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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 Dragon and the Lion: How China will Win Big from Trump's Scrapping of Iran Deal

The Dragon and the Lion: How China will Win Big from Trump’s Scrapping of Iran Deal

Pushing Iran into China’s waiting arms was unlikely to have been a major US policy goal in the Middle East

Neil Thompson

Iran
Why does the American Right hate, despise and abhor Iran so Much?

Why does the American Right hate, despise and abhor Iran so Much?

Conservatives see the world as threatening, and Evangelicals are competing for souls with Islam

Steven Hurst

Archaeology
How Horse-Riding in Eurasia advantaged Huns, Mongols over Farmers

How Horse-Riding in Eurasia advantaged Huns, Mongols over Farmers

Migrations brought Pastoralists and Plague

Mariette Le Roux

Iran
Largest Israeli raids on Syria in Years hit ‘Iranian’ Targets after Rocket Fire

Largest Israeli raids on Syria in Years hit ‘Iranian’ Targets after Rocket Fire

The incident came after weeks of rising tensions and followed US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal

AFP

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Trump Warmonger moves on Iran are from Iraq Playbook

Trump Warmonger moves on Iran are from Iraq Playbook

The stage is set.

Juan Cole

Iran
Iran’s Rouhani:  Will watch Russia, China and Europe in deciding on Nuclear Program

Iran’s Rouhani: Will watch Russia, China and Europe in deciding on Nuclear Program

President Hassan Rouhani also said Iran could resume uranium enrichment “without limit” in response to Trump’s announcement

AFP

Donald Trump
Even though we keep Bombing Weddings, Americans can't See the extremist in the Mirror

Even though we keep Bombing Weddings, Americans can’t See the extremist in the Mirror

They are the extremists. If you need proof, look no further than the Afghan capital, Kabul, where the latest wave of suicide bombings has proven […]

Tom Engelhardt

Israel/ Palestine
At 70, as Apartheid Sets in, Israel faces a new Threat: Itself

At 70, as Apartheid Sets in, Israel faces a new Threat: Itself

Novelist David Grossman calls Israel a ‘fortress’ rather than a home

AFP

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No, Iran and Hizbullah haven't taken over Lebanon: it is a multiparty Election

No, Iran and Hizbullah haven’t taken over Lebanon: it is a multiparty Election

Saudi Arabia’s weird kidnapping of Sunni leader hurt him at polls

Juan Cole

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