, 2020, The Brennan Center for Justice sent a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department ...
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From Pegasus to Blue Wolf: How Israel’s ‘Security’ Experiment in Palestine Became Global | Ramzy Baroud
An Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank. (Photo: File) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 17, 2021 The revelation, a few years ago, that the U.S. National Security Agency has been conducti ...
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Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine | Ramzy Baroud
American business magnate Bill Gates (L) with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. (Photo: video grab) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2021 Those who are not familiar with how Israel, pa ...
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Words without Action: The West’s Role in Israel’s Illegal Settlement Expansion | Ramzy Baroud
Israel is accelerating settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: ActiveStills.org) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 3, 2021 The international uproar in response to Israel’s approva ...
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Heroes or Parasites: Europe’s Self-serving Politics on Refugees | Ramzy Baroud
A fishing boat carrying refugees dock in Lampedus, Italy. (Photo: Vito Manzari, via Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 13, 2021 Language is politics and politics is power. This ...
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