Common Grounds

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• Lecture by Angela Davis Canceled after Pressure from Pro-Israel Students

  
  April 05, 2021 14:06

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/lecture-by-angela-davis-canceled-after-pressure-from-pro-israel-students/

   

  Published April 1, 2021

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• Essay – For the People, Of the People, By the People

  
  April 02, 2021 12:25

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  Biden’s Vision for America!

   

  Isn’t it ‘America First’ all over again? Maybe!

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• Israel is losing the fight to obscure its apartheid character

  
  April 06, 2021 14:35

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published January 14, 2021

   

  New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state

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• Blinken tells Israel: Palestinians should enjoy same rights, freedoms as you do

  
  April 06, 2021 14:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-tells-israel-palestinians-should-enjoy-same-rights-freedoms-as-you-do/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-04-03&utm_medium=email

   

  By AFP and TOI STAFF

  Published April 3, 2021

   

  US secretary of state to Foreign Minister Ashkenazi: ‘Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy’

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• Opinion | A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

  
  April 06, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-a-president-in-handcuffs-why-palestinians-should-vote-for-barghouti-1.9671926?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=b6903cb670

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 31, 2021

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• US Church leaders write to President with key Middle East policy recommendations

  
  March 16, 2021 19:14

  Source: Independent Catholic News

  https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/41742

   

  Published March 12, 2021

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• Pope Francis and Part Two of the Abraham Accords

  
  March 11, 2021 17:51

  Source: Jews News Syndicate

  https://www.jns.org/opinion/pope-francis-and-part-two-of-the-abraham-accords/

   

  By Fiamma Nirenstein

  Published March 9, 2021

   

  Coming on the heels of Israel’s treaties with several Muslim countries, the meeting between the head of the Vatican and the spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shiites is particularly significant.

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• Raghuram G. Rajan Says More…

  
  February 18, 2021 13:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-raghuram-g-rajan-2021-01?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=fdcfb2f10c-contributor_newsletter_schwab_09_02_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-fdcfb2f10c-93791313&mc_cid=fdcfb2f10c&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Published January 26, 2021

   

  This week in Say More, PS talks with Raghuram G. Rajan, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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• The Seven Secrets of 2020

  
  February 18, 2021 13:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12?barrier=accesspaylog

   

  By YANIS VAROUFAKIS

  Published December 28, 2020

   

  This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalization had enriched could exercise their own.

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• Biden Goes Big

  
  February 18, 2021 13:45

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-right-to-launch-massive-rescue-plan-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-02?utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=521e775455-sunday_newsletter_02_07_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-521e775455-93791313&mc_cid=521e775455&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

  Published February 1, 2021

   

  The US president's proposed $1.9 trillion recovery package will provide enormous stimulus to the economy. The economic growth that results will generate substantial tax revenues, not just for the federal government but also for the states and municipalities that are now starved of the funds they need to provide essential services.

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