Common Grounds

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• Editorial | Did Somebody Say ‘Oil,’ ‘Petro-Dictator,’ ‘America’s Addiction to Oil?’

  
  April 01, 2022 14:43

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

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• Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

  
  April 05, 2022 12:13

  Source: New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine

   

  By Isaac Chotiner

  Published March 1, 2022

   

  For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?

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• Pope calls for peace in Ukraine on ‘Easter of war,’ warns of nuclear threat

  
  April 18, 2022 09:34

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/17/pope-francis-easter-message-ukraine/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F369b4ca%2F625c366f64253a7f343801f7%2F597682b5ae7e8a68 16d78e2c%2F27%2F72%2F625c366f64253a7f343801f7

   

  By Annabelle Timsit

  Published April 17, 2022

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• Who's behind alleged war crimes in Ukraine?

  
  April 14, 2022 11:04

  Source: Veterans Today

  https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/10/whos-behind-alleged-war-crimes-in-ukriane/

   

  By John White

  Published April 10, 2022

   

  "The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against humanity in Bucha." - Scott Ritter

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• Palestinian victims of the Ukraine war

  
  April 14, 2022 08:57

  Source: Press TV

  https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/08/679969/Palestine-Ukraine-Zelensky-Israel-weapons-containment--racism-

   

  By Denijal Jegic

  Published April 8, 2022

   

  Projecting the future of Ukraine after the current war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected "liberal, European" concepts and instead identified the idea of a "big Israel" as his vision for Ukraine.

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• President Zelenskyy, one Israel is enough

  
  April 19, 2022 13:54

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/19/president-zelenskyy-one-israel-is-enough

   

  By Andrew Mitrovica

  Published April 19, 2022

   

  The Ukrainian leader’s recent declaration that his country will become a ‘big Israel with its own face’ after the war invites a blunt, unambiguous reproach.

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• Ukraine and Palestine: How the West embraces one resistance but demonises another

  
  April 19, 2022 14:11

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-west-embraces-one-resistance-demonises-another-how

   

  By David Hearst

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Ukraine's defiance in the face of Putin’s aggression has been dubbed heroic, so why doesn't the Palestinian resistance get the same treatment?

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• War in a World that Stands for Nothing

  
  April 21, 2022 20:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-ukraine-war-highlights-truths-about-global-capitalism-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-04?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c6fbe2bbc-covid_newsletter_04_20_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-9c6fbe2bbc-93791313&mc_cid=9c6fbe2bbc&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Bu SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Vladimir Putin’s war engine is being sustained not just by European payments for Russian oil and gas but also by a complicit class of “lumpen-bourgeoisie” motivated solely by the trappings of material wealth. Ukrainians, and everyone else, are learning the hard way how global capitalism trumps democracy and human rights.

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• Opinion | We Are Israeli Citizens, but Don’t Ask Us to Stop Being Palestinians

  
  April 19, 2022 14:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-are-israeli-citizens-but-don-t-ask-us-to-stop-being-palestinians-1.10743633

   

  By Ayman Odeh

  Published April 14, 2022

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• Selective Solidarity with War Victims: Ukrainian and Palestinian Refugees

  
  April 12, 2022 15:05

  Source: Politics Today

  https://politicstoday.org/solidarity-with-war-victims-ukraine-palestine-refugees/

   

  By Yousef M. Aljamal

  Published March 18, 2022

   

  Hundreds of Israelis protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with some of them burning their Russian passports in protest. Here lie a number of ironies.

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