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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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Remember GOP in Texas opposing Aid for NY after Sandy? Now they want Aid

Remember GOP in Texas opposing Aid for NY after Sandy? Now they want Aid

By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – Ted Cruz, who voted against a relief package for states impacted by Hurricane Sandy, […]

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Donald Trump
White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville

White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville

By George Joseph | ProPublica | – – Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, […]

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Climate Change
The worst flooding disaster in Recorded US history?

The worst flooding disaster in Recorded US history?

The Watchers | – – Category 4 Hurricane "Harvey" made landfall around 03:00 UTC on Saturday, August 26, at Rockport, Texas with winds of 215 […]

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Climate Change
Top 5 ways Man-made Climate Change made Hurricane Harvey much Worse

Top 5 ways Man-made Climate Change made Hurricane Harvey much Worse

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The images from Houston and its environs are heart-breaking and we at IC wish all those […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
Was Hate's Reach into US Public Extended by Internet?

Was Hate’s Reach into US Public Extended by Internet?

James E. Hawdon | (The Conversation) | – – Extremism has always been with us, but the internet has allowed ideas that advocate hate and […]

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Counter-Terrorism
Barcelona: Nearly 500K march for Peace, against Islamophobia

Barcelona: Nearly 500K march for Peace, against Islamophobia

TeleSur | – – Marchers, on Saturday, displayed signs and banners with various slogans. Some read, “No to Islamophobia,” “The best response: Peace,” and “I’m […]

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Authoritarianism
Trump's Organized Chaos: Channeling the Dictators – And Their Lieutenants

Trump’s Organized Chaos: Channeling the Dictators – And Their Lieutenants

By Shalom Goldman | (Informed Comment) | – – When Donald Trump was vying for the Republic nomination, and even more so after he won […]

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Iraq: Trump slams Iran, but Iran-backed Militias are key to taking Talafar from ISIL

Iraq: Trump slams Iran, but Iran-backed Militias are key to taking Talafar from ISIL

by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Shiite popular mobilization units (Iran-backed militias) have played a key role in taking of the northern […]

Juan Cole

Books
Mosul Youth rescue Books and Music in wake of ISIL Defeat

Mosul Youth rescue Books and Music in wake of ISIL Defeat

Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | – – Two projects in Mouls show a different side to the devastated northern Iraqi city, as younger […]

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