Commentary
Dec. 23, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the last year, and especially over the last month, I’ve fielded a flurry of questions about the astrological meaning of the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn that took place on Monday. I’ve been intrigued to note that quite a few of those questions have come from people who admit they don’t know much about astrology but have a sense, however vague, that this ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 3, 2021 2020 will go down in history as the year that terminated the American-sponsored "peace process." While 2021 will not reverse the monument ...
Dec. 30, 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- For most of the 14 years I’ve been blogging, it’s been a habit of mine on the last post of the old year (or, now and then, the first post of the new one) to offer pre ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2020 On Dec. 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spendin ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 20, 2020 It is convenient to surmise that Israel’s current political crisis is consistent with the country’s unfailing trajectory of short-lived ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2020 The notion that the COVID-19 pandemic was "the great equalizer" should be dead and buried by now. If anything, the lethal disease is ano ...
Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Dec. 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solv ...
A U.S. Army M113 in Panama — DoD photo by PH1(SW) J. Elliott (public domain) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 17, 2020 (It’s been a while since I indulged my political history snark and this tim ...
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 13, 2020 Dec. 8 came and went as if it was an ordinary day. For Palestinian political groups, it was another anniversary to be commemorated, howe ...
Dec. 16 2020 (EcoSophia.net) -- Over the the course of the last year we’ve explored quite a bit of the magical history of America, from colonial times up to the coming of Theosophy and the dawn of th ...
Still image from the 1960 film version of West Side Story (credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World News Trust December 14, 2020 Part of growing up as a heavily conditioned, lower-middle-class male in New Y ...