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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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Climate Change
Seas Surge as Pace of Antarctica Ice Loss Triples in 5 Yrs: 3 Trillion Tons Melted

Seas Surge as Pace of Antarctica Ice Loss Triples in 5 Yrs: 3 Trillion Tons Melted

Antarctica has lost a staggering three trillion tonnes of ice since 1992, according to a landmark study published Wednesday

AFP

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Top 8 Ways Iran Deal was Way Better than Trump's North Korea Commitment

Top 8 Ways Iran Deal was Way Better than Trump’s North Korea Commitment

Trump’s agreement with Kim Jong Un appears to be much worse for US interests than the supposedly awful Iran Deal

Juan Cole

North Korea
What could Really Make a US-N. Korea Summit Work:  A Peace Treaty US Hawks Honor

What could Really Make a US-N. Korea Summit Work: A Peace Treaty US Hawks Honor

Democratic and Republican hawks in Washington are already trying to make sure there’s no meaningful peace accord

Reese Erlich

Israel/ Palestine
The Women of Gaza and the Great March of Return

The Women of Gaza and the Great March of Return

Why Palestine’s Feminists are Fighting on Two Fronts

Fadi Abu Shammala

Yemen
Yemen:  US won’t stop UAE from Launching “Bloody, Prolonged” Battle for Hodeida

Yemen: US won’t stop UAE from Launching “Bloody, Prolonged” Battle for Hodeida

Pro-government forces fighting Yemen’s Huthi rebels are sending reinforcements towards the port of Hodeida, military sources said Tuesday

Fawaz al-Haidari

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If Obama had met with Kim Jong Un, the Republican Party would have had a Cow

If Obama had met with Kim Jong Un, the Republican Party would have had a Cow

The depths of hypocrisy of the Republican Party in supporting Trump’s meeting with the North Korean dictator in Singapore are hard to plumb

Juan Cole

Syria
Nearly 1 Mn. Syrians made Homeless Already this Year, & UN Fears 2 Mn. to Come

Nearly 1 Mn. Syrians made Homeless Already this Year, & UN Fears 2 Mn. to Come

More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018

Nina Larson

Immigration
Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses for Refugee Children

Nevermind the Wall — They’re Building Warehouses for Refugee Children

The newest plank of immigration enforcement? Kidnapping children and piling them into detention centers.

Peter Certo

Displaced and Refugees
“Death Sentence:” Dems Slam Sessions’ Denial of Asylum to Gang, Abuse Victims

“Death Sentence:” Dems Slam Sessions’ Denial of Asylum to Gang, Abuse Victims

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared Monday that victims of domestic and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum

Paul Handley

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