Common Grounds

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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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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Pope gives Iraqis hope

March 11, 2021 17:25
Source: Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1822111

By Daoud Kuttab

Published March 8, 2021
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How Christian Evangelical Money and Biblical Prophecy Are Driving Immigration to Israel

March 09, 2021 20:02
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-christian-evangelical-money-is-driving-immigration-to-israel-1.9590223?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=96ea17f883

By Judy Maltz and Allison Kaplan Sommer

Published March 8,2021

Once the proud preserve of Jewish Diaspora organizations, aliyah funding is increasingly being ‘outsourced’ to deeply devout Christian groups with equally deep pockets and their own motives to encourage the ingathering of the exiles
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Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

February 18, 2021 12:49
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/business/economy/biden-fed-inflation-covid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210215&instance_id=27155&nl=the-morning&regi_id=146080032&segment_id=51724&te=1&user_id=e

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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.
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America Is (Sort of) Back

February 18, 2021 12:16
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-foreign-policy-challenges-credibility-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2021-02

By SHLOMO BEN-AMI

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.
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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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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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Was Jesus a Zionist? (continued)

February 19, 2021 11:16
Source: www.christianzionism.org

https://www.christianzionism.org/en/was-jesus-zionist

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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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