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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants
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Even as it Strikes Deals with Trump, the Gulf Embraces Chinese Tech Giants

Neil Thompson

Chinese technology firms are increasingly competing with US ones in major Middle Eastern markets, escalating technology-related US national security concerns. London (Special to Informed Comment; […]

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

US: Don’t Forcibly Transfer Migrants to Libya

05/13/2025 By Human Rights Watch

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

Netanyahu’s Occupation Plan for Gaza means more Suffering for Palestinians and less Security for Israel

05/13/2025 By The Conversation

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Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion

Despite Proven Fraud, Trump to Boost Payments to Privatized Medicare Advantage by $25 Billion

“Privatized Medicare plans are denying patients the care they need, while defrauding the government of billions a year,” said one advocacy group. “Donald Trump is […]

Common Dreams

Climate Crisis
Wet Bulb Dead Zones could make Parts of Middle East, Pakistan, Uninhabitable — Even at Night

Wet Bulb Dead Zones could make Parts of Middle East, Pakistan, Uninhabitable — Even at Night

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Last fall, NASA scientist Colin Raymond and colleagues published an article showing that contrary to expectations, deadly heat and humidity […]

Juan Cole

Donald Trump
The Six-Times Bankrupt Trump Turns to Bankrupting America

The Six-Times Bankrupt Trump Turns to Bankrupting America

( Tomdispatch.com ) – From childhood, I think I had some eerie sense of just how bad it could get in America. After all, in junior […]

Tom Engelhardt

Academic Freedom
Protesting Yale’s Firing of Helyeh Doutagh based on Questionable Israeli AI-generated Charges

Protesting Yale’s Firing of Helyeh Doutagh based on Questionable Israeli AI-generated Charges

Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association | – Susan Sawyer Senior Associate General Counsel Yale University susan.sawyer@yale.edu Dear Ms. Sawyer: We write […]

Committee on Academic Freedom

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Solar Power doubling every 3 Years; 41% of world Electricity now Low-Carbon

Solar Power doubling every 3 Years; 41% of world Electricity now Low-Carbon

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – It may be that Trump can slow the advance of renewables, including solar energy, in the United States. That would […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Release All other Arbitrarily Detained Rights Activists Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel […]

Human Rights Watch

Donald Trump
With US Bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a Deal with Iran and avoid a War?

With US Bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a Deal with Iran and avoid a War?

By Amin Saikal, Victoria University (The Conversation) – The United States and Iran are once again on a collision course over the Iranian nuclear program. […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Is Trump a Bigger Threat to America than Usama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda?

Is Trump a Bigger Threat to America than Usama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Donald Trump has inflicted more damage on the United States’s markets than did Usam Bin Laden and al-Qaeda on 9/11. […]

Juan Cole

Climate Crisis
No, Even the Super-Rich Can’t Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet

No, Even the Super-Rich Can’t Dodge the Climate-Change Bullet

They think they can — and that thinking just may doom the rest of us. ( Inequality.org) – So where do you see yourself living […]

Sam Pizzigati

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