Commentary From World News Trust Contributors
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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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When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine | Ramzy Baroud
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 ...
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‘Long Live the (Dead) Peace Process’: Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National Unity | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 6, 2020 No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President ...
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Debunking the ‘Opium of the People’ Maxim: Football is about Politics and Class Struggle | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2020 Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the United States, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people fr ...
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The King’s Man: Blinken’s Appointment Reassures Israel that Little Will Change under Biden | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 29, 2020 Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nothing to worry about: the man who will directly handle America’s foreign poli ...
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Moving Past Apartheid: One-State is not Ideal Justice, but It is Just and Possible | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2020 Once again, Europe's top diplomats expressed their "deep concern" regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking ...
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Expansion and Mass Eviction: Israel ‘Takes Advantage’ of Trump’s Remaining Days in Office | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 22, 2020 In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand ...
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‘Total Reset’ is Wishful Thinking: The Daunting Task of Reordering US Foreign Policy | Ramzy Baroud
President-elect Joe BidenRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 15, 2020 A new term has imposed itself on the conversation regarding the impending presidency of U.S. President-elect, Joe Biden: “The T ...
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As Israel Destroys EU Projects in Palestine, European Foreign Policy Remains Impotent | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 15, 2020 Belgium is furious. On Nov. 6, the Belgian government condemned Israel’s destruction of Belgian-funded homes in the Occupied Palestinian ...
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Future of American Democracy: On Inequality, Polarization and Violence | Ramzy Baroud
Dr Ramzy Baroud4Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 4, 2020 In January 2017, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s Democracy Index downgraded the state of democracy in the United States from “ful ...
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‘Playing for Time’: The Non-strategy of Mahmoud Abbas | Ramzy Baroud
Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 8, 2020 “If we are going to live another four years with President Trump, God help us, God help you and God help the whole world.” These were the ...
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