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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”
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Iran Seeks China’s help to Install 7 gigs of new Solar Capacity in “4th Industrial Revolution”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – With the prospect of new Iranian nuclear power plants looking dim after Israeli and American bombing of its civilian nuclear […]

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

09/13/2025 By Middle East Monitor

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy Plan that relies on Urbicide and Expulsion

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Psychopathocracy 3.0

This essay was first published in January 2017. It seems even more prescient 8 and a half years later. At that time I could not […]

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Bare Life: Israel is engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life for Palestinians

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Afghanistan
After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

After 4 years of Repressive Taliban Rule, Afghans are Suffering in Silence. Is the World still Watching?

By Niamatullah Ibrahimi, The University of Melbourne; Arif Saba, Deakin University, and Safiullah Taye, Australian Catholic University (The Conversation) – On August 15 2021, Afghanistan’s […]

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

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

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 […]

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The Obliteration Doctrine, and the West’s Complicity

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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

By William deBuys ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but […]

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Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Saudi Arabia in Modern History

Book Review – David Commins, “Saudi Arabia: A Modern History” (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – […]

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Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

Greek Protesters block military Cargo bound for Israel

The protest represents a multi-dimensional struggle: economic, geopolitical, and ethical. Written by Elvis Takahashi Mantello Protesters gather at Piraeus port to block a shipment believed […]

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Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

Israel must allow independent Investigations of Palestinian Journalist Killings – and let international Media into Gaza

By Peter Greste, Macquarie University (The Conversation) – The New York-based media freedom organisation, the Committee to Protect Journalists, is scrupulous with its words. So, […]

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