Ian Berman

Ian Berman is an entrepreneur and former corporate banker at leading global banks in New York City. He now focuses on financial advisory services and writing about representative government, equitable public policies and ending American militarism and Israel’s continuing colonization of Palestine. He is the Co-Founder of Palestine 365, the Ongoing Oppression and its predecessor, Palestine 365, on Facebook.

Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following

Our democracy is traveling down a slippery slope of censorship by private internet portals and the mainstream news media is saying nothing.

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Supporters of a right-wing group protest against censorship after their events, groups and profiles were blocked by Facebook in front of the Facebook Office in Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 5, 2016. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

FACEBOOK, THE PUBLIC COMMONS -- On August 11, Facebook suddenly took down the Facebook page of teleSUR English for allegedly failing to comply with Facebook’s Terms of Use. This unit is a part of Telesur, a left-wing news organization “sponsored primarily by the government of Venezuela, but also by Cuba, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Bolivia.” After

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The US as the Nation State of the Protestant Christian People

What would Israel’s Nation-State Law look like if it was applied to the United States?

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An Evangelical Christian holds up an American flag during a gathering in Jerusalem. Thousands of evangelical Christians from more than 80 countries descended upon Jerusalem this week to show their support for the Jewish state. Dan Balilty | AP

WASHINGTON -- In honor of the shared values between the State of Israel and the United States of America, and the recently passed “Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” Basic Law, the following bill has been proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives (with an identical bill proposed in the U.S. Senate).  Since an overwhelming number

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This Political Hell was Created by Rigged Primaries and Horrible Establishment Candidates, Not “Protest Votes”

The only way I will ever accept my choice being called a protest vote is if establishment Democrats acknowledge the primary was insurmountably rigged on Clinton’s behalf

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves to the crowd as she takes the stage to speak during the fourth day session of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. Andrew Harnik | AP

July 09th, 2018 (Opinion) -- With the outrage over separating families at the border and the prospect of another conservative Supreme Court Justice, Clinton Pallbearers are once again pointing fingers at Sanders and Stein supporters. Never mind that Gary Johnson Voters (4.49 million)  far exceeded the Jill Stein Voters (1.46 million) in the general

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The Intercept and Reality Winner: When a Conflicted News Organization Should Pass the Baton

While The Intercept skillfully shows the audacious federal government’s attack on whistleblower Winner is a threat to our democracy, it woefully obfuscates its own multiple failings to protect sources.

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Accused NSA whistleblower, Reality Winner, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Augusta, Ga., following a bond hearing on June 8, 2017. (Photo: Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle/AP)

On Jeremy Scahill’s June 6, 2018 Intercepted podcast, The Persecution of Reality Winner, his guests, colleagues and he skillfully showed how Reality Winner’s prosecution is a shameless act of the federal government’s prosecutorial overreach to shut down whistleblowers. Briefly, Winner released one classified NSA document that showed the federal

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Rex Tillerson Rewrites Syria, Ultimately Blames Iran, Essentially Declares War

Without telling you explicitly, and with no authority from Congress as required by the Constitution, the U.S. has invaded and occupied Syria with no intention to leave.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., Jan. 17, 2018. (AP/Jeff Chiu)

WASHINGTON (Opinion) -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson presented remarks on The Way Forward for the United States Regarding Syria to the Hoover Institute at Stanford on January 17. To start, Tillerson proved his mettle in lying for the U.S. Empire by blaming Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for the rise of ISIS. First Tillerson implied Assad

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A Questionable Allegation and the WaPo Smear That Followed

The Washington Post concluded that Sen. Al Franken believes those accused of sexual harassment are guilty until proven innocent.  That is quite an extreme bias in reporting.

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Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., listens at a committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington. A second woman has accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken of inappropriate touching, saying on Nov. 20, 2017 that he put his hand on her bottom as they posed for a picture at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010, after he had begun his career in the Senate. Menz's allegation comes days after a Los Angeles broadcaster, Leeann Tweeden, accused Franken of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Opinion -- Leeann Tweeden has alleged that Senator Al Franken forcibly kissed her under the guise of rehearsing for their USO tour show in 2006.  Sen. Franken was a comedian at the time and headlined the show. If the story was correctly recounted, and Sen. Franken has not contradicted it, then Tweeden's story about the forced kiss is classic

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Israel’s Latest Act Of War: Another Attempt To Stop A “Peace Offensive”

“One nation openly attacking another on the latter’s territory would create a crisis anywhere else in the world. Not in Gaza though.” Perhaps the bigger questions are was this necessary and why now?

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Relatives of Palestinian Muhammed al-Aqraa, who was killed in an explosion in a smuggling tunnel at the border between Gaza and Egypt, mourn over his body in his family house during his funeral, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Palestinian officials say an Israeli pre-dawn airstrike has killed several Gaza residents and wounded five others in a smuggling tunnel along the border with Egypt. The bombing appears to be the first to target smuggling tunnels since the 2014 war between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

GAZA (Analysis) -- On Monday, October 30, Israel fired five missiles at a tunnel under construction in Gazan territory east of Khan Younis. Seven Palestinians were killed and nine wounded during the attack. Israel asserts that the tunnel had reached the Israeli side of the perimeter wall it has built around Gaza, but it attacked the tunnel on the

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