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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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Israel/ Palestine
Kushner tells Abbas Israeli Squatter Expansion can't be stopped b/c Netanyahu Gov't would Fall

Kushner tells Abbas Israeli Squatter Expansion can’t be stopped b/c Netanyahu Gov’t would Fall

IMEMC News | – – The U.S. delegation led by Kushner expressed openness to the two-state solution while refusing to commit to the 1967 borders, […]

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Europe
Muslims well-integrated in Western Europe, but still face rejection

Muslims well-integrated in Western Europe, but still face rejection

By Zoran Radosavljevic | EURACTIV.com | – – Muslims have come a long way towards integration into Western Europe, particularly in terms of language, education […]

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Donald Trump
Trump Exploits Harvey Victims in Stealth Pardon of Arpaio

Trump Exploits Harvey Victims in Stealth Pardon of Arpaio

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Eminent climate scientist Michael Mann of Penn State noticed not one but two horrible things about […]

Juan Cole

Evolution
Mission Accomplished: Iraq drops chapter on evolution from school textbooks

Mission Accomplished: Iraq drops chapter on evolution from school textbooks

By Brian Whitaker | ( Al-Bab.com ) | – – Iraq’s education ministry has quietly dropped a chapter about evolution from its biology textbooks. The […]

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Qatar
Qatar: New Law Gives Domestic Workers Labor Rights

Qatar: New Law Gives Domestic Workers Labor Rights

Human Rights Watch | – – (Beirut) – Qatar’s adoption of a new law on domestic workers provides labor rights for domestic workers for the […]

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Hizbullah
Hezbollah and Syrian Army Liberate Large ISIL Enclave: Nasrallah

Hezbollah and Syrian Army Liberate Large ISIL Enclave: Nasrallah

By TeleSur | – – Following the joint offensive, the Islamic State group only controls 40 square kilometers on the Syrian side, and 20 on […]

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Donald Trump
It’s Time to Take the Nazi-Trump Comparisons Seriously

It’s Time to Take the Nazi-Trump Comparisons Seriously

By Adil E. Shamoo and Bonnie Bricker | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – The slide towards bleak historical periods can be […]

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Environmentalism
Take that, Trump!  5% of California New Car Sales now Electric

Take that, Trump! 5% of California New Car Sales now Electric

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Despite Trump having pulled the US out of the Paris Climate accord, there is reason to […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Afghanistan is now officially James Mattis’ war

Afghanistan is now officially James Mattis’ war

By Simon Reich | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s speech on his administration’s strategy in Afghanistan – in which he announced the introduction […]

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