Insights

The empire claps back.
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Biden's bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America's death spiral.
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Between the nightly raids and crackdowns by the Israeli military and the political intrigues within the divided Fatah movement, one wonders if the elections, if they take place, will finally allow Palestinians to mount a united front in the struggle against Israeli occupation.
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Even if Biden is able to overcome pressure from the military, from the CIA, and from Congress to shut Guantánamo down, justice will still be absent, not only because of the numerous lives that are forever shattered but because America still refuses to learn from its mistakes.
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As Moscow continues to cement its presence in the Middle East, Hamas sees a rare opportunity to break away from US-Israel imposed isolation.
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The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
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Biden’s “shifting global dynamics” are what Obama’s Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel referred to as “challenging the world order that American leadership helped build after World War II.” In other words, the world’s sole superpower is averse to an emerging multipolar world.
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Elections will matter in Palestine when they are called to include all people who live between the River and the Sea -- one person, one vote for a single legislature and executive in a Palestine that is liberated.
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No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires.
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Despite its recent failures in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO is turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
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