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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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Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’

How the mindless algorithms of social media enabled the far right

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Displaced and Refugees
Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

Saudi-led Airstrikes on Yemen Deadly for Children

Are Western weapons killing civilians in Yemen?

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al Qaeda in the Arabian Penisula
London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

London Covered but 83 Iraqis killed in ISIL attack largely ignored by US TV News

UK lives are precious but aren’t Iraqi lives, as well?

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Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

Russia rebuffs Israeli demand for 40 mi. Buffer with Iran in Syria (Haaretz)

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – According to Haaretz Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked Vldadimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, […]

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Elections
Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Can Iran keep its Influence in Baghdad?

Divisions in the Da`wa Party and Iraqi Nationalism pose Challenges to Tehran

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Superstorm Donald Hits GOP, aims to Ravage US

Up Military Spending and cut Budget, & you’ll get a wasteland

Juan Cole

Climate Change
How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid

How solar power can protect US military from threats to the grid

Bases depend heavily on Electricity; Renewables are part of their Security

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Authoritarianism
Book-Burning, Trump's Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck

Book-Burning, Trump’s Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck

We thought the days of book-burning ended with the defeat of Hitler, but with Trump they might be back

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Corporate Surveillance
Rice Vindicated: She did Unmask Trump, Bannon-- but they were meeting UAE

Rice Vindicated: She did Unmask Trump, Bannon– but they were meeting UAE

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Arab Emirates crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan slipped into the United States […]

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