‘Blood for Blood’: On Jenin and Israel’s Fear of an Armed Palestinian Rebellion | Ramzy Baroud

Palestinian resistance fighters confronted Israeli forces in Jenin. (File Photo: via PalInfo) Ramzy Baroud -- Wiorld News Trust Aug. 26, 2021 The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupat ...

Palestine’s Africa Dichotomy: Is Israel Really ‘Winning’ Africa? | Ramzy Baroud

A pro-Palestine rally in South Africa. (Photo: Twitter, via MEMO) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 24, 2021 The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer sta ...

Potemkin Nation | John Michael Greer

Aug. 18, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- There are advantages to learning about history. One of the big ones is that patterns repeat themselves across historical time, and if you know what happened just befo ...

The Quiet Rebellion: Why US Jews Turning against Israel is Good for Palestinians | Ramzy Baroud

Thousands of New Yorkers protest the Israeli war on Gaza in May 2021. (Photo: via Friends of Palestine Facebook Page) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 18, 2021 A unique but critical conversation ...

Greed and Consumption: Why the World is Burning | Ramzy Baroud

NSW Fire and Rescue officers fight a bushfire encroaching on properties in Australia in December 2019. (Photo: via AJE) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 17, 2021 Rome is scorching hot. This beau ...

The Murder of the ‘Menacing’ Water Technician: On the Shadow Wars in the West Bank | Ramzy Baroud

Shadi Omar Lotfi Salim, 41, was killed by Israeli forces. (Photo: via Social Media) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 11, 2021 There is an ongoing, but hidden, Israeli war on the Palestinians whi ...

US Foreign Policy Adrift: Why Washington No Longer Calling the Shots | Ramzy Baroud

US President Joe Biden. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 6, 2021 Jonah Goldberg and Michael Ledeen have much in common. They are both writers and also cheerleaders for ...

The Politics of Cheering and Booing: On Palestine, Solidarity and the Tokyo Olympics | Ramzy Baroud

The flag of Palestine was carried into the 2016 Olympics by a Palestinian woman. (Photo: via Twitter) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 4, 2021 When the Palestinian Olympic delegation of five ath ...

How the Bobos Broke America | David Brooks

Illustration by Kimberly Elliott The creative class was supposed to foster progressive values and economic growth. Instead we got resentment, alienation, and endless political dysfunction. Aug. 2, 20 ...

Reminder: The U.S. Gov’t Lies, Manipulates, and Kills Without Remorse — Mickey Z.

Via alfassa.com Mickey Z. — World News Trust August 1, 2021 On July 25, 1990, Saddam Hussein entertained a guest at the Presidential Palace in Baghdad: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie. She tol ...

How Ben & Jerry’s has Exposed Israel’s Anti-BDS Strategy | Ramzy Baroud

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shop on Washington Street in New Jersey. (Photo: Luigi Novi, Wikimedia Commons) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 28, 2021 Ben & Jerry’s decision to suspend its operations ...