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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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Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?

Will Turkey, Iran & Iraq make the Mosul Campaign a Land Grab?

By James Miller | ( RFE/RL ) | – – We may be witnessing the end of the extremist group, the [so-called] Islamic State [group] […]

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Democratic Party
Polls:  Capt. Trump aiming GOP Flight 2016 at nearest mountain

Polls: Capt. Trump aiming GOP Flight 2016 at nearest mountain

David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – In weighted opinion polls, Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump in Wednesday night’s debate, with a 10 […]

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner

Hillary Clinton Roasts Donald Trump At 2016 Al Smith Dinner

Fox 10 Phoenix | (Video) | – – “Hillary Clinton isn’t holding back against Donald Trump at the annual Al Smith dinner in New York. […]

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Trump Campaign: The Donald's 5-Point Plan to Defeat Islam

Trump Campaign: The Donald’s 5-Point Plan to Defeat Islam

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald J. Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, went on MSNBC touting the Republican candidate’s “5-point plan […]

Juan Cole

Arab World
The Mosul Campaign and the 3rd Presidential Debate

The Mosul Campaign and the 3rd Presidential Debate

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some of the more extended comments on the Mosul campaign were those of Hillary Clinton. Here […]

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders
Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

Now is the time to remember Bernie Sanders: Can a new Political Center yet Emerge?

Joseph Saltarelli | (Huffington Post) | – – “[Jill] to the left of me, [Hillary] to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle […]

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Arms Sales
Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East

Selling arms to Arab rulers won’t improve security in the Middle East

By Stephanie Dornschneider | (Informed Comment) | – – As a child, Najeh Ibrahim, who founded one of the most violent groups in recent Egyptian […]

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ISIL Boasts:  America will go down to defeat in the Streets of Mosul

ISIL Boasts: America will go down to defeat in the Streets of Mosul

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – AFP is reporting that a news agency linked to Daesh (ISIS, ISIL), “A`maq,” is carrying a […]

Juan Cole

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Jim Crow:  US-led 'Peace Process' Completely Collapses

Israeli Jim Crow: US-led ‘Peace Process’ Completely Collapses

By Sandy Tolan | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Washington has finally thrown in the towel on its long, tortured efforts to establish peace between Israel […]

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