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

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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The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

The CIA and The Banality of Haspel

It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA– and that’s why she’s a terrible choice

John Feffer

Iran
Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran Foreign Minister in Moscow as Russia moves to save nuclear deal

Iran’s foreign minister was in Moscow on Monday as Russia tries to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive in the wake of Washington’s pull-out

AFP

Donald Trump
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War:  a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?

It’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean

Michael T. Klare

European Union
Germany will try to shield firms from US Sanctions after Trump Violation of Iran Treaty

Germany will try to shield firms from US Sanctions after Trump Violation of Iran Treaty

It could be difficult to shield them from any fallout, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday

Middle East Monitor

Donald Trump
What Trump’s torching of Iran deal says about US commitment to nuclear security

What Trump’s torching of Iran deal says about US commitment to nuclear security

Trump has deepened the world’s dangers two-fold

Scott L. Montgomery

Sudan
World Defends Sudanese Rape Victim Condemned to Death

World Defends Sudanese Rape Victim Condemned to Death

Hussein attempted to escape her arranged marriage but was forcibly restrained by her in-laws while her husband raped her

TeleSur

Feminism
Israel wins Eurovision with #MeToo inspired song

Israel wins Eurovision with #MeToo inspired song

Refrains such as “I am not your toy, you stupid boy”, summed up the concerns of many women against sexual harassment

Daniel Silva

Donald Trump
Kelly's "Family Separation"  recalls Slave Era practice of Selling Parents down the River

Kelly’s “Family Separation” recalls Slave Era practice of Selling Parents down the River

Kelly bizarrely defended Confederate slave drivers as having lived at a time before the evils of slavery were apparent to moral people

Juan Cole

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Muslim Clerics condemn Suicide Bombing, Targeting Civilians as Violations of Islamic Law

Muslim Clerics condemn Suicide Bombing, Targeting Civilians as Violations of Islamic Law

Indonesia hosted a conference of 70 prominent Muslim clergymen from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia to combat extremism

Juan Cole

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