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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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Yes, you can stand for Palestinian rights without being Antisemitic

Yes, you can stand for Palestinian rights without being Antisemitic

It needs to be said once again

Jill Richardson

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Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”

Review of Bernard Lewis’ “What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response”

What Went Wrong? is a very bad book from a usually very good author

Juan Cole

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The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?

The Royal Wedding and the End of Whiteness?

People may finally be waking up to the fact that race is a construct

Juan Cole

Featured
Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home

Statistically, she was no more safe in the US than she was in Pakistan

Juan Cole

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Race for Film Gold at Cannes in shadow of #MeToo & Gaza

Race for Film Gold at Cannes in shadow of #MeToo & Gaza

Movies by Spike Lee, South Korea’s Lee Chang-dong, Italian Matteo Garrone and Nadine Labaki of Lebanon drew critical acclaim

Deborah Cole

Human Rights Watch
Saudis Arrest 7 Women's Rights Activists who had  Upstaged Crown Prince on Driving

Saudis Arrest 7 Women’s Rights Activists who had Upstaged Crown Prince on Driving

Jumping Ahead of Crown Prince’s Reforms Risks Jail Time

Human Rights Watch

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinian women: a history of female resistance in Gaza and the West Bank

Palestinian women: a history of female resistance in Gaza and the West Bank

Palestinian women are the backbone of a fragmented and demoralised society

Maria Holt

China
China picking up Iran Gas Deal Trump forced France’s Total to Give Up… In Yuan, not Dollars

China picking up Iran Gas Deal Trump forced France’s Total to Give Up… In Yuan, not Dollars

Trump’s move to reimpose sanctions will hit European companies especially hard

Julien Girault

Climate Change
Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Alabama Rep with Rocks in his Head blames Rocks for Climate Change

Rep. Brooks believes that silt from the Nile River in Egypt is part of the problem. He doesn’t know that the Nile was dammed up in 1958

Juan Cole

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