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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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Are you ready for America’s Coming Offshore Wind Revolution?

Are you ready for America’s Coming Offshore Wind Revolution?

Offshore Wind could provide 12% of German Electricity by 2030; right now, the US has 5 such Turbines, but that will soon change

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Turkey recalls Ambassador from “Apartheid State” Israel, Israelis expel Turkish Consul

Turkey recalls Ambassador from “Apartheid State” Israel, Israelis expel Turkish Consul

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Twitter by calling Israel an “apartheid state”

Stuart Williams

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Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Top Three Ways Nikki Haley is like a Palestinian

Ironically, Ambassador Haley has a great deal in common with the Palestinians she despises

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Everything you Always wanted to Know about Palestine and were afraid to Ask (Noura Erekat CBS Video Interview)

Everything you Always wanted to Know about Palestine and were afraid to Ask (Noura Erekat CBS Video Interview)

Noura Erakat discusses the Palestinian reaction to the U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem

Noura Erekat

Israel/ Palestine
Stop telling Palestinians to be 'resilient' – the rest of the world has failed them

Stop telling Palestinians to be ‘resilient’ – the rest of the world has failed them

The “resilience” agenda is disingenuous on a number of levels

Brendan Ciaran Browne

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Can Palestinians be Killed?  Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

Can Palestinians be Killed? Can Israelis Kill them? Or do they only “Die”?

British newspapers of the colonial era also called the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre “the Amritsar Riot”

Juan Cole

Iraq
Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Still not Bush’s Iraq: Anti-American Cleric, Pro-Iran Militia and Communists ahead in Election

Years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, Iraq looks nothing like the American puppet state Neoconservatives had dreamed of

Sarah Benhaida

Gaza
Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Israeli Snipers massacre Palestinians at Gaza Border Rally, killing 55 & injuring over 2,700

Six of the slain were minors under 18, including one girl

Maan News Agency

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The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews  from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

The Half-Millennium When Rome excluded Jews from Jerusalem and how Iran and Muslims Saved Them

For hundreds of years under the Romans, whether pagan or Christian, the city was made completely devoid of Jews, at least by law

Juan Cole

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