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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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Turning the Red Sea Redder: Will America's backing for Israel's War in Gaza Torch the Red Sea Region Too?

Turning the Red Sea Redder: Will America’s backing for Israel’s War in Gaza Torch the Red Sea Region Too?

( Tomdispatch.com ) – In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israel Never Learns from its Mistakes: Why Netanyahu will Fail in Gaza

Israel Never Learns from its Mistakes: Why Netanyahu will Fail in Gaza

( Middle East Monitor ) – Israel never learns from its mistakes. What Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is trying to implement in Gaza is […]

Ramzy Baroud

Climate Crisis
Startling Climate Change Impact: Hurricane Beryl’s Rapid intensification to Category 5 is Ominous

Startling Climate Change Impact: Hurricane Beryl’s Rapid intensification to Category 5 is Ominous

By Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York | – (The Conversation) – Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly […]

The Conversation

Donald Trump
Did the Supreme Court just Immunize Trump from his Insurrectionist Tweets?

Did the Supreme Court just Immunize Trump from his Insurrectionist Tweets?

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I may not have a law degree, but I do know a great deal from personal experience (as a pioneering […]

Juan Cole

censorship
Pro-Palestinian protesters slam U of Michigan for asking Michigan AG to press Charges against Students

Pro-Palestinian protesters slam U of Michigan for asking Michigan AG to press Charges against Students

By: Jon King – A coalition of student groups at the University of Michigan say Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is now looking into possible […]

Michigan Advance

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Army Spokesman admits Hamas can't be Destroyed, as Netanyahu eyes War with Hezbollah

Israeli Army Spokesman admits Hamas can’t be Destroyed, as Netanyahu eyes War with Hezbollah

By Jonathan Este, The Conversation | – Fighting continues in central and southern Gaza, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to encounter resistance from […]

The Conversation

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Netanyahu, emboldened by Biden's Debate Performance, again Defies US, Intensifies Attacks on Gaza

Netanyahu, emboldened by Biden’s Debate Performance, again Defies US, Intensifies Attacks on Gaza

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu once again rejected the Biden peace deal on Sunday, vowing complete victory. After Biden’s […]

Juan Cole

Pentagon
Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make us Safer

Our Nearly $1 Trillion Military Budget Won’t Make us Safer

By Lindsay Koshgarian ( Otherwords.org ) – If you looked at the U.S. military budget without knowing otherwise, you’d probably guess we were in World […]

OtherWords

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“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

“Some Say the World will End in Fire:” Nukes and Carbon, Carbon and Nukes

( Tomdispatch.com ) – I’ve been writing about climate change for so many years now but, in truth, it was always something I read about […]

Tom Engelhardt

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