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America Is (Sort of) Back
Source: Project Syndicate
Published February 17, 2021
From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark display. And that is only one obstacle President Joe Biden's administration faces in pursuing a robust foreign policy.
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 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 MoreI am a Jew and I want Palestinians heard in court
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)
https://jfjfp.com/i-am-a-jew-and-i-want-palestinians-heard-in-court/
Marilyn Garson writes in The Palestine Chronicle
Published February 8, 2021
Read MoreIsraelis, Palestinians want separation, skeptical of solutions - study
ource: The Jerusalem Post
By LAHAV HARKOV
Published February 10, 2021
Israeli Jews and Arabs, as well as West Bank and Gazan Palestinians, were more likely to be uncertain about conflict solutions.
Read MoreThere is no Jew or Gentile?
Source: Christians of Palestine
https://www.christiansofpalestine.com/post/anti-zionists-vs-zionists
By Mary Davis
Published February 6, 2021
Read MoreWelcome?
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor
Read More‘We’re taking responsibility’: Sixty teens announce refusal to serve in Israeli army
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)
https://jfjfp.com/were-taking-responsibility-sixty-teens-announce-refusal-to-serve-in-israeli-army/
Oren Ziv writes in +972
Published January 6, 2021
Dozens of Israeli teens sign public letter objecting to military service over Israel's policies of apartheid, neoliberalism, and denial of the Nakba.
Read MoreWhy Many American Jews Are Becoming Indifferent or Even Hostile to Israel
Source: Mosaic
By Daniel Gordis
May 8, 2017
It’s not about what Israel does. It’s about what, to their minds, Israel is.
Read MoreCountries are lining up for Russia’s once-scorned Sputnik vaccine after strong efficacy results
Source: Fortune
https://fortune.com/2021/02/08/international-sputnik-russia-demand/
By BLOOMBERG AND HENRY MEYER
Published February 8, 2021“We’re All in It, TOGETHER!
We only have one life to live on this one planet.”
Abraham A. van Kempen
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