When a global pandemic strikes, the private-sector austerity model simply falls apart, writes Vijay Prashad.
COVID-19: We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem
Category: Palestine
Israeli Expansionism Top Threat to Jordan’s Stability
Trump’s “peace plan” would confront Amman with an influx of Palestinian refugees, who would follow refugee influxes from post-2003 Iraq and post-2011 Syria, writes Giorgio Cafiero.
CN LIVE!: ‘Deal of the Century?’
Watch Episode 4 of Season 2 of CN Live! for a discussion of Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” and what it means for the Middle East.
Who Made the Palestinian Authority a ‘Police State?’
Jonathan Cook unpacks a revealing exchange between Trump’s son-in-law and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Trump ‘Solves’ the Arab-Israeli Conflict
This plan goes beyond all previous U.S. commitments to Israel and of course it too will not work, writes As’ad AbuKhalil.
Buttigieg Backer Top Funder of Group Behind Iowa’s Disastrous Voting App
A dark money operation funded by billionaires is behind the app that delayed Iowa’s voting results, Max Blumenthal reports.
Trump Gives Away the Store and Israel Will Now Officially Become an Apartheid State
Ignoring past Israeli prime ministers who warned that annexation of the West Bank would introduce legal apartheid to Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu said the first phase of annexations would go to the Cabinet on Sunday, reports Joe Lauria.
The Holocaust, BBC & Anti-Semitism Smears
Israel has proven particularly adept at inverting and weaponizing a form of identity politics, writes Jonathan Cook.
ICC Should Not Delay Investigating Israeli War Crimes
Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has established an unnecessary condition that slows down the process, writes Marjorie Cohn.
THE ANGRY ARAB: US Middle East Policy in a Future Democratic Administration
A Democrat in the White House could easily engage the U.S. in more regional conflicts and wars, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.