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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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Hate Speech Advocate, who got Roseanne Barr Fired, Running Trump Mideast Policy

Hate Speech Advocate, who got Roseanne Barr Fired, Running Trump Mideast Policy

The people who put her up to these insane ideas are now running the US government’s foreign policy.

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
In Remote Iraqi town, US Troops and Iran-Backed Militias are already Facing Off

In Remote Iraqi town, US Troops and Iran-Backed Militias are already Facing Off

Baghdad (Niqash.org) – Locals in Al Qaim, Anbar, worry that the current stable security situation can’t last. It’s being upheld by US troops and Iran-allied […]

Mustafa Habib

Syria
Syria’s Assad gives Kurds option of Negotiation or War, Demands US Leave

Syria’s Assad gives Kurds option of Negotiation or War, Demands US Leave

Damascus (AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned US-backed Kurdish forces he would not hesitate to use force to retake the third of the […]

AFP

Climate Change
Don't forget to Duck!  Advice to College Graduates in the Trump Apocalypse

Don’t forget to Duck! Advice to College Graduates in the Trump Apocalypse

For those entering the workforce in 2018, the future looks grim

Tom Engelhardt

Guns
Schoolboy's Angst over School Shootings chokes up Sarah Sanders, who offers a "Commission" (Video)

Schoolboy’s Angst over School Shootings chokes up Sarah Sanders, who offers a “Commission” (Video)

The White House press secretary appeared to become emotional when answering a question about the danger facing children in schools

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Was the Roseanne Story really more Important than Puerto Rico's 5,740 Death Toll?

Was the Roseanne Story really more Important than Puerto Rico’s 5,740 Death Toll?

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the scope of the calamity

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran gives French Oil Giant a Deadline for Choosing between its NatGas or Trump

Iran gives French Oil Giant a Deadline for Choosing between its NatGas or Trump

Iran’s oil minister on Wednesday gave French energy giant Total 60 days to win a sanctions waiver from Washington

AFP

Climate Change
If Earth Warms past Paris Limit, those Tropical Islands you Love are in Big Trouble

If Earth Warms past Paris Limit, those Tropical Islands you Love are in Big Trouble

It’s the world’s poorest people who will suffer the biggest disruptions to their local climate

Andrew King

Israel/ Palestine
Rumors of Shakira Israel Concert Cancellation called Incorrect

Rumors of Shakira Israel Concert Cancellation called Incorrect

The initial news was carried widely, including by the Jerusalem Post

Juan Cole

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