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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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The rise and rise of Iran: How Tehran has become pivotal to the future of the Middle East

The rise and rise of Iran: How Tehran has become pivotal to the future of the Middle East

By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (The Conversation) | – – Iran and the US are once again on a dangerous collision course. President Trump’s search for […]

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Donald Trump
The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast

The only Winners around Trump are the People who messed up the Mideast

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, […]

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“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)

“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol | Jamiol’s World Cartoons | – – Via Jamiol’s World Editorial Cartoons

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Bashar al-Assad
Have we Won yet? Was ISIL a flash in the Pan?

Have we Won yet? Was ISIL a flash in the Pan?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – With the Iraqi campaign against ISIL having wrested from it Mosul and Talafar, and with Hawija […]

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Donald Trump
Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?

Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?

By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | – – The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 […]

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Donald Trump
Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It

Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It

By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – –             Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He […]

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Israel/ Palestine
Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances

By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing […]

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Employment
Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day

Green Energy Jobs: Top 7 Pieces of Rare Good News for US Workers on Labor Day

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. The Christian Science Monitor says that in 2016, US solar businesses employed 260,077 workers – […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?

Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?

By Marcelo Rochabrun | (ProPublica) | – – With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what […]

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