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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East
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Under the Sea: China’s Digital Silk Road and the Middle East

Neil Thompson

London (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – China-US geopolitical rivalries have manifested in many arenas from esoteric ones like export controls over semiconductor chips, to […]

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

08/15/2025 By Dan Steinbock

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

No Country is an Island: Trump’s Destruction of Global Heath will Bite us on the Posterior

08/15/2025 By William deBuys

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Fundraising Appeal:  Threatened Israeli (SLAPP?) Lawsuit attempts to bankrupt Informed Comment

Fundraising Appeal: Threatened Israeli (SLAPP?) Lawsuit attempts to bankrupt Informed Comment

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Running a small independent publication on controversial issues is fraught with problems. One of them is that people threaten to […]

Juan Cole

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Protesting Cornell University’s Suspension and threatened Deportation of graduate Student Momodou Taal for Protest

Protesting Cornell University’s Suspension and threatened Deportation of graduate Student Momodou Taal for Protest

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Dear Interim President Kotlikoff, Provost Bala, Dr. Lombardi and Ms. Liang: We write on […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Hezbollah is not Finished Yet

Hezbollah is not Finished Yet

( The National ) – The assassination of Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut will not diminish the group he once led. The killing […]

Ibrahim Al-Marashi

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Why an Israeli invasion of Lebanon is a Mistake

Why an Israeli invasion of Lebanon is a Mistake

By Vanessa Newby, Leiden University and Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po | – (The Conversation) – The death of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli […]

The Conversation

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The Battle for the Soul of American Science: The Pentagon goes to School

The Battle for the Soul of American Science: The Pentagon goes to School

( Tomdispatch.com ) – The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of […]

William D. Hartung

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The Path to Nasrallah's Assassination

The Path to Nasrallah’s Assassination

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah has implications for the struggle of Iran and its alliance of resistance against Israel […]

Juan Cole

International Court of Justice
The War of Legitimacy: How the International Criminal Court and the UN Gen. Assembly Challenged Israeli, US Impunity

The War of Legitimacy: How the International Criminal Court and the UN Gen. Assembly Challenged Israeli, US Impunity

( Middle East Monitor ) – Two historic events regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine took place on 19 July and 18 September. The first […]

Ramzy Baroud

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Climate Change-Driven Hurricanes and Wildfires are causing Home Insurance Rates to Skyrocket

Climate Change-Driven Hurricanes and Wildfires are causing Home Insurance Rates to Skyrocket

By Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan | – (The Conversation) – Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance […]

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Water as a Weapon of War in Gaza (The New Lines Institute)

Water as a Weapon of War in Gaza (The New Lines Institute)

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Here are the first few paragraphs of my long essay for The New Lines Institute on the Israeli use of […]

Juan Cole

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