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Fearing the Palestinian Narrative: Why Israel Banned ‘Jenin Jenin’ | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 17, 2021 On Jan. 11, the Israeli Lod District Court ruled against a Palestinian film-maker, Mahmoud Bakri, ordering him to pay hefty compensation to an Israeli soldier who was accused, along with the Israeli military, of carrying out war crimes in April 2002, in the Palestinian Jenin refugee camp located in the northern occupied West Bank. The ...

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Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine? | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 9, 2021 In an interview with the British newspaper, The Times, in 2015, former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld vehemently denied that expo ...

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Wake-Up Call: Stop Telling People to “Wake-Up” — Mickey Z.

Zuccotti Park, the site of the original Occupy Wall Street: September 30, 2011 (Photo: Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 15, 2021 The past year has provided us with no shortage of stanc ...

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Mom Got Her Chain Snatched, Dad Drove on the Sidewalk, I Learned Plenty — Mickey Z.

(Photos courtesy of Mickey Z.) Mickey Z. — World News Trust January 12, 2021 (This article is timed to be released on January 12 — 13 years to the day since my mother died and three years to the day ...

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Analysis Reveals Predictable Patterns In Armed Conflicts | Santa Fe Institute

Engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770. Credit: Paul Revere Jan. 8, 2020 (Phys.org) -- New work by SFI's Collective Computation Group (C4) finds that human conflict exhibits remarkable regularity des ...

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The Grand Mutation: An Astrological Interlude | John Michael Greer

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 tha ...

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2021: Palestine’s Chance of Fighting Back | Ramzy Baroud

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 ...

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The US Money Tree: The Untold Story of American Aid to Israel | Ramzy Baroud

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 ...

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How the Richest Man in the World Made Us Trust the COVID Vaccine — Mickey Z.

(credit unknown) Mickey Z. — World New Trust December 27, 2020 Preface: In August 2020, I wrote an article entitled, “Can a 'Warp Speed' COVID-19 Vaccine Be Safe?” It covers a lot of ground and if yo ...

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A Country in Turmoil: Why Netanyahu is a Symptom, Not Cause of Israel’s Political Crisis | Ramzy Baroud

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 ...

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The Great Divider: Covid-19 Reflects Global Racism, Not Equality | Ramzy Baroud

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 ...

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