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Opinion | A Dirty but Effective Way to Start Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Source: Haaretz
Published February 18, 2021
Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its fantasies. But there’s a practical, unglamorous way to make life better for two million Israelis and Palestinians
Read MoreTrump's gifts, Biden's promises, Netanyahu's wishes
Source: Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/trumps-gifts-bidens-promises-netanyahus-wishes
BY NAJLA M. SHAHWAN
Published February 23, 2021
Read MoreBiden Goes Big
Source: Project Syndicate
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.
Read MoreRaghuram G. Rajan Says More…
Source: Project Syndicate
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.
Read MoreBiden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind
Source: The New York Times
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By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek
Published February 15, 2021
Administration and Fed officials argue that workers not getting enough stimulus help is a larger concern than potential spikes in consumer prices.
Read MoreThe Seven Secrets of 2020
Source: Project Syndicate
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.
Read MoreNoam Chomsky: Solidarity movements key to changing US Middle East policy
Source: +972 Magazine
https://www.972mag.com/noam-chomsky-middle-east-israel/
By Lilach Ben David
Published February 17, 2021
From nuclear disarmament to Palestinian rights, Noam Chomsky discusses the need to disrupt authoritarian alliances and an entrenching 'Greater Israel.'
Read More10-20 American mouthpieces for Israeli government had unrivaled access to Obama White House — Rhodes
Source: Mondoweiss
BY PHILIP WEISS
Published February 24, 2021
White House officials have to go to the Israel lobby AIPAC conference, but if they meet with Arab-Americans 'you can get into trouble,' former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes says.
Read MoreICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes
Source: The Times of Israel
By LAZAR BERMAN
Published March 3, 2021
Chief Prosecutor Bensouda promises to investigate ‘impartially and objectively’; her look back starts from the day after 3 Israeli teens were murdered in West Bank in 2014
Read MoreIs Inflation Alive?
Source: Project Syndicate
Published March 3, 2021
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